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Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
On Saturday in Springfield, Missouri, conservatives took back the Republican Party.
Like many other states, Missouri’s America First citizens don’t have a voice in their government. Although they are the super majority in the state, they are not being heard, and what they want for their state is not happening. Even though the GOP runs the state with a huge majority, key conservative policies and beliefs are pushed aside.
Leading up to the event, platform amendments were passed at county and district caucuses to be reviewed by the platform committee and implemented at the convention. The draft presented by the GOP completely ignored every amendment passed and watered down the current version of the platform.
Because of the disenfranchisement of the conservative base in Missouri, the grassroots rose up against the RINOs at the convention. They planned to unseat every RINO, swap the RINO agenda with an America First agenda, and force a revised platform to be voted on.
When the convention began, the effort to bring MAGA back to Missouri started. The RINOs in the party were shocked and spent the next three hours talking about all sorts of nothing while they tried to figure out ways that they could overcome the conservative coup.
Let the shenanigans begin. These stalling tactics aren't going to work. Let's get this show on the road #MOGOP #mograssrootstrong pic.twitter.com/BOv40Yw1GG
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
The stalling from the GOP RINOs went on for three hours as they tried to figure out how to overcome the grassroot majority’s effort to take back the party.
https://t.co/tLDXVz8rDq pic.twitter.com/M0koAJedlv
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
Eventually, Sophia Shore was voted in as the GOP Chairwoman of the convention. This was a win and the beginning of the grassroots efforts in taking back their party.
#mograssrootstrong https://t.co/NQWJpz41qZ
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
GOP conservatives cheered when the grassroots supported GOP Chairwoman was elected to her new role instead of a RINO.
What an incredible day for Missouri Grassroots and bad day for the establishment. This is what a grassroot revolution looks like. We flipped the chair, committeeman/woman, the slate, and we voted down the RINO platform draft. #letsgomo #mograssrootstrong #grassrootrevolution pic.twitter.com/xHAZ47Yp0J
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 5, 2024
And just like that, the RINO platform was voted down!!!
And the RINO platform was voted down!!! But those amendments were just suggestions, right? #mograssrootrevolution #weredone #mograssrootstrong #cleansweep pic.twitter.com/wPQPohwvAe
— Kristen Haftrak (@Kristen_Haftrak) May 4, 2024
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Business titan Elon Musk is now seemingly fully awake on the issue of election fraud and is urging whistleblowers to come forward to report irregularities ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
On Saturday, Musk retweeted a video from the Fair Election Fund to his 182 million followers, attracting some 1.6 million viewers at the time of writing.
The newly formed non-profit organization is seeking to compensate whistleblowers for exposing Democratic attempts to steal and subvert America’s electoral process.
If you are an election worker, organizer, or concerned citizen who has seen corruption in our elections firsthand, we want to hear your story.
Those who report fraud or abuse are eligible for payment from our $5 million fund. pic.twitter.com/JBKdj8uzbp
— Fair Election Fund (@FairElectFund) May 4, 2024
The ad states:
Free and fair elections are the bedrock of our American experiment. It is part of our core. But we can only have confidence in the result if there is trust in the process. Across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the system that have eroded our trust. From executive orders opening the door to non-citizens voting, while some cities look to make it commonplace. Unions rigging the game through unethical ballot harvesting. And some leaders are outright refusing to follow the law when administering elections.
This is happening in plain sight. But those in power look the other way. They lie and dismiss and then demonize common sense steps to ensure our elections are free and fair. And they are still lying. That is where the Fair Election Fund comes in. We are making a major investment to compensate those who expose cheating in our elections.
If you have knowledges of abuses in the system, your story could be what helps preserve our democracy. If you are an election worker, organizer or concerned citizen who has witnessed this corruption first hand, we want to hear from you. Those who report fraud from our $5 million fund. With your help, we’ll shine a light on the corruption and stop it. This is how we restore trust.
In a press release this week, the Fair Election Fund expanded on its plan to promote election integrity across the country following the fraud that took place in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.
“The bulk of the group’s budget will be devoted to paying whistleblowers like election workers, organizers, and concerned citizens who have witnessed this corruption firsthand for sharing their stories,” the release read, according to Fox News.
“All claims will be vetted by Fair Election Fund’s team of experienced election law attorneys. The group will highlight these cases through aggressive paid and earned media campaigns, the first of which will begin immediately.”
Find out more about the Fair Election Fund at thefairelectionfund.com.
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Last weekend on Saturday night St. Louis area Police wasted no time in quashing an anti-Israel, Pro-Palestinian protest at Washington University in St. Louis after the protesters marched onto the Washington University campus and refused to leave campus.
The Israel-bashing Marxists formed a line on campus and locked arms as the police approached them to break up their encampment.
As the young leftists were chanting, “Hold the line!” Police moved in and dragged them away by their feet.
Here is video from WashU campus of police breaking up the illegal protest.
Via Catturd2
“Hold the line! Hold the line!”
Lasted 5 seconds – lol. https://t.co/jYyxe2Wazd
— Catturd
Green Party candidate for president Jill Stein was arrested at the anti-Israel protest.
What does Gaza have to do with the green agenda?
BREAKING: Jill Stein and her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager, Jason Call and Kelly Merrill-Cayer, have been arrested at Washington University in St. Louis while supporting a protest against WashU’s ties to the war on Gaza.
Video from @KallieECox pic.twitter.com/rkUYC9b5Qx— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) April 28, 2024
St. Louis Alderman President Megan Green was also in the crowd and refused to leave campus.
Last week, following the protests, the far left St. Louis City official was reportedly suspended from her position at the university where she taught kids techniques of the radical left protest movements.
St.Louis BOA President Megan Green leads protests. She was caught holding 2 teaching jobs at 2 St.Louis Colleges on how to be activists. The City pays her $90K a yr for a full time BOA Pres ! She was fired from Wash U. this week.
In retaliation for being fired, she set this up. pic.twitter.com/RD4E3ZlOJK— MAGA 100% ••American FREEDOM •#TRUMP (@0708America) May 4, 2024
The protesters were trespassing at the university and asked to leave.
Following the illegal protests the President of the St. Louis Board of Alderman was suspended from her position at the university where she brainwashes kids on how to hate America and take down the system.
KMOV reported:
100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested over the weekend, as Washington University states it will pursue trespassing charges for those who remained on campus Saturday after being asked to leave; and it appears one prominent protester that was not arrested has been punished by the school.
St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Megan Green, who was not arrested, is an adjunct professor at the school but now says she’s being punished.
President Green was among the hundreds marching on campus. She told First Alert 4 she’s been put on administrative leave due to her presence on Saturday.
“It’s a very authoritarian, heavy-handed response,” said Green.
Green said she is now barred from the Washington University campus, as she says six other faculty members were put on administrative leave due to their presence on Saturday.
“I was able to teach my class via Zoom,” said Green.
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At least 30 sailors and Marines were injured off the Atlantic coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Wednesday when two landing hovercrafts collided.
Landing Craft Air Cushions, or LCACs, from both the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Wasp and the transport dock vessel USS New York crashed into each other, according to a Navy announcement.
Sailors assigned to the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group and and Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit were conducting a training exercise when the incident occurred, according to the report.
The Western Journal reached out to the U.S. Navy for an update on the incident.
Cmdr. Lara Bollinger, a Navy public information officer, said that “[b]oth LCACs involved remained afloat after the incident, and have since returned to their respective ships.”
Bollinger added that the collision “remains under investigation” and noted that the Navy will provide more information when it is available.
She said that all 30 injured personnel received medical care. “Most injuries were considered minor, and those personnel returned to full duty,” she added.
Five of the 30 servicemembers reportedly required advanced medical care and were airlifted to Savannah Memorial University Medical Center in Southern Georgia, with most having been released.
30 U.S. Navy Sailors from the USS Wasp (LHD-1) and USS New York (LPD-21) as well as Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit were Injured on Wednesday, following an Incident off the Coast of Jacksonville, Florida which involved the Collision of 2 Landing Craft Air Cushions… pic.twitter.com/IttWXbOsI9
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 3, 2024
Bollinger said that “[o]f the five Sailors who were medically evacuated, one remains under medical care at a hospital in Savannah, Georgia. The others were treated and released to return to duty.”
“Our primary focus is on our Sailor’s health and well-being,” she added.
The vessels are currently at sea as part of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group / Marine Expeditionary Unit 24 composite training unit exercise.
The Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) is a high-speed, over-the-beach, amphibious landing hovercraft that is built to carry a payload of up to 75 tons, according to a Navy website.
They are used to transport the weapons systems, equipment, cargo and personnel from ship to shore and across the beach.
LCAC can carry even heavy equipment such as M-1 tanks at high speeds, which provides significant benefits, the Navy site reported.
“Air cushion technology allows this vehicle to reach more than 70 percent of the world’s coastline, while only about 15 percent of that coastline is accessible by conventional landing craft.”
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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The Gateway Pundit reported that Hims and Hers CEO Andrew Dudum sparked outrage when he praised anti-Israel protestors and encouraged them to apply to his company, claiming that companies would want to hire them for their “moral courage.”
Dudum posted on X, “Moral courage > College degree. “If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working.”
He continued, “There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline.”
X users were confused and angry upon seeing this tone-deaf post, with many threatening to boycott the company.
You are about to be Bud Lighted. pic.twitter.com/SsXkydkcsT
— The Defiant Jew מרדכי
Can’t wait to read about how you’re new hires occupy and shut down you’re business because you said, or did something wrong in their little minds. For instance, calling your company “HIMS”. Good luck sir!
— kornfed (@GeeWillyQue1) May 3, 2024
According to the New York Post, the company’s stock is tanking company price dropping by eight percent on Friday and losing $210 million in stock value.
NEW: HIMS stock is going flaccid after founder & CEO Andrew Dudum praised pro-Palestine protesters & encouraged them to apply for jobs at his company.
Hims stock, a male ED brand, was down 8% on Friday after Dudum said he was “eager” to hire these students.
“Moral courage >… pic.twitter.com/chzXWz22Qi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 4, 2024
The market cap of the company opened at $2.62 billion and closed at $2.41 billion, and share price continued to slide in after-hours trading on Friday and Saturday.
Trading volume was also more than double the average for the stock — indicating that some shareholders were rushing to get out.
$200 million in market cap decline today
IYKYK pic.twitter.com/AU1Ulk49vB
— Mark Suster (@msuster) May 3, 2024
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This May May 27–June 1, 2024, global elitists and world leaders from across the West will gather in Geneva, Switzerland, for the WHO’s 77th World Health Assembly (WHA).
Attendees from all 194 WHO member countries are set to vote on major amendments to the International Health Regulations that would effectively strip all power away from sovereign countries and turn it over to the WHO’s global health board in the event of a pandemic.
If the ratifications are agreed to this month, the WHO will also be granted sole authority over what constitutes a pandemic.
As we have seen over the past years, just about anything qualifies as an ‘existential threat to public health,’ including, but not limited to, misinformation, parents protesting at school boards, free speech, and—of course—racism. The fact that the WHO is on the cusp of unrestricted authority to decide these measures should terrify every American.
What’s more, the changes also include plans for a mandatory and universal vaccine passport system that’s overseen by the WHO. In fact, the globalist organization has already contracted a German-based company, called ‘T-Systems’, to develop the technology.
It can be recalled, “On 1 July 2023, the WHO took up the EU system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics. This is the first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network that will develop a system for global verification of health documents to deliver better health for all. The WHO will facilitate this process globally under its own structure with the first use-case being the convergence of digital COVID-19 certificates.”
From the joint WHO and T-Systems announcement:
“The World Health Organization (WHO) will make it easier for its member states to introduce digital vaccination certificates in the future. The WHO is setting up a gateway for this purpose. It enables QR codes on electronic vaccination certificates to be checked across national borders.
It is intended to serve as a standard procedure for other vaccinations such as polio or yellow fever after COVID-19. The WHO has selected T-Systems as an industry partner to develop the vaccination validation services.”
Aside from the fact that the WHO is an international, unelected, and unaccountable body with absolutely no concern for individual freedoms, the organization is led by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who repeatedly pushed outright lies and crippling restrictions throughout the China virus pandemic.
Now, 44 Republican senators have sent a strongly worded letter to Joe Biden, urging him to reject two forthcoming international agreements under consideration at the World Health Organization (WHO) that would compromise U.S. sovereignty.
Sen. Ron Johnson wrote on X, “Two international agreements are being considered at this month’s World Health Assembly that surrenders U.S. sovereignty to the WHO. [Biden] should reject them, or at least submit any agreement to the Senate as a treaty. The entire Senate GOP conference has signed onto my letter to Biden demanding just that.”
In their collective statement, the senators criticized the WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it an absolute and predictable failure that caused significant harm to the country. They assert that the United States must demand comprehensive reforms within the WHO before considering any amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) or engaging in new treaty negotiations that would extend the organization’s authority.
The letter reads:
“Next month, during the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (WHA), your administration is expected to commit the United States to two international agreements that would strengthen the World Health Organization’s (WHO) authority to declare public health emergencies of international concern and expand the WHO’s authority over member states during such emergencies. This is unacceptable.
The WHO’s failure during the COVID-19 pandemic was as total as it was predictable and did lasting harm to our country. The United States cannot afford to ignore this latest WHO inability to perform its most basic function and must insist on comprehensive WHO reforms before even considering amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) or any new pandemic related treaty that would increase WIIO authority. We are deeply concerned that your administration continues to support these initiatives and strongly urge you to change course.
Article 55 of the IHR requires the text of any IHR amendment to be communicated to member states at least four months before the WHA at which they are to be considered. As the WHO has still not provided final amendment text to member states, we submit that IHR amendments may not be considered at next month’s WHA. Some of the over 300 proposals for amendments made by member states would substantially increase the WHO’s health emergency powers and constitute intolerable infringements upon U.S. sovereignty. As such, it was essential that the WHO abide by the four-month notice period to allow member states time to ensure that no traces of such proposals were included in a final amendment package for consideration by the WHA. Having failed to do so, amendments are not in order.
The WHO’s most recent publicly available draft of its new pandemic response treaty is dead on arrival. Instead of addressing the WHO’s well-documented shortcomings, the treaty focuses on mandated resource and technology transfers, shredding intellectual property rights, infringing free speech, and supercharging the WHO. Moving forward with a new pandemic preparedness and response treaty ignores the fact that we are still unsure of COVID-19’s origins because Beijing continues to block a legitimate independent investigation. We strongly urge you not to join any pandemic related treaty, convention, or agreement being considered at the Seventy-seventh WIIA. Should you ignore this advice, we state in the strongest possible terms that we consider any such agreement to be a treaty requiring the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senate under Article II Section 2 of the Constitution.
In light of the high stakes for our country and our constitutional duty, we call upon you to (1) withdraw your administration’s support for the current IHR amendments and pandemic treaty negotiations, (2) shift your administration’s focus to comprehensive WHO reforms that address its persistent failures without expanding its authority, and (3) should you ignore these calls, submit any pandemic related agreement to the Senate for its advice and consent.”
It is not just US. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a significant demonstration took place in Japan’s Ikebukuro district last month, drawing attention to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed Pandemic Treaty.
The treaty has sparked controversy and fear among citizens, leading to one of the largest protests in recent Japanese history, according to Aussie17, a former Big Pharma employee.
The march began in Higashi-Ikebukuro Central Park, where thousands of participants gathered with banners and chants expressing their opposition to the treaty and the WHO’s overreach, Yahoo reported.
Protesters voiced strong opposition to mandatory vaccinations and the potential infringement on Japan’s sovereignty. “We strongly protest against the WHO for forcing people to be vaccinated, ignoring Japan’s sovereignty where vaccines are voluntary,” declared one of the banners leading the march.
Here is the revised draft of the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty:
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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Constitutional Coalition filed a writ of amicus in the Supreme Court on the question of presidential immunity.
As we are all aware, this case concerns the issue of whether a subsequent president may criminally prosecute his (or her) predecessor and current political rival for official acts the previous president took while in office.
The Friend of the Court brief was filed back in early April to defend the constitutional principle that a President of the United States, as the Nation’s chief executive, must have immunity from criminal prosecution for those official acts the President takes. Otherwise, fear of a subsequent political rival bringing a criminal prosecution against the President will impair the President from making those decisions necessary in the President’s best judgment to protect our national interest and discharge the duties of the office of Chief Executive.
How the Supreme Court decides this case will affect the Separation of Powers between the three branches of our government and will determine how future presidents fulfill their duty as Chief Executive. The brief provides a historical context for the Supreme Court to consider. It is not hyperbole to suggest that the United States v. Trump case is of a constitutional magnitude equivalent to Chief Justice John Marshall’s decision for the Court in Marbury v. Madison.
The oral argument in the United States Supreme Court took place on April 25th. A decision is expected before Independence Day.
Attorney Mark (Thor) Hearne from the Constitutional Coalition provided an analysis of the Trump vs. United States oral arguments. This was a blistering rebuke of the Biden administration's ham-handed defense of their actions to take down their political opposition in the upcoming election.
Via Attorney Mark (Thor) Hearne:
Every Justice understood that the Supreme Court is deciding a landmark case that transcends the immediate issue of President Trump and the 2024 presidential election.
Given this, I was somewhat surprised by the quality of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work. During my thirtyyear career I have had opportunity to argue before the Supreme Court and I have represented hundreds of amici parties, including the leadership of the United States House and Senate in matters before the Court. In most Supreme Court cases the Solicitor General represents the United States. Irrespective of whether it be the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden Administration, I have found that the written briefs and argument by the Solicitor General and the counsel in the Solicitor General’s office is of a very high quality. The Solicitor General has its own Style Manual for Supreme Court briefs. Given this, I was surprised when I read Jack Smith’s briefs that were not of the high quality the Solicitor General normally writes.
I did not find that quality of the briefs Jack Smith filed, nor the argument Mike Dreeben made, to be on par with what the Solicitor General customarily presents in cases before the Supreme Court. I found this surprising, but then I noticed that the briefs filed in the Supreme Court were not by the Solicitor General’s office but were an in-house product of Jack Smith’s “Special Counsel” team. I anticipated that when this case of such importance was argued in the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General’s office would direct the briefing and argument. But this was apparently not the case.
Attorney Hearne also offers his prediction for the case.
MY PREDICTION OF THE OUTCOME
Two of the more challenging intellectual tasks one can undertake are forecasting the path of a hurricane or predicting how the Supreme Court will rule. With that caution thrown to the winds, I offer my prediction.
I expect Chief Justice Roberts will author the majority opinion that overturns the D.C. Circuit’s categorical holding that the president has no immunity from criminal prosecution for any official act. I anticipate the Supreme Court will remand the case to the district court for a fuller record of what specific “official acts” (as opposed to “private acts”) are the basis of Jack Smith’s indictment. The remand will direct the district court to develop the specific facts and allegations underlying Jack Smith’s indictment.
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett did not seem inclined to favor a blanket rule that the president is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for every official act the president takes while in office. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett seem inclined to develop a more limited doctrine of immunity addressing the distinction between “official acts” (directing a drone strike that killed American citizens) and “private acts” the president engages in pursuit of the president’s private interest. (Bill Clinton’s act with Monica Lewinski is not an “official act” even though President Clinton engaged in the act in the Oval Office, nor is President Clinton’s subsequent denial of inappropriate conduct at an official press conference held in the White House.)
Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Alito appeared favorable to a broad rule recognizing presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. I anticipate they will join the Chief Justice and Justice Barrett’s opinion reversing the DC Circuit’s. Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Thomas also appeared to be sympathetic to the argument made in our amicus brief that bringing a criminal prosecution against the President for an official act requires that the President first be impeached and convicted by the House and Senate.
Justice Thomas (as he is wont to do) focused on the constitutional source of presidential immunity and wanted to have a fuller sense of the constitutional text and history underlying the immunity doctrine. Justice Thomas is a celebrated textualist and originalist who looks to the words of the Constitution (or a statute) that is the subject of the dispute so that the Court may faithfully interpret and apply the Constitution or statute as the drafters intended. This is similar to the philosophy the late Justice Scalia brought to the Court. I anticipate Justice Thomas will embrace the principal of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. But I anticipate Justice Thomas will write a separate opinion explaining the historical context and constitutional text underlying this doctrine.
Read the full analysis below.
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According to a poll by the Pew Research Center, Biden is losing the Catholic vote.
The poll shares that if the election were held today, 55% of Catholic voters say they would vote for Donald Trump, or lean toward voting for him.
Only 43% say they support Biden.
A similar poll conducted by Pew before the 2020 election found that Catholics were almost evenly split between the two candidates, with 50% saying they’d support Trump and 49% reporting that they would vote for Biden.
Daily Caller News Foundation reports:
The shift toward Trump was most pronounced among Hispanic Catholics, according to Pew’s polling. Biden only leads Hispanic Catholics by two points in Pew’s most recent poll, within the margin of error, a significant drop off from the 32-point lead he enjoyed in Pew’s 2020 poll.
Hispanic voters on the whole have been moving toward the Republican Party, a trend that worries some liberals. The Biden campaign, for instance, is focusing on courting Latinos, and George Soros, an ally of the Democratic Party, has given tens of millions of dollars to left-of-center Latino advocacy groups.
Although Biden likes to boast about his Catholic faith, many of his actions in office go against some of the Church’s most sacred tenets, including his continued support of pro-abortion legislation.
At a rally in Tampa in April, an abortion promoter voiced complaints about Florida’s six-week limit for abortions, during which Biden turned his back on his faith and his God and made the sign of the cross.
He also insulted millions of Christians when he declared “Transgender Visibility Day,” which fell on Easter this year.
In a March appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Wilton Cardinal Gregory, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington since 2019, commented on Biden’s faith and tried to explain how he sees his Catholic faith.
“I would say that he’s very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts. There is a phrase that we have used in the past, a ‘cafeteria Catholic’ — you choose that which is attractive and dismiss that which is challenging,” the Archbishop said.
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Deported terrorist Sami Al Arian was invited to speak to the Hamas-endorsed anti-Israel protesters at the University of Chicago.
Al Arian, a former University of South Florida professor, was indicted in February 2003 on 17 counts under the Patriot Act. A jury acquitted him on eight counts and deadlocked on the remaining nine counts. He later struck a plea bargain and admitted to one of the remaining charges in exchange for being released and deported. He was deported to Turkey on February 4, 2015.
Al-Arian was accused of aiding terrorists. In February 2003, he was charged with racketeering for Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
The Gateway Pundit reported that his wife, Nahla Al-Najar, was pictured protesting at Columbia University campus.
UChicago United for Palestine, which organized the campus encampment, announced Al Arian’s participation in a Zoom meeting on their Instagram.
”Today, we will have the honour of being joined by Dr. Sami Al Arian, a former professor of computer engineering, prominent speaker and human rights activist and US political prisoner,” the group wrote. “Dr. Al Arian has since relocated to Turkey, where he is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Zaim University.”
If the Palestinian Arabs really wanted a state, they would have accepted one of the many offers that have been made to them to establish one, going back to 1948. What they really want to do is destroy Israel utterly, in accord with the succinct Qur’anic command: “Drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). It is actually a historical myth that the Israelis drove the Arabs out; the Arab Higher Committee told them to leave, but that fact has been obscured by decades of propaganda. Now, however, no less a luminary than Sami al-Arian, a former U.S. academic and darling of the Left, has revealed the truth: the goal of the Palestinian jihad is not a Palestinian state, but the demise of the Jewish state.
Speaking on Al Jazeera on July 30, al-Arian said: “In my view, the Palestinian cause is not about creating a state, like everybody says. It is not about a one-state solution or a two-state solution. The Palestinian cause has to do with the very presence of Zionism in the region. Therefore, our greatest strategic goal, in the meantime, we can take steps, but the greatest strategic goal is to dismantle the State of Israel, which means uprooting Zionism from Palestine.”
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Al-Arian has been quite clear about his views for decades. In 1991, during a speech in Chicago, al-Arian screamed: “The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our path … Victory to Islam… Death to Israel… Revolution… revolution till the victory.” Showing he hadn’t changed, in mid-December 2020, al-Arian spoke via Zoom at the Fourth International Conference on the Muslim Ummah. There al-Arian also called for “defeating and dismantling the Zionist project,” adding: “We cannot pursue an ummah project without actually attaining our real independence. We cannot attain our real independence without dealing with the problem of Israel….As long as Israel exists, the ummah will stay weak and fragmented, and disunited and divided and dependent and under control.”
Many have warned that the protests on college campuses have nefarious elements behind the scenes pushing their radical agenda.
Adams has alleged that protests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) were infiltrated by “outside agitators” affiliated with “terrorist groups.”
In an interview with Vladimir Duthiers on CBS Morning, Adams detailed the city’s response to the chaotic scenes that unfolded at both institutions, where nearly 300 individuals were arrested Tuesday night.
“These were not spontaneous student movements but calculated disruptions by professional agitators,” Adams explained, noting that a significant portion of those arrested had no affiliations with either university.
Officials at Stanford University sent a picture of a protestor on their campus wearing a green headband, similar to what is worn by Hamas terrorists, to the FBI.
Those cheering on the anti-Israel protests include Hamas leaders and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Three things you need to know about what’s happening on college campuses right now:
1) It’s not peaceful.
2) it’s not grassroots.
3) It’s not true.Let me explain. pic.twitter.com/X6BDP4OoJV
— Noa Tishby (@noatishby) May 2, 2024
One bright spot in the mess on U of C’s campus is that not everyone at the school is a brainwashed terrorist sympathizer.
Counter-protestors marched on campus with Old Glory flying while chanting “USA, USA, USA…..”
Patriots at University of Chicago break up the path of the pro-Palestine protesters and waive the American Flag.
This trend is spreading!
There’s hope!pic.twitter.com/lLN71hXImx
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2024
NEW: Counter protesters are blasting ‘Born in the USA’ while waving their USA flags at the University of Chicago.
The Chads are taking over the country
Tensions grew on Friday as a group of frat bros marched on the university with USA flags, chanting “USA, USA, USA” at… pic.twitter.com/Q1Rzc5k5Jf
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 3, 2024
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This article originally appeared on Leo Hohmann’s Substack and was republished with permission.
The eminent Professor Masayasu Inoue at Osaka City University Medical School in Japan recently warned that the Japanese government became the first in the world to approve a new type of jab called the “self replication replicon vaccine” that is being rushed to market as we speak. The goal is to have it ready by this fall or winter.
In the video below, the professor, who specializes in molecular pathology, condemns the COVID “pandemic” as propagated by the U.N. World Health Organization, for the purpose of driving genetically modifying COVID jabs into the bodies of all peoples worldwide. He also condemned the U.S. “Warp Speed” project under then-President Donald Trump, which rushed mRNA toxic injections to market that were used to cover up problems with the gene-based shots. The false pretext of Warp Speed was “saving time.” The professor then states that the Japanese government’s rush to market of its new injection will be similar and must be avoided at all costs. We are seeing deception magnified in the world today like perhaps never before. Jesus warned this would be the case in Matthew 24 of the New Testament.
It’s not often such a prominent scientist goes public with a warning of this magnitude. Please share this important 8-minute video with all your loved ones.
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By W. Caffey Norman
Real Clear Wire
Concerning new reports reveal that the drug shortage in the U.S. has reached its highest level since the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists began tracking data. In total, 323 medicines are now in short supply.
However, the problem is about to get worse because of government regulations on an entirely different issue. Counterintuitive measures from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are set to effectively ban the domestic production of chemicals that are used in the process of manufacturing vital prescription drugs and vaccines.
Shortly after Congress amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 2016, the EPA began the rulemaking process on 10 chemicals currently in use in the United States using a broad and overreaching definition of “unreasonable risk.” Now, the EPA is expected to release a final rule on methylene chloride under TSCA.
Methylene chloride has several applications, including in the process of manufacturing hundreds of medicines and vaccines like those that treat Hepatitis B and HIV infections, mental illnesses and epilepsy, heart failure and high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
If this rule goes into effect, it will exacerbate the drug shortage by bringing domestic manufacturing to a halt while making our supply chains more reliant on foreign nations like China for pharmaceuticals. This runs in direct contradiction to the Biden administration’s “Investing in America” agenda, which aims to onshore supply chains critical to our economy and security.
For example, methylene chloride is used to make hollow fiber cartridges which are used in the manufacture of monoclonal antibodies and vaccines, including the COVID-19, HPV, Hepatitis B, and flu vaccines, as well as therapies for arthritis, migraines, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases. In a letter to the EPA, the company that produces these cartridges wrote their product is used in at least 190 human therapeutics and vaccines. Their supply is so essential that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Defense Department awarded the company funding to expand its manufacturing capacity here in the U.S.
While HHS and DoD give taxpayer money to this company to operate in the United States, the EPA is simultaneously regulating out of domestic existence the necessary ingredients for their products. Ultimately, the final EPA rule could “impact millions of patients worldwide.”
Another company warned the EPA ban “would disrupt the critical infrastructure of biotechnology, including medical uses such as vaccine manufacturing and industrial biotechnology.” While the EPA would argue that pharmaceutical usage is exempt from the rule, the upstream supply chain of products necessary to manufacture these medicines is not.
The biggest winner with this new EPA rule will be China, which has grown to be the largest chemical producer in the world and the top exporter of methylene chloride. In the last decade, the U.S. has imported 17% of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from China. Even countries like India, which supplies approximately 40% of generic pharmaceuticals used in the U.S., rely heavily on China. According to a 2021 U.S. Department of Commerce report, India imports nearly 70% of its APIs from China. By effectively banning the domestic production of methylene chloride, the EPA ensures that even more of the drug supply chain is dependent on China.
Despite the Biden administration’s stated goal to reduce “reliance on high-risk foreign suppliers” for medicines, the EPA is actively stifling the domestic production of ingredients needed to manufacture life-saving drugs that Americans rely on. The administration must carefully reevaluate what’s at stake.
W. Caffey Norman is a senior partner at Squire Patton Boggs. He has represented and advised American chemistry producers and associations for years, particularly in connection with evolving EPA chemical regulations.
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A vehicle crashed into a White House barricade at high speed on Saturday night, leaving the driver dead, per Secret Service.
According to a statement, a Secret Service investigation is ongoing, but there was no threat to the White House. An investigation into the fatal crash “will be turned over to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department Crash Investigation Unit.”
It is still unclear what caused the car collision.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, another vehicle crashed into the White House gates in January. The driver was taken into custody.
Per Travis Media Group on X:
"JUST IN: A vehicle has crashed into the White House barricade and the driver has passed away. Secret Service has turned the investigation over to DC Metro Police, but they will also continue their own investigation."
JUST IN: A vehicle has crashed into the White House barricade and the driver has passed away. Secret Service has turned the investigation over to DC Metro Police, but they will also continue their own investigation. pic.twitter.com/vvP3Qfe4rI
— Travis Media Group (@TM1Politics) May 5, 2024
Chief of Communications for the United States Secret Service Andrew Guglielmo notified the public that "there is no threat or public safety implications."
Limited traffic closures remain in effect as Secret Service teams, @dcfireems & @DCPoliceDept investigate a fatal vehicle crash that occurred at an exterior perimeter gate by the White House. There is no threat or public safety implications and our preliminary statement is below pic.twitter.com/zGTVDuZV5E
— Anthony Guglielmi (@SecretSvcSpox) May 5, 2024
The statement from the Secret Service reads,
STATEMENT ON VEHICLE CRASH AT WHITE HOUSE
Shortly before 10:30pm on May 4th, a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed collided with an outer perimeter gate on the White House complex. Security protocols were implemented as officers cleared the vehicle and attempted to render aid to the driver who was discovered deceased. There was no threat to the White House. The fatal crash portion of this will be turned over to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department Crash Investigation Unit and the Secret Service investigation continues.
Komo News reports,
WASHINGTON (7News) — An investigation is underway after a man died in a crash near the White House on Saturday evening, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
At around 10:45 p.m., D.C. police said they responded to the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest, D.C. for reports of a crash. When they arrived, they located a man and pronounced him dead on the scene.
A vehicle had crashed into a security barrier around the White House, police said. As of now, the incident is being investigated as a traffic crash.
This is a developing story...
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Darius Morris, a former NBA player known for his time with the Los Angeles Lakers, among other teams, has died at the age of 33. The news was first reported by Shams Charania, Senior Lead NBA Insider for The Athletic and Stadium.
“Four-year NBA veteran Darius Morris has passed away at the age of 33. Morris played for the Lakers, 76ers, Clippers, Grizzlies, and Nets from 2011-2015,” Charania tweeted.
Four-year NBA veteran Darius Morris has passed away at the age of 33. Morris played for the Lakers, 76ers, Clippers, Grizzlies and Nets from 2011-2015.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 4, 2024
The circumstances surrounding his death are currently unknown. TMZ reported that Morris’ body was discovered in the Los Angeles area on Thursday.
“With great sadness we announce the passing of our dearly beloved son, Darius Aaron Morris,” Morris’ family told TMZ.
“During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace,” the family added.
The Los Angeles Lakers shared their condolences via a post on X, expressing their heartbreak over the loss of Morris. “We are heartbroken by the passing of Darius,” the post read.
We are heartbroken by the passing of Darius Morris pic.twitter.com/jkTs2VrKb6
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) May 4, 2024
University of Michigan Men’s Basketball also shared their condolences, “The Michigan Basketball Community mourns the passing of Darius Morris.”
The Michigan Basketball Community mourns the passing of Darius Morris pic.twitter.com/cZLf4t5636
— Michigan Men’s Basketball (@umichbball) May 4, 2024
“Morris was a second-round pick of the Lakers in the 2011 draft. He averaged 3.3 points in 132 career games (17 starts) with the Lakers and four other teams in four NBA seasons. He went on to play professionally in China and France, last playing in 2019-20,” ESPN reported.
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A bunch of UNC fraternity brothers went viral – for a good reason – this week when they saved an American flag by preventing it from touching the ground.
Now they are being recognized in a new Trump ad.
American needs more young men like these students, willing to step up and defend America from the radical left.
RedState reports:
Trump Releases Soaring Campaign Ad Honoring UNC Frat Brothers Who Protected Flag
Former president Donald Trump released a rousing campaign ad Saturday on his Truth Social account featuring the UNC fraternity brothers and others across the nation who stood up against the radical pro-Hamas protesters on their campuses.
Despite what it can seem like when you turn on the news, not all college students are anti-Israel and supporters of terrorists—in fact, there’s a whole bunch of them who don’t like what’s going on either.
Trump has been paying attention, and his new spot shows video clips of many of these events set to soaring music. “While campuses struggle to get control of their students, at UNC-Chapel Hill, they are bringing order back,” the video begins.
In the ad, we see the violent pro-Hamas mobs across the country, but then we cut to students like the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill frat brothers who protected the American flag at their campus’ demonstration. The brothers from the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity are now famous, and country star John Rich has announced he will play a concert for them to honor their patriotism…
Watch the video:
The newest Trump Campaign ad celebrates the fact that not all college students have gone woke pic.twitter.com/I1FcS1zJ73
— Julia (@Jules31415) May 4, 2024
People have been disgusted by what has been happening on college campuses in recent weeks. These young men are being hailed as heroes and for good reasons.
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Massachusetts Democrat Governor Maura Healey has just approved hundreds of millions in new spending for illegal immigrants, even as people are fleeing the state for greener pastures.
Massachusetts is a sanctuary state where homeless migrants must be housed, no matter how badly it works out for citizens.
The state is spending an insane amount of money on people who entered the country illegally.
Townhall reports:
Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Approves $400 Million In Freebies for Illegal Immigrants
Despite residents fleeing Massachusetts, Democrat Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) signed a bill welcoming hundreds more of illegal immigrants into her state.
Healey signed the state budget this week that includes an additional $426 million to house illegal aliens in correspondence to the state’s “right to shelter” law that requires the government to put illegal immigrants and homeless people into homes.
The Democrat governor’s move comes as Boston declared a state of emergency after it exhausted its resources last year due to the massive influx of illegal immigrants coming to the sanctuary state.
According to a report, Massachusetts currently has more than one million illegal aliens residing in the state. It is expected to cost taxpayers over one billion dollars by 2025 to house them.
This number doesn’t include the 14,000 illegal Haitian immigrants Massachusetts has funded since 2022. CBS News noted that there are more than 3,500 illegal immigrants just in the state’s shelter system— which has been at capacity for months.
It’s like American citizens are the last consideration.
Is Governor Healy going to kick out more black Americans from their community centers to accommodate illegal aliens??
Mass. Gov. Healey Approves $426 Million More to Welcome Migrants, Push Out Citizens https://t.co/RCUBEkLqIt via @BreitbartNews
— lbgage 1776
There are still illegals living at the airport.
It’s Saturday and illegals are still living at Boston Logan airport.
She spent $1B on emergency shelters to house illegals. Putting them in 4 star hotels and giving them $100 everyday of taxpayer dollars and still wants more money for this.@MassGovernor it’s time to resign!!! pic.twitter.com/6EKigemFWo
— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) April 28, 2024
It’s such a disgrace. Healey should resign.
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Adam Andrzejewski
Real Clear Wire
Topline: The federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud every year, according to a new study from the Government Accountability Office.
Key facts: The fraud losses represent 3 to 7 percent of the $40 trillion the federal government obligated from 2018 to 2022, a ratio the GAO says is comparable to other large governments like the U.K.
The dollar figure includes only crimes that cause the government to lose money it already has — not tax fraud or other ways the government loses potential revenue.
It does include over $100 billion lost to unemployment insurance fraud and $200 billion in fraudulent business loans from the Small Business Administration during the pandemic.
The lowest estimate, $233 billion, is still larger than the 2022 budget of all but eight federal agencies.
Only $4.41 billion to $7.31 billion was reported as “confirmed fraud” each year with an official court ruling. The rest was settled out of court or, more likely, never recouped at all.
Some of the biggest risk factors for fraud are expanding government programs or adding new ones, allowing state governments to control payments, and relying on officials with limited training or experience, the GAO wrote.
The report does not necessarily predict how much will be lost to fraud in the future.
Background: The federal government arguably does a poor job of getting money back once it’s lost to fraud.
The Justice Department announced in April that it recovered only $1.4 billion of money stolen during the pandemic, less than 1% of the total amount. OpenTheBooks contributed to a report in the Washington Times detailing the process, explaining that tens of thousands of businesses on the Treasury’s “Do Not Pay” list received loans anyway.
Critical quote: The Office of Management and Budget said the GAO report was “misleading” and will “create confusion” because it relies on projections and estimates and not just hard data.
Even the GAO admitted “we cannot eliminate the possibility that the actual amount of fraud could be outside of the range of our estimate.”
The #WasteOfTheDay is brought to you by the forensic auditors at OpenTheBooks.com
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Pop megastar Selena Gomez apologized after she was viciously attacked by fans after posting an image of her drinking Starbucks.
Gomez posted an image to her 428 million followers on Instagram of her handbag and a Starbucks cup. She made no comments about the company or the situation in Israel.
Students in the US are risking suspension from elite universities fighting for Palestinians and then there’s people like Selena Gomez who says she doesn’t wanna speak on Palestine, plays victim and then goes to buy and advertise Starbucks to her 428 Million followers.
Some risk… pic.twitter.com/ApT2zid2DQ— Sabrine (@whoisitbad) May 3, 2024
The photo provoked a furious reaction from many of her fans and pro-Palestinian activists online, who slammed her for failing to adhere to the Starbucks boycott.
“I did not know,” Gomez later replied to one of her critics. “So apparently I am that stupid. I’m sorry.”
Selena Gomez apologizes after being called out for posting photos with Starbucks to her Instagram story:
“I did not know. So apparently I am that stupid. I’m sorry” pic.twitter.com/AO0iWWM68i
— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) May 4, 2024
Selena Gomez can’t speak on palestine to her 428 million followers because “it makes her sick” and she wants to “change the world, but she can buy and advertise for starbucks that gives lots of money to israel to kill children. Selena once again proves how disgusting she is https://t.co/p86jpK3hah
— Hajar (@mindofhajar) May 3, 2024
selena gomez with a following of 428M+ posting starbucks on her story…. i’m so done with these zionist celebs and their useless platforms pic.twitter.com/tPmnxXLlDI
— firouzeh (@SPOTLESSMlNDS) May 3, 2024
Selena Gomez promotes Starbucks on Instagram next to her Zionist boyfriend amid boycotting going viral. pic.twitter.com/RTWqy4UXpw
— Selena Gomez Charts (@selenagchart) May 3, 2024
selena gomez turning off/restricting her comments since october & posting starbucks on her story … what a fucking loser omg how embarrassing
— king yas (@yassmeeenn) May 4, 2024
Even though Starbucks does not operate in Israel, activists remain furious at how the company filed a lawsuit against one of its unions for trademark infringement after it tweeted its support for Palestine following the October 7th Hamas attacks.
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Democrat strategist and Biden Deputy Campaign manager Quentin Fulks was on MSNBCs “The Weekend” to discuss Joe Biden’s 2024 strategy.
NBC reported that Biden’s campaign is looking to shorten Joe Biden’s speeches. Of course, this is to hide Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.
Biden campaign spox Quentin Fulks insisted it’s about “quality over quantity.”
“Our campaign believes in quality over quantity. We believe that these touches, these smaller things that are getting to the point about what is going on in the stakes of this election are gonna be easier for the voters to tap into,” Fulks said.
Watch:
NBC reports Biden's handlers are "looking to shorten his speeches" to limit his public displays of cognitive decline.
A Biden campaign spokesman insists it's about "quality over quantity." pic.twitter.com/GreyaVbgN6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 4, 2024
The Biden campaign knows that Joe Biden is declining and unable to string a sentence together.
On Thursday, Biden made off-handed comments about Japan, an ally of the United States, of being “Xenophobic.” He claimed it’s because Japan does not want mass immigration for their country.
When Biden toured the area of the Francis Scott Key Bridge which collapsed in March, he didn’t have a clue where to stand. He delivered remarks in early April and looked confused while being told where to stand.
“You want me right here?” Biden asked as he shuffled over to a giant X taped on the ground.
Watch:
A confused Biden is guided into place — despite giant Xs taped to the floor: "Right here?" pic.twitter.com/36pNl1Df1W
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 5, 2024
Last month Biden claimed that his “Uncle Bosey” was eaten by cannibals. He made a lot of false claims in his story.
Watch:
Biden, for the third time in less than 24 hours, tells the dubious story about his "Uncle Bosey" and "a lot of cannibals" in New Guinea before repeating the debunked "suckers and losers" hoax.
He also claims D-Day was on a Sunday (it was on a Tuesday).
HE IS NOT WELL. pic.twitter.com/iqeOjjFY0v
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
Biden’s cognitive decline is evident.
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FBI agents have taken possession of Senator Lindsey Graham’s phone following concerns of a security breach, the senator revealed during a recent discussion on artificial intelligence regulations at The Hill and Valley Forum.
Senator Graham (R-SC) reported that the issue occurred after he received a deceptive message from someone posing as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“You know, my phone is in the hands of the FBI now,” Graham said during Wednesday’s panel discussion.
Graham recounted receiving a message he believed was from Senator Schumer, only to realize it was not. He stopped short of detailing the incident, reflecting on the vulnerability of digital creations to hacking.
“I get a message I think is from Schumer; it isn’t from Schumer, and next thing you know, my phones—I don’t know, anything you create apparently—can be hacked.”
Details about whether the security breach involved a phone call or a text message have not been disclosed by Graham’s office, The New York Post reported.
CNN reported:
A spokesperson for the Senate Sergeant at Arms, which investigates cyber threats to senators, did not respond to a request for comment.
Similar hacking attempts were reported on other Senate staff this week.
“Reports of a text-based phishing attack on Senate mobile devices are increasing,” states an email obtained by CNN that the Senate Sergeant at Arms sent Senate staffers on Monday. “The message impersonates a trusted source to start a conversation,” the Sergeant at Arms warned. The hacker then tries to get the target to install the Telegram messaging by clicking on a malicious link that “results in the device behaving abnormally,” the email states.
The incident with Graham, however, was on his personal phone, not a Senate device or Senate network, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the hacking attempt. Lawmakers and their staff face an array of cyber threats, from state-backed spies to cybercriminals.
One risk with hacking activity like what Graham experienced is that it is an attempt to gain broader access to targets in the Senate for future operations, the source said.
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The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have filed their first election integrity lawsuit of the 2024 presidential election.
Following the massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election that rigged the election in favor of Joe Biden, the lawsuit is seeking to block the counting of mail-in ballots received after election day.
“Dilution of honest votes, to any degree, by the casting of fraudulent or illegitimate votes violates the right to vote,” the lawsuit states. “By holding voting open beyond the federal Election Day, Nevada violates federal law and harms plaintiffs.”
“Counting mail ballots received after Election Day doesn’t just dilute the valid ballots—it specifically and disproportionately harms Republican candidates and voters,” it continues. “These harms are irreparable.”
The lawsuit is a response to legislation passed by Nevada’s Democratic-controlled legislature back in 2021, which allows the tallying of mail ballots received up to four days after Election Day so long as the envelopes are postmarked before the end of the day.
“Nevada’s ballot receipt deadline clearly violates federal law and undermines election integrity in the state,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “Ballots received days after Election Day should not be counted.”
Nineteen U.S. allow the counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day. The law’s claim they allow more voters to participate, although they are commonly used as a way of giving Democratic operatives enough time to “find” the necessary votes to ensure victory.
During the 2022 election cycle, Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt had his victory stolen from him after leftist Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto after days of mail-in ballot counting. As soon as Cortez-Masto took the lead, mainstream media networks called the race.
Although this is the first lawsuit filed by Trump’s presidential campaign, the RNC has already filed five separate lawsuits targeting election integrity across six state.
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The American drug company Moderna has posted a first-quarter loss of $1.2 billion after demand for their dodgy COVID-19 vaccine collapsed.
Sales of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine were a mere $167 million over the first quarter of 2024, compared with $2.8 billion over the same period last year.
The company said in its earnings report:
This decline aligns with the anticipated transition to a seasonal COVID-19 vaccine market. In the prior year period, the company recognized revenue primarily from delivered doses deferred from 2022.
In the U.S., the company is reaffirming its 2024 product sales outlook as it enters the second year of the commercial endemic COVID market. Moderna’s focus is on working with public health officials, health care providers and pharmacies to increase vaccination coverage rates to reduce the substantial burden of COVID-19.
Yet according to The Epoch Times, the company sought to reassure investors with the promise of a “next-generation” COVID vaccine that will allegedly help combat different strains of the virus.
The outlet reported:
Moderna touted the results of Phase 3 clinical trials of its “next-generation” COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1283), boasting higher immune response against both new and original virus strains than its original formula. Clinical trials are also underway on a combination one-shot vaccine against the flu and COVID-19, which Moderna has dubbed mRNA-1083. Data from the study are expected at some point in 2024.
The drugmaker also reaffirmed that it expects to receive approval from regulators for its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine in time for it to be included in this fall’s vaccine campaign in the United States. The company has expressed hope that its experimental shots—including for RSV, flu, and cancer—will compensate for dwindling COVID-19 vaccine revenue.
Modern is far from alone in feeling the pinch. The German pharmaceutical giant Pfizer also saw its profits decline 40 percent compared with the first quarter of 2023, with the company similarly blaming the fall in demand for COVID vaccines on their disappointing results.
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A San Diego jury on Friday convicted two Antifa militants of felony conspiracy to riot in connection with a brutal attack on Trump supporters in 2021.
In 2022 a San Diego grand jury indicted 11 Antifa and BLM militants for attacking Trump supporters during a “Patriot March” demonstration in Pacific Beach in 2021.
In January 2021, a mob of Antifa terrorists assaulted a small group of Trump supporters in San Diego, California.
Antifa goons attacked the Trump supporters with pepper spray after a verbal confrontation escalated on the boardwalk in Pacific Beach.
WATCH:
According to the San Diego Tribune, there was a heavy police presence on the boardwalk and law enforcement declared the gathering “unlawful” by early afternoon on January 10, 2021.
Police arrested several violent protestors that day and a grand jury in San Diego indicted 11 defendants on Tuesday, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.
The indictment actually calls out Antifa by name and alleges all defendants “are all affiliated with Antifa” and used “force, fear, and violence to further their interests and suppress the interests of others.”
In 2022 the grand jury brought 29 felony counts, including conspiracy.
On Friday, a San Diego grand jury convicted Brian Cortez Lightfoot, 27, and Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, both of Los Angeles.
“We want to thank the jury for their service and for reaching their just guilty verdicts on the two remaining defendants in the Antifa conspiracy case. This was a complex case with 11 defendants indicted and now all convicted — nine by guilty pleas and two by jury verdict. The DA team worked tirelessly on this case in order to be sure our community remains safe, and that the rule of law is followed.” – San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said.
CBS 8 reported:
Two men were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit a riot stemming from a 2021 Pacific Beach protest that turned violent, with prosecutors alleging the men joined other self-identified anti-fascists with plans to violently attack those on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Brian Cortez Lightfoot, 27, and Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, both from the Los Angeles area, were prosecuted along with nine others in connection with the Jan. 9, 2021, “Patriot March” that devolved into brawls and violence.
Lightfoot was additionally convicted by jurors of five counts of unlawful use of tear gas. The jury, which began their deliberations more than a week ago, also acquitted the men on one assault count each, but hung on numerous other counts of assault and unlawful use of tear gas.
Lightfoot and White are slated for sentencing late next month. Their nine co-defendants pleaded guilty to various charges prior to the trial and some have already been sentenced to prison.
A jury in San Diego has convicted two So Cal Antifa members of felony conspiracy to riot following a brutal attack. This brings 12-for-12 convictions of Antifa members, effectively breaking up the group cluster. Read my new report cowritten with @EvaKnott:https://t.co/142vefp4aa
— Andy Ngô ️ (@MrAndyNgo) May 4, 2024
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The Gateway Pundit reported that the Biden regime proudly announced that women will be forced to allow men in their locker rooms and bathrooms with a new 1577-page Title IX ruling.
Because the Biden Regime won’t do it, lawmakers in states throughout the country have been stepping up to protect women and girls.
In Ohio, the Ohio House Higher Education Committee passed House Bill 183 , which mandates that Ohio K-12 schools and colleges enforce bathroom and locker room usage based on students’ sex assigned at birth.
The Ohio Capital-Journal reports:
State Reps. Beth Lear, R-Galena, and Adam Bird, R-New Richmond, introduced House Bill 183 which would require Ohio K-12 schools and colleges to mandate that students could only use the bathroom or locker room that matches their sex assigned at birth. It would also prohibit schools from allowing students to share overnight accommodations with the opposite sex.
HB 183 now awaits further consideration in the House, which is next scheduled to be in session April 24.
Proponents argue that HB 183 addresses safety concerns, while critics contend it discriminates against transgender individuals. State Rep. Gayle Manning expressed hope for further discussions on the bill but ultimately voted in favor, citing concerns over potential legal liabilities and rising tuition costs in higher education institutions.
Biden’s dismantling of Title IX, meant to protect women and girls in sports, means women will be forced to compete against men annd women will be forced to accept men on their sports teams.
Women and young girls will be forced to share locker rooms and bathrooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex.
Young girls everywhere will be subject to the type of sexual exposure allegedly faced by the female athletes forced to share a locker room with trans swimmer Lia Thomas.
Preferred pronouns are also now mandated, and even the single use of the “wrong” pronoun can require discipline.
And, as May Mailman, Director of Independent Women’s Law Center, notes, Title IX is not a college law. This will impact girls as young as those in the Headstart program, geared to children from three to five years old, those in daycare, and those in Kindergarten through 12th grade.
Other states stepping up to protect women and girls is Florida.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had strong words for Biden and his attack on women, “We will not comply.”
“Florida rejects Joe Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX. We will not comply, and we will fight back.”
“We are not going to let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents. And we are not going to let Joe Biden abuse his Constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida. We stand with opportunities; we are not going to let Biden get away with it.”
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters condemned Biden’s recent rewrite of Title IX, labeling it as “radical and illegal” and a direct assault on the rights of states, families, and specifically young women and girls.
Walters made it clear that Oklahoma does not intend to comply with the unconstitutional federal mandate.
“President Biden deciding to rewrite Title IX is one of the most radical and illegal moves we’ve ever seen from the federal government. It’s an attack on our states. It’s an attack on our families. And it’s an attack on our young women and girls. We will not stand for this in Oklahoma,” Walters.
In addition to Florida and Oklahoma, other states that have taken steps to protect single-sex spaces include Utah, and Alabama.
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It is encouraging to know that in the midst of pro-Hamas thuggery on college campuses, that patriotic American students are starting to speak out in support for our Nation.
Students at Rutgers University showed their support for the United States this past Thursday, countering the protests by pro-Hamas agitators.
Students who were fed up with pro-Hamas thugs on their campus took a stand by chanting “USA” while waving an American flag.
Rutgers students who went viral for waving American flags at a student rally responded to the school administration caving to demands from student protesters.
Anti-Israel protesters on campus at Rutgers University were countered by a large group of patriotic students waving an American flag and chanting “USA!” on Thursday.
Video from Thursday afternoon showed two competing groups of students chanting pro-American and pro-Palestinian slogans on Voorhees Mall in New Jersey.
“As the anti-Israel group yelled ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ and ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ the patriotic group could be heard repeatedly chanting ‘USA! USA! USA!'” Fox News reported.
Students can be seen showing their support for the United States, countering the anti-American protests that have invaded their university.
A Rutgers student named Ben was interviewed by Fox News for being one of the many students who stood up for the US and his university.
“Ben was the student holding the American flag high,” Fox and Friends Pete Hegseth said.
“How did so many people show up? Was it coordinated?” Hegseth asked Ben.
“It wasn’t really coordinated at all. My friends and I just sort of came with the flag more as just to go. We didn’t really think much of it at the time,” Ben said.
Watch:
Another BASED chad frat bro at Rutgers, LOL pic.twitter.com/JIf2zlJOMi
— Posted (@PostyGroyp) May 4, 2024
Stephen Wallace, who is a junior at Rutgers University, spoke to Fox News about how college students are not happy with the anti-American culture on campus.
“We’re tired of it, We’re fed up with the anti-Americanism. We just want to be patriotic again and that’s what I hope for the rest of this country,” Wallace told Fox News Digital in a video interview.
Watch:
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In a deeply moving moment during Kristan Hawkins’ “No Abortion, No Exceptions” Tour at Florida International University, Tommy Kearns, a grieving father, shared his heart-wrenching story over the loss of his unborn daughter, Clementine.
Kristan Hawkins, the CEO of the Pro-Life Generation, is advocating for the abolishment of abortion. Her tour is a direct challenge to the exploitation of tragic personal stories by “abortion-loving politicians” to push their “anti-woman, anti-baby, and anti-life agenda.”
Kearns, who drove three hours to speak, recounted the painful experience of his daughter Clementine’s abortion.
Kearns recounted his desperate pleas to the mother of his child not to proceed with the abortion. Despite their five-month debate and his unconditional love for both his child and her mother, his pleas were in vain.
“Before I get into my question, I just wanted to say my daughter’s name is Clementine,” Kearns began. “She was five months along when she was aborted. My daughter was healthy. I begged her mother not to go through with the abortion. For five months, we went back and forth. I don’t hate her. I love her, and I’m working on forgiving her.”
“She was confused, she was uncertain, and she had doubts. Mike Tyson has doubts before he gets into a ring. This was an option, and she took that option, and she regrets it now. ”
“This is just a thought that just came into my head; why do you think that people dehumanize my Clementine? Why wasn’t she human enough for people to help me mourn? Why wasn’t she human enough for people to talk about?” Kearns asked, struggling to understand how society could disregard his grief and the humanity of his unborn daughter.
He drew a personal comparison, noting that his mother was born prematurely at the same stage of pregnancy at which Clementine was aborted, emphasizing the potential for life that was extinguished.
Kearns expressed his devastation over not having the chance to say goodbye to his daughter or mourn her as one would with a born child.
“My daughter was five months. I didn’t get to say goodbye to my daughter. I didn’t know about the abortion until after it happened… She was ripped apart. My daughter doesn’t get a funeral. My daughter doesn’t get respect… How much money did they make off of my daughter’s body?”
“My daughter was a person. My daughter is an angel, and I pray for her every single day. I talk to her. I still feel like she’s there. I feel like on July 20th, my daughter is going to be there.”
Kearn expressed his deep connection to Clementine, emphasizing that she was more than just a biological term; she was a growing life that held significant emotional value to him.
“I have her sonogram picture the first time I heard her heartbeat, and I bring this up to people, and I say, ‘Well, she had a heartbeat. Wasn’t she a person?’… For five months, I’m told by my friends, I’m crying over somebody I never met before,” he said, confronting the dismissive attitudes towards his mourning. He reveals the isolation he feels, surrounded by people who diminish his daughter’s existence to merely being “a fetus” and not a “person.”
“My daughter not only matters, but I do not want my daughter to be forgotten. I want my daughter’s story to be talked about. I want her to be remembered. She wasn’t just a fetus.”
The agony is palpable as Kearns recounts the haunting images and nightmares that linger after researching the medical procedures associated with abortion.
His speech also touched on the wider political and societal implications of abortion laws, calling them “evil laws” that need to be challenged and changed.
“My question is really for society. Why doesn’t my daughter matter? Why wasn’t she enough? Why didn’t she get a chance to live? And ultimately, no, I’m not blaming my ex. She had doubts, and she regrets it. Ultimately, this is our government’s fault. We’ve stopped evil laws in the past, in America and in Germany… We came together and we stopped evil laws. This is an evil law that killed my daughter,” Kearn said.
The speech ended with a plea for remembrance and a call to action, urging society to think of Clementine and to keep her memory alive.
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As of now, the old and tired saying that the war in Ukraine was in a perpetual stalemate has been long forgotten and discarded.
Russian Federation forces have ‘liberated’ more than 547 square kilometers (or 211 square miles) of territory just in 2024, Reuters reported, citing Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu.
It’s well over a dozen cities and villages, and the expectation is that after the expected upcoming fall of Chasov Yar, the defensive lines will crumble even worse than they are now – because Ukrainian corrupt officials did not build the defensive lines of fortifications, but preferred to embezzle the money.
In this context of a rapidly weakening Kiev regime, it arises that President Volodymyr Zelensky has been put on a Russian ‘wanted list’, and a criminal case was opened against him.
Reuters reported:
“Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow’s ‘desperation’.
TASS reported that the Russian Interior Ministry database showed Zelensky was on a wanted list but gave no further details.”
Ukrainians – as one would expect – called the news ‘worthless Russian announcements’ and stated that the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for the arrest of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on suspicion of war crimes ‘is quite real’.
Reuters further reported that “Russia has issued arrest warrants for a number of Ukrainian and other European politicians since the start of the conflict with Ukraine in February 2022.”
Russian police have also indicted many foreign politicians, and issued an arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court prosecutor who prepared Putin’s war crimes warrant.
Associated Press reported:
“As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelensky and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen. Oleksandr Pavlyuk, was also on the list.
Russian officials did not immediately clarify the allegations against any of the men. Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, claimed Saturday that both Zelensky and Poroshenko had been listed since at least late February.
[…] Russia’s wanted list also includes scores of officials and lawmakers from Ukraine and NATO countries. Among them is Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of NATO and EU member Estonia, who has fiercely advocated for increased military aid to Kyiv and stronger sanctions against Moscow.
Russian officials in February said that Kallas is wanted because of Tallinn’s efforts to remove Soviet-era monuments to Red Army soldiers in the Baltic nation, in a belated purge of what many consider symbols of past oppression.”
Some of the prosecutions of Foreign Leaders are tied to legislation against the resurgence of Nazism. In their insistence to cover up for Ukraine until the bitter end, AP wrote the following ridiculous paragraph:
“The Kremlin has repeatedly sought to link Ukraine’s leaders to Nazism, even though the country has a democratically elected Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust, and despite the aim of many Ukrainians to strengthen the country’s democracy, reduce corruption and move closer to the West.“
Who ‘repeatedly sought to link Ukraine’s leaders to Nazism’ but themselves, who venerate as National Hero Stephan Bandera, Nazi collaborator who massacred Jews and Polish citizens!
AP says that ‘the country has a democratically elected Jewish president’. OK, to begin with, Zelensky cancelled Presidential elections that should have happened in March. By May 22nd, his mandate will be over and he will be totally autocratic.
As for him being Jewish and endorsing the Nazis from ‘Azov battalions’ and ‘Right Sector’, that is yet another failing by the former leader that General Zaluzhny called ‘Frodo’.
You may ask, what about ‘the aim of many Ukrainians to strengthen the country’s democracy, reduce corruption and move closer to the West’, so let me leave you with a nice collection of Ukrainian sporting Nazi paraphernalia:
Ukrainian Nazis in full display pic.twitter.com/zy6ey2IxSE
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 4, 2024
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Pro-Hamas agitators at UVA were petulant when police arrived to remove their tantrum encampment.
As police entered the area, the protestors taunted police as they hysterically shrieked, “UPD, KKK, IDF, you’re all the same,” likening the police to the Ku Klux Klan and Israel Defense Forces.
Virginia State Police were dispatched to campus to remove the Hamas cheerleaders from their encampment, which, according to University officials, violates school policy.
When the agitators refused to dismantle tents and leave, officers in full riot gear began spraying pepper spray.
Although reports at first suggested tear gas was used, Virginia State Police said, NO law enforcement in Virginia have or deploy tear gas, by its defined chemical composition.”
Protesters are being taken into custody and Virginia state police in full riot gear are spraying tear gas. @29NewsWVIR pic.twitter.com/Be2JYthUHA
— Anahita Jafary (@anahitajafary_) May 4, 2024
In this video you can see one man being taken to the ground by Virginia State Police and another being tear-gassed. @29NewsWVIR pic.twitter.com/eVE46mbAoY
— Anahita Jafary (@anahitajafary_) May 4, 2024
#update pic.twitter.com/4QXjJgDAd3
— Anahita Jafary (@anahitajafary_) May 4, 2024
According to University officials, the encampment is in violation of a policy. While officials expressed support for peaceful protests on the UVA campus, they do not allow setting up tents and prohibit the use of electronically amplified sound, which includes electric megaphones.
The nasty chants can be clearly heard coming from a banned megaphone.
UVA officials said in a statement on Tuesday, “UVA has seen an increase in peaceful expressive activity on our Grounds this year in response to the ongoing Middle East conflict. As an institution committed to free expression and the open exchange of ideas, we strive to ensure these activities can take place safely, and in a manner that permits all parties to make their voices heard.”
“The University is prohibited by the Constitution and our own values from restricting speech based on its content, even in cases where the content is hurtful or offensive,” the school said. “We do, however, enforce reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of expressive activities, so as to assure the safety of our community and to avoid disruption to University life or the rights of others. As we become aware of planned expressive activities, University officials engage with organizers to inform them of these policies.”
The policy regarding tents specifically states:
Although students are whining and whinging about “a sudden change” in the policy, Daily Progress reporter Jason Armesto reports that the ban on tents has been communicated to students dozens of times over the past few days and “Chief Longo and student affairs have both communicated it to protestors, ‘In any interaction with folks down there this has come up.'”
UVA says there has been no ambiguity about the policy.
“This has ben communicated to them dozens of times over past few days.”Say Chief Longo and student affairs have both communicated it to protestors. “In any interaction with folks down there this has come up.”
— Jason Armesto (@rmest0) May 4, 2024
State troopers were called in to deal with the unhinged mob.
This is why state troopers were called into UVA.
Students blocked local police from tearing down the Hamas camp.pic.twitter.com/uRdV4yWb57
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 4, 2024
Happening right now at the University of Virginia.
Hamas campers given a 10 minute warning before arrests begin.
As a UVA grad, it’s good to see that young terrorists in training are not allowed on school grounds.pic.twitter.com/pb3lBOeKNz
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 4, 2024
The screaming shrews who would not comply were hauled off by police.
Pro-Palestine activist at UVA gets dragged away by police like a sack of potatoes.pic.twitter.com/0XkebE2UrM
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) May 4, 2024
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Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, was recently implicated for accepting a $600,000 bribe from an oil company in Azerbaijan. He is being charged with working as an agent for a foreign entity while a U.S. government official because he lobbied Congress on the company’s behalf. The bribe was tied to a money laundering scheme that cycled through a bank in Mexico. Cuellar is also being accused of attempting to weaken US money laundering rules, particularly those that would hurt Mexican banks. Frighteningly, Cuellar is the leading Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.
Cuellar being coopted by foreign forces is a serious national security concern. Sadly, this is just the most recent case of a foreign entity or foreign government buying influence with elected officials in the US.
Last year, Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, along with his wife, was charged with accepting bribes from corporations in Egypt.
In 2013, the government-owned State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) provided $750,000 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staffers to go on a junket to Baku, the country’s capital. In addition to the all-expense-paid luxury trip, the invitees also received thousands of dollars in gifts. Among the beneficiaries of Baku’s largesse were three former top aides to President Obama.
Apart from the obvious violation of ethics and the public trust, there was a national security angle to this trip as well. At that time, SOCAR was partnered with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and they needed the US to provide exemptions from US sanctions against Iran.
In 2020-2023, Utah lawmakers became the targets of investigation when it was found that they had accepted paid trips to China and later pushed legislation that would benefit the PRC. Similar allegations were made against two Utah lawmakers who accepted trips to Qatar.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) poses the greatest and most persistent threat to US national security. Additionally, China has deep pockets, and the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively engaged in co-opting American officials. As far back as 1997, the FBI warned Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) and five other members of Congress, that the PRC was targeting them for illegal campaign contributions funneled through foreign corporations.
The granddaddy of all foreign influence scandals involves the Biden family. In 2013, Hunter Biden traveled to China with his father, who was then vice president. On that trip, Hunter and a Chinese banker, Jonathan Li, formed a state-backed private equity fund, Bohai Harvest RST (BHR Partners). Chinese government shareholders controlled 80% of the company.
In the spring of 2014, Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. At that time, his father was leading US policy efforts toward Ukraine. Hunter Biden was paid $1 million per year, and there are allegations that his father received some of the money.
In 2015, BHR partnered with the Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to purchase an American technology company, Henniges, which manufactured dual-use components with military and civilian applications. Perhaps BHR’s most concerning investment was in China General Nuclear Power Company (CGN), a state-backed nuclear firm.
Companies controlled by Hunter Biden entered into several deals with Chinese entities, including China’s state-owned banks and other companies that had ties to the CCP. He was paid at least $4.8 million, and once again there were allegations that Joe Biden benefited from these transactions. While proving definitively that money flowed to the president may prove difficult, Hunter’s activity — funding dual-use technology, aviation, and nuclear projects in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — raises significant national security concerns.
Some US officials make trips to foreign countries that appear unnecessary, lacking clear justification or mandate from their roles. While not directly accused of corruption, these trips seem to stretch beyond their duties and may run counter to US foreign policy objectives. Additionally, these travels, funded by US taxpayers, raise concerns about potential corruption or undisclosed agreements. This was the case with California Governor Newsom, who recently visited China; New York Mayor Eric Adams, who went to Mexico, as well as Greece and Qatar; and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, who had trips scheduled for Dubai and Kenya. San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed also visited China, as did Menlo Park City Councilwoman Kirsten Keith.
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In April, Joe Biden unilaterally canceled another $7.4 billion in student loan debt in his latest vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2024 election.
“Today, President Biden announced that 277,000 more Americans will get their student debt canceled, bringing the total debt relief approved by the Biden-Harris Administration to $153 billion for 4.3 million Americans through various actions,” the White House announced at the time.
Biden has used a series of workarounds to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his student loan bailout program.
On Friday night’s panel discussion on “Real Time,” host Bill Maher was joined by Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway and Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent Joshua Green.
During a discussion of the anti-Israel protests raging on college campuses across the country, Maher said he gets “so incensed” at how many of the students participating receive federal aid.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff because when I read about the college loans… Biden administration’s student debt cancellation will cost a combined 870 billion to 1.4 trillion.”
“So colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so my tax dollars are supporting this Jew-hating? I don’t think so.”
Conway said the student loan handout was unfair, telling Maher, “You can’t have plumbers and pipefitters playing for the student loans of doctors and lawyers.”
She continued, “I’m all for the government trying to help people who need it, but he did that as a political play and everybody knows it. He’s bleeding young people support.”
“And it hasn’t worked,” Green added. “If you look at issues that young people care about, Gaza is like 15th out of 16th. And the only thing that comes in lower than Gaza is student loan forgiveness. So it hasn’t worked as a motivator for the youth vote, you know, half of which are out there chanting ‘Genocide Joe.’ So it’s backfired not just in terms of public policy, but in terms of the politics, too.”
“Yeah, I mean, Trump is winning the youth vote by I think 11 points, that’s pretty astounding to me,” Maher said, referring to a recent CNN poll.
Watch:
NEW: Bill Maher says he is “incensed” that his tax dollars are going towards paying off the student loans of “Jew hating” students.
All this criticism of Biden and he will still vote for him.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff, because, when I read about the college… pic.twitter.com/XCKR6bU6RC
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 4, 2024
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Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday evening responded to Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta’s motion to extend a deadline for disclosures in the classified documents case.
Recall that Walt Nauta, a former White House employee and Navy veteran who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago was indicted along with Trump last year.
In a motion filed late Friday, Jack Smith admitted the FBI messed with the boxes containing “classified” documents they seized from Trump and can’t be sure the order or the placement of the documents.
In a May 1 filing, Walt Nauta’s attorney claimed he had difficulty in cross-referencing materials in classified and unclassified discovery because “certain items in the seized boxes he reviewed were in a different order from where they appear in the scans of the boxes’ contents produced in discovery.”
Jack Smith in his Friday night response admitted the FBI moved the classified documents around.
According to a footnote in the motion reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, the FBI messed with the boxes containing the ‘classified’ documents they seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
The DOJ previously assured the Court that the placement of classified documents as originally found had been maintained – THEY LIED!
Footnote 3: The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court. See, e.g., 4/12/24 Hearing Tr. at 65 (Government responding to the Court’s question of whether the boxes were “in their original, intact form as seized” by stating “[t]hey are, with one exception; and that is that the classified documents have been removed and placeholders have been put in the documents”
The DOJ in August 2022 lied to the Court when they claimed the red, blue and yellow sheets shown in the viral photo of the classified documents indicated their classification status.
It turns out they were “slip sheets” the FBI used to replace the so-called classified documents.
The FBI admitted they messed with Trump’s documents! The FBI used cover sheets as placeholders for the classified documents.
“After the boxes were brought to WFO, the FBI created an index to correlate the documents with classification markings to codes (e.g., document “bb”) and labeled the classified cover sheets in the boxes with the codes for the seized documents. The FBI also generally replaced the handwritten sheets with classified cover sheets annotated with the index code, but regardless, any handwritten sheets that currently remain in the boxes do not represent additional classified documents—they were just not removed when the classified cover sheets with the index code were added. In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet.”
Jack Smith also claimed the FBI found so many classified documents that they ran out of ‘slip sheets.’
“The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose, until the FBI ran out because there were so many classified documents, at which point the team began using blank sheets with handwritten notes indicating the classification level of the document(s) seized,” Jack Smith laughably claimed.
“Yet more reason to throw out this sham prosecution,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in response to Jack Smith’s filing.
EVIDENCE TAMPERING? Biden DOJ/Jack Smith just admitted they messed with boxes supposedly containing “classified” documents they seized from Trump and can’t be sure the order or placement of the documents as originally found has been maintained — which is contrary to what they…
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 3, 2024
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Violent anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American protests are taking place on campuses across America. Many of the individuals who’ve been arrested are not students but instead paid protesters by outside groups who are essentially agitators for hire. Jewish students and even faculty have expressed concerns or outright fear over their safety when walking through these campuses where large mobs of hate-filled individuals, many of whom are wearing face-coverings, shout at them or block them from walking through areas where they’re protesting.
Only last week, a female Jewish student was taken to the hospital after she was violently beaten on the UCLA college campus by a mob of pro-Palestine supporters.
Conservative Collin Rugg shared the horrific video.
JUST IN: Jewish girl at UCLA sent to the ER after being beaten unconscious by pro-Palestine protesters.
The incident reportedly happened at Dickerson Plaza.
According to ‘ThatKoreanJew’ on IG who is a medical student at UCLA, the girl was surrounded by 5 people.
She suffered a concussion and was unable to recognize her family when she initially woke up.
Thankfully, she is in stable condition now.
Some students on these campuses are beginning to fight back, while others are outnumbered and are living in fear of being physically harmed. Renowned Constitutional Attorney Alan Dershowitz and Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School, has had enough and has announced a plan during a recent appearance on Newsmax, telling the conservative news network that he has a plan to deal with the “anti-Semitic” student protesters.
JUST IN: Jewish girl at UCLA sent to the ER after being beaten unconscious by pro-Palestine protesters.
The incident reportedly happened at Dickerson Plaza.
According to ‘ThatKoreanJew’ on IG who is a medical student at UCLA, the girl was surrounded by 5 people.
She suffered a… pic.twitter.com/ctv1hAl6Wu
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 30, 2024
Here is a clip of Alan Dershowitz’s appearance on Newsmax, in which he explains how he plans to use lawfare against these students for their actions.
“In massive defensive and offensive warfare against the anti-and potential violent terrorist act, we are going to be engaging in massive offensive and defensive lawfare against bigots, anti-Semites, and potential violent terrorists.
We’re going to take many, many kinds of legal actions.
We’re starting a group called “Hurt a Jew, we sue you!” in which, if you send us the name of the Jewish kid it could be a Christian Zionist too that was hurt by one of these bigots, we will sue them. And we will get their dorm rooms taken away, and we will take their cars and their boomboxes, and we will bankrupt them. We will do whatever is necessary under the law. And we will bring these lawsuits, bring them successfully deter Oct 7th.
Remember, there are people out there who have promised they will bring 10,000 October 7ths. That’s genocide!
Ten thousand thousand October 7ths is genocide!
It’s the end of the Jewish people!” Dershowitz warned.
Watch here:
Alan Dershowitz vows he will engage in “massive offensive lawfare” against allegedly “anti-Semitic” student protesters. He threatens to have their dorm rooms taken away, take their cars and boomboxes, and “bankrupt” them. He says this is necessary to “deter” the return of Hitler pic.twitter.com/I4D4xgCbsV
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 4, 2024
As universities and colleges tip-toe around the issue of Jewish students and students who support them being terrorized on their campuses, isn’t it about time someone stepped up and sued them?
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Slowly but surely, voices in favor of common sense energy policies are starting to emerge. It is true that, at this juncture, these voices do not yet confront the ‘Church of Global Warming’, and their criticism is still confined to matters of the feasibility of the ‘Net Zero’ failed, crippling policies and regulations – but that’s a start, anyway.
UAE’s energy minister Suhail Al Mazrouei is the latest in this trend, stating that long-term predictions need to have a reality check’.
Al Mazrouei lent his approval to a recent article by JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon. He wrote that US delays of liquefied natural gas projects were done ‘for political reasons.’ According to him, Biden means to cater to those who believe oil and gas projects should be stopped altogether — a position that he calls ‘wrong’ and ‘enormously naïve.’
Bloomberg reported:
“The head of JPMorgan Chase & Co. made the comments […] in his annual shareholder letter, in which he touted replacing coal with natural gas as one of the best ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for the next few decades. Dimon also called LNG exports a ‘great economic boon’ for the US as well as a ‘realpolitik goal’.
‘Our allied nations that need secure and affordable energy resources, including critical nations like Japan, Korea and most of our European allies, would like to be able to depend on the United States for energy’, the chairman and chief executive officer said in his letter.”
Now, the UAE Minister has come out in agreement with Dimon.
CNBC reported:
“JPMorgan’s calls for a “reality check” on the world’s energy transition goals and pathway is ‘sensible’, the UAE’s energy minister told CNBC.
‘We need always, whenever we put up predictions, especially long term ones, to have a reality check’, Suhail Al Mazrouei told CNBC’s Dan Murphy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.”
JPMorgan warned that a move from fossil fuels to renewables could take “generations” to reach present net-zero targets.
High interest rates, inflation and wars are setting back efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas.
“’I think it’s a very sensible article’, said Al Mazrouei. The minister, however, highlighted that the circumstances and financial capabilities of each country on undertaking the energy transition goals will vary.
‘The world is not the same … Some can afford it. They worked on fiscal changes, they adjusted their energy costs. Others have not, [they] cannot afford to do it’, he added.”
We are still far away from the point where authoritative voices will state unambiguously that the 2015 Paris Climate Goals were prompted by bogus science alarmism.
For now, they blame a ‘higher interest rate environment’ for making it costlier for the world to transition.
“’The higher cost of borrowing negatively affects renewables and nascent technologies, compared to more established oil and gas, and metals and mining sectors, which remain somewhat insulated’, [Al Mazrouei] said.”
We have seen Scotland’s government scrap its 2030 climate target, and major oil companies such as BP and Shell trim back on climate targets.
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The New York Police Department (NYPD) has uncovered alarming discoveries within a pro-Palestinian encampment on a college campus. According to reports, the police found weapons and a book on terrorism while clearing the encampment.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry shared a concerning update from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall on X.
“Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM,” he wrote.
“These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious. Thankfully, your NYPD was able to prevent whatever they were planning and stop them before they could do it. Continue to peacefully and lawfully protest; but know that if you engage in illegal conduct, the NYPD will hold you responsible and hold you accountable—someone has to,” he added.
Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves… pic.twitter.com/EKQV6nJySu
— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 3, 2024
Speaking to reporters, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry expressed concerns about the sophisticated organization behind these protests.
“I just want to say—and I’ve said it before—there is somebody behind this movement. There is some organization behind this movement,” said Daughtry.
“The level of organization that we’re seeing in both of these camps, here and at Columbia, is evident from the leaflets on how to protest, how to commit civil disobedience, what to do when you get arrested, and what to say to the police when they question you,” he added.
The NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism and Intelligence is reportedly taking a proactive role in investigating these concerns.
“There is somebody funding this; there is somebody radicalizing our students. Our Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism and Intelligence will find out who it is,” Daughtry said.
According to Fox News, some of the groups involved in the protests are associated with far-left organizations backed by George Soros. These groups, including National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), have been accused of using anti-Israel rhetoric and promoting radical views.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has alleged that protests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) were infiltrated by “outside agitators” affiliated with “terrorist groups.”
Adams asserted that the protests were “hijacked” by “outside agitators” with ties to “terrorist groups.” He cited intelligence reports identifying individuals with professional backgrounds and connections to terrorism among those arrested.
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This is Joe Biden’s America—a daily invasion of the border with no end in sight.
Per CBP, over 200 Chinese illegal aliens were apprehended at the San Diego sector of the southern border for two days in a row.
According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, May 2nd reported 223 Chinese illegals, and May 1st reported 262.
To give perspective to these numbers, in those two days alone, the combined amount is more than all Chinese illegals that came into the US for fiscal year 2021. The Chinese government has been less than cooperative in receiving their citizens back upon deportation attempts.
NEW: Per CBP source, for the last two days in a row, Border Patrol’s San Diego sector apprehended 200+ Chinese nationals.
May 2nd – 223 Chinese
May 1st – 262 ChineseThat means more Chinese were caught crossing illegally in the last 2 days than in all of FY’21 (342).…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 3, 2024
Illegals coming in from China have been a problem for quite some time. In February, a Chinese illegal alien admitted, on camera, that he was here to “take the money.”
Watch:
NEW: This Chinese migrant tells me why he illegally crossed into the U.S. in Jacumba, CA – to “take the money” adding he wants a job @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/mFBKnRfWRp
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) February 17, 2024
The border has remained intentionally open by the Biden regime. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has forsaken his responsibility under the US Constitution to protect the US from invasion.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.” Article IV Section 4 of the United States Constitution.
In February, on “Meet the Press,” Secretary Mayorkas plainly stated that the Biden regime was not responsible for the border crisis.
“Do you bear responsibility for what is happening at the border?” Kristin Welker asked.
“We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system,” Mayorkas continued.
Watch:
WATCH: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas says that DHS doesn’t “bear responsibility” for the “broken” immigration system.@SecMayorkas: “The system has not been fixed for 30 years. … Congress is the only one who can fix it.” pic.twitter.com/dzDH0GQPQW
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) February 11, 2024
The border policy has remained the same. As a result, an estimated 10 to 12 million illegal aliens have invaded the US under Biden’s open border.
That number is approximately equal to the population of 41 individual states.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous black book, which has hundreds of associate contact information, is going up for auction.
The New York Post has reported that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s black book is going up for auction, and bidders who participate in the auction are being promised their identities will be held secret.
The book was discovered in the 1990s by a female musician in New York’s East Village, but how it got there remains a mystery.
It’s estimated the black book will rake in over $200,000.
The book contains 349 names in total, 221 of which were never listed in Epstein’s more famous and widely reported “little black book.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘black book’ with 221 additional high-profile names is being sold to a secret bidder https://t.co/xrRDKrTfoJ pic.twitter.com/tvZOrNRrcA
— New York Post (@nypost) May 4, 2024
Per The New York Post:
A mysterious “black book” believed to belong to the late pedophile financier, which revealed the names and addresses of 221 previously undisclosed people, is going up for auction — and bidders are being assured that their identities will be kept secret.
It could fetch up to $200,000 — or more, the auction house owner told the Daily Beast, which first reported the story.
The book was reportedly found on Fifth Avenue in the East Village by a female musician in the 1990s, but how it came to be there remains unclear to this day.
What is clear is that the book names 349 people — 221 of whom were not named in a later, more famous “black book” that Epstein kept.
The book was the subject of an in-depth investigation by Business Insider in 2021.
Jeffrey Epstein’s “little black book” of contacts, which includes some of the world’s most powerful people, has been put up for auction
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) May 3, 2024
The auction will occur on May 15 and be held by Alexander Historical Auctions.
All bids in the auction will be sealed.
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James O’Keefe on Friday released a video of himself confronting CIA project manager Amjad Fseisi over statements he made about the CIA withholding information from President Trump.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released part one: Exposing the CIA: A project manager working in cyber operations told OMG’s undercover journalist that the Director of the CIA would keep information from Trump.
He also said the CIA spied on Trump’s presidency and is still monitoring him to this day.
“So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” Amjad Fseisi, a project manager working in Cyber Operations for the CIA with top-secret security clearance told an undercover journalist.
“We kept information from him… he’s the biggest f*cking idiot.”
Amjad Fseisi said Trump is a “Russian asset” – “He’s owned by the f*cking Russians,” he told the undercover journalist.
When O'Keefe played the undercover footage in front of him and asked, "That's you, is it not?" Fseisi responded, "It looks like me," but would not confirm that it was him. He further claimed that he never said what he's on camera saying!
Fseisi just denied everything, including his top secret security clearance, and claimed he is not privy to the information he previously shared and that it's all "unbeknownst to me."
Eventually, he walked away from O'Keefe until driving off in his car.
Watch below:
Full conversation with CIA Program Manager Amjad Fseisi who said the CIA withheld information from President Trump pic.twitter.com/e1RI0S60h1
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 4, 2024
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Disgraced former CNN anchor and vaccine pusher Chris Cuomo disclosed for the first time that he has been suffering from side effects he attributes to the COVID-19 vaccine.
While Cuomo did not specify the exact nature of his symptoms, he expressed concern about ongoing abnormalities in his and others’ health.
This admission came during an in-depth interview with nurse practitioner Sean Barcavage, who was also featured in a New York Times article discussing similar vaccine-related injuries.
Barcavage shared his alarming experience with vaccine side effects that began just minutes after receiving his first dose in 2020. Symptoms included heart palpitations upon standing, numbness, and persistent tingling that quickly spread from his arm to his face and eyes, which got worse after his second dose.
“We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, a.k.a. side effects… But nobody’s really talking about it because they’re too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away,” Cuomo said.
“But the problem is people like Sean and me and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings physically are not going away,” Cuomo added.
“As soon as I was injured—15, 20 minutes into my first dose—I experienced numbness and tingling up and down my injected arm, which spread over the day to my face and my eyes. I consulted a neurologist who ran some tests and remarked, ‘Well, this is all new. We don’t know much about it, but the hospital is going to mandate it. You should get a second dose.’ Everything in my medical mind and in my bones was telling me, ‘No, if you have a reaction to something, don’t do it again,'” Barcavage said.
“However, the pressure was immense. Then, three weeks later, I received a second dose, and after that, everything blew up. I went from being a healthy, 100% healthy, fully functioning nurse to a complete downward spiral of health. I developed a myriad of symptoms,” he added.
Barcavage expressed his disappointment with the lack of support from various health agencies and from vaccine manufacturers.
“I thought there would be people ready to help me after my injury,” he explained. “I reached out to political representatives, the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, but I received no answers. No one wanted to touch it.”
With medical professionals in the U.S. offering no assistance, Barcavage took his quest international, sending blood samples to Germany, where he found scientists willing to aid his investigation.
“I sent blood samples to Germany and connected with German scientists who were more willing to help than those in my own country. The tests showed I had developed several autoantibodies, some of which scientists believe are related to this positional tachycardia you mentioned, where my heart rate spikes every time I stand up.”
“My autoantibodies resemble those seen in people with long COVID, although I never contracted the virus. This was confirmed through immunological studies of my blood. They found no viral antibodies,” Barcavage said.
Barcavage expressed his expectation of support from his pro-vaccine colleagues, who he believed would assist him in his time of need. Instead, he encountered a starkly different reality.
“I thought my pro-vaccine colleagues who championed me would lift me up and help me. Instead, they turned around, dismissed, denied, and tried to censor and bury me,” Barcavage said.
His situation, he argues, is exacerbated by the political implications of vaccine side effects. “They’re afraid that by showing my face, I’ll drive vaccine hesitancy. But what they don’t realize, and what I have come to realize, is that the censorship and concealment are actually fueling vaccine hesitancy,” he added.
Barcavage critiqued the Biden regime’s handling of vaccine reactions, suggesting that a more transparent approach acknowledging the novel nature of vaccines and setting up dedicated support programs could have fostered public trust.
“If the government had just said, ‘Hey, these are novel vaccines. There will be reactions. Let’s set up a program to handle them, establish a fund, and oblige the manufacturers to provide help or research,’ I think the citizens would have appreciated that.”
Barcavage, along with many Americans, experienced censorship on major social platforms, where his posts were often tagged as misinformation. “When I tried to reach out online, platforms like Facebook and Instagram would tag my messages as misinformation. Yes, that’s right. I’m just a desperate person to whom something bad happened, and I’m reaching out and pleading for help,” he said.
Cuomo, who was part of the censorship regime, admitted to Barcavage that he also suffering from side effects he attributes to the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Sean, I can’t help you because I’m no clinician. I’m sick myself. But I’m working with people who are working on this, so I’ll make sure that we’re in touch right after the show, and I’ll help any way I can. You may be ahead of me. I’ll connect you with my clinicians, and maybe you can share different protocols and things that may help. But I will never stop reporting on this. All I’m doing is just beating the drum for a 9/11-style commission to figure out what worked and what didn’t and what questions need to be answered because it’s not over,” Cuomo said.
Must Watch: Chris Cuomo interviews Nurse Practitioner, Sean Barcavage, who was featured in the NYT article today about vaccine injuries.
During the interview Cuomo offers to share his doctors’ info with him since he is also suffering from a vaccine injury as well. pic.twitter.com/xOeble3Y3I
— TeasLindsay
The irony and karma here are incredible. The New York Times and Chris Cuomo, who finds himself among those affected, are now acknowledging and reporting issues many have voiced concerns about for the past three years.
It can be recalled Chris Cuomo mocked and insulted anyone who refused to take the experimental vaccine.
In 2021, Chris Cuomo and Republican Texas state Rep. Michael Burgess engaged in a heated debate over the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy that is prevalent among some members of the GOP and conservative media.
“You’re OK with this kind of jackassery that has absolutely led to a deficiency among Republican people in this country taking the vaccine, and now they’re getting sick? And now we’re seeing what we see at the hospitals. And now the age is reducing and the variant is spreading. You’re OK with this?” Cuomo asked.
“The people showing up at the hospital who are very sick are, almost without exception, unvaccinated. The people who are dying, 99 percent, are unvaccinated. You have people who are connected to your political party that you are not speaking out against who are telling people not to take it. You’re OK with that?” he added.
Burgess responded, “Don’t listen to people on political talking shows. That’s not where you should get your medical information.” When Cuomo queried about the stance of GOP members of Congress who discourage vaccination, Burgess firmly stated, “I’m telling you to take it, so buy that. What about people who say otherwise? Well, they’re wrong. Take the vaccine if you’re in the age group where you could be devastated by the illness.”
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The radical anti-Israel protests happening on college campuses across the country have been brutal for the Biden Regime.
Joe Scarborough recently shared his fear that these displays are going to help elect President Trump. He even called the progressives in his audience who don’t see the impact this is having on the electorate ‘stupid.’
James Carville cursed at young voters, saying, “If they get ahold, there will be no government left, no rights left, you will live under a theocracy, you’ll end up with Christian Nationalism. But that’s all right you little f’ing 26-year-old, you don’t feel like the election is important.”
Leftists have a reason to be concerned.
In an interview with Sky News, a student at UCLA, shared that while he had been intending to vote for Joe Biden only a few weeks ago, he now said he is “certainly not’ voting for him now.
He added that he believes very few people in the encampment are going to vote for Joe Biden in November.
UCLA was the scene of violent clashes on campus on Tuesday night between protesters.
Interviewer: If I was to ask you two weeks ago before this encampment was formed, before you were part of this, if I was to ask you two weeks ago, who would you vote for in November, what would you have told me?
Student: Joe Biden.
Interviewer: And what do you say now?
Student: Now, I’m certainly not voting for Joe Biden.
I’ll probably vote for either Jill Stein or Cornel West. He was part of the People’s Party, and then he left the People’s Party. Jill Stein is part of the Green Party.
I think very few people in the encampment are going to vote for Joe Biden in November. I think beforehand, and maybe before October seventh, this consensus among the progressive left was generally, Joe Biden is the lesser of two evils. He is a, he’s neoliberal. He’s not very progressive, but he’s the best that we can get.
Since October 7, and especially since over the past couple of days, what has become abundantly clear is that he does not actually care about his base.
He does not actually care about the people of Gaza or the people of the West Bank. And so even just checking that box next to Joe Biden’s name, it’s too much to ask of anybody, even if the alternative is worse. I think the best that we can hope for is that somebody who actually cares who cares about humanity, who actually cares about… Honestly, somebody who actually cares about the American people as well is actually elected to office.
Watch:
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Imagine how it must feel to be a young Jewish student who is forced to walk through these protesters, many of whom are fellow students they sit next to in class, as they spew hatred for Jews and call for the extermination of the Jewish state of Israel.
Over 15% of the undergrad population at the far-left University of Michigan is Jewish. The two largest donors to the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross and Ron Weiser are Jewish. So what did the University of Michigan do to protect their students, most of whom didn’t have a graduation ceremony because of ridiculous COVID lockdowns, and their families, many of whom traveled from other states, to ensure they all could enjoy a peaceful and celebratory atmosphere for their graduation ceremony today?
Unfortunately, not enough…
Last night, as they prepared to destroy the graduation experience for tens of thousands of students at the “Ivy of the Midwest,” pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters were seen hoisting a MI State Police bike into the air as they surrounded the police officers trying to keep the unruly mob under control. An Al Jazeera-affiliated Twitter account did what Palestinian/Hamas propagandists do best: they turned police trying to get the angry mob under control into a lie created to evoke emotions and gain sympathy for their “Hate America” and “Hate Jews” movement that’s sweeping across colleges and universities.
“American police assaulted pro-Gaza demonstrators in front of the University of Michigan Art Museum, protesters were arrested outside the art museum on the campus of the University of Michigan.
الشرطة الأمريكية تعتدي على متظاهرين مناصرين لغزة أمام متحف جامعة ميشيغان للفنون#حرب_غزة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/Jyq9XNMh8H
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) May 4, 2024
As graduates of the University of Michigan and their families entered the stadium where their commencement ceremony would be held, a banner attached to a plane was flying overhead that read:
“We stand with Israel—Jewish Lives Matter.”
It didn’t take long for the selfish and disrespectful pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters, who’ve been making Jewish students afraid to walk through campus since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, to disrupt the ceremony for tens of thousands of students. The pro-Palestine/Hamas mob, many of whom wore masks over their faces, attempted, once again, to become the center of attention and ruin the day for so many young adults who have worked incredibly hard to get to this special day of recognition.
A guest inside the ceremony has reported that sharp-shooters could be seen posted at all four corners of the commencement ceremony. A top U of M official told the Gateway Pundit that plans for a large presence of law enforcement would be on hand, including those who would be obvious, like the MI State Police, and others who would be not-so-obvious.
Graduates at the University of Michigan demonstrate for Palestine at the commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor today.
Today, during what was a first-time graduation for thousands of U of M students, pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters gathered in the center of the main floor with Palestinian flags and began marching and chanting
BREAKING: Palestinian flags flying high during the University of Michigan’s commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor, MI, today.
— sarah (@sahouraxo) May 4, 2024
“Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”
— Adam Y. Abusalah (@adam_abusalah) May 4, 2024
Students standing nearby can be heard drowning out the protesters by shouting, “Shut the f**k up–Shut the f**k up!”
as pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters threatened everyone in the stadium by shouting, “We will not stop—we will not rest!”
Watch:
The pro-terror mob is currently ruining graduation day at @UMich pic.twitter.com/IG49Dbpo1i
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 4, 2024
As Palestine/Hamas supporters were being removed from the commencement ceremony by law enforcement, U of M students could be heard chanting, “USA! USA! USA!” and “Get them out of here!”
#UofM students chant “USA! USA! USA!” and “Get them out of here!” as pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters are removed from commencement ceremony today. pic.twitter.com/v96cztYPdy
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) May 4, 2024
The Gateway Pundit wrote an extensive piece on the unrest and hatred that is being fomented on college campuses across America by these leftist anti-Jew and anti-American protesters as students spend their final months, weeks, days, and even hours at a place they’ve called home for 4 or more years.
The University of Michigan heralded as the Ivy of the Midwest, is among the largest and most prestigious public universities to have effectively ceded control of its campus to an increasingly menacing mob. Demonstrators there, as at Columbia, NYU and other colleges, have set up a tent encampment on the Diag, the central intersection of the Ann Arbor campus.
Expanding the encampment at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor!
Sound on! #GazaSolidarityEncampment #UniversityofMichigan#FreePalestine— Free Palestine (@WildernessWypt) April 29, 2024
A “surveillance network” that exposes antisemitism on social media shared images of propaganda that are reportedly being shared on the campus of the Univerisity of Michigan:
NOW: “Death to America”
Startling pamphlets distributed at the University of Michigan @UMich equate “Free Palestine” with calls for American genocide.
LIKE & REPOST to EXPOSE their true intentions.
FOLLOW… pic.twitter.com/H6w3jzFjHV
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) April 22, 2024
Only last month, following a blanket death threat to Israel-supporting students on campus and the defacement of the local Hillel chapter with swastikas, protestors disrupted and shut down the spring Honors convocation ceremony. Now facing rising tensions on campus and trying to head off the cancellation of the May 4 commencement in its iconic Big House stadium, UM just released its commencement policy:
“The University of Michigan does not attempt to prevent peaceful protests or other speech protected under the First Amendment. Many ceremonies will have a designated area for protests outside the venue.
Our goal is to limit substantial disruption, ensure safety, and support a successful and celebratory event worthy of the achievements of our extraordinary graduates.”
After an initial wave of disruptive demonstrations and subsequent abrupt termination of the honors convocation, the UM administration disclosed that it was considering a “disruptive activity” policy that provided for the suspension and expulsion of students, which was found to violate the policy. UM’s leadership has yet to move forward with implementing any visible, substantive changes.
“We all must understand that, while protest is valued and protected, disruptions are not,” UM President Santo Ono wrote in a letter to the community following the shutdown of the honors convocation. “One group’s right to protest does not supersede the right of others to participate in a joyous event.”
“It was painful for everyone who had gathered, and especially so for members of our Jewish community,” Ono added.
There is no doubt a growing climate of fear for Jewish students on campus. Many news accounts have detailed the intimidation, harassment, and violent rhetoric spiraling out of control at UM. Just this year alone, two federal complaints have been filed against UM for violating the civil rights of Jewish students under Title VI protections. The Anti-Defamation League gave the university a failing grade for its unwillingness to enforce policy safeguarding the security and well-being of Jewish students on campus and in the classroom.
No Arrests For Hateful Hamamy…
Salma Hamamy, a senior and president of SAFE (Students Allied for Freedom & Equality, an offshoot of SJP – Students for Justice in Palestine) posted on her Instagram (which has since been deleted), “Until my last breath, I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist State, Death and more. Death and worse.”
Hamamy appears to have deleted her post, but a post showing her leading students in a chant demanding the University of Michigan divest from Israel can be seen here, as the students shout at President Santa Ono:
According to a top official at U of M, Salma Hamamy has not been investigated for hate crimes by the FBI. The university has not revoked the radical student’s Martin Luther King award, and she is still enrolled as a student at U of M. To date, Ms. Hamamy has not been arrested for hate speech.
“Ono, Ono, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!” the protesters chant as they fill the hallways of a University of Michigan building.
The University of Michigan website addressed the graduation ceremony, claiming it would respect the right of free speech for peaceful protesters.
Commencement ceremonies have been the site of free expression and peaceful protest for decades and will likely continue to be. The University of Michigan does not attempt to prevent peaceful protests or other speech protected under the First Amendment. Many ceremonies will have a designated area for protests outside the venue.
Our goal is to limit substantial disruption, ensure safety, and support a successful and celebratory event worthy of the achievements of our extraordinary graduates.
Commencement for schools, colleges, departments, and cultural celebrations will include:
Security screening
Required ticket or registration at the vast majority of events
Prohibition of banners, flags and anything that obstructs sightlines
Staffers who will respond to disruptions, beginning with warnings and requests to respect the importance of the celebrations for our graduates and their families
Please remember: U-M is committed to free speech and freedom of expression. Deans and directors will generally be patient with lawful disruptions. If protests significantly impede the program, leadership will take steps to de-escalate and address the interruption.
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Think about Haiti for a second.
A situation as dysfunctional as they have, with this extreme poverty and rampant violence, does not happen overnight – on the contrary, it is a work of decades.
And while the heavily armed rebel gangs are in the spotlight for their unrelenting attacks, the extreme societal collapse was caused by the utterly corrupt political elites.
The last elected leader in Haiti was President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated on 7 July 2021 in the capital Port-au-Prince.
Since then, unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry extended his ‘transitional powers’ until the wave of gang attacks was unleashed while he was abroad and was unable to return.
While the situation on the ground deteriorated, elegant leaders negotiated a political solution from outside the country at the regional CARICOM community.
Their political solutions do not take into consideration the reality on the ground, and also, as they try to implement it, is impossible not to recognize how the various unelected elite players jockeying for political power are very much part of the problem.
In the words of the former police officer and current gang rebel leader Jimmy Chérizier, a.k.a. Barbecue: “It’s not just people with guns who’ve damaged the country but the politicians too.”
Gangs exchanged gunfire with police for hours in neighborhoods near the main international airport.
Associated Press reported:
“An armored police truck patrolled the streets, rolling past charred vehicles and cinderblock walls where someone had scrawled ‘Viv Barbecue’, a reference in Haitian Creole to one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders.
[…] [Chérizier] and other gang leaders have been blamed for coordinated attacks that began on Feb. 29 across the capital, Port-au-Prince. Gunmen have burned police stations, opened fire on the main international airport and stormed Haiti’s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates.
The attacks eventually forced Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign and led to the creation of a transitional presidential council whose majority unexpectedly announced a new prime minister on Tuesday: Fritz Bélizaire, a former sports minister. The move is threatening to fracture the nine-member council, which was sworn in last week.”
Yes, you read it right. Just one week after the unelected transitional council was installed, they are already at each others’ throats.
Haitian citizens demand a return to normalcy, while rebel gangs are still more powerful and better armed than Haiti’s National Police, but are not included in any negotiations.
Fox News reported:
“A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country.
Four of seven council members with voting powers said Tuesday that they had chosen Fritz Bélizaire as prime minister, taking many Haitians aback with their declaration and unexpected political alliance.
The council members who oppose Bélizaire, who served as Haiti’s sports minister during the second presidency of René Préval from 2006 to 2011, are now weighing options including fighting the decision or resigning from the council.”
Some council members are reportedly considering other choices as potential prime minister.
The council was scheduled to hold an election and choose its president. But not only a council president was chosen, but a new prime minister as well.
“A document shared with The Associated Press and signed by the four council members who chose the new prime minister state they have agreed to make decisions by consensus. The document is titled, ‘Constitution of an Indissoluble Majority Bloc within the Presidential Council’.”
The council must prepare for eventual general elections, but most of the council members are longtime politicians, and multiple analysts point out that some of the parties represented on the council are the same ones responsible for the current chaos in Haiti.
Michael Deibert, author: “The council is dominated by the same political currents who have spent the last 25 years driving Haiti over a cliff, taking advantage of impoverished young men in the slums to be used as political bludgeons before – bloated on the proceeds from kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and other criminal enterprises – these groups outgrew the necessity of their patrons.”
Read more:
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A new report suggests that risk of getting COVID rises with each shot an individual takes, according to a new study.
The report comes from an analysis of data from Cleveland Clinic that found people who received two or more doses were at higher risk of COVID-19 based on a comparison was against “people who received zero or one dose of a vaccine.”
The researchers said in the paper, “The exact reason for this finding is not clear. It is possible that this may be related to the fact that vaccine-induced immunity is weaker and less durable than natural immunity. So, although somewhat protective in the short term, vaccination may increase the risk of future infection.”
The risk of contracting COVID-19 was 1.5 times higher for those who received two doses, 1.95 times higher for those who received three doses, and 2.5 times higher for those who received more than three doses, the researchers found. The higher risk was compared to people who received zero or one dose of a vaccine.
The work of Dr. Naabin Shrestha and others was used in the report and found, “The risk of contracting COVID-19 was 1.5 times higher for those who received two doses, 1.95 times higher for those who received three doses, and 2.5 times higher for those who received three or more doses.”
Even after adjusting for variables, the elevated risk remained.
“The exact reason for this finding is not clear. It is possible that this may be related to the fact that vaccine-induced immunity is weaker and less durable than natural immunity. So, although somewhat protective in the short term, vaccination may increase risk of future infection,” the researchers said in the paper, which was released as a preprint.
The latest study comes after the news that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths.
According to the documents obtained by The Epoch Times, CDC employees conducted investigations into reported post-vaccination deaths, particularly focusing on cases involving myocarditis, a known side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
“COVID misinformation.” “Conspiracy theories,” they said.
#13 – Repeated COVID shots weaken the immune system
#12 – Ivermectin worked!
#11 – The unvaccinated were scapegoated for failure of COVID vaccines
#10 – Mask wearers paradoxically had an increased risk of contracting… pic.twitter.com/tbobqY5Hcm
— Dr David Cartland (@CartlandDavid) May 2, 2024
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ZPMC is the largest manufacturer of cranes in the world. Its assembly yard is a vast facility on Changxing Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai. The massive yard has ample layout space to fabricate and assemble the iconic container cranes seen at ports around the world. Typically, the cranes are shipped assembled, and the ZPMC yard has a large wharf to load them onto specially designed, heavy-lift ships and then deliver them all over the world.
The ZPMC cranes are replete with similar cameras that analysts in China could use to count and examine shipments. Signals could also be sent to the cranes to make them potentially unsafe or inoperable.
In the new guidance, the Coast Guard “will have the express authority to respond to malicious cyber activity in the nation’s MTS [Marine Transportation System] by requiring vessels and waterfront facilities to mitigate cyber conditions that may endanger the safety of a vessel, facility, or harbor.”
In May 2023, the first reports of a Chinese cyberattack on critical infrastructure were made public by Microsoft, which said in a statement that the “Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.”
The DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) made initial comments, and then a quiet time ensued—most likely because the U.S. government was convening working groups to study, assess, and make recommendations.
Starting in December 2023, the public comments of CISA Director Jen Easterly, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and the new Cyber Command/National Security Agency Director General Timothy Haugh began to reveal the outcome of this analysis period, and the officials were ready to share the findings in a loud, vocal, and unequivocal manner in multiple appearances before Congress and in public statements.
Mr. Wray was more precise when he said, “It’s difficult to know the intent of the preparation, but it was aligned with China’s broader goal to stop the United States from defending Taiwan.”
The removal of Chinese “spy cranes” and the fortification of American ports have led the Chinese to surge Volt Typhoon to ensure that they have diversity in all possible aspects of U.S. critical infrastructure.
All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization.
This article first appeared in Epoch Times and was reprinted with permission.
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The well-known Source magazine founder and rapper Benzino, who also appeared on VH1’s Love and Hip Hop, believes R. Kelly has been mistreated after being sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking minors.
On Wednesday, the media mogul spoke about redemption in relation to black male artists who have sexual relations with girls under the age of consent during an appearance on the We In Miami podcast.
Benzino says R. Kelly deserves a second chance: “The legal age is 16 but he’s doing all this time because they’re two years younger” pic.twitter.com/dPGIlNGJHg
— SAY CHEESE! (@SaycheeseDGTL) May 1, 2024
“Everybody deserves a second chance,” he said when asked about the Chicago native. “The legal age is 16 years old, so does that make it right if a n-gga does it, yes or no?”
When the women around the table all collectively agreed that it’s still wrong, he continued: “Alright, but it’s legal in America, so why the fuck is R. Kelly doing all this time? Because you know why? Because they’re 14 and 13 — two years younger — but you don’t think that the people who cleared it for 16 years old didn’t know that they’re fucking with 13s and 14s, too.
“Like even to make [an] age that young to be the law, you already know they’re going under that. I’m not condoning n-ggas fucking with little girls — it’s sick, alright, it’s sick, it’s sick — but I don’t think R. Kelly should rot in jail for 30 years either.”
WHAT THE NECK?! | Benzino says says he believes R. Kelly deserves a second chance:
“Everybody deserves second chances.” pic.twitter.com/PNiUPcKY44
— KenBarbie
Side Note: For many years, I have talked about how hip-hop and gang culture prey on teenage boys and girls. This industry sees a broken human and exploits that wound by dangling a carrot of “getting out of the hood” when it’s really a door to glorified sex work and pornography.
The 58-year-old added: “What about R. Kelly getting molested when he was a kid? They didn’t take [that into] consideration […] They exploited him and made all these documentaries that all these people made money off of.
“Them parents of them girls knew what they were dealing with, with R. Kelly — a lot of people knew that shit, y’know what I’m saying? — but R. Kelly wasn’t educated, man. Like when does that come in play?
See what I mean?
Additionally, Boosie Badazz, another well-known, established black male rapper, was upset over Kelly’s three-decade sentence. Though he conceded the R&B veteran did wrong and deserves time in jail, the Baton Rouge rapper also argued his crimes did not warrant such a lengthy sentence.
Boosie Badazz is most known for his affiliation with Lil Wayne’s record label, Cash Money Records, which is owned and operated by Birdman.
“People getting 15/20 years for murder n he get 30!!” he tweeted. “Yes he was wrong af for manipulating young girls n sexing them but he didn’t kill anyone,aggravated rape anyone .N no blame on the parents who knew everything. Resentence this man!! College professors get probation for this shit.
“Get this man some help n some jail time but don’t give him a death sentence ,30 years !!Maybe he can one get out one day n warn these young girls about older predators n make a difference ?but 30 years like Come on world!!”
He even pointed the finger at the parents of Kelly’s victims, posting a screenshot of a court document that alleged one of the underage girls’ mother “engineered [her] relationship” with the singer and “actively misled [him] about her age.”
It’s rather interesting right before an election, two extremely prominent hip-hop figures have come out in support of sexual misconduct with minors.
Could someone have paid the owner of Source Magazine to randomly come out and say he thinks sex with minors is not that bad? His daughter has now disowned him over his statements.
I am asking these questions because with all the Diddy news coming out, you would think black men in the hip-hop industry would be walking a fine line and not want to appear to sympathize with sex trafficking.
FREE RKELLY pic.twitter.com/WQoSI7eNCV
— Boosie BadAzz (@BOOSIEOFFICIAL) April 26, 2024
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Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary, joined Fox & Friends Weekend and shared bad news for the terrorist apologist protestors throwing tantrums on college campuses across the nation.
He warned that high-tech AI is capturing everyone, and their behavior will “come back to haunt you.”
Pete Hegseth: Anarchy on college campuses continuing through the weekend with student activists pushing their pro-Hamas sentiments. And now, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary is sounding off with a word of caution for those agitators. O’Leary warning that student protesters are’ trashing their job chances,’ adding them when it comes to their futures, ‘they are screwed.’ Shark Tank investor and O’Leary Ventures’ chair, Kevin O’Leary, is here with us now.
Kevin, thanks for being here. Why are they screwed? Is it because a lot of them are wearing masks, they’re trying to hide their identity. Do you think that’ll work?
Kevin O’Leary: It used to work back in the ’60s and ’70s because it was only recorded on 16-millimeter film. Today, all of this video security cameras are at a 1080p and 4K resolution. Extremely high resolution that allows you to use AI protocols to identify people by the iris or just a partial exposure of the face.
Do you ever wonder how they captured every single person that marched on the hill in the insurgents? Now, whether they were arrested or not didn’t matter, but every single individual on that hill eventually was identified using this AI technology today, it’s very available. It’s inexpensive.
And I use it as an employer every time we have a candidate in the executive suite. We do a deep dive and we find out where you came… We’re looking for what you say on your resume matching your reality of your life.
Obviously, I don’t care what side you’re on in the protest, but if you’re fighting police, burning flags, wrecking properties, breaking in, breaking through windows, I’m going to know that. And so is the government, so is everybody else. So think about that. That’s all I’m telling these young people.
Think about it because it’s not free.
Pete Hegseth:Do you think they’re thinking about it or do they think this will pay off? I mean, everything in their incentive structure, Kevin, in academia says become an activist, agitate. That’s what their universities are telling them to do. Wouldn’t they want their best opportunities in mind?
Kevin O’Leary: Well, universities and the concept of tenor for professors is allowing people with different thoughts and ideas to flourish. That’s what our institutions are all about. But I’m just going back to a simple fact. When you break the law of the land, you become a criminal.
If you think by putting a mask on or wearing sunglasses is going to protect you, it doesn’t. That’s all I’m telling you. I think when you’re in your 20s, you’re very passionate, and Everybody get that and everybody goes through that process. But think about it. Think about what happens next. In 10 years, why didn’t you get that job? Why didn’t you get on that board? Why can’t you get a loan?
I’m telling you why right now, because I saw you do it, and you lied to me on your resume that you never broke the law. Well, you did. Whether you get caught or not doesn’t matter to me as an employer. That’s why you should really think this through. I teach this in colleges now. The world has changed because we have AI and we’ve got high-resolution imagery, and it’s being captured every day, and it goes on the dark web within 48 hours. I can see it anytime I want.
Watch:
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A horrifying video has emerged showing a large transgender (biological male) student attacking a smaller and weaker girl in a New York high school women’s restroom, which resulted in a bomb threat being sent to the institution after the clip was discovered online.
While the assault at Greece Arcadia High School in Rochester reportedly took place in February, it was only uncovered on Thursday by the feminist website Reduxx. The outlet also noted the school refused to share any details regarding the awful beating.
The clip captured by Reduxx shows the transgender teen storming into a restroom stall and laying a beatdown on the innocent girl while other students record the assault on their cell phones.
The trans student then grabs the helpless girl by her hair and violently drags her out along the floor and into the hallway. The victim can be heard screaming in terror.
The transgender teen lands several more punches on his victim before a school staff member finally arrives to help break up the one-sided fight. Another person then picks the girl up and carries her away.
WATCH:
A girl was reportedly assaulted in the female restroom at Arcadia High School in Rochester, New York.
According to another student at the school, the attacker is a boy who identifies as a girl. He was allegedly retaliating for perceived insults.
Reduxx reached out to Greece… pic.twitter.com/f7Mt0AZfT6
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) May 2, 2024
WXXI News reported the school received an “anti-transgender” bomb threat loaded with profanity just after 6 a.m. on Friday, the day after the video went viral.
According to WHEC, the threat message accused Greece Arcadia High School of failing to ensure a safe learning environment. It also claimed the district was encouraging “mentally ill” and “degenerate” behavior in students, explicitly referencing the brawl.
School officials evacuated both Greece Arcadia High and Middle schools following the threat. Classes were delayed from opening for two hours as police investigated the bomb threat.
Superintendent Kathleen Graupman called the bomb threat a hate crime and claimed outside forces were using the brutal assault to advance an agenda.
“It is clear that this is being used for an agenda, whether it’s a personal or political agenda, it is being used. That fight that occurred was significant and very, very upsetting and disturbing, and also, I want to be very clear: it involved minors, and it involved minors that deserve respect and privacy. We don’t get to share videos and names and peoples’ personal identities out there,” Graupman said.
As WHEC notes, Graupman went on to say the school district is helping authorities find and prosecute the individual or individuals who sent the bomb threat.
There is no word on whether the vicious attack on the innocent girl by the transgender student will be investigated and prosecuted, however.
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A Texas dairy farmer suffered the first reported case of bird flu transmitted to humans from farm animals.
The man developed pink eye but no respiratory symptoms.
Dairy worker with bird flu developed pinkeye but no respiratory symptoms
A Texas dairy worker who caught bird flu from a sick cow did not have any usual symptoms but did have a bad case of pinkeye, causing concerns that the virus could mutate as it spreads from animals to humans.… pic.twitter.com/SVtzSrJwmV— Camus (@newstart_2024) May 4, 2024
The Mirror reported:
The first image of a Texas dairy farmer who caught bird flu from a cow – with his eyeballs seen bleeding.
Thankfully, the man had “very mild” symptoms after contracting HSN1 virus, but the stark image shows how the virus caused bleeding on the surface of his eyeballs. This is because the blood vessels in his eyes popped.
Experts at the CDC say that they think he caught the virus from an infected cow in March. In an official case report, published on Friday, the CDC said that they found “strong evidence” through genetic data that pointed them to this conclusion.
This revelation shows the first sign of HSN1 virus spreading from mammals to humans. The World Health Organisation said that this is a “milestone” that is of “enormous concern.” The images of the patient, plus further details about his case, were published in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
So far, nearly 900 people in 23 countries have been infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu over the last 20 years. However, they were all linked to wild or kept birds.
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Have you EVER seen a presidential poll worth its salt with this large of a gap between candidates?
Rasmussen reported this morning – President Trump’s 12 point lead over Joe Biden may be TOO BIG TO RIG!
With a 12-point lead, is Trump’s impending victory now “too big to rig?”
We explore it in detail.
Plus Biden loses the youth vote and the @BLS_gov is probably lying about unemployment.
Here:https://t.co/w29CxPxnth pic.twitter.com/wXkYmmeJ79
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 3, 2024
Mark Mitchell, the head pollster at Rasmussen Reports, released the following video to go with this thermonuclear poll.
Mark Mitchell: Today we’re going to be covering this month’s new Thermonuclear 2024 presidential election result. And those results show Donald Trump increasing his lead to almost insurmountable numbers. But if your name is Joseph Robinette Biden or you’re one of his supporters, there’s news for you in here, too. Unfortunately, it’s not good. Joe Biden has the lowest support he’s ever had amongst 18 to 39-year-old voters. And that’s really big news since they usually vote left…
…If you look at Democrats, only 70 % of Democrats say that they would vote Joe Biden today, and That’s 10 points less than the Republicans who would vote Trump. And 16 % of Democrats say they would vote for Donald Trump. So that adds up to a 16 point crossover advantage for Donald Trump, which is stunningly large. But check out that independent line… Joe Biden is only getting 26% of independents. That’s an 18 point lead for Trump, which is quite a bit bigger than we’ve seen in our recent polling…
…Joe Biden is losing by two points among 18 to 39-year-olds. Now, a good portion of them are going Kennedy, and Trump only has 36 % of the vote. But that 34 % number from Biden is the lowest he’s had this cycle. And again, 18 to 39-year-olds are usually all in for Democrats.
Watch the video here.
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On Wednesday morning, The Gateway Pundit reported on the heroic University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who protected a fallen American flag from a pro-Hamas mob despite a violent onslaught from the radicals.
Their patriotic actions inspired Americans across the country.
A GoFundMe was started with the modest goal of throwing these young men an ‘epic rager.’
But their actions resonated so profoundly with their fellow Americans that that goal was epically surpassed. The fundraiser raised more than $500,000 in 24 hours.
Country music legend John Rich announced his plans to join the brothers for the upcoming party dubbed ‘Flagstock.’
Rich shared, “I just wanted to give you a little update on the free concert offer I made to the folks at UNC, to those students for their bravery and their patriotism by not allowing our United States flag to hit the ground.”
“They stood there while they were being hit with bottles, and rocks, and sticks, and they just stood there. They did not let Old Glory touch the ground.”
“So we are going to find a date to do this show, we are calling it ‘Flagstock.’ I’ll keep you posted.”
Watch:
I have an update on the concert I offered to the frat boys at UNC! VOLUME UP! #FlagStock pic.twitter.com/Qr7dbKVbrb
— John Rich (@johnrich) May 2, 2024
An update on the GoFundMe page shares, “We have been overwhelmed by the sheer force of patriotism on display here. What started as a modest request to buy a few kegs for some great young guys has ballooned into an American cultural moment, with millions of people paying attention: blue and red, left and right, all of the above.”
“First, people should understand that we organized this fundraiser independently. That has been misreported by certain press outlets. We aren’t brothers ourselves: just Americans who admire young people like the men of UNC fraternities — members from at least eight different houses, by our count, many of whom we’ve now met.”
The organizer also shared that funds will be distributed to multiple fraternities involved in protecting Old Glory from protestors to support charitable causes “that are consistent with the fundraiser’s patriotic theme.”
The willingness of these young men to stand up to the destructive forces has been echoed on college campuses across the country.
Thursday afternoon at Ole Miss, HUNDREDS of male students gathered at the Pro-Hamas camp and began singing the National Anthem.
Pro-America students at LSU drowned out pro-Hamas protesters with chants of “USA! USA!”
Even students in liberal New Jersey at Rutgers University have had enough of the terrorist apologists as students countered the anti-Israel agitators on campus and waved the American flag, chanting, ‘USA! USA!’
In a twist no one was expecting, patriots rallied at the liberal hotbed of The University of Chicago.
Patriots rallied at the University of Chicago. pic.twitter.com/PLq7rSNVxT
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 3, 2024
Students at GWU, where a statue of George Washington was covered by a Palestinian terrorist rag and flag, unfurled a massive American flag right in the faces of the protestors.
Three GWU students unfurl massive American flag.
The Hamas student leaders are not pleased.
Video from @BorderHawkNewspic.twitter.com/CiABI9MEp8
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 4, 2024
At a time when it is easy to despair about the younger generation, there is also much to be hopeful of.
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For $90,000 a year, parents of some elite school students expected more than hate.
A report in The Wall Street Journal says some parents are calling for tuition refunds and rethinking future enrollments.
“They are not getting the education they expected and paid for,” Zev Gewurz, a Boston real-estate lawyer whose daughter is a senior at New York City’s Barnard College. Barnard was founded as a women’s college adjacent to Columbia University. The cost of attendance at Barnard tops $90,000
Gewurz said Barnard gave an “inadequate response” to hate speech.
“I try to tell her that this is not her fault, and that she is living in a moment in history and needs to keep her head high,” he told the Journal.
Debra Lynn Eden, whose daughter is a junior at Princeton, complained, “It’s all a giant distraction to the students who are trying to complete their studies in a high-stress environment.”
Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, which helps students complete applications, said parents of Columbia and University of California – Los Angeles students are calling for refunds.
“Physically blocking their child from attending class or a lecture hall is 100 percent not what they signed up for,” he said. “They are beyond upset at what’s going on.”
“I’ve had so many parents emailing, calling, asking me what they can do,” Rim told the London Times.
“There’s been protests, encampments and physical violence that has interrupted their education and they’re not happy. Fees at these sorts of schools are phenomenally high; parents want to feel like they are getting what they pay for and right now they don’t,” he said.
The lack of a commencement also galls parents.
Lana Shami’s daughter will graduate from the University of Southern California without a ceremony due to protests.
“There will be no celebration at the university where we paid an exorbitant amount of tuition for the past four years. It’s a huge letdown,” Shami said.
“This is not the experience that my freshman daughter should be having, that any of the students of any year should be having,” Amy Gallatin, whose daughter attends Barnard, said, according to Fox News.
Gallatin said her daughter took a final exam Tuesday as protests were raging.
“My daughter is also frustrated [and] understandably so,” she said. “She had a final exam yesterday at 6 o’clock that she was taking from her dorm only to have the protesters on the street banging and clanging and chanting.”
Hearing chants interpreted as seeking the death of Jews was “a very unsettling experience,” Gallatin said, and “walking through all of those people is a scary thing.”
CNN reported that one Jewish high school senior, whose name was not used, ditched Barnard due to the protests.
The student chose Brandeis University in Massachusetts, in part due to its A rating from an Anti-Defamation League list of colleges that ranked their support for Jewish students.
“Barnard was my top choice. I was so dead set on going,” the student said. “But after seeing what is happening on campuses, I feel so glad I am going to Brandeis. I feel really happy and safe knowing they got an A.”
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Due to the Biden administration’s significant funding boost, the Internal Revenue Service plans to dramatically increase audit procedures for big corporations, partnerships, and multimillionaires over the next three years.
In a recent press release, the IRS said it aims to nearly triple its audit rate to 22.6% for corporations with upwards of $250 million worth of assets in the 2026 tax year.
Audits in 2019 were 8.8%, a steep decrease over the 9.0% in 2018.
For complex partnerships with assets topping $10 million, the IRS said it intends to increase audit rates nearly 10-fold, to 1% in tax year 2026 — up from 0.1% in 2019.
The IRS also said it is targeting a 50% increase in audit rates for individuals with a total positive annual income exceeding $10 million.
By the 2026 tax year, 16.5% of these wealthy individuals will be subject to an audit — up from 11% in 2019.
Why did I leave the IRS? In 2017, they took away my stack of rich person audits and gave me a stack of poor people audits. I couldn’t stomach auditing poor people. My health collapsed. I tried to keep going, but finally after weekly hospital visits I quit. #taxtwitter
— Howard Knudsen CPA (@howard_knudsen) May 3, 2024
In a blatant display of leftist pandering, the IRS has shamelessly revealed that it won’t dare to hike up audit rates for hardworking individuals and small businesses making under $400,000. While it sounds nice, this plan fits right in with President Biden’s socialist agenda of coddling the masses and punishing achievement. It’s just another step towards the destruction of our economy and the disintegration of Christian values.
As the owner of a #SmallBiz, you understand the importance of getting things right for your employees. #IRS changes made under the SECURE 2.0 Act may affect the amounts you need to report on your Forms W-2. For details: https://t.co/0p1uW7P4cx
— IRSnews (@IRSnews) May 2, 2024
The federal agency was bolstered by $80 billion in new funding directed by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which Biden signed into law in 2022.
When the IRS conducts an audit, individuals or heads of businesses must meet with an auditor, who then reviews that a federal tax return was filed correctly. The official may ask for additional documentation to support the claims like reductions and credits cited in the return.
If there’s discrepancies, consequences can include tax evasion charges, which carry a civil fraud penalty of 75% of the understated tax and in the worst cases, the possibility of jail time.
The forthcoming changes were outlined as part of the IRS’s update on its so-called “strategic operating plan” in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, which vowed to modernize the IRS’s antiquated computer systems, improve taxpayer services and ramp up enforcement to close the “tax gap” between taxes owed and those collected.
According to the IRS, a total of $7.25 billion will be spent from these funds in fiscal 2024, up from $3.4 billion last year.
“The changes outlined in this report are a stark contrast to the years of under-funding that deteriorated taxpayer service and tax enforcement, frustrating taxpayers, the tax community and IRS employees alike,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement.
With Inflation Reduction Act funds, the IRS hired 13,661 employees in fiscal 2023, including 10,518 taxpayer services employees and 495 enforcement personnel.
The number of hires is expected to increase to 16,314 in fiscal 2024, including 4,088 enforcement personnel.
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London’s leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan has won a third term in office, according to exit polls.
Khan, who is known for his ties to Islamism and far-left rhetoric, defeated his Conservative rival Susan Hall by a comfortable margin.
The Financial Times reports:
Labour has claimed victory in the London mayoral contest with Sadiq Khan set to comfortably win a third term in office, adding to the electoral gloom hanging over Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.
Early results from different parts of the capital suggested that Khan had comfortably seen off a challenge from his Tory rival Susan Hall, in spite of rumours the contest could be tight. With counting complete in four out of 14 areas at 2pm, Khan had secured 52 per cent of the vote compared with Hall’s 24 per cent, prompting Labour to claim victory.
There had been speculation that Hall could pull off a shock win in the contest after figures showed that voter turnout was higher in the capital’s outer boroughs, where Tory support is strongest.
The results are another bitter blow to those who love the city of London, which has been effectively ruined by mass immigration, high levels of crime and astronomical prices.
Unlike most in the British Conservative Party, Tory candidate Susan Hall was a supporter of President Donald Trump and openly admired the controversial politician Enoch Powell.
Come on Donald Trump- make sure you win and wipe the smile of this man’s face @realDonaldTrump @SebGorka https://t.co/6yqflClQhA
— Susan Hall AM (@Councillorsuzie) November 4, 2020
Khan, meanwhile, has repeatedly attacked Trump since he first ran for office in 2015. Just this week, Khan responded to Trump’s comments that London is now “unrecognizable” under his leadership.
“Today is an opportunity to show Donald Trump and my Tory opponent that London will always choose hope over fear and unity over division,” he said this week.
“I’m happy to meet President Trump and to explain to him, in a respectful, courteous manner where I think he’s wrong on a number of issues, to hear him out, see what his explanation is for holding me responsible for the attacks we saw in London last year,” he later told HuffPost.
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Chris Clem
Real Clear Wire
If the majority of Americans agree on something, you may want to pause and learn more. If almost 90% of Americans agree, that’s a gamechanger. When it comes to border security and immigration, Americans are much more united than you might think.
A new poll commissioned by Americans for Prosperity, where I’m an advisor on border security, reveals 87% of Americans say they would like to see immigration policy that:
As a former border patrol agent with over 27 years of service under my belt, I believe in each and every one of these reforms, and know that without them, our southern border will continue to be in a state of crisis.
In nearly three decades of service, I’ve never seen Americans so concerned about their border. And there’s a reason why. Since President Biden took office, over 8 million people illegally crossed the southern border, creating an unprecedented crisis for the country.
Immigration reform isn’t a Republican or Democrat issue. It’s an American issue. Clearly Americans from all points of the political spectrum are fed up with the status quo and ready for meaningful reforms. Over 80% are pessimistic about the security of our southern border. Yet, like me, they are fairly optimistic about the options available to turn things around.
According to the poll, Americans nearly universally support improving inspections at ports of entry, increasing screenings of the guardians of young migrants, and improving Border Patrol agents’ working conditions. The poll also found specific legislation, like making it easier for foreign doctors who studied in the U.S. to stay in the U.S., garners 90% support from all Americans.
While these actions may seem more obviously nonpartisan, actions to secure the southern border aren’t partisan either. In the poll, 89% of Americans said they would like to see the U.S. government hire more Border Patrol agents and raise their pay. Additionally, 85% supported hiring civilian personnel to monitor asylum seekers so Border Patrol can focus on securing the border itself. And 90% want to see monthly data on the number of migrants appearing on the Terrorist Screening Database.
Clearly, what the American electorate wants is immigration reform that benefits both American citizens and immigrants coming into the U.S. What’s holding up meaningful immigration reform isn’t a lack of solutions— it’s inaction by Congress and lack of leadership from the White House. President Biden loves to blame everybody but himself for this border crisis. But I remember his 100-day deportation moratorium and cessation of all border wall construction on Day 1 of his presidency. And I also remember the message his actions and rhetoric sent to migrants – come on in, the border is open. It’s no surprise that there were almost 100,000 more apprehensions in March of 2021 than there were in January of that year.
But Congress has also turned a deaf ear to the concerns of their constituents, not only by failing to pass these specific reforms but also by standing idly by as the dysfunctional system helps cartels and smugglers at the expense of everybody else. For example, Congress hasn’t demanded that DHS disclose the number of migrants it has lost track of within the US or that it disclose the number of people who have evaded border patrol (known colloquially as “gotaways”), even though the vast majority of Americans want these statistics publicly shared every month.
If Congress can’t hold the executive branch accountable to reforms that are as basic as sharing monthly data or pass solutions that nearly all Americans can agree on, are they really working for the American electorate?
This new polling reveals what I and others in this space already knew – border security and immigration aren’t nearly as divisive as politicians and the media would have us believe. The majority of Americans are united on securing our borders, reforming immigration rules to be clearer and more predictable, and creating a system that benefits the United States and those who want to come contribute, while removing threats to our security and the rule of law.
We will be a stronger, safer, more prosperous country for having those reforms in place.
It’s high time Congress listens to the American people by securing the border, by being transparent about the crisis, and by making meaningful, lasting reforms to the immigration system.
Chief Chris Clem is a retired Chief Patrol Agent who served as a U.S. border patrol agent for over 27 years.
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John Rourke, a veteran and the CEO of Blue Line Moving, has stepped forward to help the citizens of East Palestine, Ohio, something the Biden Regime does not seem eager or willing to do.
Rourke has pledged to bring a water filtration system unit to every single home in East Palestine after the ecological disaster that struck the small town.
Rourke is working with Sentryh20 , and the company is donating the 2000 systems needed to help the community.
It took Biden a year to visit the community where a Norfolk Southern train derailed near the Ohio border with Pennsylvania.
During his February 2024 visit, Biden was greeted by angry protestors.
Rourke joined Daniel Baldwin on OANN to discuss the motivation and details of his remarkable pledge telling Baldwin, “The reason why I want to do this is because I am just tired of people not putting America first and Americans first.”
He told The Gateway Pundit, “This Country needs to start putting Americans first. We have to worry about East Palestine more than Palestine.”
Watch:
VIDEO: Blue Line Moving CEO To Donate Water Filtration Units To East Palestine, Ohio Residents https://t.co/4IKxRKShXY #OAN
— One America News (@OANN) May 3, 2024
In January, Rourke partnered with Big Dog Ranch Rescue and other rescue organizations to travel to Colony Ridge in Texas, an area is a sprawling development that’s become a magnet for illegals, to rescue animals facing inhumane conditions that have been abused, starved, and abandoned.
Rourke is also the founder of We Fund The Blue Foundation and the Great American Cleanup, which helps clean up the mess left by illegals in border towns. The organization also provides disaster relief to areas across the country impacted by natural and man-made disasters.
Following a cleanup, the nonprofit raises funds to support, honor, and recognize the local law enforcement community.
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Pop icon Britney Spears was seen being escorted by emergency services outside the luxurious Montrose Hollywood Hotel in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Wearing only her underwear and wrapped in a blanket, the “Toxic” singer clutched a pillow tightly as she walked barefoot alongside paramedics, police officers, and her reported ex-boyfriend, Paul Richard Soliz.
Eyewitnesses reported that Spears appeared disoriented but was compliant with the emergency personnel guiding her to an awaiting ambulance.
According to Daily Mail, a fight had allegedly broken out between Spears and Soliz, leading to the involvement of emergency services.
Paramedics were called to the hotel after a woman matching Spears’ description was said to be “harassing and threatening hotel employees and guests.”
However, when police arrived, they found no signs of trouble. Despite this, Spears appeared agitated and visibly upset as she left the hotel.
Daily Mail reported:
LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey told DailyMail.com: ‘Emergency services received a call at 12.42am with reports of an adult female injured.
‘At 1am an ambulance arrived on the premises. I can confirm no-one was transported. Services left the scene at 1.17am. The police department were not called.’
TMZ reports Spears arrived at the hotel late Wednesday night – with police called after a ‘disturbance’ with a woman matching the singer’s description reportedly ‘harassing and threatening hotel employees and guests.’
The pair then returned to their room around 11pm where they ‘partied and drank.’ They are said to have got into a ‘huge physical altercation in which Spears ‘may have hurt her leg.’
It was claimed Spears was ‘screaming and out of control in the hallway of her suite’ with and ‘several guests’ thinking she was having a mental breakdown, so paramedics were called.
Spears did not get into an ambulance and is said to have left with her security and without Soliz.
The troubling scene drew immediate comparisons to Spears’ well-documented mental health struggles in the past, including her highly publicized breakdown in 2008.
That incident led to the singer being placed under a conservatorship, which was only terminated in 2021 after 13 years.
In the aftermath of the hotel incident, Spears took to Instagram to address the situation, claiming the news was “fake” and that the photographs were of “body doubles.” She also alleged that paramedics had “showed up at [her] door illegally” and that she felt “completely harassed.”
Spears wrote:
Just to let people know … the news is fake !!! I would like respect at this time for people to understand I am getting stronger everyday !!! Truth sucks so can someone teach me how to lie ??? Goddesses out there, I’m reaching my higher power and furthermore, I hope you guys are too !!! I need a new toothbrush right now. PS … I need an espresso!!! PSS …Not sure why I feel the need to share this … I guess I’m just a girl and I’m on my period so I’m bitchy … shit!!! I also twisted my ankle last night and paramedics showed up at my door illegally. They never came in my room but I felt completely harassed. I’m moving to Boston !!! Peace
This latest incident has once again raised concerns about Spears’ well-being, with some close to the singer reportedly claiming she is “completely dysfunctional” and in a worse mental and financial state than when she was under conservatorship.
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Marxist tyrant New York AG Letitia James has notified pro-life pregnancy centers in the state of possible lawsuits over allegedly misleading statements about ‘abortion pill reversal’ (APR) protocols.
On April 22, James’ office sent “Notice of Intention to Sue” threat letters to at least a dozen pregnancy help organizations that offer or share information about the APR protocol, and the centers were given just five days to respond.
A collective of pregnancy help organizations are now suing the AG to block the threatened prosecutions.
“Abortion pill reversal,” or APR, has a mechanism of action which works by supplementing the pregnant woman with the hormone progesterone to outcompete the effects of mifepristone (the first drug in the abortion pill regimen). Mifepristone (brand name Mifeprex) starves the preborn child of the nutrients it needs to survive by inhibiting the pregnancy-sustaining action of the woman’s naturally occurring progesterone.
Progesterone has been used safely in pregnant women for decades. Live Action News has previously reported on APR’s safety and efficacy and has published numerousstories of women who were able to save their children’s lives by following the APR protocol and also previously documented how the pro-abortion American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) and others within the abortion industry already know that progesterone can interfere with the action of the abortion pill.
CompassCare CEO Jim Harden wrote in a press release, “New York Attorney General Letitia James began a carbon-copy notice of litigation against Christian pro-life pregnancy centers. Ten pro-life pregnancy centers have been served so far for alleged “misleading statements or omissions in the advertising of the Abortion Pill Reversal (“APR”) protocol.” Similar allegations were filed against pro-life groups by abortion advocate and Attorney General Rob Bonta of California in the Fall of 2023.”
He continued, “This is only the most recent move by pro-abortion political extremists in a two-year, multi-layered, blue-state, pattern of attack against pro-life pregnancy centers—similar to Marxist-style allegations of misinformation leveled by Jane’s Revenge terrorist group against pro-lifers. The attacks on pregnancy centers began on June 7, 2022, with the firebombing of CompassCare’s medical office in Buffalo, injuring two firefighters. Firebombing of pro-life groups is now deemed domestic terror by the DOJ. One week after the firebombing, NY Governor Kathy Hochul weaponized legislation by signing a bill to investigate the victims, alleging misinformation while referring to pro-life people as Neanderthals. Shortly after, New York Attorney General Letitia James conspired with big tech like Google to censure pro-life pregnancy centers, keeping women from finding them on map features. James applauded Google’s illegal compliance in August 2022. The timeline of attacks including vilification of pro-life pregnancy centers through negative PR and activist litigation can be found on CompassCare’s webpage.”
Harden added, “You know, being sued by New York State for ‘misinformation’ oddly gives us the platform to educate the nation concerning the stubborn facts abortion industry puppets, like AG James, seek to hide; abortion is attended with a 44% increased risk of breast cancer, a 52% increased risk of future preterm deliveries, and a 5-fold increased risk of suicide. If it takes being sued by Letitia James to save women and babies from being used and victimized by a mercenary abortion industry, come and get us!”
Now, Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and a collective of pregnancy help organizations, represented by Thomas More Society, are suing the AG to block the threatened prosecutions.
Thomas More Society attorneys are requesting court intervention against the Attorney General’s threatened legal action, to safeguard the constitutional rights of Heartbeat International and the collective of pregnancy help organizations—many of which are part of Heartbeat International’s Abortion Pill Rescue® Network, or otherwise provide information about APR. At its core, James’ threatened litigation seeks to illegally silence Heartbeat International and its network member organizations from sharing their science-based, life-affirming message about the benefits, success, effectiveness, and safety of APR.
Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation, said, “This is a political witch-hunt against small nonprofits that have selflessly served New York’s pregnant women and their children for over 50 years. Letitia James should be heralding these charities, not launching outrageously false claims against them under laws that don’t apply to their noncommercial speech. For decades, doctors have been prescribing supplemental progesterone for pregnant women at serious risk for miscarriage—but because this safe and long-established practice may actually reverse abortions, ideologues like Letitia James now want to squelch it. Ms. James’ Notices of Intention to Sue are a transparent attempt to harass small pro-life charities into silence, targeting her political opponents because of their beliefs, in flagrant violation of the First Amendment. We will fight back as long as it takes against Ms. James’ efforts to jeopardize the Christian and life-affirming missions of Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and all similar pro-life ministries in the State of New York.”
You can read the Verified Complaint in Heartbeat International et al. v. Letitia James, filed by Thomas More Society here.
Read a representative “Notice of Intention to Sue” sent from the AG’s office here.
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in April the House Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing with National Guard whistleblowers who stepped forward to correct the media lies and dishonest narrative by Democrats on the January 6 protests and riots.
Four members of the National Guard testified that they were ready to be deployed on January 6 but THE PENTAGON held them back!
This directly brings General Milley’s actions into question!
Kash Patel tipped us off last month that there were more reports like this coming.
National Guard whistleblowers: Command Sgt. Major Michael E. Brooks, Colonel Earl G. Matthews, Aaron Dean Retired, and Captain Timothy Nick stepped forward and testified before Congress to correct the record on January 6.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were both warned about the security situation prior to January 6th, and both turned down National Guard troops at the US Capitol that day.
Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser turned down thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6 for political reasons.
Chris Wray’s FBI also refused to notify the Trump administration and his cabinet secretaries that they believed there could be violence like the mass protests at the Capitol that took place that day.
Nancy Pelosi also refused the National Guard at the US Capitol due to politics.
Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund said he asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup. But they both turned him down.
John Solomon from Just The News released an explosive report in 2022 that revealed Capitol Police were first warned about possible violence at the January 6th protests TWO WEEKS before the planned rallies.
Pelosi, Mayor Bowser, and other government officials turned down the National Guard anyway. It is clear they were counting on an “insurrection” to blame on President Trump when they were the ones who allowed the violence to occur and continue that day!
But now there is more disturbing news on the military leadership on January 6th.
According to Colonel Earl Matthews, who testified before Congress in April, US military leaders revoked President Trump’s Commander-in-Chief powers that day and refused to move in the National Guard – because it might look bad.
These military leaders should have been arrested and court martialed.
The Daily Mail reported:
Donald Trump’s authority as commander-in-chief was ignored by senior military leadership on January 6, 2021, claims the chief legal advisor for D.C. National Guard on that day.
Colonel Earl Matthews came forward as a whistleblower to the House subcommittee reviewing the January 6 Select Committee’s investigation.
He sat down with DailyMail.com two weeks after the public hearing to explain what he saw happen that day.
He claims that Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, were plotting to disobey any orders handed down by Trump because they ‘unreasonably’ assumed the then-president was going to break the law and try to use the D.C. National Guard (DCNG) to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
A lot has been made about the breakdown in military and administration communication when it came to the timeline of deploying DCNG to the Capitol.
But Matthews claims senior military leadership was solely focused on getting the heat off of them and putting it back onto Trump.
The Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, Matthews claims, was more than happy to lean into this narrative and blame the entire ordeal on the then-president.
But Matthews says that senior military leadership essentially stripped the president of his authority as commander-in-chief by preemptively planning to go against orders because they didn’t like the optics of uniformed soldiers at the Capitol.
‘I think a very plausible argument can be made that through no fault of his own, President Trump’s command authority over both the D.C. National Guard and the U.S. Army itself had been surreptitiously curtailed by the senior leadership of the Army on January 6, 2021,’ Matthews told DailyMail.com.
He continued: ‘Army leadership had unreasonably anticipated an ‘unlawful order’ from the President, an order that the President had no plans to issue, and were preemptively seeking to curtail his discretion to issue such an order.’
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The U.S. Army has reported a 39-year-old basic trainee died at Fort Jackson on Monday during an exercise.
In a statement, Fort Jackson officials reported that Veronica L. Wynn, 39, from Hurtsboro, Alabama, became unresponsive “during structured and disciplined pickup in the company area.”
Emergency personnel attempted to perform life-saving measures on Wynn and transported her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Fort Jackson Commander Maj. Gen. Jason E. Kelly, in a statement, shared, “Today is an especially sad day for Team Jackson after the loss of one of our newest Soldiers. We extend our deepest sympathies to her family, friends and loved ones. We are providing comfort and assistance to her family and fellow trainees,”
39-year-old basic training trainee, east Alabama native, dead after exercise at Fort Jackson, Army sayshttps://t.co/iKGKgzOZsf
— WSFA 12 News (@wsfa12news) May 3, 2024
Per ABC Columbia:
A 39-year-old Fort Jackson basic combat training trainee died after becoming unresponsive on Monday, says the Army.
According to a statement from Fort Jackson, Veronica L. Wynn, who is originally from Hurtsboro, Alabama, became unresponsive during structured and disciplined pickup in the company area.
Emergency personnel performed life saving measures and then took her to a local hospital where she was later pronounced dead around 2:30 p.m.
“Today is an especially sad day for Team Jackson after the loss of one of our newest Soldiers. We extend our deepest sympathies to her family, friends and loved ones. We are providing comfort and assistance to her family and fellow trainees,” said Fort Jackson Commander Maj. Gen. Jason E. Kelly.
39-year-old basic training trainee died after exercise, Army says. https://t.co/Q1hcAbHADN
— WBRC FOX6 News (@WBRCnews) May 3, 2024
A spokesperson for Fort Jackson shared that the exercise was the very first exercise on base, and the goal of the exercise is to focus on team building.
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In November 2023, socialist Pope Francis removed Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas.
Strickland, appointed in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, had been vocal in his criticism of the Vatican’s approach towards LGBTQ issues, abortion, and the discussion around allowing priests to marry.
But despite Pope Francis’ efforts to silence him, Bishop Strickland continues to speak out.
On Friday, Bishop Strickland published his latest letter warning of a confused understanding of authority’ that has invaded the Catholic Church.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
“Roma locuta; causa finita est!” “Rome has spoken; the matter is finished!”
In these pastoral letters that I have been publishing, I have been writing about many issues that we are facing in what is an ever-growing crisis in the Church and in the world. As a Catholic bishop, my primary concern is always the Church—the Mystical Body of Christ—but it is clear that the present crisis in which we find ourselves touches not just the Church, but every aspect of humanity. When the Church is weak and her earthly leadership is seriously corrupted, it leaves every aspect of the human community vulnerable to evil, and we are seeing that vulnerability at every turn. As serious as all the issues are about which I have written, there is nothing more serious than the distorted understanding of authority and obedience which we now find so rampant. When we lack a clear understanding of the source from whence legitimate authority flows, then obedience is in grave danger of becoming arbitrary and compromised. When this happens, the very obedience which was divinely-instituted by God to point all people to truth may actually be weaponized by some to serve their own interests and to lead the unsuspecting away from truth. Therefore, we must always remain in the truth and be on guard for such a deception.
The history of the Church is replete with accounts of incidents and events in which a conflict arose, and Rome, with the proper use of authority, spoke out and settled the matter. “Roma locuta; causa finita est.” Catholics have wisely held onto this anchor of divine authority in the Catholic Church. Divinely-created authority, which is fully present only within the Catholic Church, should be a refuge for the faithful. Obedience to divine authority is obedience to Christ, as He is the one who has called that person into that position of authority. Obedience to divine authority is necessary within the holy structure of the Church, and it is important in helping us to grow in holiness. Unfortunately, however, the fact that divine authority has been viewed as “a given” in the Church has also served in many cases to make the faithful lazy or complacent in their obedience, and many have forgotten that, as St. Thomas Aquinas declared, God is to be obeyed in ALL things, but human authorities are to be obeyed in CERTAIN things.
As significant as this erosion of authority is for the state, the family, and society in general, when it afflicts the Church it takes us to a whole new level of concern. The Catholic Church is established on the Truth that comes from Almighty God and is fully revealed in Jesus Christ, His Divine Son—Truth Incarnate. When a confused understanding of authority invades the Church, then the very foundations of civilization are shaken, and we are now witnessing these tremors every day.
Jesus Christ tells us that “all authority in heaven and on earth” has been granted unto Him; thus, we must recognize that all earthly authority must look to Christ for its light because ultimately this light flows from a single source—the One who is the source of all authority in heaven and on earth. Only with this proper understanding of authority can we establish a firm foundation for obedience. Simply put, all obedience must always find its source and its end in obedience to Christ and the truth that He reveals. Authentic obedience to truth ultimately brings us to God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—the ultimate authority. As we navigate the path of obedience, if we ignore the truth that Christ has revealed to us then we short-circuit the very meaning and essence of obedience.
Today we find ourselves immersed in a culture which, influenced by postmodernism, is unable or unwilling to recognize valid authority. We are in fact immersed in a culture influenced by Nihilism, and this can be traced back to the fall of our first parents in the Garden of Eden. Nihilism, a philosophy that proclaims all values are baseless, focuses on the use of the will to dominate. It is a rejection of absolute truth, and it puts forth the false idea that “truth” is merely the expression of the will, and pure & unadulterated truth does not exist. In this context, each person can make up truth as he sees fit, or he can determine that truth is whatever the authority figure he recognizes determines it to be. This deadly belief (or similarly, the belief that each individual is an authority unto himself) has even invaded the Church, and it has become a festering, purulent wound within the Mystical Body today.
This twisted view of authority and obedience has been a brilliant but deadly weapon of the fallen, for they have been able to influence men in the hierarchy of the Church to use their accompanying “authority” to cause immense harm to souls. By proclaiming that obedience is still due to these who serve falsehood and who have forfeited their God-given authority, obedience has been used as a weapon and has forced tolerance of situations such as the horrific sex abuse scandals that have so devastated the Church and have caused harm to so many individuals who have fallen victim to these men who abuse power.
One thing that has been lost in the confusion regarding authority and obedience is the fact that whenever the use of authority causes harm to a divine truth, such as when a priest or a bishop calls into question the Deposit of Faith (which includes the immutable Dogmas and Doctrines of the Church), then anyone has a right, in fact even a solemn duty, to resist that error—regardless of the potentially negative consequences they may face. And rather than violating the Catholic tenet of obedience, this resistance to an abuse of authority actually solidifies and strengthens the tenet of obedience because it is obedience to the highest authority—Jesus Christ.
Something else that is often misunderstood regarding authority in the Church concerns papal infallibility and submission of faith. Papal infallibility is present only in the face of an infallible pronouncement regarding faith and morals which emanates from the Pope or from a doctrinal council with the approval of the reigning Pontiff. Such an infallible pronouncement is always, in simple terms, an affirmation of truth that is already a part of the Deposit of Faith—and to which there have been no additions or changes since the close of Public Revelation with the death of St. John in the First Century A.D. When an infallible pronouncement is made, such a proclamation requires submission of faith by the faithful, i.e., the faithful are assured of the truth of such a proclamation and are obliged to hold this belief as a matter of faith. Other statements made by the Pope, the bishops, or other authorities—though they may be true—do not fall under the very narrow charism of papal infallibility. As such, prudence dictates that we may and must evaluate all statements in light of the divinely revealed truths contained in the Sacred Deposit of Faith. If a statement from anyone appears to contradict these unchanging truths, we must first seek clarification. If clarification is not given, or worse, if error is confirmed, we must refute the error and look to the Deposit of Faith as our sure guide to truth.
When addressing the issues of authority and obedience in today’s Church, we must remember that the ultimate source of authority and truth is God. The dilemmas we face will always find their answer in the truth that God has revealed to us. We must constantly ask, “Is this authentic to Christ?” and “Does it correspond to what He and His Church have always taught?” When we answer these questions affirmatively, then we arrive at the truth we must obey. However, if one in “authority” has not received his authority from Christ, then no obedience is required. We should remember that authority is given by Christ to those in the hierarchy of the Church for the sake of the souls entrusted to their care. It is never given for the sake of the person himself who is in authority.
There have been many saints and doctors of the Church who have told us of a time that would come when it will be necessary for the faithful to oppose those who seem to be in “authority” within the hierarchy. If we complacently continue to obey without asking the source of the authority, then we will find ourselves in a dangerous place.
On October 13, 1973, our Blessed Mother appeared to Sister Agnes Sasagawa in Akita, Japan. This occurred on the 56th anniversary of our Blessed Mother’s final apparition at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Our Blessed Mother spoke these words to Sister Sasagawa: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres… churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises . . . “
Archbishop Fulton Sheen said in 1948: “He will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ . . .”
Pope St. John Paul II said in 1976: “We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.”
For those who might think this could occur in regard to the hierarchy of the Church but surely never in regard to a Pope, history reminds us of Pope Honorius I, who was pope from 625 to 638. The Council of Constantinople condemned him posthumously, and Pope Leo II condemned him by stating that Honorius “did not attempt to sanctify this Apostolic Church with the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but by profane treachery permitted its purity to be polluted.”
Therefore it is important to realize that it is possible that members of the Church’s hierarchy—which does not exclude even Popes—can indeed cause harm to the Church and the faithful, even if unintentionally. Furthermore, as we look to the words of saints, scholars, and in particular the words of our Blessed Mother in numerous Church-approved apparitions, we must also recognize the possibility that a member of the Church’s hierarchy could intentionally seek to destroy the Faith and the Church. For this reason, we MUST NOT become lazy or complacent in regard to authority and obedience, even when it involves the Holy Father.
Francisco de Vittoria, a Dominican friar, canonist, and theologian from the Sixteenth Century, stated: “If (a Pope) desired to hand over the treasury of the Church . . . if he desired to destroy the Church, or other similar things one should not permit him to act in such a manner, but one would have the obligation to resist him. The reason for this is that he has not the power to destroy. Therefore, when it is known that he does so, it is licit to resist him.”
St. Robert Bellarmine wrote: “Just as it is licit to resist a Pontiff who attacks the body, so it is licit to resist him who attacks souls, or who disturbs the civil order, or, even more, who tries to destroy the Church. It is licit to resist him by not doing what he orders, and by impeding the execution of his will. It is not licit, however, to judge him, to punish him, or to dispose him, for such acts belong to a superior. Catholic obedience to a superior, therefore, should never be what has been called ‘blind obedience.’”
Also, just as we should be aware of the warnings we have been given about a counter church that will have been emptied of its divine content and over which the Anti-Christ will preside, we must also be aware of the possibility that at some point God may permit that an imposter might sit upon the chair of Peter. We must be on watch always that, should this occur, we obey Jesus Christ alone who is Truth Incarnate and who has revealed His Truth to us in the Sacred Deposit of Faith which is unchangeable. Authentic obedience dictates that we must not obey anyone who opposes Truth and whose desire is to destroy the Church. We can be assured though that even if this dire situation were to occur, the true Church will remain intact, although perhaps it will, for a time, return to the catacombs.
As we discuss the dangers of false authority and misplaced obedience, it is important to note that the laity in the Church do not exist for the sake of the clergy in the Church. The clergy exist to provide the sacraments necessary for salvation to the laity. The paramount concern of all clergy should always, ALWAYS, be the salvation of the souls entrusted to them.
I would also note that bishops are called by God to be shepherds of their flocks, as well as “fathers” to the priests. However, in a profound abuse of authority, we now see situations in which bishops attack and silence priests who are simply speaking truth and defending the Sacred Deposit of Faith. Consequently, many priests remain silent rather than preaching the fullness of Christ’s truth, and many have distrust and even fear of their bishops. We must always remember that a father is called to lead his family by love, not to rule over them by fear.
Furthermore, we have recently seen situations where religious communities throughout the world have been put under duress by their bishops in what sometimes even has the appearance of a “land grab” or a desire to control, rather than a genuine concern for the souls in their care. We have also seen situations where bishops, in being notified about purported messages and locutions from heaven being given in certain locations and communities within their dioceses, immediately attempt to shut down these communities and declare messages false without a thorough and proper investigation. In many of these cases, the lack of proper investigation has given rise to questions regarding authority and disobedience. We must pray that bishops—with prudence and discernment, but also with hearts of supernatural faith—prayerfully and dutifully perform thorough investigations when such situations arise so that the faithful will have a sure guide and know they can look to their shepherds with trust and confidence.
In closing, let us pray without ceasing for the Church, the prelates who lead her, and the faithful who belong to her Mystical Body. May we seek authentic obedience to the authoritative truth that Jesus Christ has revealed to us, and may we recognize and resist any authority that has not Christ as its source as we walk always in profound obedience to Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Tyler
This letter originally appeared on Bishop Strickland’s Substack page. It can be found here.
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By Michael R. Shevock
Real Clear Wire
DEI is a bad idea. It is divisive, racist, and anti-meritocratic. Coleman Hughes, Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Elon Musk, and a host of other first-rate minds have vigorously come out against it. Yet, our Coast Guard leadership continues to promote it without discussion or debate. For an objective observer, that should be the first clue that something is very, very wrong.
Supporters of this ideology are fond of the term ‘cultural competence,’ which they seem to believe is obtainable in a seminar or a classroom, but there are other paths to knowledge. For example, I enjoyed twenty-eight years in federal law enforcement, which, among other things, afforded me familiarity with the inside of a crack-house. Here are are some things I learned first-hand:
(1) Underclass black America is indeed suffering unacceptable levels of violence and generational poverty;
(2) Malcolm X was absolutely correct when he identified white liberals as an impediment to the progress of black America;
(3) the most pernicious condition afflicting underclass black America, yielding drug use, poverty and crime, is the lack of fathers in the home; and
(4) the dominance of the progressive/postmodern agenda, of which DEI is a cornerstone, is almost solely to blame for the pitiful state of our urban poor.
For the first hundred years after the Civil War, black America made the astonishing transition from chattel slavery to the beginning of a thriving middle class. This amazing achievement hit a stone wall, concurrent with the advent of Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state. Eminent economist Dr. Thomas Sowell documents how, after a century of black families remaining basically intact, the 1960s saw a sharp (and continuing) decline in the number of black, two parent families. Dr. Sowell could not put it more clearly when he says, “The welfare state is no favor to the blacks.”
The original manifesto of Black Lives Matter specifically stated, “We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages.’”
Our credentialed DEI experts, products all of the grievance studies pipeline in academia, are promoting a deeply flawed narrative. The bedrock assumption upon which all their ideas rest is that certain communities of color are being held back (oppressed) by patriarchal white supremacy. As per philosopher Eric Hoffer, a movement can succeed without a god, but not without a devil.
As it turns out, their guiding belief melts in the presence of the little-known fact that black immigrants from Nigeria are outperforming the U.S. national average both in terms of education and earned income. There are also compelling claims that they’re underrepresented in the prison system.
Additionally, using the same criteria of educational achievement and earned income, of the six main ethnic/racial groups in the U.S.: whites, Hispanics, blacks, East Asians, West Asians (Indians & Pakistanis), and Native Americans, whites do not even land in the top two.
One would expect so-called advocates for underclass black America to trumpet these facts from the mountaintops, as they clearly and thoroughly destroy any suggestion of racial superiority of whites, but that would only apply if said advocates were actually interested in the welfare of the people they claim to care about. The boogey-man of white supremacy is a terrific gravy-train.
At the University of Virginia in 2023, the Chief Diversity Officer and the VP for DEI both received annual compensation packages valued in excess of at $520,000.
To demonstrate the degree of scholarly rigor in the DEI community, I draw on the Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association. It maintains a website with a DEI section. Despite my repeated complaints over a period of years about factual and grammatical failings in said website, one can still find the following definitions:
“Systemic Racism: Systems and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantages (sic) African Americans(.)”
“Minoritized: … As used by the Coast Guard Academy, an adverb (sic) deliberately used to describe cadets of color or underrepresented minorities (URM) that refers to the actions (intended or unintended) taken by institutions that lead to the socially constructed minoritization of racial and gender and other groups that make up our diverse community.”
“Race: A social construct, meaning the notion of race was created by people. As a scientific tool for categorizing different types of human beings’ “race” has no value (sic). …”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the sickle cell anemia trait is inherited, and is present in babies born of Sub-Saharan African heritage (i.e. black) at a rate over ten times higher than babies of Hispanic heritage, over twenty times higher than babies born of European (white) heritage, and over thirty times greater than babies born of Asian heritage. Apparently, our DEI experts do not know medical research qualifies as science.
(And, finally, this nugget that our social justice experts mysteriously believe belongs on the DEI portion of the website.)
“Intrusive Leadership: A leadership style that is not about analyzing your direct reports and reading them and jumping to conclusions. It is simply about getting to know them. This is a skill but can be developed with practice. It is important to be patient because you are also establishing trust and rapport with them. Intrusive leadership is not about analyzing your direct reports and reading them and jumping to conclusions. It is simply about getting to know them (sic).”
These examples are not offered merely to show that many of our social justice experts could not pass for competent fourth graders, but also to highlight how the magical stamp of ‘DEI’ inoculates flawed scholarship from being challenged. Cue the Coast Guard Academy’s new initiative, the CGA Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan 2024-2026. It runs the gamut from cringe-comedy to disturbing.
A line edit would have helped – there are instances of inconsistent spelling and capitalization. Small ideas are camouflaged with academic buzzwords such as, “effective modalities” and “robust pedagogies.”
The real humor, however, is how too much DEI is never enough. Every conceivable component of the academy is relentlessly tasked with making DEI a prime objective. Finally, we’ll have an “Athletic Cultural Competence Initiative.” In addition to mysteriously demanding input from academy components not directly involved in sports, it will require coaches to hold “Cultural Competence sessions.” No, really: in the plural. I’m trying to picture how this would go. “Hey guys, I mean, ‘team,’ I’ve been noticing how some of you come in different colors, which is okay because we’re inclusively inclusive, and diverse diversity is our strength, and also really diverse, which we all know is an imperative for victory. And equity. We’re all about equity. Lots and lots of equity. Any questions?” One thing for certain, it won’t be awkward.
Just kidding. It’s going to be awful. Only someone pitifully disconnected from reality could think this is a good idea. Much of private industry is already backing away from ad nauseum diversity training because it has been shown they make interracial relations worse, not better.
The CGA initiative is suffering from a common failing among the over-educated, and that is confusing quantifiable effort with progress.
But amidst the clown-like silliness, the plan turns dark. In addition to setting a goal of attracting prospective cadets who are “DEI-mature” (whatever that’s supposed to mean), it states that candidates for prospective faculty positions shall be assessed “on cultural competence including their diversity, equity & inclusion philosophy.”
Stalin and Mao would laughingly recognize this demand for intellectual conformity, and it is evil. Reasonable minds must be allowed to disagree, at least privately. Mandating that faculty candidates provide in advance a declaration of mental obedience absolutely guarantees we’ll be hiring liars. Lying is poison to the soul. It’s a one-way door, through which one surrenders his or her capacity to stand up for principle. Is this the type of officer we’re hoping will populate the service? I fear we’re already halfway there.
Perhaps the worst thing about the Coast Guard’s position on DEI is how it does not allow for discussion or examination. I wholly appreciate the sentiment behind the movement, but the idea breaks down and turns sour when we assign the absurd goal of massaging standards to immediately yield proportional representation of all ethnic/racial groups.
According to the Brookings Institute, on the SAT math exams in 2019, only 7% of black test-takers scored at least 600, contrasted with 11%, 31%, and 62% of Hispanic, white, and Asian test-takers, respectively.
What this means, is that for every black high school senior with at least minimal academic qualifications, there will be at least three Hispanics, four Asians, and eighteen whites. To expect the Coast Guard Academy to attract proportional-to-population numbers of black high school students (i.e. 13%) who are also qualified to be admitted in the immediate short term would require individual members from the qualified pool of black candidates to apply with a greater proportional frequency than the other groups by a factor of three. This will never happen.
The service academies are competing with all the other elite institutions for qualified applicants, especially those that improve their optics. There are simply not enough qualified black and brown minorities to satisfy the demand. It’s tempting to bend entry standards, but, contrary to the fashionable myth, performance on the SAT exams is the best indictor of academic success in college.
Aside from degrading the effectiveness of the service, dropping standards for minority cadets will yield the perverse effect of casting doubt on the capability of all minority officers, increasing resentment on both sides, guaranteeing the opposite overall result of what DEI was originally supposed to accomplish.
By making a commitment to DEI a career imperative, the Coast Guard has disincentivized both honesty and common sense. The collective and damning absence of those qualities can be found in the Coast Guard’s reprehensible and ongoing Fouled Anchor scandal. God help us.
To erase the glaring disparities in achievement of certain groups, America needs to honestly address the root causes of dysfunction and failure, and that will require our leaders in academia and government to acknowledge that the current set of assumptions is bogus. Any objective examination of the numbers bears that out. Instead of studying grifters like Ibram X. Kendi, leaders of every stripe would be well-served to read the life story of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery in the Civil War and, through amazing heroism, became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. After the war, he opened a school for former slaves, got elected as a state senator, and worked to make free education available to all South Carolina children. He earned the rank of major general in the state militia and was elected 3to five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. His monument in the Beaufort cemetery bears this quote which he spoke to the South Carolina legislature:
“My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be the equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life.”
The sons and daughters of Africa have already performed amazing feats, with many more to come. DEI is a counter-productive insult to everyone.
Michael R. Shevock is a 1976 of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Following graduation, he served three years afloat in the Bering Sea, and four years with Coast Guard Intelligence. From there, he worked as a criminal investigator/special agent with the Naval Investigative Service, the U.S. Customs Service, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Authorities claim there’s no need for sentencing hearing, bail option
A state legal action in Pennsylvania is sparking outrage, online and elsewhere, for the result it demanded: Two farmers arrested and jailed on 30-day sentences with no sentencing hearing and no option for bail.
Authorities say that’s the process they use for contempt charges, for which Ethan Wentworth of Airville, York County, and Rusty Herr of Christiana, Lancaster County, have been serving time since last month.
Broadcast outlet WPMT in Harrisburg reported the government’s complaint concerns their company, NoBull Solutions, which offers to help dairy farmers with their reproductive management of cattle.
Here’s a video podcast, by Yanasa TV, explaining the conflict:
Their lawyer, Robert Barnes, charges, “This is the craziest thing I’ve every seen.”
The fight apparently stems from allegations the two were practicing veterinary medicine without a license for running ultrasound test on cattle, a procedure that is common for farmers to use for various reasons.
The result was an investigation by the state of Pennsylvania, where officials demanded that the two turn over their records.
They failed to do what state officials demanded, and the report notes that resulted in contempt orders against the men.
The state’s court officials told the broadcast outlet that there is no option for bail, and no “sentencing hearing” required for contempt charges. Authorities simply arrest the suspects and jail them, the report said.
Eventually, a judge signed arrest warrants for the two, as well as orders to jail them in their respective counties, warrants that just recently were executed.
A critic of the two say there was ample due process, but Barnes issued a statement:
This is an unlawful civil contempt order. There are certain procedures that must be followed in a civil contempt action and to our knowledge those were not followed here. Even if they had been followed, the maximum allowable punishment is 15 days in jail which must be conditional, with keys to your own jail cell – meaning there is a condition you can meet to immediately end your incarceration. None of that is true in this case.
The state claims this is a punishment for not complying with a subpoena to turn over documents, but an agency can’t just order anyone to turn over any document they please. For a subpoena to be valid, the jurisdictional validity of the subpoena must be established, and it has not been in this case. Both men had sought the advice of an attorney regarding the case and had been told that the Veterinary Medical Board had no jurisdiction over them, that the subpoena was therefore invalid, and that there was nothing Ethan and Rusty needed to do.
There is no evidence that Ethan or Rusty ever saw the order the state claims to have mailed to them last August which threatened them with arrest if they did not comply. Ethan and Rusty were unaware that this was a possibility. It was a complete shock to them and to their families when they were arrested.
He explained his clients were “denied the ability to see the case against them or NoBull Solutions because the state had the docket sealed and hidden – a highly unusual move.”
He said, “It gives the appearance that the intent was to secretly establish an excuse to arrest them and shut down NoBull Solutions without due process.”
He said he was pursuing an emergency motion to reverse the imprisonment order.
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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During his opening monologue on Thursday night, Greg Gutfeld mocked Democrats and the city of New York for their sham case against Trump as only he can.
Greg spared no one, from Stormy Daniels to Michael Cohen and Joe Biden.
He made the point that New York City can’t keep violent criminals in jail but want to lock up Trump for talking about his case, while all the Trump-haters are allowed to say whatever they want.
Partial transcript via FOX News:
On Tuesday, Judge Merchan held Donald Trump in contempt of court and fined him $9,000 for violating a gag order. Trump should have reached into his wallet, grabbed the $9,000 in cash and thrown it at the judge and said: “Here, go bang Stormy Daniels eight times.”
It’s funny: A city that can’t keep violent felons in jail wants to lock up a president for talking. Their priorities are more out-of-whack than a morning show hosted by people who hate each other.
Meanwhile, Judge Merchan’s daughter… a progressive political hack, is sending out solicitations invoking the Trump trial, raising millions for her clients. Among them: Adam Schiff, lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment, who will hopefully use the money for a neck transplant. So Trump’s not allowed to talk. How did he react? Is the gag order unique? Unconstitutional? Corrupt?
Now let’s have a look at the people the judge hasn’t silenced, like Stormy Daniels. Usually when she opens her mouth, it only affects five dudes in a motel room with a camcorder. But these days, Stormy’s not taking things lying down.
Watch the whole thing below:
~ GUTFELD ~ Monologue
Trump trial ~ Hilarious! pic.twitter.com/zmRPx1m0Me
— Gary D (@KMGGaryde) May 3, 2024
You won’t hear anything like that on the Colbert or Kimmel shows.
Gutfeld is the only late night host who has been willing to mock Biden and the Democrats and that’s why his ratings are through the roof.
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You have undoubtedly heard the classic song ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)’ by Allan Sherman.
The song has now been updated to reflect the radical, anti-Israel protests on college campuses.
This is fantastic.
Lyrics via Twitter/X:
Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
I have joined Camp Intifada
Camp is very instigating
And they say the quad sprinkler will soon stop rainingThe tuition is so pricey
To attend a Poison Ivy
You remember Ilhan’s daughter
She’s now homeless for defending Jewish slaughterAll the comrades hate the Zios
Who lack pronouns in their bios
And we want to charm the Houthis
So we hold hands and chant ‘Death to the Yahudis’I’ve made new friends who are less white
And my Hebrew is now left-right
And when Jew kids, start to roll in
We demand that they all go back home to PolandLet me stay, oh Muddah, Faddah
Globalize the Intifada
Don’t bring me back to the suburbs;
Cancel my tuition for next yearLet me stay, I’ll proudly wear my Keffiyeh
And loudly shout “Death to America”
I know everything to say
I’ve been here one whole dayDearest father, darling mother
I’ll stay one way, or another
You paid thousands to this college
So our camp could make the janitor a hostageWait a minute, cops are coming
We’re uprising, they are stunning
Kindly send some food and water
Mother, father, I’m expelled from your alma mater
Listen below:
These two Twitter users are the talent behind the song.
I may have had something to do with this… https://t.co/JDGejEBiO7
— Liron Kopinsky ️ Let My People Go (@ldkop) May 2, 2024
You don’t often get to see or hear such carefully crafted parody. It really captures the moment we’re living through right now.
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We are not being led by the best and brightest.
Jared Bernstein, an economic adviser to Joe Biden, was recently interviewed for a new documentary film and struggled to explain the relationship between the government and the money supply.
The clip is below and it’s really painful to watch.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
WATCH: Biden’s Economic Adviser Tries and Fails To Explain How Money Works
A viral clip of an interview with President Joe Biden’s economic adviser Jared Bernstein shows the official struggling to explain why the U.S. government chooses to borrow money when it can just print more.
“The government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money … by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They sell bonds, yeah, they sell bonds. Right? Since they sell bonds, and people buy the bonds and lend them the money,” Bernstein, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said when asked why the federal government borrows currency it can print.
“I guess I’m just, I can’t really, I don’t get it. I don’t know what they’re talking about,” the economic adviser to Biden added. “Like, ’cause it’s like the government clearly prints money; it does it all the time. And it clearly borrows. Otherwise we wouldn’t be having [this] conversation. So I don’t think there’s anything confusing there.”
Were you able to follow any of that? Watch the video:
NEW: Biden economic advisor Jared Bernstein turns into bumbling mess after he's asked why the government borrows money if they can just keep printing it.
We are so screwed.
Question: They print the dollar. So why does the government even borrow?
Bernstein: Well, so the, I mean… pic.twitter.com/CrOUvYGaul
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 3, 2024
This would make a great campaign ad for Trump. https://t.co/FWpKgdmX0w
— LorieByrd (@LorieByrd) May 4, 2024
EVERY Democrat in Bidens cabinet and appointees are a Hot Mess. NONE of these people have any business working in their roles. #Bidenomics https://t.co/KTmrFFRWAv
— RyanRipz The Left (@RipzRyan) May 3, 2024
It would be funny if it wasn’t absolutely terrifying.
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Lefty actor Mark Hamill made an appearance at the White House press briefing today for some reason. He apparently had just met with Joe Biden, again, who knows why?
If you’ve spent any time on Twitter/X, you know that Mark Hamill is more famous for his hatred of Trump than for his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies.
His attempt to make Joe Biden look cool was beyond cringe.
The Hill reports:
Mark Hamill calls Biden ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ in White House press room appearance
Mark Hamill says the force is with President Biden — the actor made a surprise visit Friday to the White House briefing room and offered a “Star Wars”-inspired nickname for the commander in chief.
“How many of you had ‘Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing’ on your bingo cards?” Hamill, sporting a pair of sunglasses, told reporters at the top of the White House’s press briefing.
“I just got to meet the president, and he gave me these aviator glasses,” added Hamill, known for his role as Luke Skywalker.
Asked about his Oval Office visit with Biden, Hamill said, “I called him ‘Mr. President.’ He said, ‘You can call me Joe.’”
Then Hamill quipped, “I said, ‘Can I call you Joe-B-Wan Kenobi?” offering a Biden-inspired play on the name of the famed Jedi master character in the intergalactic franchise.
Touting Biden’s legislative accomplishments, Hamill exclaimed, “I want to say, once again, how grateful I am, and that just shows you that one person can be so influential and so positive in our lives.”
Do Democrats really think this is going to help Biden?
Mark Hamill looks and sounds like he had a few too many at the Cantina. pic.twitter.com/n4ovcs0ebE
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 3, 2024
Michael Douglas. Mark Hamill. Man if one more haggard dude who hasn’t made a good movie in 30+ years endorses Biden I might just be convinced to vote for him! https://t.co/F5IEgF5tfY
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 3, 2024
Mark Hamill is at the White House press briefing today making cringe Star Wars jokes.
Not like there’s anything important going on in the world at the moment!
pic.twitter.com/Qjryh8Wx1M— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 3, 2024
The Babylon Bee weighed in:
Mark Hamill Joins Death Star Press Conference To Say What A Good Job He Thinks The Emperor Is Doing https://t.co/HPK4bqcWBU pic.twitter.com/StALnNgVsy
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 3, 2024
The good news for Biden is that he still has the preachy Hollywood liberal vote locked up.
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A former government official has been charged with making multiple false statements implicating his former colleagues in the January 6th Capitol event, according to court documents.
Miguel Zapata, a former government official, was arrested Thursday and has been accused of misusing the FBI’s anonymous tip website.
Special Agent Cole Ashcraft, who is assigned to the FBI’s Washington Field Office Cyber Task Force, indicated that the false statements were made between February and April 2021 through the FBI’s online tip portal.
The agency began scrutinizing these tips after noticing similarities in their wording and the dates they were submitted. Investigations linked the submissions to IP addresses owned by a service that provides anonymous web access, eventually tracing them back to Zapata.
Zapata allegedly submitted false claims suggesting that various government employees and contractors, some of whom are affiliated with an unnamed intelligence agency, were involved in or supported the events of January 6.
Zapata’s tips included accusations that these individuals were physically present at the Capitol during the protest, participated in violent actions, or shared classified information with protesters to help them overthrow the U.S. government.
He accused former colleagues of connections with groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.
The FBI’s investigation revealed that all individuals named by Zapata were verifiably elsewhere during the events of January 6, primarily at work in Virginia, thus debunking Zapata’s claims.
The detailed probe included interviews with the accused individuals and examination of their electronic footprints, which showed no participation or presence at the Capitol during the riot.
Here are the excerpts from the seven false tips that Zapata submitted to the FBI between February and April 2021 according to the affidavit:
1. February 10, 2021 – Victim 1 and Victim 2
On February 10, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 1:
[Victim 1] . . . was actively engaged in attempting to overthrow the government of the United States. [He/she] actively took part in the riot on January 6 2021, that lead to the deaths of 6 people.
Additional Info: Has espoused […] conspiracy theories and actively retaliates against colleagues that do not share [his/her] political views.
What was the exact crime that occurred? Involvement in the Capitol riot and insurrection.
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington, DC
[Victim 2] . . . was actively engaged in attempting to overthrow the government of the United States.
[He/she] actively took part in the riot and insurrection on January 6 2021, that lead to the deaths of 6 people.
Additional Info: Has espoused […] conspiracy theories and aligns with colleagues that share similar views.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: Actively took part in the riot and insurrection at the Capitol.
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington, DC
2. February 16, 2021 – Victim 3 and Victim 5
Victim 3 On February 16, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 3:
[Victim 3] attended the US capitol riot and insurrection and was present when storming the capitol.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: Took part in insurrection at the US capitol
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? US Capitol
How is Contact Known: Colleague
[Victim 5] attended the US Capitol riot and insurrection. [He/she] took an active role in leading the riot and storming the US Captiol [sic] to hunt for politicians and execute them.
Additional Info: In addition to attending the riot and insurrection at the US Captiol,[sic] [he/she] espouses extremist ideology in the work place and has bragged about [his/her] association with the Boogaloo Bois, ProudBoys and Oath Keepers. While serving as a contractor at [an intelligence agency], [he/she] has accessed classified Agency resources to foment terror and incite violence by sharing this information with other conspiracy theory based personalities […] [He/she] has often talked about “sharing classified information with these groups and individuals as being a [sic] [his/her] duty to ensure the United States Constitution is protected.”
What was the exact crime that occurred?: [Victim 5] attended the US Capitol riot and insurrection
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? US Capitol
How is Contact Known: Colleague
3. February 17, 2021 – Victim 6 On February 17, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 6:
[Victim 6] attended the capitol riot insurrection. [He/she] was directly involved in coordination of the riot that lead [sic] to the deaths of 6 people. Additional Info: […] [he/she] uses [his/her] clearance to continue supporting [an intelligence agency] and accesses classified information.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: [Victim 6] attended the capitol riot insurrection.
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington DC
How is Contact Known: Colleague
4. April 11, 2021 – Victim 7 and Victim 8 i. Victim 7 On April 11, 2021, ZAPATA submitted the following tip to the FBI about Victim 7:
[Victim 7] attended the riot insurrection at the Capitol that lead [sic] to the death of multiple people and the wounding of multiple police officers. [He/she] also provided support to domestic terrorist groups like the OathKeepers, Proud Boys and Boogaloos. [He/she] used [his/her] position of trust in the intelligence community to share classified information with these groups in an effort to assist them succeed in overthrowing the government. [He/she] currently works for [an intelligence agency][…] and is actively engaged in leadership meetings that grant [him/her] higher than normally expected access to classified information. [His/her] actions on January 6 directly lead [sic] to and actively contributed to the successful breach of Capitol police barricades through his encrypted communication techniques used on that day.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: Attended and provided support to the January 6 insurrection riot
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Washington DC, Capitol
How is Contact Known: Colleague
[Victim 8] provided material support and coordination by way of [his/her] position of trust with access to classified information to domestic terrorist groups like the Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, and Boogaloos. […] [he/she] shared classified information with terrorist groups in hopes that this information would lead to the overthrow of the United States government. [His/her] position of trust within the intelligence community led to these groups breaching police barricades by encouraging a flanking maneuver on the barricade that resulted in the overrun of police lines on January 6 2021. […] [he/she] has maintained access to classified data, senior executive service employees and managers with connections to [an intelligence agency] and grown a social network of classified personnel from which [he/she] has exploited to support insurrection. For over a decade [he/she] has quietly plotted a “change in government” leading to the downfall of United States government and other institutions through [his/her] legacy position of trust and access.
What was the exact crime that occurred?: January 6 insurrection riot at the Capitol
When did the crime/incident occur? January 6 2021
Where did the crime/incident occur? Capitol, Washington DC
How is Contact Known: Colleague
Zapata is charged under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2) and (3), laws that criminalize knowingly making false statements in matters within the jurisdiction of the federal government.
According to abc News, Zapata “has not yet entered a plea and was released on bond following a hearing before a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C.”
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During the debate over Obamacare back in 2010, then-President Barack Obama solemnly vowed before America illegal aliens would never have access to his healthcare proposal. In response to the pledge, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) screamed, “You lie!” and was booed by the House of Representatives.
Remember this?
Democrats lied to the American people when they said Obamacare wouldn’t be used for illegal aliens. Now you’re paying the bill for that lie.
This is a disgrace. https://t.co/TE2GlmtRSW pic.twitter.com/sJWnGhLRfQ
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 3, 2024
Wilson’s words have now proved prophetic. On Friday, the Biden regime issued a final rule change to expand Obamacare coverage to younger illegals (Dreamers) who have been allowed to stay in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
As Gateway Pundit readers know, DACA was illegally created in 2012 by the Obama regime in a ploy to win over Hispanic voters in the 2012 Presidential election. The program provided work permits to illegals who entered the U.S. illegals while still minors.
Roughly 500,000 illegal aliens were protected from deportation thanks to DACA, but none received healthcare coverage until now.
The White House issued a news release that illegals covered by DACA can start applying for coverage in Obamacare and state healthcare marketplaces in November, just in time for the 2024 election.
They also boasted that more than 100,000 illegals would qualify for the program while bragging about the unconstitutional DACA policy.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is expanding access to affordable, quality healthcare coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. In 2012, President Obama and then Vice President Biden created the DACA policy to transform the lives of eligible Dreamers – young people who came to this country as children—allowing them to live and work lawfully in our country. Over the last decade, DACA has brought stability, possibility, and progress to hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.
While President Biden continues to call on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship to Dreamers and others, he is committed to protecting and preserving DACA and providing Dreamers with the opportunities and support they need to succeed, including access to affordable, quality health care coverage. Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions, today’s final rule will remove the prohibition on DACA recipients’ eligibility for Affordable Care Act coverage for the first time, and is projected to help more than 100,000 young people gain health insurance. Starting in November, DACA recipients can apply for coverage through HealthCare.gov and state-based marketplaces, where they may qualify for financial assistance to help them purchase quality health insurance. Four out of five consumers have found a plan for less than $10 a month, with millions saving an average of about $800 a year on their premiums.
President Biden and Vice President Harris believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege. Together, they promised to protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act, lowering costs and expanding coverage so that every American has the peace of mind that health insurance brings. Today’s final rule delivers on the President’s commitment by giving DACA recipients that same peace and opportunity.
Today’s rule also reinforces the President’s enduring commitment to DACA recipients and Dreamers, who contribute daily to the strength and vitality of our communities and our country. On day one of his Administration, President Biden committed to preserving and fortifying the DACA policy. While only Congress can provide Dreamers permanent status and a pathway to citizenship, the Biden-Harris Administration has continued to vigorously defend DACA against ongoing legal challenges and strengthened DACA by codifying the 2012 policy in a final rule.
The New York Post estimates the unconstitutional rule change will cost taxpayers up to $300 million. All of this while our southern border remains open and millions of Americans struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
However, under the Biden regime, Americans always come last.
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The Internal Revenue Service is demanding a further $20 billion from Congress in order to hire another 14,000 more employees as part of an effort to better “serve taxpayers.”
According to IRS Commissioner, Daniel Werfel, the agency needs the money in order to fund technology upgrades and improve its customer service:
The IRS will continue focusing on making improvements and efficient use of funding. But to stress the importance of continuing this momentum, the IRS will continue working to make a difference for the nation’s taxpayers. At the same time, it’s critical that the IRS has stable, secure funding to allow technology modernization and taxpayer service improvements to continue into the future.
Werfel added that he plans to hire a further 14,000 employees over the next few years, with an estimated workforce of 102,500 by 2029.
We believe that figure represents a ‘right-sized’ IRS, reflecting the needs to serve taxpayers and responsibly enforce the law given the complexity of the nation’s tax laws. That number won’t even be a record high for the IRS workforce. It’s still well below the numbers from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
His pleas come less than two years after Congress passed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which included a staggering $80 billion windfall for the agency to expand its operations.
Meanwhile, Werfel also pledged to take steps to address the significant dispraity audit rates between Black taxpayers and other filers, arguing this “degrades trust in our tax system.”
“We are overhauling compliance efforts to advance our commitment to fair, equitable and effective tax administration and hold ourselves accountable to taxpayers we serve,” he said.
“We have taken swift initial action to dramatically reduce the number of those audits,” he continued. “We have also made changes to the selection criteria for those audits.”
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The Japanese Embassy on Friday reportedly highlighted concerns with the Biden Administration, calling Biden’s recent comments about Japan’s economic and immigration policies “unfortunate.”
Per Politico, “The comments were not based on an accurate understanding of Japan’s policies,” the embassy said. “We have raised this point to the U.S. government and explained Japan’s positions and policies once again.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Joe Biden said India, Japan, Russia, and China are failing economically “because they’re xenophobic” during a fundraiser on Thursday, but the US economy is “growing” because we’re not.
REALITY:
NEW: Biden says that US is prospering because of immigrants, unlike “xenophobic” Japan.
BIDEN’S “XENOPHOBIC”
AMERICA: JAPAN: pic.twitter.com/WSFiu2OeE0— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) May 2, 2024
Former Department of Defense Chief of Staff and Deputy Director of National Intelligence under President Trump, Kash Patel, shared the report from Politico, slamming Biden for his history of attacking foreign allies and “mocking” Indian Americans:
Patel: @BidenHQ slams India’s economy as a failure, and calls Indians Xenophobic… this is after his racial slurs against Indian Americans, mocking our successful heritage and assimilation as Americans.
Just wondering where all the brown folks in the US are slamming Biden for his baseless hatred and incendiary comments?
Happy to lead the charge
It can be recalled that 17 years ago, Biden said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
I am a proud member of the Indian community and have endured numerous racist death threats throughout my career. Let me be clear: these cowardly attacks and deflections are utterly unacceptable,” Patel said in a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit. “They are a stark reminder of the divisiveness being stoked by the left. We must confront and dismantle this toxicity. Our movement stands for the strength and dignity of all Americans, and we will not tolerate hatred or intimidation against anyone, period.”
Biden on Thursday characterized Japan, a key U.S. ally, as “xenophobic” for its reluctance to embrace mass immigration. He also raised questions about the economic challenges faced by China, Japan, and Russia and attributed these difficulties to their “xenophobic” policies and resistance to illegal immigration.
“Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants,” he said after falsely claiming “our economy is growing,” and it’s “because we welcome immigrants.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later addressed the media, first telling reporters, “The president was very clear,” then later trying to walk back and struggling to defend Joe Biden:
These comments come as the GDP dropped faster than expected in the first quarter of 2024 and at half the rate of Q4 2023. Real GDP increased just 1.6% after rising 3.7% in the fourth quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, inflation rose to 3.7% in the first quarter, squeezing consumers already strapped in the Biden economy.
Additionally, In a recent poll, 70% of voters in swing states said that the United States economy is on the "wrong track." 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden. And our border is wide open, with American tax dollars going to housing, feeding, and transporting illegal immigrants in every major city across the country.
Kash Patel told The Gateway Pundit,
President Trump’s administration showcased real economic growth and stability, not the smoke and mirrors we see from the Biden administration. When Biden claims that our economy is thriving “because we welcome immigrants,” it's not just an oversimplification; it's an outright lie. Let's look at the facts: while there’s a slight uptick in GDP, it's overshadowed by soaring inflation, which is crushing American families under the weight of unbearable living costs. This is not growth; it's desperation.
The so-called economic growth Biden touts is nothing more than a façade, especially when you consider the disaster at our open border, which has only worsened under his watch. This unchecked border crisis is a drain on our resources and a clear threat to our national security and economic stability. Under President Trump, we had stronger borders and a booming economy that truly benefited the American people. It’s high time we return to policies that secure our borders and ensure genuine economic prosperity, rather than settling for the deceptive narratives pushed by the current administration.
Biden should get his own country in order before criticizing our allies for their sensible immigration policies.
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This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Now credited to Uzziah, who built ‘towers’
Over and over again, archaeological discoveries have confirmed the biblical accounts of portions of history, and now it has again.
A report from the Daily Mail blasts out that there are ruins “that could prove the Bible was TRUE: Stretch of wall in ancient Jerusalem vindicates the holy book’s account, archaeologists claim.”
The controversy involves the new confirmation about one piece of wall in Jerusalem.
Until now, experts thought a stretch of wall in the original heart of the city was built by Hezekiah, King of Judah, whose reign straddled the seventh and eighth centuries BC, the report said.
At that time, Hezekiah had seen the Kingdom of Israel, to his north, destroyed by Assyrians. It was thought he built the wall in defense.
“But now an almost decade-long study has revealed it was built by his great-grandfather, Uzziah, after a huge earthquake, echoing the account of the Bible,” the report said.
The wall is at a site in the City of David that was part of the original Jerusalem.
The report notes Joe Uziel, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, explained that it’s long been assumed that Hezekiah built the wall, to “defend Jerusalem during the Assyrian siege.”
“But it is now becoming clear that it dates back to the days of King Uzziah, as hinted at in the Bible,” he said. “It is now apparent that the wall in its eastern part, in the area of the City of David, was built earlier, shortly after the great earthquake of Jerusalem, and as part of the construction of the city.”
In 2nd Chronicles, part of the history of the ancient peoples, it states, “Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them.”
Hezekiah is explained in the report as being considered one of the greatest kings of Judah, reigning from about 715 BC to about 686 BC after his father, Ahaz, died.
It is Hezekiah who is credited with throwing off the oppression of the Assyrians, who had beleaguered the nation.
“The Hebrew Bible also describes how Hezekiah made a miraculous recovery from a sickness after praying to God. He went on to live for another 15 years,” the report said.
The Bible also clearly outlines “seismic activity,” documenting for the time frame for one prophet as being “two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah.”
The research project involves the IAA, Tel Aviv University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Carbon-14 dating was used partly to set the time frame. Tested were organic artifacts found at the site, including grape sees and date pits.
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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Joe Biden on Friday awarded 19 Americans with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“The diverse group of recipients ranged from political trailblazers like Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn to activists like Opal Lee and Judy Shephard as well as Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky and Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh.” ABC News reported.
“Today we have another extraordinary honor to bestow the nation’s highest civilian artist of mine to 19 incredible people whose relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity and hope have kept faith in a better tomorrow,” Biden said heavily slurring through his remarks.
Biden gave Nancy Pelosi a Medal of Freedom for her actions on January 6, 2021.
“She used her superpower to pass some of the most significant laws in our nation’s history,” Biden said. “On January 6, Nancy stood in the breach defending democracy … Nancy is a brilliant, practical, principled and determined leader.”
What a joke!
Back in December 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that House Republicans had collected emails and text messages implicating Pelosi in the failed January 6 Capitol security operation.
Recall, it was President Donald Trump who recommended 10,000 National Guard troops at the US Capitol on Jan. 6. Pelosi turned him down.
It was never Trump’s fault. It was always Pelosi’s fault.
She was too busy lining up the film crews who were going to come to film her that day. She had that set up beforehand as if she knew something big was going to be taking place.
WATCH:
Nothing important is happening in the country and world right now, so Crooked Joe Biden is giving Nancy Pelosi a Medal of Freedom pic.twitter.com/XnhAZ1qgzI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024
Biden also gave climate fraud John Kerry a Medal of Freedom.
WATCH:
Biden presents a Medal of Freedom to climate extremist John Kerry: “[He] forged the historic Paris Agreement” pic.twitter.com/7zAMNpi3PR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024
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Democrat state lawmakers in Arizona are under fire for hosting the “first ever” drag story hour, presented by “gender-nonconforming” Rep. Lorena Austin and Planned Parenthood Arizona, in the basement of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Rep. Austin reportedly goes by “she/they/ella pronouns.”
OnenTen Phoenix, a group that purports to “serve LGBTQ youth and young adults ages 11-24,” also hosted an “LGBTQ+ Youth Day” for children as young as 13 years old at the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday. According to Fox, Austin helped organize this event.
According to Arizona House Democrats, who celebrated the sexualization and indoctrination of children, “Around 30 kids and teenagers” were in attendance.
ICYMI: Yesterday was LGBTQ+ Youth Day at the Capitol! Around 30 kids and teenagers came with their parents or guardian to #azleg to learn about the legislative process and how to be involved in their House. #lgbtqrights pic.twitter.com/AMS0odLbEu
— Arizona House Democrats (@AZHouseDems) May 2, 2024
A video of the drag event posted on X shows what appears to be a male drag queen telling a story about New York-based transgender activist Pauline Park while urging drag story hour-goers to “listen to your kids” and explaining his unscientific opinion that adults can change their gender on a whim multiple times in their lifetime.
Watch below:
“When is it time to choose a new name? Why does someone become an activist? How does one begin? Who? Pauline Park. What? A Korean American trans activist. Were? New York City. When? From the time she was five. Why? To ensure rights for herself and others. How? One step at a time.
That’s one of the things when the whole topic of kids being trans, come up. ‘Don’t listen.’ Listen to your kids because I can tell you, I knew from a very young age, very, very young age. And had the resources been there, had the language been there, had all the things that are available today been there, things might have been very different for me — instead of waiting 35 years. And adults change pronouns all the time. Adults, as we grow, and as we mature, and as we figure sh*t out, we may go from identifying as, you know, within the binary, and then we decide, ‘You know what? That doesn’t fit me.’ I think I’m agender. I don’t really identify as a gender. So, please use they/them pronouns.”
Arizona Senate Republicans reacted on X, saying, “WARNING: THIS CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. Arizona Democrat lawmakers teamed up with Planned Parenthood to host ‘Drag Story Hour’ at the Capitol to encourage parents to transition their kids. This is ahead of LGBTQ+ YOUTH Day at the Capitol tomorrow. Your taxpayer dollars are hard at work to push child indoctrination and woke ideology onto our citizens. The madness must stop.”
State Senator Justine Wadsack slammed the Democrats for using tax dollars to host this desecration of the Arizona Capitol Chamber and called on House Members to file an ethics complaint and expel Loreta Austin. Senator Anthony Kern responded, “I second that motion!!”
I second that motion!!
— Anthony Kern (@anthonykernAZ) April 30, 2024
“This is a desecration of the people’s house. I am LIVID!!!” said Representative Rachel Jones:
This is a desecration of the people’s house. I am LIVID!!! https://t.co/DPaKNSXTUK
— AZ Representative Rachel Jones (@RJ4arizona) April 30, 2024
House Speaker Ben Toma also chimed in, saying Rep. Austin “deliberately misled House leadership” with her event and announced that Democrats no longer have the privilege of using House meeting rooms until further notice.
Democrat Rep. Lorena Austin deliberately misled House leadership to reserve a conference room to host a drag story hour with Planned Parenthood.
Use of House facilities for radical activism to promote dangerously perverse ideology will not be tolerated while I am Speaker.
As… pic.twitter.com/yuOnkjn8zR
— Ben Toma (@RepBenToma) April 30, 2024
In response to criticisms from GOP Lawmakers, House Democratic Whip Nancy Gutierrez cried “discrimination.”
PRESS RELEASE: ‘Not the people’s House after all’ — House Democrats respond to outrageous retaliation for hosting drag story hour #azleg pic.twitter.com/MZ6dDzbVWr
— Arizona House Democrats (@AZHouseDems) April 30, 2024
Rep. Lorena Austin, the lawmaker who organized the event, also played the victim and claimed the event was educational while claiming to “stand up to hate and bigotry.”
PRESS RELEASE: Rep. Austin responds to retaliation over drag story hour #azleg pic.twitter.com/xhkwIrzxXS
— Arizona House Democrats (@AZHouseDems) April 30, 2024
Fox reports,
In a statement posted to X, Planned Parenthood Arizona said in response to Toma that it’s another example “of Speaker Toma showing how out of touch he is with the values of Arizonans & their support for the LGTBQ community.”
“At Planned Parenthood Arizona, we are proud to offer gender-affirming care services and provide essential health care to everyone,” the group said. “We thank Rep. Lorena Austin for being a staunch ally and for their continued support in our fight for reproductive freedom. We will be sure to invite Speaker Toma to the next Drag Story Hour.”
State Sen. John Kavanaugh told Fox News Digital that it was the first time anything like the drag event had happened at the Capitol.
“And it wouldn’t have happened had they been truthful and said they wanted to have a drag queen story hour,” he said. “I mean, that in and of itself, is so inflammatory and controversial, which is probably why they didn’t mention that. So, it was the fact that they were deceptive in the explanation.”
Per Breitbart, “The event coincides with the Biden administration’s attempts to push gender confusion on children and adults alike. President Joe Biden’s deputies are trying to force transgenderism into workplaces via updated federal workplace guidelines that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released. Under the guidance, employers who adhere to biological reality will be committing workplace “harassment” if they refuse to allow employees to choose restrooms based on their gender identity rather than biological sex. Employers will also be committing workplace “harassment” if they “repeatedly misgender” employees.”
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President Trump spoke with reporters on Friday following his fourth day in court this week in New York City.
President Trump is charged with crimes that have yet to be explained to the jury. This latest lawfare suit is taking place in front of corrupt Judge Juan Merchan whose daughter is making millions off of the case. It is a complete travesty of justice. But this is what happens when far-left lunatics are allowed to break down societal norms and go after their political opponents by corrupting the justice system.
On Friday former Trump associate Hope Hicks testified in court. It was another nothing-burger. She said nothing that would incriminate the president.
Following the testimony today President Trump spoke with reporters outside the courtroom.
President Trump pointed out the obvious. The Democrats are ruining people’s lives. They are using the courts to go after their political opponents.
Reporter: What was it like seeing Hope Hicks again?
President Trump: I’m not allowed to comment on any of that. As you know, I’m under a gag order, which is very unprecedented. But I will say this, that the government… What they’ve done to people in my company, they’ve been after us for years. You take a look at what’s happened for years. The Democrats, the radical left, they’ve been after us for years, and they’ve destroyed people’s lives. They’ve gone out, hired lawyers. – They’ve been sucked dry. It’s a shame what they’ve done to this country. It’s a shame what they’ve done to a lot of great people that have been absolutely ruined and destroyed, not only here, all over…
…These are vicious, vicious radical left lunatics. The DA here… They shouldn’t be wasting time on this. Look what they do to so many people. They’re all lawyered up. That’s all they do, lawyer up In the meantime, you can’t do anything in the country. The country is going to hell
They have no time. They have no anything left because they’re always under siege. It’s a terrible, terrible thing happening in our country. And hopefully, on November 5th, the most important day in the history of our country, in my opinion, that’s called Election Day. Hopefully, it’s going to change because these people are destroying our country, whether at the border, whether the horrible reports that came out today, or jobs numbers, we’re going to hear, whether inflation, which is destroying us, Afghanistan, allowing Russia to attack Ukraine, would have never happened.
Then you take October 7th in Israel, that would have never happened. All of these things happening, and all they do is they go after people. They destroy people, and it’s a shame. I just want to wish everybody a very good weekend. I was very interested in what took place today, but I just have to say we have a country to build. We have to rebuild it. Our country has gone to hell. We’re a nation in decline, and we cannot let that happen to the USA. Thank you very much.
Via Trump War Room.
PRESIDENT TRUMP on the BIDEN TRIALS: It’s a shame what they’ve done to this country and it’s a shame what they’ve done to a lot of great people that have been absolutely ruined and destroyed. pic.twitter.com/I8sgRC4Mn7
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 3, 2024
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A new poll released by the Independent Center/Bullfinch Group suggests that former President Donald Trump is currently leading Joe Biden by a slight margin of one percentage point in Washington state, a state that has reliably voted for Democratic presidential candidates since 1988.
The poll, conducted between March 29 and April 3, included 250 registered voters and shows Trump with a 1-point lead:
BREAKING: New poll shows Trump leading by 1 point in liberal Washington state. No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you
Of course this poll with only 250 registered voters means nothing but it proves how unpopular Joe Briben really is
I really believe Trump could flip states like WA… pic.twitter.com/DPjZOlEW94
— George (@BehizyTweets) May 3, 2024
#NEW POLL: 2024 Election in Washington
Trump 46% (+1)
Biden 45%250 RV, March 29-April 3, Independent Center/Bullfinch Group
Read more: https://t.co/Q6hXWhUQSJ pic.twitter.com/eUlloEXP8x— Independent Center USA (@Independent_Cen) May 3, 2024
This result is certainly an eye-opener given Washington’s staunch Democratic voting record in presidential elections for over three decades. While the poll’s small sample size calls into question its significance, it has nonetheless sparked a conversation about Biden’s lack of popularity and the potential for traditionally blue states to swing red.
In the past five years under Democrats’ leadership, the state has seen an alarming 20% increase in violent crime. As of 2022, Washington’s violent crime rate hovered just 1% below the national average, at 375.6 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to the data from the state’s House Republicans.
More alarming still is the sharp increase in the murder rate, which has nearly doubled since 2019. Aggravated assaults have jumped by 30% during the same timeframe, painting a grim picture of public safety in the state.
The clearance rates for these violent crimes remain disconcertingly low; 47% of murders, 55% of aggravated assaults, and a staggering 74% of robberies in Washington went unsolved in 2022.
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Arizona rancher George Kelly, 75, sat down for an exclusive interview with NewsNation’s Ali Bradley after state prosecutors decided not to retry his murder case.
George Kelly told Ali Bradley he and his wife lost their life savings fighting the lawfare murder trial.
“I don’t feel that I was treated fairly in the investigation,” George Kelly told NewsNation in an interview. “I think I was arrested without cause, without probable cause.”
“You can’t put somebody in a situation and try to tell them, ‘oh you’ll be fine here.’ No you won’t be fine here…” George Kelly told Ali Bradley.
He said he slept on the floor in jail before being taken to a cell block where he spent 22 days. Other inmates who were Mexican cartel members would threaten Kelly and say “dead man walking” as they walked by him.
“I’ve had a, you know a good life, but I’ve had a hard life. Those 22 days… If… If hell is anything like that, I’m gonna do everything I can not to go because that was the worst 22 days of my life…” George Kelly said of his time in jail.
Kelly said he and his wife plan to move from their ranch in Kino Springs.
He also maintains that he didn’t kill Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea on January 30th last year. Kelly says someone else is responsible.
WATCH:
State prosecutors on Monday said they will not retry Arizona rancher George Kelly after a judge declared a mistrial following a hung jury.
Judge Thomas Fink last Monday declared a mistrial after an Arizona jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial for Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly.
Jurors deliberated a couple of weeks ago and were unable to reach a verdict. Deliberations continued pn the following Friday and after more than 7 hours the jury sent a note to the judge and informed him they could not reach a verdict.
Kelly was arrested for killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, on his Arizona ranch in Kino Springs just outside of Nogales, Mexico on January 30, 2023.
According to reports, Gabriel Cuen-Butimea has a history of illegally crossing into the United States and multiple deportations.
According to the defense lawyers, Mr. Kelly fired warning shots after he saw a group of men dressed in camouflaged clothing point an AK-47 right at him.
The rancher later discovered the deceased illegal alien, who is likely a cartel smuggler, when he went to go check on his horse.
The bullet that killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea was never recovered so authorities were never able to conduct a ballistics test to see if it matched George Kelly’s AK-47.
Kelly’s defense attorneys argued cartel bandits shot and killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea and robbed him.
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Republican Representative Byron Donalds was verbally accosted by an individual hurling racial slurs and accusations during his visit at George Washington University.
The Daily Caller released footage of Donalds being confronted by a man amidst anti-Israel protests at George Washington University on Wednesday.
The vile leftist, with a noticeable accent, was filmed challenging Donalds with inflammatory remarks, questioning his integrity and allegiance.
“How much is AIPAC paying you, you bastard?” he questioned, referencing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The situation escalated when the same man called Donalds a “race traitor” and an “Uncle Tom.” His tirade continued as he accused the Congressman of working for a foreign entity.
Despite the provocation, Donalds responded calmly, making a light-hearted comment saying, “That guy’s really old to be in college.”
WATCH:
Protester who shouted racist slurs at Rep. @ByronDonalds as he called on DC police to clear The George Washinton University Pro-Hamas encampment REVEALED to be terrorist-sympathizing PROFESSOR Zein El-Amine at GWU, Georgetown, and American.
Why do Universities act surprised at… pic.twitter.com/LUj6dculVM
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 3, 2024
The protester was later identified as Zein El-Amine, a professor at Georgetown University with Marxist views and Lebanese heritage.
According to the Canary Mission:
Zein El-Amine has spread anti-Israel terror propaganda on social media, specifically including images promoted by the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
El-Amine is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and shared a video by the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP),promoting BDS.
El-Amine has promoted the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD)’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
El-Amine co-hosts the weekly Arabic culture radio show Shay wa Naa Naa (Tea with Mint) on the local radio station, WPFW. He uses the show as a platform for various anti-Israel personalities to spread their propaganda.
El-Amine’s LinkedIn page says that he studied for his MFA in Creative Writing, at UMD from 2007- 2010.
El-Amine is a lecturer in Arabic Language and Comparative Literature at UMD. He serves as a student advisor in the Arabic Studies program.
These Marxist professors are radicalizing their students.
Rep. Ronny Jackson decried El-Amine’s behavior in strong terms, labeling him a racist and antisemite while calling for scrutiny over his teaching history.
“HORRIBLE! Zein El-Amine is a RACIST and an ANTISEMITE. Zein should be on a LIST for his MANY years of pushing Pro-Hamas, ANTI-American GARBAGE to young minds across America. I stand with my friend Byron Donalds in condemning anti-semitism across this great country.”
HORRIBLE! Zein El-Amine is a RACIST and an ANTISEMITE.
Zein should be on a LIST for his MANY years of pushing Pro-Hamas, ANTI-American GARBAGE to young minds across America.
I stand with my friend Byron Donalds in condemning anti-semitism across this great country. https://t.co/ofAHvZRKHk
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) May 3, 2024
Virginia Congressional candidate Derrick Anderson appealed to Georgetown University to take swift action concerning El-Amine’s behavior and rhetoric, expressing deep concern over potential anti-Semitic views and support for terrorist organizations.
“What other anti-semitism and support for terrorists is Professor Zein El-Amine spewing??? As a law schoolalum, I implore Georgetown to immediately address this professors racist comments and support for terrorist orgs, and consider his resignation immediately.”
What other anti-semitism and support for terrorists is Professor Zein El-Amine spewing??? As a law schoolalum, I implore @Georgetown to immediately address this professors racist comments and support for terrorist orgs, and consider his resignation immediately. https://t.co/XVVGJVdMlM
— Derrick Anderson (@DerrickforVA) May 3, 2024
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JD Vance (R-OH) humiliated CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on her own show after she tried to ambush him with a series of gotcha questions about President Trump.
Vance pointed out how “unusual” it was for the DOJ to collude with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office to bring a nonsense case against a political opponent.
Collins then sat in silence as Vance warned how damaging Trump’s prosecution is to America’s judicial system.
Take a listen to this must-see exchange.
Maria Zeee discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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The pro-Hamas agitators appear to have met their match in SEC country.
As Jim Hoft reported on Thursday, hundreds of Ole Miss students gathered at the Pro-Hamas camp and began singing the National Anthem while also chanting “We want Trump!”
Today, it was LSU’s turn to overturn the agitators. As WBRZ reported, protesters gathered on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on Friday to air their grievances against Israel’s defensive actions against Hamas and to demand LSU disclose all of its financial ties to Israeli entities.
But footage quickly emerged showing hordes of students hijacking the pro-Hamas protest and overwhelming the agitators in short order.
There are more counter protesters than Palestine protesters. pic.twitter.com/HpvHueIVC1
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
Watch the pro-America and pro-Israel patriots chase these terror apologists to a different part of the school campus while serenading them with “na na hey hey goodbye” chants and “warm up the bus!”
WATCH:
Pro – Hamas protesters are retreating from LSU! Victory from America. pic.twitter.com/9K1RRjza95
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
The patriots followed the agitators until they stopped. The pro-America students soon exploded in extremely loud “USA! USA!” chants, drowning out the noise from the other side.
USA pic.twitter.com/S7wfJDX4D7
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
According to Mason Batts, a political consultant covering the protest, the patriots also started singing “The Star Spangled Banner” to drown out the agitators further.
The Star Spangled Banner drowning out the Protesters at LSU! pic.twitter.com/azswgJCjSp
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
The pro-America crowd continued to grow in massive numbers as time went on.
Crowd of Patriots is swelling to a massive size, dwarfing the protesters at LSU! pic.twitter.com/vZvGo931Vm
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
The protesters and counter-protesters did find common ground on one thing: Joe Biden. Like at Alabama, both sides briefly erupted in “F**k Joe Biden!” chants.
One student even asked the agitators if they were voting for Trump. They only responded with “F**k Joe Biden.”
Palestine and Patriots combine to say “FJB” pic.twitter.com/yXZKZRCjPc
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
Unsurprisingly, the individuals leading the pro-Hamas protests appear to be non-students. This begs the question of who is paying them to agitate.
This is the person leading the protest at LSU. She looks to be over 40 with grey hair. So obviously she’s obviously a paid protester. pic.twitter.com/17gyuGI3M8
— Mason Batts (@masonbattsLA) May 3, 2024
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A Walmart Deli worker has qualified for the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon.
Hurdler Dylan Beard qualified for the Olympic trials after placing first in the 60m hurdles at the Millrose Games in February.
Unlike other Olympic athletes who train full-time and are sponsored, Beard is not sponsored yet and supports himself by working as a deli worker at Walmart.
Beard’s Walmart manager, David Davis, shared, “Dylan’s work ethic is next level. He provides excellent customer service all the time. He goes above and beyond, just like he does on the track.”
One of the Top Olympic Hopefuls Trains Between His Shifts as a Deli Counter Worker at Walmart https://t.co/2EkS8tZwxV
— People (@people) April 26, 2024
Per AOL:
Beard is a hurdler who will compete for a spot on the United States Olympic team heading to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He also happens to work a full-time job at the deli counter at a Walmart.
Beard emerged as a surprise winner while competing in the 60-meter hurdles at the Millrose Games in February.
“I think I went in a lot more relaxed, like nothing to lose, a lot to gain,” he told TODAY in an interview that aired April 26.
His performance in the race made him the third fastest hurdler in the world and landed him a spot at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon, in June. Following his performance at the Millrose Games, Beard returned to his normal routine.
Here’s Beard in action:
An unsponsored Walmart deli worker is a contender for the #ParisOlympics.
Make no mistake — Dylan Beard is legit. And he’s laser-focused on making @TeamUSA.
Latest for @NBCOlympics: https://t.co/YGQHxFzTT4 pic.twitter.com/pX93vc6AvZ
— Sam Brief (@sambrief) February 23, 2024
Last week, Walmart presented Beard with a $20,000 check to support him as he trains to make the Olympic team.
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The White House went into damage control mode after Joe Biden called India, Japan, Russia, and China as “xenophobic” nations.
India and Japan are members of QUAD, a strategic security dialogue that also includes the U.S. and Australia.
The remarks were made during a fundraiser on May 2, where Joe Biden drew a stark contrast between the immigration policies of these countries and those of the United States.
Biden characterized Japan, a key U.S. ally, as “xenophobic” for its reluctance to embrace mass immigration. He raised questions about the economic challenges faced by China, Japan, and Russia and attributed these difficulties to their xenophobia and resistance to immigration.
He emphasized the value of immigration and described immigrants as a source of strength for the United States.
“This election is about freedom, America and democracy. That’s why I badly need you. You know, one of the reasons why our economy is growing is because of you and many others. Why? Because we welcome immigrants,” Biden said.
“We look to — the reason — look, think about it. Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants,” he added.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addressed the media, trying to walk back and struggling to defend Joe Biden.
REPORTER: “The word ‘xenophobic’ is a very pejorative and negative word, particularly to use against an ally. Is that what [Biden] meant?”
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “The president was very clear!”
REPORTER: “He wasn’t very clear — that’s why we’re asking you.”
REPORTER: “The word ‘xenophobic’ is a very pejorative and negative word, particularly to use against an ally. Is that what [Biden] meant?”
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “The president was very clear!”
REPORTER: “He wasn’t very clear — that’s why we’re asking you.” pic.twitter.com/EbEa9qEmsV
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
“The broader case that he was trying to make, which I think most leaders and allies across the globe understand, is he was trying — he was saying that when it comes to who we are as a nation, we are a nation of immigrants. That is in our DNA,” KJP said.
Karine Jean-Pierre tries (and fails — badly) to walk back Biden’s remark smearing Japan as “xenophobic” pic.twitter.com/OONOAY44N3
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
These remarks from Biden have the potential to strain diplomatic relations, especially given Japan’s standing as a significant ally of the United States . While there has been no official response from the Japanese government, the statement has significant implications for the relationship between the two countries. Also,
REALITY:
NEW: Biden says that US is prospering because of immigrants, unlike “xenophobic” Japan.
BIDEN’S “XENOPHOBIC”
AMERICA: JAPAN: pic.twitter.com/WSFiu2OeE0— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) May 2, 2024
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Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) completely lost his mind during a House Judiciary Committee field hearing Friday after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) dared to invoke the name of far-left, pro-criminal billionaire George Soros.
The field hearing, “Victims of Violent Crime in Philadelphia,” was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and headed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The purpose of the hearing was to examine how Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s soft-on-crime policies embolden criminals at the expense of innocent Philadelphia residents.
As The Gateway Pundit readers know, Soros-funded prosecutors across America have declared war on law-abiding citizens by refusing to prosecute violent criminals and allowing this country’s famous cities to resemble scenes from “The Purge.”
During the hearing, Gaetz began reading headlines about these pro-crime district attorneys letting bad guys off the hook when Nadler opened his mouth. He loudly accused Gaetz of promoting anti-semitism by mentioning Soros, who is culturally Jewish but does not believe in God, in connection to violent crime.
Gaetz calmly responded to Nadler’s outburst by giving him a simple reality check: Not everything about Soros is anti-semitic, and these critiques focus on matters of public policy that affect everyday Americans.
Moreover, Gaetz said he did not know anything about Soros’s faith.
WATCH:
TRIGGERED: @RepJerryNadler wildly lashes out and calls criticism of George Soros “antisemitic” at @JudiciaryGOP‘s hearing on violent crime.
Newsflash: not every criticism of George Soros is antisemitic.
The criticisms deal with public policy and the matters of rising crime… pic.twitter.com/NHugvDM5nD
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) May 3, 2024
GAETZ (reading): George Soros prosecutors wage war on law and order, Heritage.org. Philadelphia District Attorney deceived court to get murderer off death row from the Washington Examiner. George Soros’s bad and unprogressive DAs from the Philadelphia Citizen.
JORDAN: While we are keeping Mr. Kline waiting…If you need a break, just let us know…
NADLER: Mr. Chairman, I want to say with all of the anti-semitism we’re seeing, we’re seeing the anti-semitism of using George Soros again, it’s DISGUSTING!
GAETZ: Point of privilege. Mr. Ranking chairman, not every criticism of George Soros is anti-semitic. The criticisms deal with public policy and the matters of rising crime with the (Soros-backed) DAs.
I don’t know anything about Mr. Soros’s faith.
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Elon Musk came to the defense of former President Donald Trump following an MSNBC interview with leftwing Hollywood tool Robert De Niro.
The interview, hosted by Stephanie Ruhle, saw the 80-year-old actor on an unhinged rant against Trump, likening his leadership to that of Hitler, a comparison Musk was quick to challenge.
De Niro, who is suffering from severe Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), argued that Trump exhibited traits dangerously similar to infamous dictators, like Hitler, claiming his re-election could lead to chaos akin to that seen in Nazi Germany.
The whole segment is an example of “leftwing propaganda churn” from legacy media.
Stephanie Ruhle: Over the last eight years, we’ve heard you talk about the former President. You have called him a fraud, a con artist. You’ve said he’s a New Yorker like you, and you have watched this brand of BS for decades. And despite that, he became President. And now we’re watching him 10 blocks from where we are right now, sitting in a courtroom as a criminal defendant. What do you think about that?
Robert De Niro: I think of how absurd it is, and this might be the one case where that could be it for him. It’s a state case. It’s the least important in many ways, and yet it’s the one that could be tried and finished in a well enough time for people to just take that in.
Stephanie Ruhle: Does it give you some sense not of joy, but of relief, at least, that he’s potentially facing some consequences? Because as you’ve said before, this guy’s a con artist, and he’s gotten away with it for years.
Robert De Niro: No, he’s more than that to me. He’s sick. He is really, genuinely a sick person that somehow has been allowed into our system. I’m not calling him… I’m tired of calling him names. He just can’t be anywhere near the office of the presidency.
[…]
Stephanie Ruhle: What do you say to those who say, I don’t like the guy, but I’m going to vote for him? What’s your message to them?
Robert De Niro: I don’t think they understand it. I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes President. I don’t think they really understand. And historically, from what I see, even in Nazi Germany, they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously. He looks like a clown, acts like a clown. Mussolini, same thing. These guys, I don’t know why, they look like clowns. That element of society identifies in some ways with them, but it would be chaos beyond our imagination. There’s no mystery about him. He’s right out front, and what he says is what it’ll be if he becomes President.
Stephanie Ruhle: Do you think our democracy is at risk in this election?
Robert De Niro: I think that it is. I always keep saying, democracy is great, of course, but democracy people take for granted. It’s a word that some people don’t even understand. They take it for granted. It’s about right and wrong, period. The guy’s a monster. He’s beyond wrong. It’s almost like he wants to do the most horrible things that he can think of in order to get a rise out of us. I don’t know what it is, but he’s been doing it and doing it, and it’s even scary. Excuse my French.
WATCH:
Elon Musk, in response to De Niro’s interview, took to social media to offer a defense of Trump’s tenure.
“Well, Trump was actually already president for 4 years and his policies bore no resemblance to those of Hitler, so this makes no sense,” Musk commented.
“In fact, with the Abraham Accords, he made some progress towards peace in the Middle East, which was definitely not high on Hitler’s agenda,” he added.
He pointed to the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab nations, as a significant achievement in Trump’s presidency that promoted peace in the Middle East—something decidedly uncharacteristic of the Nazi agenda.
You are speaking way too much sense for De Niro.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 3, 2024
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Joshua Dean (45) has tragically died just two months after the mysterious death of John Barnett.
Dean was a key figure in exposing alleged safety issues in Boeing’s 737 MAX production line.
He died of complications arising from a severe and rapid bacterial infection, as reported by The Seattle Times.
During his hospitalization, Dean was intubated, placed on a respiratory and cardiac support machine, sedated, and underwent dialysis. His mother and aunt described the ordeal as “brutal” and “heartbreaking.”
Dean was a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems. After his termination in April 2023, Dean filed a Department of Labor complaint, indicating that his firing was a retaliatory act for raising safety concerns.
In a February interview with NPR, Dean elaborated on his firing further, saying that his termination served as an intimidation tactic to chill others from blowing the whistle.
“If you are too loud, we will silence you,” he said.
Maria Zeee discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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Horrifying video footage emerged this week showing the moment an employee viciously assaulted a helpless autistic child inside an autism center in Burnsville, Minnesota.
The video shows the three-year-old boy at Sunrise Autism Center playing in the corner before the employee suddenly approaches him. She grabs the child by his shoulder and shoves him to the floor.
The woman then shoves the kid down again when he tries to get up. The child lands on his back and starts screaming in pain.
The assault ends with the woman lifting the boy with both hands and throwing him to the floor.
JUST IN: Sunrise Autism Center employee charged with assaulting a 3-year-old boy during her *first* shift where she was allowed to be unsupervised.
25-year-old Arianna Williams was recorded assaulting a child in Minneapolis.
Williams defended herself, saying she was just… pic.twitter.com/lCHhBBFZqY
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 3, 2024
WCCO on Thursday identified, the perpetrator in the video as 25-year-old Arianna Williams. She has been charged with malicious punishment of a child.
Farhiya, the little boy’s mother, spoke with WCCO in Somali following the incident. She told the network she cried and screamed when she first saw the video.
The mom, who is Somali-American, explained that her son was diagnosed with autism last year, and she hoped that enrolling him in the center for a week would get him the speech and occupational therapy he needed. She said her son could not tell her what happened and called Williams heartless.
“You would think she doesn’t have a heart,” Farhiya said in Somali.
Sunrise Autism Center told WCCO they fired Williams immediately and called the police. Charging documents say Williams was a new hire at the center.
Charging documents also show that the incident was on the first day Williams was allowed with children unsupervised. After being fired, Williams reportedly sent a text to a co-worker, claiming “I’d never purposely hurt anyone I was just having a really bad start to the week.”
WCCO reports Williams is scheduled to next appear in court on June 20.
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Not long after his declared relocation to Florida, Fox News host Sean Hannity has put his luxurious Long Island estate on the market for $13.75 million, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The Fox News host has decided to part ways with his North Shore mansion in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. The listing is managed by Nest Seekers International.
Newsday reported:
The real estate brokerage Nest Seekers International has listed the waterfront estate in Centre Island for $13.75 million. Fox News conservative commentator Hannity, 62, has moved to Florida, where records show he has a home in West Palm Beach.
The property’s listing agent, Shawn Elliott, president of Nest Seekers’ “Ultra Luxury Division,” said he dealt directly with Hannity.
“I talked to him myself,” Elliott told Newsday. Elliott was unsure when Hannity had moved away, but noted, “He’s moved out and there are caretakers” and security personnel overseeing the home.
The 10,674-square-foot Colonial, built in 2005, is situated between the Long Island Sound and Oyster Bay, and boasts what the listing says is 500 feet of bay frontage and an 81-foot private dock. The home’s seven bedrooms each have an ensuite bath, and there are two additional half-baths. In the kitchen are marble countertops and “a professional-grade gas range,” the listing said, with an adjacent breakfast nook.
In addition to a living room and dining room, there are a den/family room, an exercise room, a wet bar and a three-car garage. The grounds include a swimming pool, a tennis court and a par 3 golf course.
“It’s got six different tee boxes and a putting green and [a] pickleball [court],” Elliott said. “Only a few homes on the Island actually have a deep-water dock,” as this property does, he added.
Hannity’s decision to move to Florida was made public in January when he announced that both his radio and television shows, “The Sean Hannity Show” and “Hannity,” would henceforth be broadcast from studios in West Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first broadcast from the Sunshine State, Hannity expressed his relief at leaving New York. “We are now beginning our first broadcast from my new home and that is in the free state of Florida,” he said on his iHeartRadio broadcast.
His departure from New York was emphatic: “I am out. I am done. I am finished with New York.”
Hannity cited Florida’s lower taxes, less regulatory burden, and shared values with local representatives like Governor Ron DeSantis and Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott as his reasons for his move.
It should be noted that Florida is one of only seven states that do not impose a personal income tax. This means residents can enjoy tax-free pensions and retirement income, as well as no state taxes on Social Security or investment earnings. Additionally, Florida does not levy an inheritance or estate tax, according to AARP.
“For the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in the state that I’m living in that share my values,” he added.
“And, I’m not going to go through the whys, the how comes, because it’s obvious this migration out of the blue states with high taxes, burdensome regulation, high crime, horrible school districts is real… And if anything, I’m probably late and behind the curve and many others have made the move beforehand.”
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Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife Imedla Cuellar on Friday were indicted by on federal bribery and money laundering charges.
“An indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of Texas charging U.S. Congressman Enrique Roberto “Henry” Cuellar, 68, and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, 67, both of Laredo, Texas, with participating in two schemes involving bribery, unlawful foreign influence, and money laundering. Congressman Cuellar and Imelda Cuellar made their initial court appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dena Palermo in Houston.” – the DOJ announced on Friday.
“According to court documents, beginning in at least December 2014 and continuing through at least November 2021, Congressman Cuellar and Imelda Cuellar allegedly accepted approximately $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities: an oil and gas company wholly owned and controlled by the Government of Azerbaijan, and a bank headquartered in Mexico City. The bribe payments were allegedly laundered, pursuant to sham consulting contracts, through a series of front companies and middlemen into shell companies owned by Imelda Cuellar, who performed little to no legitimate work under the contracts.” the DOJ said.
Cuellar and his wife are facing a maximum of 204 years in prison.
Per the DOJ: Congressman Cuellar and Imelda Cuellar are each charged with the following offenses and if convicted, face maximum penalties as indicated: two counts of conspiracy to commit bribery of a federal official and to have a public official act as an agent of a foreign principal, five years in prison on each count; two counts of bribery of a federal official, 15 years in prison on each count; two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, 20 years in prison on each count; two counts of violating the ban on public officials acting as agents of a foreign principal, two years in prison on each count; one count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, 20 years in prison; and five counts of money laundering, 20 years in prison on each count.
Rep. Cuellar, a nine-term Texas Democrat lawmaker who represents an area along the US-Mexico border, previously lashed out at both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for allowing illegal aliens to pour over the border.
“I’ve moved on from the vice president to say, ‘OK, let’s work with the ambassadors and let’s work with the State Department. Let’s work with the Homeland Secretary,’” Cuellar said before the holidays in 2021.
“I think that’s the way to address it, but I know that the media has put a lot of focus on the vice president, but with all due respect, she was given that title. I don’t think she’s, with all due respect, put the effort in there…We’ve got to look at other folks that have the expertise on that,” he added.
Cuellar was raided by the FBI and subpoenaed in 2022 shortly after he blasted Biden Regime.
Feds began issuing a flurry of subpoenas seeking records related to Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar, his wife Imelda and campaign staffers.
More than two dozen FBI agents descended on Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar’s Laredo, Texas home in early 2022.
FBI still present at the home of Rep. Henry Cuellar’s in Laredo. https://t.co/CYOyJVSSGJ pic.twitter.com/N8rGyZVpNz
— Valerie Gonzalez (@ValOnTheBorder) January 19, 2022
On Friday he was indicted and is facing life in prison.
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On Thursday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ran from reporters who wanted answers about reports that his administration is pressuring the family of slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca to let the Mayor attend his funeral.
Officer Huesca was killed on April 21 as he returned home from his shift, dressed in uniform, during an alleged carjacking.
According to officials, Huesca shot more than ten times.
ABC News reports that Xavier Tate Jr., 22, was arrested after a 10-day manhunt and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated vehicular hijacking, and possession of a stolen firearm.
While reporters tried to ask Johnson about the allegations regarding the funeral, NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reported that the Mayor refused to answer questions and ran away.
Ahern shouted to a rattled and fleeing Johnson, “Mister Mayor, why do you have to run from us, Mr. Mayor?”
Watch:
Mayor refused to take questions earlier today. Here’s what happened. @nbcchicago
More tonight 5p and 6p pic.twitter.com/0wgG84mgJs— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) May 2, 2024
Intrepid Chicago reporter John Kass reports:
According to reporting by Fran Spielman of the Sun Times, Johnson’s team tried to push the mourning Huesca family into inviting him to the funeral of the slain officer. I’ve never seen anything so despicable in Chicago politics and most of you know I’ve seen a lot.
If there’s anything lower than that, it’s running away like a whipped dog when you get caught.
He has a coward’s built-in excuse though, he might say Huesca’s mother didn’t understand the bad Spanish of his police officials and aides who initially tried to intimidate her by insisting he had to attend her son’s funeral, that it was mandatory. That it was all lost in translation. He’s craven enough, with his panic attacks, to try it. And he’ll always play the race card if it doesn’t work.
“At one point, there was an implication that the honors funeral is tied to the mayor’s attendance,” the Sun Times quoted John Catanzara, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police. “That was the guilt trip that we’re laying on this family.”
Ultimately, Johnson did not attend the funeral but tried to joke about his disgraceful and cowardly behavior.
Not only does Brandon Johnson think people are stupid but he thinks his antics, cowardice and inability to lead is funny
Reporter: “WTTW’s Heather Cherone, mayor this one’s for you, sorry to make you keep walking back and forth”
BJ: “As long as you don’t make me run”
*awkward… pic.twitter.com/CAXtqMhuvz
— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) May 3, 2024
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Newly unsealed documents in Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump further prove Biden’s DOJ set up Trump.
The unsealed motion reveals Jack Smith’s top prosecutor, Jay Bratt, met with a top Biden aide in September 2021 – before any classified documents were discovered at Mar-a-Lago.
Bratt met with an aide to Biden’s White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in September 2021.
Per Julie Kelly: Jay Bratt–who led investigation into classified docs then moved to Jack Smith’s team after he was appointed–met with aide to WH chief of staff Ron Klain in Sept. 2021
NEW: DOJ's degenerate midget Jay Bratt–who led investigation into classified docs then moved to Jack Smith's team after he was appointed–met with aide to WH chief of staff Ron Klain in Sept. 2021
BEFORE any alleged classified docs were found.
Newly unsealed motion: pic.twitter.com/l1gcHRir3Y
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) May 3, 2024
Last week Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed records in Jack Smith’s classified docs case against Trump that revealed Biden’s White House and DOJ were coordinating with National Archives general counsel Gary Stern.
The day before Jack Smith indicted Trump in the classified documents case last June, NARA’s general counsel Gary Stern was at the Biden White House and met with Joe Biden’s White House lawyer Richard Sauber.
NARA’s general counsel Gary Stern was working with Biden’s White House and DOJ as early as August 2021 (one year before the Mar-a-Lago raid).
Furthermore, according to unsealed documents, an unidentified witness told DOJ prosecutor Michael Thakur that after the Trump Administration ended, the General Services Administration (GSA) stored six pallets of boxes in Virginia. They eventually contacted Trump’s team and told them to come pick up the boxes.
These were the boxes that ended up having documents with “classified markings” on them. The boxes were dumped outside of DC in Virginia and then ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
This was a total setup.
Trump went after Jack Smith in a Truth Social post on Saturday night after bombshell documents revealed the Biden DOJ coordinated with the National Archives (NARA).
“Wow! It looks like Deranged Jack Smith, a sick PSYCHO, got caught. BIG “STUFF!” See story in Rob Schmitt opening on NEWSMAX. AMAZING — MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump continued his attack against Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday morning in remarks outside the New York State courthouse.
“You probably saw last night that Jack Smith got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. It was released late last night and it’s a big story,” Trump said. “The documents case is a hoax, created by them for election interference purposes. That one looks like it’s going asunder.”
Trump continued, “The whole thing is a hoax. All of them are hoaxes, including the civil cases. They’re controlled by the White House, they’re controlled by Democrat judges and prosecutors… and the people are getting it.”
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“I have evidence that exposes the CIA,” announced James O’Keefe last week before releasing the “most important” video of his entire career.
The footage was shocking.
CIA contractor Amjad Fseisim was caught on film saying that CIA Directors Gina Haspel and Mike Pompeo, among other senior officials, deliberately kept sensitive information from President Trump, whom they labeled a “Russian asset.”
Fseisim also alleged that the intelligence community used FISA warrants to spy on Trump and his team, a practice that has reportedly continued even after his presidency. “We monitor everything,” he said.
O’Keefe Media (OMG) asked President Trump for a direct response to the video. Take a listen to what he had to say.
Maria Zeee discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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An outcast from the British Royal Family, Prince Harry is headed for London, where a festive celebration awaits him. But what does NOT await him, reportedly, is the warmth of a loving family.
To begin with, Harry will be staying in a hotel, since he does not have a London home anymore, and though the Windsor family has dozens upon dozens of houses, apparently no one volunteered to host him.
The Duke of Sussex has been attempting to mend the relationship with his family and undo the mess of his own making that drew them so far apart from him.
Harry has invited all his family to the ‘Invictus Games’ 10-year celebration ceremony in London.
But so far, no senior members of the royal family are expected at the Wednesday event at St Paul’s Cathedral.
His father, King Charles, and his sister-in-law, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton, are both currently undergoing cancer treatment away from the public eye.
Coincidentally or not, the two ailing family members were the ones that the author of Harry’s Biography ‘Spare’ said were the ‘racist Royals’ that asked about how dark would his son Archie’s skin be.
Harry also remains estranged from his older brother, Prince William.
Page Six reported:
“Prince Harry has invited all of his family to the event to celebrate the Invictus Games 10th anniversary next week – but no senior royals are going. It’s still unclear whether he’ll see King Charles while in London.”
Harry has not spoken to his brother for more than a year.
“A well-placed London socialite who knows the brothers confirmed that Harry had invited William — as well as other members of the royal family — to the event to honor the veterans charity he founded.”
Charles will reportedly invite Harry and wife Meghan Markle to Balmoral castle in Scotland this summer, so that the King can see his grandchildren Archie, and grand-daughter Lilibet.
“Harry and his father last saw each other in February when Charles, 75, was diagnosed with cancer and Harry jetted over from California to see him — but was given just over 30 minutes with the king.”
Instead of the Invictus Games celebration, Charles will have an audience with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the first Buckingham Palace garden party of the season.
“As he told ABC News in February, he was ‘grateful’ for the time spent with his father earlier that month, adding, ‘I’ll stop in and see my family as much as I can’.
[…] Harry will be staying in a hotel in London, as he no longer has a UK home after being asked to give up Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate.”
Harry and Megan will visit Nigeria on an invitation by Chief of Defense Staff General Christopher Gwabin Musa.
Megan revealed in 2022 that she had discovered she was ‘43% Nigerian’ after doing a genealogy test.
They will visit military rehabilitation centers and sports facilities, as well as meetings with local organizations working to support veterans’ welfare.
Read more:
Prince Harry’s Charity in Africa Accused of Widespread Torture and Rape
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The crowded Republican primary in Indiana’s 3rd congressional district will come to an end next week, on May 7.
Law and order Republicans should know that one of the leading candidates, Wendy Davis, is a soft-on-crime imposter.
Davis’ latest ad features lots of images of President Trump. The ad says “In 2024, we’re taking our country back, but President Trump can’t do it alone.” It touts Davis as a former judge who will work with Trump to secure the border and stop drugs, gangs and violent crime.
But this is not Davis’ record as a judge or deputy prosecutor in Indiana, where she often ensured that criminals and violent offenders received lenient or reduced sentences. Davis is an alternative sentencing advocate, and even created a program for offenders to enter house arrest or traditional housing instead of serving time in prison. The program, Hoosiers Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), was based on the HOPE program started in Hawaii by Circuit Court Judge Steve Alm, previously a Bill Clinton-appointed U.S. Attorney. A National Institute of Justice study of HOPE found that the program had “no statistically significant effects on recidivism” and “HOPE probationers had a statistically significant greater number of probation violations.”
It’s no wonder that Wendy Davis never talks about her signature achievement. And it’s not hard to find the negative outcomes of Davis’ soft-on-crime program. In 2012, it was reported that just hours after being released from jail, 34-year-old Vincen Velez robbed a pharmacy seeking the prescription painkiller Opana. He had been in the HOPE program after a previous arrest for theft and resisting law enforcement. In 2013, Ricardo Hood, 33 – a career criminal with prior convictions for theft, failure to return to lawful detention, possession of marijuana, domestic battery, resisting law enforcement, receiving stolen auto parts, drunken driving, and more – was shot and killed by a Fort Wayne homeowner as Hood was attempting to rob his house just a few months after being released from prison into the HOPE probation program.
As a prosecutor and a judge, Davis went easy on criminals over and over again. Here is just a sampling of her work:
As a prosecutor in 2008, Davis handled the case of Adonis Robinson, who robbed a restaurant at gunpoint in 2008. He received a plea agreement that reduced his eight-and-a-half year sentence by one-and-a-half years, despite the fact he had previously been convicted of resisting law enforcement and carrying a handgun without a license. After being prosecuted by Davis, in 2014 Robinson shot a man for being a “snitch” in connection to a gang.
In 2006, Davis prosecuted Jose Martinez after he allegedly broke into the home of his ex-girlfriend, beat her, and attempted to stab her and her boyfriend with a knife. Davis gave Martinez a plea agreement in which the charges of criminal recklessness, domestic battery, and battery were dropped. He received only 100 days of confinement.
In 2007, Davis twice prosecuted Christopher Dirig for stealing a car, receiving stolen auto parts, and other related crimes. After initially being sentenced to 17 years in prison, 12 years were suspended and he received probation. In 2016, Dirig lured a woman into his apartment and beat her over the head with a large, metal exercise bar before robbing her.
Davis prosecuted Tazz Langston in 2007 after he assaulted a man and woman in their home, attempted to strangle the man, and threatened to shoot his entire family before fleeing. Lanston received a plea agreement and one year of probation. After being prosecuted by Davis, Langston shot a man in 2013.
Davis repeatedly prosecuted Justin Pease, a serial thief who had his prison sentence suspended in favor of probation. Davis again prosecuted Pease in 2007 after he robbed a woman at knifepoint, for which he received only one-and-a-half years in prison. In 2016, Pease broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home, stabbed her and another person, barricaded himself in a bedroom, and lit the room on fire when confronted by police. One officer was left in a medically induced coma.
Justin Pease
Davis prosecuted Daniel Reynolds for the crimes of battery and domestic battery in 2008. Reynolds had beat his wife, who was 7 months pregnant, and slammed her head into the wall. Reynolds received a plea agreement that saw two years of his three-year prison sentence suspended.
In 2008, Tameka Bratton allegedly stabbed her boyfriend with a knife and a screwdriver in front of her children. Davis successfully sought for the charges to be dismissed.
In 2010, Pedro Perez allegedly forced entry into a man’s home to help Juan Mata assault his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. Davis successfully sought for the charges to be dismissed.
In 2010, Davis prosecuted Carmen Mentzer, a woman who was using her home to distribute drugs, which were found to be in reach of her 7-year-old son. Mentzer received a plea agreement, with all of her prison sentence except six months being suspended.
When a 27-year-old teacher was caught having sex with her 17-year-old male student, in 2015 then-Judge Wendy Davis gave the teacher, Paige Mostella, zero jail time, giving her only three years of probation.
When 19-year-old Demetrius Eldridge pulled an innocent mother into his Motel 6 room and raped her at gunpoint, Judge Davis inexplicably took 5 years off his 15-year prison sentence in 2013. Freshly out of prison last year, Eldridge attacked his girlfriend, fracturing her jaw, biting her face and threatening to kill her and her daughter, “who he grabbed by her neck.”
Demetrius Tyrell Eldridge
In 2019, Judge Davis accepted a plea deal for Michael Moring, 49, that saw him plead guilty to misdemeanor harassment instead of a felony stalking charge. He received only one year probation after sending lewd texts, photos and a video to a woman whose house he had previously painted.
And on it on it goes.
This is not the record of someone who will work with President Trump to stop drugs, gangs, and violent criminals. Davis is a liberal activist for leniency for thugs and offenders who make our neighborhoods less safe. Let’s hope Indiana voters choose wisely on Tuesday.
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Shotspotter is a service sold to police departments nationwide to listen in and hear gunshots, and alert police nearly immediately to one in a city. The service involves placing microphones around a city in secret locations. The company claims that the microphones only listen for gunshots and do not passively listen to voices and conversations in the same way that phones and other digital devices now regularly do.
Left-wing media in Minneapolis is now saying that the program of covert city microphones is racist because a law intern at the University of Minnesota’s Legal Clinic, Alexander Lindenfelser, says blacks are three times more likely to live in an area covered by Shotspotter. Minneapolis has used the software for 20 years, spending $2.2 million on it since 2007. One hundred forty cities nationwide use Shotspotter. Minneapolis has 425,000 people, of whom 60% are white and 18% are black.
Minneapolis has some of the highest crime in the country, and just today, members of several gangs were indicted on violent felonies including trafficking in fentanyl and possession of machine guns. Crime is so high in Minneapolis that last month the police chief announced the police were likely to stop investigating property crimes altogether.
Major cities have suffered an ongoing rise in violent crime, facilitated, some say, by far-left policy demands related to so-called ‘criminal justice reform’ that gave light sentences to criminal defendants, provided low or no bonds to defendants causing them to fail to appear for court, and pushed early release from prison sentences and parole policies that kept criminals out of prison. In 2020, Hennepin County prosecutors, which includes Minneapolis, announced they would stop asking for bail, ensuring criminal defendants would be much less likely to show up to court dates, for many crimes.
The media was empowered to amplify this left-wing policy to eliminate Shotspotter after its author, intern Lindenfelser submitted the draft of his law review article to the City of Minneapolis for a “Racial Impact Equity Analysis” last month.
The legal test for whether a government program is racially impermissible is whether it has a ‘disproportionate impact’ upon a specific racial group. This legal theory derives from a 1971 Supreme Court case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., which said that even if a policy was racially neutral in its drafting and creation if it led to results that were racially unequal, then it was a violation of the law.
The company installing Shotspotter puts 20 to 25 microphones per square mile in the cities where it is installed, in secret locations. Leaked data suggests many of the locations are elementary schools, billboards, hospitals, public housing complexes. The company uses AI algorithms to assist in the analysis of what is and is not a gunshot.
Critics of Shotspotter have also noted that it’s a major step in advancing the surveillance state, giving the government the authority to passively listen to even public conversations and process those statements for its own uses and purposes. The company claims it does not listen to conversations, only capturing gunshots, even though its recordings of conversations have been used by police to solve murders. Other critics complain about the system’s accuracy rate, though the company and some research suggest it has a general 98% accuracy rate.
The far-left American Civil Liberties Union sees no problem with Shotspotter’s wholesale violation of privacy, but says that the system is racist because it disproportionately affects blacks.
In most jurisdictions, the discharge of a firearm within city limits is a crime by itself. A gunshot is typically 140-190 decibels.
The parent company of ShotSpotter is “SoundThinking” out of California with $96 million in annual revenues. The President of the company is Ralph Clark.
In a statement to the Gateway Pundit, a SoundThinking spokesperson said: “SoundThinking’s mission is to enable efficient, effective, and equitable public safety outcomes. Regarding coverage areas, race and/or demographics are never considered when deploying ShotSpotter’s system. ShotSpotter deployments are based on objective historical crime data, with some influence from elected officials who want to protect their communities. All residents who live in communities experiencing persistent gunfire deserve a rapid police response, which gunshot detection enables regardless of race or geographic location. Black and brown children and young men are disproportionately affected by gun violence, and their communities deeply suffer from the physical and mental impacts of gunfire. They deserve a safe, equitable, and fast response in their communities.”
Calls and emails to the Minneapolis City Council and Minneapolis Police Department also went unanswered.
From Law Enforcement Today:
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Minneapolis, which was ground zero in the nonsense that followed the death of George Floyd in 2020, responded to that by remarkably attempting to dismantle its police department.
Because nothing answers a spike in crime like taking away those sworn to enforce the law. The latest insanity to come to one-half of the Twin Cities is the possible elimination of ShotSpotter technology in the city. You can certainly guess why.
ShotSpotter is a technology deployed in numerous cities across the country. According to the company, 80% of gunfire incidents are never reported to police. ShotSpotter is an automated acoustic gunshot detection system that immediately notifies law enforcement upon activation and can direct resources to the location of the gunshots.
The system is installed around a city and uses microphones, a machine-learning algorithm, and human evaluators to detect gunshots. Once it is activated, it triangulates the sounds’ locations and alerts law enforcement officials to the activation’s whereabouts.
The city’s contract with ShotSpotter expired in March, and now come in the city is claiming the technology is “ineffective” and “promotes discriminatory policing” against minorities in the city. Proponents of the system, including law enforcement officials, say the technology helps officers more accurately determine the location of gunshots and get to the scene faster. However, none of that matters to activists, who are more concerned with virtue signaling than the safety of its residents.
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Milagro Jones, a Black student at UCLA, should be allowed to access all areas of his campus freely.
Milagro, who posts on X as Cupid General, filmed reactions to him walking through the pro-Hamas encampment at the school’s anti-Israel protest.
Protesters surrounded him and attempted to intimidate him, but Milagro was having no part of it.
When one told him, “You’re free to leave,” he dismantled the protestors.
“I am, because I am a US citizen, I’m free to do anything I want. That’s the cool thing about being a US citizen. When you work hard and get into UCLA…I got my GED in prison, so that means less than 1% of us will ever get any college degree. I’m getting a college degree from UCLA, the number one public university in the nation. So I’m free to go anywhere on this campus I want.”
UCLA student mocking Hamas protesters on campus. Who is this guy! pic.twitter.com/6efAYOxgc5
— Michal/Michele -מיכל
In an interview with CNN, he said, “Our University has a policy, you’re not allowed to camp on our university. If me and my brother wanted to bring the homies and some cases of brews and camp out here, they’d gonna be like, ‘Bro, get out of here. You’re not allowed to do that.”
He was trying to walk through the encampment, but the pro-Hamas protesters didn’t like that. He was surrounded by protestors who blocked him.
“They wasn’t letting me move, period. They had me surrounded, they were saying some weird stuff. They were saying I was an Israeli agitator. I don’t know what that is, bro, at the end of the day, they’re not supposed to be here….that is my number one point.”
“Second point is, I’m a student, I can walk around wherever I want.”
“Third of all, I stand for zero tolerance of anti-semitism on a campus, period. As an African-American, and my dad was born before the Civil Rights Act and my people had to fight for basic civil rights, I don’t agree with any type of discrimination.”
Watch:
Daddy Milagro speaks truth to CNN.
This is hatred and racism from democrats.@cupidgeneralpic.twitter.com/yGtVbtVRWS
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 2, 2024
One protestor aggressively blocked Milagro, even going so far as to wedge his foot under a stroller holding Milagro’s baby.
Racism at UCLA: Graduate Student Harasses Black Student’s Family
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 2, 2024
Milagro told the student, “I am an African-American; you are a White man telling me to leave a part of the campus….that’s called racial discrimination and a violation of the Civil Rights Act.”
Milagro also accurately referred to the protestors as “White libs cos-playing as the oppressed.”
WATCH white pro-Palestine domestic terrorists harassing a black student and his daughter at UCLA encampment.
The tolerant left strikes again and show their true colors. I have never seen more pathetic group of maskholes than these useless parasites. pic.twitter.com/tRABkyKrud
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) May 2, 2024
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The April jobs report was released Friday morning as Joe Biden slept and it was a huge miss.
Non-farm payrolls increased by 175,000 in April, well below the expected 240,000 estimate.
The unemployment rate moved higher in April to 3.9% (it’s actually higher than this) – this is the highest since November 2021.
Zero Hedge reported the truth about April’s abysmal jobs report:
Ahead of today’s payrolls report, in our preview we said that while we knew we would get a slowdown, the question was how big it would be (and before that we also asked if Yellen had leaked the weaker number to Japan ahead of their multiple interventions this week to prevent them from wasting tens of billions in intervention dry capital for nothing).
We got the answer moments ago when the BLS reported that in April the US added just 175K jobs, a nearly 50% drop from the upward revised 315K (was 303K), the lowest print since October 2023…
… and a two-sigma miss to estimates of 240K.
In fact, as shown below, this was the biggest miss since Dec 2021
CNBC’s Rick Santelli went off on the abysmal jobs report numbers.
WATCH:
APRIL JOBS REPORT: "MUCH LESS THAN EXPECTED" pic.twitter.com/e2ogNCNF0O
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024
President Trump unleashed on Joe Biden in remarks outside of a New York City courthouse.
“The job numbers just came out, and they are horrible… these people are destroying our country, and here’s another sign of it,” Trump said in brief remarks before heading into court in week 3 of Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial.
“There is no leadership,” Trump added.
WATCH:
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The job numbers just came out, and they are HORRIBLE… these people are destroying our country, and here's another sign of it. pic.twitter.com/6dJJm2zzkQ
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) May 3, 2024
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This post was originally reported at JoeHoft.com – we are republishing it here with permission.
While conservatives argue over whether we should vote early or on Election Day, the Election Industrial Complex is adding, deleting, and managing entities that are clandestinely operating behind US elections.
A document produced by Higher Ground Labs entitled the – 2022 Political Tech Landscape Report – outlines what we have labeled the Election Industrial Complex (see document at the end of this article.)
This document begins with an introduction and summary of the results of the 2022 election using the left’s bastardization of the word “democracy” and projection of their communist actions upon those who want fair and transparent elections (emphasis added):
Voter suppression and 2020 election deniers presented onerous challenges in 2022, with active efforts to attack vote by-mail, close polling places, harass nonpartisan election administrators, and spread misinformation in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, and beyond. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in supporting coordinated responses to attacks on democracy, from refining message development to enhancing on-the-ground organizing to informing and protecting voters.
The corruption in the 2022 Arizona election processes, for example, where tens of thousands of voters were disenfranchised was obviously ignored in this document while claiming the election was “an affirmation of the Biden Administration’s focus as well as a rejection of far right extremism.”
A review of Higher Ground Labs website shows the leadership team to include many far-left actors, including:
Derek Parham, FORMER DEPUTY CTO, HILLARY FOR AMERICA
Deval Patrick, FORMER GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Michael Podhorzer, POLITICAL DIRECTOR, AFL-CIO
Julius Genachowski, FORMER FCC CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR AT CARLYLE
Genachowski was Obama’s FCC Chairman in his first term. Genachowski’s connections with Higher Ground Labs indicates that this effort may have started during the Obama administration although Higher Grounds Labs indicates it was launched after the Obama regime ended:
Since 2017, Higher Ground Labs has built an enduring platform for technological experimentation and iteration. We have invested in dozens of companies, many of which have become integral components of political tech for the Left. In 2020 alone, our companies reached 7,500 campaigns and 70 million voters.
If this effort started during the Obama years, it was likely paid for using government funds during the Obama years and then it was moved to the non-profit arena after 2016.
Higher Ground Labs claims its mission is as follows:
Higher Ground Labs is a startup accelerator and venture fund. We support startups building technology that helps candidates win.
Higher Ground Labs created and published its 2022 report that describes its landscape and connections in the election industrial complex. This document outlines the many initiatives, connections and activities it is involved in and the players it interacts with to ensure radical far-left and increasingly communist anti-American Democrats win elections.
This landscape involves “non-profits” and publicly traded companies which prevent the public from requesting information that would be required to be provided by the government in FOIA requests.
In February, Mike Benz was interviewed on Tucker where he outlined the military rule taking place in America today and how it is the opposite of democracy. The Election Industrial Complex appears to be much of the same.
The Election Industrial Complex is professionally designed and thought through. The landscape shows relationships between non-profits and publicly traded companies. It uses the law, money, and influence as weapons in an environment of political warfare.
Evil uses money for engagement because money influences immediately, whereas trust takes time.
Money is used to incentivize. “Trust issues” in a grass roots environment are minimized through the use of money and funding. This landscape runs like a corporation that can add to and delete from at any time at will. Successful ventures get paid, unsuccessful ventures are eliminated. But the money necessary to keep it running doesn’t appear to be a problem.
The heart and soul of the landscape is the Data Analytics and Modeling framework identified in the middle of the diagram above.
The entire landscape appears to revolve around real-time advanced communications which is why the Data Analytics and Modeling framework is so important. Similar to military operations, accurate up-to-date information is the key. This also can be the landscape’s Achilles heel. It’s difficult to obtain up-to-date information in complex organizations.
In the military, operation fusion centers are the hub of information management. With good information, a fusion center can tell you where to focus and where to make command decisions. Authentic information in a military operation is beneficial while inauthentic information can lead to your death.
In the fog of war, if you can present an environment that is believable then you can leverage it to win.
The Data Analytics and Modeling framework lists a number of entities but it omits those that have been identified since the 2020 Election. ERIC, Dominion, BPro, KNOWiNK, CIS and other entities are omitted.
Like a military operation, the placement of the commander is hidden at all times. Critical components in this framework, like the entities mentioned above are not identified in the framework because they are so key. Data Analytics and Modeling relies on these entities for up-to-date information coming from these key entities.
The landscape includes segments and related entities used to manipulate Democrat election wins. This landscape includes the Democrat-owned media and digital content using entities like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many more. Notably, these social media giants are referred to as “Owned Media”.
The biggest concern of the Left in the report is that messaging about the stolen 2020 Election was allowed on social media. No discussion of the massive Censorship Industrial Complex is mentioned. Also, no discussion of the mountains of evidence proving the 2020 Election never should have been certified is mentioned.
The truth doesn’t appear to be necessary. Trust is not an issue. Money runs the operation and messages that aren’t consistent with the Election Complex Industry are attacked through the Censorship Industrial Complex.
The fundraising landscape includes ActBlue, Stripe and Bonterra. The landscape shares the following about ActBlue:
Once again, ActBlue helped funnel billions of dollars to Democratic campaigns and causes throughout the 2022 cycle. The platform processed $3.5 billion to 27,305 campaigns and organizations. These contributions came from 7.4 million unique donors who, in tandem, made 86 million individual contributions; their average donation size was $40.05. In comparison to the 2018 midterm cycle, the total number of contributions and dollars raised doubled, reflecting both the growth of the Party’s small dollar donor base and the sense of urgency felt across this cycle to take action in response to unprecedented challenges to our long held freedoms.
This document omits evidence that shows that millions in these “donations” are coming from “donor mules” with many of these individuals unemployed and unaware that their name is being used to launder money to the Democrat Party. Of course, this type of information is omitted from this landscape because it is criminal.
Other frameworks within the Election Industrial Complex are also discussed in the document below that is referred to above – 2022 Political Tech Landscape Report – from Higher Ground Labs.
HGL 2022 Political Tech Landscape Report_033023 (Clean) by Joe Ho on Scribd
(Joe Hoft is the author of three books related to the 2020 Election which have been referred to as “definitive documentation of the enormous fraud in the 2020 Election” and “classics”.)
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The CEO of a male hair loss and erectile dysfunction company caused an online uproar after boasting he is “eager” to hire the pro-Hamas agitators illegally occupying college campuses across America.
As The New York Post reported, Andrew Dudum, the CEO of Hims, posted a disgusting message on X praising the unruly individuals for their “moral courage” and sharing a link for them to apply for jobs.
“Moral courage > College degree,” he wrote. “If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working.”
“There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline,” he added while sharing a link to the Hims career page.
Moral courage > College degree
If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working.
There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline.…
— andrewdudum (@AndrewDudum) May 1, 2024
The Post reports that Dudum, who is Palestinian-American, has family members in Gaza and the West Bank. This reality may have clouded his views on the Middle East.
Fox Business notes that Hims, which was founded in 2017, offers treatments for weight loss, anxiety, and skin treatment in addition to male hair loss and erectile dysfunction. The company also recently rebranded as Hims & Hers to sell birth control pills and medication targeting pre-menopausal females.
X users were confused and angry upon seeing this tone-deaf post, with many threatening to boycott the company:
Violation of fiduciary duty in support of Hamas. Bold move, Cotton.
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) May 2, 2024
How are you going to afford to hire them when the majority of your customers leave for less woke companies? Have you not heard the saying “Go woke. Go broke” ??? You will. Soon. Sincerely, X Customer!
— Michael (@LeoLionMAGA) May 2, 2024
Damn. $hims was one of my favorite companies. Sad to see, will be selling tomorrow like many others I’m sure.
— Mark (@QuantumRides) May 2, 2024
You must’ve no taken ‘How to Destroy Your Company 101’ in college.
— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) May 2, 2024
You are about to be Bud Lighted. pic.twitter.com/SsXkydkcsT
— Marc מרדכי
What does this have to do with selling boner pills
— Sam Rosenthal, Award Winning Online Safety EXPERT! (@SirSardonic) May 2, 2024
Can’t wait to read about how you’re new hires occupy and shut down you’re business because you said, or did something wrong in their little minds. For instance, calling your company “HIMS”. Good luck sir!
— kornfed (@GeeWillyQue1) May 3, 2024
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In April, the House of Representatives passed three bills to hand out money to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world.
The Democrats waved Ukrainian flags on the floor of the United States House of Representatives as they voted to send $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The legislation did nothing to support America’s open southern border.
In the last month, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and funding to secure foreign borders but not our own.
On Wednesday, May 1, Speaker Johnson tweeted out that the Biden Administration is so committed to their reckless open border policies that they are flying in inadmissible aliens from around the world into America.
“The Biden Administration is so committed to their reckless open border policies that they are literally picking up inadmissible aliens from around the world and flying them to our country. Biden’s parole program is illegal and should be terminated right away,” Johnson wrote.
Of course, this was just empty words coming from Mike Johnson.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) fact-checked Johnson reminding Americans that Johnson funded the open borders and funded the flights of illegals into America.
“Speaker Johnson your omnibus bill funds this. Why are you acting like you oppose it? All you had to do was insert one sentence prohibiting Biden from spending money for these flights. Instead you suspended the rules so we couldn’t even offer amendments to stop this,” Massie wrote.
.@SpeakerJohnson, Your omnibus bill funds this. Why are you acting like you oppose it ?
All you had to do was insert one sentence prohibiting Biden from spending money for these flights.
Instead you suspended the rules so we couldn’t even offer amendments to stop this. https://t.co/Wi8k1uh2tf
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 2, 2024
Johnson even funded $3.5 billion to bring in Palestinians who support the terror attacks on Israel.
You literally just gave them 3.5 billion dollars to smuggle in migrants from Gaza with in your spending bill
— JD Sharp (@imjdsharp) May 2, 2024
Speaker Johnson was then fact-checked by community notes on X.
“Despite claiming to oppose this action, Mike Johnson supported passage of a bill that funds this action,” according to the Community Note.
Johnson was just corrected by a community note, as he was acting as if he opposes Joe Biden’s actions, despite having supported the passage of the bill.
What would you like to say to Speaker Johnson? pic.twitter.com/6xwfX9UqhF
— Suhr Majesty
The Community Notes official X account confirmed that Mike Johnson’s statement was fact-checked.
Readers added a Community Note to this Post: https://t.co/y08suCuHNC
— Helpful Community Notes (@HelpfulNotes) May 3, 2024
The note was later removed by the X audience – despite its accuracy.
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Joe Scarborough has been melting down over the impact the radical protestors on college campuses will have on the 2024 presidential election.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the concern Joe and co-host Mika Brzezinski shared on Monday’s ‘Morning Joe’ that these displays are going to help elect President Trump.
Joe went off again, this time calling progressives in his audience who don’t see the impact this is having on the electorate ‘stupid.’
“I’ve got to say, you’d ask what parents are saying about this, for parents whose children are…and they’re children by the way…there are some adults but…I say this because we have kids, obviously, of college age.”
“I mean, obviously, they’re many (parents) that are distressed, I’m sure many are concerned about their safety. I certainly hope the students got out and they’re doing it peacefully right now. But Richard, this is….I tried to explain this a couple days ago, maybe I wasn’t eloquent enough…”
“But I can tell you, my family, I’m not saying the Vietnam war was a just war, but I can tell you, the riots on college campuses, the riots at the Chicago convention in ’68, all of those things moved my family from being Democrats their entire life to being Republicans. I remember, I was young, and I remember my parents asking ‘What in the world is going on in this country.'”
“And of course, you know, they were raised in the Great Depression in rural Georgia, kinda hard for them to hear which kids on the campus of Harvard or taking over campuses at Columbia…by the way, if you are offended by this, please, I’m trying to help you…I don’t want Donald Trump to get elected.”
“If you’re too stupid to figure that out, change to another channel because we are sorting through this as a country and this is not helping.”
Watch:
Morning Joe Scarborough is absolutely freaking out today.
He calls his progressive audience stupid.
He knows the campus protests are going to hurt Democrats.
Cry harder, Joe. This is your party.pic.twitter.com/JX0rTR34Fg
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 2, 2024
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Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Polling shows huge numbers of voters get their information there
A new polling reveals some startling American voter perspectives on the media, and it offers an explanation about why the Biden administration has been so intent on censoring social media.
It was a congressional report just this week that confirmed social media companies had tried to defend the First Amendment against attacks by Biden’s bureaucrats – mostly unsuccessfully as White House demands for censorship have turned into a major component of most online platforms.
Now there’s an explanation why Biden’s advocates are so intent.
It’s because the polling shows about half of Americans rely on social media for their primary source of news.
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley explained that’s why “it is not surprising that the censorship of social media has been a priority among many liberal groups.”
He pointed out the polling, from the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center, revealed that a majority of Americans also are extremely worried or very concerned about bias in the media and the reporting of false or misleading information.
“Only 48% of Republicans and 34% of independents still receive their news from national news outlets and expressed the greatest trust of the media,” Turley explained, citing the poll results.
“The poll shows that 47% of Americans have serious concern that news outlets would report information that has not been confirmed or verified, and 44% worry that accurate information will be presented in a way that favors one side or another.”
Turley explained:
For years, the journalists have sawed on the branch upon which they are sitting. Even National Public Radio, which receives federal funding, is unrepentant in the face of criticism over its overt political bias.
Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones declared recently that “all journalism is activism.” Advocacy journalism is all the rage in journalism schools and on major media platforms.
A recent series of interviews with over 75 media leaders by Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. As Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, stated: “Objectivity has got to go.”
But that objective seems to depend heavily upon what ideology you are advocating.
He said nowadays the mainstream media basically talks to itself.
“So we are left with the variation of a common Zen-like question: if the media reports and no one is listening, does it still make a noise?” he asked.
The actual polling report explained, “Although most adults, regardless of age, race or ethnicity, or partisanship, tune into news about elections, only 14% express a great deal of confidence in election-related information they receive from national sources, and 11% say the same about local news media.
“In particular, people are worried about the news containing misinformation and amplifying divisions. About half of adults say they are extremely or very concerned about news organizations reporting inaccurate information (53%). Almost as many worry news outlets will report unverified information (47%) or focus too much on divisions or controversies (48%).”
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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A top Biden administration Justice Department official was not truthful during her Senate confirmation process in 2021 when she said she had never been arrested for an alleged violent crime.
Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke has served in her position since May 2021.
However, according to news reports, she had an arrest record that was not disclosed when she was narrowly confirmed by the Senate, which led to calls for her resignation.
Clarke’s past became an issue earlier this week when The Daily Signal reported Tuesday she had previously been arrested and accused of slicing her former husband’s finger to the bone with a knife.
The Signal unearthed a text message exchange involving Clark’s former husband, who was candid about the incident.
“I was seeing another woman,” Reginald Avery texted in a May 2021 exchange with Tom Jones of the American Accountability Foundation, which shared it in a post on social media platform X. (Warning: The text exchange contains language that some may find offensive.)
“She was angry,” Avery added of the 2006 incident at their Maryland home that led to his then-wife’s arrest, the Signal reported. “Attacked me with a knife. I instinctively grabbed it. As I said earlier, I’m not blameless.”
“That’s the story,” he concluded. “That’s what happened. She went to jail.”
After reading the reporting, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was among scores of people who called on Clarke to resign for not disclosing the arrest.
Kristen Clarke is in charge of enforcing civil rights laws.
She enforces those laws aggressively against anyone who sneezes near an abortion clinic.
And not at all against those who vandalize churches.
She lied under oath during her confirmation proceedings, and should resign. https://t.co/5tHpaG4a2W
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 1, 2024
She lied under oath to mask her arrest for committing a violent crime, yet she zealously prosecutes peaceful pro-life protesters.
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 1, 2024
Clarke acknowledged Wednesday that she was not truthful about being arrested during her marriage and said she had been a victim of domestic violence.
“Nearly 2 decades ago, I was subjected to years-long abuse and domestic violence at the hands of my ex-husband,” Clarke said in a statement to CNN.
Clarke added:
“This was a terrorizing and traumatizing period that I have sought to put behind me to promote my personal health, healing and well-being. The physical and emotional scars, the emotional abuse and exploitation, and the lying are things that no woman or mother should ever have to endure.”
Clark concluded that because of an expungement of her record, she did not feel it was necessary to reveal the incident when she was up for a top job at the DOJ.
“When given the option to speak about such traumatic incidents in my life, I have chosen not to,” she said. “I didn’t believe during my confirmation process and I don’t believe now that I was obligated to share a fully expunged matter from my past.”
When Clarke was nominated for her current role, she filled out a questionnaire from Lee in which she was asked numerous questions about her past.
One question read, “Since becoming a legal adult, have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person?”
On the form, which is available on the Senate Judiciary Committee website, Clarke answered, “No.”
Clarke celebrated in a DOJ statement in January when six pro-life activists were convicted of felonies when they peacefully blockaded the entrance to a Tennesse abortion clinic while singing hymns.
“These defendants are being held accountable for unlawfully obstructing access to reproductive health services,” Clarke said in a statement when it was announced the defendants would each face up to a decade behind bars.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Hamas and the pro-Palestine rioters in the US laying siege to campuses are terrorists, by definition, not freedom fighters. They both target civilians with violence and threats of violence to bring about political change.
There is an old saying: “The difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is victory.” The idea being that the victor gets to write the history and can convert terrorists to heroes. A similar saying is, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” The meaning here is that terrorist or freedom fighter is a matter of perspective, and that if you were trying to gain your freedom, you would see the terrorists as freedom fighters. Both of these sayings are wrong, however. Terrorism is a malign methodology, which can be directed at a variety of goals from achieving independence to bringing about Armageddon, or preventing deforestation. The ends do not justify the means, and they certainly do not change the nature of terrorism.
One of the problems with terrorism is that it lacks a single, universally accepted definition. In the US, various federal agencies, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, state and city governments, and courts all operate on differing definitions of terrorism. On a global level, foreign countries and international organizations also have differing definitions of terrorism.
The academic consensus definition of terrorism is one of the most widely accepted, and it incorporates the primary elements present in most other definitions of terrorism used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Terrorism involves the use of violence or the threat of violence against civilians or non-combatants. The goal of these violent actions is to achieve political, ideological, or religious objectives. Terrorists seek to intimidate or coerce the government or society into altering policies to better suit the terrorist organization. Finally, terrorism is usually committed by non-state actors.
By the above definition, the American colonists who fought against the British would be freedom fighters, not terrorists. The reason is that they targeted British soldiers, not British civilians. The colonists formed a new national government and created a uniformed army. Consequently, it could be argued that they were not non-state actors.
The 9/11 terrorists, by contrast, did not wear uniforms, were non-state actors (arguably), and specifically targeted civilians. Furthermore, the civilians they targeted had no authority to enact the political changes the terrorists demanded. If US soldiers had targeted British government officials—civilians with decision-making authority—this may not have met the definition of terrorism because the colonists would be attacking the people in power to make decisions. The 9/11 terrorists, by contrast, were hoping to influence those who could make decisions by killing those who could not.
The October 7th Hamas attack on Israel was terrorism because it almost exclusively targeted civilians and those civilians had no ability to change government policies.
There is another saying about terrorism which helps to define its goals and separate them from the goals of a freedom fighter: ‘Terrorism is a few people dying and a lot of people watching.’ In the American Revolution, the colonial army wanted to defeat the British army. Their goal was not to terrorize or wound soldiers in order to coerce the British government. The September 11th attacks in the US and the October 7th attacks in Israel were clearly intended to strike fear and were not intended to significantly cripple the army or to win a military victory.
While some may claim that Hamas are freedom fighters because they want Gaza to be independent of Israel, they qualify as terrorists because the methods they use match the definition of terrorism. They intentionally kill civilians. They also use rape and the taking of hostages. Furthermore, the Hamas Covenant calls for the annihilation of Israel and the Jews, which again, does not match the definition of a freedom fighter. The US colonists never had the elimination of Britain and the British as a goal.
The pro-Palestine protestors are supporting terrorism while also engaging in activities that qualify as terrorism. They have laid siege to universities, threatened and intimidated Jewish students and civilians while calling for death to all Jews. Calls to action are not protected under free speech, and if they are directed at a specific ethnic group, can be considered hate speech. In this case, the intent of these calls is to alter policy; therefore, they should be considered acts of terrorism. The protestors have also engaged in violent confrontations with the police, all in the name of bringing about a change in Israel’s domestic policy.
Under US law, it is illegal to provide material support to terrorists. Consequently, anyone funding these protests should be held accountable. The professors seen linking arms to prevent the police from entering the campus and arresting the protestors should be charged with obstruction of justice, RICO, and aiding terrorism.
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Earlier this week The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft interviewed author and Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon on her latest best-selling book, “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women.”
Batya Ungar-Sargon made a huge splash on Bannon’s War Room in March when she went on to discuss her book that so adeptly defines the abuse of the working class Americans by the privileged elites and the love of the average working class American for President Donald Trump and his movement to Make America Great Again.
Batya, a former liberal from Queens and an opinion editor at Newsweek, shared her journey from hardcore New York leftist to working class supporter. And it was amazing!
On Wednesday Jim Hoft and Batya Ungar-Sargon discussed her new book best-selling book, “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women” and the recent violent anti-Israel protests on American campuses.
On her new book Second Class
Batya Ungar-Sargon: Thank you so much for those kind words and for having me. It’s really a pleasure to be here with you. I know that you speak to and for many of the same kinds of people that I spoke to for the book. And so it’s really an honor to be here. And I’m very humbled by your invitation. And I know we’re gonna have a really good time. I wrote second class because I just was fed up with the contempt that the elites have for regular Americans, working class Americans, middle class Americans. There’s never been a country like America today in 2024, just a deeply, deeply tolerant country that just wants to live and let live. I mean, the values that this great nation was founded on, they have simply never been brought to life anywhere in the globe, in the history of humanity the way they are today in America.
And I am just so sick of turning on my tv or looking at The New York Times with Washington Post, CNN or MSNBC or what have you, and just seeing this wall to wall canards, just the contempt for the average American who, despite everything that the elites have thrown at them, insist on being good hearted, on loving their fellow Americans, refuse to be polarized, even though everyone is telling them to hate their fellow American.
So I just. I wanted to give voice to the people that I felt had been silenced. And we never hear from working class people. The media and the political centers of this country are now completely peopled. I mean, 98% by people with college degrees and multiple degrees, you simply do not hear how average people think and talk. And so both their plight and their struggles and their triumphs and their tolerance and everything about them that makes this country special has been erased in the squabbling between the elites on both sides.
And so I wrote Second Class because I wanted to correct the record. I wanted to give working class people a voice in this conversation. I wanted to know, who is the american working class and do they still have a fair shot at the american dream? So I traveled the country for a year. I interviewed people from all backgrounds, all walks of life, all political persuasions. And I’m sure we’ll get into this, but what I found was, like, amazing consensus on the issues, whether people voted Democrat or Republican, because the parties were so bad at representing what they actually wanted, that it was kind of a crapshoot which party they voted for.
On Trump Derangement Syndrome and Present Lower Competence on the Left
Batya Ungar-Sargon: At some point, if you’re an honest person, you cannot sustain the derangement syndrome because you see things that, you know, contradict it. So those, like, sort of my first, and then there was this study that I’ve talked about a lot, but there was this 2018 Yale study. Yale. So we’re not talking about some, like, right wing outfit, right. That came out that found that there was a big difference between how white liberals and how white conservatives talk to black and Hispanic Americans.
And the difference was that white liberals, it’s called present lower competence, which means they dumb down their vocabulary because they assume that a person of color is less educated than them. It’s so disgusting. And I remember when I first saw that study, and I realized it implicated, like, not just everybody that I knew, but our worldview was implicated in that. This worldview that somehow blacks needed our special care, you know, like, our beneficence and our coddling, because they cannot do it on their own. They cannot be expected to, you know, deal with a, you know, white person at their full competence. I mean, it’s so disgusting, but it is so endemic to everything that animates the left. And so that was a really tough thing for me to see, not just the study itself, but the recognition within myself that I was doing that. And I was like, something has gone terribly wrong with me, with my soul, and it must be rectified.
So then I was like, okay, so they’re wrong about this woke stuff. They’re wrong about race relations in 2019. There was this huge outburst of anti semitism on the left. And I was like, okay, well, so they’re wrong about Jews. They’re wrong about blacks. They’re wrong about Trump. Then at some point, you’re like, okay, well, what is the likelihood that they hate Jews but are right about everything else? Right. They’re right about everything else, but, you know, they just accidentally are wrong about Jews in Israel. I was like, what is the likelihood that that is the case? Very, very small. And I think that this is sort of where I’ve ended up, which is you. People ask me why I feel so passionately about the working class. And, you know, I feel truly humbled that I, with my PhD in 2016, was so blind to what Trump was actually doing, which was taking the US economy that both parties had sold out to the elites and single handedly turning that entire ship around.
Jim Hoft: And this is exactly what your book goes into. The middle class, the working class wanted somebody to stand up for them and say, enough. And as a Republican, I’m often, often just disappointed, including recently with the leaders in Washington who seem to have nothing in common with me. Nothing. The fact that they would pass this legislation recently and send this money to Ukraine, a war that appears to be, it appears to be lost in some respects. Nobody wants the peace. They’re just ramping it up. They’re giving missiles that are long-range missiles now to Ukraine. I mean, what is that going to do except escalate the whole situation? So I completely disagree with that. And then they left nothing for the border. And anybody can see that this border is, it’s completely broken. It’s open.
On Open Borders and the Middle Class Squeeze
Batya Ungar-Sargon: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it’s very much by design. People don’t remember this, but in 2019, during one of the Democratic primary debates, the question was, if you were elected president, would you decriminalize illegal border crossing? That was the question. And on the stage was Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Marianne Williamson, Bernie Sanders, and a couple of others. And every single one of them except one guy, I forget who it was on the far left, but every single one of them raised their hand and said, yes, we would. We would decriminalize illegal border crossing. That is what Joe Biden did. He decriminalized illegal border crossing very intentionally because the Democrats platform is simply a plunder of the middle class. It is a decades long plunder of the middle class. So in 1971, which was the high watermark for working class wages, the largest share of the GDP was in the middle. And today, over 50% of the GDP, it’s not in the billionaires the way that the left likes to tell us. The share of the GDP controlled by the billionaires has not significantly changed between 1971 and today.
So where did all the GDP go? There was a middle class squeeze, and some of it was squeezed up. And so the top 20%, those over credentialed, multiple degreed couples who now marry each other and live on the coasts, the top 20% now controls over 50% of the GDP.
On the Purposeful Destruction of Middle Class Jobs
Jim Hoft: I know that if you’re working class and if put in a new tax hike like I think Joe Biden might be proposing right now, they can’t afford it. They just can’t afford it in the middle class. You know, an interesting thing, when I was younger, there was, of course, meatpacking plants in Iowa. And, you know, with a lot of manufacturing jobs back then for the middle class, those were terrific jobs to have. There was a family I remember had like nine kids also and, and put them all through catholic school. And the only job they had, their father worked at a meatpacking plant. But the manufacturing back then was paying so much higher. So, so you could do that. And today it’s just not the manufacturing jobs. It appears they keep going down, you know, and so it’s, it’s a travesty. And then, of course, they’re moving so many jobs overseas or they’re having manufacturing places like meatpacking plants today where they’re bringing in migrants to work because they can pay them lower wages.
So it’s horrific to see those good paying jobs that used to be middle class jobs. They’re no longer there. And so I understand completely when people are saying, and you see this, you know, we have a writer, Cara Castronuova, who is from New York. And she went down to the Bronx and she talked to the people down there. She was talking to mostly blacks and Hispanics, and she talked to them about how they thought Biden was doing. And these people, they’re suffering because of the inflation and stuff. So all of that really hurts exactly what you’re saying.
Batya Ungar-Sargon: Totally. And I’m so glad you brought up that up about meat packing because the left will often bring up jobs that have been degraded over the last 30, 40 years as evidence that we need illegal immigrants because Americans wouldn’t want to do these jobs, right? Like, that’s their favorite narrative. And it’s like, well, they wouldn’t want to do them now because they don’t pay a living wage and the conditions are extremely dangerous. But that didn’t used to be the case, right? Like that is that it’s a chicken and an egg. With illegal immigration, you bring in millions and millions of migrants to compete with Americans for these jobs. That actually downgrades the wages that they pay because it increases the supply of labor. Like, this is the most obvious, like supply and demand 101, you know, and it’s like they’re in totally on both sides, left and the right. They’re in total denial about this. And you know that the more people you bring in, the less those jobs are going to pay.
On the legacy media’s support for the Palestinians
Batya Ungar-Sargon: It’s so insane. Like, the New York Times just cannot quit Hamas. And you would think after the first time that Hamas made them look insane. Insane and stupid, the second time they made them look stupid the third time that they would have some mechanism in place for not simply regurgitating what like these terrorist rapists are telling them is true. But no, no, they have to repeat, like, there’s something in them that cannot help but give Hamas the benefit of the doubt. These mass raping, child dismembering murderers. I mean, it’s. It’s totally insane. But the reason for it is actually not about Israel and it’s not about Jews. It’s a much bigger problem. The anti semitism we’re seeing on the left and on the university campuses and the publications, which I don’t know if you’ve been reading the New York Times recently, but they are so totally on the side of these anti-Semitic protesters on college campuses.
Like, they’re weeping for them. It’s so gross. But it’s actually a symptom of a much bigger problem. They hate Israel because they hate America, and they hate the Jews because they see us as an extension of everything that makes America great, which they also hate. This is not uniquely about us. Although, of course, like, everybody, you know, hating Jews has its own unique flavor. But, you know, like, this is much, I think this is, at this point, much more extreme than things we’ve seen in other contexts, but it’s not much more extreme than the BLM protests. You know, then the chance they were chanting against the police and against white people during the BLM protests. Right. This is part of a much larger ideology that has taken the difference between right versus wrong upon which every civilized society is founded on. Forget. Forget it. You’re Christian, I’m Jewish. Like, obviously, like, we believe that we, you know, we brought these values into this world, and we could not imagine living without that as our guiding principle. But put aside religion. I mean, you cannot have a civilized society without the distinction between right versus wrong.
The left does not believe in that. They have replaced right versus wrong with powerful versus powerless, oppressor versus oppressed. And they believe that whoever is the oppressor in their model is inherently evil to their DNA and irredeemable. And whoever they deem to be the oppressed is inherently virtuous. Whatever they do, that is the virtuous thing to do. To do it is their law of nature. It’s like the way I believe if I drop this pen, it will fall. They believe that if you have less power, according to their schema, you are virtuous, and everything you do is correct. And that includes Hamas. So to them, because Hamas is in a fight with Israel and Israel has more power, therefore they have to side with Hamas. It is really that simple. And that’s what we’re seeing on the university campuses.
Watch the entire video below.
It was a privilege to speak with Batya Ungar-Sargon.
** Don’t forget to purchase her new book – “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women.”
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This week, as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Home Office led by James Cleverly started detaining illegal migrants to deport to Rwanda camps, many said that timing of the Tories’ launching of the large enforcement operations was meant to interfere with Thursday’s (2) Local Council, Mayoral elections.
One is hard-pressed to deny the validity of the Labor opposition argument, but if that was indeed the case, it certainly did not work out as intended.
As the results roll in, the Conservative Party seems set to have suffered its biggest electoral defeat in the last 40 years.
Daily News reported:
“Rishi Sunak is facing mounting Tory unrest today after a disastrous election night saw his party put to the sword in the Blackpool South by-election – and suffering a bloodbath on councils. The PM is hunkering down for a grim day as results continue to flow in, with experts warning the Conservatives are on track for their worst showing in 40 years.“
In Blackpool South by-election, Chris Webb secured a massive win to become the newest MP in the Commons. That was the seventh parliamentary seat defeat by the Tories since Sunak became PM in 2022.
Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer has never looked so poised to become the new Prime Minister.
In fact, Tories could be on track to lose 500 councilor seats, and critics are already stepping up calls for Sunak to be ousted from Tory leadership.
Starmer demanded that Sunak call a general election.
“The Labour leader said: ‘This seismic win in Blackpool South is the most important result today. This is the one contest where voters had the chance to send a message to Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives directly, and that message is an overwhelming vote for change. The swing towards the Labour Party in Blackpool South is truly historic and shows that we are firmly back in the service of working people. He added: The message to Rishi Sunak is clear. It’s time for change, it’s time for a general election’.”
Conservatives also endured hard defeats in local elections across the country.
“In his victory speech, [Blackpool mayor-elect] Webb said: ‘People no longer trust the Conservatives. Prime Minister: do the decent thing, admit you’ve failed and call a general election.’
The Blackpool South contest was prompted by the resignation of former Tory MP Scott Benton from the House of Commons after he was caught up in a lobbying sting.”
Polling guru Sir John Curtice told BBC Radio 4’s: “Tories could be on course to lose 500 councillors in ‘one of the worst, if not the worst’ performances by the party in 40 years. ‘So far they are basically losing a half of the [local council] seats they are trying to defend. If that continues they may end up losing 500 or so seats, which is the thing they were meant to avoid’.”
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party also beat the Tories in 16 out of the 25 seats being contests on Sunderland council.
“Veteran Tory aide Tim Montgomerie, who has been highly critical of Mr Sunak, told the BBC: ‘Personally I think the results are so bad… I just don’t think he is connected with the voters. I think he should go’.”
The Conservative rebels will reportedly use this catastrophic results to mount an effort to oust Rishi Sunak from ‘Downing Street No10’ in the coming days.
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A large group of illegal aliens docked a boat in Newport Beach, California and ran into a nearby neighborhood.
Newport Beach is an affluent, conservative enclave in Orange County, California.
The two dozen illegal aliens tried to hide their faces as they fled into a nearby neighborhood with multimillion-dollar homes.
WATCH:
WATCH: Approximately two dozen migrants were caught on film unloading off a boat in NEWPORT BEACH Thursday morning on the tip of the Balboa Peninsula and fleeing into the neighborhood.
Until we fix our broken immigration laws, every town in Orange County is a border town. pic.twitter.com/0ITXveFNSk
— OCLiberator (@OCLiberator) May 2, 2024
It is unclear exactly when the video was taken, however, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reached out to Newport Beach Mayor Will O’Neill.
Mayor O’Neill told Bill Melugin that he is aware of the video and in touch with the Orange County Sheriff about it.
Wow. Video shows a large group of suspected illegal aliens docking a boat at the peninsula in Newport Beach, then disembarking and fleeing into a nearby neighborhood. Newport Beach mayor @RealWillONeill says he’s aware and in touch with the OC Sheriff about it. https://t.co/pOqbbYm359
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 2, 2024
This isn’t the first time a boat full of illegals has come to a California shore.
In December a boat filled with illegal aliens landed on the beach in Malibu, California near the homes of famous Hollywood stars.
The video shows a group of illegals getting off a boat on shore this past Thursday. Approximately 25 people were on the boat which was abandoned afterwards.
Bill Melugin said in his report that these kinds of tactics are common in Europe but would not be common to a location like Malibu because of its distance to the southern border. It is unclear if any of the illegals were taken into custody.
Watch:
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Here is some exciting news!
“FLYNN” the NUMBER ONE best-selling movie biography of American hero General Michael Flynn is now availably on Amazon.
Please share with your friends and family.#flynnmovie pic.twitter.com/IgxUXZa7wh
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) May 1, 2024
The film “FLYNN” travels through his remarkable career, beginning with his impressive rise through the ranks of the United States Military. As a highly respected intelligence officer and a three-star general, General Flynn’s career was marked by his dedication to his country and his exceptional leadership skills.
But Flynn’s determination to expose corruption and deliver the truth to Americans led to his persecution.
General Flynn was on with Steve Bannon on The War Room on Thursday to discuss the film.
Gen. Flynn told Breitbart News recently that the Deep State is at war with “America and the American people.”
“Really, it’s a story of survival. And it’s a story of hope,” he said, explaining that the story is largely about how one responds to the bad things that happen to them. Further, Flynn said he exposes things in the film that he has “never talked about.”
When asked why the Deep State chose to go after him, Flynn noted that “they’re not just at war with Donald Trump.”
“They’re at war with America and the American people. So I want to sort of emphasize that, you know, ‘Why me?’ And I do describe this in the film because you don’t get to leading one of the largest intel agencies in the world, which I did, you don’t get to being the national security adviser, chosen by a duly-elected president of the United States of America, which I was, I mean, you know, without having your act together, and then, of course, I served five years in combat overseas against foreign enemies,” Flynn said. “The biggest enemies that I faced was right here at home.”
However, the heart of this story lies in the tumultuous period following his appointment as the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. The documentary exposes the intricate web of political intrigue and the severe persecution General Flynn faced after exposing deep-seated corruption within the corridors of power. It provides an insider’s view of the challenges and controversies that surrounded General Flynn during this critical period of American politics.
Through a series of in-depth interviews with General Flynn, his family, colleagues, legal experts, political commentators, and high-profile figures, including Tucker Carlson-Internationally recognized journalist, Devin Nunes-Former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and CEO of Truth Social, and Lee Smith-bestselling author, this film paints a comprehensive picture of the man behind the headlines.
General Flynn adds,
In 2011, I was promoted to Lieutenant General and assigned as Assistant Director of National Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 2012, President Barack Obama nominated me to be the 18th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. I simultaneously became commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and Chair of the Military Intelligence Board.
I have dedicated my life to serving the United States and its military for over 33 years. Upon my retirement in 2014, I went on to serve in a variety of business, educational, and non-profit roles. In 2016, I continued to serve in public life as an advisor to five presidential candidates as a national security and foreign policy expert and subsequently was appointed and served as the National Security Advisor to the 45th President of the United States of America.
My story does not simply involve one man or one family. My persecution uncovers a deeper attack on the freedoms promised to all Americans in the Constitution of the United States. My journey is a baseline to understanding much of the government corruption that has infiltrated our public institutions and landed us where we are today.
Battles fought are never won by individuals. The spirit, courage, and hope of Americans formed this nation and must continue to lead through 2024. It’s time for all of us to deliver the truth, no matter the cost.
Watch:
I’ve been called many things over the years. Soldier. Defendant. Visionary. Traitor. Patriot.
To those in the DC establishment and the left I am a Threat.
It’s time I tell my story.
Introducing the official trailer for #FlynnMovie. We are so much more than the names they call… pic.twitter.com/8v0YmMtkWr
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) March 25, 2024
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“It’s a party, it’s a party, it’s a party” – Waka Flocka Flame, Grove St. Party
The pro-Trump New Gen 47 PAC has announced exclusively to The Gateway Pundit that rapper Waka Flocka Flame will hold a performance at their launch event in Miami, Florida on June 14, which also coincides with President Trump’s birthday and Flag Day in the United States.
The June 14 concert will be held at the NoMi Village in North Miami.
Waka Flocka Flame is an Atlanta-based rapper who, according to Genius, “became a mainstream artist with the release of his hit club-bangers “O Let’s Do It”, “Hard in da Paint”, and “No Hands” featuring Wale and Roscoe Dash, with the latter peaking at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. All were singles included on his debut studio album Flockaveli, released on October 5th, 2010. His second studio album Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family was released in 2012 and was preceded by the lead single “Round of Applause” featuring now renowned rapper Drake. His ruthless style of rap governed the genre to how it is today, along with T.I., Jeezy and Gucci Mane.”
Per XXL:
Coming up in the ATL under the musical wing of Gucci Mane and 1017 Brick Squad, Flocka made a name for himself for helping to popularize Southern crunk with consistent party anthems like 2009’s “O Let’s Do It.” Waka thought of the name for his debut as a spin on 2pac’s final album, Makaveli – The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. The young ad-libber took the party worldwide with hits off Flockaveli like “Hard in Da Paint,” “Grove St. Party” and his highest charting single to date, “No Hands,” which peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went on to be certified three times platinum.
His hit song “No Hands” ft. Roscoe Dash & Wale was also nominated for BET’s Best Collaboration Award, alongside “Look at Me Now” by Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes, “What’s My Name” by Rhianna ft. Drake, and “All of the Lights” by Kanye West ft. Rihanna, in 2011.
Waka Flocka, in a 2020 Instagram comment, has signaled that he believes President Trump is a better President than Obama.
The “Hard in Da Paint” rapper’s team told The Gateway Pundit, “Let’s be Frank, the president upon arrival shook things up, said things and made comments that were out of the box, out of the ordinary, and quite frankly surprising to most.” They continued, “However, this is exactly what made him unique and worthy of leading this country. Waka is one of many who may have questioned the approach, but that line of questioning is what led him to such stern support today.”
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, New Gen 47 PAC, founded by LJ Fino, President of First Class Records, and PR consultant Alex Fahmy, has big plans to hold concerts and music events with famous musicians to rally low-propensity, young, and minority voters for Donald Trump and other conservatives in November. It can be recalled that LJ Fino had a hand in producing hit #1 songs, such as “Justice for All” featuring Donald Trump and the J6 Choir and Kari Lake’s “81 Million Votes my Ass,” as Mailman Media’s Head of Recorded Music Operations. Fino’s First Class Records label has also produced music by Lara Trump.
You can support New Gen 47’s mission to turn out otherwise Democratic voters for President Trump here!
You can also follow New Gen 47 on Truth Social, X, and Instagram.
Watch the PAC's announcement video below:
Founder LJ Fino told The Gateway Pundit, "We're honored." He continued, "We've extended an invitation to the President, and we hope that he can attend."
When asked what effect the first concert in support of Trump by an A-list entertainer will have, Fino responded, "I think it's going to open the floodgates to other artists doing the same. We've seen a lot of artists come out and support President Trump verbally. But when they see the party and the fun that we have at New Gen 47 events, I think everyone's going to want to be a part of making history."
Fino added, "We're in talks with a lot of other recording artists," including other rappers and performers of various genres.
Previously, Fino cited President Trump's Music Modernization Act, "which helped songwriters, musicians, performers, and creators receive fair compensation for their work in the arts and changed copyright law to better reflect the digital era of music."
"Waka had mentioned to me that the Music Modernization Act really helped them out, and that was one of the things that opened his eyes up to Trump, specifically."
President Trump’s popularity within the black community continues to grow as racist Joe Biden is losing popularity among black voters. "we're going to ensure that his high polling numbers with minority groups turn into actual votes," said Fino.
Though the rapper was not always a fan of President Trump, Waka Flocka Flame last October came out with the message "TRUMP2024" on X and changed his profile picture to a photo of him standing with the President:
TRUMP2024
— Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlocka) October 16, 2023
#NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/eRf4HeBI6A
— Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlocka) October 17, 2023
That same month, he also led a "Trump 2024" chant at one of his concerts:
Waka's team further relayed to The Gateway Pundit, "I believe he’s [Trump] changed the minds of many, and Waka is an example of one. Once disliked and questioned, but now admired, revered, and respected by those who once thought differently. As time persists, a lot of stories will come out about 'he said, she said.' The reality is what’s being said now."
Waka isn't the only hip-hop star to come out in support of Trump. Rappers like Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Meek Mill, Chief Keef, Waka Flocka Flame, Lil Pump, and others have expressed frustration with the Biden Regime, signaling that they will support President Trump in 2024.
Kodak Black, one of the top rap stars in the world today, endorsed Donald Trump for President in 2024, saying, “We need Donald Trump in office, forever!”
It can be recalled that Lil Wayne also endorsed Trump for President in 2020, and with the way things are going in Biden’s America, he’s likely not changed his mind!
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates and more details, which will be announced soon!
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A great deal so far has been written about how President Trump will dramatically overhaul and scale back the administrative state when he becomes President again in November. Such a move, if successful, would restore a great deal of legitimacy to democratic lawmakers, particularly in Congress – and the President himself – who will be less hamstrung by the subversive ideologies and agendas of career Washington bureaucrats.
Of equal importance, though less talked about, is how a next Trump administration might restore integrity and legitimacy back to the fourth estate, legacy and corporate media institutions, which have long ago abandoned any pretext to impartiality. As most Americans know readily well, legacy media does not even attempt to pretend to be unbiased, fair, or neutral: instead, outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, and even the Wall Street Journal, simply reflexively parrot the anti-Trump, anti-America First talking points of their overlords in the Democratic Party, intelligence agencies, and military industrial complex.
Yet the legitimacy of the legacy media, and the “newspapers of record” I listed, are at historic lows. Many Americans – conservatives, especially – are turning away from these legacy outlets in droves, for alternative channels in the decentralized media space. Part of that has to do with revolutions and developments in technology in recent years. However, an even greater part of it has to do with these outfits themselves self-immolating by their failure to report the truth accurately on a whole array of topics, from the illegitimacy and vote-rigging surrounding the 2020 election, to the false “insurrection” narrative put out by the House January 6th Committee, to the failure to report accurately on the weaponized system of justice and the show trials against President Trump, to the media’s collective failure to report at all on the Biden Regime’s border catastrophe.
As legacy newspapers have turned a blind eye to these critical stories in recent years, they have also doubled down on their censorship efforts – selecting against dissident stories that challenge their received worldview. They have also actively enabled the censorship of stories and the work of brave investigative journalists, like James O’Keefe, Alex Jones, and Laura Loomer, whose careers are dedicated to exposing the corruption at the heart of Washington’s Swamp, which is enabled and abetted by both party establishments.
President Trump has proven himself to be more than just an ordinary politician. He is a visionary, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success in both public and private life. His latest endeavor, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp, which recently went public through its merger with DWAC, resulting in a multibillion-dollar windfall, is testimony to his visionary eye. The possibilities of what he can do with this latest media project are virtually endless – at his disposal is the opportunity to fundamentally remake the entire media ecosystem, top down, in the image and likeness of MAGA.
One way he might execute this vision is by purchasing one, if not all three of the newspapers of record. At one point in American history, each one of these three papers — the NY Times, Washington Post, and WSJ — were considered authorities for the topics they covered and quality of their editorial commentary. Not anymore. Nowadays, their authority has been deeply undermined by the brazen Leftist (or, at a bare minimum, RINO) propaganda they each parrot daily, and the mediocrity of their opinion pieces and reporting generally.
Journalistic standards have been reduced, if not collapsed, across the board, to accommodate the unthinking, brainwashed hivemind that increasingly characterizes the average Democratic voter. Yet, these newspapers retain their status as “authorities” for most nightly and cable news programs, which still command (to an albeit waning degree) a dominant perch atop the media ecosystem broadly speaking.
The headlines produced by the three newspapers of record nevertheless provide talking points for pundits across cable and legacy media. They remain agenda setters, in other words, because of the demographics of those who consume the most news – which remains, overwhelmingly, older Americans who remain stubbornly attached to the medium they grew up with: television. As the saying goes, the medium is the message: so long as the demographics favor traditional news media, which they will for the foreseeable future, these “newspapers of record” will command predominance as dissimulators of public opinion, for better or worse. Even the commentary on social media sites like X mostly react to the coverage and focus of cable news and legacy newspaper outfits, and thus the secondhand effects of these “newspapers of record” ongoing hegemony remain palpable.
As we have observed, especially in recent years, news media has a powerful influence over politics. Stories shape the issues that lawmakers debate, the wars that get funded, and the crises that get addressed. It is because of the nonstop, wall-to-wall coverage of the conflicts in the Ukraine and Gaza that Washington responded with hundreds of billions of dollars of aid in recent months to those regions. The George Floyd riots of the summer of 2020, which resulted in billions of more damages than the (overwhelmingly peaceful) protest at the Capitol on January 6th, and yet, incredulously, resulted in zero indictments, was largely framed as a spiritual awakening of sorts by legacy news outlets.
The legacy media’s intentionally crafted narrative in response to the George Floyd riots, engineered by all three major legacy newspapers, precipitated a sea change in American life: new holidays were created, sports teams were renamed, election procedures were rewritten, and the policies that have catalyzed the rampant lawlessness most American cities face today were enacted, in large part because of how the New York Times framed “the mostly peaceful protestors” that fateful summer.
The example above illustrates how the news, more so than even Congress or the Presidency, affects policy in terms of the issues that regular Americans talk about, and the priorities that become the focus of lawmakers in Washington. College students, many of them neither Jewish nor Muslim, are rioting now over a conflict in a distant land thousands of miles away, while ignoring their own wide-open southern border, where millions of foreign invaders are flooding their homeland – doing permanent damage to our country’s cultural and economic fabric in the process. That is entirely due to the selective coverage and preferential treatment of legacy news media.
Meanwhile, America’s infrastructure is in shambles: major highways are teeming with potholes, bridges are collapsing, waterways are polluted, and yet nobody cares about these far more important matters because the news coverage is intended to distract, rather than edify, the public and divert attention from those matters which should be given the national spotlight, because they are of existential importance, and will determine the lasting fate — nay, survival — of the nation.
Donald Trump’s movement has operated like a bullhorn that cut through all the legacy media’s gaslighting, misinformation, and distractions like a knife – he, almost singlehandedly, has refocused our national agenda, for the first time in decades, to the policies and issues that would make this country better for all Americans.
Unfortunately, during his first administration, his noble efforts were partly derailed by a countervailing legacy media – driven by the NY Times, Washington Post, and to a lesser extent Wall Street Journal – which encumbered his noble vision, and introduced needless roadblocks into an agenda that most Americans would rally behind if not constantly gaslit and demonized every single day by the news. While Americans are beginning to wake up to that reality, it has been a long nine years in the works.
Americans deserve better from their newspapers of record – and President Trump, through his media company, now has a prime opportunity to restore the integrity of at least one, if not all three major newspapers, by combining them with his fledgling media company. What better way to jumpstart his second administration with the support of a friendly media apparatus, that will finally take its duty under the First Amendment seriously and give President Trump the fair and unbiased coverage he has long been denied, but so tremendously deserves, than to align the legacy media with Trump’s presidency.
By aligning the fourth estate with the second administration, the news will finally synchronize with the policies coming out of the White House – public opinion would shift, almost overnight, to a more favorable view of President Trump, because they finally will be dispelled of the constant negative coverage that severely hampered the 45th President from delivering a truly spectacular set of policies committed to improving the life of every single American citizen, regardless of race, color, or creed, on the first go-around.
Lastly, a Trump-managed New York Times or Washington Post, for instance, would thereby set the agenda for the rest of the legacy media, cable news included, setting the stage for a revival to these now failing institutions. This would also lessen the divisiveness and polarization in our country writ large, because these newspapers have arguably done more to drive a wedge between Americans, by raising the volume on identity politics, than any other organization or institution. Public trust, particularly in the media, is a necessary ingredient for good governance. A press, however, that does not respect the rights and liberties of Americans, chief of all their freedom to speak and debate without censorship, has abdicated its constitutional prerogative and thus demands to be revolutionized to restore its proper and original purpose.
Donald Trump has shown that he can restore legitimacy to government. Americans have therefore good reason to believe he can do the same to the legacy media. It would thus be a service to the press, the Constitution, and every American, if Truth Media expanded its guiding vision to acquire one or all three of the newspapers of record — representing a huge step in the direction of finally creating for the first time in generations, a fair and unbiased press.
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ANOTHER NATIONAL HUMILIATION – ANOTHER BIDEN FOREIGN POLICY DISASTER
In 2021, Joe Biden turned over the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to Taliban terrorists in September 2021.
Biden abandoned Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years in July by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ secret departure more than two hours after they left.
The Taliban quickly took control of Bagram Air Base, which is only 30 miles north of Kabul, on August 15th and released thousands of terrorists held at its prison. The Americans and Afghans left the Taliban military equipment, uniforms, rations and even sports drinks.
The ISIS suicide bomber who murdered 13 US servicemen and women and 169 Afghans was released by the Taliban from the Bagram Base prison in July.
ISIS suicide bomber Abdul Rehman was incarcerated at the Bagram prison for the past four years until he was set free by the Taliban terrorists.
Abdul Rehman then murdered 13 Americans and 173 Afghans in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul Airport.
In April we learned about Joe Biden’s most recent foreign policy disaster. The situation in Niger could top the Afghanistan withdrawal – if that is even possible.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) totally embarrassed the US Army Secretary and exposed Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy catastrophe during questioning this week in the US House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee hearing. Gaetz exposed the latest Biden foreign policy failure – this time in Niger, Africa.
US troops are trapped in the country allegedly without water and medicine at the time. The Army was likely hiding this to protect itself from the embarrassment. Deployed Americans were in limbo and unable to do their jobs and the Biden State Department was completely outmaneuvered once again.
It now appears the US has a trade offer from the military junta in Niger. The Russian-backed military junta in Niger will release the 1,000 US soldiers trapped at the US airbase in exchange for the keys to the $100 million American airbase in the country.
WAR: Niger’s Russian-backed military junta has agreed to release 1,000 US troops it was effectively holding hostage in exchange for Biden’s agreement to turn over our $100M airbase to Niger and Russian forces. The US media will barely mention this humiliation today. pic.twitter.com/UpmnsMMI2g
— @amuse (@amuse) April 21, 2024
How is it possible that the Biden regime could be so inept?
How is it possible that the US military could be so incompetent?
The US military will leave a $100 million airbase to the military junta.
The USA confirms it will pull out of Niger.
1000 soldiers will leave after having been told to get out by the new Russian-friendly military junta
They will leave the $110 mln airbase built a few years ago from which the US has been running its drone operations against AQ & ISIS pic.twitter.com/UwCLn79acW
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 20, 2024
Aljazeera repported:
In March the country suspended its military agreement with the US. The US military had some 650 personnel working in Niger in December, according to a White House report to Congress. The US military operates a major airbase in the Niger city of Agadez, some 920km (572 miles) from Niamey, using it for manned and unmanned surveillance flights and other operations.
A drone base known as Air Base 201 near Agadez was also built at a cost of more than $100m. Since 2018 the base has been used to target ISIL (ISIS) fighters and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate, in the Sahel region.
Niger leaders lead protest against the United States. Biden will evacuate the $100 million airbase in the country.
The Agadez airbase will be evacuated and left available to the Russia-backed military junta!
The Independent.ng reported:
Washington says it has firmed up plans with the West African nation’s military rulers to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops.
The US moved most of its forces based in Niger from Airport 101 near the capital of Niamey to Airport 201 in Agadez in September.
Aljazeera repported:
In March the country suspended its military agreement with the US. The US military had some 650 personnel working in Niger in December, according to a White House report to Congress. The US military operates a major airbase in the Niger city of Agadez, some 920km (572 miles) from Niamey, using it for manned and unmanned surveillance flights and other operations.
A drone base known as Air Base 201 near Agadez was also built at a cost of more than $100m. Since 2018 the base has been used to target ISIL (ISIS) fighters and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate, in the Sahel region.
On Thursday news broke that Russian troops have now entered the US airbase in the nation's capital, Niamey.
The Russians will cohabitate with the remaining Americans at the US Airbase 101.
This is another humiliation of US troops by Joe Biden.
Watch - this will be a fleeting story in the mainstream media.
The AP reported:
Russia has moved some troops onto an airbase in Niger where a small number of U.S. forces remain after most American troops left the base in the nation's capital, Niamey, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The arrival of Russian trainers in the West African country about three weeks ago came in the wake of Niger’s decision to order out all U.S. troops. The order dealt a blow to U.S. military operations in the Sahel, a vast region south of the Sahara desert where groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group operate.
The Pentagon has said the U.S. troops will depart but has not provided a precise timeline.
When Russian troops arrived last month, it wasn't clear where they were staying. A U.S. official said they are now located on the other side of the Niamey facility, known as Airbase 101, and are not near U.S. forces. The base is by the Diori Hamani International Airport, where other international forces — such as the Germans and Italians — also reside.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss troop movements. It's not clear exactly how many U.S. troops remain at the Niamey base.
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) is at the center of a controversy following a report from The Guardian about her admission in an upcoming book that she shot and killed her family’s 14-month-old hunting dog, Cricket, and a goat after a series of aggressive incidents.
The book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,” paints a stark picture of the hard choices Noem has faced in her personal life and political career.
In the book, Governor Noem describes a troubling incident where Cricket, a wirehair pointer, displayed uncontrollable behavior during a hunting trip, leading to the dog attacking chickens and attempting to bite Noem.
Excerpt from The Guardian report:
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
[…]
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.
Noem responded to The Guardian report Friday morning, “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years. If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping, preorder “No Going Back.””
The Governor defended her actions again on FOX News with Sean Hannity, emphasizing the necessity of making tough decisions on a farm.
“You know how the fake news works,” Noem told Hannity.
“They leave out some or most of the facts of a story. They put the worst spin on it, and that’s what’s happened in this case. I hope people really do buy this book and they find out the truth of this story, because the truth of this story is that this was a working dog and it was not a puppy.
“It was a dog that was extremely dangerous. It had come to us from a family who had found her way too aggressive. We were her second chance, and the day she was put down was the day that she massacred livestock that were part of our neighbors. She attacked me. And it was a hard decision.
“And the reason it’s in the book is because this book is filled with tough, challenging decisions that I’ve had to make throughout my life. And I hope that people understand from this that what the point of this story is is that most politicians, they will run from the truth. They will shy away and hide from making tough decisions. I don’t do either of those. I tell the truth, and I make tough decisions,” Noem said.
Don’t believe the #fakenews media’s twisted spin. I had a choice between the safety of my children and an animal who had a history of attacking people & killing livestock.
I chose my kids. pic.twitter.com/ZTtN7MpQvf
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) May 2, 2024
The majority of the public response is critical of Noem for her actions.
Every time you talk about this I get more infuriated. Stop pretending this puppy deserved to be executed. I rescue abused, starved, and abandoned dogs that are 100 times harder to deal with. pic.twitter.com/eVYhYIipgT
— Catturd
You can’t blame the media for [checks notes] reading WHAT YOU WROTE.
You killed a puppy, then bragged about killing a puppy because you thought you’d score political points with puppy killers, and now that it’s going bad you’re trying to hide behind your kids.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 2, 2024
Oh wait you totally locked yourself in again — EXCELLENT, so you say Cricket had a HISTORY? Then you definitely didn’t fulfill your obligations beforehand. When you have a pet that is “in-training” and aggressive, YOU have a responsibility to contain that dog. You, FAILED.
— Wren (@wrens_dens) May 2, 2024
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Prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Thursday urged Judge Juan Merchan to slap former President Donald Trump with four contempt charges for comments Trump made about his trial on charges of falsifying business records.
Under a gag order issued by Merchan, Trump is barred from talking about the witnesses and jurors in the trial. Merchan fined Trump $9,000 earlier this week for violations of the order and mused about whether jail would need to be the answer to stop the violations.
On Thursday, a hearing took place concerning four other comments for which the prosecution wants Trump punished, according to CBS.
Two of the comments concerned Michael Cohen, who was Trump’s lawyer at the time of the 2016 payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and will be a witness. One comment concerned former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who testified last week. The fourth comment prosecutors cited was a remark about the jurors.
Prosecutor Christopher Conroy said Trump violated the order in commenting that Pecker was “very nice.”
“The defendant knows what he’s doing. He talks about the witness, says nice things, does it in front of cameras,” Conroy said. “The [question] he answered was about the witness who was testifying. It was deliberate and it was calculated.”
Attorney Todd Blanche, who was representing Trump, said the remark was a “very fair and neutral answer” to a question.
“When you have President Trump saying something completely neutral about the witness, that’s not a violation,” Blanche said. Merchan said he was “not terribly concerned” about the comment.
Blanche said Cohen has been “inviting and almost daring President Trump to respond to everything he has been saying” through “personal attacks, mocking him for being on trial and comments about his candidacy.
“This is not a man that needs protection from the gag order,” Blanche said.
Blanche also responded to a comment from Trump that the jury was “95% Democrats.”
The dig “absolutely, positively” did not violate the order because no single juror was cited, Blanche argued.
Merchan did not issue an order on Thursday.
As he left court, Trump vented his frustration with the trial.
“We’re seeing all of the crime that’s going on outside, and to be sitting in this courtroom is just ridiculous. It is election interference at the highest level that’s never been done before in our country. And I shouldn’t be campaigning right now,” Trump said, according to Fox News.
“He has me under an unconstitutional gag order. Nobody’s ever had that before. And we don’t like it, and it’s not fair. Other people are allowed to do whatever they want to us, and I’m not allowed as … the Republican Party nominee, and the one who’s leading Biden by a lot, I’m not allowed to talk,” Trump said,
“There’s never been an abuse like this before, this conflicted judge should get out of this case, he should not be having this case. He gives us nothing. It’s such a rigged court. So I’m not allowed to testify. Because of an unconstitutional gag order. We’re appealing the gag order,” Trump said, according to NBC.
Earlier, Trump shared his anger on Truth Social.
WE CANNOT LET THIS RADICAL LEFT, CORRUPT AND HIGHLY CONFLICTED NEW YORK DEMOCRAT JUDGE INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024 — THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. THE USA IS TRULY A NATION IN DECLINE! REMOVE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER,” Trump posted.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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A new poll from Kaplan Strategies shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden by 15 points in Michigan, a state that Biden won in 2020.
Is this poll an outlier? Other polls have shown Trump with an edge in Michigan, but not by this much.
Either way, this has got to strike fear in the hearts of Democrats.
RedState reported:
Race to the White House: Trump Is Trouncing Biden by 15-Points in This Key State That Went Blue in 2020
Six months ahead of the November election, former President Donald Trump is leading Democrat incumbent Joe Biden by a whopping 15 points in Michigan, a key swing state. According to a Kaplan Strategies survey, the former president polled 51 percent to 36 percent in the battleground state. The margin of error for the survey was plus/minus 3.5 percentage points.
The pollster reports Trump’s success is rooted in maintaining the stability of his favorability ratio, writing:
Key to Trump’s dominance in our poll has been his campaign’s ability to stabilize his favorable to unfavorable ratio to a degree better than Joe Biden has.
Abortion remains a major issue, with no consensus on how many weeks abortion should be legalized through, indicating that this issue is best served at the state level.
Other polls have also shown varying results for Michigan. An Emerson College/The Hill poll released earlier this week indicated Biden trailing Trump marginally in Michigan (44 percent to 45 percent), while a Bloomberg News and Morning Consult poll suggested Biden ahead of Trump (47 percent to 45 percent). However, Trump was polling ahead of Biden in six other key swing states, according to the latter poll, and was leasing in all the swing states in the Emerson poll.
This is pretty amazing if it’s accurate.
Kaplan had Michigan Trump +10 48/38 and Wisconsin +2 41/39 in late February.
Wisconsin now Trump +10 48/38. Trump's share jumped 7 points.
Michigan now Trump +15, 51/36 and Trump gained 3 share.
AZ and PA seem new. Kaplan's been doing a lot of GOP primary polling this cycle. https://t.co/0OpGuGp10d pic.twitter.com/uVAr3KHV8S
— Chris (@chriswithans) April 26, 2024
If Trump retakes Michigan in November, there will be a lot of gnashing of teeth on the left, that’s for sure.
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The country of Iran has apparently offered scholarships to any college protesters who have been expelled over their anti-Israel protests.
We should hope that at least some of these students take them up on the offer.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley had some fun with this, noting that it could represent a real opportunity for these students to learn something about the world.
Come for the Education, Stay for the Amputation: Iran Offers Free Scholarships to U.S. Students
Now this could truly be educational. Students protesting on our campuses have been offered free scholarships at Shiraz University in Fars. So, while Northwestern has reached a settlement with protesters to give scholarships to Palestinian students and positions to Palestinian faculty, U.S. protesters can now go to Iran for their education.
Mohammad Moazzeni, head of Shiraz University told media that “students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University and I think that other universities in Shiraz as well as Fars Province are also prepared [to provide the conditions].”
This could be the single most transformative educational experience of their lives. Of course, Iran is better known for floggings than free speech.
Iran is particularly prone to such contradictions like executing homosexuals while denying that there are any homosexuals in Iran or objecting to the treatment of protesters in the West while jailing, beating and killing protesters.
Warning: vegan meals are not available at Iranian protests. Instead, it has ordered the arrest and killing of writers and artists while holding such fun events as a cartoon competition on the Holocaust.
The students who are carrying around signs that say ‘queers for Palestine’ might be in for a rude awakening in Iran.
Feminist students might also get quite a wake up call.
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Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden released the final investigative report regarding the babies, two boys and two girls, on April 30.
Police were sent to the former home of Alexis Aldamir, 69, in November 2022 after her brother called 9-1-1 to report that they had seen the dead babies while cleaning out the house.
The district attorney’s office explained, “In all, four babies were discovered that day. All were frozen solid. All were found in shoe boxes wrapped in tin foil. Two were male and two were female.”
“All of the babies were full term, which means they were determined to be between 37 and 40 weeks of gestational age. All four had their umbilical cords attached and the two females had their placentas attached,” the report continued. “DNA tests concluded that the babies were full siblings.”
There is no test available to determine how long the babies were frozen. It also remains unknown if they were born alive.
“The autopsy found no signs of internal or external trauma and no evidence of obvious injuries. There were no signs of food, or milk, or formula inside the babies’ stomachs,” the DA’s office explained.
The medical examiner ruled the cause of death for all the babies to be “undetermined.”
Aldamir was located in a residential healthcare facility, and DNA testing confirmed that she was the mother.
However, the DA does not believe she is fit to stand trial. The father of the babies died in 2011.
“In late 2022, investigators visited the healthcare facility where Aldamir now lives. They questioned her about the babies found in her apartment. Throughout the interview Aldamir appeared confused and demonstrated a lack of understanding about where she was and who she was speaking to. As a result, she was unable to provide investigators with any significant information,” the press release explains. “To further assess Aldamir’s cognitive ability, investigators reviewed publicly available probate court records and spoke with a lawyer for Aldamir. The information obtained suggests strongly that Aldamir would be unlikely to stand trial.”
During the investigation, investigators found that the pair had one other baby who was given up for adoption.
“This investigation, which is one of the most complex, unusual and perplexing that this office has ever encountered, is now complete. While we have some answers, there are many elements of this case that will likely never be answered,” Hayden said.
“We will never know exactly where or when the four babies found in Alexis Aldamir’s apartment were born. We will never know if the four babies were born alive, and we will never know exactly what happened to them. We will never know how Alexis Aldamir concealed her pregnancies, or why she chose to do so,” he continued.
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A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing on a Long Island beach on Wednesday evening, causing some beachgoers to panic.
On Wednesday, a pilot of a Cessna 152 was forced to make an emergency landing on Cedar Beach in Suffolk County, New York, after his single-engine plane suffered engine failure.
The 60-year-old pilot was seen flying at a low level over the shoreline at Cedar Beach before landing the Cessna 152.
Video of the emergency landing shows the plane safely landing on the sand, but seconds later, the plane nosedives into the sand, causing the plane to flip.
The pilot of the plane, along with the passenger, were both uninjured from the incident.
One beachgoer was able to film the emergency landing on the beach.
WATCH:
Per ABC 7 News:
A pilot and a passenger walked away unscathed after their small plane made an emergency landing in Suffolk County.
The single-engine Cessna 152 landed on Cedar Beach in Mt. Sinai around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
The 60-year-old pilot reported that the plane had experienced engine failure before coming down on the beach.
Both the pilot and his passenger, a 59-year-old woman, were uninjured. No one on the beach was injured.
EMERGENCY LANDING: Plane lands safely on Cedar Beach in Mount Sinai after aircraft loses power during flight, Suffolk police say. https://t.co/ZQMwnBaWn6
— News12LI (@News12LI) May 2, 2024
This isn’t the first time the Cessna 152 plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a beach.
In 2016, Pilot Robert Keletii was forced to make an emergency landing at Sunken Meadow State Park after the plane suffered an engine failure shortly after taking off.
Keletii and a student he was instructing were both unharmed from the incident.
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A bunch of partiers on a boat in Florida were recently caught on camera dumping cans of garbage overboard, directly into the ocean. The trash wasn’t bagged, so as the boat speeded forward, the dumping caused a whole field of floating debris.
The good news is that these people were busted. No arrests were made in connection to the garbage dumping, but they got lots of hours of community service.
You have to wonder what these people were thinking.
FOX News reports:
Boozy Boca Bash partiers dump heaps of garbage into Atlantic as over a dozen arrested in annual aquatic rave
Boca Bashers put on a disgusting show when they dumped bins of trash off a boat after a wild, boozy weekend.
The co-eds raced into the Atlantic Ocean from Lake Boca, through south Florida’s iconic Boca Raton Inlet, where a YouTuber caught them on camera dumping full drums of empty bottles and garbage into the water.
The viral video captured the trail of floating debris after the party seekers zoomed off in their boat. An overhead drone pointed at the front of the boat recorded them waving and laughing.
“It just really infuriates you to see someone trash the ocean like that,” a local boater, Rodrigo Samsing, told Fox affiliate WSVN after seeing the video. “You know, nobody else on the boat tried to stop them. Everybody was just celebrating.”
Boca Bash isn’t connected to the city of Boca Raton. Because it’s on the water, it falls under the jurisdiction of the state. In this case, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is the lead agency.
Watch the video below:
Why tf would anyone do this??
THE GOOD NEWS: They were all busted. Each of them were find and sentenced to 1,000 hours of SUPERVISED community service with an environmental nonprofit.
I’d work them to death down to THE SECOND. pic.twitter.com/7dDwleV5SE
— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) April 30, 2024
Such blatant disrespect for the environment.
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Joe Biden Thursday evening crashed Dr. Jill’s White House dinner party honoring teachers.
“Tonight we celebrate you because teaching isn’t just a job, it’s a calling. And all of you were called to this profession for a reason,” Dr. Jill said. “You believe that a better world is possible and you make that world real.”
After returning from North Carolina, Biden shuffled into the East Room of the White House in a surprise appearance, took the microphone, and lied about being a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
“By the way, I actually taught for a number of years in law school and then I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,” Biden said.
This is one of Biden’s favorite lies (he has many).
Jill Biden nodded in agreement as Joe Biden lied about being a professor.
WATCH:
BIDEN: “I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.”
No matter how many times Biden says that, it still isn’t true. He was paid $1 million, but he never taught a single class. pic.twitter.com/rBrwrZPSsJ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024
Of course, none of this ever happened.
Joe Biden is a legend in his own mind.
Joe Biden was paid $1 million by UPenn but he never taught a single class.
Joe Biden is a corrupt politician and a pathological liar.
Biden was never a “professor” or teacher after serving as Vice President in 2017.
Biden was paid $1 million to do nothing, as the Daily Caller noted:
When the Daily Caller asked whether Biden had in fact taught any courses since being hired, UPenn Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen did not list any, saying his work was instead based in Washington.
Biden was paid to give a few speeches (typical career politician/DC grifter) but he never taught a class.
Biden has repeated this lie over and over again and the mainstream media never calls him out for his brazen lies.
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Joe Rogan recently had Tulsi Gabbard on his podcast and part of their discussion was about the madness we are seeing on college campuses today.
Rogan pointed out that many colleges and universities have become little more than progressive indoctrination centers and referred to them as ‘cult camps.’
He also pointed out that the ideology these students are getting from these schools is spreading out and infiltrating nearly every aspect of our lives.
Real Clear Politics provides a transcript:
JOE ROGAN: With the open borders, you have all these people funneling into the country and then you have an erosion of confidence in our entire system because people are very aware of that. The more people are let out of jail after committing violent crimes, the more people who are aware of that. If you look at the whole picture that is in play now, particularly with the open borders and giving people plane tickets and flying them to all these different cities.
If I was going to try to destroy the country, that’s how I would do it. If I was going to try to destroy the country, I would radicalize the kids, give them the stupidest ideas, and run them in their head. Boys can be girls. Girls can be boys. Boys can compete against girls in sports if they think they are a girl. “Queers for Palestine.” Death to the Jews. Yell it out, unironically on campuses.
Have the presidents of those colleges and universities defend it, which was wild, with cameras on them!…
It shows how they live in a bubble and don’t interact with the real world, and when they did thew shock was probably horrifying to realize how most people feel about what they said. “It’s not harassment unless it’s actionable?” Like, what are you saying? You’re saying you have to kill Jews and then it is harassment? Isn’t that a little late?…
I think we are sending our kids to cult camps. They get indoctrinated into this… That’s supposed to be Harvard? That’s supposed to be the smartest people amongst us?
Watch the video below:
NEW: Joe Rogan says if he wanted to destroy America, he would open the border, indoctrinate children into woke ideologies on college campuses, and promote radical gender ideologies.
"With the open borders and giving these people plane tickets and flying them to all these… pic.twitter.com/haEKp22bsg
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) May 1, 2024
The campus protests did one potentially good thing. They woke up the public to what’s actually being taught at these schools.
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In a unanimous ruling, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Maricopa County Superior Court and Arizona Court of Appeals wrongfully sanctioned the Arizona Republican party in awarding attorney fees against them over a lawsuit challenging Maricopa County’s post-election hand-count audit procedures.
“We hold that the attorney fees award was improper because Petitioners’ claim was not groundless, thus obviating any need to determine whether the claim was made in the absence of good faith,” Justice John Lopez writes in the court’s opinion.
“During times of social and political contention and strife, we must be mindful that our courts provide a means of resolving such conflicts when issues are legitimately presented. By sanctioning parties and their lawyers for bringing debatable, long-shot complaints, courts risk chilling legal advocacy and citizens raising ‘questions’ under the guise of defending the rule of law. Even if done inadvertently and with the best of intentions, such sanctions present a real and present danger to the rule of law,” the ruling also states.
The Arizona Mirror reports,
The lawsuit was filed more than a week after the 2020 election and argued that the state law requiring limited post-election hand-count audits conflicted with the state’s Elections Procedures Manual, making it illegal to select ballots for the audit from voting centers instead of by precinct.
State law requires each county to hand count 1% of all early ballots, as well as the ballots from 2% of precincts after each election. The Election Procedures Manual issued by the secretary of state permits counties that use voting centers instead of precincts, a list that includes Maricopa County, to hand count the ballots from 2% of voting centers instead.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah dismantled the legal arguments that the AZGOP and its attorneys made. In addition to ignoring the law and the legislature’s intent when allowing for voting centers, Hannah said the Republican Party sought a remedy that the law doesn’t allow and waited far too long to file its suit.
The judge also said the party demonstrated it was not motivated by sincerely challenging a public policy, but instead by making a political case and sowing distrust about Arizona’s elections.
However, the Supreme Court opines, “We cannot countenance the trial court’s rigid delineation between the motives underlying election litigation— ‘political’ reasons, which invite sanction under § 12-349, and ‘legal or factual’ justifications, which are permissible.” It continues, “The desire to vindicate a legal right—even if in the election context and animated exclusively by political motives—is not relevant, much less per se sanctionable. Courts should focus on the legal and factual merits of a claim and the party’s and attorney’s conduct in the course of the litigation.”
“The trial court emphasized in its ruling that Petitioners’ gravest transgression and ‘direct evidence of bad faith’ was ‘[u]ndercutting the election’s legitimacy by raising “questions,”‘ which it characterized as ‘a threat to the rule of law posing as an expression of concern.’ But ‘raising questions’ by petitioning our courts to clarify the meaning and application of our laws and noting the potential consequences of the failure to do so—particularly in the context of our elections—is never a threat to the rule of law, even if the claims are charitably characterized as ‘long shots.’”
They further slam the trial court, writing, “the trial court dismissively described Petitioners’ interpretation of § 16-602(B) as ‘barely colorable’ despite its avowed disinterest in the merits and lack of substantive analysis.”
John Hannah is the same partisan Judge who, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, ordered the Cyber Ninjas firm to pay a $50K per day fine until it turns over records from their review of the Maricopa County forensic audit to the far-left Arizona Republic propaganda rag.
The Arizona GOP released a statement earlier celebrating the ruling:
We are pleased with the Supreme Court of Arizona's decision to reverse and vacate the attorney fees awards previously levied against us. This ruling reaffirms the fundamental legal principle that raising questions about the interpretation and application of election laws is a legitimate use of the judicial system, not a groundless or bad faith action. We remain committed to ensuring that election laws are followed precisely, upholding the integrity of our electoral process.
VICTORY IN COURT!
The Arizona Supreme Court defends our right to question and ensure the integrity of election laws. ️ pic.twitter.com/5aRSMFcKXj
— Republican Party of Arizona (@AZGOP) May 2, 2024
Per George Behizy:
BREAKING: The Arizona Supreme Court just issued a major defeat to lower court judges that threatened the state Republican Party with sanctions for bringing election challenges against Maricopa County
"But 'raising questions' by petitioning our courts to clarify the meaning and application of our laws and noting the potential consequences of failure to do so - particularly in the context of our elections - is never a threat to the rule of law, even if the claims are charitably characterized as 'long shots'."
AZ Sup Court: "Any suggestion that a party or attorney faces enhanced risk of sanction merely because they couple political motives with a long-short effort to vindicate a legal right in the election law context intolerably chills citizens and their attorneys precisely in an area where we can least afford to silence them."
BREAKING: The Arizona Supreme Court just issued a major defeat to lower court judges that threatened the state Republican Party with sanctions for bringing election challenges against Maricopa County
"But 'raising questions' by petitioning our courts to clarify the meaning and… pic.twitter.com/wpnQm4FapC
— George (@BehizyTweets) May 2, 2024
Read the full opinion below:
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Organizers have launched a second recall effort against RINO Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, citing his ties to the Chinese Communist Party and opposition to measures that will secure elections in Wisconsin.
Robin Vos did nothing about the massive 2020 election fraud as Speaker of The Assembly, and he has fought vigorously to keep corrupt Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Administrator Meagan Wolfe in office. “We want to get Megan Wolfe out now” before she can fudge with the 2024 General Election, an organizer of the recall previously told The Gateway Pundit.
Recall that On November 4th, 2021, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling recommended charges against five members of the WEC for committing voter fraud in Wisconsin nursing homes by casting votes for incapacitated or mentally incompetent patients, who otherwise wouldn’t have voted lawfully while Special Voting Deputies, tasked with helping nursing home patients vote, were deemed nonessential under the COVID guidelines and barred from nursing homes to do the job of securing voting rights and preventing elder abuse. Meanwhile, other “essential workers” like food delivery and different first-world service providers were allowed into the buildings.
According to Schmaling, WEC officials knew that they “needed the flexibility to violate the law” and that they “instruct[ed] county clerks to break the law” over a recorded Zoom call.
Vos previously “violated Assembly rules” by delaying a Senate-approved resolution to impeach Megan Wolfe, then sent the resolution to a committee where he knew it would never see a vote on the floor, according to one Wisconsin State Legislator who asked to remain anonymous. Before this, Vos refused to pursue Wolfe’s impeachment and then folded while giving the appearance that he was moving forward with impeachment to appease local media and constituents.
President Trump, in a recent interview, said Meagan Wolfe “should be gone” and slammed Robin Vos for “allowing her to be there.”
The efforts to oust Vos come after it was recently discovered that he sits on the Chinese Communist Party-tied State Legislative Leaders Foundation Board of Directors, which participates in “subnational legislative exchanges” to influence American State Legislators and further the CCP’s interests. Likely because of this, Vos has also “not moved on legislation to hold China accountable when he’s had multiple opportunities to do so,” the Legislator told The Gateway Pundit.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the Recall Vos Campaign’s effort to recall the embattled Speaker, which collected more than 10,000 signatures, far surpassing the necessary 7,000 signatures. However, “‘Robin ‘CCP’ Vos narrowly escaped” this recall effort after “[the] Wisconsin Election Commission threw out over 2,000 signatures without reason and also stated that more than 4,000 were out of the district,” said one of the organizers.
"The Recall Vos organization lacked the full infrastructure to combat the challenges, so we acquiesced and launched recall 2.0 with the Racine Recall Committee. This time around, Colonel Conrad Reynolds (USA ret) has been in charge from the beginning and has implemented procedures and processes to help ensure the recall 2.0 process goes smoothly from beginning to end," the organizers told The Gateway Pundit. "
The Racine Recall Committee is looking to submit the new signatures around the week of May 14th. The Racine Recall Committee would still utilize help from the community. Door knockers are still needed to finish out this phase of the recall. To volunteer, email racinerecall@gmail.com or visit racinerecall.org"
In a new development, State Representative Janel Brandtjen recently issued a press release highlighting Vos' affiliation with CCP-linked organizations and a 2020 warning from then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of China's infiltration of U.S. politicians on Monday.
"Despite such warnings, Speaker Vos participated in at least two trips under the sponsorship of CCP associates: a 2016 trip to Wuhan funded to the tune of almost $14,000 by the State Legislators Leadership Foundation (SLLF) and a 2023 trip to Copenhagen sponsored by the Energy Foundation China. While based in San Francisco, this nonprofit organization is recognized for its links to CCP initiatives, focusing on climate change discussions between the United States and China," said Brantjen.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also recently raised alarms over evidence suggesting that China is actively attempting to influence and potentially interfere with the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.
Recall that Vos previously kicked Brantjen out of the GOP caucus and the Assembly Elections Committee she chaired because of her efforts to get to the bottom of the stolen 2020 Election. Brantjen also slammed Vos late last year for his Assembly rule violations and likely "intent to delay" Meagan Wolfe's impeachment.
Full press release below:
Rep. Brandtjen Raises Concerns Over Speaker Robin Vos' Apparent Compromise with CCP Interests
For more information, contact: April 29, 2024 Rep. Brandtjen (414) 915-8425
Madison – State Representative Janel Brandtjen has issued the following statement in response to Speaker Vos’ compromise with CCP interests:
“Today, I wish to draw attention to the concerning ties between Speaker Robin Vos and organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This relationship not only raises serious questions about potential compromises but also poses a significant threat to our state’s legislative integrity and sovereignty.
In a crucial address in Madison in September 2020, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo highlighted the CCP's ambitions to sway American opinions towards Beijing's authoritarianism. Pompeo warned, ‘Know that when you are approached by a Chinese diplomat, it is likely not in the spirit of cooperation or friendship. If you’re offered a trip to China when the pandemic travel restrictions are lifted, you should ask who is paying for the trip and if that person is directly or indirectly linked to the Chinese Communist Party. These approaches may happen from Chinese nationals or Americans working with CCP-linked interests.’ He emphasized, ‘We watch the CCP campaigns targeting state-level officials and local interests. We’ve seen them at PTA meetings; they have been in full swing for years, and they’re increasing in intensity.’
Despite such warnings, Speaker Vos participated in at least two trips under the sponsorship of CCP associates: a 2016 trip to Wuhan funded to the tune of almost $14,000 by the State Legislators Leadership Foundation (SLLF) and a 2023 trip to Copenhagen sponsored by the Energy Foundation China. While based in San Francisco, this nonprofit organization is recognized for its links to CCP initiatives, focusing on climate change discussions between the United States and China.
Pompeo’s observation that the CCP's influence campaigns are ‘increasing in intensity’ and targeting state-level officials was further exemplified in October 2019. As President of the National Convention of State Legislators, Vos openly praised Li Xiaolin of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, stating, ‘Madame Li has traveled to more than 100 countries on the face of the planet advocating for her special relationship to make sure that people understand all of the things that China is doing to improve people around the world.’
The most alarming demonstration of potential compromise occurred in 2024 when Speaker Vos influenced the legislative process to obstruct AB269, a bill intended to restrict Chinese ownership of Wisconsin farmland. This decision poses a direct question about whose interests Speaker Vos truly represents.
It is imperative that we scrutinize these relationships and ensure our leaders are not unduly influenced by foreign interests contrary to American values.”
The organizers also released a public petition for supporters of the recall to sign.
Current signatories include,
Wisconsin voices:
• Mike Gableman - Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
• Joe Giganti - Host of Regular Joe Show
• Ken Sikora - Oconto County GOP Chairman
• Joel Bartel - Waupaca County GOP Chairman
• Chris Martinson - Executive committee of the Waupaca County Republican Party
• Octonto County GOP Committee
• Duane Wilson - Republican Candidate for Wisconsin 57th Assembly District
• United Constitutionalists of Oconto County
• Darwin Behnke - Vice-chair Oconto County GOP & Candidate for Wisconsin Assembly
District 4
National voices:
• General Michael Flynn ( USA Ret.)
• Mike Lindell - MyPillow CEO and election security advocate • Colonel Conrad Reynolds (USA Ret.)
• Colonel Wendy Rogers - AZ Senator (USAF Ret.)
• Mark Finchem - Election security advocate
If others want to add their name, they can reach out to racinerecall@gmail.com:
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Many have warned that the protests on college campuses have nefarious elements behind the scenes pushing their radical agenda.
Like many colleges in the country, Stanford University has been battling anti-Israel protests, including an encampment in the White Plaza area of its campus.
Officials expressed concern over a picture of a protestor on Stanford’s campus wearing a green headband, similar to what is worn by Hamas terrorists.
The image began circulating this week, prompting the University to forward the photo to the FBI.
The New York Post reports:
A photo of someone at the encampment wearing a green headband, a face covering and glasses eventually came to the attention of school administrators.
“We have received many expressions of concern about a photo circulating on social media of an individual on White Plaza who appeared to be wearing a green headband similar to those worn by members of Hamas,” the school said in a Wednesday statement. “We find this deeply disturbing, as Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the United States government. We have not been able to identify the individual but have forwarded the photo to the FBI.”
Adams has alleged that protests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) were infiltrated by “outside agitators” affiliated with “terrorist groups.”
In an interview with Vladimir Duthiers on CBS Morning, Adams detailed the city’s response to the chaotic scenes that unfolded at both institutions, where nearly 300 individuals were arrested Tuesday night.
“These were not spontaneous student movements but calculated disruptions by professional agitators,” Adams explained, noting that a significant portion of those arrested had no affiliations with either university.
Those cheering on the anti-Israel protests include Hamas leaders and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Western governments say the Resistance Front is terrorism. This comes at a time when people flew Hezbollah’s flag in a street in the US. The people of the world are supporting the Resistance Front because they are resisting & because they are against oppression. pic.twitter.com/8nvRDlh8nw
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) April 24, 2024
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President Trump filed an unsealed motion to dismiss Jack Smith’s classified documents case for vindictive and selective prosecution.
The motion was originally filed under seal in February. Judge Cannon authorized Trump to file an unsealed version of the motion to dismiss Jack Smith’s case.
Trump’s legal team in February filed several motions to dismiss Jack Smith’s classified documents case.
Judge Cannon previously denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the classified docs case on ‘unconstitutional vagueness’ of the Espionage Act, however, a third motion based on selective prosecution is still pending.
In his unsealed motion to dismiss, Trump highlighted how others such as James Comey, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Bill and Hillary Clinton all illegally possessed classified documents yet they were never prosecuted.
Trump’s lawyers argued that Joe Biden stored boxes of classified documents in his garage, Penn Biden Center and Chinatown…all locations remained accessible to people without security clearances. Biden was never charged for stealing SCIF-designated documents and storing them in dilapidated boxes in his garage.
President Trump’s lawyers argued that former President Bill Clinton stored classified tapes in his sock drawer yet he was never prosecuted.
Mike Pence disclosed to NARA that “a small number of documents bearing classified markings” were stored at his home in Indiana, yet he was never prosecuted.
Trump also slammed Hillary Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton and her colleagues deleted 31,830 emails and destroyed data on numerous electronic devices, including after a congressional preservation order,” Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche wrote referring to Hillary’s criminal email deletion and use of BleachBit to destroy emails under subpoena. Hillary also took a hammer to her BlackBerrys.
“None of these individuals faced a charge under the Espionage Act or was prosecuted for obstruction,” Blanche wrote in the 178-page motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution.
NEW: Per Judge Cannon's authorization, Trump just filed unsealed version of motion to dismiss on selective/vindictive prosecution.
Notes others caught with similar documents were never prosecuted incl Biden, Pence, both Clintons and Jim Comey. pic.twitter.com/IBFO2bEz9E
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) May 2, 2024
Cannon did hammer the double standard and selective prosecution of the Espionage Act.
“Arbitrary enforcement..is featuring in this case,” Cannon said.
Stay tuned for Judge Cannon’s decision on Trump’s pending motion to dismiss!
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Trump is on trial in NYC over an alleged $130,000 payment to Daniels to keep her quiet during the 2016 election — which he has denied.
On Thursday night, Avenatti tweeted, “Keith Davidson is lying. After I confronted her w/ her own text msgs, Daniels admitted to me in early 2019 that she & Davidson had extorted Trump in Oct. 2016 – it was a shakedown. This was one of the many reasons I fired her as a client in Feb. 2019.”
Mediaite reports:
Davidson testified in court on Thursday with his version of the events surrounding the supposed “hush money” payment Trump allegedly made to Daniels in an effort to keep her from speaking out about their alleged affair.
Davidson told prosecutor Joshua Steinglass that he worked out the “hush money” deal with Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen just days before the election in 2016, but claimed Trump never signed the paperwork.
According to Davidson, the paperwork included an “unenforceable” $1 million penalty for breaching the agreement.
Speaking to the New York Post from jail earlier this month, Avenatti said he is in contact with Trump’s legal team and was willing to speak out against his former client.
Avenatti is currently being held at Terminal Island, a minimum-security federal prison in Los Angeles, serving a 19-year sentence for a slate of federal crimes that include extortion, tax evasion, fraud, and embezzlement.
“I’d be more than happy to testify, I don’t know that I will be called to testify, but I have been in touch with Trump’s defense for the better part of year,” Avenatti said.
The Post reports that Avenatti would not provide any additional details about the discussion, but an unnamed source “close to Trump” confirmed that the discussions are taking place.
Avenatti used to be one of Trump’s loudest critics, but he has seemingly dramatically changed his position.
“There’s no question [the trial] is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he may be reelected,” Avenatti told the newspaper. “If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would not have been brought at this time, and for the government to attempt to bring this case and convict him in an effort to prevent tens of millions of people from voting for him, I think it’s just flat out wrong, and atrocious.”
“I’m really bothered by the fact that Trump, in my view, has been targeted. Four cases is just over the top and I think there’s a significant chance that this is going to all backfire and is going to propel him to the White House,” Avenatti added.
The former lawyer continued, “Depending on what happens, this could constitute pouring jet fuel on his campaign.”
“Stormy Daniels is going to say whatever she believes is going to assist Stormy Daniels and putting more money in her pocket,” Avenatti said. “If Stormy Daniels lips are moving, she’s lying for money.”
Avenatti explained that he feels like he and Trump have both been targeted by politically motivated prosecutions.
“I think that we were both targeted by the justice system,” Avenatti said. “There’s a lot of people on the left that were very concerned about my potential rise within the Democratic Party and my potential rise in Democratic politics. And the fact that I was not someone that was easily controlled.”
The imprisoned former lawyer also claimed he is not fishing for a pardon in case Trump wins a second term.
“I’m not saying any of this because I’m seeking a pardon,” Avenatti told The Post. “I wish I would have never met Stormy Daniels. I should have left her where I found her.”
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President Trump was warmly received by New York City’s finest as he delivered a special treat to them following a long day in court.
As Fox News reported, the 45th President spent most of the day cooped up inside a Manhattan courtroom to witness testimony and cross-examination regarding the bogus criminal charges against him. Corrupt Judge Juan Merchan also heard arguments from prosecutors and Trump’s defense team on whether Trump violated the unconstitutional gag order imposed upon him.
Media outlets captured footage of Trump hand-delivering pizzas and posing for photos alongside the firefighters. The visit lasted roughly 10 minutes, and Trump did not address the media afterward.
Look how thrilled the firefighters are to see a man taking time to honor them. Compare this to a so-called “president” who regularly spits on those who serve.
WATCH:
RIGHT NOW: President Trump delivers pizza to FDNY in New York! pic.twitter.com/Dv21aAPPV1
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 2, 2024
Fox News notes this was the same fire department Trump visited in 2021 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
In addition to the pizzas, Trump expressed his admiration for the firefighters by writing “FDNY “I LOVE YOU ALL — SPECIAL PEOPLE.”
President @realDonaldTrump signs to FDNY “I LOVE YOU ALL — SPECIAL PEOPLE” pic.twitter.com/PZ8AbTLdPb
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) May 2, 2024
Fire Department of New York (FDNY) spokesperson Jim Long told Politico that Trump wanted to thank the firefighters for their heroic work and that they were the absolute best. Long also said the Trump campaign asked to visit and paid for the pizza.
Trump called the visit “a true honor” on his Truth Social account.
A true honor to visit the NYFD this evening in Manhattan… pic.twitter.com/Dx9b7JiA1v
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 2, 2024
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A Florida man was arrested for a crime that could be mistaken for a headline in the Onion or the Babylon Bee.
As the Smoking Gun reported, 20-year-old Khanye Edrayieze Medley was arrested on Monday by Clearwater Police on a domestic battery charge. He allegedly got into a verbal altercation with his sister, who he lives with, that turned physical in a most unusual way.
The police affidavit shows that Medley grabbed a bag of chicken from his sister and began hurling pieces at her during an argument on Sunday. One piece of chicken hit her in the back and left debris on her shoulders.
Here is the affidavit:
The chicken Medley used in the attack was reportedly from Church’s Texas Chicken, which has a location close to their residence.
When questioned by police, Medley allegedly confessed to throwing two pieces of chicken at his sister.
When asked why he launched the bizarre attack, Medley reportedly replied he did it because “he had not eaten and did not want the piece of chicken the victim offered him, so he became upset.” He actually used the hunger defense as an excuse for his actions.
Yahoo News reports Medley was released from Pinellas County jail the next day on recognizance.
This is not Medley’s first run-in with the law or his first alleged assault on his sister. The Smoking Gun reveals that earlier this year; he was arrested for allegedly biting and strangling his sister, slamming a door on her arm, and striking her with a piece of “wooden decor.”
The State Attorney declined to press charges against Medley after Medley’s sister said she did not want him prosecuted.
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A video has emerged showing the moment a pro-Hamas agitator got more than he bargained for after attempting an awkward charge toward police officers during a protest at Portland State University.
As Fox News reported, protesters took over the student library (Millar Library) in downtown Portland on Monday and have stayed there since. Only now has the city finally started to take action to end the madness.
On Thursday, local Portland TV station KPTV captured footage of a small group of protesters carrying makeshift shields made out of trash cans streaming out of the library as the crowd cheered them on.
A police officer quickly warns the protesters that they will be placed under arrest. One agitator fails to heed the warning and is quickly overpowered by a cop and knocked to the ground.
After getting up, the protester is promptly apprehended by the police and dragged along the ground.
WATCH:
The best and brightest. pic.twitter.com/wOV6MWcxif
— J.R. Holmsted (@JHolmsted) May 2, 2024
Police released a statement saying they are working to clear the Millar Library and told Fox News that several arrests have been made.
“The Portland Police Bureau is actively collaborating with Portland State University to address the illegal activities at the university’s Millar Library,” the statement reads.
“After a group of protesters departed from a peaceful First Amendment gathering and unlawfully entered the campus building on Monday, the PPB has been working in partnership with city leaders, other municipal bureaus, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, and Portland State University to ensure a safe resolution.”
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt pledged this week that he expects felony charges to be filed against the pro-Hamas agitators. These will reportedly include burglary and felony criminal mischief, along with possible misdemeanor charges.
Given that this protest is occurring in one of the most liberal cities in the country, one should be skeptical of this promise, however. The agitators clearly have no fear of authority.
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Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to Wilmington, North Carolina to deliver remarks on his ‘Investing in America’ agenda.
Biden’s economy is a total dumpster fire. Americans are suffering because of persistent inflation, chronic unemployment/underemployment, soaring gas prices and high mortgage rates.
As usual, Biden’s speech was a total disaster. He slurred through his short remarks, lied about the economy and read the teleprompter instructions out loud.
“We cut the federal deficit!” Biden said as he falsely claimed his economic plan “is beginning to work.”
“We’ve created a record 15 million jobs,” Biden said.
This is a lie. The vast majority of the jobs were people going back to work after Democrats forcefully shut down businesses during the Covid pandemic. Furthermore, every job post-Covid has gone to foreign-born workers, including illegal aliens!
WATCH:
Biden brags his economic plan "is beginning to work," even with prices up 19.4% since he took office.
Then he claims he "created a record 15 million jobs," but leaves out the vast majority were simply jobs recovered from the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/A7pxcNNA90
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
Biden also read the teleprompter instructions out loud.
“…referred to as PFAS. P-dash-F-A-S-dash…” Biden said.
WATCH:
BIDEN: "…referred to as PFAS. P-dash-F-A-S-dash…" pic.twitter.com/pFXLs7v9Ba
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
After Biden wrapped up his remarks, he turned around and shouted, “Don’t jump!” before shuffling away.
81 million votes.
WATCH:
BIDEN (confused — again): "Don't jump!"
*shuffles off the stage* pic.twitter.com/wX3wqQkcSh
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024
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MI Senator Jim Runstead recently shared a stunning video where he warned about a bill that Democrats in the state just passed that he says will be “an explosion of election fraud,” won’t allow recounts, and will bar investigations into election fraud.
Maria Zeee discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faced intense scrutiny from Senator Josh Hawley during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday.
The hearing, intended to review the President’s fiscal year 2025 budget request for the Department of the Interior, quickly turned into a pointed interrogation over allegations of secret meetings and corruption within the department.
Deb Haaland from New Mexico became the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary after Joe Biden nominated her to lead the Interior Department.
On Thursday, Sen. Hawley questioned the Secretary about the department’s alleged meetings with undisclosed dark money groups, suggesting a hidden influence over department policies.
“Biden’s Interior department has *off the books* meeting with liberal dark money group funded by foreign billionaire, conceals it from the public, then does everything they want. In this case, canceling critical mining in the US. To benefit China,” Hawley wrote on X.
“In July of 2021, after you had come to office, members of the Wilderness Society, when they’re suing the department, write to your top deputy [former Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau] and ask for a meeting to keep and keep it off of his calendar,” Hawley revealed during the hearing.
“Here it is: July 14, 2021- Can we set up a meeting with these folks? July 19, 2021- They propose how they might calibrate this so it doesn’t look like they’re violating any of the court’s rules. And remarkably, it stays days completely off of everybody’s calendars.”
“We only know about it because FOIA requests were filed. And then, after they have these off-the-books meetings, their request is to cancel the mineral leasing rights in Minnesota in the superior national forest. This is a critical minerals mine. The society wants the mine shut down after they meet off the books. With your leadership, you do it. A few months later, you do it. You cancel the leases, and then you withdraw 225,000 acres of critical mining from production and leasing shortly after that.”
“Is it common practice at your department to meet with dark money groups off the books and conceal it from the public?” Hawley asked.
“Senator, thank you for the question. Of course, I can answer to… If you’re referring to our former Deputy Secretary, he’s no longer at the Department,” Haaland said.
Sen. Hawley: Who worked for you…
Sec. Haaland: He worked for the President. He was appointed by the President.
Sen. Hawley: He’s your Deputy Secretary. Are you the Secretary of the Department of Interior? I thought that’s why you were here.
Hawley probed deeper into the chain of command within the department, questioning Haaland’s control and responsibility. In a social media post, Hawley wrote, “Secretary Haaland apparently doesn’t know who’s in charge of the Interior Department. Hint: it’s supposed to be her.”
Haaland was struggling to answer simple questions.
Sen. Hawley: Are you the Secretary? Don’t look at her. Look at me. Are you the Secretary?
Sec. Haaland: I am.
Sen. Hawley: Do these people who are sitting here today answering most of your questions, do they work for you? Do they report for you? You’re not in charge?
Sec. Haaland: They work with me.
Sen. Hawley: They work with you? So you’re not in charge of the Department? Oh, my gosh. I thought you were in charge. I thought that’s why you were here.
Sec. Haaland: We work as a team…
Sen. Hawley: Oh, okay. So who’s in charge then?
Sec. Haaland: I provide the vision. I provide the overall direction…
Sen. Hawley: But you’re not in charge?
Sec. Haaland: It’s our mission…
Sen. Hawley: Do you take responsibility for what happens at the Department of the Interior?
Sec. Haaland: I take responsibility…
The senator also brought up Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire who “is forging a conservation legacy across the western United States and having an outsized influence on federal policies,” E&E News reported.
The news outlet added, “Hansjorg Wyss and his nonprofit, the Wyss Foundation, have so far donated more than $350 million to acquire land and buoy dozens of green groups molding lands policy in Washington, D.C., and Western communities.”
Sen. Hawley: Do you take full responsibility for what happens at the Department of the Interior? Good. Then why are your leadership meeting with dark money groups and concealing it from the public? Why are they doing it off the books? How many times has this happened?
Sec. Haaland: Senator, this is the first time hearing of this. I don’t… I… My Deputy Secretary is no longer there, and I can’t answer to what he did when he was there.
Sen. Hawley: What did they get out of it, do you suppose? What do you suppose Hansjörg Wyss got out of you canceling the leases after they asked you to- In an off-the-books reading.
Sec. Haaland: I don’t know who this individual…
Sen. Hawley: Oh, sure. I mean, you don’t know. You’re not in charge. You’re not responsible. We have a corruption problem in this government, Madam Secretary, and frankly, we have a corruption problem in your department.
Secretary Haaland apparently doesn’t know who’s in charge of the Interior Department. Hint: it’s supposed to be her pic.twitter.com/c1BSXtiViW
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 2, 2024
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On Wednesday morning, The Gateway Pundit reported on the heroic University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who protected a fallen American flag from a pro-Hamas mob despite a violent onslaught from the radicals.
The melee started after police confirmed approximately 30 anti-Israel demonstrators were detained for refusing to leave an encampment erected on campus, and Students for Justice in Palestine organized a walkout in protest.
According to KVIA News, during the walkout, protesters tore down barricades and took down the American flag situated on the quad, and a Palestinian flag was raised in its place.
The American flag was flying at half-mast to honor the police officers tragically killed in Charlotte earlier this week.
Chancellor Roberts personally returned with police to replace the American flag while protestors threw bottles, rocks, and water at them and yelled obscenities.
In a rare show of leadership from a college administrator, Roberts faced down shrieking protesters saying, “This university doesn’t belong to a small group of protestors. It belongs to every citizen of North Carolina.”
When the protestors attempted to remove the flag again, the fraternity brothers stepped up to protect it while they sang the National Anthem.
They made sure the flag never touched the ground despite the barrage of objects thrown at them and the violent rhetoric shouted at them by the unhinged activists.
UNC student Guillermo Estrada shared what happened.
(Thread) Today was a sad yet empowering day at Chapel Hill. When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flag pole, and was immediately upset at the act that these “protestors” had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict pic.twitter.com/tZrZEOSu8a
— Guillermo Estrada (@estradguillermo) April 30, 2024
Now, it’s spreading!
Thursday afternoon at Ole Miss, HUNDREDS of male students gathered at the Pro-Hamas camp and began singing the National Anthem.
Via
Free Palestine activists just tried to pull off a protest on the Ole Miss campus. It didn’t go according to plan. pic.twitter.com/Lj3szEyzRe
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 2, 2024
“>End Wokeness
.
Free Palestine activists just tried to pull off a protest on the Ole Miss campus. It didn’t go according to plan. pic.twitter.com/Lj3szEyzRe
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 2, 2024
There were HUNDREDS of young men surrounding the encampment.
Gotta love the “I hate terrorists” T-shirt.
The Ole Miss protesters chanted, “We Want Trump!”
College kids at Ole Miss chant “We want Trump!
Can you feel the tide turning? pic.twitter.com/MpwEEQGKor
— Travis Media Group (@TM1Politics) May 2, 2024
Once again, college heroes are standing up to this nonsense currently happening on campuses across the country.
Ole Miss: 1
Pro-Hamas lunatics: 0. pic.twitter.com/8voUNvygW8— OutKick (@Outkick) May 2, 2024
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Pro-Russian Telegram channels – where the intel from the frontlines arrives faster than anywhere else – announce that the Russian Ground Assault into Chasov Yar, a key Ukrainian city in Donbas, has begun.
This battle will dictate the immediate future of the Russian Donetsk Oblast offensive, and may have a catastrophic effect to the already crumbling morale of the Ukrainian defenders.
It has been widely reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered his top General Oleksandr Syrsky to hold the city at all costs – at least until ‘Victory Day’, a Russian Holiday that is celebrated on May 9th.
Watch: Chasov Yar is destroyed.
Chasov Yar is destroyed. pic.twitter.com/VKbpBvD0nV
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 2, 2024
Chasov Yar has been pounded by airstrikes and artillery in a way that cities like Artemovsk (Bakhmut) were not. This is due to the depletion of Kiev’s air defenses, and also the new UMPC glide bombs that started to make a big difference as of late.
It’s been reported that Russian air forces are launching more than 30 powerful glide bombs every day. These glide bombs used to be Soviet-era ‘dumb bombs’ that were ingeniously retrofitted with wings and navigation systems that allow precise targeting.
Watch: Russian air force pounds military positions in the city.
La aviación de ataque del Grupo Sur de las Fuerzas Armadas “prepara” Chasov Yar antes del inicio de los combates urbanos: imágenes de las tripulaciones de los Su-25 bombardeando las posiciones de las Fuerzas Armadas de Ucrania, que aguardan la rendición de la ciudad.… pic.twitter.com/JRMmYZRGLd— RedScorpion (Z) (@KrasnyySkorpion) April 25, 2024
Watch: artillery strikes on defensive positions.
Chasov Yar. Ataque a escondites de militantes ucranianos. pic.twitter.com/f7oxnIOtOo
— Иван Титов (@IvanTitov549528) April 29, 2024
While Russia launches its attack on the city, the exhausted, under-equipped and outmaneuvered Ukrainian brigades struggle to hold the line.
Financial Times reported:
“Up to 25,000 Russian troops have been deployed near the town in recent weeks, according to a spokesperson for Ukraine’s ground forces in the east. In other flashpoints along the frontline, Moscow’s army is also pressing ahead, seeking to capture as much territory as it can before the arrival of western kit.
[…] Chasiv Yar is seen as a key prize for Moscow, with senior Ukrainian commanders claiming the Russian general staff has ordered its forces to seize it by May 9 when Russia celebrates the end of the second world war. The Kremlin has previously justified its invasion of Ukraine as an attempt at ‘denazification’, and symbolically tied the war to the Soviet Union’s fight against Nazi Germany.
But the small town’s importance is strategic rather than symbolic, analysts and Ukrainian servicemen say. A Ukrainian retreat from Chasiv Yar could jeopardise the entire defence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, collectively known as the Donbas. Sat on top of a hill, the city provides Ukraine with one of the last natural barriers protecting important supply lines and, 30 kilometres to the north, the regional capital of Kramatorsk.
‘Chasiv Yar is a centre of gravity for the defensive line in the region’, said Viktor Kevliuk, a military analyst for the Centre for Defence Strategies, a Kyiv-based security think-tank.”
Watch: Ukrainian defenders run among the ruins.
Ucranianos translocam-se entre residências em Chasov Yar pic.twitter.com/QdQ72TkPO2
— Militar.Ru (@militar_ru) April 30, 2024
Slavyangrad on Telegram:
“French war correspondent Anne Nivat, speaking on the LCI TV channel, explained how leaving the city threatens the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
‘If the Russians manage to take control of Chasov Yar, they will be able to move to higher ground, from where they can launch artillery strikes’, Niva said.
According to her, shelling of Konstantinovka, where the railway junction is located, which is one of the key elements of Ukrainian logistics, will pose a particularly great danger to Kiev.”
Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 798:
Situation east of Chasov Yar: During the last hours #RussianArmy took control over the remaining areas of Mount Baba. The intensive bombardment forces #UkrainianArmy to withdraw to the trenches of the water channel. In addition, clashes between… pic.twitter.com/M3zbC7xcB8— @Suriyak (@Suriyakmaps) May 1, 2024
Read more:
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Today, Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano spewed more hot clouds after yesterday’s eruption – the second in a week – forced the closure of schools and airports, peppered villages with debris and led to yet another evacuation of hundreds of people.
Seven airports remained closed after the eruption on Tuesday (May 1st). The volcano sits on the small Ruang Island.
CBS News reported:
“The Indonesian geological agency urged people to stay at least 4 miles from the volcano’s crater. It warned people on nearby Tagulandang Island, the closest to the volcano, of possible super-heated volcanic clouds from a further eruption and a tsunami if the mountain’s volcanic dome collapses into the sea.
Tuesday’s eruption darkened the sky and peppered several villages with ash, grit and rocks. No casualties were reported. The country’s disaster management agency posted dramatic video online of dozens of lightning strikes flashing in the cloud of hot gases and debris belching from the volcano’s crater overnight.”
Hundreds of villagers from Tagulandang Island were evacuated on a navy ship, with similar amounts still waiting at a local port to be evacuated.
“[Rescue] Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said 11,000 to 12,000 people living within the 4-mile danger zone would be taken to government shelters.
After Mount Ruang’s April 17 eruption, authorities warned that a subsequent eruption might collapse part of the volcano into the sea.”
Mount Ruang, who spewed ash more than a mile high into the sky, is one of the 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia.
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are common there due to its location on the Pacific fault line of the “Ring of Fire”, that stretches from the Pacific coast of the Americas up until Japan and Southeast Asia.
ABC News reported:
“The 725-meter (2,378-foot) volcano in North Sulawesi province is about 95 kilometers (59 miles) northeast of Sam Ratulangi International Airport in Manado, the provincial capital.
[…] Ash, grit and rock fell from the sky in towns and cities across the region, including Manado, a city with more than 430,000 people where motorists had to switch on their headlights during daytime.
‘It was dark with rocks raining at the post from the eruption’, said Yulius Ramopolii, the head of Mount Ruang monitoring post. ‘The vibrations were intense and knocked out power, and volcanic earthquakes shook the glass windows and everything around us’.”
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By now, all attentive observers can detect when Globalist powers that be set up ‘spontaneous demonstrations’ to destabilize local governments that go against their interests.
Right now, in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, powerful NGO’s are mobilizing thousands of protestors against the ‘Foreign Agent Bill’, that they already have tainted by calling it ‘the Russia law’.
The kicker is that you can’t know who is really funding these NGO’s and these protests – because that’s what the law that they are trying to prevent the approval wants to clarify.
Georgia’s Parliament approved in a second vote the ‘Foreign Agent Bill’, a law that Globalist critics fear ‘will stifle media freedom’ and ‘endanger the country’s European Union membership bid’.
Police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray against the tens of thousands of protesters who thronged surrounding streets and threatened to invade the Parliament building.
Watch: A crowd protests in front of Parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia.
A crowd protests in from of Parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia. pic.twitter.com/B8MT3BDddY
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 2, 2024
Dozens of people were arrested on Wednesday, as mass rallies continue daily in Tbilisi.
Protesters denounce the bill as ‘the Russian law’ because neighboring Russia uses similar legislation – as is the case of the US, in fact.
Associated Press reported:
“The law would require media and noncommercial organizations to register as ‘pursuing the interests of a foreign power’, if they receive more than 20% of funding from abroad. The ruling Georgian Dream party withdrew a similar proposal last year after large crowds protested.
Eighty-three of Georgia’s 150 lawmakers approved the bill in its second reading, while 23 voted against it. A third and final vote in Parliament is needed before it can be signed into law. Georgian lawmaker Irakli Kobakhidze told reporters on Wednesday that he expected that final vote to happen in mid-May.
Russia-Georgia relations have been complicated and turbulent since the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s. The two countries fought a short war in 2008 that ended with Georgia losing control of two Russia-friendly separatist regions. In the aftermath, Tbilisi severed diplomatic ties with Moscow, and the issue of the regions’ status remains a key irritant, even as relations have somewhat improved.”
Watch: A fire breaks out near Parliament in Tbilisi during violent protests.
A fire breaks out near Parliament in Tbilisi during violent protests. pic.twitter.com/hT4EVfUA9C
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 2, 2024
Georgia condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine, and became a safe harbor for Russians fleeing military mobilization.
Levan Khabeishvili, chairman of the pro-West United National Movement party, appeared on TV arriving in Parliament with bandages on his nose and forehead.
Members of his party said that he had been assaulted by police in the protests.
“’If you are not interested in how the leader of the main opposition party has been beaten up, then — for the sake of those young people who were injured, who were hit on the heads and bruised — I want to ask you once more, even though I do not have any hope, withdraw this law’, he said.”
Watch: Police in Georgia used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.
Police in Georgia used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. pic.twitter.com/gcey1ss5PW
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 2, 2024
“Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, increasingly at odds with the governing party, has criticized the bill and vowed to veto it if it is passed by Parliament. But the governing party can overrule the veto and ask the parliamentary speaker to sign the bill into law.”
Watch: Police in Georgia uses water cannons against protesters that try to invade Parliament.
Police in Georgia uses water cannons against protesters that try to invase Parliament. pic.twitter.com/j7MTo27Mn4
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 2, 2024
BBC reported:
“Georgia was granted EU candidate status last December and polls suggest about 80% of the population is in favour of joining. A number of European leaders have warned the proposed bill is “incompatible” with European norms and values.
But the government of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze is standing firm. Mr Kobakhidze has accused NGOs of attempting to stage revolutions in Georgia twice, of promoting ‘gay propaganda’ and of attacking the Georgian Orthodox Church.”
Watch: Water cannons against protestors in Georgia.
Water cannons against protestors in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/i6pCHkhOZe
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 2, 2024
Live online video from the Parliament chamber showed lawmakers shouting and physically confronting each other.
Watch: Brawl in Georgia’s parliament over the ‘Foreign Agents Bill’.
Brawl in Georgia’s parliament over the ‘Foreign Agents Bill’. pic.twitter.com/2KtD4U9CAU
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 2, 2024
The US State Department criticized the law. Slavyangrad at Telegram:
“The State Department is deeply disappointed with Georgia.
‘The United States condemns the Foreign Influence Law passed today in the Georgian Parliament and the false narrative government officials have chosen to defend it’ — said the head of the press service of the US State Department, Matthew Miller.
He said the law’s purpose is to ‘silence critical voices and destroy Georgia’s vibrant civil society’, which serves as a critical check on government ‘in any democratic country’.”
The European Union also joined the chorus.
I am following the situation in Georgia with great concern and condemn the violence on the streets of Tbilisi.
The Georgian people want a European future for their country.
Georgia is at a crossroads. It should stay the course on the road to Europe.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) May 1, 2024
Moscow blasted the West for hypocrisy over criticism of the law.
Sputnik reported:
“‘The United States has had a law since 1938 mandating the registration of entities lobbying foreign interests’, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, commenting on the European Union’s criticism of a similar draft law in Georgia.”
Read more:
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Jerone Davison is a former NFL Running Back who played college ball at Arizona State University before hitting the pros with the Oakland Raiders and spending three decades as a pastor.
As a MAGA political outsider, Davison is running for a House seat in Congressional District 4, the same district his Alma Mater, ASU, is located, and his campaign has continued to pick up steam. He’s won multiple straw polls in the district, and he’s hoping for a shot to square off against Democrat Rep. Greg Stanton, an incumbent who’s been a rubber stamp for the Biden administration’s widely unpopular agenda.
It can be recalled that Davison released an ad for his 2022 congressional campaign, defending gun rights and exposing Democrats as the party of white supremacy and the KKK. “When this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds,” says Davison.
Davison previously told The Gateway Pundit, “When I grew up in the south, the KKK would be coming through, and everybody in our community would be scared and afraid, but I wasn’t afraid because my father had guns in the house and guns made me feel safe.” He continued, “The past is still relevant today because the Democrats are still terrorists.”
Davison: Democrats like to say that no one needs an AR15 for self-defense, that no one could possibly need all 30 rounds. But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds.
Make Rifles Great Again
https://t.co/J7lHnodhku#JeroneForCongress#2A #SelfDefense pic.twitter.com/Gs6iAHVVAP
— Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4 (@Jerone4Congress) July 6, 2022
This time, he's back with a new strategy and RC Maxwell, a stalwart conservative, young father, and pro-Trump consultant, advising his campaign
"In 2022, Davison was a virtual unknown and still garnered a good chunk of votes," Maxwell told The Gateway Pundit. "Since then, he's remained active in the district and has become one of many grassroots leaders here at the local level. If Davison wins this primary, Stanton is toast!"
In order to face Stanton in November, he’ll have to beat Marine Corps veteran Kelly Cooper, a moderate Republican who lost to Stanton in 2022, and Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a family doctor who refused to attend the Republican National Convention as an Arizona State Delegate in 2016 over the nomination of Donald Trump. Jasser previously said, "I could not stomach casting a ballot for Mr. Trump.”
Recent debates have provided a lot of clarity about the candidates' stances on hot-button policy issues.
A clip of each candidate answering a question on Ukraine funding has been viewed thousands of times on Twitter. Davison is the only candidate to oppose the controversial bill recently passed in the House, where Ukraine was given another $61 billion handout by Republican leadership without a single capitulation from Democrats.
Watch how each candidate handles Ukraine @DrZuhdiJasser says foreign aid is good for our economy (@charliekirk11 consider rescinding your endorsement!)@KellyCooperAZ says “we can’t abandon our allies “ @Jerone4Congress nailed it , please consider supporting his… pic.twitter.com/oYqiTYMzwS
— R.C. Maxwell (@BlackHannity) April 20, 2024
"I'm for ending funding to Ukraine," Davison said in the debate on PBS. "We haven't seen the President and European nations come together and try a thing called diplomacy. I think the bank of America should be closed for this war. I want to focus on the American people first. We have a border crisis that's never been seen before," he added after saying the U.S. was funding the "wasting of lives."
Cooper said funding shouldn't be cut immediately while likening Ukraine to an ally. Jasser took it a step further, saying cutting aid now "doesn't make any sense" before adding that "the best thing for the American economy is what's happening in South Korea. That little investment that we have, whether its foreign aid or into our military budget, has a significant impact on securing our own country."
Davison has also pledged not to accept money from big Pharma, saying that "dirty money is the root of evil in politics."
Clearly, he is the only candidate who embodies the concept of America First.
Davison’s populist approach is one of the reasons he’s gotten the attention of Trump confidant and seasoned political veteran Roger Stone, who called Davison an "outsider, a straight shooter, and an excellent candidate."
Something else creating buzz around Davison is his "Pledge to PCs," a multi-plank pledge in which he has promised to consult Republican leaders in his district before making major votes, offer his tax returns, and help conservative Republicans fundraise in their precincts instead of simply raising funds for House Republicans.
The only pro-Trump candidate for CD-4 just qualified for the ballot.
I’m not just a January 6th attendee, I’m a Pastor, a father, and the only candidate making this kind of pledge to the PEOPLE. Are you with me?#jeronedavisonforcongress #AzCD4
DONATE $5 -… pic.twitter.com/fdI8xMFWaW
— Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4 (@Jerone4Congress) April 2, 2024
Congressional District 4 was redistricted in 2020 and is a toss-up with a voting index of D+2. This means whoever the Republican nominee is will have more than a fighting chance to unseat Stanton, who has yet to push back on Biden's radical agenda. Stanton is locked in step with Democrats on every vote and recently said Biden gave a "good, passionate, energetic speech" at this year's State of the Union.
Davison followed up his debate performance by also shining at a candidate forum where he stated his support for an immigration moratorium while imploring voters to send someone to Congress “with a backbone willing to say to say ‘no,'" referring to bills where Republicans make concessions without anything to show.
The Arizona primary election is on July 30th. You can learn more and support Jerone Davison here!
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Doing his part to further the globalist agenda, the Biden Regime has finalized ‘Energy Efficiency’ regulations that will impact almost US Household.
Maria Zeee discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial against President Trump continued on Thursday after a brief break this week.
Trump provided brief remarks to the press before he walked into the Manhattan courthouse.
WATCH:
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We’re not letting the Radical Left morons take over this country! pic.twitter.com/wPFjCKIuvz
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 2, 2024
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Keith Davidson took the witness stand on Thursday and denied the $130,000 payment from Michael Cohen to his client was a ‘hush payment.’
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The payments made to Stormy Daniels did NOT come from Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The payments were made through internal business records – there was no tax deduction taken and there was no obligation to file it with the FEC, according to Trump attorney Joe Tacopina.
Bragg alleged Trump committed fraud because the payment was labeled “legal fees.”
Davidson testified on Thursday that the payment to Stormy was not ‘hush money,’ rather it was a “consideration” payment – this is a contractual legal term.
Fox News reported:
The criminal trial of former President Donald Trump resumed following a break for lunch Thursday afternoon.
Keith Davidson, lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, took the witness stand again for cross-examination by Trump defense attorney Emil Bove.
Trump walked back into the courtroom Thursday afternoon, giving reporters a thumbs up as he walked by, but no remarks.
Davidson earlier Thursday said that the $130,000 payment to Daniels was not “hush money,” but a “consideration” payment.
“Consideration” is a contractual legal term for what someone gives in return for the promise to abide by a contract; in this case, money. The payment was labeled “legal fees” in Trump’s accounting, which prosecutors allege amounted to fraud.
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass earlier pressed Davidson about Daniels’ statement, which Davidson prepared for his client, that denied any relationship with Trump and said that her only interaction with Trump was “a few public appearances and nothing more.”
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Megyn Kelly wants to know what many of us are thinking.
As anti-Israel protests continue to rage across America’s college campuses, the former Fox News anchor questioned why so many of the protesters look like they need to focus on themselves rather than issues in the Middle East.
“Why are they so unattractive? Why are the protesters so homely?” she asked.
“I think attractive smart people are not drawn to this nonsense. They are living their lives, being successful.”
Megyn Kelly states fact
Why are all the protesters so unattractive?— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 1, 2024
While not all the students can be described as such, hundreds of protesters have been arrested as the demonstrations have ramped up in recent days and their mugshots released to the public.
Fun mugshots of campus protesters!
Are they related? pic.twitter.com/FAdMKw9eUX— ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) April 30, 2024
Mugshots of protestors arrested at the University of New Mexico. pic.twitter.com/zaaGmn6GMj
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 30, 2024
Mugshots of the valedictorians arrested at the University of South Florida. pic.twitter.com/IC1QMn7Adh
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 1, 2024
Having once been a thorn in the side of Donald Trump, Kelly has become a reliably sensible cultural commentator since leaving the mainstream media a few years ago.
Last month, she torched CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin (known for once masturbating in front of his colleagues) after he attacked the integrity of Justice Clarence Thomas as he was hearing the case for Donald Trump receiving presidential immunity.
“In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that’s because his wife was part of the conspiracy,” Toobin wrote on the X platform. “What a disgrace that he’s sitting on this case.”
Hi Toobin – fyi you waived your right to use the term “disgraced” about other lawyers when you took your dick out of your pants and jerked off in front of your collleagues https://t.co/MZwP2r1QOT
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) April 16, 2024
“Hi Toobin – fyi you waived your right to use the term “disgraced” about other lawyers when you took your dick out of your pants and jerked off in front of your collleagues,” she wrote.
Her response received nearly three million views.
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By Wayne Allyn Root
I gave a speech a few days ago about open borders, why it’s happening, who benefits, and what’s behind it- “The Great Replacement.” My speech was delivered at a conservative conference put on by and attended by sheriffs from across the USA.
My speech brought down the house and ended with a standing ovation. That’s what happens when people get to hear raw truth. It’s so rare.
You need to hear the details from my speech below- raw truth in writing, so you can study it, memorize it, and share it.
And of course, you can watch the speech here:
But it’s important to note how my speech has been demonized and shadow-banned by the media and social media. They don’t want you to see it. They’re clearly scared to death of raw truth.
NBC called it “racist.” On X/Twitter, Facebook and other social media, few can see my speech, or my posts about it. I might be the most censored conservative patriot in America.
But here are the details the Deep State doesn’t want you to know.
I started my speech by reporting that I debated at a huge Libertarian conference called FreedomFest a couple of years ago about the topic, “Was the 2020 Election Stolen From Trump?” FreedomFest brought in a liberal New York journalist to debate me.
He had what he thought were all the facts to destroy my arguments about the fraud of mail-in ballots, no Voter ID, ballot drop boxes, ballot harvesting, no signature match, counting votes for days on end until only Democrats win, and of course, 3 AM deliveries of hundreds of thousands of fake ballots (which turned out to be almost 100% for Joe Biden).
While we debated about all of those voting scams perpetrated by Democrats, I destroyed him with a surprise attack he never saw coming. My main argument was that illegal alien votes made the difference in the 2020 election, specifically in battleground states. He had no answers for that argument.
The liberal journalist demanded to know how illegal aliens could vote? I pointed out to the crowd that in Nevada where I live, and in 18 other states (plus Washington DC), illegal aliens are legally allowed to obtain drivers licenses.
This is where the scam begins.
While at DMV to get their license, they are by law automatically registered to vote. They can’t even say “no.” It’s automatic. And the employees at DMV cannot ask them if they are a legal U.S. citizen. So, every illegal alien in Nevada who drives is automatically registered to vote. That’s a fact. There can be no debate.
Then I asked a question to this liberal shill. Once legally registered to vote, why would any illegal alien choose not to vote? It’s legal. And at the polls no one asks for ID. It’s foolproof. Their vote counts and they face zero risk of getting in trouble.
Then I asked a second question of this clueless liberal shill. Why wouldn’t every illegal alien take advantage of this situation and vote, if they can elect Democrats who will never deport them, pay them generous welfare, free healthcare and education for their kids, and reward them after Democrats win, with even bigger government checks. If you were them, wouldn’t you choose to vote? Of course you would!
That’s why they’re all voting!
Then I ended the debate with “Their votes in battleground states like my state of Nevada (where Trump lost by only 33,000 votes) stole the election from President Trump. The entire country has been stolen from us by illegal alien votes. Period. End of story.”
The crowd exploded. Then they voted. I won a landslide victory. Almost everyone of the 3,000 in attendance voted me the winner of the FreedomFest debate.
This is the story of open borders.
Democrats invite the whole world in, wave them through with no questions asked, and disperse them throughout the USA wherever needed to win elections. And if letting in millions works, why not let in tens of millions? Shower them with $10,000 visa cards, free travel, free housing, free lawyers, free phones and ask only one thing of them- register to vote in the state we’re sending you to. Simple, easy, effective.
Result? Democrats are stealing not only elections, but the whole country. If Democrats can bring in enough new illegal aliens, no Republican president will ever win again. Soon Democrats will control the Senate and House forever more. And then…
America is finished.
Need further proof? While this nation is on fire…while millions illegally cross the border…while hundreds of thousands more are flown straight from the Darien Gap in Panama into the USA with $20,000 loans by Uncle Sam (forgiven the moment they land on U.S. soil)…while we spend a half TRILLION dollars a year on illegal aliens (which means the national debt will soon overwhelm the economy and collapse the country)…while America is experiencing a crime wave like no other in our history…while our schools and healthcare system are being overwhelmed…
Worst of all, while our colleges are invaded and occupied by vile, violent, Jew-haters from Muslim terrorist nations flying Palestinian flags, burning U.S. flags and chanting “Death to America”…while Jewish students lives are threatened…while Jews feel persecuted like never before in our country’s history…
In the middle of all this, Joe Biden is telling us he wants to import Palestinians from Gaza.
What? Palestinians? People so poverty stricken for generations…so addicted to welfare…so dependent on government…so filled with rage and hate for Jews, Christians and Americans…taught from childhood to murder Jews…and their ranks so filled with criminals and terrorists…that no Muslim nation in the world will take them.
In the middle of the anarchy going on at our colleges, Joe Biden wants to pour fuel on the fire? He wants to import the most serious Jew-haters, America-haters and Islamic terrorists in the world? Because we don’t have enough trouble already?
He’s willing to further endanger the lives of every Jew in America?
What this tells you is, Biden (and his boss Obama who is directing all of this) are either hell bent on the intentional destruction of America…
Or simply want to import more bodies to vote Democrat. Any bodies at all, as long as it’s a warm body, able to vote Democrat for life. Even the Palestinians, that no Muslim country in the world wants to touch because of the violence and terrorism they bring.
Hell yes, this is “The Great Replacement.”
But it’s not just white Americans that Biden (and his boss Obama), and the entire Democrat Party are replacing. They want to replace white Americans…
and black Americans…
and legal Latino Americans…
and any American with a brain and common sense.
Democrats want to replace all American citizens. Period.
Why? All so that they can turn America into a one-party country, turn us all into desperate sheeple, dependent on government for life, and retain control forever.
Hell yes, this is “The Great Replacement.”
And that’s why the liberal media is so afraid of me and my speech.
I’ll have Part II in a few days.
HOT OFF THE PRESSES: Watch Wayne’s brand new TV Show, “The ROOT Reaction” weeknights at 10 PM ET/7 PM Pacific on Real America’s Voice TV, and Wayne’s weekend “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Saturdays at Noon ET/9 AM PT on Real America’s Voice TV. Watch at RealAmericasVoice.com, or at Rumble, Roku, Pluto, Apple, Dish TV Ch 219, or go to RootforAmerica.com to watch.
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A catastrophic multi-vehicle accident early Thursday morning involving a petroleum tanker truck, a tractor-trailer, and a passenger vehicle has led to the closure of I-95 in both directions, creating extensive traffic jams throughout the area.
The collision occurred around 5:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-95 near Exit 15, at the Fairfield Avenue overpass in Norwalk, Connecticut, abc7 NY reported.
The tanker, loaded with 8,500 gallons of gasoline, was significantly damaged in the crash, leading to a massive fire outbreak.
BREAKING: In Norwalk, Connecticut, a petroleum tanker truck collided with another vehicle on I-95, resulting in an explosion. pic.twitter.com/zXT6BRQiB0
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) May 2, 2024
#BREAKING: Emergency personnel’s are on the scene after a petroleum tanker truck had crashed during an accident causing a massive fire and explosion
⁰#Norwalk l #ConnecticutNumerous firefighters, emergency personnel, and other authorities are on the scene in NorWalk,… pic.twitter.com/9u1acLfVgF
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 2, 2024
Miraculously, no injuries have been reported following the incident. Authorities have confirmed that there is no immediate risk of structural collapse despite the severity of the fire.
“Paul Rizzo the Chief of the Bureau of Highway Operations at the Department of Transportation stressed that the bridge, while damaged was not in imminent danger of collapse. However it would take at least 3 hours to complete the investigation of the crash, and damaged utility lines underneath the bridge were still in need of assessment by utility companies. The long term structural integrity of the bridge would also require assessment, as gasoline can burn hot enough to cause serious deformation,” Westfair Business Journal reported.
The news outlet added, “William Turner, the State Dmergency Management Director also explained that that while 6,500 gallons of fuel either burned or ran off into the Norwalk River during the fire some fuel remains and will need to be removed. The firefighting foam as well as the unignited fuel that ran off are currently the subject of a booming operation by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to minimize ecological damage.”
State Emergency Management Director William Turner provided an update on the environmental impact of the accident.
“Approximately 6,500 gallons of gasoline have either been consumed by the fire or have leaked into the surroundings. Our response teams are currently managing a cleanup operation along the Norwalk River. This effort includes both local and state hazardous materials teams who are meticulously addressing the aftermath,” Turner said.
Governor Ned Lamont (D) has been actively coordinating with federal authorities to manage the crisis. He mentioned his discussions with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, emphasizing that federal support is on standby to assist with the ongoing situation.
I will be holding a news conference today at 9:30 a.m. to provide an update on the situation on I-95 in Norwalk. We anticipate this area of the highway to be closed for a significant period. Anyone traveling through this area should find alternate routes.
— Governor Ned Lamont (@GovNedLamont) May 2, 2024
Due to the extensive damage and ongoing safety checks, both the northbound and southbound lanes of I-95 at Exit 15 are expected to be closed for an extended duration. The exact timeline for reopening remains uncertain as investigations and repairs are underway.
The closure has led to significant disruptions, with thousands of vehicles, including many tractor trailers, being rerouted onto local roads, exacerbating traffic conditions in and around Norwalk.
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The Daily Wire secretly obtained a gag order against Candace Owens amid her public feud with Ben Shapiro, according to documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald.
Earlier this month Candace Owens challenged Daily Wire’s co-founder Ben Shapiro to a debate about Israel just two weeks after she parted ways from the news outlet.
I would like to debate Ben Shapiro on Israel and the *current* definition of antisemitism.
Can somebody make that happen? https://t.co/237rKKIkoD
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 5, 2024
Ben Shapiro responded to Candace Owens: “Sure, Candace. I texted you on February 29th offering this very thing. Let’s do it on my show this Monday at 5pm at our studios in Nashville; 90 minutes, live-streamed.”
Sure, Candace. I texted you on February 29th offering this very thing.
Let’s do it on my show this Monday at 5pm at our studios in Nashville; 90 minutes, live-streamed. https://t.co/f4cRSJqz8L
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 5, 2024
Candace Owens was reportedly out of the country on that Monday that Ben Shapiro agreed to debate her.
The debate never happened and it isn’t because Candace didn’t show up…she was gagged, according to Glenn Greenwald.
“But the debate was never going to happen. That is because the Daily Wire — in secret and unbeknownst to its readers — sought a gag order to be placed on Owens after she had called for a debate. They did this under the cover of secrecy, before a private arbitrator, at exactly the same time that they were claiming in public that they wanted this debate and were even negotiating the terms with her,” Glenn Greenwald wrote.
“When seeking a gag order to be imposed on Owens, the Daily Wire accused her of violating the non-disparagement clause of her agreement with the company. To substantiate this accusation, the company specifically cited Owens’ initial tweet requesting a debate with Shapiro as proof of this disparagement, along with concerns she voiced that Shapiro appeared to be violating the confidentiality agreement between them by publicly maligning Owens’s views to explain her departure from the company. While the company claimed before the arbitrator that it did not object in principle to a “healthy debate,” it urged the imposition of gag order on Owens by claiming that the way she requested the debate constituted disparagement of Shapiro and the site,” Glenn Greenwald.
“To justify the gag order it wanted, the company also cited various criticisms of the Daily Wire and Shapiro on X that Owens had “liked.” This proceeding took place as part of an exchange of legal threats between the parties after the public agreement to debate about Israel was solidified,” Greenwald wrote.
The Daily Wire’s Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing told Glenn Greenwald his report “is inaccurate to the point of being false.”
Candace Owens told Greenwald she couldn’t comment on his report: “I wish I could comment on this but I can’t.”
Glenn Greenwald called for the Daily Wire to publish the documents they filed to get the gag order.
If the DW is spreading this, they should publish the documents, including the ones they filed to get the gag order.
My article says that the basis for the gag order was statements she made while requesting the debate, as well as her defense against Andrew Klavan’s accusations. pic.twitter.com/h3YXJfxag9
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 2, 2024
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the risk to the US milk and meat supply from the bird flu outbreak and of course, she made it all about herself.
“I don’t consume any meat,” Jean-Pierre said as she rattled off nonsense.
Maria Zeee discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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The statue of George Washington at George Washington University located just blocks from the White House is still being desecrated by communist-Islamist revolutionaries who took over University Yard (U-Yard) during a campus riot late last week, only now the Palestinian terrorist (keffiyeh) totally covers Washington’s face, making him look like an Islamist terrorist.
On Wednesday, protesters surrounded Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) when she tried to remove the Palestinian flag from the George Washington Statue, preventing her from removing the flag. Apparently none of the GOP members with her tried to help her liberate the statue. The Congressmen were on campus for a meeting with administrators and to hold a photo-op at U-Yard.
April 29:
May 2: Photo taken Thursday by Fox News reporter David Spunt posted by Bret Baier (note: GWU is located just a few blocks west of the White House, not miles.):
As @POTUS speaks on the chaos in college campuses from the White House – here is the 1st President’s statue a few miles away at GWU in DC. H/t @davidspunt pic.twitter.com/lQtsmobirz
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) May 2, 2024
Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman posted front and back photos of the George Washington statue. Times for Islamic prayers at the protests are listed on the upper right comer of the ‘Community Guidelines’–but “NO ZIONISM”
Here’s the most recent look of the George Washington statue. pic.twitter.com/qfONG69NAW
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 2, 2024
On Wednesday, several Republican members of Congress went to U-Yard after meeting with GWU administrators, reported the GW Hatchet (excerpt):
Six Republican members of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee visited the pro-Palestinian encampment in University Yard on Wednesday, where they called on D.C. officials to arrest protesters involved in the demonstration.
Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), William Timmons (R-SC), Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Eric Burlison (R-MO) met with GW officials, walked through the encampment and then held a press conference on H Street where they lambasted D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and local police for reportedly rejecting GW’s request to clear the encampment. The members’ visit comes after the committee called on Bowser and MPD Chief Pamela Smith on Wednesday to testify next week following their reported refusal to sweep U-Yard and H Street.
Students from eight D.C. universities, including GW, have camped in U-Yard for a week to protest the war in Gaza and call for their universities’ divestment from Israel and protection of pro-Palestinian students…
…Boebert also tried to remove a Palestinian flag wrapped around the George Washington statue at the front of U-Yard while walking through the encampment.
“It is private property, and this is America, and this should come down,” Boebert said to protesters near the flag before walking away.
Video of Boebert posted by independent reporter Andrew Leyden:
VIDEO: Cong @laurenboebert attempts to rip down Palestinian flag that was draped over George Washington statue on the GWU campus. pic.twitter.com/w7lAxcROKP
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) May 1, 2024
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81-year-old Joe Biden boarded Marine One en route to Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday.
Part of Biden’s new routine is to shuffle out to Marine One while his handlers surround him to hide his feeble state amid reports he can no longer walk solo.
The White House introduced a ‘special routine’ for when Joe Biden departs and returns to the White House on Marine One.
According to a report from Axios, Biden’s advisors are concerned that his stiffened gait is highlighting his old age and feeble state.
Only today was different.
Biden’s staff actually blocked the media from posting up on the South Lawn until the feeble 81-year-old was already on Marine One.
Nobody saw Joe Biden leave the White House or shuffle across the South Lawn.
Reporters were unable to ask Joe Biden any questions.
WATCH:
UNREAL: President Biden was boarding Marine One before the White House staff even let the media/press through.
We were lined up outside, waiting to get through. When we finally went through, he was already boarding.
Nobody saw him leave until the last second.
Wow. pic.twitter.com/2e9wP7oPNP
— MONICA PAIGE✰OANN (@MonicaPaigeTV) May 2, 2024
Biden’s handlers are doing everything to make sure he doesn’t fall down.
It was recently revealed Biden is sporting ‘boat anchor’ shoes for maximum stability so he doesn’t fall on his face.
Close up of Joe Biden's padded shoes. pic.twitter.com/PhyYW94fWQ
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 19, 2024
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Because America’s health care system as a whole is woefully understaffed to care for an aging population rife with chronic illnesses, or to meet increasing needs for mental health services, patients show up in the ER and, without any place else to go, stay in the ER.
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James O’Keefe’s OMG (O’Keefe Media Group) has recently released explosive undercover footage that purportedly shows a CIA contractor discussing how intelligence agencies conspired to withhold information from then-President Donald Trump.
“I have evidence that exposes the CIA, and it’s on camera. I am working on releasing a story that I believe is the most important of my entire career,” O’Keefe said last week.
O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released part one: Exposing the CIA: A project manager working in cyber operations told OMG’s undercover journalist that the Director of the CIA would keep information from Trump.
The contractor, identified as Amjad Fseisim, a program manager in Cyber Operations with a top-secret clearance, is heard in the video alleging that senior officials, including former CIA Directors Gina Haspel and Mike Pompeo, made concerted efforts to keep sensitive information from President Trump, labeling him a “Russian asset.”
The Gateway Pundit’s Christina Laila broke the news shortly after the video’s release, highlighting the gravity of the accusations. Fseisim is recorded saying, “The executive staff, we’re talking about the director and his subordinates…kept information from him [Trump] because we knew he’d fucking disclose it.”
The video further alleges that the intelligence community used FISA warrants to spy on Trump and his team and that this surveillance has continued post-presidency. “We monitor everything,” Fseisim claims in the recording.
O’Keefe added quoted the CIA contractor saying, ““We steal it [information]” and “We hack other countries just like that,” Amjad, who states he currently works on the CIA’s China Mission Center, explains how intel agencies obtain information. He also describes a broken intelligence system where “We don’t share information across agencies” because the CIA is “very reluctant” to share information with the “careless” NSA.”
BREAKING – EXPOSING THE CIA: “So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” A project manager working in Cyber Operations for the @CIA and an @NSAGov contractor with top-secret… pic.twitter.com/TXq8ZjJEBq
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 1, 2024
President Trump was approached by O’Keefe’s Media Group (OMG). When asked about his reaction to the video, Trump expressed dismay and scorn for Fseisim’s actions.
“Well, it’s shocking to see how stupid somebody can be. If this guy is for real, you want to get rid of him. CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. This is not an intelligent guy to be openly talking to a woman that walks up and starts asking him questions and talking that way. So he may be bragging or showing off to some young lady. I have no idea spoke, but I’d get rid of him real fast. If he’s for real, get rid of him,” said Trump.
President Trump reacts to bombshell recording of Program Manager at CIA describing how higher-ups at Langley withheld information from him. pic.twitter.com/f26Iopn6OB
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 2, 2024
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has issued a statement vehemently denying allegations that it withheld information from former President Donald Trump. The spokesperson also added that the official was dismissed after being exposed in O’Keefe’s covert operation.
ON THE PHONE WITH THE CIA PRESS SECRETARY:
Spokesperson at CIA gives me a statement saying that the Program Manager at the Chinese Mission Center caught on tape talking about the higher-ups withholding information from the President, is no longer working at the CIA. pic.twitter.com/ekDAmLm2tW
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 2, 2024
Conservative Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) isn’t wasting any time getting to the bottom of this very serious and disturbing story. Rep. Gaetz has already formally called on the Weaponization Subcommittee to IMMEDIATELY launch an investigation into the BOMBSHELL report by James O’Keefe’s OMG Media Group.
Gaetz shared a copy of the letter he sent to the Chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Rep. Jim Jordan.
In his tweet about his formal request for an immediate investigation, Gaetz said that the undercover video that was released only hours ago, “contains video evidence that American intelligence agencies withheld intelligence from President Donald Trump before & during his presidency and used Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities to spy on President Trump.”
BREAKING: I’m formally calling on the @Weaponization Subcommittee to immediately launch an investigation into @OKeefeMedia Group’s bombshell report containing video evidence that American intelligence agencies withheld intelligence from President Donald Trump before & during his… https://t.co/2vUZPkBsQ2 pic.twitter.com/lMG0ZdQXvJ
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) May 1, 2024
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Former Trump prosecutor Mark Pomerantz is forced to invoke his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked, under oath, if he violated the law during his investigation to get President Trump.
Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation.
Pomerantz testified before the House Judiciary Committee back in May 2023 and pleaded the 5th when he was asked under oath if he violated the law to get Trump.
MARK POMERANTZ led the charge to indict President Trump in New York City.
We deposed him before the Judiciary Committee.
When asked about his investigation, he PLEADED THE FIFTH.
Makes you wonder… pic.twitter.com/r6ERgJjLKc
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 2, 2024
Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg announced in April 2023 he was upending the law and charging President Trump with 34 felonies in a “catch and kill” scheme. This is also called a non-disclosure agreement. It occurs when two parties agree to not discuss publicly a certain issue. It often includes a payment to one of the parties.
This is all Alvin Bragg had on Trump. The New York DA is now counting on a jury of local communists to find Trump guilty.
This shouldn’t be too hard in New York City. For the record, this case has been tossed from every other court that tried to bring charges against Trump.
Bragg used a copy and paste approach with President Trump.
Alvin Bragg, sometimes called “Fat Alvin”, built his case off of copying and pasting the same charge 34 times around “concealing another crime” in order to make it a felony but didn’t include the crime being covered up in the indictment because “the law does not so require” pic.twitter.com/6AOvqRkYv2
— ALX (@alx) April 4, 2023
This statement was rich – considering the skyrocketing crime in New York City. Bragg is making up felonies as he is ignoring felonies.
What a sideshow.
Following the indictment,
Jim Jordan subpoenaed former Manhattan DA prosecutor and Hillary Clinton lawyer, Mark Pomerantz for a deposition in early 2023.
Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation.
He then 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 early last year after Bragg, just weeks into his first term in office, decided not to seek an indictment of Trump at that time.
Bragg failed in his lawsuit and Mark Pomerantz sat before Congress on in May 2023 where he repeatedly pleaded the fifth and refused to answer questions regarding the case.
Breitbart.com reported.
Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, refused to answer any questions relevant to former President Donald Trump’s indictment during much of a deposition before Congress on Friday.
Pomerantz warned in an opening statement he would do as much, according to a copy of the opening statement leaked to CNN and other legacy media outlets.
“It gives me no joy to invoke my legal rights, but I am glad that the law allows me not to cooperate with this performance of political theater,” Pomerantz said, per his statement.
The deposition ran for roughly five hours.
It should be clear at this point that Democrats have identified no criminal actions by President Trump. All they have is raw hatred of the popular populist president who shook up the country and make America great again.
Today the video of Mark Pomerantz is making the rounds again.
Here it is.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>MARK POMERANTZ led the charge to indict President Trump in New York City. <br><br>We deposed him before the Judiciary Committee.<br><br>When asked about his investigation, he PLEADED THE FIFTH. <br><br>Makes you wonder… <a href=”https://t.co/r6ERgJjLKc”>pic.twitter.com/r6ERgJjLKc</a></p>— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=”https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1786049236418609249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>May 2, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
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James Robert Elliot Sr., Jim Bob, was sentenced to more than three years in prison, four months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution to the Architect of the Capitol for being in DC on January 6th to protest.
Amidst the chaos of that day, as police fired rubber bullets and gas indiscriminately into the crowd, Jim Bob did what he could to help his fellow patriots by treating minor wounds, washing eyes, helping to keep people from getting trampled, and leading others to safety.
Jim Bob, who is the father of five-year-old twins, recently wrote to The Gateway Pundit.
To my Fellow Patriots,
My name is James Elliott Sr. I am a devoted husband to my wife Jessica and a loving father to my twin 5-year-olds, James Jr and my sweet Annabelle. I am the oldest of six kids with a mother and father who have been nothing but supportive.
Over the years, my father, Mike, and my mother, Cindy, forged my siblings and me with a strong work ethic, noble Christian values, and a faith as strong as iron with enough Patriotism to match. So now here I am, 26 years old with a beautiful wife and 2 crazy kids of my own, but I’m locked in a prison in Kentucky, stolen from my loved ones, all ultimately because of my political beliefs.
At this point, my story isn’t an unheard-of one. I went to DC because of many reasons. I believe the election was stolen. I believe the Bidens are a corrupt family, and many of us saw the disaster of his Presidency WELL before he took office. Like many other J6ers, I got caught up in the chaos, and though all of my decisions were, I believe, made with the best intentions, not all of my decisions were the best ones. However, I was able to help protect MANY other Patriots there, treating minor wounds, washing eyes, helping keep people from getting trampled, and leading others to safety.
**Please help Jim Bob here.**
I was shot with rubber bullets, pepper sprayed, tear gassed, and flash banged, and even got hit in the noggen with a tear gas canister. All while trying to aid those around me. The NEWS and liberal media smeared me after my arrest in December of 2021, being called an “extremist,” a “domestic terrorist,” “a racist,” “a violent threat to my community,” and so many other hot-button words we have all heard to the point of exhaustion.
I’m a tow truck driver for a company just outside of Chicago and did my utmost best to be an upstanding member of my society and my community, doing my best to support not only my family but also to help support my parents’ household as well while my father fights many health issues, issues extending from his fight with stomach cancer.
I have no criminal history, not even a speeding ticket to my name, and yet here I am, 37 months in federal prison, locked in with drug dealers and sex offenders because we stood in defiance. We are guilty of the ultimate crime of disagreeing, standing, and together saying, “No, I do not accept your lies. Recount that vote,” and they have stolen 3 years of my life for it.
**Please help Jim Bob here.**
I have lost a lot since the start of this: the money my wife and I had saved, the small amount of faith I had left in the system, even my Patriotism took a huge hit, but most importantly, I have lost time. The time I have been forced away from my wife and kids that I will never get back is a hole in my heart.
No father should have to hear his daughter say, “Don’t you even like us anymore Daddy?” No little girl should have that fear. Or to have my son ask, “Why can’t you come home, Dad?” No son should know that doubt.
Trying to dispel that kind of fear is hard in person let alone over a phone call… My children turned 5 on February 7th, this is such an important time in their lives. They have already grown so much in the 8 months I’ve been away, and here I sit, being a father over the phone for 15 minutes a night before I have to put my stripes back on and continue the fight to get back home. I miss them so badly. They are so young still, but I pray that even though they don’t understand yet, I hope one day, they will see what I have done and be proud of me.
I’m so grateful for the love and support of my beautiful wife, and I pray that my family can stay strong and know that we are all in God’s hands and that this is all happening for a reason.
I pray for my fellow J6ers and their families, and I pray for our country.
America and her people aren’t done fighting yet.
Thank you for reading me ramble on for a while.
Thank you for all your support and all that you do.
Please pray for my family.
Good luck to all my fellow J6ers, the lord is with us. I pray he helps us go home soon.
God Bless America
God Bless Us All – JimBob Proverbs 17:17**Please help Jim Bob here.**
Jim Bob’s wife, Jessica, added, “Thank you so much for any help you can provide our family.”
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Joe Biden on Thursday morning delivered unscheduled remarks on the Hamas-supporting violent protestors on college campuses ahead of his trip to North Carolina.
After several days of silence on the terrorism at college campuses, Biden shuffled over to a lectern and slurred and coughed through a 3-minute speech.
Biden said he will “always defend free speech” in America – unless of course, you’re a conservative, pro-life Trump supporter.
One reporter was able to sneak in a question after Biden struggled to read his giant teleprompter.
“Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies?” a reporter asked Biden.
“No,” Biden said.
“Do you think the National Guard should intervene?” the reporter asked Biden.
“No,” Biden said as he shuffled away.
WATCH:
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Senator J.D. Vance schooled and shut down CNN leftist Kaitlan Collins after she tried to ambush him with gotcha questions on the garbage criminal prosecutions of President Trump.
On Wednesday evening, Vance was a guest on Collins’s eponymous show, The Source with Kaitlan Collins, to discuss various topics, including the pro-Hamas protests on college campuses across America and whether he would serve as Trump’s vice president. However, things got heated when the subject turned to Trump’s political prosecutions.
After one leading question from Collins, Vance unloaded on Biden’s Department of Injustice. He pointed out how “unusual” it was for the DOJ to collude with communist Manhattan DA Alkving Bragg’s office to bring a nonsense case against a political opponent. Moreover, Vance railed against corrupt Judge Juan Merchan while pointing out his donations to Biden.
He then warned how damaging the prosecutions of Trump are to America’s judicial system. Collins could only sit there in silence after thinking about interrupting him toward the end.
“This is a real threat to Americans’ trust in the legal system,” Vance said. “We are destroying the American system of law and order to bring down Joe Biden’s political opponent.”
WATCH:
Sen. @JDVance1 just demolished CNN FAKE NEWS pic.twitter.com/mKTt3DdVa5
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 2, 2024
Undeterred, Collins asked another misleading question regarding whether Trump could order the military to stage a coup. Trump previously claimed he was immune from prosecution for official acts as president.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan previously posed this hypothetical question to Trump lawyer D. John Sauer during arguments in the immunity hearing last month. Sauer said it depended on the circumstances, but impeachment and conviction must occur before any criminal prosecution.
Vance pointed out this fact during his response to Collins. Then he posed a pointed question to illustrate the slippery slope the Biden regime is embarking on: Should Barack Obama be prosecuted for killing an American citizen via a drone strike?” He then pointed out that if the Regime got its way, the next president would find it impossible to enforce the laws of this country.
After Collins tried to interrupt Vance toward the end, he completely shut her down.
WATCH: @JDVance1 schools Kaitlan Collins on the double-standard being applied to prosecute Donald Trump.
“Should Barack Obama be prosecuted for killing an American citizen via a drone strike?”
— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) May 2, 2024
COLLINS: What circumstances warrant the President (Trump) ordering the military to stage a coup?
VANCE: First of all, he (Sauer) said it depends on the circumstances (immunity from prosecution)…But more importantly, Kaitlin, he’s just saying that would count as an official act…
COLLINS: But, but, is that an official act in your view too
VANCE: Can I finish, Kaitlin? In an official act, there are a number of checks and balances in our system. There’s the impeachment process, there’s the budgeting authority…There are a number of ways Congress has check and balance control over the president.
All he is saying is the criminal liability procedures that exist in this country do not cover the president’s official acts…Should Barack Obama be prosecuted for killing an American citizen via a drone strike?”
There are a number of examples in American history where if you apply the lawfare standard of the Biden Administration against Donald Trump, it would make the Presidency impossible to execute the law.
COLLINS: Yeah, I know that’s the argument that…
VANCE (shutting her down): In the name of taking down their political opponent, Kaitlin, these guys are pushing a legal theory that I think would really destroy the presidency whether a Democrat or Republican was in charge.
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The Gateway Pundit continues to publish long-form interviews from the most censored film in America, “Let My People Go.” The film has reached millions of Americans through a a viral marketing campaign after the film was given away by its creator, former law professor David Clements, after he was de-banked and targeted by the IRS.
During this full interview, Dr. Walter Daugherity, a Harvard Ph.D expert in Computer Science, and Professor Emeritus at Texas A & M University, breaks down how no state to date has independently examined the source code for the machines used in our elections, and how the Libertarian party of North Carolina was thwarted in their attempts to analyze the code that no one seems to be able to get their hands on.
Daugherity details his analysis of cast vote records, which is the only record that shows the sequence of votes to see if impossible patterns exist, and reveals how the underlying software design for Dominion, ES&S, and many other election vendors is the same. What is evidenced in Daugherity’s analysis is a PID (proportional integral derivative) controlled algorithm that selects candidates in a predictive fashion. One of the more shocking revelations in the interview was Daugherity’s finding of 35,000 votes being added to vote totals of democrat candidates up and down the ballot in Arizona and digitally spread out in a controlled fashion to avoid detection. Through a democrat whistleblower’s assistance, Daugherity was able to identify computer-driven vote spikes at precise locations in the electronic records.
The interview shows how the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a private entity funded by the radical leftist group Democracy Fund and directed by the globalist Atlantic Council, indirectly controls the Albert Sensor network. The network monitors all election data in real-time, and CIS is able to share all private information of government county workers to their shadow NGO partners because CIS’s contracts force all states to waive their rights to privacy. Daugherity explains how the Albert Sensors exist behind county firewalls, but still provide a two-way interface where the Department of Homeland Security or other bad actor can access the software and machines to do unspeakable damage. For example, electronic poll books that are supposedly protected behind its county firewall were remotely accessed in Dallas County, with hundreds of fraudulent voters being checked in who weren’t physically present at the polling location.
Daugherity concludes the interview detailing how Dominion tabulators in Maricopa were configured not to detect counterfeit ballots submitted in the 2020 election, most of which were printed on illegal paper sourced from Staples and Office Max after Maricopa waited 5 months to produce the paper ballots. Most of the boxes containing the ballots had their seals broken, with chain of custody destroyed, raising questions over whether the ballots recounted in the Maricopa Audit simply replaced legitimate ballots, and printed fake ones during the five month delay.
You can watch the interview with Dr. Daugherity here:
And you can watch the full feature film “Let My People Go” here:
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came to power promising to ‘stop the boats’, to fundamentally curb the massive influx of ‘asylum seekers’, a.k.a. illegal migrants.
And to date he has failed miserably to do that, with numbers of people arriving to UK’s shores having steadily climbed – and of course, European and British legislation prohibit them to just send people back to whence they came from.
Sunak’s response to that was – the up until now laughable – ‘Rwanda Plan’: build and maintain migrant camps in the East African country to host thousands of ‘failed asylum seekers’.
After endless months of judicial and legislative hurdles, the Home Office has started rounding up and detaining the migrants is will send to Rwanda.
A series of dawn raids has started, with detentions starting to pile up and expectations of a long ‘season of deportation’ ahead.
The Home Office will launch more raids after up to 20 illegal migrants – including women – have already been detained and taken into custody in the UK-wide operation.
Daily Mail reported:
“The Government department has refused to release many details about the arrests, but has suggested that more raids could happen as part of the ‘large-scale operation’.”
PM Sunak wants flights to Rwanda underway in ‘the next 9 to 11 weeks’, after the ‘Safety of Rwanda Act’ finally became law last week.
But of course there are still obstacles ahead. Powerful FDA union launched a ‘judicial review’ into the Rwanda bill. It accused the government of ‘ignoring legal conflicts for civil servants’.
Home Secretary James Cleverly called the operation ‘a pioneering response to the global challenge of illegal migration’ – which it is, regardless of the outcome, since it’s almost unprecedented for European authorities to be doing something – anything – about this.
“The Home Secretary said: ‘Our Rwanda Partnership is a pioneering response to the global challenge of illegal migration, and we have worked tirelessly to introduce new, robust legislation to deliver it. Our dedicated enforcement teams are working at pace to swiftly detain those who have no right to be here so we can get flights off the ground. This is a complex piece of work, but we remain absolutely committed to operationalizing the policy, to stop the boats and break the business model of people smuggling gangs’.”
The law enforcement raids took place in England, Wales and Scotland as well as Northern Ireland. Children will not be detained as part of the operations.
“Home Office Director of Enforcement Eddy Montgomery said: ‘Our specialist operational teams are highly trained and fully equipped to carry out the necessary enforcement activity at pace and in the safest way possible. It is vital that operational detail is kept to a minimum, to protect colleagues involved and those being detained, as well as ensuring we can deliver this large-scale operation as quickly as possible’.”
Once the ‘Safety of Rwanda Act’ became law, it is believed that all legal objections have been overcome.
Objections about the timing of the raids are nevertheless valid, since they began less than 24 hours before polls open in elections that will be tough for the ruling Conservative Party.
Immigration is, after all, one of the top concerns of the public, alongside the economy and the state of the Health System.
“The Home Office has increased its detention capacity to more than 2,200 detention spaces, trained 200 new caseworkers to quickly process claims and has 500 highly trained escorts ready.
[…] Downing Street said: ‘The next stage of Prime Minister’s plan to stop the boats has begun. We’re working at home and abroad to deliver on this priority’.”
Read more:
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A proposed ban on child sexual mutilation in Kansas failed on Monday when two RINO Republicans switched their votes.
Having passed the state Senate, supporters of the bill needed a two-thirds majority in the Kansas House of Representatives in order to override the veto of Democratic governor Laura Kelly.
ABC News reports:
The Kansas House voted 82-43 to overturn Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill that also would have barred state employees who work with children from promoting social transitioning for kids who question or struggle with their gender identities. But supporters were two votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority.
Republicans who backed the bill argued that a ban would protect vulnerable children from what they described as experimental health care that could create long-term health issues. It would not only have banned surgeries for minors but also puberty blockers and hormone treatments. The Senate voted Monday morning 27-13 to override Kelly’s veto, the exact margin supporters needed there.
The two Republicans responsible were Reps. Jesse Borjon and Susan Concannon, who tried to frame their vote as support for limited government.
“We hear of bullying and ask authorities to make it stop,” Concannon said in a speech on the House floor. “We hear about mental health, about suicide, and ask why. We’re not listening to the impacted youth. Government involvement is not the answer.”
“I strongly support prohibiting gender reassignment surgery and limiting the use of hormone blockers,” added Borjon. “[But some parts of the bill] go too far in restricting mental and behavioral health care for children.”
Could not be more disappointed in the Kansas Legislature today. The vote to outlaw gender affirming care for minors failed by one vote today. @GAG_Kansas @GAG_Missouri and I will continue to fight to protect the children of Kansas.
We are just getting started. pic.twitter.com/4b5js406K7— Nathan (@homonatian) April 30, 2024
Gov. Kelly, meanwhile, celebrated the state House’s vote to uphold her veto, describing it as a “win for parental rights.”
“I am glad that bipartisan members of the legislature have stood firm in saying that divisive bills like House Substitute for Senate Bill 233 have no place in Kansas,” she said in a statement. “The legislature’s decision to sustain my veto is a win for parental rights, Kansas families, and families looking to call our state home.”
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People wonder why we call the F-35 a flying tin can. Matt Gaetz proves precisely why that is indeed the case:
Only 29% are mission capable despite costing $100m each and yet the Pentagon describes the F-35 as the “most capable aircraft in the world.”
One reason for the programs failures is because of a lack of leadership at all levels inside the Pentagon. That includes Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who also reluctantly confirms, that American “boots on the ground” will be in Gaza. Rep. Matt Gaetz does a great job exposing the lies from inside The Deep State.
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Guest Post by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Hiding in plain sight is the singular person who would do more for the Trump candidacy, the ticket, the party, and the country than any other person.
His name is Dr. Ben Carson.
When I say dark horse, I do not refer to some racial trope on his distinguished African American heritage, either. I mean, he is not being talked about or considered by the political class, by the effete leftwing media, or all the so-called pundits know it all’s.
What are they missing?
Dr. Carson is without question a world-renowned surgeon and first-class mind. He is a gentle soul who served loyally as a cabinet secretary in the first Trump term, one of the few persons to do so pillar to post—for the full duration. Less you forget, he was also the dedicated vice chair of Trump’s transition team.
As a person who always seems to calm the storm, he figuratively also — walks on water. Yes, Carson knows and acknowledges Jesus Christ as his personal savior. He is a devout man in every fiber of his being. He is not only an exemplar role model for all men, black or white, red, or yellow, as the famous bible song goes, but he embodies the way of the Lord expressed in the Sermon on the Mount or the Beatitudes.
He is humble, so full of humility in fact, he scares no one because he knows who he is, and the purpose God has sent him here to achieve. He is virtuous in that he both knows and keeps the Word. He speaks truth to power and has the touch of grace that comes with such a spirit and demeanor.
Carson would be a perfect running mate and vice president for Trump.
He knows and him and trusts him and the former President should in this hour of need turn to him and put the country at rest. There simply is no better choice. All the other familiar names torn from the headlines pale in comparison to this courageous and brilliant man. They are hacks and pols, and he embodies old fashion–goodness.
Many people in recent weeks have been amazed at Scottie Scheffler’s winning ways in the world of golf. His swing is so perfect and easy that he wins nearly every shot. He is a master. The secret behind his success is his confession that he believes in the power of Christ and depends entirely on Him. He feels His power and gives Him all the glory.
Carson is the exact same in the world of medicine, where he was the top neurosurgeon at America’s number one hospital, Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore, Maryland.
He entered politics reluctantly as a cultural calling. I first met him in 2013 when he gave the keynote address at the National Prayer Breakfast. He was different—honest and wise. You just have to love him.
He is right on every issue from life to economics and from war & peace to the border. But the way he is right marks him from every other politician—that’s because he is not a politician.
He is a healer. He is also the most significant black conservative in the land.
Carson has attained amazing accomplishments as a person and as a most decent human being. He became the director of pediatric surgery at the age of just 33. He led the first separation of conjoined twins and was the first to perform new surgical procedures on a fetus inside the womb. He developed new methods to treat brain-stem tumors and to control brain seizures. Yet, Carson is not only a genius but a miracle worker.
Receiving so many honors they fill page after page, Carson has been awarded 60 honorary doctorates and merit citations. He was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. He has written six best-selling books and was himself the subject of the award-winning bio television film: Gifted Hands. It is not an over statement.
Born into severe poverty, living on food stamps, Carson nonetheless overcame what life dealt him. He maintained a faithful attitude and a sure resolve that others have rarely exhibited. He is one of a kind.
As a public servant and a servant leader, Carson is what is sorely needed in 2024.
When Donald Trump, who is going to be our 47th President, thinks and hopefully prays about it, pondering his next one short term in office and what both he and the country most need, he should focus in on Dr. Carson. That is because Carson more than any other individual will help Trump win and carry out his true and intended mission.
Think about it.
The good doctor would never challenge him, he would support and console him. The good doctor would not be a traitor, like another Vice President but would constantly stand in his corner. The good doctor would not have his own agenda or try to take over to become another counter-force but would quietly lead through influence and wise counsel. He would be there when and as needed, he would literally calm the storm and guide us into the night that surrounds us as a nation on every front. He would benefit Donald Trump enormously both personally and politically. He is what Trump deserves. He is what American cries for.
What are the political benefits over and above all the traits listed above that the likeable Carson brings to the table?
There are more than a few. He most certainly would bring in voters, and not only blacks. Yes, that number would rise significantly. He also appeals to women, to Evangelicals and Catholics, and to everyone who wants to return to sanity, who wants goodness back, who wants to retore American greatness.
The improbable political career that Carson embarked on late in his life’s trajectory, has witnessed him surging in the national polls, raising significant funds, and bringing a larger community together in the public arena. At Trump’s side as a formidable team, they would win an overwhelming majority. They would carry the House and take back the Senate.
Born into poverty and surviving the travails of a single parent family, Carson excelled best at education. But it was the Book of Proverbs that he applied to his real-life situations allowing him to overcome anger and temptations. It brought him into a lasting relationship with a higher power. When he won a full ride scholarship to Yale, he was on his way down a most illustrative career, but it was always because of his faithfulness that he exceeded expectations and became a truly great American, or a par it could be argued, with Martin Luther King or Frederick Douglass.
Trump should say now, today, that he has decided. He has chosen the best qualified, best mind, most decent and sound conservative he could possibly find to be at his side. It is his close friend and stalwart defender.
Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr. is what America wants and needs.
He is the choice President Trump should make for a more perfect union, for harmony and unity. He would serve him well. His is a voice for reason and civility in a nation that is increasingly devoid of common sense.
Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, is Chairman and CEO of Global Fiduciary Governance LLC, a leading strategy thought leadership company. Ted Malloch conceptualizes and executes some of today’s most dynamic international projects. He was President of the World Economic Development Congress sponsored by CNN, where Lady Margaret Thatcher dubbed him a “global sherpa”.
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Pro-Palestine protests have broken out on university campuses across the United States. Some have turned violent, while others have resulted in the destruction of public property. Many have laid siege to public buildings, and there have been repeated instances of crowds chanting antisemitic or even genocidal slogans.
The pro-Palestine protesters have been compared to the anti-Vietnam War protestors by their supporters. But other than the fact that they are protesting, the two groups share little similarity. Several fundamental differences are: they are not championing women’s rights or minority rights; they are not protesting for peace, the US is not at war in Gaza; Hamas is a designated terrorist organization. And these kids are not in danger of being drafted.
The hippie protestors in the 1960s were closely aligned with the Civil Rights movement, fighting for women’s rights and minority rights. The pro-Palestine mobs, however, are protesting in favor of a system where women have almost no rights. Additionally, there are 1.9 billion Muslims and only about 16 million Jews. So, they are protesting in support of the majority, not the minority.
Some of the anti-Vietnam protestors felt war was morally wrong, so they wanted peace, as reflected in songs like, “All that we’re saying, is give peace a chance.” Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., mistakenly characterized the pro-Palestine protestors as wanting peace. She said, “Contrary to right-wing attacks, these students are joyfully protesting for peace and an end to the genocide taking place in Gaza.” But this is a misrepresentation. The pro-Palestine protestors do not seem to have a peace agenda. Furthermore, a lot of them are calling for violence against Jews and Israel, shouting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”.
Even if a few of them use the word “peace,” they aren’t really calling for peace. They just want Israel to stop defending itself.
One of the main reasons that the hippies opposed the Vietnam War was because of the draft. The college students of that era were draft age and stood a good chance of being conscripted and sent to fight in Vietnam. However, the US has not had a draft since 1973. These kids are not in danger of being sent to war.
The connection between the anti-Vietnam War protests in America and the Vietnam War was direct: America was in a war, and the young people wanted America to no longer be in that war. The pro-Palestine protests, on the other hand, seem to have a less logical connection.
Hamas attacked Israel and killed 1,200 civilians. Israel finally had enough and is decimating Gaza. So, liberal college students in the USA shut down their universities, broke the law, threatened people, damaged property, preached antisemitism… The connection is difficult to see.
According to a PBS interview with protestors at UCLA, they want the university to be transparent about its ties to Israel. This raises an important difference between the 60s and now: the hippies were protesting against the Vietnam War. These kids are protesting against Israel, against a country. And although many of them wouldn’t admit it, the reality is that they want Israel to no longer exist.
The students are demanding that the university “divest the endowment from corporations that profit off of Israel.” Basically, they want the university to give back donor money and ostensibly raise tuition. And the corporations are likely to be American corporations. This seems incredibly far removed from the war in Gaza.
A UCLA professor explained that protesters wanted “transparency in their universities’ relationships with Israeli institutions.” A professor at Columbia University said that they wanted “an academic boycott of Israeli institutions via the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Global Center and dual degree program.” So, the boycott with Israel would not be limited to financial ties but academic and cultural as well. There is a big difference between Vietnam protestors wanting the US to stop fighting the war in Vietnam and the pro-Palestine protestors wanting the US to stop engaging with Israel.
On a cultural note, a glaring difference is that the anti-Vietnam protest movement gave birth to some of the greatest music ever recorded: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Hamas tunes, by contrast, are not quite as catchy.
One similarity might be the possibility of terrorism. The anti-Vietnam War movement led to the birth of groups like the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), Black Liberation Army (BLA), Red Army Faction (RAF), and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Today we are looking at Antifa, but given the connection with Palestine, Islamic extremist terrorism is also possible, ranging from Hamas to the PLO, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS.
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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is famous in the U.S. Senate for his incisive wit and dry sense of humor. He has displayed these talents during his time as an elected official, whether by stumping unqualified Biden nominees or in interviews with reporters.
During a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday, a radical-left climate professor named Geoffrey Supran became his latest victim over posts he made on X/Twitter. As the Daily Caller reported, Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had invited Supran, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami, to testify as a so-called “expert” on “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change.”
The Daily Caller notes that Supran, in December, retweeted several posts by a group called Climate Defiance, including one targeting Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). As the Gateway Pundit reported, the group claimed victory after calling Manchin a “sick f**k” during a March meeting at the Harvard Kennedy School despite one of their protesters getting leveled after interrupting the event.
BREAKING: we just called Joe Manchin a sick fuck. We humiliated him in front of a herd of Harvard elites. He squared up. We held firm. Barbaric murderer, hideous fiend, he torches humanity and laughs. pic.twitter.com/1ajrQsKnbJ
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) March 1, 2024
After exposing the connection between Supran and Climate Defiance, The Caller reports Kennedy grilled him on the Manchin reposts along with ones calling Senator Lisa Murkowski (RINO-AK) a “murderer” in April and telling Exxon CEO and Chairman Darren Woods to “eat sh*t” in December. Supran responded by denying responsibility, which brought derisive scorn from Kennedy.
“I’m not responsible for the statements of other people,” Supran said.
“Nice group you’re hanging around with, doc. Here’s what your tweet says,” Kennedy sneered. He then read a despicable December 14 tweet, the first Supran endorsed by the organization.
We do not do online petitions. We do not do NGO coalition letters. We do not do f**king bus stop ads.
We CHASE fossil fuel CEOs and the politicians who do their bidding. And we do not apologize.
We do not do online petitions. We do not do NGO coalition letters. We do not do fucking bus stop ads.
We CHASE fossil fuel CEOs and the politicians who do their bidding. And we do not apologize.
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) December 14, 2023
After reading more vile tweets, the professor tried to distance himself again by saying these were not his words despite posting the group’s statements on his X account.
Kennedy then delivered the finishing blow to Supran toward the end of the hearing after he again tried to dissociate himself from the posts lamely and accused Kennedy of defaming his character. But Kennedy blew him up with one final question: Are you gonna call me a sick f**k?!”
Not even Whitehouse’s attempted intervention could save Supran.
John Kennedy is a national treasure pic.twitter.com/o06GyaRD6G
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 1, 2024
SUPRAN: May I please see the document?
KENNEDY: Yes, sir. Hand the witness his documents.
WHITEHOUSE: The Senator’s time has expired, and there are other senators waiting.
KENNEDY: Oh, I’ve got a bunch more tweets. Thank you for your objective advice (sarcasm)…I’d like to submit all of the good doctor’s tweets and “scientific analysis” for the record.
WHITEHOUSE: Without objection.
SUPRAN: May I clarify one final point? These are not my tweets. These are retweets.
KENNEDY: Oh, you often retweet stuff you don’t support. Is that what you’re telling me, doc?
SUPRAN: I did not say that I do not support this. I simply did not tweet it, which you were alleging. I’d like to make very clear that this is a form of character assassination characteristic of propaganda techniques-
KENNEDY: You retweeted it, didn’t you!? Are you going to call me a sick f**k?!
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President Trump revealed what actions he will take in November if he falls short of winning the 2024 Presidential election.
As the Daily Mail reported, Trump spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel regarding issues around election integrity in an interview following Wednesday’s rally in Waukesha. Trump focused most of his comments during the rally on Biden’s garbage economic record and the illegal alien invasion along America’s southern border.
Trump explained in his interview that he could take two paths after the election: one would be to accept the results if they were just. But in the event of an unfair election, he would spare no expense going to battle.
“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Trump told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”
This is a brave stance for Trump to take, considering he is currently being prosecuted for daring to exercise his First Amendment rights by questioning the results of the last presidential election.
At the time of this writing, Trump is leading Joe Biden in EVERY swing state. As Gateway Pundit readers know, these states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Trump also said during his interview with the outlet that he won Wisconsin the last time. Official results showed Biden secured 1,630,866 votes compared to Trump’s 1,610,184, a margin of 20,682 votes, though multiple reports have called the vote totals into question.
“If you go back and look at all of the things that had been found out, it showed that I won the election in Wisconsin,” Trump claimed. “It also showed I won the election in other locations.”
Given the current trends, a Biden “victory” would undoubtedly appear suspicious in the eyes of millions of Americans, especially given the nonexistent election integrity laws in so many states. If it is close, Trump will have every justifiable right to contest the election.
Hopefully, a large voter turnout of Americans furious over Biden’s failed “leadership” will render this unnecessary.
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By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigations
April 30, 2024
In successfully lobbying Congress for an additional $61 billion in Ukraine war funding, an effort that ended this month with celebratory Democrats waving Ukrainian flags in the House chamber, President Biden has cast his administration’s standoff with Russia as an existential test for democracy.
“What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas,” Biden declared in his State of the Union address in March. “History is watching, just like history watched three years ago on January 6th.”
While Biden’s narrative is widely accepted by Washington’s political establishment, a close examination of the president and his top principals’ record dating back to the Obama administration reveals a different picture. Far from protecting democracy from Kyiv to Washington, their role in Ukraine looks more like epic meddling resulting in political upheaval for both countries.
Over the last decade, Ukraine has been the battleground in a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia – a conflict massively escalated by the Kremlin’s invasion in 2022. The fight erupted in early 2014, when Biden and his team, then serving in the Obama administration, supported the overthrow of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Leveraging billions of dollars in U.S. assistance, Washington has shaped the personnel and policies of subsequent Ukrainian governments, all while expanding its military and intelligence presence in Ukraine via the CIA and NATO. During this period, Ukraine has not become an independent self-sustaining democracy, but a client state heavily dependent on European and U.S. support, which has not protected it from the ravages of war.
The Biden-Obama team’s meddling in Ukraine has also had a boomerang effect at home.
As well-connected Washington Beltway insiders such as Hunter Biden have exploited it for personal enrichment, Ukraine has become a source of foreign interference in the U.S. political system – with questions of unsavory dealings arising in the 2016 and 2020 elections as well as the first impeachment of Donald Trump. After years of secrecy, CIA sources have only recently confirmed that Ukrainian intelligence helped generate the Russian interference allegations that engulfed Trump’s presidency. House Democrats’ initial attempt to impeach Trump, undertaken in the fall of 2019, came in response to his efforts to scrutinize Ukraine’s Russiagate connection.
This account of U.S. interference in Ukraine, which can be traced to fateful decisions made by the Obama administration, including then-Vice President Biden and his top aides, is based on often overlooked public disclosures. It also relies on the personal testimony of Andrii Telizhenko, a former Ukrainian diplomat and Democratic Party-tied political consultant who worked closely with U.S. officials to promote regime change in Ukraine.
Although he once welcomed Washington’s influence in Ukraine, Telizhenko now takes a different view. “I’m a Ukrainian who knew how Ukraine was 30 years ago, and what it became today,” he says. “For me, it’s a total failed state.” In his view, Ukraine has been “used directly by the United States to fight a [proxy] war with Russia” and “as a rag to make money for people like Biden and his family.”
The State Department has accused Telizhenko being part of a “Russia-linked foreign influence network.” In Sept. 2020 it revoked his visa to travel to the United States. Telizhenko, who now lives in a western European country where he was granted political asylum, denies working with Russia and says that he is a whistleblower speaking out to expose how U.S. interference has ravaged his country. RealClearInvestigations has confirmed that he worked closely with top American officials while they advanced policies aimed at severing Ukraine’s ties to Russia. No official contacted for this article – including former CIA chief John Brennan and senior State Department official Victoria Nuland – disputed any of his claims.
The Biden team’s path to influencing Ukraine began with the eruption of anti-government unrest in November 2013. That month, protesters began filling Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) after then-President Viktor Yanukovych, a notoriously corrupt leader, delayed signing a European Union (EU) trade pact. To members of what came to be known as the Maidan movement, Yanukovych’s decision was a betrayal of his pledge to strengthen Western ties, and a worrying sign of Russian allegiance in a country haunted by its Soviet past.
The reality was more complex. Yanukovych was hoping to maintain relations with both Russia and Europe – and use competition between them to Ukraine’s advantage. He also worried that the EU’s terms, which demanded reduced trade with Russia, would alienate his political base in the east and south, home to millions of ethnic Russians. As the International Crisis Group noted, these Yanukovych-supporting Ukrainians feared that the EU terms “would hurt their livelihoods, a large number of which were tied to trade and close relations with Russia.” Despite claims that the Maidan movement represented a “popular revolution,” polls from that period showed that Ukrainians were evenly split on it, or even majority opposed.
After an initial period of peaceful protest, the Maidan movement was soon co-opted by nationalist forces, which encouraged a violent insurrection for regime change. Leading Maidan’s hardline contingent was Oleh Tyahnybok of the Svoboda party, who had once urged his supporters to fight what he called the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia running Ukraine.” Tyahnybok’s followers were joined by Right Sector, a coalition of ultra-nationalist groups whose members openly sported Nazi insignia. One year before, the European Parliament condemned Svoboda for “racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic views” and urged Ukrainian political parties “not to associate with, endorse or form coalitions with this party.”
Powerful figures in Washington took a different view: For them, the Maidan movement represented an opportunity to achieve a longtime goal of pulling Ukraine into the Western orbit. Given Ukraine’s historical ties to Russia, its integration with the West could also be used to undermine the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As the-late Zbigniew Brzezinski, the influential former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, once wrote: “Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.” Two months before the Kyiv protests erupted, Carl Gershman, head of the National Endowment for Democracy, dubbed Ukraine “the biggest prize” in the West’s rivalry with Russia. Absorbing Ukraine, Gershman explained, could leave Putin “on the losing end not just in the near abroad” – i.e, its former Soviet satellites – “but within Russia itself.” Shortly after, senior State Department official Nuland boasted that the U.S. had “invested more than $5 billion” to help pro-Western “civil society” groups achieve a “secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.”
Seeking to capitalize on the unrest, U.S. figures including Nuland, Republican Sen. John McCain, and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy visited Maidan Square. In a show of support for the movement’s hardline faction, which went beyond supporting the EU trade deal to demand Yanukovych’s ouster, the trio met privately with Tyahnybok and appeared with him on stage. The senators’ mission, Murphy said, was to “bring about a peaceful transition here.”
The Maidan Movement’s most significant U.S. endorsement came from then-Vice President Joe Biden. “Nothing would have greater impact for securing our interests and the world’s interests in Europe than to see a democratic, prosperous, and independent Ukraine in the region,” Biden said.
According to Andrii Telizhenko, a former Ukrainian government official who worked closely with Western officials during this period, the U.S. government’s role went far beyond those high-profile displays of solidarity.
“As soon as it grew into something, into the bigger Maidan, in the beginning of December, it basically was full coordination with the U.S. Embassy,” Telizhenko recalls. “Full, full.”
When the protests erupted, Telizhenko was working as an adviser to a Ukrainian member of Parliament. Having spent part of his youth in Canada and the United States, Telizhenko’s fluent English and Western connections landed him a position helping to oversee the Maidan Movement’s international relations. In this role, he organized meetings with and coordinated security arrangements for foreign visitors, including U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, Nuland, and McCain. Most of their briefings were held at Kyiv’s Trade Unions Building, the movement’s de-facto headquarters in the city’s center.
Telizhenko says Pyatt routinely coordinated with Maidan leaders on protest strategy. In one encounter, the ambassador observed Right Sector members assembling Molotov cocktails that would later be thrown at riot police attempting to enter the building. Sometimes, the U.S. ambassador disapproved of his counterparts’ tactics. “The U.S. embassy would criticize if something would happen more radical than it was supposed to go by plan, because it’s bad for the picture,” Telizhenko said..
That winter was marked by a series of escalating clashes. On February 20, 2014, snipers fatally shot dozens of protesters in Maidan square. Western governments attributed the killings to Yanukovych’s forces. But an intercepted phone call between NATO officials told a different story.
In the recorded conversation, Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet told EU foreign secretary Catherine Ashton that he believed pro-Maidan forces were behind the slaughter. In Kyiv, Paet reported, “there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new [opposition] coalition.”
In a bid to resolve the Maidan crisis and avoid more bloodshed, European officials brokered a compromise between Yanukovich and the opposition. The Feb. 21 deal called for a new national unity government that would keep him in office, with reduced powers, until early elections at year’s end. It also called for the disarmament of the Maidan forces and a withdrawal of riot police. Holding up its end of the bargain, government security forces pulled back. But the Maidan encampment’s ultra-nationalist contingent had no interest in compromise.
“We don’t want to see Yanukovych in power,” Maidan Movement squadron leader Vladimir Parasyuk declared that same day. “… And unless this morning you come up with a statement demanding that he steps down, then we will take arms and go, I swear.”
In insisting on regime change, the far-right contingent was also usurping the leadership of more moderate opposition leaders such as Vitali Klitschko, who supported the power-sharing agreement.
“The goal was to overthrow the government,” Telizhenko says. “That was the first goal. And it was all green-lighted by the U.S. Embassy. They basically supported all this, because they did not tell them to stop. If they told them [Maidan leaders] to stop, they would stop.”
Yet another leaked phone call bolstered suspicions that the U.S. endorsed regime change. On the recording, presumably intercepted in January by Russian or Ukrainian intelligence, Nuland and Pyatt discussed their choice of leaders in a proposed power-sharing government with Yanukovich. Their conversation showed that the U.S. exerted considerable influence with the faction seeking the Ukrainian president’s ouster.
Tyahnybok, the openly antisemitic head of Svodova, would be a “problem” in office, Nuland worried, and better “on the outside.” Klitschko, the more moderate Maidan member, was ruled out as well. “I don’t think Klitsch should go into government,” Nuland said. “I don’t think it’s necessary. I don’t think it’s a good idea.” One reason was Klitschko’s proximity to the European Union. Despite her government’s warm words for the European Union in public, Nuland told Pyatt: “Fuck the EU.”
The two U.S. officials settled on technocrat Arseniy Yatsenyuk. “I think Yats is the guy,” Nuland said. By that point, Yatsenyuk had endorsed violent insurrection. The government’s rejection of Maidan demands, he said, meant that “people had acquired the right to move from non-violent to violent means of protest.”
The only outstanding matter, Pyatt relayed, was securing “somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing.” Nuland replied that Vice President Joe Biden and his senior aide, Jake Sullivan, who now serves as Biden’s National Security Adviser, had signed on to provide “an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick.”
Just hours after the power-sharing agreement was reached, Nuland’s wishes were granted. Yanukovich, no longer protected by his armed forces, fled the capital. Emboldened by their sabotage of an EU-brokered power-sharing truce, Maidan Movement members stormed the Ukrainian Parliament and pushed through the formation of a new government. In violation of parliamentary rules on impeachment proceedings, and lacking a sufficient quorum, Oleksandr Turchynov was named the new acting president. The Nuland-backed Yatsenyuk was appointed Prime Minister.
In a reflection of their influence, at least five post-coup cabinet posts in national security, defense, and law enforcement were given to members of Svoboda and its far-right ally Right Sector.
“The uncomfortable truth is that a sizeable portion of Kyiv’s current government – and the protesters who brought it to power – are, indeed, fascists,” wrote Andrew Foxall, now a British defense official, and Oren Kessler, a Tel Aviv-based analyst, in Foreign Policy the following month. While denying any role in Yanukovich’s ouster, the Obama administration immediately endorsed it, as Secretary of State John Kerry expressed “strong support” for the new government.
In his memoir, former senior Obama aide Ben Rhodes acknowledged that Nuland and Pyatt “sounded as if they were picking a new government as they evaluated different Ukrainian leaders.” Rather than dispel that impression, he acknowledged that some of the Maidan “leaders received grants from U.S. democracy promotion programs.”
In 2012, one pro-Maidan group, Center UA, received most of its more than $500,000 in donations from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the National Endowment for Democracy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and financier George Soros.
By its own count, Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation spent over $109 million in Ukraine between 2004 and 2014. In leaked documents, a former IRF board member even bragged that its partners “were the main driving force and the foundation of the Maidan movement,” and that without Soros’ funding, “the revolution might not have succeeded.” Weeks after the coup, an IRF strategy document noted, “Like during the Maidan protests, IRF representatives are in the midst of Ukraine’s transition process.”
Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who advised Ukraine on economic policy in the early 1990s, visited Kyiv shortly after the coup to consult with the new government.
“I was taken around the Maidan where people were still milling around,” Sachs recalls. “And the American NGOs were around there, and they were describing to me: ‘Oh we paid for this, we paid for that. We funded this insurrection.’ It turned my stomach.” Sachs believes that these groups were acting at the behest of U.S. intelligence. To go about “funding this uprising,” he says, “they didn’t do that on their own as nice NGOs. This is off-budget financing for a U.S. regime-change operation.”
Weeks after vowing to bring about a “transition” in Ukraine, Sen. Murphy openly took credit for it. “I really think that the clear position of the United States has in part been what has helped lead to this change in regime,” Murphy said. “I think it was our role, including sanctions and threats of sanctions, that forced, in part, Yanukovych from office.”
Far from resolving the unrest, Viktor Yanukovych’s ouster plunged Ukraine into a war.
Just days after the Ukrainian president fled to Moscow, Russian special forces stormed Crimea’s local parliament. The following month, Russia annexed Crimea following a hasty, militarized referendum denounced by Ukraine, the U.S., and much of the world. While these objections were well-founded, Western surveys of Crimeans nonetheless found majority support for Russian annexation.
Emboldened by the events in Crimea, and hostile to a new government that had overthrown their elected leader Yanukovych, Russophile Ukrainians in the eastern Donbas region followed suit.
On April 6 and 7, anti-Maidan protesters seized government buildings in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv. The Donetsk rebels declared the founding of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Luhansk People’s Republic followed 20 days later. Both areas announced independence referendums for May 11.
As in Crimea, Moscow backed the Donbas rebellion. But unlike in Crimea, the Kremlin opposed the independence votes. The organizers, Putin said, should “hold off on the referendum in order to give dialogue the conditions it needs to have a chance.”
In public, the Obama administration claimed to also favor dialogue between Kyiv and the Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. Behind the scenes, a more aggressive plan was brewing.
On April 12, CIA chief John Brennan slipped into the Ukrainian capital for secret meetings with top officials. Russia, whose intelligence services ran a network of informants inside Ukraine, publicly outed Brennan’s visit. The Kremlin and Yanukovych directly accused Brennan of encouraging an assault on the Donbas.
The CIA dismissed the allegation as “completely false,” and insisted that Brennan supported a “diplomatic solution” as “the only way to resolve the crisis.” The following month, Brennan insisted that “I was out there to interact with our Ukrainian partners and friends.”
Yet Russia and Yanukovych were not alone in voicing concerns about the CIA chief’s covert trip. “What message does it send to have John Brennan, the head of the CIA in Kiev, meeting with the interim government?” Sen. Murphy complained. “Does that not confirm the worst paranoia on the part of the Russians and those who see the Kiev government as essentially a puppet of the West?… It may not be super smart to have Brennan in Kiev, giving the impression that the United States is somehow there to fight a proxy war with Russia.”
According to Telizhenko, who attended the Brennan meeting and spoke to RCI on record about it for the first time, that’s exactly what the CIA chief was there to do. Contrary to U.S. claims, Telizhenko says, “Brennan gave a green light to use force against Donbas,” and discussed “how the U.S. could support it.” One day after the meeting, Kyiv announced an “Anti-Terrorist Operation” (ATO) against the Donbas region and began a military assault.
Telizhenko, who was by then working as a senior policy adviser to Vitaliy Yarema, the First Deputy Prime Minister, says he helped arrange the Brennan gathering after getting a phone call from the U.S. embassy. “I was told there was going to be a top secret meeting, with a top U.S. official and that my boss should be there,” he recalls. “I was also told not to tell anyone.”
Brennan, he recalls, arrived at the Foreign Intelligence Office of Ukraine in a beat-up gray mini-van and a coterie of armed guards. Others in attendance included U.S. Ambassador Pyatt, Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov, foreign intelligence chief Victor Gvozd, and other senior Ukrainian security officials.
After a customary exchange of medals and souvenir trophies, the topic turned to the unrest in the Donbas. “Brennan was talking about how Ukraine should act,” Telizhenko says. “A plan to keep Donbas in Ukraine’s hands. But Ukraine’s army was not fully equipped. We only had stuff in reserves. They discussed plans for the ATO and how to keep Ukraine’s military fully armed throughout.” Brennan’s overall message was that “Russia is behind” the Donbas unrest, and “Ukraine has to take firm, aggressive action to not let this spread all over.”
Brennan and Pyatt did not respond to a request for comment.
Two weeks after Brennan’s visit, the Obama administration offered yet another high-level endorsement of the Donbas operation when then-Vice President Biden visited Kyiv. With Ukraine facing “unrest and uncertainty,” Biden told a group of lawmakers, it now had “a second opportunity to make good on the original promise made by the Orange Revolution” – referring to earlier 2004-2005 post-electoral upheaval that blocked Yanukovych, albeit temporarily, from the presidency.
Looking back, Telizhenko is struck by the contrast between Brennan’s bellicosity in Donbas and the Obama administration’s lax response to Russia’s Crimea grab one month prior.
“After Crimea, they told us not to respond,” he said. But beforehand, “the Americans scoffed at warnings” that Ukraine could lose the peninsula. When Ukrainian officials met with Pentagon counterparts in March, “we gave them evidence that the little green men” – the incognito Russian forces who seized Crimea – “were Russians. They dismissed it.” Telizhenko now speculates that the U.S. permitted the Crimean takeover to encourage a conflict between Kyiv and Moscow-backed eastern Ukrainians. “I think they wanted Ukraine to hate Russia, and they wanted Russia to take the bait,” he said. Had Ukraine acted earlier, he believes, “the Crimea situation could have been stopped.”
With Russia in control of Crimea and Ukraine assaulting the Donbas with U.S. backing, the country descended into a full-scale civil war. Thousands were killed and millions displaced in the ensuing conflict. When Ukrainian forces threatened to overrun the Donbas rebels in August 2014, the Kremlin launched a direct military intervention that turned the tide. But rather than offer Ukraine more military assistance, Obama began getting cold feet.
Obama, senior Pentagon official Derek Chollet recalled, was concerned that flooding Ukraine with more weapons would “escalate the crisis” and give “Putin a pretext to go further and invade all of Ukraine.”
Rebuffing pressure from within his own Cabinet, Obama promised German Chancellor Angela Merkel in February 2015 that he would not send lethal aid to Ukraine. According to the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Peter Wittig, Obama agreed with Merkel on the need “to give some space for those diplomatic, political efforts that were under way.”
That same month, Obama’s commitment gave Merkel the momentum to finalize the Minsk II Accords, a pact between Kyiv and Russian-backed Ukrainian rebels. Under Minsk II, an outmatched Ukrainian government agreed to allow limited autonomy for the breakaway Donbas regions in exchange for the rebels’ demilitarization and the withdrawal of their Russian allies.
Inside the White House, Obama’s position on Ukraine left him virtually alone. Obama’s reluctance to arm Ukraine, Chollet recalled, marked a rare situation “in which just about every senior official was for doing something that the president opposed.”
One of those senior officials was the State Department’s point person for Ukraine, Victoria Nuland. Along with allied officials and lawmakers, Nuland sought to undermine the Minsk peace pact even before it was signed.
As Germany and France lobbied Moscow and Kyiv to accept a peace deal, Nuland addressed a private meeting of U.S. officials, generals, and lawmakers – including Sen. McCain and future Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference. Dismissing the French-German diplomatic efforts as an act of appeasement, Nuland outlined a strategy to continue the war with a fresh influx of Western arms. Perhaps mindful of the optics of flooding Ukraine with military hardware at a time when the Obama administration was claiming to support to a peace agreement, Nuland offered a public relations suggestion. “I would like to urge you to use the word ‘defensive system’ to describe what we would be delivering against Putin’s offensive systems,” Nuland told the gathering.
The Munich meeting underscored that while President Obama may have publicly supported a peace deal in Ukraine, a bipartisan alliance of powerful Washington actors – including his own principals – was determined to stop it. As Foreign Policy magazine reported, “the takeaway for many Europeans … was that Nuland gave short shrift to their concerns about provoking an escalation with Russia and was confusingly out of sync with Obama.”
As Nuland and other officials quietly undermined the Minsk accords, the CIA deepened its role in Ukraine. U.S. intelligence sources recently disclosed to the New York Times that the agency has operated 12 secret bases inside Ukraine since 2014. The post-coup government’s first new spy chief, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, also revealed that he established a formal partnership with the CIA and MI6 just two days after Yanukovych’s ouster.
According to a separate account in the Washington Post, the CIA restructured Ukraine’s two main spy services and turned them into U.S. proxies. Starting in 2015, the CIA transformed Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the GUR, so extensively that “we had kind of rebuilt it from scratch,” a former intelligence official told the Post. “GUR was our little baby.” As a benefit of being the CIA’s proxy, the agency even funded new headquarters for the GUR’s paramilitary wing and a separate division for electronic espionage.
In a 2016 congressional appearance, Nuland touted the extensive U.S. role in Ukraine. “Since the start of the crisis, the United States has provided over $760 million in assistance to Ukraine, in addition to two $1 billion loan guarantees,” Nuland said. U.S. advisers “serve in almost a dozen Ukrainian ministries,” and were helping “modernize Ukraine’s institutions” of state-owned industries.
Nuland’s comments underscored an overlooked irony of the U.S. role in Ukraine: In claiming to defend Ukraine from Russian influence, Ukraine was subsumed by American influence.
In the aftermath of the February 2014 coup, the transformation of Ukraine into an American client state soon had a boomerang effect, as maneuvers in that country increasingly impacted U.S. domestic politics.
“Americans are highly visible in the Ukrainian political process,” Bloomberg columnist Leonid Bershidsky observed in November 2015. “The U.S. embassy in Kyiv is a center of power, and Ukrainian politicians openly talk of appointments and dismissals being vetted by U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt and even U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.”
One of the earliest and best-known cases came in December 2015, when Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid unless Ukraine fired its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, whom the vice president claimed was corrupt. When Biden’s threat resurfaced as an issue during the 2020 election, the official line, as reported by CNN, was that “the effort to remove Shokin was backed by the Obama administration, European allies” and even some Republicans.
In fact, from Washington’s perspective, the campaign for Shokin’s ouster marked a change of course. Six months before Biden’s visit, Nuland had written Shokin that “We have been impressed with the ambitious reform and anti-corruption agenda of your government.”
An Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation of the [U.S.] Interagency Policy Committee on Ukraine stated, “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its [anti-corruption] reform agenda to justify a third [loan] guarantee.” … The next month, moreover, the task force drafted a loan guarantee agreement that did not call for Shokin’s removal. Then, in December, Joe Biden flew to Kyiv to demand his ouster.
No one has explained why Shokin suddenly came into the crosshairs. At the time, the prosecutor general was investigating Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm that was paying Hunter Biden over $80,000 per month to sit on its board.
According to emails obtained from his laptop, Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top Burisma executive less than one year before. Burisma also retained Blue Star Strategies, a D.C. consulting firm that worked closely with Hunter, to help enlist U.S. officials who could pressure the Ukrainian government to drop its criminal probes.
Two senior executives at Blue Star, Sally Painter and Karen Tramontano, formerly worked as top aides to President Bill Clinton.
According to a November 2015 email sent to Hunter by Vadym Pozharsky, a Burisma adviser, the energy firm’s desired “deliverables” included visits from “influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine.” The “ultimate purpose” of these visits would be “to close down” any legal cases against the company’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. One month after that email, Joe Biden visited Ukraine and demanded Shokin’s firing.
Telizhenko – who worked in Shokin’s office at the time, and later worked for Blue Star – said the evidence contradicts claims that Shokin was fired because of his failure, among other things, to investigate Burisma. “There were four criminal cases opened in 2014 against Burisma, and two more additionally opened by Shokin when he became the Prosecutor General,” recalls Telizhenko. “So, whenever anybody says, ‘There were no criminal cases, nobody was investigating Burisma, Shokin was fired because he was a bad prosecutor, he didn’t do his work’ … this was all a lie. No, he did his work.”
In a 2023 interview, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, said Shokin was seen as a “threat” to Burisma. Both of Shokin’s cases against Burisma were closed after his firing.
While allegations of Russian interference and collusion would come to dominate the 2016 campaign, the first documented case of foreign meddling originated in Ukraine.
Telizhenko, who served as a political officer at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C., before joining Blue Star, was an early whistleblower. He went public in January 2017, telling Politico how the Ukrainian embassy worked to help Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election campaign and undermine Trump’s.
According to Telizhenko, Ukraine’s D.C. ambassador, Valeriy Chaly, instructed staffers to shun Trump’s campaign because “Hillary was going to win.”
Telizhenko says he was told to meet with veteran Democratic operative Alexandra Chalupa, who had also served in the Clinton White House. “The U.S. government and people from the Democratic National Committee are approaching and asking for dirt on a presidential candidate,” Telizhenko recalls. “And Chalupa said, ‘I want dirt. I just want to get Trump off the elections.’”
Starting in early 2016, U.S. officials leaned on the Ukrainians to investigate Paul Manafort, the GOP consultant who would become Trump’s campaign manager, and avoid scrutiny of Burisma, as RCI reported in 2022. “Obama’s NSC hosted Ukrainian officials and told them to stop investigating Hunter Biden and start investigating Paul Manafort,” a former senior NSC official told RCI. In January 2016, the FBI suddenly reopened a closed investigation into Manafort for potential money laundering and tax evasion connected to his work in Ukraine.
Telizhenko, who attended a White House meeting with Ukrainian colleagues that same month, says he witnessed Justice Department officials pressing representatives of Ukraine’s Corruption Bureau. “The U.S. officials were asking for the Ukrainian officials to get any information, financial information, about Americans working for the former government of Ukraine, the Yanukovych government,” he says.
By the time Telizhenko spoke out, Ukrainian officials had already admitted intervening in the 2016 election to help Clinton’s campaign. In August, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) released what it claimed was a secret ledger showing that Manafort received millions in illicit cash payments from Yanukovych’s party. The Clinton campaign, then in the early stages of its effort to portray their Republican rival as a Russian conspirator, seized on the news as evidence of Trump’s “troubling connections” to “pro-Kremlin elements in Ukraine.”
The alleged ledger was first obtained by Ukrainian lawmaker Serhiy Leshchenko, who had claimed that he had received it anonymously by mail. Yet Leshchenko was not an impartial source: He made no effort to hide his efforts to help elect Clinton. “A Trump presidency would change the pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy,” Leshchenko told the Financial Times. For him, “it was important to show … that [Trump] is [a] pro-Russian candidate who can break the geopolitical balance in the world.” Accordingly, he added, most of Ukraine’s politicians were “on Hillary Clinton’s side.”
Manafort, who would be convicted of unrelated tax and other financial crimes in 2018, denied the allegation. The ledger was handwritten and did not match the amounts that Manafort was paid in electronic wire transfers. Moreover, the ledger was said to have been stored at Yanukovych’s party headquarters, yet that building was burned in a 2014 riot by Maidan activists.
Telizhenko agrees with Manafort that the ledger was a fabrication. “I think the ledger was just made up because nobody saw it, and nobody got the official documents themselves. From my understanding it was all a toss-up, a made-up story, just because they could not find any dirt on the Trump campaign.”
But with the U.S. media starting to amplify the Clinton campaign’s Trump-Russia conspiracy theories, a wary Trump demanded Manafort’s resignation. “The easiest way for Trump to sidestep the whole Ukraine story is for Manafort not to be there,” Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and a Trump campaign adviser, explained.
The release of the Manafort ledger and cooperation with the Democratic National Committee was not the end of Ukraine’s 2016 election interference.
A recent account in the New York Times revealed that Ukrainian intelligence played a vital role in generating CIA allegations that would become a foundation of the Russiagate hoax – that Russia stole Democratic Party emails and released them via WikiLeaks in a bid to help elect Trump. Once again, CIA chief Brennan played a critical role.
In the Times’ telling, some Obama officials wanted to shut down the CIA’s work in Ukraine after a botched August 2016 Ukrainian intelligence operation in Crimea turned deadly. But Brennan “persuaded them that doing so would be self-defeating, given the relationship was starting to produce intelligence on the Russians as the C.I.A. was investigating Russian election meddling.” This “relationship” between Brennan and his Ukrainian counterparts proved to be pivotal. According to the Times, Ukrainian military intelligence – which the CIA closely managed – claimed to have duped a Russian officer into “into providing information that allowed the C.I.A. to connect Russia’s government to the so-called Fancy Bear hacking group.”
“Fancy Bear” is one of two alleged Russian cyber espionage groups that the FBI has accused of carrying out the 2016 DNC email theft. Yet this allegation has a direct tie not just to Ukraine, but to the Clinton campaign. The name “Fancy Bear” was coined by CrowdStrike, a private firm working directly for Clinton’s attorney, Michael Sussmann. As RealClearInvestigations has previously reported, CrowdStrike first accused Russia of hacking the DNC, and the FBI relied on the firm for evidence. Years after publicly accusing Russia of the theft, CrowdStrike executive Shawn Henry was forced to admit in sworn congressional testimony that the firm “did not have concrete evidence” that Russian hackers took data from the DNC servers.
CrowdStrike’s admission about the evidentiary hole in the Russian hacking allegation, along with the newly disclosed Ukrainian intelligence role in generating it, were both kept under wraps throughout the entirety of Special Counsel Robert Muller’s probe into alleged Russian interference. But when Trump sought answers on both matters, he once again found himself the target of an investigation.
In late September 2019, weeks after Mueller’s halting congressional testimony – which left Trump foes dissatisfied over his failure to find insufficient evidence of a Russian conspiracy – House Democrats kicked off an effort to impeach Trump for freezing U.S. weapons shipments in an alleged scheme to pressure Ukraine into investigating the Bidens. The impeachment was triggered by a whistleblower complaint about a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky two months prior. The “whistleblower” was later identified by RealClearInvestigations as Eric Ciaramella, an intelligence official who had served as Ukraine adviser to then-Vice President Biden when he demanded Shokin’s firing and to the Obama administration’s other key point person for Kyiv, Victoria Nuland.
Yet Trump’s infamous July 2019 phone call with Zelensky was not primarily focused on the Bidens. Instead, according to the transcript, Trump asked Zelensky to do him “a favor” and cooperate with a Justice Department investigation into the origins of Russiagate, which, he asserted, had Ukrainian links. Trump specifically invoked CrowdStrike, the Clinton campaign contractor that had generated the allegation that Russia had hacked the Democratic Party emails. CrowdStrike’s allegation of Russian interference, Trump told Zelensky, had somehow “started with Ukraine.”
More than four years after the call, and eight years after the 2016 campaign, the New York Times’ recent revelation that the CIA relied on Ukrainian intelligence operatives to identify alleged Russian hackers adds new context to Trump’s request for Zelensky’s help. Asked about the Times’ disclosure, a source familiar with Trump’s thinking confirmed to RCI that the president was indeed referring to a Ukrainian role in the Russian hacking allegations that consumed his presidency. “That’s why they impeached him,” the source said. “They didn’t want to be exposed.”
The first impeachment of Donald Trump once again inserted Ukraine into the highest levels of U.S. politics. But the impact may have been even greater in Ukraine.
When Democrats targeted Trump for his phone call with Zelensky, the rookie Ukrainian leader was just months into a mandate that he had won on a pledge to end the Donbas war. In his inaugural address, Zelensky promised that he was “not afraid to lose my own popularity, my ratings,” and even “my own position – as long as peace arrives.”
In their lone face-to-face meeting, held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Trump tried to encourage Zelensky to negotiate with Russia. “I really hope that you and President Putin can get together and solve your problem,” Trump said, referring to the Donbas war. “That would be a tremendous achievement.”
But Ukraine’s powerful ultra-nationalists had other plans. Right Sector co-founder Dmytro Yarosh, commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, responded: “No, he [Zelensky] would lose his life. He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk [Kyiv’s main street] – if he betrays Ukraine” by making a peace with the Russian-backed rebels.
By impeaching Trump for pausing U.S. weaponry to Ukraine, Democrats sent a similar message. Trump, the final House impeachment report proclaimed, had “compromised the national security of the United States.” In his opening statement at Trump’s Senate trial, Rep. Adam Schiff – then seeking to rebound from the collapse of the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory – declared: “The United States aids Ukraine and her people, so that we can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here.”
Other powerful Washington officials, including star impeachment witness William Taylor, then serving as the chief U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, pushed Zelensky toward conflict.
Just before the impeachment scandal erupted in Washington, Zelensky was “expressing curiosity” about the Steinmeier Formula, a German-led effort to revive the stalled Minsk process, which he “hoped might lead to a deal with the Kremlin,” Taylor later recounted to the Washington Post. But Taylor disagreed. “No one knows what it is,” Taylor told Zelensky of the German plan. “Steinmeier doesn’t know what it is … It’s a terrible idea.”
With both powerful Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and Washington bureaucrats opposed to ending the Donbas war, Zelensky ultimately abandoned the peace platform that he was elected on. “By early 2021,” the Post reported, citing a Zelensky ally, “Zelensky believed that negotiations wouldn’t work and that Ukraine would need to retake the Donetsk and Luhansk regions ‘either through a political or military path.’”
The return of the Biden team to the Oval Office in January 2021 appears to have encouraged Zelensky’s confrontational path. By then, polls showed the rookie president trailing OPFL, the opposition party with the second-most seats in parliament and headed by Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian mogul close to Putin.
The following month, Zelensky offered his response to waning public support. Three OPFL-tied television channels were taken off the air. Two weeks later, Zelensky followed up by seizing the assets of Medvedchuk’s family, including a pipeline that brought Russian oil through Ukraine. Medvedchuk was also charged with treason.
Zelensky’s crackdown drew harsh criticism, including from close allies. “This is an illegal mechanism that contradicts the Constitution,” Dmytro Razumkov, the speaker of the parliament and a manager of Zelensky’s presidential campaign, complained.
Yet Zelensky won praise from the newly inaugurated Biden White House, while hailed his effort to “counter Russia’s malign influence.”
It turns out that the U.S. not only applauded Zelensky’s domestic crackdown, but inspired it. Zelensky’s first national security adviser, Oleksandr Danyliuk, later revealed to Time Magazine that the TV stations’ shuttering was “conceived as a welcome gift to the Biden Administration.” Targeting those stations, Danyliuk explained, “was calculated to fit in with the U.S. agenda.” And the U.S. was a happy recipient. “He turned out to be a doer,” a State Department official approvingly said of Zelensky. “He got it done.”
Just days after receiving Zelensky’s “welcome gift” in March 2021, the Biden administration approved its first military package for Ukraine, valued at $125 million. That same month, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council approved a strategy to recover all of Crimea from Russian control, including by force. By the end of March, intense fighting resumed in the Donbas, shattering months of a relatively stable ceasefire.
Russia offered its own reaction. Two days after its ally Medvedchuk’s assets were seized in February, Russia deployed thousands of troops to the Ukraine border, the beginning of a build-up that ultimately topped 100,000 and culminated in an invasion one year later.
The Kremlin, Medvedchuk claimed, was acting to protect Russophile Ukrainians targeted by Zelensky’s censorship. “When they close TV channels that Russian-speaking people watched, when they persecute the party these people voted for, it touches all of the Russian-speaking population,” he said.
Medvedchuk also warned that the more hawkish factions of the Kremlin could use the crackdown as a pretext for war. “There are hawks around Putin who want this crisis. They are ready to invade. They come to him and say, ‘Look at your Medvedchuk. Where is he now? Where is your peaceful solution? Sitting under house arrest? Should we wait until all pro-Russian forces are arrested?’ ”
Along with encouraging a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, the first Trump impeachment also promoted the highly dubious Democratic Party narrative that scrutiny of Ukrainian interference in U.S. politics was a “conspiracy theory” or “Russian disinformation.” Another star impeachment witness, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who leaked the Trump/Zelensky phone call to Ciaramella, testified that Telizhenko – who had blown the whistle on Ukrainian collusion with the DNC – was “not a credible individual.”
Telizhenko was undeterred. After detailing reliable evidence of Ukrainian’s 2016 election interference to Politico, Telizhenko continued to speak out – and increasingly drew the attention of government officials who sought to undermine his claims by casting him as a Russian agent.
Beginning in May 2019, Telizhenko cooperated with Rudy Giuliani, then acting as Trump’s personal attorney, in his effort to expose information about the Bidens’ alleged corruption in Ukraine. During Giuliani’s visits to Ukraine, Telizhenko served as an adviser and translator.
That same year, Telizhenko testified to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as part of a probe into whether the DNC’s 2016 collusion with the Ukrainian embassy violated campaign finance laws. By contrast, multiple DNC officials refused to testify. Telizhenko then cooperated with a separate Senate probe, co-chaired by Republicans Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, on how Hunter Biden’s business dealings impacted U.S. policy in Ukraine.
By the lead-up to the 2020 election, Telizhenko found himself the target of a concerted effort to silence him. As the Senate probed Ukraine, the FBI delivered a classified warning echoing Democrats’ talking points that Telizhenko was among the “known purveyors of Russian disinformation narratives” about the Bidens. In response, GOP Sen. Johnson dropped plans to subpoena Telizhenko. Nevertheless, Telizhenko’s communications with Obama administration officials and his former employer Blue Star Strategies were heavily featured in Johnson and Grassley’s final report on the Bidens’ conflicts of interest in Ukraine, released in September 2020.
The U.S. government’s claims of yet another Russian-backed plot to hurt a Democratic Party presidential nominee set the stage for another highly consequential act of election interference. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published the first in a series of stories detailing how Hunter Biden had traded on his family name to secure lucrative business abroad, including in Ukraine. The Post’s reporting, based on the contents of a laptop Hunter’s had apparently abandoned in a repair shop, also raised questions about Joe Biden’s denials of involvement in his son’s business dealings.
The Hunter Biden laptop emails pointed to the very kind of influence-peddling that the Biden campaign and Democrats routinely accused Trump of. But rather than allow voters to read the reporting and judge for themselves, the Post’s journalism was subjected to a smear campaign and a censorship campaign unparalleled in modern American history. In a statement, a group of more than 50 former intelligence officials – including John Brennan, the former CIA chief – declared that the Hunter Biden laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Meanwhile, Facebook and Twitter prevented the story from being shared on their social media networks.
The FBI lent credence to the intelligence veterans’ false claim by launching a probe into whether the laptop contents were part of a “Russian disinformation” campaign aiming to hurt Biden. The bureau initiated this effort despite having been in possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which it had verified as genuine, for almost a year. To buttress innuendo that the laptop was a Russian plot, a CNN report suspiciously noted that Telizhenko had posted an image on social media featuring Trump holding up an edition of the New York Post’s laptop story.
In January 2021, shortly before Biden took office, the U.S. Treasury Department followed suit by imposing sanctions on Telizhenko for allegedly “having directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign influence in a United States election.”
Treasury, however, did not release any evidence to support its claims. Two months later, the department issued a similar statement in announcing sanctions on former Manafort aide Konstantin Kilimnik, whom it accused of being a “known Russian Intelligence Services agent implementing influence operations on their behalf.” Treasury’s actions followed a bipartisan Senate Intelligence report that also accused Kilimnik of being a Russian spy. As RealClearInvestigations has previously reported, neither the Treasury Department or Senate panel provided any evidence to support their allegations about Kilimnik, which were called into question by countervailing information that RCI brought to light. Just like Telizhenko, Kilimnik had extensive contacts with the Obama administration, whose State Department treated him as a trusted source.
The U.S. government’s endorsement of Democratic claims about Telizhenko had a direct impact on the FEC investigation into DNC-Ukrainian collusion, in which he had testified. In August 2019, the FEC initially sided with Telizhenko and informed Alexandra Chalupa – the DNC operative whom he outed for targeting Paul Manafort – that she plausibly violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by having “the Ukrainian Embassy… [perform] opposition research on the Trump campaign at no charge to the DNC.” The FEC also noted that the DNC “does not directly deny that Chalupa obtained assistance from the Ukrainians nor that she passed on the Ukrainian Embassy’s research to DNC officials.”
But when the Treasury Department sanctioned Telizhenko in January 2021, the FEC suddenly reversed course. As RealClearInvestigations has previously reported, the FEC closed the case against the DNC without punitive action. Democratic commissioner Ellen Weintraub even dismissed allegations of Ukrainian-DNC collusion as “Russian disinformation.” As evidence, she pointed to media reports about Telizhenko and the recent Treasury sanctions against him.
Yet Telizhenko’s detractors have been unable to adduce any concrete evidence tying him to Russia. A January 2021 intelligence community report, declassified two months later, accused Russia of waging “influence operations against the 2020 US presidential election” on behalf of Trump. It made no mention of Telizhenko. The Democratic-led claims of Telizhenko’s supposed Russian ties are additionally undermined by his extensive contact with Obama-Biden administration officials, as journalist John Solomon reported in September 2020.
Telizhenko says he has “no connection at all” to the Russian government or any effort to amplify its messaging. “I’m ready,” he says. “Let the Treasury Department publish what they have on me, and I’m ready to go against them. Let them show the public what they have. They have nothing … I am ready to talk about the truth. They are not.”
Just as Telizhenko has been effectively silenced in the U.S. establishment, so has the Ukrainian meddling that he helped expose. Capturing the prevailing media narrative, the Washington Post recently claimed that Trump has “falsely blamed Ukraine for trying to help Democratic rival Hillary Clinton,” which, the Post added, is “a smear spread by Russian spy services.” This narrative ignores a voluminous record that includes Ukrainian officials admitting to helping Clinton.
As the Biden administration successfully pressured Congress to approve its $61 billion funding request for Ukraine, holdout Republicans were similarly accused of parroting the Kremlin. Shortly before the vote, two influential Republican committee chairmen, Reps. Mike Turner of Ohio and Mike McCaul of Texas, claimed that unnamed members of their caucus were repeating Russian propaganda. Zelensky also asserted that Russia was manipulating U.S. opponents of continued war funding: “When we talk about the Congress — do you notice how [the Russians] work with society in the United States?”
Now that Biden has signed that newly authorized funding into law, the president and his senior aides have been handed the means to extend a proxy war that they launched a decade ago and that continues to ravage Ukraine. In yet another case of Ukraine playing a significant role in domestic U.S. politics, Biden has also secured a boost to his bid for reelection. As the New York Times recently observed: “The resumption of large-scale military aid from the United States all but ensures that the war will be unfinished in Ukraine when Americans go to the polls in November.”
Aaron Maté has provided extensive coverage of corruption within federal intelligence agencies as a contributor to RealClearInvestigations. He is also a contributor to The Nation, and his work has appeared in Democracy Now!, Vice, Al Jazeera, Toronto Star, The Intercept, and Le Monde Diplomatique. Maté is the host of the news show Pushback with Aaron Maté.
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Iran’s Islamic region is offering a lifeline to students who were expelled from American universities over their participation in anti-Israel protests.
Many students have been suspended and are facing possible expulsion for their role in pro-Palestine protests at universities across the U.S. and Europe. Among those are the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, who recently revealed she had been suspended by Columbia for her role in organizing the demonstrations.
According to the state propaganda outlet PressTV, the “head of an Iranian internationally renowned university” has signalled his intention to offer scholarships to any students who are expelled.
The report states:
Head of Shiraz University, Mohammad Moazzeni, announced the decision at a gathering of university students and professors of Shiraz, the capital city of the southern Iranian province of Fars, in solidarity with American and European students supporting Palestinians in the months-long Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Moazzeni criticized the harsh treatment of student protesters by the police in the US and Europe, saying, “They exert a lot of violence in order to contain this raging movement and have even threatened to expel the students from universities and hinder their employment in the future, and such autocratic methods show the decline of global arrogance.”
Announcing Shiraz University’s decision to offer scholarships to students expelled from European and American universities, Moazzeni said, “Students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University and I think that other universities in Shiraz as well as Fars Province are also prepared [to provide the conditions].”
While Shiraz University may not carry the same prestige as the likes of Columbia or Harvard, it would allow the students to study in an environment in which they feel comfortable. It will certainly be interesting to see whether any of the students take Iran up on the offer.
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Police cleaned out the illegal UCLA anti-Israel encampment early Thursday morning on the UCLA campus.
Hundreds of pro-Gaza extremists were gathered at the campus to clear it out.
#UCLA: In a lightning-fast strike, law enforcement launched its second offensive, blasting through the Hamas terrorist perimeter and sending the terrorists reeling as command posts were reduced to rubble. #LAPD #Hamas #HamasTerrorists pic.twitter.com/aeNQD7Ff0M
— XOOAA (@X_O_O_A_A) May 2, 2024
FOX News reported on the overnight clean-up operation at UCLA
Police removed barricades and began to detain some protesters at the anti-Israel encampment on UCLA’s campus Thursday morning.
Hundreds of officers moved in on the encampment from both sides of Royce Hall after a standoff overnight as police gathered in preparation for the raid, which comes amid a nationwide movement calling on college and universities to divest from Israel. Local FOX affiliate KTTV reported that officers met heavy resistance as they approached the camp.
Protesters attempted to resist by shining bright flashlights into the eyes of officers, KTTV reported. Several people were seen being detained by police and hauled away with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.
It is unclear how many people have been detained.
Hundreds gathered on campus this week to pray to Allah in a show of force. Women were kept off to the side, of course.
More video from the UCLA pro-Gaza camp.
Here is the agenda.
UCSD – take a peak at what students are being handed while walking to class. pic.twitter.com/9sts73LBuX
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 2, 2024
What is this? Look at the construction by the protesters.
Riot Police arrest a female Pro-Palestine protester at UCLA. pic.twitter.com/14hyICuhwJ
— War Watch (@WarWatchs) May 2, 2024
#UCLA: As the dust settled, the authorities surveyed the devastation, their dominance over the situation clear as the Hamas terrorists struggled to regroup and respond. #LAPD #Hamas #HamasTerrorists https://t.co/96YQxjP7YH
— XOOAA (@X_O_O_A_A) May 2, 2024
#UCLA: As the dust settled, the authorities surveyed the devastation, their dominance over the situation clear as the Hamas terrorists struggled to regroup and respond. #LAPD #Hamas #HamasTerrorists https://t.co/96YQxjP7YH
— XOOAA (@X_O_O_A_A) May 2, 2024
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Joe Biden has described Japan, a staunch U.S. ally, as “xenophobic” for not wanting mass immigration.
In another diplomatic masterclass, Biden said the reason the U.S. economy was growing was because “we welcome immigrants.
“Think about it,” he said. “Why is China stalling so bad economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia?”
“Because they’re xenophobic,” he said. “They don’t want immigrants.”
NEWS
Biden attacks U.S. ally Japan as “xenophobic”, compares them to Russia and China.
He made the remark in a speech at a campaign fundraising event in Washington.
Biden reiterated remarks he made last month linking China’s economic woes to its unwillingness to accept… pic.twitter.com/G037fADIjd
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 2, 2024
The Japanese government has yet to respond to Biden’s comments.
While relations with China and Russia are at rock bottom, Japan is known as a staunch ally that cooperates with the U.S. on security matters and maintains strong economic ties.
Japan’s low immigration rates are due to a combination of cultural homogeneity, a preference for domestic labor, and historically strict immigration policies. As a result, the country has avoided many of the social and economic problems experienced by many other Western nations that have enabled mass immigration.
However, it is also known for its dangerously low birth rates, which unless rectified, could dethrone its status as a global economic power. Japan recently entered a recession and was replaced in its position by Germany as the world’s fourth-largest economic power.
Biden, meanwhile, has overseen the effective invasion of America’s southern border, with over 10 million people entering the country illegally since he took office in 2021.
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Another whistleblower connected to Boeing has tragically passed away.
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, died early Tuesday morning after battling a sudden, rapid infection, the Seattle Times reported.
His death comes less than two months after the death of John Barnett, another whistleblower, under mysterious circumstances.
Joshua Dean, known affectionately as Josh, was a prominent figure in raising alarms over alleged safety issues within Boeing’s 737 MAX production line.
According to reports by the Seattle Times, Dean succumbed to a fast-spreading infection that led to multiple complications, ending his life at the age of 45. Dean, a resident of Wichita, Kansas—where Spirit AeroSystems is based—was previously in good health and known for his healthy lifestyle.
The news outlet reported:
[His aunt Carol] Parsons said Dean became ill and went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing just over two weeks ago. He was intubated and developed pneumonia and then a serious bacterial infection, MRSA.
His condition deteriorated rapidly, and he was airlifted from Wichita to a hospital in Oklahoma City, Parsons said. There he was put on an ECMO machine, which circulates and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body, taking over heart and lung function when a patient’s organs don’t work on their own.
His mother posted a message Friday on Facebook relating all those details and saying that Dean was “fighting for his life.”
He was heavily sedated and put on dialysis. A CT scan indicated he had suffered a stroke, his mom’s post said.
By the end, doctors were considering amputating both hands and both feet. “It was brutal what he went through,” Parsons said. “Heartbreaking.”
Spirit AeroSystems spokesperson Joe Buccino expressed condolences, saying, “Our thoughts are with Josh Dean’s family. This sudden loss is stunning news here and for his loved ones.”
Dean’s allegations of serious misconduct within Spirit’s leadership regarding the manufacturing of the 737 MAX were a cornerstone of his whistleblowing activities. After being terminated by Spirit in April 2023, Dean filed a Department of Labor complaint, suggesting his dismissal was retaliation for voicing aviation safety concerns.
Dean said to NPR in February that his dismissal was a tactic to intimidate others considering whistleblowing.
“If you are too loud, we will silence you,” he said.
The situation is even more troubling because Dean died soon after John Barnett, another Boeing whistleblower, died under mysterious circumstances.
Barnett’s death, which the Charleston County Coroner’s Office suggests was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, is still under active police investigation.
John Barnett had told a close friend days before his untimely death that if anything happened to him, it would not be suicide.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Barnett was found dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted wound inside his car in a hotel parking lot shortly after testifying against the aerospace company.
Barnett had accused Boeing of neglecting safety concerns and retaliating against him for his disclosures.
The 62-year-old, who had a 32-year tenure with the company until his retirement in 2017, died on March 9 during a break from depositions in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit.
Charleston police are investigating after Barnett was found in his truck “suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.”
A suicide note was reportedly found next to Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, however, his lawyers are questioning whether he took his own life.
According to the Daily Mail, Barnett was reportedly found with a ‘silver handgun’ in his hand and his finger on the trigger. A suicide note was also found on the passenger side of the vehicle. The contents of the note were not released.
Barnett’s lawyers are asking for a thorough probe because they don’t believe he committed suicide.
“John was in the midst of a deposition in his whistleblower case, which finally was nearing the end,” Barnett’s lawyers said, according to The New York Post. “He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on.”
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Rep. Byron Donalds, a Republican from Florida, was at one of the campus protests at George Washington University this week, when a man accused him of being a ‘race traitor’ and of being an ‘Uncle Tom.’
Nothing triggers a leftist like a black Republican.
Isn’t it great when leftists openly identify themselves as idiotic bigots?
RedState reported:
Valid comparisons between these demonstrations and the Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led riots from 2020 and the Occupy Wall Street encampments from 2011 have also been made, with Soros funding connections also being alleged – and confirmed.
It is perhaps with all of that in mind that Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) dunked an unhinged agitator during a tour of the George Washington University pro-Hamas encampment on Wednesday with an implied question about the man’s age. Here’s how the exchange went down:
“How much is AIPAC paying you, you bastard?” the man sneered as Donalds brushed the remark off, the footage shows.
“How much is AIPAC paying you, you race-traitor,” the man added, prompting a head-turn from Donalds, 45, and groans from some in the crowd surrounding the lawmaker.
“Outside agitators aren’t allowed. You’re working for a foreign entity, you bastard,” the man went on as he was motioned away.
The “peaceful protester” also called Donalds the derogatory racial slur “Uncle Tom.” Donalds looked at the guy momentarily before insinuating that it was him who was the “outside agitator,” not Donalds.
“That guy’s really old to be in college,” Donalds replied, before resuming what he was saying elsewhere to other students and reporters.
Here’s the video:
Byron Donalds called "race traitor" and "Uncle Tom" by protester at GW@ByronDonalds claps back with "That guy's really old to be in college." pic.twitter.com/02uYn5aDRt
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 1, 2024
Donalds handled the situation with class, because that’s the kind of man he is, unlike the racist dope who heckled him.
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On Wednesday, Ukraine unveiled its new AI-generated Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, who will now make official statements on behalf of Ukraine’s foreign ministry.
The new AI-generated spokeswoman’s name is Victoria Shi, and the AI-bot is modeled after Ukrainian singer Rosalie Nombre.
Ukraine released a teaser of their new AI spokeswoman on their Ministry of Foreign Affairs YouTube page.
In the AI-generated spokeswoman’s first announcement, the digital representative stated, “My name symbolizes our main goal – the victory of Ukraine, and my last name – the artificial intelligence that created me. My work will consist of reporting operational and verified information of the consular department of the MFA of Ukraine to the public.”
WATCH:
Per Barron’s:
Ukraine on Wednesday presented an AI-generated spokeswoman called Victoria who will make official statements on behalf of its foreign ministry.
The ministry said it would “for the first time in history” use a digital spokeswoman to read its statements, which will still be written by humans.
Dressed in a dark suit, the spokeswoman introduced herself as Victoria Shi, a “digital person”, in a presentation posted on social media.
The figure gesticulates with her hands and moves her head as she speaks.
Ukrainian officials within the Foreign Ministry Affairs department shared they decided to implement an AI representative to cut down on time and resources.
Meet Victoria Shi — a digital representative of the MFA of Ukraine, created using AI to provide timely updates on consular affairs!
For the first time in history, the MFA of Ukraine has presented a digital persona that will officially comment for the media. pic.twitter.com/KTtuCVR1ku
— MFA of Ukraine (@MFA_Ukraine) May 1, 2024
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry office also noted that a QR code will be placed in every video that links to statements made by the Foreign Ministry to combat any attempts of counterfeiting statements.
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Country star Colt Ford revealed he ‘died two times’ after suffering a heart attack after performing in Phoenix, Arizona.
In a recent interview with the “Big D & Bubba” show, Ford recounted his frightening health scare in April that occurred after performing his hit songs at a sold-out show in Phoenix.
Ford, who called into the Big D & Bubba show from the hospital, shared that as he was boarding his tour bus after performing at the Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row bar, he fell over “dead.”
Ford stated, “I died two times. Luckily, my band came out to check on me.”
After he fell over, Colt was then rushed to the ICU, and on the way, medics had to bring him back to life.
Ford is still hospitalized and has canceled all his scheduled shows up to August 30th as he recovers from surgery.
Country star Colt Ford died twice after suffering a heart attack https://t.co/5uzuXGYZQn
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 1, 2024
Per Fox News:
Colt Ford has no recollection of the night in April when he had a heart attack after a performance in Phoenix, Arizona.
The country musician detailed what he could remember of the “traumatic, crazy experience” in an interview on the “Big D & Bubba” show, where he revealed he died twice before reaching the hospital.
“I didn’t even remember coming out here to do a show in Phoenix, and apparently we played this great, sold-out show and it was incredible,” Ford said in a phone interview. “I walked back to the bus, texted my fiancée, ‘Hi baby,’ and fell over dead.
“I died two times. Luckily, my band came out to check on me. … All of a sudden, that’s when all hell broke loose.”
Despite being hospitalized, Ford still engages with his fans on social media and keeps a positive outlook.
WATCH:
A message from Colt.
-Team Average Joes pic.twitter.com/jQjtOaorNL— Colt Ford (@coltford) April 24, 2024
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Democrats are reportedly in a panic over the Gaza protests because they think the images of campus takeovers are pushing Americans to the right.
They have good reasons to be panicked. Trump is already leading in almost every swing state and one of the reasons is because the country is sick and tired of the antics of the radical left.
Joe Biden’s total silence and lack of action is only going to make things worse for them.
Axios reported:
Democrats enter panic mode as Gaza protests erupt
House and Senate Democrats’ anxiety is spiking as pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses around the country kick into overdrive.
Why it matters: The protests are fueling a volatile political dynamic sparked by the Oct. 7 attack and the Israel-Hamas war just as the 2024 election comes into view.
- “The longer they continue, and the worse that they get, the worse it’s going to be for the election overall,” one House Democrat told Axios.
- The demonstrations, the lawmaker warned, are “bringing out [the public’s] most conservative side.”
Driving the news: In the last 24 hours, protests on college campuses from New York to California have escalated in severity…
What they’re saying: Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), chair of the center-left New Democrat Coalition acknowledged many Democrats “have been, kind of, holding back” on weighing in on the protests.
Rick Moran comments at PJ Media:
Democrats are in full hand-wringing mode over the anti-Israel protests on campus. The louder the protesters scream about “Free Palestine,” the more nervous the Democrats become.
They know that there aren’t many potential Donald Trump voters yelling antisemitic epithets at Jewish students from “Gaza Liberation Zones.” These were Joe Biden voters in 2020 and may yet be again. In fact, as close a race as the 2024 presidential race is going to be. Biden is going to need these antisemites to win.
As much as Democrats want to sympathize with the pro-Hamas protesters, they know they have to walk a fine line.
The Democrats created this monster, but they can’t control it and they can’t survive without it.
It’s a perfect storm for them.
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Left wing radicals at UCLA have built a wall around their protest, presumably to keep out people who don’t agree with them.
How quaint.
It’s probably safe to assume that if Trump wins in November and resumes construction of the border wall, some of these students will be the first ones to protest and call the border wall racist.
Like all things with the left, it’s different when they do it.
Anti-Israel protesters have built a wall around their encampment here at UCLA. They’re using wood pallets and plywood and binding it together with zip ties & drilled screws. They are turtling up & gathering supplies in the middle of their camp. Lots of law enforcement gathering. pic.twitter.com/VUjX9F2T1L
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 2, 2024
The Associated Press thinks this is still about the conflict in Gaza:
Violence erupts on campuses as protesters and counter-protesters clash over the war in Gaza
Counter-protesters “forcefully” attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, the university’s chancellor said, and activists clashed with police officers who destroyed their tents at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, part of a series of escalating violence on some college campuses over the war in Gaza.
UCLA administrators and campus police delayed intervening and calling for law enforcement backup in the brawl on the Los Angeles campus, prompting widespread condemnation from Muslim students to the city’s mayor to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The counter-protesters, some of whom carried Israeli flags, threw traffic cones and chairs, released pepper spray, and pulled down the barricade surrounding the encampment. University officials said 15 people were injured in the confrontation, including one person who was hospitalized.
The chaotic scenes unfolded Wednesday after police burst into a building occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia University on Tuesday night, breaking up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school.
Here’s a video report:
This could be ended right now, but Biden needs the votes of these young radicals in November.
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Left wing late night host Stephen Colbert used his platform this week to defend the campus protests where Jewish students are being threatened, harassed and even assaulted.
Colbert has no choice in this matter because he knows that Democrats can’t win without the support of their radical base.
He even tried to compare these protests to the campus protests during the Vietnam War. Does anyone remember Vietnam War protests that singled out Jewish people?
Besides, this isn’t about war, this is a call for a socialist revolution. They have admitted that.
Breitbart News reports:
Stephen Colbert Defends Anti-Israel Campus Protesters After Trump Praises NYPD Response
CBS’ late-night comedian Stephen Colbert defended the anti-Israel protesters who have taken over university campuses across the country after former President Donald Trump praised police in New York for their response to protesters at Columbia University.
On Tuesday’s show, Stephen Colbert said the public should support the protesters “as long as they are peaceful.” But Colbert didn’t mention that in some cases, protesters have behaved violently. At Columbia, students smashed through windows and doors to occupy Hamilton Hall.
At some schools, demonstrators have blocked other students from attending class. At George Washington University, one protester was seen with a sign saying “Final Solution” — a reference to the Nazi’s extermination of Jews.
Colbert bypassed these incidences during Tuesday’s segment.
Colbert tries to make this about the First Amendment and free speech. Taking over and occupying a campus is not free speech.
Here’s the video if you care to watch:
Colbert is planning to broadcast his show directly from the Democrat National Convention in Chicago this summer. We’ll see how much he supports this movement when they’re trying to tear down the gate to the event or try to storm the stage while he is on it.
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Arizona rancher George Kelly, 75, sat down for an exclusive interview with NewsNation’s Ali Bradley after state prosecutors decided not to retry his murder case.
George Kelly told Ali Bradley he and his wife lost their life savings fighting the lawfare murder trial.
“I don’t feel that I was treated fairly in the investigation,” George Kelly told NewsNation in an interview. “I think I was arrested without cause, without probable cause.”
“You can’t put somebody in a situation and try to tell them, ‘oh you’ll be fine here.’ No you won’t be fine here…” George Kelly told Ali Bradley.
He said he slept on the floor in jail before being taken to a cell block where he spent 22 days. Other inmates would threaten Kelly and say “dead man walking” as they walked by him.
Kelly said he and his wife plan to move from their ranch in Kino Springs.
The full NewsNation interview with George Kelly will air next Wednesday night.
WATCH:
AZ: #EXCLUSIVE “You can’t put somebody in a situation and try to tell them, ‘oh you’ll be fine here.’ No you won’t be fine here…” In his first sit down as a free man, 75-year-old rancher George Alan Kelly tells me they are planning to move from their ranch in Kino Springs but… pic.twitter.com/k8GEIWnzeS
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) May 1, 2024
State prosecutors on Monday said they will not retry Arizona rancher George Kelly after a judge declared a mistrial following a hung jury.
Judge Thomas Fink last Monday declared a mistrial after an Arizona jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial for Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly.
Jurors deliberated a couple of weeks ago and were unable to reach a verdict. Deliberations continued pn the following Friday and after more than 7 hours the jury sent a note to the judge and informed him they could not reach a verdict.
Kelly was arrested for killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, on his Arizona ranch in Kino Springs just outside of Nogales, Mexico on January 30, 2023.
According to reports, Gabriel Cuen-Butimea has a history of illegally crossing into the United States and multiple deportations.
According to the defense lawyers, Mr. Kelly fired warning shots after he saw a group of men dressed in camouflaged clothing point an AK-47 right at him.
The rancher later discovered the deceased illegal alien, who is likely a cartel smuggler, when he went to go check on his horse.
The bullet that killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea was never recovered so authorities were never able to conduct a ballistics test to see if it matched George Kelly’s AK-47.
Kelly’s defense attorneys argued cartel bandits shot and killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea and robbed him.
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The Gateway Pundit’s Christina Laila was first to report on the most recent James O’Keefe bombshell video that exposed a CIA contractor admitting that the intelligence agencies were working together to keep top-secret information hidden from President Trump while he was the sitting President!
According to O’Keefe, Amjad Fseisim, a program manager working in Cyber Operations for the CIA and an NSAGov contractor with top-secret clearance working for Deloitte was caught in an undercover video implicating the highest levels of the intelligence agencies, including “The executive staff. We’re talking about the director and his subordinates,” former CIA Directors “Gina Haspel….And I believe Mike Pompeo did the same thing too,” “kept information from him [Trump] because we knew he’d fucking disclose it.” Amjad reasons “There are certain people that would…give him a high-level overview but never give him any details. You know why? Because he’ll leak those details…He’s a Russian asset. He’s owned by the fucking Russians.”
@mikepompeo
“So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…”
Amjad reveals to OMG’s Undercover American Swiper that intel agencies not only kept intelligence information from a sitting United States President and Commander-In-Chief, they also used FISA to spy on realDonaldTrump and his team and are still monitoring President Trump according to Amjad who says, “We monitor everything.” Amjad adds, “We also have people that monitor his ex-wife. He likes to use burner phones” – information only an insider with access to highly sensitive information would state.
“We steal it [information]” and “We hack other countries just like that,” Amjad, who states he currently works on the CIA’s China Mission Center, explains how intel agencies obtain information. He also describes a broken intelligence system where “We don’t share information across agencies” because the CIA is “very reluctant” to share information with the “careless” NSA.
Watch the portion of the video that references the conversation above:
BREAKING – EXPOSING THE CIA: “So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” A project manager working in Cyber Operations for the @CIA and an @NSAGov contractor with top-secret… pic.twitter.com/TXq8ZjJEBq
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 1, 2024
O’Keefe Media Group’s bombshell undercover footage supports earlier reports by investigative journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag that revealed how the American intelligence community illegally ran a spy operation against then-candidate Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and illegally acquired intelligence that was later used to justify the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official probe, “Crossfire Hurricane,” which in turn led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation that ultimately did not find evidence of Russia collusion by the 2016 Trump campaign.
Conservative Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) isn’t wasting any time getting to the bottom of this very serious and disturbing story. Rep. Gaetz has already formally called on the Weaponization Subcommittee to IMMEDIATELY launch an investigation into the BOMBSHELL report by James O’Keefe’s OMG Media Group.
In a tweet, Gaetz shared a copy of the letter he sent to the Chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Rep. Jim Jordan. In his tweet about his formal request for an immediate investigation, Gaetz said that the undercover video that was released only hours ago, “contains video evidence that American intelligence agencies withheld intelligence from President Donald Trump before & during his presidency and used Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities to spy on President Trump.”
According to O’Keefe the official seen the video has been been terminated per a CIA statement:
CIA COMMENT: The official appears to have been terminated as a result of our reporting today. When the CIA was asked for comment, O’Keefe Media received an exclusive statement on the record from a CIA spokesperson today:
“These claims about CIA are absolutely false and ridiculous. CIA is a resolutely apolitical institution that provides intelligence support to policymakers including the President of the United States, irrespective of who occupies the office. We are a foreign intelligence focused Agency and do not monitor the former President. The individual making these allegations is a former contractor who does not represent CIA.”
In the video which was taken last week, the CIA official waves his intelligence community green badge. Green Badges are specifically hired for those contracted by the agency. Kash Patel, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, said “An individual possessing a contractor Green badge is only allowed to lawfully possess it while official employed as a contractor to the intelligence community. Upon any termination, credentials are returned to the home agency and destroyed immediately.”
CIA COMMENT: The official appears to have been terminated as a result of our reporting today. When the CIA was asked for comment, O’Keefe Media received an exclusive statement on the record from a CIA spokesperson today:
“These claims about CIA are absolutely false and… pic.twitter.com/1qyiDw0XNr
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 1, 2024
Watch James O’Keefe’s live discussion about his findings here:
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The House of Representatives passed the “Antisemitism Awareness Act” (H.R. 6090) on Wednesday, which has sparked significant debate over the interpretation of religious texts and the definition of hate speech.
The bill, aimed at curbing hate speech amid heightened tensions on college campuses concerning Israel, has seen a significant majority of Republicans in support, while a coalition of Democrats and Republicans opposed it, citing free speech concerns.
It passed with a vote of 320-91, seeing opposition from 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans. The bill was introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and supported by 15 Democratic co-sponsors.
“I’m proud that my bill, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, just passed the House of Representatives 320 to 91. This bill has broad, bipartisan support and will begin the process of cracking down on the antisemitism we’ve seen run rampant on college campuses across America,” Rep. Lawler wrote.
The bill defines antisemitism broadly, incorporating definitions provided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), including traditional antisemitic actions and accusations such as those against the state of Israel. Critically, the bill makes it an offense to “apply double standards” to Israel or to accuse it of genocide, categorizing such actions as hate speech.
Among the dissenting voices is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who expressed concern that the bill’s definition of antisemitism could potentially criminalize Christians for their religious beliefs, particularly narratives in the Gospel regarding the death of Jesus Christ.
“Antisemitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews,” Greene wrote.
Antisemitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews.
Read the bill text and… pic.twitter.com/Y0eeOiVfnw
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) May 1, 2024
Definition and examples adopted by the bill based on IHRA:
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:1. Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
2. Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective – such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
3. Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
4. Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
5. Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
6. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
7. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
8. Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
9. Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
10. Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
11. Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.
Rep. Matt Gaetz also criticized the bill, stating that it disregards the Constitution and the common understanding of words.
“This evening, I will vote AGAINST the ridiculous hate speech bill called the “Antisemitism Awareness Act.” Antisemitism is wrong, but this legislation is written without regard for the Constitution, common sense, or even the common understanding of the meaning of words,” Gaetz wrote.
“The Gospel itself would meet the definition of antisemitism under the terms of this bill! The bill says the definition of antisemitism includes “contemporary examples of antisemitism” identified by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). One of those examples includes: “…claims of Jews killing Jesus…” The Bible is clear. There is no myth or controversy on this. Therefore, I will not support this bill.”
Gaetz cited scriptural passages to underscore his argument that the bill’s broad definition of antisemitism could encompass fundamental Christian beliefs.
“Acts 4:10 Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well.
“1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea; for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins.
“Acts 3:14-15 You denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.”
This evening, I will vote AGAINST the ridiculous hate speech bill called the “Antisemitism Awareness Act.”
Antisemitism is wrong, but this legislation is written without regard for the Constitution, common sense, or even the common understanding of the meaning of words. The… pic.twitter.com/HYg2LJDLAI
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) May 1, 2024
Adding to the chorus of concern, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) criticized the bill for its vague definitions and potential constitutional conflicts.
“The definition of antisemitism appears nowhere in the bill! Should people in America be prosecuted for saying these things in all contexts? I think not. This is a poorly conceived unconstitutional bill, and I will vote no,” Massie wrote.
Do you agree with all of these examples of antisemitism? Should people in America be prosecuted for saying these things in all contexts? I think not. This is a poorly conceived unconstitutional bill and I will vote no. pic.twitter.com/L3AI5MCFGw
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 1, 2024
The bill now moves to the Senate, where it is expected to face heated discussions and scrutiny as lawmakers and the public weigh the balance between combating hate speech and preserving free speech rights.
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In a time of extreme division and violence in America, it turns out there is still one man who can unite us all: Joe Biden.
On Wednesday afternoon, pro-Hamas agitators held a protest on the campus of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and were countered by numerous pro-Trump counter-protesters objecting to their despicable views.
Things got a bit testy at first when the pro-Hamas clowns started chanting “Free Palestine!” while the Trump supporters countered by singing the National Anthem.
Protest happening at University of Alabama. I will continue to update pic.twitter.com/Ija3GZbaJT
— Maven Navarro (@MavenNavarro1) May 1, 2024
But they soon found common ground. A stunning and heart-warming moment arose as both groups of protesters suddenly erupted in loud “F**k Joe Biden!” chants.
WATCH:
Both sides now chanting “F***” Joe Biden” pic.twitter.com/Jbt7TU1b9b
— Maven Navarro (@MavenNavarro1) May 1, 2024
According to the Crimson White’s Maven Navarro, the protesters were demanding the University cut ties with weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin and for an immediate ceasefire (Israeli surrender) in Gaza.
But unlike many universities across America, Alabama officials took common-sense action to ensure no violence occurred and threatened strict consequences for those who broke the rules. Below are the protest rules handed out by the University:
Officials also ensured protesters were kept in restricted areas with a police presence to keep the peace.
As a result, the protest only lasted about two hours and ended with no violence.
Protest has ended. pic.twitter.com/352KnDmcNq
— Maven Navarro (@MavenNavarro1) May 1, 2024
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On Wednesday morning, The Gateway Pundit reported on the heroic University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who protected a fallen American flag from a pro-Hamas mob despite a violent onslaught from the radicals.
Now, their fellow Americans have made sure they know how much support they have behind them!
A GoFundMe started by John Noonan,’Pi Kappa Phi Men Defended their Flag. Throw ’em a Rager’ has raised over $213,000 for the brothers.
**Update: We are overwhelmed by you glorious, Patriotic Americans who value good beer and great times. We are in contact with multiple leaders from fraternities whose members helped defend the flag, including Alpha Epsilon Pi and others, in addition to Pi Kappa Psi. Our gratitude goes to all of them and we will update supporters on what comes next.**Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak University Administrators.But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes. Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde — laughing at their shrieks and wails and shielding the Stars & Stripes from Soviet missiles.These boys… no, men, of the UNC Chapel Hill Pi Kappa Phi, gave the best to America and now they deserve the best.Help us raise funds to throw this frat the party they deserve, a party worth of the boat-shoed Broleteriat who did their country proud.
According to KVIA News, during the walkout, protesters tore down barricades and took down the American flag situated on the quad, and a Palestinian flag was raised in its place.
The American flag was flying at half-mast to honor the police officers tragically killed in Charlotte earlier this week.
Chancellor Roberts personally returned with police to replace the American flag while protestors threw bottles, rocks, and water at them and yelled obscenities.
In a rare show of leadership from a college administrator, Roberts faced down shrieking protesters saying, “This university doesn’t belong to a small group of protestors. It belongs to every citizen of North Carolina.”
Watch:
UNC interim Chancellor Lee Roberts faces down shrieking female protestors, denounces the attack on the American flag.
Red state administrators being on the right side of these protests is something completely new and a hopeful sign. pic.twitter.com/Yh4HGVJoOB
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) May 1, 2024
When the protestors attempted to remove the flag again, the fraternity brothers stepped up to protect it while they sang the National Anthem.
They made sure the flag never touched the ground despite the barrage of objects thrown at them and the violent rhetoric shouted at them by the unhinged activists.
UNC student Guillermo Estrada shared what happened.
(Thread) Today was a sad yet empowering day at Chapel Hill. When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flag pole, and was immediately upset at the act that these “protestors” had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict pic.twitter.com/tZrZEOSu8a
— Guillermo Estrada (@estradguillermo) April 30, 2024
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All over the world, labor unions and Marxists in general gather to celebrate International Worker’s Day with the same old tired slogans and same old delusional expectations that the war of classes will usher in the dictatorship of the proletariat.
In France, of course, it’s not different, and in fact, it’s worse than most places on planet Earth.
This year, crowds gathered all over the French Republic, but perhaps nowhere else was a chaotic as in the capital Paris.
Paris, May 1st. pic.twitter.com/UCtNLhjtza
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 1, 2024
As is usually the case, the ‘City of Light’, that is gearing up to host the Summer Olympic games, quickly became a field of battle between protesters and the riot police.
Paris, May 1st. pic.twitter.com/tOcA9ogywW
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 1, 2024
Paris urban center saw that the annual march by Workers’ unions quickly devolved into a full-blown riot, and clashes between broke between the Marxist demonstrators and the forces of order.
The protesters were out demanding ‘better working conditions’ like it’s the 19th century, and somehow this is the perfect excuse to riot and clash with the gerndarmes.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 1, 2024
Some of the most excitable rioters called for the execution of French President Emmanuel Macron with guillotines.
It’s unclear if ‘Le Petit Roi’ will pause his war-mongering for a minute to acknowledge these homages.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 1, 2024
In the end, around 45 people were arrested in Paris during the ‘mostly peaceful’ demonstrations.
Authorities reported 121,000 participants throughout France, while the biggest Workers Union of France, CGT, announced that more than 210,000 protested around the country.
As much as 12 riot police officers and gendarmes were injured, transported to hospital in relative emergency
If there was an Olympic medal for chaos and rioting, we know the French would be absolute favorites.
Read more:
100 Days to Chaos: Citizens of Paris Dread the Upcoming Summer Olympic Games
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The CDC and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have confirmed that traces of Bird Flu have also been found in commercial milk — but claim it is safe for humans to drink anyway.
The Hill reports, “Scientists reported that in mid-March, about 24 cats were fed raw milk at a Texas farm before the cows were known to be sick. One day after the cows showed visible signs of illness, the cats also became sick, and one to two days later, more than half of the cats grew ill and died.”
“In early March 2024, similar clinical cases were reported in dairy cattle in southwestern Kansas and northeastern New Mexico; deaths of wild birds and domestic cats were also observed within affected sites in the Texas panhandle,” the CDC wrote in the new report.
“In >1 dairy farms in Texas, deaths occurred in domestic cats fed raw colostrum and milk from sick cows that were in the hospital parlor. Antemortem clinical signs in affected cats were depressed mental state, stiff body movements, ataxia, blindness, circling, and copious oculonasal discharge. Neurologic exams of affected cats revealed the absence of menace reflexes and pupillary light responses with a weak blink response.”
The scientists wrote, “This case series differs from most previous reports of IAV infection in bovids, which indicated cattle were inapparently infected or resistant to infection.”
“We describe an H5N1 strain of IAV in dairy cattle that resulted in apparent systemic illness, reduced milk production, and abundant virus shedding in milk. The magnitude of this finding is further emphasized by the high death rate (≈50%) of cats on farm premises that were fed raw colostrum and milk from affected cows”
The FDA is warning against humans consuming raw milk.
“The FDA has a long-standing recommendation to consumers not to consume raw milk (milk that has not been pasteurized). Because of the limited information available about the possible transmission of H5N1 virus via raw milk, the FDA continues to recommend that industry does not manufacture or sell raw milk or raw milk products, including raw milk cheese, made with milk from cows showing symptoms of illness, including those infected with avian influenza viruses or exposed to those infected with avian influenza viruses.”
Dairy cows in Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and South Dakota have tested positive for the Type A H5N1 virus.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has alleged that protests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) were infiltrated by “outside agitators” affiliated with “terrorist groups.”
In an interview with Vladimir Duthiers on CBS Morning, Adams detailed the city’s response to the chaotic scenes that unfolded at both institutions where nearly 300 individuals were arrested Tuesday night.
“These were not spontaneous student movements but calculated disruptions by professional agitators,” Adams explained, noting that a significant portion of those arrested had no affiliations with either university.
Adams asserted that the protests were “hijacked” by “outside agitators” with ties to “terrorist groups.” He cited intelligence reports identifying individuals with professional backgrounds and connections to terrorism among those arrested.
Eric Adams: “Well, there were two operations tonight. One was with CCNY and one was with Columbia University. Once I became aware of the outside agitators who were part of this operation, as Columbia mentioned in their letter and their request with the New York City Police Department, it was clear we had to take appropriate actions. When our Intelligence Division identified those who are professionals, well-trained, one of them was married to someone that was arrested for terrorism. We knew these children were being exploited and they were in danger and it would have been irresponsible not to reply to the request from Columbia University.”
Vladimir Duthiers: “Mr. Mayor, when you say that the protests have been co-opted by professional outside agitators, how do you distinguish between those outside agitators and students who are just protesting peacefully? Who is this individual who is connected to a terrorist?”
Eric Adams: “Well, it’s not singular. It’s plural, several organizations and groups. I want to be clear on that. We did not take this action lightly. Once the Columbia University team and leadership in their letter acknowledged that outside agitators were on their campus grounds, we looked at our intel and information. I was briefed by the Intelligence Division, and they were able to identify organizations and individuals who were not students, but were professional agitators. We realized after the breaking into Hamilton Hall, some of the tactics, some of the methods, these have clearly been used across the globe, and we understood how really dangerous this situation had become.”
Vladimir Duthiers: “Okay, but Mr. Mayor, give us some information on who this individual or individuals who are connected to terrorism found themselves in police custody, which I’m guessing they are now in police custody.”
Eric Adams: “Well, if you look at, you can find this information. They’re proudly acknowledging themselves on social media platforms, and I’m going to let the Intelligence Division do their job on what information should be released and what information should not be released. When we do an analysis of all those who were arrested, a substantial number of them were not students of CUNY and were not students of Columbia University.”
On Tuesday night, The Gateway Pundit reported that the wife of a known terrorist was protesting at the Columbian University campus.
CBS’ Ali Bauman, in a now-deleted post, wrote that New York City Hall sources notified her that the wife of the known terrorist was seen at the Columbia University protests.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner has clarified that the wife of a man convicted of terrorism, previously thought to be involved in last night’s protests, was not actually part of the events.
She explained that the woman was present on the Columbia campus last week and stated, “We have no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on her part.”
Sami Al-Arian proudly tweeted out her picture at the Columbia University anti-Israel encampment on Friday, April 26.
My wife Nahla in solidarity with the brave and very determined Columbia University students. pic.twitter.com/ximkHFbZeo
— Sami Al-Arian (@SamiAlArian) April 26, 2024
Sami Al-Arian was indicted in February 2003 on 17 counts under the Patriot Act. A jury acquitted him on 8 counts and deadlocked on the remaining 9 counts. He later struck a plea bargain and admitted to one of the remaining charges in exchange for being released and deported. He was deported to Turkey on February 4, 2015.
Al-Arian was accused of aiding terrorists. In February 2003, it charged Al-Arian with racketeering for Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Weiner noted that individuals linked to a shift towards more aggressive tactics were observed at Columbia, representing an “elevated concern,” abc7 reported.
“The situation had escalated to a level where the safety of students, staff, and the public was jeopardized,” stated Police Commissioner Edward Caban.
There were 282 arrests for primarily minor offenses, with 173 at City College and 119 at Columbia. The charges included trespassing, criminal mischief, and burglary.
Some of those arrested were not students, a trend also seen at other universities.
“There is a movement to radicalize young people,” Adams said per abc7.
According to Fox News, some of the groups involved in the protests are associated with far-left organizations backed by George Soros. These groups, including National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), have been accused of using anti-Israel rhetoric and promoting radical views.
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While it may seem that the political impasse in Haiti may be lifting and some semblance of government is back in place, at the same time the developments show us just how the political elites are very much a part of the problem, and not just the heavily armed rebel gangs.
It just happened that Haiti’s new unelected ‘transitional council’ chose a little-known former sports minister as the new prime minister less than a week after the outgoing cabinet had chosen a different leader.
Associated Press reported:
“Fritz Bélizaire was chosen in a surprise move to replace current interim Prime Minister Michel Patrick Boisvert, gaining the support of four of the seven voting members on the nine-member panel but with other panel members saying they were unfamiliar with Bélizaire.
The council also planned to choose a Cabinet as it seeks to quell gang violence that is choking the capital, Port-au-Prince, and beyond. Heavy gunfire was reported in several of the capital’s neighborhoods during the council’s meeting.”
The new council also chose former presidential candidate Edgard Leblanc Fils as the ‘president of the panel’.
“’This is a very good choice for prime minister’, Fils said of Bélizaire during a brief speech to nearly two dozen attendees. ‘The important thing for us is this will, this determination to go beyond divisions, to overcome conflicts and to reach a consensus’.”
The council additionally met with army and police officials to discuss Haiti’s security crisis, which saw 90,000 people flee the capital in one month as rebel gangs terrorize Port-au-Prince.
The announcement of Bélizaire was unexpected, as he served as Haiti’s sports minister during the second presidency of René Préval from 2006 to 2011.
“Council member Louis Gérald Gilles, who supported Bélizaire, told The Associated Press that the council wanted to act quickly in choosing a prime minister. ‘The Haitian population can no longer wait’, he said. ‘The security issue is essential for societal calm’.”
The council will now move to select a new Cabinet.
“The transitional council will act as the country’s presidency until it can arrange a presidential election some time before it disbands, which must be by February 2026.”
While this transition period may appear to be quite long, one may remember that former Prime Minister Ariel Henry was also meant to be ‘transitional’, but perpetuated his term and never left power until he was toppled by rebel gang violence.
But while the political leaders are jockeying for unelected positions, the heavily armed people who control the streets want to be listened to.
Rebel gang leaders demand political influence and amnesties, and are threatening violence if their demands are not met.
The Guardian reported:
“In an interview with CNN published on Monday, Vitel’homme Innocent, who heads the Kraze Barye gang and is accused of orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of US missionaries, called for the council to listen to the gangs and find a resolution to the crisis ‘as soon as possible’.
Kraze Barye forms part of a loose coalition of gangs known as Viv Ansanm, or ‘Live Together’, who now control most of Port-au-Prince.
Viv Ansanm’s leader, a former police officer named Jimmy Cherizier who is known as ‘Barbeque’, warned of consequences if the gangs were ignored, in a message shared to social media over the weekend.
‘Viv Ansanm is ready to talk. It’s either we are all at the table, or the table gets destroyed with all of us’, he said.”
Read more:
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South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Wednesday announced he launched an investigation after a non-citizen ‘refugee’ received a voter registration form.
The government is giving voter registration forms to non-citizen ‘refugees.’
According to South Carolina state representative and congressional candidate Adam Morgan, the state government is including voter registration forms in packets at the Social Security Office in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
“Is the Federal Gov giving voter registration forms to non-citizens?” Adam Morgan said on X earlier this week (this was later corrected to the state of South Carolina).
“Yes, at least in SC. A refugee sent us this form that was given to her in a packet at the Social Security Office in Spartanburg. She asked “Why are they giving these to non-citizens?”” he said.
Attached to Adam Morgan’s post was a photo of the voter registration form included in the welcome packet for refugees.
Is the Federal Gov giving voter registration forms to non-citizens?
Yes, at least in SC. A refugee sent us this form that was given to her in a packet at the Social Security Office in Spartanburg. She asked “Why are they giving these to non-citizens?”
EXACTLY. pic.twitter.com/5IDYhlIzrv
— Adam Morgan (@RepAdamMorgan) April 29, 2024
It gets worse.
According to Rep. Adam Morgan, the refugee’s relative “mailed the forms back and criticized the office for distributing them to people they knew were non-citizens.”
“A few weeks later the refugees received more voter registration forms in the mail,” Rep. Morgan said.
“None of this is by accident,” he said.
But the story gets worse. Her relative mailed the forms back and criticized the office for distributing them to people they knew were non-citizens.
A few weeks later the refugees received more voter registration forms in the mail.
None of this is by accident.
— Adam Morgan (@RepAdamMorgan) April 29, 2024
Morgan wrote in an update, “after calling the agencies and all parties involved, it appears the form was given by the STATE gov (SC Medicaid Office). The refugee confused the offices. We are set to pass a bill prohibiting non-citizens from voting in SC elections! Stop this nonsense in your state!”
UPDATE: after calling the agencies and all parties involved, it appears the form was given by the STATE gov (SC Medicaid Office). The refugee confused the offices.
We are set to pass a bill prohibiting non-citizens from voting in SC elections!
Stop this nonsense in your state!
— Adam Morgan (@RepAdamMorgan) April 29, 2024
Governor McMaster launched an investigation in response to Rep. Adam Morgan’s letter requesting a probe.
“The integrity of our elections is and must remain a top priority. Today, I asked SLED to immediately contact Rep. Adam Morgan so they can evaluate the authenticity of his allegations of non-citizens being provided voter registration forms,” Governor McMaster said.
The integrity of our elections is and must remain a top priority. Today, I asked SLED to immediately contact Rep. Adam Morgan so they can evaluate the authenticity of his allegations of non-citizens being provided voter registration forms.
Read my letter here: pic.twitter.com/PPVWHBSYCE
— Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) May 1, 2024
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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattled Southern California on Wednesday afternoon.
While a 4.1 earthquake is small by California standards, residents in Los Angeles, Riverside and Orange County were rattled by the temblor.
#EARTHQUAKE: 4.1-magnitude quake just shook Orange County and Riverside County. Watch #live coverage on ABC7 now https://t.co/4060oUwFPl
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) May 1, 2024
KABC reported:
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1 has struck near Corona in Riverside County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The USGS says the quake struck at 1:49 p.m. just 5.6 miles southwest of Corona. It was originally reported as a 4.5 magnitude and ultimately to a 4.1.
There were no immediate reports of any damage or injuries.
Southern California has been hit with several earthquakes this year prompting many to question whether they are foreshocks to a larger temblor.
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Malibu in February on the same day Hawaii was hit with a 5.7 magnitude quake.
“The quake, which struck at 1:47 p.m., was centered roughly 6 miles west of Malibu in the Santa Monica Mountains at a depth of five and a half miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.” KTLA reported.
No reports of damage or injury.
Southern California was hit with three temblors in January.
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President Trump spoke to supporters in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Wednesday where he concentrated on Joe Biden’s failed policies that are crippling America.
During his speech President Trump noted that Joe Biden is going to start bringing Jew-hating Palestinians into the country from Gaza. Polling found that 68% to 89% of Palestinians support terror attacks on Israel. Joe Biden wants to bring these people into the US.
President Trump says Joe Biden seems to be determined to create the conditions for an October 7th attack here in America!
President Trump: Crooked Joe is now reportedly planning, this is wonderful news for you people in Wisconsin, to bring massive numbers of Gazans from the Middle East all live to your American towns, your towns and villages. Your towns and villages will now be accepting people from Gaza, lots of people from Gaza, and various other places, Yemen, lots of other places. You Now, just let the world simmer down a little bit, please. He’s now delivering thousands. He just announced last night he’s going to deliver thousands of people to a town near you. Joe Biden seems to determine to… He’s just determined to create the conditions for an October seventh style attack right here in America. It’s going to happen with all of these people coming in from the Southern border… Did you see where, and nobody knew this, that for a year and a half, they’ve been actually flying planes in and landing in towns all over the country, and they’re flying them in by the thousands?
Trump’s right.
Even Trump-hating FBI Chief Chris Wray says there are concerns of a coordinated terror attack on US soil.
Wray says that after he was silent as over 10 million illegals crossed over into the US since Joe Biden came into office.
Via Midnight Rider.
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James O’Keefe last Friday warned he was about to release the most important story of his entire career.
“I have evidence that exposes the CIA, and it’s on camera. I am working on releasing a story that I believe is the most important of my entire career,” O’Keefe said on Friday.
“Do you think it’s a coincidence that right at this moment I am subject to an endless series of attacks?” he said. “This is obviously a sophisticated information operation designed to stop me from releasing this story. I’m sure you recognize they are masters of using half-truths and innuendos to raise doubt against people who don’t deserve it. It’s meant to consume my time and energy and make me back down.”
“But I’m not going to let it work. Rest assured, nothing will stop me from releasing this story,” O’Keefe said.
O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released part one: Exposing the CIA: A project manager working in cyber operations told OMG’s undercover journalist that the Director of the CIA would keep information from Trump.
He also said the CIA spied on Trump’s presidency and is still monitoring him to this day.
“So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” Amjad Fseisi, a project manager working in Cyber Operations for the CIA with top-secret security clearance told an undercover journalist.
Amjad Fseisi said Trump is a “Russian asset” – “He’s owned by the f*cking Russians,” he told the undercover journalist.
Per James O’Keefe:
Amjad reveals to OMG’s Undercover American Swiper that intel agencies not only kept intelligence information from a sitting United States President and Commander-In-Chief, they also used FISA to spy on President Trump and his team and are still monitoring President Trump according to Amjad who says, “We monitor everything.” Amjad adds “we also have people that monitor his ex-wife. He likes to use burner phones” – information only an insider with access to highly sensitive information would state.
“We steal it [information]” and “We hack other countries just like that,” Amjad, who states he currently works on the CIA’s China Mission Center, explains how intel agencies obtain information. He also describes a broken intelligence system where “We don’t share information across agencies” because the CIA is “very reluctant” to share information with the “careless” NSA.
O’Keefe Media Group’s bombshell undercover footage supports earlier reports by investigative journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag that revealed how the American intelligence community illegally ran a spy operation against then-candidate Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and illegally acquired intelligence that was later used to justify the Federal Bureau of Investigation (@FBI) official probe, “Crossfire Hurricane,” which in turn led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation that ultimately did not find evidence of Russia collusion by the 2016 Trump campaign.
Contractors like Fseisi hold the duty to withhold sharing confidential or national security information. In denying his statements, Fseisi may have realized he could be held liable for violating internal agency provisions and federal laws like the Executive Agency ethics provisions, which restrict what he may share with others outside of his contracted-to agency. Additionally, any government worker or agency head who withheld information from a superior (i.e. President Trump) may violate: (a) obstruction of justice by deception (18 USC 1512); (b) conspiracy to obstruct (18 USC 371); and false statements (18 USC 1001). Agency regulations may also provide offenses related to insubordination, reflecting poorly on the agency in public, or misrepresentation or dishonesty.
When James O’Keefe caught up with Amjad Fseisi on the streets of Washington, D.C., Fseisi could not tell O’Keefe whether he had top secret clearance, denied making statements clearly caught on camera, and would not even confirm it was him on the video saying only “It looks like me.” When asked directly if he works at the CIA, Fseisi said, “I can’t tell you that.”
WATCH:
BREAKING – EXPOSING THE CIA: “So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” A project manager working in Cyber Operations for the @CIA and an @NSAGov contractor with top-secret… pic.twitter.com/TXq8ZjJEBq
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 1, 2024
The official was terminated following O’Keefe’s undercover sting!
A CIA spokesperson released a statement:
“These claims about CIA are absolutely false and ridiculous. CIA is a resolutely apolitical institution that provides intelligence support to policymakers including the President of the United States, irrespective of who occupies the office. We are a foreign intelligence focused Agency and do not monitor the former President. The individual making these allegations is a former contractor who does not represent CIA.”
In the video which was taken last week, the CIA official waves his intelligence community green badge. Green Badges are specifically hired for those contracted by the agency. Kash Patel, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, said “An individual possessing a contractor Green badge is only allowed to lawfully possess it while official employed as a contractor to the intelligence community. Upon any termination, credentials are returned to the home agency and destroyed immediately.”
CIA COMMENT: The official appears to have been terminated as a result of our reporting today. When the CIA was asked for comment, O’Keefe Media received an exclusive statement on the record from a CIA spokesperson today:
“These claims about CIA are absolutely false and… pic.twitter.com/1qyiDw0XNr
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 1, 2024
Congressman Matt Gaetz called on the Weaponization Committee to launch an investigation into O’Keefe Media Group’s bombshell report.
BREAKING: I’m formally calling on the @Weaponization Subcommittee to immediately launch an investigation into @OKeefeMedia Group’s bombshell report containing video evidence that American intelligence agencies withheld intelligence from President Donald Trump before & during his… https://t.co/2vUZPkBsQ2 pic.twitter.com/lMG0ZdQXvJ
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) May 1, 2024
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President Trump will deliver remarks tonight at Avflight Saginaw in Freeland, Michigan, at 6 PM ET.
This is Trump’s second stop of the day.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, President Trump spoke to a crowd in Waukesha, Wisconsin and slammed the soaring crime in Biden’s America, the opioid crisis, and border security.
WATCH LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks in Waukesha, Wisconsin at 3 PM ET
Trump packed the venue in Wisconsin with a massive overflow crowd outdoors.
Via Dan Scavino:
5/1/2024 #TrumpRally
Waukesha, Wisconsin… https://t.co/CnchlfunAM pic.twitter.com/DRWk1kjIf6— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) May 1, 2024
In Freeland, Michigan, Trump had another massive crowd lined up early, awaiting entry hours before he took the stage:
81 million vote-getter Joe Biden can't pull crowds like this.
Per OANN correspondent Daniel Baldwin, " President Trump will hammer Joe Biden’s economic record in Wisconsin today."
SNEAK PEAK: President Trump will hammer Joe Biden’s economic record in Wisconsin today:
“Biden has just declared that if he gets 4 more years, he will drench the Middle Class in a tidal wave of massive tax hikes—vowing repeatedly that he will ensure the Trump Tax Cuts expire.”
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) May 1, 2024
According to recent polling data, President Trump currently leads Joe Biden in six of the seven key swing states expected to determine the November General Election. Michigan is the only state where Trump trails Biden in the swing state poll.
Trump leads Biden by four points in Wisconsin and is down two points to Biden in Michigan. Seventy-one percent of voters in the states polled say the United States economy is on the “wrong track,” and 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden.
Watch live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a Rally in Freeland, Michigan on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET.
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In February Chairmen James Comer from the House Oversight Committee and Jim Jordan from the Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department for Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Biden interview records as damaging leaks revealed at the time that Biden lied about his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Comer and Jordan were seeking Biden transcripts, notes, video and audio files of Robert Hur’s 5-hour interview over two days.
BREAKING: Chairmen Comer and Jordan are subpoenaing the DOJ for Special Counsel Hur’s Joe Biden interview records, including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files. pic.twitter.com/Zwy9uwhAEa
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 27, 2024
Robert Hur was tasked as Special Counsel in investigating Joe Biden’s stolen classified documents case. Joe Biden, who did not hold presidential immunity to hold classified documents like President Trump did, held classified documents in numerous unprotected locations.
Joe Biden STOLE SCIF-designated classified documents and improperly stored them at the Penn Biden Center, his Delaware garage, his Virginia home, and his lawyer’s Boston office.
Hur found that Joe Biden “willfully retained” classified information, however, he decided not to charge him. Hur said there is evidence Biden retained classified notebooks, “knowing he was not allowed to do so.”
Biden wasn’t charged.
In March 2024 Judicial Watchfiled its FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a February 2024 FOIA request for records of all Special Counsel interviews of President Biden (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-00700)). A redacted transcript of the Biden interview was released on April 15.
In the report, Hur called Biden a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and declined to charge Biden with a “serious felony:”
Judicial Watch also sought the audio recordings of Joe Biden’s testimony before Robert Hur.
On Tuesday, Judicial Watch reported that Joe Biden’s DOJ will not release the audio recordings to their group in order to protect Joe Biden’s privacy.
And they also did not want to disclose Biden’s late stage dementia recorded by the Special Counsel during interrogation of his criminal acts.
Judicial Watch reported:
Judicial Watch announced that the Justice Department has told the court that it will not disclose the audio recordings of special counsel interviews with President Joe Biden in order to protect Biden’s “privacy” interests.
The Biden Justice Department informed Judicial Watch and the court that it would assert Exemptions 6 and 7(C) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to prevent the release of the two audio recordings of Biden’s interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Exemption 6 applies to “personnel and medical files and similar files” when disclosure of such information “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” Exemption 7 (C) applies to “records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes,” the disclosure of which “could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
On March 11, 2024, Judicial Watch filed its FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a February 2024 FOIA request for records of all Special Counsel interviews of President Biden (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-00700)). A redacted transcript of the Biden interview was released on April 15.
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Police in the Democrat-run sanctuary city of Chicago have reportedly made more than 1,000 arrests of illegal Venezuelan nationals in the first three months of 2024.
With the new numbers, the analysis has shifted from the prior argument that illegals commit less crime to one where they commit “less violent felonies.”
An analysis of the arrest data by The Chicago Tribune, in an article pushing the new narrative titled, “Migrant arrests are up, but they’re rarely accused of violent felonies,” tracks the increase.
According to the analysis, there were 609 arrests for driving/traffic offenses, nine violent felonies, 75 violent misdemeanors, and 313 other offenses listed as non-violent, with nine others listed as unknown or not listed.
The data does not include arrests of juveniles or anyone arrested by another agency.
Additionally, the data shows that a shoplifting surge shows a high share of Venezuelans’ arrests.
While much of the attention has focused on claims of violence, the Tribune analysis found a much higher than typical share of native Venezuelans’ arrests were for alleged thefts, particularly shoplifting or walking off without paying a tab.
The analysis found the biggest effect was seen around downtown, the heart of city retail shopping. In the past 19 months, for Loop theft arrests in which police listed the suspect’s birth country, roughly 1 in 5 were born in Venezuela.
The analysis found the biggest spike in one Loop beat in December and January, and in particular, the block that houses Macy’s flagship store on North State Street, where Chicago police arrested 76 adults in two months on theft charges. Of those with listed birth countries, more than 40% listed Venezuela. That doesn’t include an additional 95 people that Cook County sheriff’s deputies arrested there in a special shoplifting detail, roughly half of whom were native Venezuelans, according to the sheriff’s office.
Matt Christiansen has an excellent analysis of the shift in narrative:
The Chicago Tribune has analyzed the data: Venezuelan migrants are arrested in the city at disproportionately high rates. New video on @watchTENETnow breaks down the challenge to the ‘ackshually, migrants commit less crime’ narrative: https://t.co/fiFtSeINxv pic.twitter.com/rSbCNzWiGR
— Matt Christiansen (@MLChristiansen) May 1, 2024
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) recently spoke with FOX and Friends to discuss the illegal alien crime wave facing the nation today as a result of Joe Biden’s open border policies and revealed that lawmakers tried to warn Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas about the crime risk after allowing thousands of Venezuelan gang members into the country.
Nehls said he never heard back from Mayorkas.
TikTok’ influencer’ and Venezuelan illegal Leonel Moreno, who crossed the border illegally at Eagle Pass, Texas, in April 2022 on Joe Biden’s open border invitation, loved to brag on social media about how to take advantage of and openly mock Americans.
He told illegals how to invade American homes and invoke squatter’s rights, and how to steal from grocery stores.
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Judge Aileen Cannon
Judge Aileen Cannon is set to release information related to Judge Beryl Howell’s order piercing through Trump’s attorney-client privilege.
Cannon set a telephonic status conference for next Wednesday, May 8.
Not only is Judge Cannon exposing DOJ corruption, it appears she is about to open a can of whoop ass on DC court, namely ex chief Judge Beryl Howell.
Cannon seems poised to release info related to Howell’s order piercing atty-client privilege btw Trump and attorney Evan Corcoran pic.twitter.com/zjTWJyiywn
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) May 1, 2024
Jack Smith used a DC grand jury – and a radical Marxist Obama-appointed DC judge (Beryl Howell) in the classified docs case before quietly roving down to Florida to file the charges.
Judge Beryl Howell ruled against Trump at every turn!
In fact, Judge Howell previously ordered Trump’s lawyer Evan Corcoran to testify before a grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Judge Howell flipped Trump’s own lawyer Eric Corcoran into a witness when she obliterated Trump’s attorney-client privilege in a ruling.
Judge Beryl Howell
Recall, at the last minute, Jack Smith empaneled a grand jury in Miami to indict Trump in Florida.
Jack Smith had been using a grand jury in DC to investigate Trump’s classified documents case.
Out of nowhere, a Florida grand jury popped up and indicted Trump.
Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami last June.
Trump was charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information and 6 other process crimes stemming from his conversations with his lawyer.
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths.
The US public health regime and the bootlicking media have been routinely downplaying the risk of developing myocarditis after taking the vaccine, calling the occurrence “mild” and “rare,” and systematically burying any evidence to the contrary.
According to the documents obtained by The Epoch Times, CDC employees conducted investigations into reported post-vaccination deaths, particularly focusing on cases involving myocarditis, a known side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Their findings, spanning the end of 2021, highlighted instances where myocarditis was listed on death certificates and in autopsies for some individuals who had received the vaccines. In some cases, myocarditis was even attributed directly to vaccination.
The file also showed instances where deaths met the CDC’s definition for myocarditis, with symptoms appearing within 42 days of vaccination and no virus-related symptoms present.
Despite these findings, the CDC maintained that it had seen no signs linking the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines to any deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
The VAERS database contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. The CDC government website links to the VAERS platform.
What VAERS Says: “‘VAERS occasionally receives case reports from US manufacturers that were reported to their foreign subsidiaries. Under FDA regulations, if a manufacturer is notified of a foreign case report that describes an event that is both serious and unexpected (in other words, it does not appear in the product labeling), they are required to submit it to VAERS.”
Dr. Clare Craig, a British pathologist, and Dr. Andrew Bostom, a heart expert, both expressed concerns about the CDC’s stance. Dr. Craig told The Epoch Times that it was “absolutely” safe to say that the vaccines caused the deaths in cases where myocarditis was listed as the cause and met the CDC’s definition.
Dr. Bostom accused the CDC of “concealing these deaths” and “putting out a dishonest line” by claiming there were no deaths related to the mRNA vaccines.
A CDC spokeswoman declined to explain why the agency doesn’t consider autopsies or death certificates as evidence of causality and did not address questions about specific deaths outlined in the file, citing privacy concerns.
The article also raises concerns about how the CDC counts COVID-19 deaths, noting that people who die with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 are counted as COVID-19 deaths, regardless of the cause. Additionally, the CDC advised death certifiers to include COVID-19 on certificates even if the deaths occurred years after COVID-19 infection.
The internal file obtained by The Epoch Times details numerous cases of individuals who died following COVID-19 vaccination, with autopsy reports attributing causes of death directly to vaccine-related complications such as myocarditis and pericarditis.
After another man, 24, died on Oct. 27, 2021, about two months after receiving a second Pfizer injection, his health care provider diagnosed him with myocarditis. An autopsy listed “complications of COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis” as the cause of death, according to the file.
Another vaccine recipient, a 77-year-old man, was found dead at home on Nov. 14, 2021. The autopsy confirmed the man had pericarditis and listed the cause of death as “complications from the COV-19 booster,” according to the file.
Among other deaths in the CDC file are:
- A male, whose age was redacted, suffered sudden cardiac death in April 2021 following a Johnson & Johnson vaccination. He was diagnosed with myocarditis, which was confirmed by the medical examiner. A CDC worker stated that the case did not technically meet the agency’s case definition, but they would “consider probable subclinical myocarditis, given the histopathological findings.”
- A 21-year-old woman who died in 2021 after seizures and cardiac arrhythmias following Pfizer vaccination was found on autopsy to have lymphocytic myocarditis. The CDC listed her case as confirmed myocarditis with no evidence of viral causes.
- A 45-year-old man was found dead in his bed in 2021 after Moderna vaccination but testing for myocarditis and pericarditis was not performed.
- A 55-year-old woman who was “found unresponsive in [a] field” in 2021 after Johnson & Johnson vaccination was confirmed on autopsy to have myocarditis and to have suffered a cardiac arrest. The death met the CDC’s case definition but concurrent upper respiratory infection “makes viral myocarditis a potential alternative cause,” a CDC worker stated. The medical examiner declined to comment.
Exclusive: CDC found evidence COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths. https://t.co/XjZIcH6g7P pic.twitter.com/rrW5Xhcjq7
— Zachary Stieber (@ZackStieber) May 1, 2024
Reports from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), including non-domestic reports, showed there are now over a million cases of COVID-19 vaccine adverse reactions, including more than 37,382 deaths through March 29, 2024.
The VAERS website is now reporting a total of 1,635,048 adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest number.
The latest data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) indicates that the highest number of myocarditis and pericarditis reports was recorded in 2021, coinciding with the introduction of the COVID vaccine. Subsequently, the figures slightly declined in 2022, and further decreased as vaccine hesitancy among the population increased.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that many Americans who have filed claims after being injured by the experimental COVID-19 vaccines have not received compensation, and many were denied for not meeting the standard of proof.
The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) was created so that in the unlikely event you experience a serious injury from a covered countermeasure, you may be considered for benefits, HRSA said on its website.
According to the CICP Data for Fiscal Years 2010 – 2024(As of April 1, 2024), there are 13,116 total claims filed related to COVID-19 vaccine. Ironically, only 12 have been compensated so far and 2,467 cases were denied.
“Of the 13,116 COVID-19 countermeasure claims, 10,097 allege injuries/deaths from COVID-19 vaccines and 3,019 allege injuries/deaths from other COVID-19 countermeasures. These 3,019 claims include those where it is unclear upon initial submission of the claim whether the injury/death is alleged from a vaccine or a non-vaccine COVID-19 countermeasure,” Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) wrote.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday was asked about the risk to the US milk and meat supply from the bird flu outbreak.
The Food and Drug Administration last month confirmed that traces of Bird Flu have been found in commercial milk but claims it is safe to drink anyway.
The FDA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are still investigating the contaminated milk.
Dairy cows in Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and South Dakota have tested positive for the Type A H5N1 virus.
A White House reporter asked KJP about the contaminated meat and milk and she made it about herself.
“What’s your current assessment of the risk to the US milk and meat supply from the bird flu epidemic in cattle?” a reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre.
“I don’t consume any meat,” Karine Jean-Pierre said as she rattled off nonsense.
WATCH:
“What’s your current assessment of the risk to the U.S. milk and meat supply from the bird flu epidemic in cattle?”
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE (struggling): “I don’t consume any meat” pic.twitter.com/tRCNfc9lZy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 1, 2024
Karine Jean-Pierre is the most incompetent White House Press Secretary ever. Major DEI/Affirmative Action fail.
According to a new report by The New York Post’s Steve Nelson, Biden’s surrogates tried to oust White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre last October but failed.
Recall that on the first day of her job as WH Press Secretary in May 2022, Karine Jean-Pierre wanted the reporters in the briefing room to know how special she was because she is a black lesbian.
“I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts. I am a black, gay, immigrant woman—the first of all three of those to hold this position, I would not be here today if not for generations of barrier-breaking people before me. I stand on their shoulders.” the 49-year-old daughter of Haitian immigrants said.
Karine Jean-Pierre is the most incompetent White House Press Secretary ever. Major DEI/Affirmative Action fail.
According to The New York Post, Mao lover and WH Comms Director Anita Dunn and WH Chief of Staff Jeff Zients tried to nudge KJP to resign gracefully but she won’t leave!
The Biden White House can’t fire Karine Jean-Pierre because she’s a black lesbian and that would be bad optics.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Wednesday to discuss her plan to call for a motion to vacate the speakership next week.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), the Uniparty, RINOs and Democrats passed another massive spending bill last week to fund the war in Ukraine, fund Israel, fund Taiwan, and nothing for secure America’s southern border.
This is national suicide.
On Wednesday, we also learned that Johnson and RINOs included over $3 billion in their latest spending bill to bring more people from the Middle East to America. Why?
Marjorie Taylor Greene made the announcement on The War Room.
MTG: Steve, I went out and held a press conference today because I think the American people deserve to see recorded votes on record to see who the Uniparty is, because that’s exactly what we have in the House of Representatives today. Hakeem Jeffrey, the entire Democrat leadership team, has come out fully endorsed Mike Johnson. They want him to remain speaker. They fully support his speakership because He’s done such an excellent job delivering Joe Biden’s agenda, giving the Democrats every single thing they want, giving another $61 billion to Ukraine, funding foreign wars all over the country. And President Trump is right. Ignoring the Southern border, the full-on invasion at the Southern border, Mike Johnson funded that, too, to keep it open, to keep Joe Biden’s invasion of America going, Steve. So I went out today and I let everyone know I’m calling the motion to vacate next week. This is not something that I want to be doing, but I think this is something that has to be done
MTG held a press conference earlier with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on their plan to oust Mike Johnson as Speaker.
Here is the full video of MTG on The War Room this morning.
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President Trump will host two campaign rallies in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and in Freeland, Michigan, today.
Trump will speak at his first stop at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Wisconsin at 3 pm ET.
He will later speak at Avflight Saginaw in Freeland, Michigan, at 6 pm ET. Doors to the event open at 2 pm. Register for tickets here!
These rallies come as a recent poll shows President Trump leading Joe Biden in 6 of the seven key swing states expected to determine the November General Election.
Trump leads Biden by four points in Wisconsin and is down two points to Biden in Michigan, and 70% of voters in the states polled say the United States economy is on the “wrong track.” 51% of voters say they trust Trump more on the economy, while just 36% say Biden.
POLL: Biden Trails Trump in Six Swing States – 70% Say Economy is on the “Wrong Track”
Supporters of the President turned out six hours early to see Trump speak at his second rally in Wisconsin this year after a rally in Green Bay last month.
Nearly six hours ahead of when Former President Donald Trump is expected to speak in Waukesha, a line has already formed. pic.twitter.com/lB5Nao421r
— Vanessa Kjeldsen (@VanessaKjeldsen) May 1, 2024
Per News Nation's Emily Finn , there was "high energy" this earlier morning, and President Trump will deliver remarks in Waukesha on the soaring crime in Biden's America, the opioid crisis, and border security:
Watch President Trump's rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump will travel to Waukesha, Wisconsin, on May 1st to contrast the peace, prosperity, and security of his first term with Joe Biden’s failed presidency.
Watch LIVE on RSBN on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, starting at 1:00 p.m. ET. President Trump will give remarks at 3 p.m. ET.
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In a chilling courtroom revelation, video evidence has been presented showing Christopher Gregor, 31, accused of murder, subjecting his 6-year-old son, Corey Micciolo, to a grueling and dangerous treadmill workout as a form of punishment for the child’s weight.
This footage happened just weeks before the boy tragically died from injuries that prosecutors believe were linked to ongoing abuse.
Christopher Gregor was seen in court on Tuesday, facing charges that could lead to a life sentence if he is found guilty of the first-degree murder of his son in 2021. He is also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Court TV disclosed the horrifying details, noting that surveillance video from the gym in Gregor’s apartment complex captured the incident on March 20, 2021.
The footage showed young Corey struggling to keep up with the increasing speed of the treadmill, stumbling and falling several times. Gregor appeared to be unrelenting, even resorting to grabbing the child roughly and biting his head at one point.
Prison would be too good for this poor excuse of a father. pic.twitter.com/u2nSOTFv2i
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 1, 2024
Here’s the video of Bre Micciolo, the boy’s mother, in tears as she watched the horrific footage:
NEW: Mother breaks down in court as she watches her son’s father abuse her child by making him run on the treadmill because he was “too fat.”
New Jersey father Christopher Gregor is accused of killing his 6-year-old son Corey Micciolo.
New footage shows the boy repeatedly face… pic.twitter.com/aVKknkOGd5
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 1, 2024
Bre Micciolo had informed the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency about her son’s injuries in the days preceding his tragic demise, The Sun reported.
On April 1, 2021, she urged Gregor to take their son to a medical appointment. During the visit, Corey allegedly disclosed that his father had compelled him to run on a treadmill “because he was fat,” according to the outlet.
Breanna asserted that she had reported Gregor for abuse on more than 100 occasions, yet no action was taken. She has filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, alleging failure to adequately safeguard Corey.
On April 2, Gregor brought Corey to the hospital, claiming the boy had woken up from a nap in a disoriented state, with symptoms including stumbling, slurred speech, nausea, and difficulty breathing, according to Court TV.
After a CT scan was performed at the hospital, Corey suffered seizures and, despite attempts to save him, passed away.
An autopsy conducted on April 3 revealed blunt force injuries with cardiac and liver contusions, along with acute inflammation and sepsis. Initially, the manner of death was listed as “undetermined.”
Six months after Corey’s death, a review by consulting forensic pathologist led to the classification of the death as a homicide.
The findings suggested that the child experienced chronic abuse and had sustained “blunt impact injuries on his chest and abdomen with a laceration on his heart, left pulmonary contusion, and laceration and contusion of his liver,” according to The Sun.
Gregor had been initially arrested on July 7, 2021 for the incident involving the treadmill, but was released due to New Jersey’s Bail Reform policies. He was arrested again for his son’s murder on March 9, 2022.
Gregor faces separate charges for the two incidents. The treadmill episode led to a charge of child endangerment, while Corey’s death due to blunt force trauma resulted in Gregor being accused of causing serious bodily injury that led to the child’s death.
The defense has introduced a different narrative, with their own consulting forensic pathologist deeming Corey’s death “natural,” attributing it to “complications from pneumonia.” Defense attorney Mario Gallucci shared this statement with Court TV.
Bre Micciolo was the first witness to take the stand during child custody murder trial.
For more updates on the trial, click HERE.
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Sandra Doorley, District Attorney of Monroe County in New York state, recently had a run-in with the law during a routine traffic stop. What happened next is frankly humiliating for her, and gives us a little glimpse of the mindset of our elite — a feeling of being above the law and above the common folk. Do we buy her apology, or is she merely trying to whitewash the situation?
Elijah Schaffer discusses all this and more on today’s Beyond the Headlines!
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An active shooter was reported outside of a Wisconsin middle school on Wednesday.
Mount Horeb Area School District, which is about 20 miles southwest of Madison, was put on lockdown as soon as the shooter was spotted.
“Community members, there has been an active shooter at our middle school this morning. The individual did not breach entryway. Police department is helping to scope out our building to ensure the safety of our students and staff,” Mount Horeb Area School District said on Facebook.
The threat was “neutralized outside of the building” and no one was injured other than the suspect.
The suspect’s condition is not known.
WMTV reported:
The Mount Horeb Area School District is on full lockdown after an active shooter was at the middle school Wednesday morning, the school district confirmed in a Facebook post.
The school district stated that the suspect did not get into the school, on the 900 block of E. Garfield Street, and police have not found any additional suspects inside of the school. The district reported that the “threat has been neutralized outside of the building.”
The district asked people not to come to the school campus as officers go through the school to ensure all students are safe.
An update posted around 12:10 p.m. indicated there were no reports of anyone hurt other than the suspect.
BREAKING: Shooting reported at Mt. Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin; scene is active
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 1, 2024
DEVELOPING…
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The Biden Regime on Tuesday finalized its ‘energy efficiency’ regulations on water heaters.
“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today finalized Congressionally-mandated energy-efficiency standards for a range of residential water heaters to save American households approximately $7.6 billion per year on their energy and water bills, while significantly cutting energy waste and harmful carbon pollution,” the DOE said on Tuesday.
“The final standards for residential water heaters align with recommendations from various stakeholders, including efficiency and environmental advocates, the Consumer Federation of America, and a leading U.S. water heater manufacturer. The standards would require the most common-sized electric water heaters to achieve efficiency gains with heat pump technology, helping to accelerate the deployment of this cost-effective, clean energy technology while also reducing strain on the electric grid. Over 30 years of shipments, these updated standards are expected to save Americans $124 billion on their energy bills and reduce 332 million metric tons of dangerous carbon dioxide emissions—equivalent to the combined annual emissions of nearly 43 million homes,” the DOE said.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the Biden Regime is putting American consumers first by forcing them to purchase new, Regime-approved water heaters.
“Almost every U.S. household has a water heater, and for too long outdated energy efficiency standards have led to higher utility bills for families,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “The Biden-Harris Administration is continuing to put American consumers first with new, effective rules—supported by industry—that save both energy and money.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre previously confirmed the Biden Regime is seeking to restrict water heaters and other appliances by 2029.
The Biden Regime is cracking down on gas stoves, water heaters and other popular appliances all in the name of ‘battling climate change.’
At first, the Biden Regime pushed back on reports they were targeting gas stoves, dishwashers, and heaters.
Karine Jean-Pierre admitted the Regime is going full steam ahead to restrict water heaters and other appliances by 2029.
A reporter asked KJP how many more home appliances will Americans have to replace because of regulations.
“So from this administration, we’ve seen them go after gas stoves, air conditioning units and regulate refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, now water heaters. How many more home appliances will Americans eventually have to replace them because of regulations?” a reporter asked KJP.
Karine Jean-Pierre admitted the Biden Regime is seeking to enact the proposed regulations on every single appliance.
“It is proposed – what has been put forward and if it is enacted, it would not take it into effect until 2029,” she said.
WATCH:
REPORTER: "We've seen [Biden] go after gas stoves, A/C units with regulation, refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers — now water heaters. How many more home appliances will Americans eventually have to replace?"
KJP: "If it is enacted, it would not take into effect until… pic.twitter.com/xkGMdOdbgV
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 24, 2023
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ABC News senior meteorologist Rob Marciano has been fired by the network, more than a year after he was banned from reporting inside the “Good Morning America” studio.
The ban came after Marciano allegedly made his colleagues on the set feel uncomfortable — leaving him to report from outside of the show’s New York City headquarters.
Dylan Byers of Puck News reported on Tuesday afternoon that Marciano had been axed by the network.
“Multiple staffers had made complaints about Marciano’s behavior over the years and he was at least temporarily barred from main GMA set in NYC,” Byers wrote.
SCOOP @PuckNews: Rob Marciano, the ABC News & Good Morning America meteorologist, has been fired from the network, per sources familiar. Multiple staffers had made complaints about Marciano’s behavior over the years and he was at least temporarily barred from main GMA set in NYC.
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) April 30, 2024
ABC News did not issue a public comment on the firing of the veteran weatherman. There were rumblings previously that Marciano displayed a temper that led to his ban from the “GMA” studio, according to Page Six.
He still worked inside the studio during weather reports for “World News Tonight” and last appeared on the network this past weekend.
Page Six reported in March that Marciano’s ban came as he was going through a divorce from his wife.
“He was found to have done something,” a person described as an ABC News insider told the outlet.
The person did not disclose what Marciano was alleged to have done, other than to call it “improper.”
“…[But] he was punished for it, and they still haven’t let him return,” the person said.
Another person close to the production of the show claimed Marciano was working through anger management issues when an incident with a female colleague escalated.
“There were times when [Marciano] was very cranky and angry,” the person claimed.
“He made people feel uncomfortable,” the source added. “There was a period where there were some issues, a number of alarming events.”
Marciano was reportedly supposed to serve out a short ban from the studio, but “GMA” executive producer Simone Swink reportedly declined to have him back.
The EP of the show reportedly likes a distraction-free environment.
Marciano confirmed to People magazine in July 2022 that he and his wife Eryn were divorcing after marrying in 2010.
“The last couple of years have been very difficult,” he said in a statement to the outlet. “I didn’t want this and tried to save the marriage, but we are sadly divorcing. My focus now is on my kids.”
Marciano joined ABC News in 2010.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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A disturbing scene unfolded in Battery Park City, New York, as a video surfaced online allegedly depicting a couple engaging in a sexual act under a blanket in broad daylight while numerous park-goers, including children, were present.
The video, which has quickly gone viral on TikTok, has sparked widespread outrage and calls for legal action against the individuals involved.
The footage, posted by a TikTok user identified only as “girls or woman,” was captioned “Only in New York.” The user, who intended to spend a peaceful Sunday morning in the city, captured the couple under a barely-there blanket, performing the nasty act.
The video has now accumulated 43 million views on TikTok.
The graphic nature of the incident was partially obscured by a blanket; however, it was not enough to conceal the couple’s lewd behavior completely.
Another person at the scene managed to capture the faces of the couple, potentially leaving them at risk of being identified and facing legal consequences. This video has garnered 22 million views on TikTok.
The community and online commenters have expressed outrage, with many stating that the authorities should have been called immediately. Many are calling for the couple to be arrested and potentially registered as sex offenders, as their actions not only violated public decency laws but were also performed in the presence of minors.
Public sexual conduct is prohibited under New York Penal Law. Legal statutes address various aspects of this behavior, focusing on the protection of public decency and safety.
Engaging in sexual acts in a public space where they may likely be observed by others who may be alarmed or offended falls under public lewdness, which is a class B misdemeanor.
If the act was performed in the presence of minors, the couple could also face charges for endangering the welfare of a child, which encompasses acts likely to be injurious to the physical, mental, or moral welfare of a child less than 17 years old.
The couple featured in the video has not yet responded to the online allegations surrounding the viral videos.
Disclaimer: The events depicted in the video described herein are allegations based on online claims and have not been confirmed. The identity and actions of the individuals in the video have not been officially verified, and the scenario should be considered as reported by witnesses and online sources until further information is available.
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We’ve all heard the tales of marital woe caused by a “third wheel.” An old flame. A nosy in-law. A so-called “work spouse.” God forbid, an affair with another person.
One anonymous writer for an Australian feminist outlet has declared that an unusual “third wheel” has entered her nuptials, however. He’s bald, entertaining, half a world away and beloved by millions. Yet, he’s “ruining my marriage,” the anonymous author said.
She speaks, of course, about Joe Rogan.
In a month that produced plenty of evidence that those on the left refuse to even tolerate those not on the same page as them, much less take their arguments seriously — a theme that was played out violently on campuses across America over the war in Israel, especially at Columbia University — one of the wackier manifestations of this phenomenon came from Down Under.
On April 8, an anonymous writer published a screed on MamaMia, an online feminist outlet that describes itself as a center of “independent women’s journalism.”
This includes hard-hitting articles like “Influencers are bringing back ‘Day on a Plate.’ And it’s more toxic than ever,” in which YouTubers and TikTokkers are slammed for sharing their healthy meal plans, with the author arguing they come in under the recommended calorie intake for a day.
Also, “Calling someone your ‘girlfriend’ is officially cancelled.” It’s a thinkpiece about how Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, among other celebrities, refer to each other if they’re dating but not married. Spoiler alert: It’s “juvenile” to use those words, and “the structure of our relationships has changed significantly over time, but our vocabulary hasn’t sufficiently extended to be inclusive of these new unions.”
This is funny enough in its own peculiarly sad way, but the cake-taker is the anonymous spouse who declared, last month, “Joe Rogan is ruining my marriage.”
The scribe began with Princess Diana of Wales’ quote, during an interview, that, “There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” She was referring, of course, to the then-title-free Camilla Parker-Bowles — now Queen Camilla — who then-Prince Charles was having an affair with.
Our anonymous agonized spouse said she identifies with Princess Diana, “though the ‘third’ in my marriage is an annoying male American voice who has somehow managed to insert himself into my relationship.
“Joe Rogan, often touted as the world’s most popular podcast host, can be heard in our kitchen, bathroom, or backyard on loud speaker morning, noon and night,” she wrote. “And like the uninvited guest he is (by me anyway) he’s causing tension in my home.”
Yes, reality is now officially making satire obsolete. The Babylon Bee has nothing on this.
Now, the author admitted that both her husband and her differ politically, but had “settled into a companionable acceptance” of these differences.
“Very loosely I am more liberal and he is more conservative. There were arguments (usually around national elections) but it didn’t really interfere with our relationship,” she said.
“But since Rogan has appeared on the scene I feel like my husband’s taken a trip to right-wing-crazy-town. He’s developed a deep distrust of science and government. He stopped taking the COVID boosters early on and is skeptical about vaccinations generally. He once tried to explain to me why aliens probably built the pyramids,” she claimed in the article.
“And while I do believe in taking a critical approach to life, relentless conspiracy theories are exhausting and can leave you feeling like you’ve landed in la la land.”
The woman then brought up things she said Rogan has posited that are false, including furries demanding kitty litter in school bathrooms. However, how she would know this is beyond me, because this is what she admits in the very next paragraph:
“My husband will argue that I can’t criticize Rogan because I don’t listen to him, which is true. But what I can do is observe his influence on my husband, and this is what I see.” [Emphasis ours.]
Oh! Rogan is apparently on in her house day and night, so much so that his voice is inescapable … but she hasn’t listened to him? She just knows because now her husband is talking about things like wokeness gone amok, and we can’t have that.
According to her, the husband has gotten some wacky ideas via the “third wheel,” noting, “It appears that for Rogan and those who follow him, the political is personal. My husband will often get angry about what he calls ‘woke’ activists and how ‘they’ are going too far. When he says the word ‘feminist’ he reduces it to a dirty word.” [Emphasis again ours.]
In this paragraph, we can see exactly why Rogan irritates so many on the left, and it’s not because he gives marching orders to brainless, spineless men whose political views would otherwise be moldable by — thank ye heavens! — sensible women like our author, but who are now being warped by some podcaster.
Note the bolded phrase: “The personal is political.” It has a history, so much so that the Encyclopedia Britannica — among many other sources — has an entry on it. Spoiler alert: It didn’t originate with the right, but with radical feminists instead.
“The personal is political, political slogan expressing a common belief among feminists that the personal experiences of women are rooted in their political situation and gender inequality,” the Encyclopedia Britannica noted.
“Although the origin of the phrase ‘the personal is political’ is uncertain, it became popular following the publication in 1970 of an essay of the same name by American feminist Carol Hanisch, who argued that many personal experiences (particularly those of women) can be traced to one’s location within a system of power relationships.”
There’s no particular need for feminists to spout this phrase anymore, at least for themselves. In this arena of the culture war, they have assumed they’ve attained victory. “Toxic masculinity” and “gender roles” are phrases tossed around by liberals with the same contempt that this woman’s husband allegedly uses when he talks about “wokeness” and “feminism.” “Believe all women” isn’t just a phrase that sprouted from the #MeToo movement, it’s now become an inviolable cultural maxim in the West and similar cultures.
When men wake up and realize this is all rubbish forced upon them by a leftist monoculture, it’s blamed on that goshdarned “toxic masculinity” — in this case, embodied in the personage of Joe Rogan, a podcaster who is apparently ruining marriages.
“I know my husband is not a bigot. If a child asked him to use a certain pronoun, he absolutely would without a fuss. He has empathy. What has this harlot Rogan done to my kind, loving husband?” the writer asked.
It’s truly amazing that this woman — apparently more than willing to vocalize her opinions to her husband — is suddenly repulsed when he gets some of his own. But he couldn’t have come up with this himself, right? Blame the dude with the show on Spotify … which, admittedly, she’s never really listened to.
Before the author hit send on this, she surely must have read it again to see if she had cogently expressed her arguments. So lacking in self-awareness is this woman, apparently, that, at no point during this rereading, did it occur to her that she was telling one side of a problematic relationship, and a telling one at that.
To this writer’s husband, I imagine there’s a “third wheel,” too: the cudgel of political correctness she wields whenever he criticizes “wokeness.” Heaven forfend he ever doesn’t use the pronoun the hypothetical child asked him to, or then he’d really get a whack with it — probably in divorce court, from the sound of things.
Joe Rogan is not the one who made the political personal in this dysfunctional relationship. Instead, it’s the fact that this woman has apparently blindly swallowed whatever pap that was fed to her by progressive feminists who have succeeded in making their personal grievances political and react with unmerciful venom whenever their status quo is challenged.
This would all be quite silly — if there weren’t enough people who probably nodded along with this witless, self-deluded woman, and not given her condemnation of the “third wheel” in her marriage the mockery it so clearly deserved.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Northwestern University, located in the liberal suburban Chicago enclave of Evanston, Illinois, announced their concessions to the radical Hamas supporters who have taken over their campus to end their protests and encampment.
Two of the most notable include the promise to offer full-ride scholarships to Palestinian students and also guaranteed faculty jobs for Palestinian academics.
The University will also provide special housing for Muslim students and will “advise employers not to rescind job offers for students engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment.”
One of the “First Amendment” students recently assaulted a student journalist attempting to take a video of the encampment.
Unfortunately some protesters at Northwestern’s newly-formed encampment weren’t too thrilled with us reporting. pic.twitter.com/kUXFWt9Kvd
— Logan Schiciano (@LoganSchiciano) April 25, 2024
The Hamas lovers at Northwestern are so proud of their support for terrorists that they even wear Hamas hoodies.
No big deal, just a pro-Hamas extremists at a Hamas encampment at Northwestern University wearing a Hamas hoodie.
The enemy of America isn’t in the Middle East — the enemy is here.pic.twitter.com/AhuZK79W0A
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) April 25, 2024
These are the people Northwestern is caving to.
A statement from University President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty, and Vice-President for Student Affairs Susan Davis announced the agreement.
We have reached an agreement with a group of students and faculty who represent the majority of the protestors on Deering Meadow to bring the demonstration into compliance with University rules and policies. This agreement represents a sustainable and de-escalated path forward, and enhances the safety of all members of the Northwestern community while providing space for free expression that complies with University rules and policies.
The full agreement can be found here.
This agreement was forged by the hard work of students and faculty working closely with members of the administration to help ensure that the violence and escalation we have seen elsewhere does not happen here at Northwestern.
This agreement also addresses our commitment to protect the safety of our entire community and to ensure the ongoing academic operations of our campus while adhering to our support for free expression. The agreement includes support for our Muslim, Arab and Palestinian students. Some of the actions have been discussed for years and some are new. Together, they will strengthen our community.
This path forward requires the immediate removal of tents on Deering Meadow, cessation of non-approved use of amplified sound and a commitment that all conduct on Deering and across campus will comply with all University rules and policies. Compliant demonstration can continue at Deering Meadow through June 1.
For any demonstrators refusing to comply with the agreed-upon path forward, the University will take action to protect the safety of the community and enforce University rules and policies. These steps will include the suspension of non-compliant students and a requirement that non-affiliated individuals leave campus.
This path forward takes into account careful observation and assessment of protests on campuses across the United States.
Reported antisemitic and anti-Muslim/Palestinian incidents over the weekend — in most cases, fueled by demonstrators who are not affiliated with Northwestern — are unacceptable and cannot continue, and this agreement will help to ensure that. Acts of antisemitism, anti-Muslim/Arab racism, and hate will not be tolerated, and community members who can be identified participating in such acts will face disciplinary action.
The University will take appropriate disciplinary action against any student, faculty or staff who violate these rules and policies.
We know more challenges remain ahead of us. But our guiding principles will never waver: protecting the safety of our entire community, preserving free expression and peaceful demonstration, denouncing and refuting intolerance and hate, and ensuring that our University can continue to operate without disruption.
Shocking news out of Northwestern University: the school caves to pro Hamas mob in negotiations, agrees to full scholarships for Palestinian students and 2 year employment terms for Palestinian faculty.
Reminder: over 70% of the Palestinian population in Gaza support of Hamas.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 30, 2024
At least one Northwestern student got it right and called out a protestor to her face.
Language warning.
Northwestern University in Evanston, IL is also lost.
A brave student confronts the Hamas sympathizers and calls one a “Nazi pig.” What a time to be alive in America. pic.twitter.com/k71xlYdgzv— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) April 30, 2024
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