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The Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and socialism (Quote By Author Michael Scheuer).Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comBlogger3579125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-51418928649849352542024-03-18T12:10:00.000-04:002024-03-18T12:10:14.954-04:00The Morning Briefing: Biden and His MSM Lapdogs Hit New Lows With Trump's Bloodless Bloodbath<p><a href="https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/03/18/the-morning-briefing-biden-and-his-msm-lapdogs-hit-new-lows-with-trumps-bloodless-bloodbath-n4927384"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY STEPHEN KRUISER | P J MEDIA</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZMn1w33nUchLWkTiwPPSjo4gQ4CyB9eyMwmwtp3b7wuW8BjhqtanGVoTeERTdhQNO_HLyQztzApUTrATqMACFNtJ2mxluN0aISIJJ4YNwHPXp5iQ_BX9rllzWEXJljCeT2yBiWA_RcYKyRjHKqb-YInAR_zysVeAB7t5KHNQmQLuGao4UrZ5FA/s1052/be23b7a4-23f1-47c9-981b-522b1d18ef3b-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZMn1w33nUchLWkTiwPPSjo4gQ4CyB9eyMwmwtp3b7wuW8BjhqtanGVoTeERTdhQNO_HLyQztzApUTrATqMACFNtJ2mxluN0aISIJJ4YNwHPXp5iQ_BX9rllzWEXJljCeT2yBiWA_RcYKyRjHKqb-YInAR_zysVeAB7t5KHNQmQLuGao4UrZ5FA/w640-h374/be23b7a4-23f1-47c9-981b-522b1d18ef3b-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Charles Krupa</span></i></b></p><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We're not even through the first quarter of this election year but the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media have managed to make it feel like a decade or so. By the time November gets here, we may all be somewhere on the other side of numb. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Or in the throes of cirrhosis of the liver. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I emerged from my weekend news hiatus to find one of the bigger out-of-context Trump-related hullabaloos we've ever seen. Because the MSM hacks are veracity averse — especially where Donald Trump is concerned — there have been a lot of those. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/03/17/trump-warns-of-a-bloodbath-if-hes-not-elected-the-reaction-is-exactly-what-trump-was-looking-for-n4927387" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Rick wrote about this one</a>: </span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump was railing against auto imports, promising a “100% tariff” on cars made outside the US.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> “We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected,” Trump said. “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Is Trump really saying if he isn't elected, there will be a "bloodbath"? Joe Biden thinks so. His campaign released a statement claiming Trump wants – you guessed it – "another January 6.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Context is really overrated when there's a false narrative to be created. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden obviously can't run on his record, so his handlers have him belching up "January 6" as often as possible. No doubt it's a big hit with the low-info MSNBC crowd. The Dems think that their false insurrection fetish is going to be the shiny object that distracts Jack and Marge Onthefence in flyover country from the fact that they just paid too much for groceries and gas. That's why Biden led off his State of the Union Adderall tantrum with J6 stuff.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's not going to work as well as they think. The people who are all-in on the J6 myth are already voting for Biden. I hope that they keep this nonissue front and center until the election. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have written on many occasions that Democrats behave as if none of us have internet. This particular bit of fiction is easily disproved by watching the few seconds of what Trump actually said. Over at RedState, my colleague <a href="https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/03/17/you-know-biden-and-the-liberal-media-are-in-a-panic-with-latest-fake-story-theyre-pushing-about-trump-n2171492" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Nick Arama details</a> how the hoax developed so quickly.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The leftmedia Dem propagandists know that they have to create a lot of fake spin to help drag Biden across the finish line, and they have no worries about how tall the tales might end up being. They've used their untruthfulness about the "bloodbath" comment to play the idea that Trump and his supporters are just itching for some violence. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The reality is that, if there is going to be any post-election violence, it's going to come from the Left. Disgruntled Republicans don't burn and loot things, despite the fact that the Biden FBI thinks they're (we're) all a red-flagged powder keg. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Once again, the Dems and their media buddies are projecting. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump's shoot-from-the-lip extemporaneous speaking style provides the MSM types with a lot of fodder for spinning fantastical narratives. I happen to think that's a feature, not a bug. Let them keep heading off to the Land of Make Believe for the next eight months. Preaching to the commie choir isn't going to get them anywhere.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump and Republican candidates don't have to resort to lying to make their points about Biden and the Democrats. They merely have to talk about the southern border and the economy. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Over and over.</span></p></div>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-70999162421230076432024-03-17T15:39:00.000-04:002024-03-17T15:39:22.579-04:00Biden's Weird Trip to Saginaw<p><a href="https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/03/16/bidens-weird-trip-to-saginaw-n3784808?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY KAREN TOWNSEND | HotAir.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8bj5P3Ut100xK603VFlu8AkNol8U0rbO9jaN3ljyENyoXQbrlSQbYLlGZbE4qBFX_SjzIt1jcFoPuj-RNeZVDPlndgh1mrAa0M1LJxk6KZ8338sHnJ0CaZN2sZayqkb55KYDYefXnKw5lJDSsRPSTuZWb1PWFN7f0XUqQJU5ObytetAYbWB1_w/s1052/1b009bbc-1353-4bf8-93dc-014d0da3cb3b-1052x615.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8bj5P3Ut100xK603VFlu8AkNol8U0rbO9jaN3ljyENyoXQbrlSQbYLlGZbE4qBFX_SjzIt1jcFoPuj-RNeZVDPlndgh1mrAa0M1LJxk6KZ8338sHnJ0CaZN2sZayqkb55KYDYefXnKw5lJDSsRPSTuZWb1PWFN7f0XUqQJU5ObytetAYbWB1_w/w640-h374/1b009bbc-1353-4bf8-93dc-014d0da3cb3b-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Evan Vucci</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">President Biden campaigned in Saginaw, Michigan this week. The optics were bad. </span></p><div class="thm-piano-mop" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 696px;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is difficult to understand exactly what the Biden campaign's strategy is as he tries to convince voters that he should be re-elected in November. The campaign is concentrating on swing states, as is expected, but when Saginaw, Michigan was chosen, people rightly asked why. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It turns out that Saginaw County is a swing county in a swing state. Voters in Saginaw County voted for <span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and then Joe </span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Biden</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Will they stay with Biden this time around? </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why would anyone vote for Joe Biden after seeing him on the campaign trail? The visit to Saginaw provided a close-up of how the old man is handled to get through even a casual event. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden held a campaign event on the porch of a 131-year-old Victorian mansion owned by Saginaw City Councilman Bill Ostash and Saginaw Public Schools Board of Education member Kevin Rooker. It was raining but the gay pride flag was flying for the photo ops. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden delivered a pep talk to about 50 supporters and campaign volunteers. Most of the press were out in the rain in the yard. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How does this kind of event move the needle in the presidential election? It was held with 50 people who are voting for Biden. It didn't reach out to undecided voters or independent voters, the ones that need to be moved to his side in a swing county. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden told a story he frequently tells but has been debunked. Yet, he persists.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">_______________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;"><b><i>Post on "X"</i></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">RNC Research @RNCResearch</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">This was at least the 11th time Biden has told a variation of the same fake story.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">He has told it to firefighters in Philadelphia, D.C., and online, wildfire victims in California, Colorado, Hawaii, and New Mexico, hurricane victims in Florida (twice), and in New Hampshire.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Biden, campaigning in Michigan, claims his fire department once "saved my wife, saved my cat, and saved my Corvette" in a housefire.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">That's a debunked lie. According to a 2004 AP report, it was "a small fire...contained to the kitchen" that "was under control in 20 minutes."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">_______________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">As usual, when it came time for Biden to take questions, the press were yelled at by staff and hustled off. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Biden was met at the airport by Congressman Dan Kildee and Saginaw Mayor Brenda Freeland. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Where was Governor Gretchen Whitmer? She has a good relationship with Biden. She was considered when Biden was looking for a vice presidential choice. She was making beer.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ok. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In another campaign stop, a dazed and confused Biden was helped by handlers who led him into a building. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's almost enough to garner sympathy. Instead, it makes me angry. This is the president and he can't get himself through a door without help. He's too confused to know where he is or what he's doing. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Voters in Saginaw County have picked the winning presidential candidate since 2008. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden is losing support in all demographics but most noticeably, he's losing black voters. The trip to Saginaw was one of outreach to the black community. Saginaw's population has shrunk in recent years but it remains a hub for black residents. 45% of local residents are black while the statewide percentage of black residents is 14%. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So far, Biden's re-election campaign is not doing what it needs to do. Trump's winning.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">______________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;"><b><i>Post on "X" </i></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">If the election were held today, based on the current RCP Poll Averages in battleground states this would be the Electoral College map:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHfoG48V1IV4ww4iM1QWpzlt-EGf_XzE1f6K83kdpKk33mPZu3YeTX8BZOtG6nUfkr2V3qJ6F-z8co57UqTmB3anSA_t3mpY5CzsIdQIuUTMsxmsA-VITmX0pAqgdu8osWzwCxFAEeQ-wJAdhSIzop9hZbHBZRGF19vWCkaAmfeEu6baOeMR0V9g/s975/GItXQeLXAAEcapU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="975" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHfoG48V1IV4ww4iM1QWpzlt-EGf_XzE1f6K83kdpKk33mPZu3YeTX8BZOtG6nUfkr2V3qJ6F-z8co57UqTmB3anSA_t3mpY5CzsIdQIuUTMsxmsA-VITmX0pAqgdu8osWzwCxFAEeQ-wJAdhSIzop9hZbHBZRGF19vWCkaAmfeEu6baOeMR0V9g/w640-h600/GItXQeLXAAEcapU.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">_____________</span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35px;">The most disturbing part of Biden's campaign appearances is the fact that his handlers don't let him answer questions. Think about that. His handlers start yelling at the press to leave as soon as Biden asks if he can take questions. </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">He asks the handlers</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35px;">. Why is the leader of the free world asking anyone for permission to take questions? Who is in charge? </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We know that answer. Biden cannot answer questions when the questions are not screened in advance. The videos of the press being removed only bring the point home that Biden has to be protected from them. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden is not up to doing his job now. How can he be expected to do this job for another four years? Democrats don't care. It's all about holding on to power and they think this man who is suffering from dementia is their best shot against Trump. Let that sink in. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">___________________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.35px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.35px;"><b><i>RELATED ARTICLE</i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/03/16/watch-biden-wanders-aimlessly-in-rain-karen-handlers-shoo-away-press-n4927381?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147" style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.35px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">WATCH: Biden Wanders Aimlessly in Rain, Karen Handlers Shoo Away Press</span></b></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">BY BEN BARTEE | P J MEDIA</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65d4CV6Z2BrVQDazLHR0t5GvzyCXBE7mYypda90sf3yXKbww7qdjjzJ-kCC2C3JO-KcLxI0PnJ2R2NJ34hOlxaWj_cVhTnL_IUtdaLv42oaOKSO_94t60oxK1ZJsJNfb9MBC7N7UbV8RqtHNpjhqAIuJsmCYk6D6Gwet2mbrMLTWY_kNy4ON0NQ/s1052/6348fbb6-bc36-4d9b-bc80-fcde13e431b3-1052x615.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65d4CV6Z2BrVQDazLHR0t5GvzyCXBE7mYypda90sf3yXKbww7qdjjzJ-kCC2C3JO-KcLxI0PnJ2R2NJ34hOlxaWj_cVhTnL_IUtdaLv42oaOKSO_94t60oxK1ZJsJNfb9MBC7N7UbV8RqtHNpjhqAIuJsmCYk6D6Gwet2mbrMLTWY_kNy4ON0NQ/w640-h374/6348fbb6-bc36-4d9b-bc80-fcde13e431b3-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span face="minion-pro, Georgia, serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.35px;"><b><i>AP Photo/Susan Walsh</i></b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Today in “this is how Democracy™ works, Jack, no joke, you dog-faced pony soldier,” we have the virile president of the United States getting lost in the rain, rescued, and then shielded from public views by his frumpy, childless handlers (the press they are paid to control are surrogate children to them).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Via <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/03/15/bidens-young-female-aides-frantically-chasing-away-press-after-he-opens-his-mouth-is-a-stunning-scene-1445425/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">BizPac Review</a> (emphasis added):</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">The lengths to which President Joe Biden’s handlers will go to protect him from scrutiny</span> before the election <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">was laid bare in a shocking video clip</span> that’s blowing up on social media.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Team Biden has made the call that the mentally decaying <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">81-year-old can’t be allowed to function in a non-controlled setting where there’s a chance that he could go off script</span>, potentially making the killer gaffe that could cost him a second term.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On Thursday, the plan was seen in action when the geriatric Democrat was set to field questions at an event in Michigan when a trio of white liberal women rushed in to shoo off reporters in what was described by one social media user as an “incredible scene.”</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">During his visit to Saginaw, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">the president dropped by the 131-year-old mansion owned by the Saginaw City Council</span> and Saginaw Public Schools Board of Education members where he schmoozed with voters on the building’s porch.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the video, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Biden is heard asking “Can I take a couple questions?”</span> and a woman wearing a Biden-Harris campaign jacket also says “We’re going to take a few questions,” <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">at which point the protective harpies intervened to chase away reporters</span>. It was a stunning – and very revealing – scene.</span></em></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Below is the video depicting, doing their best North Korean minder impression, the anonymous gaggle of Karens who apparently run the government, or at least the alleged president, swoop in to save the day with a chorus of high-pitched, passive-aggressive “thank-yous” and “back to the cars” as they shoo the cameras away.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1768357201586892930">CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.</a></i></b></span></p><div><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">At what appears to be the same event, here the Brandon entity is bewildered in the rain before dutiful supporters come to his aid and guide him inside, but not before a deadly door almost takes him out of commission.</span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">News followers will note this is by no means a freak occurrence. Biden is routinely censored by his own staff to avoid embarrassing gaffes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Am I allowed to take any questions? Anybody here?" the Brandon entity asks seemingly nobody, standing and looking confused before the feed gets cut to the event.</p></span></div>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-91529831121515757552024-03-16T10:11:00.000-04:002024-03-16T10:11:21.072-04:00 Polls Show Trump Can Win 2024 Election Without WI, PA, or AZ<p><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/03/15/polls-show-trump-can-win-2024-election-without-wi-pa-or-az-n2636570?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Sarah Arnold | Townhall.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbCY4okZdQBDXXU7xUgidlvG4i9kUHmHfMqkU-JelIzOajhCm00-gDaowDKCQeiZxKlsPIvU9ek76IMJHYuaulLvyPPSppguBWSN9huavQAQumbyWe56Uqxo3G5-GxNRyN3Ep9QL82Q2H5XR3soithIbYm3lJHDRY2EcYknhX1PR46VAiszwcTw/s1052/8d0291ce-bad8-48af-b657-7386d36c9cbf-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbCY4okZdQBDXXU7xUgidlvG4i9kUHmHfMqkU-JelIzOajhCm00-gDaowDKCQeiZxKlsPIvU9ek76IMJHYuaulLvyPPSppguBWSN9huavQAQumbyWe56Uqxo3G5-GxNRyN3Ep9QL82Q2H5XR3soithIbYm3lJHDRY2EcYknhX1PR46VAiszwcTw/w640-h374/8d0291ce-bad8-48af-b657-7386d36c9cbf-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Evan Vucci</span></i></b></p><p class="p1" id="isPasted" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Former President Trump is on the road back to the White House as all polls point to his 2024 victory.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to a <a href="https://archive.is/pbGs4" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CNN electoral map</span></a>, Trump can win the 2024 presidential election without securing enough votes for Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Arizona.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Candidates need 270 electoral votes to win the presidential election. The map indicated that Trump would secure 272 votes, while President Joe Biden only secure 225.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite CNN, a far-Left news outlet, undermining Trump’s ability to win the election, the outlet cannot deny that Biden is nowhere near having enough support to serve another four years in the White House.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A recent Fox News poll found that Trump (49 percent) leads Biden (47 percent) by two percentage points in Pennsylvania.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, in Arizona, Trump holds a four-point advantage over Biden with 49 percent compared to the president’s 45 percent.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Both of these states carry a lot of weight in the presidential elections. In 2020, Biden won Pennsylvania and Arizona, while Trump won them in 2016. However, the last time Biden time had a lead in Arizona was in April 2023— more than eleven polls ago.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump also takes the lead in other polls, including Democrat-led states.</span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to a Quinnipiac University Michigan <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3893" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Poll</span></a>, Trump received 41 percent support among registered voters, while Biden received only 36 percent support.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, 48 percent of voters support Trump, while Biden received 45 percent support. Eight percent indicated they are undecided. Even with Independent candidates in the race, 46 percent of voters from this group said they would back Trump come November and 42 percent saying they would vote for Biden.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nationally, Trump is edging Biden out by 1.4 percentage points, according to the Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling average.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">_____________</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RELATED ARTICLE</span></i></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2024/03/15/the-path-to-victory-for-trump-n2636532?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Path to Victory for Trump</span></a></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Josh Hammer | Townhall.com</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Z9XzbtMCe7HCw2YADMY1GQ2be9In_iXa-cfVMaBGKYrXuueFDO1x-WJMStIWT0-YG1fmCDqBszuYg2IRfQOh3DBMwHRRTYKWF9E1x7nld2U4z7iCO18nS-2IBlZoH6c3prVe3WBliKk93KDboM5eyODOqZc__wnGWfEHokdubh4lBK37lRJquw/s1052/8d0291ce-bad8-48af-b657-7386d36c9cbf-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Z9XzbtMCe7HCw2YADMY1GQ2be9In_iXa-cfVMaBGKYrXuueFDO1x-WJMStIWT0-YG1fmCDqBszuYg2IRfQOh3DBMwHRRTYKWF9E1x7nld2U4z7iCO18nS-2IBlZoH6c3prVe3WBliKk93KDboM5eyODOqZc__wnGWfEHokdubh4lBK37lRJquw/w640-h374/8d0291ce-bad8-48af-b657-7386d36c9cbf-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Evan Vucci</span></i></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Following this week's primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both attained enough delegates to be their respective parties' presidential nominees this fall. Barring some sort of unforeseen event -- a debilitating hospitalization, an ultra-expedited criminal prosecution, or a convention floor revolt -- we will thus get a rematch of the 2020 presidential election.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For the many Americans who are neither Trump enthusiasts nor card-carrying Democratic partisans, this choice at the ballot box may be less than fully enticing. But for those patriots who still love this country, warts and all, and in spite of our ruinous current trajectory and decadence, Trump must secure a second presidential term. It really is that simple.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You may admire Trump's willingness to challenge conventional orthodoxies and his instinctual nationalism; or maybe you think he is an unprincipled politician and an obnoxious boor, to boot. Perhaps you believe a weaponized prosecutorial apparatus are now persecuting Trump; or you might have deep qualms about voting for someone found guilty of a crime by a jury of his peers.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But whatever it is you think about the polarizing 45th president of the United States, it doesn't really matter. The reality is the Democratic Party in its fetid current form is wholly unfit to govern the local assisted living facility -- to say nothing of the greatest country in the world. And whoever once said American elections don't present a binary choice is a moron; that is precisely what they do.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Patriots of all stripes must therefore band together to get Trump across the finish line this November. Trump can certainly make that task easier (or harder) based on how he runs his campaign this year. Here is what he should do.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Since Trump is the first former president to run for a non-consecutive additional term since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, his campaign is somewhat anomalous. Most challengers to an incumbent president seeking reelection can only talk about what they <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">will</em> do once they are in office and how that agenda differs from the incumbent's record. But Trump already served a full term; he <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">has</em> a record. What's more, that term was just a few years ago; most voters remember it well.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The key to Trump's reelection this fall, then, is to make the straightforward case that his term was demonstrably better for the median American citizen than Biden's term has been.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On the economy, Biden has presided over the worst inflation in four decades, declining real wages, a formal recession, and a historic supply chain crisis. Trump, by contrast, oversaw a generally flourishing pre-COVID economy: The stock market soared, inflation was generally subdued, America became a net exporter of oil and natural gas for the first time, and the Black unemployment rate even reached the lowest it has been since that statistic was first measured.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On the border, Biden has presided over the worst crisis in American history: Endless streams of unknown illegal aliens have flooded over, leading to a massive strain on municipalities' resources, skyrocketing violent crime, depressed wages for working-class Americans, and the mass importation of terrorism-implicating "special interest aliens." Trump, by contrast, may not have finished construction of the border wall, but illegal immigration was orders of magnitude lower than it is today due in no small part to the prudent measures he implemented, such as Remain in Mexico.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On the world stage, Vladimir Putin did not march into Ukraine under Trump (indeed, it is curious that Putin invaded Crimea during the Obama presidency in 2014 and then waited patiently until the next Democratic president to invade again). Under Trump, Hamas did not infiltrate Israel and kill the most Jews in a single day since the defeat of Nazi Germany. Iran was on the brink of economic catastrophe by the end of Trump's term due to his administration's "maximum pressure" campaign; under Biden, the Islamic Republic has been "maximally emboldened" to sow the seeds of jihad all over the Middle East. For all the talk of Trump's "chaos," there was not a single major war abroad during his presidency.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDnuFzOqUiNz32aDI4ZvsvVXwz7gcMw_OM0JYsopIJvSA-7WWiey52q8SvSfhalarYJvU3s0-jiXMntVgp3ya9JDJe_KD7jjUy5liFRj6mPoiueUwBCZI5046X-ATOgfvgCi7yIrKuW0uNOtqznjr13JZhwCSiK50cLJfW8JjDQaHQL5krBdWDg/s1050/Democrats%20Destroy%20Democracy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1050" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDnuFzOqUiNz32aDI4ZvsvVXwz7gcMw_OM0JYsopIJvSA-7WWiey52q8SvSfhalarYJvU3s0-jiXMntVgp3ya9JDJe_KD7jjUy5liFRj6mPoiueUwBCZI5046X-ATOgfvgCi7yIrKuW0uNOtqznjr13JZhwCSiK50cLJfW8JjDQaHQL5krBdWDg/w640-h458/Democrats%20Destroy%20Democracy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The 2024 presidential campaign is going to get ugly. Democrats have barely commenced the advertising onslaught that is to come, wherein they will depict Trump as a Mafia-like thug and shamelessly compare Jan. 6, 2021, to 9/11. Trump's best chance this fall is to ignore the noise and prove, contrary to the smear campaigns, that he is the superior candidate in terms of competence, stability, and sanity. He has the record to prove it.</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-10252957634278592892024-03-15T16:57:00.003-04:002024-03-15T16:57:30.576-04:00BREAKING: Nathan Wade Withdraws as Special Prosecutor in Trump's Georgia Case, Fani Remains<p><a href="https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/03/15/breaking-nathan-wade-withdraws-as-special-prosecutor-in-trumps-georgia-case-n2171441?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=227841a8b1ca836b99e21ea36efa6859"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Jennifer Van Laar | RedState.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjyPdO6PulrOUNt5EeR6O-RCmJ2GUU9MRDuImWwCMsujI2XnoXJF-jsAeHyX6wWnLWiAgCWRB4y4mRNjphSXgSm56KkPZm2ubwOR1qKlmdgtJ75d1iG13m78E7hqWaXQ6yfqA3h854kFhCW2iRQ0ZiFeykswpsL0XcL3yVtCZYEWESbHBWN8CFSw/s1052/9513aaa7-eff6-4859-b2e5-40614c956b9b-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjyPdO6PulrOUNt5EeR6O-RCmJ2GUU9MRDuImWwCMsujI2XnoXJF-jsAeHyX6wWnLWiAgCWRB4y4mRNjphSXgSm56KkPZm2ubwOR1qKlmdgtJ75d1iG13m78E7hqWaXQ6yfqA3h854kFhCW2iRQ0ZiFeykswpsL0XcL3yVtCZYEWESbHBWN8CFSw/w640-h374/9513aaa7-eff6-4859-b2e5-40614c956b9b-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hours after Judge Scott McAfee ruled that the only way Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could continue her prosecution of Donald Trump was if Special Prosecutor/Willis' boyfriend Nathan Wade wasn't involved, Wade tendered his resignation to his lover.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-election-indictment-fani-willis-trump-60b7dd9642fc9ef7c03d75980692334c?taid=65f4a1ab90ad1e000100f274&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">the AP</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-left: 5px solid rgb(184, 31, 36); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wade offered his resignation in a letter to Willis, saying he was doing so “in the interest of democracy, in dedication to the American public and to move this case forward as quickly as possible.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Willis accepted Wade’s resignation, effective immediately. She complimented his “professionalism and dignity,” saying he has “endured threats against you and your family, as well as unjustified attacks in the media and in court on your reputation as a lawyer.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sorry, Fani, the attacks are entirely justified.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Again, from AP (and if they're covering it this way, that's a significant blow to Willis' credibility in the mainstream media):</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-left: 5px solid rgb(184, 31, 36); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">McAfee did not find that Willis’ relationship with Wade amounted to a conflict of interest that should disqualify her from the case. However, he said, the allegations created an “appearance of impropriety” that infected the prosecution team.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The judge also criticized Willis for a “tremendous” lapse of judgment and questioned the truthfulness of Willis and Wade’s testimony about the timing of their relationship.</span></p><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement" data-align-center="" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div></div></div></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the wake of Friday's ruling, <a href="https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/03/15/trump-attorney-judges-ruling-in-willis-disqualification-case-n2171422" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">Trump's legal team has already promised</a> to "use all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place."</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-2082832139971017852024-03-15T16:34:00.003-04:002024-03-15T16:34:51.854-04:00Fani Willis Judge: Sure, There Was Lying, Conflict, 'Odor of Mendacity,' but Hey, It Could be Worse<p><a href="https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/03/15/fani-willis-judge-sure-there-was-lying-appearance-of-conflict-but-is-that-really-so-bad-n4927340?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY VICTORIA TAFT | P J MEDIA</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8JDaG4vES-Vi0N0CdFC58-v_SRID90Nqq2scDoYKS7r4nIvQ41mM-i8Ls1JJ9lJdEKYEkfh5JwBXyzMrUUKycFAOg1eewuqmoK1AyGfJO1TRwRqTFuZxnkJx8ACOL0PTC6SF5EPq2dqrfD29CxGLeRJMX_pz_66j9ekGy40UKBIGm-C8PdI0Gkw/s1052/8c9272e5-5999-4fc0-9a11-5085b9a8a511-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8JDaG4vES-Vi0N0CdFC58-v_SRID90Nqq2scDoYKS7r4nIvQ41mM-i8Ls1JJ9lJdEKYEkfh5JwBXyzMrUUKycFAOg1eewuqmoK1AyGfJO1TRwRqTFuZxnkJx8ACOL0PTC6SF5EPq2dqrfD29CxGLeRJMX_pz_66j9ekGy40UKBIGm-C8PdI0Gkw/w640-h374/8c9272e5-5999-4fc0-9a11-5085b9a8a511-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">By now you've heard that Fani Willis has </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">not</em><span style="background-color: white;"> been booted from what's left of the RICO election case against President Trump and more than a dozen other defendants. If you haven't then you'll want to read Chris's </span><a href="https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2024/03/15/breaking-fani-willis-decision-n4927325" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">excellent piece</a><span style="background-color: white;"> about it. While PJ Media will report the fall out and next moves, there's more to this 23 page decision than the conclusion. That's what I'll be covering in this piece.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The judge in the case delivered a split-the-baby decision telling the Fulton County, Ga., (Atlanta) District Attorney that she could fire her own office from the case or dump her <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">very special</em> prosecutor from litigating the case against Trump et. al. By the time you're reading this she may have made a decision, but that's not what we need to highlight here.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Judge Scott McAfee, who stands for reelection in mere weeks, was right to have stopped everything to hear arguments on motions to dismiss and others because Fani Willis was having an affair with the arguably unqualified special prosecutor, her boyfriend, Nathan Wade. The defendants alleged she derived some financial benefit from the arrangement and spoke out in public about her prejudices against the defendants to taint the jury pool and by all appearances suborned perjury, but no biggie. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On the way there was clearly suborned perjury, tales of lavish vacations, sudden spates of bad memories, lying to the court, no receipts for money swapping with Wade, and bizarre behavior by the imperious Willis. Doesn't everyone keep $10,000 in cash in their homes and recompense lovers in cash without any proof? Of course they do, by Fani's lights. </span></p><div class="page" id="isPasted" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" title="Page 3"><div class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The judge said that "In total, Defendants point to an aggregate documented benefit of, at most, approximately $12,000 to $15,000 in the District Attorney’s favor" but decided that wasn't such a big deal because "these expenditures were not meant as gifts and not designed to benefit the District Attorney. Both testified that the District Attorney regularly reimbursed Wade in cash." We should totally take their word for it. Wow.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There was evidence of overnights together <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">when they said they were not dating</em></span> and then <a href="https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/02/27/heres-what-the-body-language-experts-say-about-fanis-performance-n4926825" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">lied about it</a> on the witness stand which I mentioned in the inelegantly, but accurately titled, "<a href="https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/02/23/fanis-booty-calls-n4926718" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Fani's Booty Calls.</a>"</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to a cellphone investigator for Donald Trump's lawyers, there were 2,000 voice phone calls and 12,000 text messages in 2021, the year they claimed they weren't dating. Fani's former friend, at whose home she was staying, testified last week that the two were romantically entangled starting in 2019. If either of these testimonies is true, then Fani and Nathan Wade have been caught lying in court. There's a word for that: perjury. In the old days before wokeism that was disqualifying.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The late-night trysts are especially telling. A "<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24439577-trump-supplemental-brief?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">heat map</a>" was established using CellHawk analysis to geofence both Willis's and Wade's addresses. It showed late-night travel to Willis's place and then Wade leaving at Oh-Dark-30 in the morning. In 2021. When they claim not to be dating. </span></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But in his ruling, Judge McAfee said this evidence wasn't enough to establish actual conflict of interest. "Unlike an actual conflict, the finding of an appearance of impropriety does not automatically demand disqualification," he wrote in his decision. Indeed, that's the goal post that McAfee decided to move instead of the ethical standard used by the legal profession, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">appearance </em>of conflict.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Canon 6 of the American Bar Association's old Canons of Professional Ethics 2 provided in part: It is unprofessional to represent conflicting interests, except by express consent of all concerned given after a full disclosure of the facts," wrote the University of Washington <a href="https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1405&context=faculty-articles" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Law School</a> Professor Robert H. Aronson back in 1977. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He wrote, "<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">the appearance of impropriety can be just as damaging as actual impropriety</span></em> to public respect for the law and clients' belief in their attorney's loyalty, attorneys must ensure that their conduct does not reasonably appear to have been influenced by conflicting interests." </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Professor Robert H. Aronson died in 2021, but we're pretty sure he would have been concerned about Fani and her booty calls. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Conflict isn't a cut-and-dried thing, and the judge ruled that "Defendants failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor." </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Put another way, the judge said there wasn't enough evidence of booty calls, trysts, lying on the stand, and other egregious behavior to form <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">actual </em>conflict of interest. Apparently, there was lots of smoke, maybe a few flames, but, in the end, there was no actual O.J. video of the conflagration, so no proof. He didn't say the part about the O.J. video, but that seemed to be the standard of proof required by the jury in the O.J. Simpson case, so I used that term. It seems to apply to the judge here. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's illegal, unethical, and against the rules of the court for a lawyer to put on witnesses whom they know will lie. The Fulton County DA's office was fully complicit in this, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">obviously. </em>Indeed there was some evidence to more than suggest that Willis herself had suborned perjury from Wade's bestie, legal partner, and divorce lawyer. But the judge punted the question of perjury.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">McAfee said, "[A]n odor of mendacity remains. The Court is not under an obligation to ferret out every instance of potential dishonesty from each witness or defendant ever presented in open court. Such an expectation would mean an end to the efficient disposition of criminal and civil proceedings.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The judge ruled that Fani's "church speech" when she appeared at a church service after the news of her conflict of interest in the case — selecting her boyfriend as special prosecutor when the <a href="https://wadeandcampbell.com/nathan-j-wade/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">personal injury</a> attorney wasn't qualified — and claimed "they" were going after her because of her color, rode right up to the line of impropriety. Indeed, McAfee said this was "legally improper. Providing this type of public comment creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into," but he wouldn't sanction her for her apparent attempt to taint the jury pool because the trial was too far away. Oh, we see.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The judge noted that “[t]he administration of the law should be free from all temptation and suspicion, so far as human agency is capable of accomplishing that object," a standard Fani flunked.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Finally, how does a DA who has so deeply compromised and shown herself to be unworthy of her office get the call on who is fired from the case? </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The judge had an "answer" to that too. Trump's legal chances weren't hurt by her treachery, he reasoned. "There has not been a showing that the Defendants’ due process rights have been violated or that the issues involved prejudiced the Defendants in any way," he wrote in a gobsmacking claim. He went on. "Nor is disqualification of a constitutional officer necessary when a less drastic and sufficiently remedial option is available."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump will likely appeal the ruling. And on and on the anti-Trump lawfare goes.</span></p></div></div>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-26750841246050837322024-03-15T12:20:00.003-04:002024-03-15T12:20:42.448-04:00BREAKING: Judge Rules in Fani Willis Disqualification Case, Uproar Begins<p><a href="https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/03/15/breaking-judge-rules-in-fani-willis-disqualification-case-uproar-begins-n2171420?utm_source=breakingemail&utm_medium=email"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Bonchie | RedState.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vlrtMDD_LALvZkfgjrIN4cPiXCwBGdJZx0dytm8ZmwmiLKq8fmsEzhNexpsZBytkqd2MA-DzTEfXZYP5sEuJdQQTyOzPU1GhDGCCHA8vrP_7yD-4Ytv-JfpCO0RX-M_Q9w3p29z0ojBVNBQpQLZKMc847nCXQStl9WyJcxDCseeUJJpJbPBvrQ/s1052/9140773e-5e4b-49ee-a58a-4f9ae0dd7923-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vlrtMDD_LALvZkfgjrIN4cPiXCwBGdJZx0dytm8ZmwmiLKq8fmsEzhNexpsZBytkqd2MA-DzTEfXZYP5sEuJdQQTyOzPU1GhDGCCHA8vrP_7yD-4Ytv-JfpCO0RX-M_Q9w3p29z0ojBVNBQpQLZKMc847nCXQStl9WyJcxDCseeUJJpJbPBvrQ/w640-h374/9140773e-5e4b-49ee-a58a-4f9ae0dd7923-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Judge Scott McAfee has delivered his ruling on whether to disqualify </span><a href="https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/02/15/fani-willis-testimony-n2170176" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">Fani Willis</a><span style="background-color: white;"> from her own prosecution of Donald Trump in Fulton County, GA. According to the judge, Willis will be able to remain on the case but with a catch: For the troubled district attorney to stay in her position, she must fire Nathan Wade.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wade is the prosecutor she had an affair with and hired above market rate. He and Willis infamously took lavish vacations together, which he put on his business credit card. No proof was ever produced that reimbursements were made.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The uproar over what some are calling a "cowardly decision" has already begun, though it is a blow to Willis that things even got this far.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite some proclamations by hopeful people on the right, the idea that these proceedings would lead to the case being dismissed was never realistic. That wasn't an outcome on the table, and had Willis been removed, the case would have continued. Her staying as the face of the prosecution after taking this blow is probably the best-case scenario for the Trump defense. Had Willis been booted, it would have been embarrassing for her, but it would have possibly allowed someone more qualified to take over.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Unfortunately for Trump, this case isn't going away. Willis has been dirtied a bit, but eventually, the former president's defense will have to convince a jury these charges are a farce. The big question is whether the judge allows this to go to trial before the election, and if he doesn't, does it matter given it's a state case? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is uncharted territory, and things could get very chaotic if Trump wins in November but a provably corrupt state prosecutor continues to try to throw him in jail.</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-54661320841294033052024-03-14T11:36:00.003-04:002024-03-14T11:36:31.655-04:00Confirmed: Minority Voters Shifting to GOP in Large Numbers<p><a href="https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/03/13/confirmed-minority-voters-shifting-to-gop-in-large-numbers-n4927263?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY RICK MORAN | PJ MEDIA</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZzl3OZOQof0lsQYBjqeDyEVSGNod5LjTaRV3Od1u7ooaDJDC7kgO5xepR9a_v4oeXvFBOdAfCH1qRB4ijw2BLhzVuIHu_C5vrAxIJTMpQgVfNtuwfRwrk3FwRlY9_s4H5MqYJsioPLOTzOUK-T34-cKwuHI40PUf-SCMmA2zsORY2SklSdsMAQ/s1052/83afbf9a-5a65-44ab-a415-d346d67f2bbc-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZzl3OZOQof0lsQYBjqeDyEVSGNod5LjTaRV3Od1u7ooaDJDC7kgO5xepR9a_v4oeXvFBOdAfCH1qRB4ijw2BLhzVuIHu_C5vrAxIJTMpQgVfNtuwfRwrk3FwRlY9_s4H5MqYJsioPLOTzOUK-T34-cKwuHI40PUf-SCMmA2zsORY2SklSdsMAQ/w640-h374/83afbf9a-5a65-44ab-a415-d346d67f2bbc-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Susan Walsh</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Financial Times columnist and chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch has been crunching the numbers on the 2024 vote and has reached some startling conclusions.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We've known for years that the black and Hispanic vote has been trending more Republican. But as the Democrats' share of the white vote shrinks and the GOP minority support increases, Democrats find themselves in dire straits.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Burn-Murdoch also points out that "identity politics" is losing its electoral potency, further eroding and narrowing the Democrats' path to victory.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a7607626-5491-48bd-aa56-5a10cbeeb768" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Financial Times:</span></a></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Last week, a New York Times poll showed President Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by just 56 points to 44 among non-white Americans, a group he won by almost 50 points when the two men last fought it out for the White House in 2020. As things stand, the Democrats are going backwards faster with voters of colour than any other demographic.</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The election of 1960 saw the last racial realignment in America. Black people had been loyal Republican voters since Reconstruction. This is not surprising considering that the Democrats were the party of the Klu Klux Klan. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But when Martin Luther King was jailed in late October 1960 for supporting some young civil rights advocates in Georgia, John F. Kennedy saw political opportunity where Nixon feared consequences. JFK called King's wife Coretta to express his support and tell her she was thinking of her and her family.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That simple act galvanized the black community, and for the first time, a Democrat won a majority of the black vote.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Today, the racial realignment has destroyed the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Democratic-Majority-Lisa-Books/dp/0743226917" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Democrats' dream</a> of a permanent Democratic majority in Washington. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why is this happening? Minorities have not suddenly fallen in love with Republicans. But, as with all things in American politics, time is the great equalizer.</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Part of this is due to fading memories and weakening ties. Black Americans who lived through the civil rights era still support the party at very high levels, but younger generations are wavering. There’s also the weakening correlation between income and voter choice in US politics. The image of the GOP as the party of wealthy country club elites is dimming, opening the door to working- and middle-class voters of all ethnicities.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More ominous for the Democrats is a less widely understood dynamic: many of America’s non-white voters have long held much more conservative views than their voting patterns would suggest. The migration we’re seeing today is not so much natural Democrats becoming disillusioned but natural Republicans realizing they’ve been voting for the wrong party.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white;">In a way, black and Hispanic voting trends match those of immigrants who, by the third generation, have lost all fealty to the political party of their parents. For minorities, the touchstones of their struggling past are either a distant memory or never lived by younger generations. They have, to varying degrees, embraced the American dream.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With more affluence comes a recognition to elect people who will protect what they've achieved. There is also a strong element of religious faith that undergirds many minority communities and Democrats aren't even bothering to give lip service to people of faith anymore.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In hindsight, the realignment appeared inevitable. Where it goes from here is anyone's guess.</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-57406629839488623892024-03-13T17:07:00.004-04:002024-03-13T17:07:53.162-04:00Democrats Are Seething After Robert Hur's Testimony, and the Highlights Are Brutal for Joe Biden.<p><a href="https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/03/12/democrats-are-seething-after-robert-hurs-testimony-here-are-the-highlights-n2171295?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Bonchie</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnblCCZ4Sj4escDXHhpnACEgVmH_KnJBQr6CMYBW76W8lHpkH39nEL52fHd-lOfSjx-d31A_-D26zT3grCkrOzRrCi2vCX8x8v29qZDTJcdv_NXpl2KYtJ1Xc0AFShow2kOF-6BXfzR2QaPIkTxtT0xjv0EryybeGnYQGpwrof7ENQJ9-PUXN1g/s1052/3d029e9a-bc94-4d9f-a59a-d592854d6e94-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnblCCZ4Sj4escDXHhpnACEgVmH_KnJBQr6CMYBW76W8lHpkH39nEL52fHd-lOfSjx-d31A_-D26zT3grCkrOzRrCi2vCX8x8v29qZDTJcdv_NXpl2KYtJ1Xc0AFShow2kOF-6BXfzR2QaPIkTxtT0xjv0EryybeGnYQGpwrof7ENQJ9-PUXN1g/w640-h374/3d029e9a-bc94-4d9f-a59a-d592854d6e94-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Andrew Harnik</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Congressional testimonies often don't live up to the hype, but Robert Hur's trip to Capitol Hill on Tuesday was everything Republicans were hoping it would be.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The now-former special counsel was in charge of investigating Joe Biden's theft and mishandling of classified documents, some of which were found unsecured in his garage. That led to a report from Hur that was lambasted by Democrats for supposedly overstepping its bounds. What was the issue? It included ample evidence of the current president's senility, including significant memory loss. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But if Democrats were hoping to beat back some of the narratives produced by Hur's accurate portrayal of the facts, they quickly found out he wasn't there to play along with their gambit. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hur did not back down on his assessment of Biden's memory, proclaiming that the "president himself" made it an issue. In one case, the president tried to deflect from his inability to recall an event by claiming his son had died in the same year. As Hur notes, Beau Biden actually died two years earlier, in 2015. The White House lied about that exchange in the initial aftermath of the report, claiming that it was the special counsel who brought up Beau Biden. The president repeated that assertion during a disastrous press conference. The transcript, which Hur had at the ready during the hearing, showed otherwise.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On that same topic, Hur was asked about whether the White House pressured him to change parts of his report to protect Biden politically. He confirmed that did happen, sharing details of a letter in which it was demanded that mentions of Biden's failing memory be removed. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another big blow to Democrats came when Rep. Pramila Jayapal <a href="https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/03/12/watch-robert-hur-blows-up-the-dem-narrative-about-exonerating-biden-n2171284" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">tried to claim</a> that Hur had "exonerated" the president. The former special counsel responded by flatly denying that his report did any such thing.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As RedState <a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/02/15/medias-admissions-after-release-of-hur-report-n2170179" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">reported at the time</a>, the report pointed to ample evidence that Biden broke the law. The reason Hur didn't recommend prosecution was two-fold. First, a sitting president can't be indicted under current DOJ protocol. Secondly, according to the report, Biden is just too old and cognitively challenged to stand trial. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another incredible exchange came when Rep. Adam Schiff suggested that Hur should have released a sanitized version of his report so as not to make judgments about someone who wasn't criminally charged.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Of note is that Schiff <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">fully </em>supported Robert Mueller's special counsel report, which made all sorts of negative claims about Donald Trump despite the former president not being charged with any crimes. The California congressman also lived on television for several years, making all kinds of wild accusations involving Russian collusion, including claiming to have proof. For him to go after Hur for reporting the facts on Biden's activities and testimony is the height of irony. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When it was Rep. Jim Jordan's turn to question Hur, he brought up the evidence that Biden kept the documents so he could illegally leak them to his ghostwriter. The president made $8 million from the book advance. The former special counsel testified that there is reason to believe that was the motivation.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In yet another exchange, Hur was asked about Biden's ghostwriter and whether he destroyed evidence.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">David Petraeus was prosecuted for doing the same thing, which begs the question of why no one is being brought to justice in this case. Of course, no one will be. As a criminal matter, Biden's DOJ has already shut the door and there's no reason to think it will be opened again. As a political matter? Well, that's a different story. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hur's testimony was a disaster for Democrats. It produced a litany of viral moments, all showing Biden to be both flagrantly disrespectful of the law and in steep mental decline. It's a news cycle the White House couldn't afford given the current president's already tenuous re-election effort.</span></p><div><br /></div>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-30235185668359957472024-03-11T13:09:00.002-04:002024-03-11T13:09:43.372-04:00The Anti-Midas Touch<p><a href="https://www.objectivityistheobjective.com/post/the-anti-midas-touch?utm_campaign=15bdbe3f-0fcf-411a-9bbb-e7b5d3622be1&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=68c89da9-f6dc-4487-b193-99d35d8562c7"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By J Garrett </span></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmfS5NNaaq6f0PiwP1RC_BNCHZIbOIWFj4_GFsb_18Uc0hBqDh_2hVD_tQHCjiA8N1zShJO3Gt0wv7YIJ6Od4LbOpxL5NBtSxHw7Q_S1epLHHBXx_b2lmmgPYJra_52n9i5ErrPKp8z4P3jNKdVQXBdOao4kAKS79dbitcQdV5vZa3Iui0gFxGg/s549/Angry%20Biden.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="549" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmfS5NNaaq6f0PiwP1RC_BNCHZIbOIWFj4_GFsb_18Uc0hBqDh_2hVD_tQHCjiA8N1zShJO3Gt0wv7YIJ6Od4LbOpxL5NBtSxHw7Q_S1epLHHBXx_b2lmmgPYJra_52n9i5ErrPKp8z4P3jNKdVQXBdOao4kAKS79dbitcQdV5vZa3Iui0gFxGg/w640-h462/Angry%20Biden.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On Saturday, during an interview with MSNBC’s "The Saturday Show," President Biden said he regretted referring to the illegal alien who murdered Laken Riley as an “illegal”. He should have used the term </span><a class="_37YHL hO7NK" data-hook="WebLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/09/biden-i-regret-using-illegal-for-undocumented-person-suspected-in-riley-case/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-link-text-decoration, none); vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“undocumented person.”</span></span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0070c0; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; 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text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He then went onto say that </span><a class="_37YHL hO7NK" data-hook="WebLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/09/biden-i-regret-using-illegal-for-undocumented-person-suspected-in-riley-case/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-link-text-decoration, none); vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0070c0; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m not going to treat any of these people with disrespect”</span></span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0070c0; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">not even the illegal alien who murdered a 20-year-old nursing student and smashed her skull to pieces. So, Biden apologized to Laken Riley’s murderer for calling him an “illegal”, but he has yet to apologize to Laken Riley’s family for his open border policies that allowed her murderer into the country to murder their daughter. He has yet to apologize to the 100,000 families who are grieving the loss of one of their loved ones every year, due to a drug overdose caused by his open border policies.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z TI-xX" id="viewer-uemxb595" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></span></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="empty-line"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-n17gt121" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden then added, “they [illegal immigrants] built the country.” I became very confused with that statement because we have been told for years by the left that slaves built this country. So, did the slaves build this country or did the illegal immigrants build this country? It can’t be both. If the slaves did, then the illegals who came 100 years later could not have because the country would have already been built. And if the illegals built this country, then the slaves could not have because if they had, the country would not have needed to be built when the illegals started coming here. Democrats are always trying to claim that someone who didn’t build this country built this country in order to justify some insane policy like reparations or open borders.</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z TI-xX" id="viewer-lmy9x123" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></span></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="empty-line"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-coyit904" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Democrats for years have told us that walls don’t work to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country, but as per usual, prior to the State of the Union address, Joe Biden had a fence put up around the Capitol to stop anyone from entering the grounds that they do not want. I guess illegal immigrants are like ghosts, they have the ability to walk through walls, whereas, people who are fed up with Joe Biden’s harmful policies and want to protest his speech will be repelled by walls.</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z TI-xX" id="viewer-8fwg6125" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></span></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="empty-line"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-ca7ua1133" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After his State of the Union address, Biden was caught on a hot mic saying that he was going to have a “come to Jesus” talk with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Joe forgot that the leader of the one and only Jewish nation in the world was in fact Jewish, and to have a “come to Jesus” talk with him is to try to convert his religion. I don’t think it is the role of the President of the United States to try to convert the leaders of other countries to Christianity, especially since the Biden administration claims that Christianity is the biggest existential threat to the world.</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z TI-xX" id="viewer-ead2s127" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></span></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="empty-line"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-21fc31406" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden claimed that he used that expression metaphorically to mean that he would try to convince Netanyahu to agree to a cease fire in Gaza. He wants Israel to stop fighting Hamas, the Islamic terrorist group who targeted and killed over 1,400 Israeli civilians on October 6 of last year. It’s interesting though, after we were attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11, we invaded two Middle Eastern countries and conducted two wars which lasted 11 and 20 years, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in those countries, and Joe Biden voted for and helped oversee both of those wars. Joe did not appear to care about the loss of civilian life in those wars mainly because those wars enriched the military industrial complex who was financing the campaigns of most of the politicians in the swamp, including Biden. We are currently giving Ukraine a blank check to conduct its war against Russia with no thought of pursuing a peace deal between the two countries, even though tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens are being killed every year.</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block11" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z TI-xX" id="viewer-ev382129" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></span></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="empty-line"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-a9ron1847" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The only civilian deaths that Joe Biden seems to care about are those in Gaza that are created by Hamas using Palestinian citizens as human shields. He doesn’t care about the death of Laken Riley or the deaths of 100,000 American citizens due to drug overdoses. He doesn’t care about the thousands of deaths of Ukrainian civilians, just as he didn’t care about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians. He only cares about the deaths of the civilians in Gaza who elected the blood thirsty terrorist group Hamas to be their leaders. And now Biden wants Israel to stop their campaign just as they are on the precipice of defeating Hamas once and for all.</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block13" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z TI-xX" id="viewer-ff22j131" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></span></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block14" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="empty-line"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-s9lgz2252" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joe Biden is trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in Israel. But that is what Biden has been doing since he took office. Donald Trump had our border more secure than it has been in 40 years, and Joe Biden reversed all of his policies, creating an unprecedented border crisis. Trump had made the United States energy independent for the first time in history, and Biden reversed Trump’s energy policies, and now we have to beg dictators to produce oil we need, and Europe is forced buy oil from Russia. Biden inherited 2% inflation when he took office, and immediately went on a spending spree, forcing the fed to print trillions of new dollars, which drove up inflation over 9% – a 40-year high. Trump had brokered five Middle East peace deals, and Biden undermined each one, setting that part of the world on fire again. Biden has the bizarro Midas touch – everything he touches, turns to crap.</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block15" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z TI-xX" id="viewer-mkga1133" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></span></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block16" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="empty-line"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg g9g8z iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-8gl3e2715" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE g9g8z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Regardless of what he says, Biden doesn’t care about the deaths of the civilians in Gaza, he is using their deaths to push the globalist agenda. Biden does not want Israel to win and destroy Hamas. He and the swamp in Washington need to have conflict in the Middle East. That’s why they have done everything in their power to defeat the one United States President who brought the most peace to the Middle East. The world was as peaceful under Trump as it had been in my lifetime, and all these people hate the man who made it so. If they truly wanted peace in the world, they would all be Trump supporters or at least they would not intentionally undermine his policies.</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block17" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg yHnvZ TI-xX" id="viewer-hd10o135" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">__________________________________________________________</span></span></span></p></div><div data-hook="rcv-block18" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e2025; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg yHnvZ TI-xX" id="viewer-owny3137" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg yHnvZ iPC6I TI-xX" id="viewer-rwfle139" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center !important; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">J Garrett is a graduate from Princeton University. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics, and has recently published his first novel, </span><a class="_37YHL hO7NK" data-hook="WebLink" href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=judd+garrett+no+wind&crid=349BRYWT8KFAF&sprefix=judd+ga%2Caps%2C194&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_7" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-link-text-decoration, none); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0070c0; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No Wind</span></span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0070c0; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></span></span></p></div>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-31731635877976205352024-03-10T12:27:00.004-04:002024-03-10T12:27:50.167-04:00Here's the Evidence Liz Cheney Tried to Bury During Her January 6 Probe<p><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/03/10/what-a-shock-january-6-committee-buried-evidence-exonerating-trump-n2636294"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Matt Vespa | Townhall.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLYByzii3I7KI4JUtjWmof8XVgPrBvO8k4BFYeDWXKGNymC74mjve5oyOx6TER_W2zgAARQOU6adwmZ3YYL_I-0QvcdURqgx2akFMgYqQYWDCaPhjzodcgaHkpLOYIkuFgNF2IAqlYoytfBts7Fpkk7LfOZmyBwDoiStu1R5_PHvkVAEyKVG8DA/s1052/dc54913f-9538-4ea2-a3d4-8f4c1eda7a00-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLYByzii3I7KI4JUtjWmof8XVgPrBvO8k4BFYeDWXKGNymC74mjve5oyOx6TER_W2zgAARQOU6adwmZ3YYL_I-0QvcdURqgx2akFMgYqQYWDCaPhjzodcgaHkpLOYIkuFgNF2IAqlYoytfBts7Fpkk7LfOZmyBwDoiStu1R5_PHvkVAEyKVG8DA/w640-h374/dc54913f-9538-4ea2-a3d4-8f4c1eda7a00-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Jae C. Hong</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I can’t say that this is surprising. Still, it provides another chance to take a swipe at former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who The Federalist has busted for suppressing exculpatory evidence concerning the ongoing anti-Trump narrative that the former president orchestrated some violent coup on January 6. One bit of proof Cheney didn’t want to be widely publicized is the Trump administration’s security plans, which included 10,000 National Guard troops to protect Washington, DC. The city rejected it. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">These revelations were gleaned from an interview with Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato, who heard conversations between White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. Meadows wanted the city to request whatever they needed to keep the city secure. Cheney was reportedly present for these interviews. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Mollie Hemingway </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/exclusive-liz-cheney-january-6-committee-suppressed-exonerating-evidence-of-trumps-push-for-national-guard/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">has more</a><span style="background-color: white;">: </span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now. </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato’s first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He also testified President Trump had suggested 10,000 would be needed to keep the peace at the public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. Ornato also described White House frustration with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller’s slow deployment of assistance on the afternoon of January 6, 2021. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not only did the committee not accurately characterize the interview, they suppressed the transcript from public review. On top of that, committee allies began publishing critical stories and even conspiracy theories about Ornato ahead of follow-up interviews with him. Ornato was a career Secret Service official who had been detailed to the security position in the White House. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">[…] </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ornato said White House concerns about January 6 were related to fears that left-wing groups would clash with Trump protesters and that no one in the White House anticipated a riot at the Capitol. Antifa and other left-wing groups were planning protests for the same day. Left-wing groups had been involved in violent assaults on Trump supporters following public protests.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">[…] </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bowser’s decision to decline help from the White House did not end the Trump team’s efforts to secure troops ahead of the protest. When the D.C. mayor declined Trump’s offer of 10,000 troops, Ornato said the White House requested a “quick reaction force” out of the Defense Department in case it was needed. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">[…] </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Once the Capitol was breached, the Trump White House pushed for immediate help from Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and grew frustrated at the slow deployment of that help, according to the testimony. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“So then I remember the chief saying, ‘Hey, I’m calling secretary of defense to get that [quick reaction force] in here,” Ornato said. Later he said, “And then I remember the chief telling Miller, ‘Get them in here, get them in here to secure the Capitol now.'” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This anti-Trump circus has many twists and turns. Trump is a moron but so crafty he orchestrated a violent takeover of the Capitol to prevent the peaceful transition of power. He’s irresponsible with state secrets <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">but is the greatest known threat to the republic</em>. He wanted to foment a rebellion <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">but requested 10,000 troops to secure the Capitol</em>. He’s a fascist <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">who willingly left office in January of 2021.</em> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Left needs to pick one narrative and stick with it. Trump gets the same illogical treatment liberals apply to most issues. The other one where they routinely crash into their own walls is gun control, where the consensus is that only police can be trusted with firearms. However, they're also the ones committing some covert genocide against people of color or something. Don’t think about it too long—you’ll get a migraine trying to make sense of it. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cheney didn’t want to play this game—she just buried it. Cheney would later get buried by voters in her state who booted her for her anti-Trump antics.</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-54627728241020960072024-03-09T11:30:00.000-05:002024-03-09T11:30:15.636-05:00Senator Katie Britt Delivered A Powerfull GOP's Reply To President Biden's State of the Union Speech<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAEi92hyyo-9tbkyng9RMEmalUOAWdwzIHn5RIkDBL9cWHjkLXWn2e001hFIbClkBj7SSUYigaGbcTikGQjq99Vzww_fFE53inQgHxY0BotM5ypSsz6P_6eM4ZHPtjjIqqWTN2lfJgYabIbKOZEHD_gtINePlcrkFdAkn2dk7vuHQ1ccRwEKwhQ/s760/240307-katie-britt-cs-b58ad4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="760" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAEi92hyyo-9tbkyng9RMEmalUOAWdwzIHn5RIkDBL9cWHjkLXWn2e001hFIbClkBj7SSUYigaGbcTikGQjq99Vzww_fFE53inQgHxY0BotM5ypSsz6P_6eM4ZHPtjjIqqWTN2lfJgYabIbKOZEHD_gtINePlcrkFdAkn2dk7vuHQ1ccRwEKwhQ/w640-h426/240307-katie-britt-cs-b58ad4.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) delivered the GOP reply to President Biden's dishonest and divisive State of the Union Speech from her kitchen, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">appropriately</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">, since she discussed mostly kitchen-table issues. She was passionate while discussing the travails of American families, including talking about the cost of putting food on the table, and the education system that is failing our children. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/nGykhx7GWK0"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.</span></i></a></p><p>__________________</p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i>RELATED ARTICLE</i></b></span></p><p><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/03/08/katie-britt-paints-nightmare-picture-of-what-america-looks-like-under-joe-biden-n2636283?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147 "><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Katie Britt Paints 'Nightmare' Picture of What America Looks Like Under Joe Biden</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Sarah Arnold | Townhall.com</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLVnEpe9GV1NVpXcnDEIZYtW_6hJWrrSDmL8ZJSEY5t_nzwdZEvTqmIGXhEzmVHzJpm7tZG63BBdVV8HrISlUWONXLsA2yaHEqIW2BkBUNWOGltKuEbO7HkiUUpa6f3E8MDQ1HDE-opdnxDpleOGyrZBurC1qkFKsv98H_wpKlQIlcBfdyZ9rcw/s1052/Katie%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLVnEpe9GV1NVpXcnDEIZYtW_6hJWrrSDmL8ZJSEY5t_nzwdZEvTqmIGXhEzmVHzJpm7tZG63BBdVV8HrISlUWONXLsA2yaHEqIW2BkBUNWOGltKuEbO7HkiUUpa6f3E8MDQ1HDE-opdnxDpleOGyrZBurC1qkFKsv98H_wpKlQIlcBfdyZ9rcw/w640-h374/Katie%202.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Andrew Harnik</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Following President Joe Biden’s first and most likely last 2024 State of the Union address on Thursday night, Alabama Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) called out the president’s lies as he boasted about his administration’s achievements.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The first-term senator described Biden as a “dithering and diminished leader” who has caused Americans to worry and panic about the future of the country, their safety, finances, and the innocence of their children. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“The country we know and love seems to be slipping away, and it feels like the next generation will have fewer opportunities –- and less freedoms — than we did. I worry my own children may not even get a shot at living their American Dreams,” Britt said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden spent much of his SOTU address attacking former President Trump and the Republican Party calling it “despicable” and “almost entirely preventable”— citing the nation’s southern border crisis. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Right now, our commander-in-chief is not in command. The free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader,” Britt continued. “America deserves leaders who recognize that secure borders, stable prices, safe streets, and a strong defense are the cornerstones of a great nation.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As innocent Americans die because illegal criminals are storming the U.S., Britt said that Biden only has himself to blame. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Fulfill your oath of office,” she said. “Reverse your policies and this crisis and stop the suffering.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Without mentioning Trump’s name, Britt argued that Americans were safer and happier four years ago than they are today, stressing that the U.S. needs help. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“My husband just watched President Biden's State of the Union address from our living room and what we saw was the performance of a permanent politician who has actually been in office for longer than I've been alive," Britt said. "One thing was quite clear though -- President Biden just doesn't get it. He's out of touch.”</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-8851034981258669172024-03-08T13:31:00.001-05:002024-03-08T13:33:55.834-05:00Joe Biden's State of the Union Was the Most Unhinged and Angry in History. <p><a href="https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/03/07/joe-bidens-state-of-the-union-was-the-most-unhinged-and-angry-in-history-n2171090?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=227841a8b1ca836b99e21ea36efa6859"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Bonchie | RedState.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLR7L-dXxbu6ZWK7gW8pFGaA6PCT4Z9u3WMi6r189xKYbVsUVvSAwevrlth7enBog8vbYVPwGpGqjaZELuWlTjPxPt_l57EvAXzdcqnEjwluu7cZ0bnvjfmmriOhXCRT-boXG6fMLoJSkg3a8suMS97t6ipVdbD1Lr-IBiytVnybnICIyxH415Gw/s1052/ac8598aa-160a-49d5-b02d-d26454e691b7-1052x615.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLR7L-dXxbu6ZWK7gW8pFGaA6PCT4Z9u3WMi6r189xKYbVsUVvSAwevrlth7enBog8vbYVPwGpGqjaZELuWlTjPxPt_l57EvAXzdcqnEjwluu7cZ0bnvjfmmriOhXCRT-boXG6fMLoJSkg3a8suMS97t6ipVdbD1Lr-IBiytVnybnICIyxH415Gw/w640-h374/ac8598aa-160a-49d5-b02d-d26454e691b7-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Andrew Harnik</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In completely unsurprising fashion, Joe Biden arrived 20 minutes late for his own State of the Union on Thursday. Once he finally took the podium, it became clear that he shouldn't have shown up at all.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Perhaps it was a screw-up on the dosage by his drug cocktail team, but Biden spent the first half hour of the speech screaming uncontrollably, while intermittently coughing and slurring his words. It was surreal and by far, the most unhinged and angriest State of the Union in history. There will no doubt be headlines proclaiming otherwise, and they will be false.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">___________</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Post on "X"</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">RNC Research @RNCResearch</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden is unwell</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1765941432924205550"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.</i></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">_____________</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There were also plenty of instances of the president's senility showing through. In the early part of the speech, Biden brought up January 6th and proceeded to completely flub two of his big zingers.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">______________</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Post on "X"</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">RNC Research @RNCResearch</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BIDEN: "The threat to democracy must be defended!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1765929191424311326"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.</span></i></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">___________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Post on "X"</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">RNC Research @RNCResearch</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BIDEN v. TELEPROMPTER: "My God! What freedom else would you take away?"</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1765930061532725694"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.</i></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">____________________</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The president then threatened the Supreme Court, albeit in the most mentally deficient way possible, shouting that "women are not without electrical power."</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden's inability to read a teleprompter aside, why would the Supreme Court need to realize women aren't without electoral power? They aren't politicians, and they don't exist to set policy. They interpret the Constitution as it stands. Biden's misleading about the court is outright dangerous. It's putting lives in danger, so he can perform for his radical base. Unfortunately for him, he's not capable of even doing that coherently. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There were some other head-scratching moments throughout the speech, such as this random mention of Moscow. Good luck figuring out what he was trying to say, but he had Russia on the brain.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">____________________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Post on "X"</i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">RNC Research @RNCResearch</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BIDEN: "I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this, but anybody wanna get in Air Force One with me and fly to Toronto, Berlin, Moscow... I mean, excuse me..."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1765933761504383079"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.</i></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">__________________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I could keep posting videos, including a doozy involving Laken Riley (a must-read separate piece on that is coming), but the general presentation of Biden's speech was just awful. He came across as a divisive lunatic delivering a badly written stump speech, not a president addressing Congress and the American people seriously about issues that matter.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If the idea was that this performance was going to turn around his 2024 prospects, Biden failed miserably. Nothing he said is going to appeal to your average swing voter. Instead of addressing the issues those people care about, the president spent the first part of his speech talking about Ukraine and comparing Donald Trump to Hitler. It was a completely out-of-touch display, offering evidence of the White House's arrogance and disrespect for voters. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There was nothing game-changing about this State of the Union. On the contrary, while his most hardcore supporters were fist-pumping, I'd suspect most Americans were rolling their eyes. That he kept shouting at the oddest moments only compounded how incredibly weird the entire scene was.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a president whose failures have been laid bare. If the goal of this speech was to deflect from them, Biden failed at that as well. Members of the mainstream press will swoon because they were always going to swoon. Their reactions were written before he spoke the first word. You can't fool the American people, though, and you can't shout them down in a drug-induced haze.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden made history with this State of the Union, and not the good kind.</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-85106264808889055512024-03-07T18:32:00.001-05:002024-03-07T18:32:20.248-05:00Can Dr. Feelgood Save Biden's State of the Union Address?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/03/07/can-dr-feelgood-save-bidens-state-of-the-union-address-n4927095?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147 "><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY STEPHEN GREEN | P J MEDIA</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdrZsplxxnAsDELWNnhKztsU8Mkk-h1nmoaTL6JA3-CaFXtzyb7uqA5mF8nZ9sPoEiQD5gFwUGMxE8k6v4l-R7rizK93wgsheNJLkr3SeVY2CIiAoPgzebEVvQdn63_AF2Z_SZ1zBOmXCTVftaDqzQA7nBTOwTK6-wUZyigvQpz9_aw_oF7hZsw/s1052/02d5db8d-8cce-4d40-bc1d-5c28b43f7abf-1052x615%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdrZsplxxnAsDELWNnhKztsU8Mkk-h1nmoaTL6JA3-CaFXtzyb7uqA5mF8nZ9sPoEiQD5gFwUGMxE8k6v4l-R7rizK93wgsheNJLkr3SeVY2CIiAoPgzebEVvQdn63_AF2Z_SZ1zBOmXCTVftaDqzQA7nBTOwTK6-wUZyigvQpz9_aw_oF7hZsw/w640-h374/02d5db8d-8cce-4d40-bc1d-5c28b43f7abf-1052x615%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jacquelyn Martin, Pool</span></b></i></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">When the nation finally learned that the president "was a pharmaceutical miracle, with his own speed connection," as part of a "crazy-quilt array of drugs" that kept him mostly functional, at least during public appearances, it came as no surprise. The doctor in charge of it all even had the perfect nickname: </span><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/11/strange-saga-of-jfk-and-dr-feelgood.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Dr. Feelgood</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The President was John F. Kennedy and the time was 60 years ago, but the more things change, the more they stay the same. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We may never learn what crazy-quilt array of drugs Presidentish Joe Biden is on, but after four years of watching him visibly fade after about 60 minutes or so — which seems to be the limit of their effectiveness — you'd have to be a hardcore Democrat or a member of the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) not to know that Biden is jacked up on something for his most important public appearances.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">None may be more important this election year — I don't expect him to debate Donald Trump, do you? — than tonight's State of the Union Address. Biden will be kept resting comfortably through most of the day, followed by a visit from Dr. Feelgood in time for SOTU. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While several Democrats have anonymously admitted to the press that they're worried that Biden might "glitch" during the speech, I'd bet on him making it through without any major malfunctions. Dr. Feelgood will have him extra-juiced tonight so that the press can fawn over his "energetic" performance. And the speech won't last much more than an hour, getting Biden safely tucked away before that crazy-quilt array of drugs completely wears off. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That Democrats publicly worry about Biden's fitness is everything you need to know about Biden's fitness. When UCLA law prof Richard L. Hasen — quoted by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/trump-trials-supreme-court.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Thomas Edsall</a> in a recent New York Times column — concludes that the only way for Biden to win is if <a href="https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/03/06/democratic-panic-a-trump-conviction-is-the-only-way-biden-can-win-n3784237" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Trump is convicted of a felony</a>, people listen.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The best-case scenario was presented by Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik, who told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/biden-state-of-the-union-democrats-2024-election" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Axios</a>, "Given concerns about Biden's age, his delivery will be as important as his substance." It <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">will</em> be energetic, Dr. Feelgood assures you.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Spoiler: there will be no substance. Yes, there will be policy proposals and rants against this and that — but it will all be sound and fury, signifying a reelection campaign. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The "substance" is already <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13168311/Joe-Biden-tax-raises-corporations-billionaires.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">leaking</a> because that's how the cynical game is played. Biden will demand big tax hikes on evil corporations that they totally won't pass on to you, dear consumer, and another one on people with wealth greater than $100,000,000.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden will rant against credit card companies — bold take, POTUS! — and is also expected to go on a tirade against shrinkflation, perhaps with another assist from the Cookie Monster because everything is stupid.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But Biden's proposals will be DOA as soon as they hit the Republican-controlled House. The administration, however, means for them to be DOA.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden has no intention of risking political capital on moderate legislation that Republicans might pass. What he does want is a repeat of Harry Truman's successful 1948 reelection race against a "do-nothing" Congress. The more appeal Biden's policy proposals have to the most radical and activist parts of the Democratic base, the better.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So instead of all that "healing" we were promised during Biden's basement 2020 campaign, we'll get WWII amounts of flak flying through the air.</span></p><p><br /></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-8555078294874949632024-03-06T11:41:00.000-05:002024-03-06T11:41:00.113-05:00How Trump Threw Nikki Haley's Words Back at Her in Super Tuesday Victory Speech<p><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/03/06/how-trump-threw-nikki-haleys-words-back-at-her-in-super-tuesday-victory-speech-n2636146"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Matt Vespa | Townhall.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVBxwsapeARbXAjkEzE8FUhTq28j8WIWbG-Log8bOCB_S4GeWs9xqb5F35LBTYqAgGdx4Iq5Z9Sg4lnqr_-Szv4E8tU5s_a6FT4Q4SrEzK1Nm7mvR-HpRsb6YSf-C7ghkTNJeuot3fM-YaKV0Ju86MxwO71FCPM-mMWt6uACWtDHgvQ6IkGDyKPw/s1052/54ec39ba-77e9-4841-8644-ac1efed2b9d9-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVBxwsapeARbXAjkEzE8FUhTq28j8WIWbG-Log8bOCB_S4GeWs9xqb5F35LBTYqAgGdx4Iq5Z9Sg4lnqr_-Szv4E8tU5s_a6FT4Q4SrEzK1Nm7mvR-HpRsb6YSf-C7ghkTNJeuot3fM-YaKV0Ju86MxwO71FCPM-mMWt6uACWtDHgvQ6IkGDyKPw/w640-h374/54ec39ba-77e9-4841-8644-ac1efed2b9d9-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Steve Helber</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Donald Trump emerged a huge winner Tuesday night, clinching 20 primary wins and burying his Republican opponent, Nikki Haley, in the delegate avalanche many had predicted. There is no path for Ms. Haley, who must virtually run the table on the remaining contests and win close to 75 percent of the remaining delegates to mount a historic comeback. That won’t happen. The GOP wants Trump. They hate Haley, and even her more ardent supporters, all six of them, must sit her down and pry into her psyche because this is just lunacy. And while the former president didn't mention Haley, he threw her words back at her in his victory speech at Mar-a-Lago. </span></span></p><p id="isPasted" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/03/03/nikki-haley-im-no-longer-bound-by-rnc-pledge-to-back-trump-if-he-wins-gop-nomination-n2636017" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank" title="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/03/03/nikki-haley-im-no-longer-bound-by-rnc-pledge-to-back-trump-if-he-wins-gop-nomination-n2636017">Over the weekend,</a> Haley said she's not worried about wins or losses in this primary because she's focused on what's ahead. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"When you’re in a race, you don’t think about losing. You think about continuing to go forward," she said. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump embodied that sentiment by already looking past Ms. Haley as a serious contender because she's not. The former president should focus all his energy on attacking the Democrats. That's moving forward, Ms. Haley. It comes with the territory when you wing primaries, something you haven't done often. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The former president mocked Joe Biden’s trips to the beach in his remarks while thanking his family and staff and called for unity before the rematch with Biden. It was a restrained Trump who touted his accomplishments from his first presidency, promising to bring back that energy to rebuild the country. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Under Biden, America is being laughed at abroad. Trump promised to reverse that, noting how the world wasn’t in chaos while plugging his foreign policy achievements, notably the Abraham Accords. He also had to throw in how we bombed ISIS into submission. America will not be taken advantage of under a second Trump term.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Trump operation no longer views Nikki Haley as a serious contender, which has been known for some time. This speech isn’t the first time he’s largely avoided mentioning or attacking the former South Carolina governor, who has no chance at being the GOP nominee. That’s fine. As much as I want Trump to torch Haley, she’s doing a better job of that through her own actions, selfishly remaining in a contest that she lost weeks ago. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Haley seems more obsessed about Trump than beating Democrats, as the former UN ambassador hinted that she might not even honor the Republican National Committee pledge to back the eventual nominee. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">______________</span></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RELATED ARTICLE</span></i></b></p><p><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/03/06/haley-10am-speech-n2636155"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Haley Formally Drops Out of Race, Offers Some Thoughts on Trump Being the Nominee</span></a></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-91810287195187448162024-03-04T15:28:00.000-05:002024-03-04T15:28:00.657-05:00BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Be Removed From State Ballots<p><a href="https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/03/04/supreme-court-rules-on-trumps-ballot-eligibility-n4926981?utm_source=breakingemail&utm_medium=email#google_vignette"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY MATT MARGOLIS | PJ MEDIA</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsi2dTBqDHaR_ELcw9RY0Jn5gyz2Mq_dBZI4moM4RJHeaLw4qTz3NhusAGtHUULk_siB49aoAwkmPdXbWR5XC_z2Ekdo0PTXAmTrU0MHf9uWODakEfnPdC-Y2lls2x1DU_mgPK4wD1wmehKMP_e6ad87btICiYEbWcmoPv3ISM-1JfrN2H0MjNTA/s1052/01009b82-530c-4731-bd68-1d13db31b01c-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsi2dTBqDHaR_ELcw9RY0Jn5gyz2Mq_dBZI4moM4RJHeaLw4qTz3NhusAGtHUULk_siB49aoAwkmPdXbWR5XC_z2Ekdo0PTXAmTrU0MHf9uWODakEfnPdC-Y2lls2x1DU_mgPK4wD1wmehKMP_e6ad87btICiYEbWcmoPv3ISM-1JfrN2H0MjNTA/w640-h374/01009b82-530c-4731-bd68-1d13db31b01c-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">voted unanimously</a> to allow Donald Trump to remain on the Colorado state ballot on Monday, reversing the lower court’s ruling,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court therefore cannot stand,” the justices wrote. "All nine Members of the Court agree with that result."</span></p><p id="isPasted" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Last year, left-wing groups launched a nationwide effort to exclude Trump from primary ballots, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. While most states have rejected these attempts, the Colorado Supreme Court declared Trump ineligible in December. Maine's Secretary of State eventually followed suit. Last week, <a href="https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/02/28/leftist-judge-removes-trump-from-illinois-state-ballot-n4926871" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">a leftist judge in Illinois removed Trump from the state ballot as well</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the ruling states.</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Conflicting state outcomes concerning the same candidate could result not just from differing views of the merits, but from variations in state law governing the proceedings that are necessary to make Section 3 disqualification determinations. Some States might allow a Section 3 challenge to succeed based on a preponderance of the evidence, while others might require a heightened showing. Certain evidence (like the congressional Report on which the lower courts relied here) might be admissible in some States but inadmissible hearsay in others. Disqualification might be possible only through criminal prosecution, as opposed to expedited civil proceedings, in particular States. Indeed, in some States—unlike Colorado (or Maine, where the secretary of state recently issued an order excluding former President Trump from the primary ballot)—procedures for excluding an ineligible candidate from the ballot may not exist at all. The result could well be that a single candidate would be declared ineligible in some States, but not others,based on the same conduct (and perhaps even the same factual record).</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">[...]</span></p><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and States across the country, in different ways and at different times. The disruption would be all the more acute—and could nullify the votes of millions and change the election result—if Section 3 enforcement were attempted after the Nation has voted. Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos—arriving at any time or different times, up to and perhaps beyond the Inauguration</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on <em id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Trump v. Anderson</em> last month, and it was apparent to most people that they were likely to overturn the Colorado State Supreme Court and settle the issue of Trump’s eligibility, though some expected that Justice Sonia Sotomayor would dissent. While the ruling was unanimous, Justices Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson did write a concurring opinion disagreeing with the scope of the majority’s opinion.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With this issue now settled, one can’t help but wonder what scheme leftists will attempt next to hold onto the White House.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">______________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i>RELATED</i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFVzttug_Rru3nfhX-OC7nQ58-ttIWmWx5ItK-SEjOKfTtbT2E4EktqxfYJZimlflJc7rkaYF64Q_zzg4xXZbTH36nfqUMSo8W_p26fKj6YGIPy1Em6MWrWB_IQYBcDBolW0P9DLQmfRWSjNs4RJQ4VQy6xaQnOJ4x_fE948TMQMM3WAiYocsHA/s1052/1%20-%20Support%20Trump.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFVzttug_Rru3nfhX-OC7nQ58-ttIWmWx5ItK-SEjOKfTtbT2E4EktqxfYJZimlflJc7rkaYF64Q_zzg4xXZbTH36nfqUMSo8W_p26fKj6YGIPy1Em6MWrWB_IQYBcDBolW0P9DLQmfRWSjNs4RJQ4VQy6xaQnOJ4x_fE948TMQMM3WAiYocsHA/w400-h234/1%20-%20Support%20Trump.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/nqifn8blwdw">CLICK HERE TO WATCH</a>: Trump Speaks From Mar-a-Lago After Unanimous SCOTUS Victory.</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-50813258353801123092024-03-03T15:08:00.000-05:002024-03-03T15:08:25.977-05:00Demo-rats<p><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/demorats.html"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By R.W. Trewyn| American Thinker</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidMomGxbLbWC6sPkXNPG95Y3unYzc3Bkab2e0YUmYgrrQ_b5ywJ9Ij8zgU8Rd_QD1nEbmWRsasuBjJ1lMK4a5DvGqNSVuhQW3nRd0QZj1t74ELnZs_FsRujTW69XLKxibzFNuNUtPaO0_7XXMeNM5miUyqIulcODl3n_fEqKn3SLI9EY4vuxB88Q/s800/Defeat%20Dems.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="800" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidMomGxbLbWC6sPkXNPG95Y3unYzc3Bkab2e0YUmYgrrQ_b5ywJ9Ij8zgU8Rd_QD1nEbmWRsasuBjJ1lMK4a5DvGqNSVuhQW3nRd0QZj1t74ELnZs_FsRujTW69XLKxibzFNuNUtPaO0_7XXMeNM5miUyqIulcODl3n_fEqKn3SLI9EY4vuxB88Q/w640-h456/Defeat%20Dems.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yes, the “c” in Democrat today is either silent or should be dropped totally from the party name. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Demolishing America is what they’re all about nowadays, and only anti-American traitors would do that. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thus, Demo/rats is a much more accurate descriptor for these destructive vermin. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, what are some of the most problematic examples to date? </span></p><ol><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Demo/rat demolition of national security: When a country’s borders are permeable, national security is compromised. United States’ borders today are nearly nonexistent, and that has been true since the current Demo/rat occupant of the White House moved in three years ago.</span></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Obviously, this provides an open door for terrorists to come here. As most will remember, the 9/11 fanatics -- pretending not to be fanatics -- came to the U.S. legally on temporary visas. Today, radicals of all types can just walk into the country unimpeded … or marginally inconvenienced at best. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hundreds on the terrorist watchlists have been “encountered” at the Southern border, which means others made it through without being stumbled upon. Plus, it’s likely the number of terrorists <em>not</em> on the watch list -- extremists unknown to the U.S., i.e., pretending not to be -- is orders of magnitude larger. As a result, it’s almost certain that thousands of bad actors have come through America’s unsecured borders.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Should Americans be concerned that some might have brought weapons with them? Automatic weapons? Biological weapons? Chemical weapons? Cyber weapons? Directed energy weapons? Small nuclear weapons? The possibilities are endless and with thousands of “got aways” how can anyone know?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pathogens -- weaponized or unweaponized -- would be high on the list based on how easy it would be to bring them into the country. Illegal aliens have brought innumerable diseases here that are not normally found in the U.S., but it’s unknown how many concealed bioweapons they might have transported. We may find out sometime soon and the targets could include our food supply -- crops and livestock -- not just people. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Regardless of the weapons utilized -- one type or many different types -- the consequences could be catastrophic, making 9/11 seem small-scale by comparison. And if a coordinated assault occurs across the U.S., think what China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other enemy nations might do while American national security assets are overwhelmed here. Most are testing America’s resolve already. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><em>Hmmm!</em> Could that mean the recent influx of military-aged Chinese males at the southern border isn’t because they’re escaping persecution back home? Surely, any card-carrying members of the Chinese Communist Party would have presented those credentials to officials at the U.S. border, right? <em>You bet! </em> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, <em>when </em>attacks happen, who will have caused them? <em>The Demo/rat Commandless-in-Chief and those pulling his puppet strings!</em></span></p><ol><li value="2"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Demo/rat demolition of the U.S. economy, a.k.a., Bidenomics: As noted in my Ayn Rand-prescience blog about Bidenomics <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/ayn_rand_has_some_prescient_thoughts_about_democrats_avoidance_of_reality.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">last year</a>, “‘You can avoid [the brain-dead] reality’ of destroying America’s energy independence, ‘but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding [that] reality.’ Clearly, increases in gas prices were going to accompany this executive duncemanship [cancelling oil and gas projects]. However, once that domino fell, a whole cascade of additional ones tumbled immediately thereafter. Higher gas costs led to supply chain problems which created product shortages that drove up consumer prices thereby providing a vessel for … what? Inflation!” Thus, Bidenomics sent the country down the path where working Americans can’t afford food and other essentials. Who caused it? <em>The very same Demo/rat Commandless-in-Chief and his puppet masters! </em> </span></li></ol><ol><li value="3"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Demo/rat demolition of law and order, a.k.a., Demo/rat facilitation of crime: Moving to the local level, lawlessness is the norm in most cities led by Demo/rats and that has been true for a few years now. Defund the police and similar moronic actions have plagued numerous cities, yet the Demo/rats in charge never fix the problems. They just move to cashless bail or whatever is next on the stupid list. </span></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Who caused it? <em>Demo/rat mayors! </em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Who else contributed? <em>Demo/rat city councils and public defenders (sic), today’s public adversaries!</em></span></p><ol><li value="4"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Demo/rat demolition of civility -- the woke acronyms: Technically speaking, these were not a product of the Demo/rat party; the efforts were led by “socialist-loving “intellectuals’” within America’s universities. Nonetheless, they’re all registered Demo/rats. Thus, it’s <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/antiamerica_americans_are_synergizing_again.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the same</a> difference and the Demo/rat party has blessed each and every acronym along the way.</span></li></ol><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CRT: Critical race theory is total B.S. and those who pushed it were and are, in fact, the racists. Although CRT is no longer advocated publicly, Demo/rats are still closet supporters, i.e., closet racists. They just change the terminology when the acronym of the day -- e.g., CRT --is proven to be totally bogus. “White privilege” hasn’t been abandoned yet, but when it is, some other racist nomenclature will follow. </span></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Who are the champions? <em>Demo/rats nationwide! </em> </span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;"><li value="2"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">ESG: Environmental, social and governance “principles” (sic) have <a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/esg-branding-wall-street-0a487105" style="background: transparent;">fallen out of favor</a> among mainstream Demo/rats. Of course, that only happened because of financial return problems on Wall Street. Billions were pulled from money bleeding ESG funds. Investors tend not to favor losing propositions. </span></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Obviously, that doesn’t mean anything has changed with the Demo/rat’s environmental, social and governance agendas; they just stopped using ESG as the acronym. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Who are the champions? <em>Demo/rats nationwide! </em> </span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;"><li value="3"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DEI: Diversity, equity and inclusion has been one of the biggest hiring boondoggles ever. As noted in my <em>American Thinker</em> article a year ago (<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/is_it_dei_ied_or_die_yes_it_is.html" style="background: transparent;">https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/is_it_dei_ied_or_die_yes_it_is.html</a>), “When America’s woke progressives successfully snookered the nation into accepting equity (the impractical pursuits of equal outcomes) as a replacement for equality (equal <em>opportunity</em>) the ballgame changed, majorly. The topline issue is no longer about hiring the applicant with the best credentials to do the work. Today, training and experience for a job barely count with DEI employers.”</span></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And what will equal outcomes do to any organization’s bottom line eventually?Turn profits into loses … the path to bankruptcy.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Who are the champions? <em>Demo/rats nationwide! </em> </span></p></blockquote><ol><li value="5"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Demo/rat demolition of patriotism and Americanism: Those two terms are nonexistent within today’s Demo/rat party. Truthfully, though, they’ve been missing from the Demo/rat vocabulary since at least when I came home from Vietnam in 1969 proud of my combat service and that of my brothers-in-arms. The socialist/communist Demo/rats openly disparaged anyone who was patriotic back then, and that condemnation has grown ever since. </span></li></ol><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Who caused it? <em>Anti-America Demo/rats writ large nationwide! </em></span></p><div id="pub-7-9"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, how do we fix these Demo/rat messes plus others, assuming they are fixable?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It won’t be easy, but 2024 may be America’s last chance to turn things around. If that doesn’t happen in all critical political races nationwide, America’s world leadership will end prior to the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026. Tragic, indeed! </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Closing warning, though, if the Demo/rats are defeated in the most crucial White House race in November. You can be certain that world events -- here and abroad -- will spiral out of control prior to the changing of the guard in January 2025. It will be hold-your-breath time for a couple months. The national security concerns noted above could explode into a devastating reality. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And who will have caused it? <em>Demo/rats! </em></span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-47590269006246334482024-03-02T09:54:00.000-05:002024-03-02T09:54:15.559-05:00“Do You Believe in Miracles?” Something Supernatural is Happening with President Trump. We are All Witnessing “The Trump Miracle.”<p><a href="https://rootforamerica.com/do-you-believe-in-miracles/"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Wayne Allyn Root</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3yuKx_KQffoKWzzZakr0yq_mTznYOl5r3nSE08uTRKFdyi9DgmuWPtGJRIIQf1imAfm9N5d5zq3s6J-lMxWpouM88xElO9X9-w51F_1Kf9x3SITYXuZ7qTF0II3m92qSkwVsNnXZWYfWjtuCCFZOOQLzi3jN5v7n3SX_FZqK97CHPxwLJK5qC3w/s1024/Trump-Prayer-2-1024x618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="1024" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3yuKx_KQffoKWzzZakr0yq_mTznYOl5r3nSE08uTRKFdyi9DgmuWPtGJRIIQf1imAfm9N5d5zq3s6J-lMxWpouM88xElO9X9-w51F_1Kf9x3SITYXuZ7qTF0II3m92qSkwVsNnXZWYfWjtuCCFZOOQLzi3jN5v7n3SX_FZqK97CHPxwLJK5qC3w/w640-h386/Trump-Prayer-2-1024x618.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“Do you believe in miracles?” Remember those words by sports broadcaster Al Michaels when the underdog US Hockey team won the Olympic Gold in the 1980 Winter Olympics? History has branded that game…</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“The Miracle on Ice.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">See, in real life miracles do happen. We live in a negative, cynical world. Few of us really believe in miracles… and even fewer believe a miracle is happening, even when it’s happening right in front of us. But miracles happen all the time.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You just have to be open to seeing and believing in miracles.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I believe a miracle, sent directly by God, is happening right in front of us, right now. You just have to open your eyes.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">President Trump is that miracle.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He’s sometimes crude and rude. He offends so many. He angers so many. “The powers that be” want him stopped at any cost – even if they have to frame him by making up crimes that never happened.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He faces so many indictments and trials. He faces over 700 years in prison. He is being fined hundreds of millions of dollars and banned from conducting business. If he doesn’t spend the rest of his life in prison, he could end up losing his empire to bankruptcy.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is painted as “Hitler” and “KKK” and a “white supremacist.” We are told he is “a threat to democracy.” If elected, his critics say, he will destroy America.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Virtually everyone in power is against him – from the DC Swamp, to the Deep State, to the Military Industrial Complex (that wants wars around the world), to his own government agencies (CIA, FBI, DOJ, NSA) who frame him and spy on him.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All the groups who hold the most wealth and power in America are out to stop him – Wall Street, mainstream media, Silicon Valley, the Bar Association, the teachers union, Hollywood, Madison Avenue. They all hate him.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Foreign governments are desperate to stop him from ever gaining power again. Global organizations like the WEF, WHO and United Nations despise him. Almost every globalist billionaire in the world is arrayed against him – George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and all the rest.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Women call him “sexist.” Black Democrats call him “racist.” Gays call him “homophobic.” Muslims call him “Islamophobic” because of his unswerving faith and support for Israel. But American Jews vote against him.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yet after all of that, President Trump holds the lead over Joe Biden in virtually every national poll; leads in every battleground state that determines the election; leads among Generation Z (the youngest voters); and in some polls leads among Latino and black males. A recent poll showed Trump leading among Jewish voters in New York state.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How is this possible? It’s supernatural. It’s biblical. It can’t be explained. <u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s a real-life miracle.</u> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Let me finish with two real-life stories that back my belief that a “Trump Miracle” is happening in front of our eyes.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My nephew is a young doctor in California. He recently graduated medical school after being born with severe physical disabilities. He is a walking miracle and testament to the power of faith and prayer. For the past decade of college, medical school, and medical internship in California, everyone he met was a liberal Trump-hater.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">48 hours ago, my nephew the doctor was working at a medical office in Los Angeles and he witnessed what he describes as a “supernatural miracle.” The news came on the television in the doctor’s office. The topic was Trump’s primary landslide in Michigan. He was expecting either groans, or hatred from everyone in the office. But then he witnessed something that shocked him like never before…</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Someone in the office cheered Trump. And then another. And another. Soon the entire medical office was cheering and celebrating President Trump. Everyone. Patients, staff, doctors. Once they realized it was safe to express support for Trump, everyone let it all out. Everyone admitted they are on Trump’s side. <u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Los Angeles.</u></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My nephew the doctor said, “Uncle Wayne, it was a miracle. I never thought I’d ever see anything like this. Something supernatural is happening.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There’s those words again – “supernatural” and “miracle.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And then real-life story #2. My childhood best friend is a strong believer in God. But he is non-political. Yesterday he reached out to me via text to say, “I’m going to say something very odd now. I don’t believe Trump can be stopped. He’s touched by God. He’s super-human. He’s got something supernatural supporting him. I don’t think anyone can stop him. In my lifetime, I’ve never seen a human being on the earth surrounded by this supernatural force. Trump doesn’t even age like all the other presidents in history. He looks the same as 8 years ago – even after all he’s been through. He doesn’t ever get down, even though he’s taking deadly shots left and right. He’s superhuman, unstoppable, unflappable. We are witnessing a miracle.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are those words again – “supernatural” and “miracle.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Do you believe in miracles? It’s time to start believing. What’s happening is supernatural. Everyone is starting to see it. Everyone is starting to believe. The signs are there. Trump is “the Chosen One.” Trump is sent by God and blessed by God.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What we are all witnessing is “The Trump Miracle.”</span></span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-18197032506333181702024-03-01T09:34:00.000-05:002024-03-01T09:34:41.409-05:00Google CEO Pledged to Use AI to Combat Trumpism. <p><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/03/01/google-ceo-pledged-to-use-ai-to-combat-trumpism-n2635855?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147">By Matt Vespa | Townhall.com</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6iTHoOWjEZ_uioZD9_XNbXYyS2fY5p1qGXQ_Tiow8hcOa8EkGhHxhlFL_22C4aCUnyVr4XxwM1vz3REadWvBMSn5ZUiGQDlUAKGWjjsr3lymRP9TaOUuC-i1pQc5YJ997Jf-YMPpn_RIR5uj3FGR2I9km6fmrXDnvLvU0a74ClXowHc_h6fjZA/s1052/3c3bfdaf-2149-4ece-a9a0-716e6f5c9de4-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6iTHoOWjEZ_uioZD9_XNbXYyS2fY5p1qGXQ_Tiow8hcOa8EkGhHxhlFL_22C4aCUnyVr4XxwM1vz3REadWvBMSn5ZUiGQDlUAKGWjjsr3lymRP9TaOUuC-i1pQc5YJ997Jf-YMPpn_RIR5uj3FGR2I9km6fmrXDnvLvU0a74ClXowHc_h6fjZA/w640-h374/3c3bfdaf-2149-4ece-a9a0-716e6f5c9de4-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">Google’s fiasco with its artificial intelligence program is emblematic of an issue simmering at the tech giant. It’s not a new story. It dates to—you guessed it—the 2016 election. The rollout of Gemini has been something of a trainwreck. Its image creator refused to generate any images of white people, whereas the AI prompt </span><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/02/28/why-nate-silver-said-googles-ai-machine-should-be-shut-down-n2635845" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;" target="_blank">couldn’t say with certainty</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;"> that Adolf Hitler was a worse individual than Elon Musk. What’s worse, AI—Hitler killing millions in the Holocaust or Musk posting memes? It couldn’t answer, which led to data crunchers, like Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight, calling for Gemini's shutdown. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">CEO Sundar Pichai apologized for the controversy, saying, “I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias – to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable, and we got it wrong.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Says the man who wants to use AI to combat Trumpism.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Michael Shellenberger has a new series out on his Substack that delves into Google, AI, and the tech giant’s campaign to twist public opinion to hurt Republicans in elections (via <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/google-ceo-pledged-to-use-ai-to-counter" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Public</a>): </p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 2px solid var(--border-color); border-left: none; border-top: 2px solid var(--border-color); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10.5px 55px; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">…after a Google employee suggested that Trump won due to “misinformation” and “fake news coming from fake news websites being shared by millions of low-information voters on social media,” Pichai specifically pointed to the use of artificial intelligence to achieve the aim of countering “misinformation.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">“I think our investments in machine learning and AI is a big opportunity here,” he said. Machine learning is a form of AI. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Pichai then suggested that Google was already manipulating search results. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">“There are many, many places where we are ranking,” he said, “we are algorithmically doing stuff…understanding some of the things that are happening, and course correcting.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">[…] </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Pichai emphasized that there would be a technological solution to the information that Google executives believed had resulted in Trump’s victory. “This is a problem of scale and not being able to keep up. Human systems fail in many of these things. So I think investing more in machine learning and AI could be one way we actually make progress.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Much of the demand for anti-racism comes from within Google. “Speaking to white men,” said a white male Google employee in November 2016, “there's an opportunity for you right now. to understand your privilege in the society. Take the opportunity to go through the Bias-Busting training. Read about privilege. Read about the real history of oppression in our country.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Google executive, who nearly started crying, said, “I think the main thing I just wanted to say is give yourself time and space to deal with whatever you're going through. Healing is a process, and it takes time. But one thing that makes Alphabet at Google so special is this term I heard, I'd never heard it before I got here, which is, this is a place where you can bring your whole self to work.” </p></blockquote><p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">And like Twitter, Google has</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;"> </span><a href="https://public.substack.com/p/political-corruption-and-taxpayer" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;" target="_blank">worked extensively with the government</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">, earning numerous contracts with the intelligence community. Twitter and the FBI created a robust operation of public opinion influence and censorship, which was exposed in the Twitter Files that Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and others wrote about at length. It was no different at Google, where most of its government work was kept secret until a whistleblower came forward. As you can guess, a lot of their government contracting work dealt with peddling propaganda: </span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 2px solid var(--border-color); border-left: none; border-top: 2px solid var(--border-color); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10.5px 55px; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Google receives billions of dollars from American citizens. Google split a $9 billion Defense Department contract with other Big Tech firms in 2023 and a multi-billion contract with the CIA. Google got $7 million in 2010. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense (DOD) are funding various censorship tools for Google. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Between 2016 and 2020, Google won more than 250 contracts with the military and federal law enforcement agencies. “We remain committed to partnering with the government on projects that are consistent with our terms of service, acceptable use policies, and AI Principles,” said a Google spokesman. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">[…] </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Much of Google’s work for the government is secret. Google provided the technology for Project Maven, a DOD initiative to build artificial intelligence to track moving targets for drones. But the funding was hidden. None of Project Maven's contracts mentioned Google at all. It was only through employee whistleblowing and investigative journalism that Google’s involvement became known. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Google’s work with Maven was orchestrated through a subcontract with ECS Federal. This U.S. defense contractor provides technology services to arms of the DOD and various federal agencies. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Google misrepresented its work on Maven, reporter Lee Fang discovered. A Google executive claimed the Maven contract was small, at just $9 million, but internal Google emails revealed that Google anticipated the military drone AI revenue would be $250 million per year. “Indeed,” noted Fang, “one month after news of the contract broke, the Pentagon allocated an additional $100 million to Project Maven.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Former Google CEO and board member Eric Schmidt is a key link between Silicon Valley and the US intelligence community. Schmidt chaired the National Security Commission on AI, the Defense Innovation Board, and the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology. Schmidt’s new investment fund, America’s Frontier Fund (AFF) said in a leaked announcement that it would receive government funding to invest in tech companies. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">It’s hard to find the line between Google and the US government. “From inception,” notes [Nafeez] Ahmed, “Google was incubated, nurtured, and financed by interests that were directly affiliated or closely aligned with the US military intelligence community: many of whom were embedded in the Pentagon Highlands Forum.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">[…] </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Government censorship and disinformation leaders like the people who started Google Jigsaw call their work “prebunking,” but in many ways it’s just old-fashioned government propaganda. The word “prebunking” hijacks people’s thinking in the same way that “misinformation” does. And, most importantly, “prebunking” is a demand that both social media platforms and news media organizations censor information deemed to be “misinformation.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The word “prebunking” is itself a kind of misinformation. Another term for “prebunking” is “government propaganda.” But when you call it “prebunking” it sounds like it comes from people who care about the truth, as opposed to propaganda, which rightly has connotations of totalitarianism. But they are one and the same thing. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This is not the first time that the US intelligence and security agencies have been caught engaging in disinformation campaigns aimed at delegitimizing people. </p></blockquote><p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">What blocks proper dissemination of these revelations and ensuing accountability is the fact that a) the media is biased, b) there are still significant numbers of Americans—liberals—who still believe in the Russian collusion hoax, and c) these people</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">control the flow</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">of information. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">Since the Department of Justice decided to toss their highly trusted source, Alexander Smirnov, under the bus for lying to his handlers about Burisma executives bribing the Bidens, the red scare antics have been amplified on the airwaves. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">The timing of this indictment also isn’t lost on anyone. Smirnov being charged has already re-ignited the Kremlin scares, with additional layers of insanity being added to this fake news cake, like how Russia is using the GOP House majority to interfere in the 2024 elections. It’s all a convenient diversion for the actual election meddlers—the FBI, CIA, and the ‘Big Tech’ overlords who help them control the narrative. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The calls of election interference have been coming from and remain inside the house. </p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-2959959175759396422024-02-29T21:29:00.000-05:002024-02-29T21:29:04.227-05:00Now Here's How Trump's Visit to the Southern Border Went<p><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/02/29/now-heres-how-trumps-visit-to-the-southern-border-went-n2635940"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Sarah Arnold | Townhall.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidejqNx3AQ4sNE_PWpa9pvivNokdp88wQDJtUXDPB1qnv_GF_mK1lEGIqKEUaLELfmbsmHiKWinaNZwDsbr9DGDwkCq7Pm-Q8TVNPd3XPujPIU5c2Q3kHwB6uPt-V26eSRfdZG1MkOHm9IhnK9LjWFAJm0XBVR-oZa7OpLGSLFllOkxd0URXrghw/s1052/89522113-8081-4e73-b49b-3914b436f939-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidejqNx3AQ4sNE_PWpa9pvivNokdp88wQDJtUXDPB1qnv_GF_mK1lEGIqKEUaLELfmbsmHiKWinaNZwDsbr9DGDwkCq7Pm-Q8TVNPd3XPujPIU5c2Q3kHwB6uPt-V26eSRfdZG1MkOHm9IhnK9LjWFAJm0XBVR-oZa7OpLGSLFllOkxd0URXrghw/w640-h374/89522113-8081-4e73-b49b-3914b436f939-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Eric Gay</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The same day President Joe Biden trekked down to the southern border— for only the second time during his presidency— former President Trump made the trip to show the real consequences of Biden’s reckless policies. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump unleashed a mountain of criticism on the Biden Administration for allowing nearly six million illegal migrants to cross into the United States without taking a single ounce of responsibility for the massive crisis they have created. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“We had the most secure border and people weren’t coming because they knew they weren’t going to get in,” Trump said on Thursday. “And we weren’t promising free education, free medical, free everything. I mean, all the promises that are made, no wonder they come.” </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump was referring to Democrat-led states such as New York and California, which are handing out freebies to illegal migrants. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">New York recently announced they are giving away pre-paid credit cards with up to $1,000 that will be reloaded monthly to illegal aliens for food. Meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) revealed that illegal immigrants will have access to free healthcare. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“I mean, you look at what this Governor ‘New-scum’ from California, isn’t that his name, ‘New-scum’? What he’s done to California is unbelievable,” Trump said of Newsom. “People are pouring in, they think they’re going to get medical aid. And our soldiers, our vets aren’t being taken care of.” </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump highlighted how Biden’s invasion has resulted in crime skyrocketing in just one year under the president’s term. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"This is a Joe Biden invasion...Last year almost half of all ICE arrests were criminal aliens charged with more than 33,000 assaults, 3,000 robberies, 6,900 burglaries, and 7,500 weapons crimes. This is all migrant crime. 4,300 sex crimes,” he said. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The former president accused Biden of having blood on his hands after a 22-year-old Georgia University nursing student was found dead after a Venezuelan illegal migrant murdered her in broad daylight while she was running. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump was greeted with a warm welcome as he arrived in Eagle Pass, Texas from a flurry of supporters and those who are fed up with Biden's refusal to do his job. The former president was praised for visiting the epicenter of the border crisis, while on the other hand, Biden made the trip to Brownsville, Texas where the issue is much more stabilized. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"My agents, they're mad as hell that President Biden went to Brownsville, Texas...rather than coming to Eagle Pass, Texas which has been the epicenter," Border Patrol Union President Brandon Judd said, standing alongside Trump. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">_________________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RELATED ARTICLE</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/02/29/biden-border-visit-n2635936"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Joe Biden's Border Visit Went Just As Expected</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Sarah Arnold | Townhall.com</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOK1xJPaoOjlvcfP2OXhDlBzeUhQcEWz0SugECoCPMRdnYFvAuo1FpPmIzklAIfJ7ikp9CSd2EH_784YWQ-eyoLtZV2iomPi875ooOdFTt0sqkX2kIjdW_eOhazAQWHCUmTN4XZFeNkccdMACyIAjKHmoKusm45II1-iCZhtj-m4Erdd6rP35AEg/s1052/0e3b4a22-bd84-49df-8cbe-9bb361c15682-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOK1xJPaoOjlvcfP2OXhDlBzeUhQcEWz0SugECoCPMRdnYFvAuo1FpPmIzklAIfJ7ikp9CSd2EH_784YWQ-eyoLtZV2iomPi875ooOdFTt0sqkX2kIjdW_eOhazAQWHCUmTN4XZFeNkccdMACyIAjKHmoKusm45II1-iCZhtj-m4Erdd6rP35AEg/w640-h374/0e3b4a22-bd84-49df-8cbe-9bb361c15682-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Evan Vucci</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">President Joe Biden took time out of his precious “busy” schedule of eating ice cream and laying on the beach to make a trip down to the southern border as his immigration crisis hinders his 2024 re-election chances. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thursday’s border visit came with confusion and frustration as Biden was seen shuffling his way along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas. The president’s efforts to secure the border have been non-existent for the past three years. However, now that his presidency is on the line and Americans are fed up with his lack of handling the border, the Biden Administration has decided to do something about it. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden was accompanied by newly impeached Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who also has played a heavy hand in allowing more than six million illegal migrants to enter the U.S. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The president’s visit left more questions unanswered, as he wrapped up his trip without declaring a plan to make America safe again from illegals. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mayorkas, who has been ousted over his failure to keep illegal immigrants out of the country, vowed to continue enforcing “the law and work to secure our border.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He also used the opportunity to criticize Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), who has taken countless measures to bring awareness to the border crisis and reveal how Biden’s policies have destroyed the U.S. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden also dared to complain about how long the asylum process takes after undoing former President Trump’s “Remain In Mexico” policy that turned millions of illegal migrants away from the border.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hours before Biden was set to meet with officials at the southern border, the Border Patrol Union refused to welcome the president, telling him to "keep our name out of your mouth." </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"But even if he were to put the proper policies in place at this late hour, he’d be doing it only to try to save his Presidency. And self-serving actions when time is winding down should always give Americans pause. Common sense dictates that as a lame duck, he’d revert to his open border policies if re-elected," the union said in a statement. "Biden is going to the border now solely to try to save himself. Border security should never be about politics, it should always be about the safety and security of this great nation and the American people." </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Border Patrol Union President Brandon Judd criticized Biden for visiting Brownsville-- which is a more calm area of the southern border-- rather than Eagle Pass, Texas which is the epicenter of the immigration crisis.</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-8791855196567608452024-02-28T09:20:00.000-05:002024-02-28T09:20:28.261-05:00Blue Laws for Red Citizens<p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href=" https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2024/02/23/blue-laws-for-red-citizens-n2635636?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=ba9118a6368f7f5f11df885c43389d53975726fb259d7177fc73f9889065c1a1&recip=26772260">By Victor Davis Hanson | Townhall.com</a></span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KqctF7iWN-mQbU3fkVjYtxo8P1EMM8gHTcHdVd02Pvz7fNtbVuRprSIrMpgVJgJz9P3ZAVws6cWue-oXgvqp1mvQXTWfjD8HlWTdkj8lgL0BmS3tl2in9LFMPqF_0hlWxamm7lssuW3joA505g2dj5Lty4a-I-xtEp296Lp0gKqBhyphenhyphenuZfH_WRQ/s1052/122d8664-6974-4271-b8c8-0529369fd930-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KqctF7iWN-mQbU3fkVjYtxo8P1EMM8gHTcHdVd02Pvz7fNtbVuRprSIrMpgVJgJz9P3ZAVws6cWue-oXgvqp1mvQXTWfjD8HlWTdkj8lgL0BmS3tl2in9LFMPqF_0hlWxamm7lssuW3joA505g2dj5Lty4a-I-xtEp296Lp0gKqBhyphenhyphenuZfH_WRQ/w640-h374/122d8664-6974-4271-b8c8-0529369fd930-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>AP Photo/Andrew Harnik</i></b><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff
have already won huge fines and damages from former President
Donald Trump that may, <b>with legal costs, exceed $500
million.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump
awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other
federal, state, and local indictments.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There
are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases involving
plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, federal special
counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani
Willis.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>One,
they are either unapologetically left-wing or associated with
liberal causes. </b>They filed their legal writs in big-city,
left-wing America -- Atlanta, New York, Washington -- <b>where
liberal judges and jury pools predominate in a manner not
characteristic of the country at large.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Two,
they are overtly political</b>. Bragg, James, and Willis <b>have
either campaigned for office or raised campaign funds by
promising to get or even destroy Trump.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Left-wing
billionaire Reid Hoffman funded Carroll's suit.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Smith
sued to rush his court schedule in hopes of putting Trump on trial
before the November election.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Three,
there would not be any of these cases had Trump not run for the
presidency or not been a conservative.</span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Carroll's
suit bypassed statute of limitation restrictions by prompting
the intervention of a left-wing New York legislator. He passed a
special bill, allowing a one-year window to waive the statute of
limitations for sexual assault claims from decades past.</span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Until
Trump, no New York prosecutor like James had ever filed a civil
suit against a business for allegedly overvaluing real estate
assets to obtain loans that bank auditors approved and were paid
back in full, on time, and with sizable interest profits to the
lending institutions.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bragg
bootstrapped a Trump private non-disclosure agreement into a
federal campaign violation in a desperate effort to find
something on Trump.</span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Smith
is also charging Trump with insurrectionary activity. </b>But
Trump had never been so charged with insurrection, much less
convicted of it.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Willis
strained to find a way to criminalize Trump's complaints about his
loss of Georgia in the 2020 national election. She finally came up
with a racketeering charge, usually more applicable to mafiosi and
drug cartels.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fourth,
in all these cases, the charges could have been equally
applicable to fellow left-wing public figures and officials.</span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>President
Joe Biden, like Trump, was accused of sexual assault decades
earlier by former staffer Tara Reade. </b>Yet <b>Reade was
torn apart by the media</b> and the left for inconsistencies in
her memory. By contrast, <b>the wildly inconsistent and amnesiac
Carroll won $83 million from Trump.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Smith
created the precedent of charging Trump for unlawfully removing
classified files to his private residence.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>But
the government simultaneously did not charge Biden for similar
offenses. </b>Yet Biden had removed files not for two years<b>
but for more than 30. He stored them not in one location but
several.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>His
rickety garage was a mess, not a secure family compound like
Trump's estate.</b> Moreover, Biden did so while a senator and
vice president, <b>without any presidential authority to
declassify almost any presidential document he wished.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Biden
never came forward to report the crime for over 30 years --
until Trump was charged.</b> Indeed, he was caught on tape six
years ago,<b> admitting to his ghostwriter that he possessed
classified files but never reported it.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bragg
might have noticed that both Hillary Clinton (fined $113,000) and
Barack Obama (fined $350,000) broke campaign financing laws. <b>Neither
was subject to federal criminal charges by local prosecutors.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An
array of left-wing celebrities, politicians, 2004 House Members,
former Senator Barbara Boxer, D-CA, and failed Georgia
gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams<b> have all recently
challenged elections. They sought either to delay or redo ballot
counting or, on the federal level, to sidetrack electors to
ignore popular votes in their respective states.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>These
lawfare cases </b>are part of other efforts that were highly
partisan and without merit. Recall the Trump "Russian collusion"
hoax and the "Russian disinformation" laptop farce.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In
another first, some blue states are suing to take Trump's name
off the ballot for "insurrection," a crime for which he has
never been charged.</span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Total
up the deaths, damage, and length of the summer 2020 Antifa/BLM
riots. Then, compare the tally to the one-day January 6 riot.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The
former proved far more lethal, long-lasting, and destructive. <b>Yet
very few of the 14,000 arrested rioters in 2020 were ever
prosecuted, much less convicted.</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By
contrast, the Biden administration sought to jail hundreds for
crimes allegedly committed on January 6,<b> such as "illegal
parading."</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We
are entering a dangerous era in America.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Ideology
and party affiliations increasingly determine guilt and
punishment</b>. Opponents are first targeted, and then laws are
twisted and redefined to convict them.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>The
left is waging law fare </b>with the implicit message to
political opponents: <b>either keep quiet or suffer the
consequences.</b></span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-12691984307392240462024-02-27T16:55:00.000-05:002024-02-27T16:55:11.160-05:00Al Sharpton Hears About It After Telling Black Trump Supporters They Have 'No Shame'<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/02/26/al-sharpton-hears-about-it-after-telling-black-trump-supporters-they-have-no-shame-n2170582?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=227841a8b1ca836b99e21ea36efa6859">By Sister Toldja | RedState.com</a></span></p><p><img shrinktofit="true" src="https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/2018/243/5ff8f1b9-692a-45d3-84be-4f0c86bca67c-1052x615.jpg" style="font-size: large;" /></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reverend
Al Sharpton is </span><a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/07/29/kamala-harris-defends-al-sharpton-ignores-freddies-fashion-mart-massacre-tawana-brawley-hoax-n111883" id="isPasted" rel="noopener" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #393939; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">infamous
in NYC circles</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for
inciting deadly race riots, engaging in antisemitism, and
foisting racially-tinged rape hoaxes on the American populace.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sharpton,
who has been a controversial figure for decades in American
politics, has never apologized for his actions, and has never been
called to account by the same political party and media that have
canceled Republican politicos for saying/doing much less.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Instead,
Sharpton has been welcomed with open arms by the Democratic Party
machine as a two-time Senate candidate, a one-time mayoral
candidate, and a one-time presidential candidate whose endorsement
and blessing is frequently <a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/01/16/joe-biden-sets-phasers-to-maximum-cringe-during-birthday-song-at-mlk-day-speech-n689423" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">sought</a>,
along with his purported "wisdom" and "guidance."</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's
one of the clearest-cut examples of Democrat privilege you'll ever
find.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Writing
about Sharpton <a href="https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/06/24/al-sharpton-tries-to-keep-the-hustle-going-over-bubba-wallace-noose-story-n244499" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">saying</a> something
stupid or offensive is a bit like a dog bites man story, but
sometimes it deserves calling out, which brings us to the latest
instance.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On
a recent broadcast of his MSNBC show "Politics Nation," Sharpton
went on a rant about Trump's <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/24/trump-courts-black-leaders-in-s-c-claims-legal-troubles-have-won-him-their-support-00143061" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">comments</a> in
South Carolina from Friday about black voters allegedly embracing
him in part because of his viral mugshot. Sharpton proclaimed it
was part of a pattern of remarks from Trump and his surrogates
that, in Sharpton's view, should offend and alienate black voters.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"And
those blacks that are standing there with him, have you no shame?"
he asked toward the end of the segment.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Watch:</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">___________</span></p>
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Al Sharpton</span></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">___________</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
response, it was pointed out that Sharpton himself has had a
roller coaster "frenemies"</span><a href="https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/21/more-signs-of-the-apocalypse-trump-and-al-sharpton-have-a-good-call-about-addressing-virus-n131996" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"> relationship</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with
fellow New Yorker Donald Trump that goes back for quite some
time:</span></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lattina
Brown, who <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lattina_Brown" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">unsuccessfully
ran</a> to serve on the New York City Council in
2021, perhaps best summed up a lot of the reactions from black
Trump voters on Twitter in her reply to Sharpton's shame games:</span></p>
<blockquote style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-left: 5px solid rgb(184, 31, 36); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;">
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You
cannot tell black people who they can and cannot vote for. Tired
of people like you shaming black people for finally having their
own voice. We have been done such a disservice for decades and
we are always last. It’s their constitutional right and really
not for you to judge those who no longer want to be part of the
sick radical agenda!</span></p>
</blockquote>
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on "X"</i></b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: #f7f9f9; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You cannot tell black people who they can and cannot vote for. Tired of people like you shaming black people for finally having their own voice. We have been done such a disservice for decades and we are always last. It’s their constitutional right and really not for you to judge…</span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweet-text-show-more-link" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/LattinaBrown/status/1762079255557493232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1762079255557493232%7Ctwgr%5E5068c4bcc60e52e8a24b925e0a677f06eb400804%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fsister-toldjah%2F2024%2F02%2F26%2Fal-sharpton-hears-about-it-after-telling-black-trump-supporters-they-have-no-shame-n2170582" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: #f7f9f9; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">________________<br />
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<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
person's vote is their own, and it is most certainly <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not</em> owed to
any political party. Their vote should be earned, fought for - not
expected, and certainly not taken <a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/10/28/hispanic-voters-respond-accordingly-after-terry-mcauliffe-says-most-insulting-thing-he-possibly-could-to-them-n465008" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">for
granted</a>.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Besides,
Al Sharpton is the absolute last person on this planet who should
be lecturing anyone about the supposed need to feel shame. I mean,
seriously. Think about it</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-77216015752151356332024-02-26T10:09:00.000-05:002024-02-26T10:09:38.321-05:00The Morning Briefing: The 2024 Trump Train Isn't Slowing Down for Anything in Its Path<p><a href="https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/02/26/the-morning-briefing-the-2024-trump-train-isnt-slowing-down-for-anything-in-its-path-n4926760/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mbriefnl"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY STEPHEN KRUISER</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitIlo91XH4K8qzrzHaywuScsZ40623DF4NdlYqTs_ClU52oBNh0TuaE1YYVMcQmPrPplcQVIECFpOHnCY9Nrd9uIpga7TLq3j8XVzP0XmlER68JUJTU3WA_AXqzLxczcXS5ScNleFBWsEnsWvPX3vSAK8KwEASNrF6LjQ-4YX1SjZvPa6ytqOQVQ/s1052/Trump.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitIlo91XH4K8qzrzHaywuScsZ40623DF4NdlYqTs_ClU52oBNh0TuaE1YYVMcQmPrPplcQVIECFpOHnCY9Nrd9uIpga7TLq3j8XVzP0XmlER68JUJTU3WA_AXqzLxczcXS5ScNleFBWsEnsWvPX3vSAK8KwEASNrF6LjQ-4YX1SjZvPa6ytqOQVQ/w640-h374/Trump.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Never have so many done so much to derail one candidate during an election cycle as the Democrats, corrupt judges and prosecutors, and priority challenged Never Trump Republicans have done to keep Donald Trump from crossing the GOP nomination finish line in 2024. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Last year at this time, there weren't many Republicans outside of the hardcore MAGA circle who were jumping with joy at the prospect of Trump being the Republican nominee for a third election. Fatigue had definitely set in, even among a lot of us who had very enthusiastically voted for him in 2020. We weren't even weary about the thought of a Trump/Biden rematch because, let's face it, none of us were drunk enough to believe that President LOLEightyonemillion would actually run again. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm not really convinced that Biden is fully aware that he's running right now. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As we are all now very aware, the Trump Train ignored everything that got in its way, picking up steam — or whatever is all the rage for powering metaphorical trains these days — and making short work of the nomination race. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On Saturday, the Trump Train ran right through Nikki Haley's back yard, absolutely destroying any fantasies that the "principled" Trump-hating Republican crowd had about the former governor's electoral viability. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2024/02/24/live-results-is-the-south-carolina-primary-nikki-haleys-last-stand-n4926717" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #393939; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Chris took one for the team</a>, and spent some weekend time covering the South Carolina primary: </span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The focus of the 2024 Republican primary moves to the Palmetto State this weekend with the South Carolina GOP primary. Unlike the Democrats who pushed their South Carolina primary as a quid pro quo to the state's black supporters, the Republicans were content to keep the original primary date on the calendar.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The RealClearPolitics <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/republican-primary/2024/south-carolina" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">polling average</a> has Donald Trump with a 25.3-point edge over Nikki Haley. No recent poll has had the former president with a lead of less than 15 points. Trump is poised to trounce Haley on her home turf — in the state where she served as a successful and popular governor. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Haley has vowed to stay in the race no matter what happens in South Carolina. The biggest topic of conversation is why she is still in the race. My gut tells me that it's a combination of stubbornness and a hope against hope that she will be the last (wo)man standing if Trump's legal troubles end up in a worst-case scenario. </span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump would end up defeating Haley in her home state by more than 20 percentage points. That's not merely a convincing victory; that's an electoral bloodbath, especially given how much more money Haley spent in the primary than Trump.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nikki Haley has been giving off leftist-in-waiting vibes all during this primary season, so I wouldn't be surprised if she's rooting for the Democrats to eventually perpwalk Trump. Then again, I think that she's reached the point where she believes the nonsense that the MSM has been writing about her to prop her up and is now drinking delusion for breakfast. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As my RedState colleague <a href="https://redstate.com/benkew/2024/02/25/its-over-koch-network-pulls-plug-on-bankrolling-nikki-haleys-campaign-n2170565" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b21f24;" target="_blank">Ben Kew writes</a>, Haley is going to have to soldier on without any of that sweet Koch money: </span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #e8e8e8; border-left: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which is bankrolled by the multi-billion dollar Koch network, announced that it was pulling the plug on financial support for Haley on the grounds that it is no longer money being well spent. </span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Most would make the argument that it was never money well spent. AFP Action was bankrolling an extreme longshot and telling themselves all sorts of things to justify it. It always was nothing more than a well-financed anti-Trump tantrum. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I truly believe that the Democrats' relentless legal assaults on Trump have played a huge role in the short work he's made of his opponents in this primary. The pre-election tampering may not be moving the Never Trump crowd, but I've talked to a lot of people who were deep in the throes of Trump fatigue a year ago who are supportive of him now. All cite the Dems' lawfare chicanery as their motivation for changing their minds. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are more moving parts in this particular contest than there have been in a presidential election for a long time. His detractors can moan all they want, but Trump is hitting a lot of the right notes for the voters these days. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That's excellent power for the train. </span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-91929276675831300322024-02-25T08:43:00.002-05:002024-02-25T08:43:33.517-05:00The Smirnov Indictment Does Not Vindicate the Bidens<p><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/the-smirnov-indictment-does-not-vindicate-the-bidens/"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BY ANDREW C. MCCARTHY</span></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj6adTxEC0HT54WVLfv7s8T1DIMPatjirhsN1UB2lQHv-WYCBAG3UDgUkDUuoDteggESkz_wE4HulW8t_eMteLYrgBNHA9LnSe5p5jcfWUCEpi8kKd_S95zLqAgUDAZeEc9SKIcw2rJuTgfOb0p7SBnSffUi6kOcPS4KMDPY54IL7grE5CVv8tw/s789/bidens-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="789" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj6adTxEC0HT54WVLfv7s8T1DIMPatjirhsN1UB2lQHv-WYCBAG3UDgUkDUuoDteggESkz_wE4HulW8t_eMteLYrgBNHA9LnSe5p5jcfWUCEpi8kKd_S95zLqAgUDAZeEc9SKIcw2rJuTgfOb0p7SBnSffUi6kOcPS4KMDPY54IL7grE5CVv8tw/w640-h374/bidens-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden disembark from Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y., February 4, 2023. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There is already extensive evidence, having nothing to do with Smirnov, of corrupt Biden-family influence-peddling.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Biden Justice Department prosecutor and <span style="color: #2d2d2d;">“</span><a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/stop-the-special-counsel-shenanigans/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">special counsel</a><span style="color: #2d2d2d;">” </span><span style="color: #2d2d2d;">David Weiss’s job is to protect President Biden. That is the thing we must always bear in mind, including in the peculiar case of Alexander Smirnov, whom Weiss has just </span><a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-fbi-confidential-human-source-felony-false" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">indicted</a><span style="color: #2d2d2d;"> and imprisoned </span><span style="color: #2d2d2d;">in a transparent attempt to knock down an allegation House Republicans foolishly ran with when it was both uncorroborated and not essential to their illustration of the Bidens’ sleazy relationship with Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2d2d2d;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another thing to remember: According to Democratic Party dogma, all evidence of the Biden family influencing-peddling business — and of the president’s being up to his neck in it — is Russian disinformation. It’s a laughable assertion, but Democrats touted it like there was no tomorrow during the 2019 Trump–Ukraine impeachment. It’s their story and Weiss is helping them stick to it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d;">As I pointed out in a </span><a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/david-weisss-very-peculiar-smirnov-indictment-in-the-biden-case/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">column</a><span style="color: #2d2d2d;"> yesterday, the indictment filed against Smirnov by Weiss last week is one of the most peculiar charging documents you’ll ever encounter. It was filed in the Central District of California, headquartered in Los Angeles — you may remember it as the district in which Weiss, cross-his-heart, really, really wanted to indict Hunter Biden on tax charges but, he told investigating IRS and FBI agents, </span><a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/06/the-explosive-irs-whistleblower-revelations-on-hunter-biden/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">was blocked from doing so by the Biden-appointed U.S. attorney</a><span style="color: #2d2d2d;">, E. Martin Estrada. At least that was the story until the outraged IRS agents went public. At that point, Weiss needed a new story to avoid embarrassing his boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who would not have tolerated such obstruction </span><a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/garlands-sleight-of-hand-in-hunters-sweetheart-plea-deal/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">unless it was exactly what he wanted</a><span style="color: #2d2d2d;"> when it came to Hunter Biden. So Weiss reset: Gosh darn, it was all a big misunderstanding.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But, of course, there is no misunderstanding: The Biden Justice Department did not want to indict Hunter Biden, despite a wealth of incriminating evidence. That’s why Weiss sat on his hands for years as the <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/garlands-special-counsel-appointment-in-the-biden-probe-is-a-farce/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statute of limitations gradually made charges disappear</a> — especially charges arising out of influence-peddling from 2014–16, when Joe Biden was vice president.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It’s also why Weiss initially tried to close the Hunter probe without charges until the <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/06/the-explosive-irs-whistleblower-revelations-on-hunter-biden/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">IRS whistleblowers’ revelations</a> made that politically impossible. At that point, recall, Weiss tried to disappear the case with <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-blows-up/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a sweetheart plea deal</a> so preposterous, <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/the-chicanery-of-the-hunter-biden-plea-bargain/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">so in defiance of normal Justice Department practice</a>, that he and Hunter’s lawyers <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/how-hunter-bidens-lawyers-snatched-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">couldn’t slide it past an alert federal judge</a> who asked a few basic questions that turned out to be unanswerable.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Only when the plea bargain blew up did <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/garlands-sleight-of-hand-in-hunters-sweetheart-plea-deal/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Garland</a>, in a “Clean Up on Aisle Five” move, appoint Weiss as special counsel. <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/stop-the-special-counsel-shenanigans/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">It was a Biden DOJ classic</a>: The point of a special counsel is to bring in a lawyer from <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.3" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">outside the government</em></a> because the DOJ has a <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.1" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">conflict of interest</a> that prevents it from prosecuting the case ethically; so, in violation of the special-counsel regulations, <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/garlands-special-counsel-appointment-in-the-biden-probe-is-a-farce/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Garland appointed</a> not only a lawyer from <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">inside </em>the government, but <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Weiss himself</em> — the very lawyer from inside the Biden Justice Department whose <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/a-question-for-the-very-special-counsel-david-weiss/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">prior years</a> of <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/special-counsel-david-weiss-makes-5-million-biden-china-scheme-disappear/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">undermining the case</a> perfectly illustrated that the Biden DOJ was hopelessly conflicted, protecting the president rather than enforcing the law.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And then, naturally, Weiss did his part. First, <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/what-to-make-of-the-hunter-biden-gun-indictment/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">he indicted Hunter on gun charges</a> — only after delaying so long that <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/how-special-counsel-david-weiss-handed-hunter-biden-a-second-amendment-defense/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hunter now has a potential Second Amendment defense</a> that would not have been legally available to him years earlier, when Weiss should have been charged him. Subsequently, he indicted Hunter on the tax charges (at least some of the ones that were still left after Weiss made sure the worst of the Burisma-related crimes were now time-barred). Based on this, as night follows day, the media–Democrat complex crowed: <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See what an honest, ethical DOJ and “special counsel” we have here — indicting the president’s son without fear or favor!</em> And that sure has fooled enough of the gullible and partisan that Weiss’s reputation-rehab project is at least a partial success.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But it’s a joke.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With the 2024 election on the horizon, there was no politically feasible way around these indictments once the sweetheart bargain imploded. Not only does the gun case involve serious felonies for which ordinary Americans are incarcerated (even if the <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/the-chicanery-of-the-hunter-biden-plea-bargain/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">gun in the indictment is different</a> from the — uncharged — gun that <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/naked-hunter-biden-cavorts-with-hooker-and-illegal-gun-photos/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">naked, drugged-out Hunter is depicted brandishing</a> in infamous photos mined from the “<a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/B09LRCD1MB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9JUED6S6KKK0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AthND4b0LQt_rlfBkaTrw810W3PfbPk6oHjXk4oxCERFgLOfVvdksSrQ5FgLa1AIJNMoOIBgc5BbkkYdaZZOC_odGF1XFXdvLb-R8n2o5w71uzJ9jyfOuDFmO0vkITjej61_Plz0auvnBQ6kTOI0RMBJb6gljRKcYNfLkhHdGRPsSjQtLdfyym9Hb3D--uqtGklM8adDmJEWvMpcGkSmtr4gEpaLHIRrSt2PYK_HC_o.xKsb3Dsa8vU3_xfJnqUz7MKOCS4H9urcqQDmWTgI1FE&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop+from+hell+book+by+miranda+devine&qid=1708631397&sprefix=laptop+from+h%2Caps%2C313&sr=8-1" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Laptop from Hell</a>”). The Biden-Democrat firearms obsessions could not withstand a second attempt by the Biden Justice Department to make Hunter’s case go away. The best Hunter’s lawyers can do is grouse that if the defendant’s name weren’t Biden, he wouldn’t have been charged. That’s only true if they mean “charged <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in 2023</em>”; in a normal case, if the accused caught in illegal possession of a gun or two in 2018 were not the president’s son, he would have been convicted and sentenced to prison by 2019.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As for the tax charges, Weiss has done what he could do for Hunter, in particular, by sitting on his hands while the <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/garlands-special-counsel-appointment-in-the-biden-probe-is-a-farce/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statute of limitations lapsed on the most serious offenses</a>. Hunter, however, is incidental. The objective here is to maintain the fiction that Joe Biden has nothing whatsoever to do with the <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/the-biden-brand-racket/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Biden family business</a> of <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/06/12/how-the-bidens-got-rich/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">cashing in on his political influence</a> — no matter how many meetings and phone calls Joe had with Biden family business partners, and no matter how many rides Joe gave Hunter on Air Force Two to seal deals with CCP apparatchiks.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In that vein, perhaps you detected something intriguing about Weiss’s indictment of Hunter for not paying taxes on the money he “earned” by touting his father’s government power: <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/the-hunter-biden-tax-indictment-is-a-disaster-for-the-white-house/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The name “Joe Biden” does not appear in it</a> — not even as “unidentified Highly Influential Father No. 1,” as we’d expect from one of those hilarious let’s-not-name-names DOJ charging documents. In the Weiss <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.907805/gov.uscourts.cacd.907805.1.0_1.pdf" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">charging materials</a> we’ve seen so far (including a <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23888015/diversion-agreement-attachment-a_1-scrubbed.pdf" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statement of facts</a> he obviously delegated Hunter’s lawyers to write), the president’s ne’er-do-well son earns big money as a high-end lawyer and business tycoon. Joe Biden? Nope, never heard of him.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But, alas, they sure knew who Joe was at Burisma . . . which brings us back to Smirnov.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is the source for the notorious <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Grassley-whistleblower-form.pdf" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1023 report</a> (a standard FBI form memorializing an interview of a confidential informant). In that document, Smirnov, an informant with a track record of providing solid information, reported that he’d been told by Burisma boss Mykola (“Nicolay”) Zlochevsky that Zlochevsky had paid $10 million in bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden. The head Burisma honcho was further said to have described the transactions as so byzantine it would take agents a decade to trace the funds.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to the new indictment, in a 2017 interview by his handling agent, Smirnov merely noted <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">en passant</em> that Zlochevsky had put Hunter on Burisma’s board of directors; he made no mention of the sensational bribery allegation. Three years later, when he was reinterviewed in June 2020, Smirnov dubiously claimed to remember it. The indictment says Smirnov maintained that he learned of this bribery scheme circa 2015–16, in meetings and phone calls with Zlochevsky and other Burisma execs, some of them in the presence of two other business associates he identified. Smirnov is also said to have reported that Zlochevsky’s stated objective — in the bribe and in paying Hunter millions of dollars to sit on the board — was to induce then-vice president Biden to pressure the Ukrainian government into firing Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor who was investigating Bursima. (By his own account, Biden did get Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Shokin — although Biden apologists insist this was because the prosecutor, not Biden, was corrupt.)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now, there is no doubt that House Republicans, led by James Comer and Jim Jordan (chairmen of, respectively, the Oversight and Intelligence Committees) got out over their skis on this one. They only knew about the 1023 form; they did not know Smirnov’s name and could do no background investigation of him. FBI director Chris Wray resisted their demands to surrender the 1023, acceding only when <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mccarthy-threatens-to-hold-wray-in-contempt-for-refusing-to-turn-over-document-alleging-biden-bribery-scheme/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">threatened with contempt</a>. Wray warned the House that the information in the report was uncorroborated. Now, that could mean the FBI did not do enough follow-up, but it could also mean the Bureau tried but couldn’t either verify or disprove the claims.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On that score, if the allegations in Weiss’s indictment of Smirnov are true, what we appear to have here is an episode of galactic government incompetence.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Weiss’s false-statement theory is that the Biden-incriminating conversations Smirnov had in 2015–16 could not have happened because the travel documents and available witnesses prove that Smirnov was not introduced to Burisma execs until 2017 — when Biden was already out of office and Shokin had already been fired. It will be interesting to see how that shakes out. Smirnov may have shown up for his 2023 reinterview thinking it was a normal debriefing, of the kind he’d been through countless times; but Weiss’s investigators appear to have set up the session so they could make a false-statements case on him — i.e., get him to repeat his alleged 2020 misinformation, then charge him. Yet the indictment does not indicate that any of the interviews of Smirnov were recorded or transcribed. When it is alleged that a person lied in an un-transcribed interview, the government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt exactly what the witness said; when the FBI and Justice Department could easily have arranged for a recording to avoid any ambiguity about that, yet chose not to, juries tend to wonder why.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Parsed carefully, the form 1023 summary of Smirnov’s statements, and similar recitations in the indictment, are not crystal-clear on what exactly Smirnov said versus what the FBI interviewers assumed he meant as they understood the context. And as I pointed out Friday, there is no indication that investigators gave Smirnov notice that they suspected him of lying, much less confronted him directly on what they now allege are false statements. (Had he been confronted and then plausibly contended there was a misunderstanding, that would have made it difficult to charge him — and it sure looks like Weiss wanted to charge him.)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As I also pointed out, the indictment does not explain why Weiss took no action for three years after learning of Smirnov’s explosive allegations. Similarly, it does not explain how, given that Smirnov provided the germane travel documents in 2020, it took some three years for the Federal Bureau of, yes, <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Investigation </em>to figure out that the documents proved Smirnov was lying. Nor does the indictment give us an inkling as to why Smirnov, who doesn’t seem to be an idiot, would have given the Bureau documents that, to hear Weiss tell it, patently disproved his story.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In any event, what cannot be gainsaid is that the Bureau has a track record — or, at least, some of its agents since disciplined or pushed out by Wray have a track record — of <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/democrats-and-the-fbi-collude-again-on-a-russia-smear-against-republicans/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">working with Democrats to suppress derogatory information about Biden</a>, customarily dismissing it as (<em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sing it with me!</em>) Russian disinformation. Wray clearly tried hard to warn Comer, Jordan, and other Republicans not to put too much stock in Smirnov’s unverified claims, but today’s Trumpy GOP doesn’t trust the FBI (including the director appointed by Trump) — not without justification, given the <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/the-fbi-didnt-ignore-russian-intel-on-hillarys-plan-to-smear-trump-it-abetted-the-plan/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bureau’s collusion with the Clinton campaign</a> and other Democrats to portray Trump as a Putin operative from 2016–19, <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/democrats-and-the-fbi-collude-again-on-a-russia-smear-against-republicans/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">then its role in inducing social-media platforms</a> to <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/baker-and-fbi-election-interference/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">whitewash Biden-corruption reporting</a> in 2020. Ergo, ignoring Wray, Republicans grabbed the Smirnov 1023 form and ran with it.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why was this foolish? Because there is already extensive evidence, <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">having nothing to do with Smirnov</em>, that the Bidens acted corruptly in connection with Burisma.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To be clear, <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">corruptly</em> does not necessarily mean <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">illegally</em>. Democrats conflate the two (as politicians jammed up in corruption cases tend to do). They gruffly insist that Republicans have failed to prove that Joe Biden did anything wrong. Given the weighty evidence of lucrative influence-peddling, however, what they must mean is that Republicans have not established that Joe Biden did anything <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">provably felonious</em>. They can’t credibly say it wasn’t sleazy (not that that stops them from saying it), because it was sleazy by any measure.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In 2014, Zlochevsky was widely reputed to be thoroughly corrupt — which was not news to then-vice president Biden, who headed up what is referred to without a hint of irony as the Obama administration’s anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and elsewhere. Despite this, the vice president’s son, Hunter, was slotted onto Burisma’s board in early 2014 (i.e., right after the Russia-friendly Ukrainian regime of which Zlochevsky was part was pushed out, inducing Zlochevsky to flee).</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On the day Hunter joined Burisma, its CFO, <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/480001185/Email-from-Vadim-Pozharskyi-to-Devon-Archer-and-Hunter-Biden" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Vadym Pozharsky, sent him an “urgent message” email</a> about the aggressive investigations Zlochevsky was facing from the Ukrainian government. “We urgently need your advice,” Pozharsky pleaded, “on how you could use your influence to convey a message/signal, etc., to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions.” Over the ensuing years, Zlochevsky lavished millions on the vice president’s son, who had no relevant expertise. Just in case the Burisma assessment of Hunter’s value-added wasn’t clear enough, <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/hunter-bidens-ukraine-salary-was-cut-after-joe-biden-left-office/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Zlochevsky slashed Hunter’s retainer in half</a> as soon as Joe Biden left the vice presidency in 2017.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, was also planted on Burisma’s board. Archer, a Democratic activist <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://news.yahoo.com/senate-probe-finds-john-kerry-120110388.html" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">close to then–secretary of state John Kerry</a>, is a convicted fraudster (<a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/devon-archers-fraud-conviction-and-hunter-bidens-connection-to-it/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hunter was implicated but not charged in the case</a>). On April 16, 2015, Hunter and Archer arranged a <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/inside-dcs-cafe-milano-where-joe-biden-met-hunters-cronies/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">dinner at Washington’s chic Café Milano</a> for some of their important business partners to meet Vice President Biden. Among them was Pozharsky, who later thanked Hunter “for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.” (Alas, Zlochevsky couldn’t attend, being on the lam and all.)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The good feelings ebbed when it dawned on Burisma that Hunter and Archer were not producing the relief Zlochevsky needed. On November 2, 2015, as preparations were being made for a Burisma board meeting in Dubai (where Zlochevsky was holed up), <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-erupt-2015-email-exposing-ultimate-purpose-hunters-involvement-burisma" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pozharsky emailed Hunter, Archer, and Biden confidant Eric Scherwin</a>, bemoaning the “lack of concrete tangible results that we set out to achieve in the first place.” In particular, the Burisma CFO carped that planning documents he’d just gotten from Hunter failed to</span></p><blockquote style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 2em 1.2rem; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>offer any names of top US officials here in Ukraine (for instance, the US Ambassador) or Ukrainian officials (the President of Ukraine, chief of staff, Prosecutor General) as key targets for improving Nicolay’s [i.e., Zlochevsky’s] case and his situation in Ukraine.</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pozharsky allowed that it was often unwise to put such things in writing. But he stressed that it was vital “that all parties in fact understand the true purpose of the engagement and all our joint efforts” — an obvious reference to Hunter’s engagement by Burisma. Pozharsky then addressed the imperative of achieving our “final goals,” demanding a list of “concrete deliverables”: the names of high-ranking, influential current and former American government officials who could come to Ukraine imminently for the “ultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against Nicolay [Zlochevsky] in Ukraine.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In early December, Hunter and Archer were in Dubai for the Burisma board meeting. At the same time, on December 4, Scherwin had an email exchange with Vice President Biden’s communications director at the White House, Kate Bedingfield. After Scherwin suggested talking points on how the Obama/Biden administration should respond to press inquiries about the curious role of the vice president’s son on the board of a reputedly corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Bedingfield assured Scherwin that the “VP signed off on these.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, in Dubai on the same day, Pozharsky phoned Hunter after the board meeting to say that Zlochevsky urgently needed to speak with him. The two top Burisma execs thus hustled over to the Four Seasons resort to meet with Hunter and Archer. When they got there, after complaining again about the strain of the investigations, Zlochevsky bluntly put Hunter on the spot: “Can you ring your dad?” Hunter did as the man paying him the big bucks asked, calling his father.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Moments later, the vice president of the United States came to the phone. Hunter put his father on speaker and explained that he and Archer were sitting together with “Nikolay and Vadym.” No further elaboration about the Ukrainians’ names was needed: remember, Pozharsky had supped with Vice President Biden at the Café Milano and, well, everyone knew exactly who “Nicolay” Zlochevsky was. While the conversation mainly stayed at the level of pleasantries, Hunter stressed that the two Ukrainians “need our support.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By the way, that information comes from that notorious font of Russian disinformation, Devon Archer.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was just a few days later that Vice President Biden flew to Ukraine, where he duly pressured President Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor, Shokin, who was investigating Zlochevsky and Burisma. Biden warned that if Shokin was not fired, U.S. financial aid desperately needed by Kyiv would be withheld.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By the way, that information comes from that notorious font of Russian disinformation, Joe Biden.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Shokin was indeed fired in October 2016. When it finally happened, there was delirium at Blue Star Strategies, a lobbying firm with powerhouse Biden and Clinton ties. Hunter Biden had brought Blue Star in to champion the cause of Zlochevsky and Burisma, including to the U.S. government. On October 11, 2016, <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/02/burisma-lobbyists-schwerin-blue-star-zlochevsky/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Scherwin emailed Blue Star’s Sally Painter</a> gushing, “We won and in less than a year. Yea!!!” Painter gleefully responded, “Thanks. U brought us in so take a victory lap.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Blue Star had not registered with the Justice Department under the <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Foreign Agents Registration Act</a>. Now, you may be thinking: <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Isn’t it a felony to lobby the government on behalf of foreign concerns, such as Burisma and Zlochevsky, without registering under FARA? </em>Well, yes. But see, that’s not a problem here, no siree, because “special counsel” David Weiss and the Biden Justice Department first allowed <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/05/17/blue-star-registers-retroactively-for-burisma-work-00033202" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Blue Star to register retroactively</a>, <em style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">six years after the fact</em>, and then quietly notified Blue Star that it was <a data-testid="standard-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/17/burisma-blue-star-strategies-doj-probe/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-style: dotted; text-decoration-thickness: 1.5px; text-underline-offset: 3px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">no longer a subject of the investigation</a>.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But hey, at least Weiss is gonna nail Alexander Smirnov, right?</span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-20707143225189275342024-02-24T11:02:00.000-05:002024-02-24T11:02:04.850-05:00Cellphone Data May Just Cook Fani Willis and Nathan Wade's Goose About Start of Relationship<p><a href="https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/02/23/new-cellphone-data-may-just-cook-fani-willis-and-nathan-wades-goose-n2170503?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=227841a8b1ca836b99e21ea36efa6859"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Nick Arama | RedState.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhojljolRZ8zIf-HqejVy6pAd5b7-uvqrRMBW5Q6OqMuUS0Yosk8uVWRby3xzM2cOGRgov782-w3Jibp7yywmw7RqV2k5PX3gEYNySsv0aCsWfmIfR2uDwd_XU1txT25zrlSyV9jYnUjDMZqkAYbfIKhNey8o1DsJiKlis44oy9H6HvdgSTcjDaKg/s1052/fe78e518-9627-4fb5-beab-1792f4680433-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhojljolRZ8zIf-HqejVy6pAd5b7-uvqrRMBW5Q6OqMuUS0Yosk8uVWRby3xzM2cOGRgov782-w3Jibp7yywmw7RqV2k5PX3gEYNySsv0aCsWfmIfR2uDwd_XU1txT25zrlSyV9jYnUjDMZqkAYbfIKhNey8o1DsJiKlis44oy9H6HvdgSTcjDaKg/w640-h374/fe78e518-9627-4fb5-beab-1792f4680433-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The evidence was already not looking good for Fulton County DA Fani Willis and her story about when her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade began. There was prior testimony from her former good friend Robin Yeartie that the relationship began in 2019, before what both Wade and Willis told the Court. That was bad enough. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The defense, including former President Donald Trump, is arguing that the two and the DA's office should be disqualified from the case because of the relationship. The couple was forced to admit there was a romance, but both claimed it began in 2022 -- after Wade had been hired in Nov. 2021. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now there's more evidence that just may cook Willis and Wade's goose on the issue and earn them a lot of trouble. The Trump team <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-cellphone-data-raise-questions-about-start-of-willis-wade-relationship/SFVMYPTD2RD3HMZYOH3377CNNE/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">revealed in a filing with the Court</a> that they have cellphone data they obtained from AT&T pursuant to a subpoena. According to the data in the filing, <span class="Apple-converted-space" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wade </span>appeared to have made at least 35 visits to the Hapeville neighborhood where Fani Willis was living before the district attorney hired him.</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-left: 5px solid rgb(184, 31, 36); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><div class="c-contentElements" data-start-index="0" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><p class="story-text " data-index="5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump’s lawyers relied on data collected from Wade’s cellphone and cellphone tower transmissions which they said tracked his movements. It could contradict Wade’s testimony last week in which he said he had visited Willis at her condo in Hapeville no more than 10 times before he was hired in November 2021. It also indicates Wade twice arrived in the area late at night and left early the next morning in the months before Willis and Wade said their relationship became romantic early in 2022.</span></p></div><div class="story-paygate_placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><div class="c-contentElements" data-start-index="5" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><p class="story-text " data-index="6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Both Wade and Willis testified last week that they did not spend the night together at the Hapeville condo.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Check the timing and when he's in the area. </span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-left: 5px solid rgb(184, 31, 36); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On one occasion, on Sept. 11, 2021, Wade’s phone left the Doraville area and arrived in the vicinity of Willis’ Hapeville address at 10:45 p.m. The phone remained there until 3:28 a.m. and could later be seen arriving in East Cobb at 4:05 a.m., shortly before Wade sent a text to Willis, the affidavit said. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Similarly, Wade’s phone left the East Cobb area the night of Nov. 29, 2021, after receiving an 11:32 p.m. call from Willis, the affidavit said. It arrived in Hapeville at 12:43 a.m. and remained there until 4:55 a.m., the affidavit added.</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Then there's the number of calls and texts. There was an affidavit from investigator Charles Mittelstadt.</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-left: 5px solid rgb(184, 31, 36); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p class="story-text " data-index="14" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The affidavit says Willis and Wade called each other more than 2,000 times during the first 11 months of 2021 and exchanged just less than 10,000 text messages.</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That was all during the time they claimed they weren't having a romantic relationship. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Two thousand phone calls and almost 10,000 text messages? That's an incredible amount of communication. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This has to up the likelihood that they get disqualified. As the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-cellphone-data-raise-questions-about-start-of-willis-wade-relationship/SFVMYPTD2RD3HMZYOH3377CNNE/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes</a>, this also could also bring them lots of trouble. If it's determined that they lied under oath, it could constitute perjury and their careers could be in jeopardy. </span></p>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452257.post-87311709698726119472024-02-23T08:55:00.003-05:002024-02-23T08:55:43.405-05:00Wellness Check on Leftists After the NY Times Does the Unthinkable in Finally Fact Checking Joe Biden<p><a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/02/22/wellness-check-on-leftists-after-the-ny-times-does-the-unthinkable-in-finally-fact-checking-joe-biden-n2170476?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=227841a8b1ca836b99e21ea36efa6859"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By Sister Toldjah | RedState.com</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryFXEIupp9NNXG4EzUTUlEGSxFVTLq6hIAHeV51xqUuwVECYmfAKalg3Lqx-xZ5mWTBfsHKE_k427BBaUwHyJnKqnmhUVH2suqxKz3YGYXDy_vB_Ptepe_7BpgLrhNhuf_yR52LRiiQFe6Pw3IrY3bIsyYVRuT_KgwBbU6FUXq9UWrr4bJS0eVQ/s1052/e18a4e16-7a12-4287-b9e7-3c1c7d95716b-1052x615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1052" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryFXEIupp9NNXG4EzUTUlEGSxFVTLq6hIAHeV51xqUuwVECYmfAKalg3Lqx-xZ5mWTBfsHKE_k427BBaUwHyJnKqnmhUVH2suqxKz3YGYXDy_vB_Ptepe_7BpgLrhNhuf_yR52LRiiQFe6Pw3IrY3bIsyYVRuT_KgwBbU6FUXq9UWrr4bJS0eVQ/w640-h374/e18a4e16-7a12-4287-b9e7-3c1c7d95716b-1052x615.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta</span></i></b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">As my RedState colleagues and I have </span><a href="https://redstate.com/tags/fact-checkers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">documented</a><span style="background-color: white;"> many times at this site, professional fact-checkers simply </span><a href="https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/01/07/busting-the-fact-checkers-or-why-fact-checkers-stink-n2168396" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">stink</a><span style="background-color: white;"> - not because they are charged with fact-checking but because so many of them are in the tank for Democrats. As a result, they tailor their purported "fact checks" accordingly, which means the "fact check" is... not really a fact check at all.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Like their media allies, fact-check organizations - despite their laughable spin to the contrary - have established themselves for the past couple of decades as little more than </span><a href="https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2022/04/26/fact-checkers-dont-always-check-facts-n556095" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">mouthpieces</a><span style="background-color: white;">/apologists for leftists and leftist causes, with the examples too numerous to list here, though we'll point out a couple of them for good measure.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fact-checkers have so often gone to bat for Democrats over the years that it's become expected of them in Democratic circles, as natural as breathing. In fact, it's so rare that fact-checkers hold a Democrat's feet to the fire that when they do, conservatives take <a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/09/12/hell-freezes-over-as-cnn-fact-checker-daniel-dale-takes-aim-at-joe-biden-n2163739" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">notice</a> if for no other reason than to express their pleasant surprise to see it happening for a change.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As one might imagine, though, sometimes those once-a-year fact checks of Democrats coming from the mainstream media and their hired "truth seekers" can cause panic, with some on the left needing some smelling salts and access to fainting couches in order to make it through the day.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Such was the case this week after the New York Times did the unthinkable in fact-checking Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/fact-check-biden-economy.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">noting that</a> "At recent public and campaign events... Mr. Biden has made some misleading statements about the economy, jobs and taxes."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Though it was about as harsh on Biden as one would expect coming from the liberally biased Snoozepaper of record (read: not at all), it was simply too much for the likes of Claire McCaskill, the former Democratic Senator from Missouri who is known for her occasional bizarre and non-sensical <a href="https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/11/22/unhinged-claire-mccaskill-trump-more-dangerous-than-hitler-mussolini-n2166695" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">rants</a>, which makes her a perfect fit in her role as political analyst at <del style="box-sizing: border-box;">MSDNC</del> MSNBC.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On the Thursday "Morning Joe" episode, McCaskill whined to co-hosts Joe Scarborough and his side-kick Mika Brzezinski about the Times daring to do what had so rarely been done before in fact-checking Biden. Further, she <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2024/02/22/mccaskill-angrily-demands-ny-times-stop-fact-checking-biden" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">demanded</a> the paper stop fact-checking him at all until they had also fact-checked Biden's presumptive general election GOP opponent, Donald Trump:</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-left: 5px solid rgb(184, 31, 36); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 26px; padding: 10.5px 21px;"><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">MCCASKILL: So the only blemish on the great country of America worldwide is, in fact, Donald Trump and can I make a suggestion? I move that every newspaper in America quits doing any fact-checks on Joe Biden until they fact-check Donald Trump every morning on the front page. It is ridiculous--</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">MCCASKILL: --that the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</em> fact-checked Joe Biden on something. I mean, he vomits lies, Trump vomits lies. Every day—</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Literally.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">MCCASKILL: over and over and over again and it’s just ridiculous that the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</em> is doing a fact-check on Biden while they let Trump -- while they're numb to the torrent of lies coming out of Trump's mouth.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Not mentioned in the Brzezinski/McCaskill anti-Times/Trump hatefest was Brzezinski's (and Scarborough's)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/01/14/joe-scarborough-asks-gop-what-job-worth-selling-political-soul-for-gets-inconvenient-responses-n125538" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">extensive role</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">in elevating Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, but I digress.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As it turns out, McCaskill wasn't the only one acting fauxfended over the Times' recent coverage of Joe Biden, as pointed out by 538 site founder Nate Silver in an "X" (formerly Twitter) post.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Leaving aside the fact that the Times is all over Trump on any given day (contra <a href="https://redstate.com/benkew/2024/02/19/new-york-times-publisher-admits-they-have-fallen-out-with-the-white-house-n2170346" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b81f24;" target="_blank">to claims</a> from the Biden admin), I'd say that as bad of a look that it was for McCaskill and Oates to be crying foul over the rare instance of the Gray Lady throwing some mild criticism Biden's way, it's an even worse indictment of the MSM and their fact-checking arms. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why? Because McCaskill and Oates essentially said the quiet part out loud-- by inadvertently making the exact points conservative critics have long argued about the media's biased, one-sided, political agenda-driven nature.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thanks much, Claire.</span></p></div>Frances Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749730218248239182noreply@blogger.com