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“…I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a coincidence theorist…”.
“We live in a post-truth world…”.
In all seriousness, here is a good professor simply trying to bring people’s attention to the obvious things around us. I’m halfway through. He focuses on economic, but not dryly, so it naturally extends to everything.
https://youtu.be/3hOdQNDFY5E?si=Cbl9VneEP5Xg6DEp
Did you know that for every 1% rise in unemployment there is a 40,000 rise in suicides?
Did you know that student debt is the only debt form non-dischargable by bankruptcy? How do you people get started in life with this anchor around their necks?
On depression and exercise:
https://modernity.news/2024/02/15/new-study-finds-exercise-is-twice-as-effective-at-treating-depression-than-anti-depressant-drugs/
Walk 10,000 steps every day — without your phone.
Brussels insists east Europe accept dumped Uke grain:
https://rmx.news/economy/eu-demands-hungary-poland-and-slovakia-open-their-borders-to-cheap-poor-quality-ukrainian-grain/
USA Watchdog on the salient items of this week, including the false economy, the false PT prosecutor, and possibly two million real terrorists flooding in through the southern border:
https://usawatchdog.com/americas-2-million-terrorists-fani-willis-done-economy-tanking/
Revealing short clip of a Trudeau minion protesting too much (thespian) when confronted by his ghoulish MAID killing innocent people:
Happy Friday!
Father of the year award? Not quite given the brat he created, but at least he’s on the right track:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hX0OqduxFsw
To be literate is to be for white supremacy:
https://mynorthwest.com/3950467/jason-rantz-seattle-english-high-school-students-white-supremacy-reading-writing/
Literacy as Freedom
https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Literacy-as-Freedom.pdf
“Yes, it (Islam) does, ma’am:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BwIbuigeYSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0acYXnaPw
Sign the contract Fani, [the Band]
“The Worst Testimony I’ve Ever Seen… The Dumbest Prosecutor I’ve Ever Seen” – Attorney Mike Davis TORCHES Fani Willis After She Implodes in Court on Live TV (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft Feb. 16, 2024 7:45 am357 Comments
Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, joined Steve Bannon on The War Room following the Fani Willis spectacle today broadcast on live TV from Fulton County.
It must have been a very long day for the Trump-hating fake news media.
Mike Davis told Steve Bannon that what he witnessed today was “the worst testimony I think I’ve ever seen.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/worst-testimony-ive-ever-seen-dumbest-prosecutor-ive/
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This Ought to Be Lit: Fani’s Radical Black Panther Father Who Lived with Her Will Testify Today in Fulton County Court – He Once Shacked Up with Most-Wanted Criminal Angela Davis
by Jim Hoft Feb. 16, 2024 8:00 am273 Comments
Friday is Day 2 of Fani’s Follies – And it looks to be lit!
On Day 1 we learned that Fani likes her some Grey Goose Vodka, that she paid her beau in cash during their lavish trips, and that she likely lied about the start of her relationship with Nathan Wade. We also learned that Fani’s father told her she always keeps cash in the house.
Fani told the court:
From what I have seen both Fani and her lover should be disbarred and tried for perjury.
Jesse Watters: Where Did Fani Willis get this cash?
February 16, 2024
Fani Willis takes the stand… and the memers go wild
By Olivia Murray
Karma came for Fani Willis, and it did not disappoint.
Yesterday, Willis took the stand to testify about alleged misconduct regarding her prosecution of President Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election lawsuit, and I’ve been overwhelmed with schadenfreude; Willis’s behavior portrayed a belligerent, combative, and guilty criminal who misused campaign and tax funds to sleep with a subordinate employee. Remembers a month or so ago, when Fani stood at the pulpit and swore she’d never had sexual relations with Nathan Wade? Yeah, that was a lie. Language warning, but this was a concise articulation of the courtroom drama:
Now, if I were Fani Willis, there are many things I would have done differently, but in hindsight, taking the stand was a very bad idea and I would have avoided it at all costs—because, perhaps more intimidating than hypothetically perjuring myself on the stand and blowing the entire “get Trump” case, would be the circling sharks (conservative memers) waiting for the feeding frenzy.
Almost immediately, somebody dug up this sound bite from Fani about why the Fulton county voters should elect her to the district attorney position instead of incumbent Paul Howard Jr.:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/fani_willis_takes_the_stand_and_the_memers_go_wild.html
Judge Goes Off on Nathan Wade’s Former Law Partner for Skipping Court Testimony for Doctor’s Appointment Amid Scandal Trial
by Jim H?ft Feb. 16, 2024 10:45 am99 Comments
The courtroom drama intensified on Friday when Judge Robert McAfee lambasted Terrence Bradley, divorce attorney and ex-law partner of scandal-embroiled attorney Nathan Wade, for missing a scheduled court testimony to attend a doctor’s appointment.
The absence came as a shock during the high-profile trial, where Bradley was to provide crucial evidence.
Legal analyst Jonathan Turley wrote on X, “The judge in Georgia just warned counsel for Terrence Bradley that he considers the medical appointment without notice to be a violation of his subpoena. His counsel insists that he must meet with his doctor to follow up on his status in light of his appointment…”
“…Judge McAfee made clear that his patience was running out because Bradley was given advance notice of his need to appear,” the judge added.
“I was never informed of a medical appointment,” Judge McAfee said.
Judge McAfee did not mince words as he admonished Bradley in the courtroom, stating, “Right now I think he’s in violation of subpoena.”
The outburst underscored the court’s dwindling patience, given that Bradley had received sufficient notice of his obligation to appear.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/judge-explodes-nathan-wades-former-law-partner-skipping/
WATCH: Fani Willis’ Black Panther Daddy Takes the Stand, Claims Someone Spray-Painted the “B-Word” and the “N-Word” on Fani’s House – But He Cleaned it Before She Saw It
by Cristina Laila Feb. 16, 2024 11:20 am52 Comments
Day two of the evidentiary hearing about alleged misconduct by Soros-backed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was underway on Friday as the judge weighs whether Willis should be disqualified from the Trump RICO case.
Fani Willis will not take the stand on Friday after she went completely off the rails in court on Thursday.
Willis’ radical Black Panther father John C. Floyd III, who lived with her and advised her when she indicted Trump, took the stand on Friday.
John Floyd is a former Black Panther who once called the police in Los Angeles an “occupying army” that was nothing but trouble.
Floyd was a high-ranking member of the Black Panthers in Los Angeles who later became a defense attorney after splitting from the Panthers in the early 1970s.
And Floyd dated most-wanted criminal Angela Davis who was accused of being involved in kidnappings and murders.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-fani-willis-black-panther-daddy-takes-stand/
Alan Dershowitz: There’s a plausible case for perjury
Top Story with Tom Llamas – Feb. 15 | NBC News NOW
This is really damaging in the Fanis Willis case: Jonathan Turley
Judge McAfee Suggests John Floyd’s Testimony May Be Discredited After Reportedly Prepping With His Daughter Fani Willis in the Same Room and Ignoring News Ban
by Jim H?ft Feb. 16, 2024 11:40 am247 Comments
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who previously worked under the supervision of the county’s District Attorney Fani Willis, has raised concerns regarding the credibility of John Floyd’s testimony, potentially impacting the case involving his daughter.
Willis’ radical Black Panther father, John C. Floyd III, who lived with her and advised her when she indicted Trump, faced scrutiny for his preparation methods for the testimony and his admitted disregard for court rules regarding media consumption about the case.
During the proceedings, it was brought to light that John Floyd had prepared for his testimony with his daughter, Fani, present in the same room. This unusual method of preparation prompted Judge McAfee to question the impartiality of Floyd’s forthcoming statements.
Having the person involved in the case there while a witness gets ready could lead to unintentional biases or influence the testimony, potentially skewing the facts of the case.
Further complicating matters, John Floyd acknowledged that he had not adhered to the court’s strict instructions to avoid all news coverage related to the case.
This admission raised additional concerns about the potential for external influence on his testimony. The court imposes such restrictions to ensure that witnesses’ statements remain untainted by public and media narratives, preserving the integrity of their account.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/judge-mcafee-suggests-john-floyds-testimony-may-be/
Fani Willis’ Radical Father Claims He Had Foreknowledge that COVID-19 Was Coming While Residing in South Africa in 2019 (VIDEO)
by Jim H?ft Feb. 16, 2024 12:00 pm227 Comments
John C. Floyd III, the radical father of Fani Willis who advised her during the high-profile indictment of former President Trump, claimed, under oath, he had prior knowledge of the COVID-19 outbreak while living in South Africa in 2019.
His past involvement with the Black Panthers, including a high-ranking position within the Los Angeles chapter, and his subsequent transition to a defense attorney after leaving the group in the early 1970s, has been well-documented.
Floyd also gained notoriety for his association with Angela Davis, a controversial figure accused of involvement in kidnappings and murders.
According to Floyd, his experiences and travels while residing in South Africa, a country with close ties to China through extensive foreign relations, gave him advanced knowledge of the emergence of COVID-19.
He suggests that his understanding of global health dynamics and connections abroad allowed him to anticipate the pandemic before it became a global crisis.
Defense Attorney: “Do you spend any time in 2019 in California?”
John Floyd: “No. And the reason I didn’t is that when I first came here, the answer is no, I did not. What happened was Covid. Once Covid hit, I was just paralyzed. I couldn’t go anyplace and do anything. I mean, I’m a theatre buff. I used to go to the theatre at least once a week. But when Covid hit, I just couldn’t. I couldn’t go to the dentist, which I need to do. It was just a thing. So, I was just stuck. I was just stuck there.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/fani-willis-radical-father-claims-he-had-foreknowledge/
Speed. . . and. . . Action
“It’s like every other two-minute clip I watch of this Fani Willis interview she admits to committing another felony.” — Senator JD Vance (R-OH)
Have you noticed yet that America has turned into a Coen Brothers movie? Everywhere you look, you see madcap characters disgracing themselves while doing their bit to burn the whole country down. It’s a panoramic extravaganza of everything gone wrong, with slapstick overtones, driving toward an apocalyptic climax — civil war, nuclear war, economic collapse, maybe all three. And all because the people on-screen just can’t stop lying.
Yesterday was Fani Willis’s turn, her big scene. The Fulton County, Georgia, DA, wasn’t even scheduled to testify, but she barged into Judge Scott McAfee’s courtroom and seized possession of the witness stand like it was home-base in a game of ringolevio. This was after the morning vivisection of her boyfriend, the feckless Nathan Wade, testifying to the couple’s fun-filled romantic travels during the months they were supposedly busy constructing a racketeering case against Donald Trump and eighteen others scooped into their dragnet.
The reason the lovebirds could take so much time cavorting across the Caribbean and California — vineyard tours featuring “pairings of champagne, chocolate, and caviar,” Ms. Willis testified — is because their Fulton County case was entirely prepped for them out of DC by Mary McCord, the veteran blob lawyer active in every Get-Trump hoax cooked up since 2016. (And I’d bet cash-money that she had plenty of assistance from Lawfare blobsters Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann.) The complex particulars of the case were all teed up, ready to go. All Ms. Willis and her lead prosecutor, Mr. Wade, had to do was get the trial date set, raise the curtain, and follow the script.
Alas, the couple got carried away in the raptures of amour and, all of a sudden, we’re in something like The Real Housewives of Atlanta. And then they lied about the details under oath, especially around the money involved. If they are not disqualified from participating in the Trump “racketeering” case — in which their own behavior would be centerpiece evidence of an ineptly tainted and malicious prosecution — and/or if the case is not tossed summarily, then it will have to be removed to another county and most likely delayed until after the 2024 elections. Nice work, Party of Chaos!
That little opéra bouffe is but one sub-plot in the larger scenario. Also this week, the scandal of the century was re-kindled when alt-news reporters Taibbi, Shellenberger, and Gutentag filed the story of how Barack Obama and CIA Director John Brennan, with his chore girls, Avril Haines and Gina Haspel, cooked up the RussiaGate caper and fed it to the FBI, with a major assist from The New York Times, the WashPo, CNN, and other useful idiot news media vectors. All of this had actually been well-documented for years, but the reporters dredged up new corroboration from disgusted blob insiders further clarifying the origins of the hoax.
The cast of characters in that part of the big movie has been consistent through eight full years of anti-Trump hysteria and the associated trips laid on our country. Ms. McCord, for instance, was U.S. Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security during the birth of RussiaGate; later served as counsel to the House Committee that kicked-off Trump Impeachment No. 1 (coordinating the Eric Ciaramella “whistleblower” scam); then became counsel to Rep. Bennie Thompson’s J6 committee investigation, and now turns up as Fani Willis’ legal tutor, and probably also tutor to New York State Attorney General Letitia James and her preposterous Get Trump real estate valuation case under Judge Engoron. (Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA on the Stormy Daniels case against Mr. Trump, was coached by then US Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo who was hired out of the DOJ directly into Mr. Bragg’s office for tutoring purposes.) All of this coaching post Jan 20, 2021, was coordinated by the “Joe Biden” White House.
Speaking of whom, the evermore spectral “president” was not having a great week either after DOJ Special Counsel Robert Hur painted him into a corner in his final report as either too demented to face charges in the purloined documents case (and, by inference, not mentally capable to be president), or else a criminal trafficking in top secret documents he was not authorized to possess as Senator and Veep. Looks like that puts an end to “JB’s” game of pretending to run for reelection (that is, lying about it) and leaves the Democratic Party holding a flaming bag of dog doo-doo.
In the background of all these shenanigans in high places lurk three other smoldering bonfires: 1) all the lying, deception, and treason behind the Covid-19 operation that has left more than half the country susceptible to deadly vaccine injuries (and disordered our society); 2) the monumental mail-in ballot fraud of the last two elections (2020, 2022) enabled by the Covid-19 “emergency”; and 3) the War in Ukraine which is winding down towards another US humiliation, and behind which lurks a virtual off-gassing giant landfill of money-laundering, bribery, and something that smells like treason. Also looks like BlackRock will miss out on the colossal asset-stripping op it has been looking forward to there.
Oh, and by the way, this movie is not over. A lot of the people involved are going to end up in court themselves, perhaps in prison. Stay in your seats.
https://youtu.be/SlA9hmrC8DU
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/speed-and-action/
The Case for U.S. Withdrawal from the United Nations
by Antonio Graceffo Feb. 16, 2024 9:15 am15 Comments
While some may wish to remain in the United Nations and overhaul the organization from within, there is a solid case to be made for a U.S. withdrawal. The UN is expensive, ineffective, and impedes U.S. foreign policy objectives, and threatens U.S. sovereignty.
In 2021, the most recent fiscal year with full data available, the United States contributed $12.5 billion to the UN, accounting for roughly 25% of the UN’s total $50 billion budget.
The United States conceived of the UN, was instrumental in its inception, and is the single largest donor, but still receives exactly one vote, the same as Albania, Belize, or China. Regarding peacekeeping efforts, the U.S. foots about 28% of the bill.
Beyond financial support, the U.S. also provides peacekeeping missions with logistics and infrastructure, intelligence sharing, communications, use of satellites, as well as training and capacity building.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/case-u-s-withdrawal-united-nations/
GOP Rep. Mark Green Will Not Seek Reelection After Leading Impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas: “I Have Come to Realize Our Fight is Not Here Within Washington, Our Fight is With Washington”
by Jim H?ft Feb. 16, 2024 8:45 am93 Comments
House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) announced he will not be seeking a fourth term in Congress.
This decision follows his prominent role in leading the impeachment efforts against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Green released a powerful retirement statement criticizing the Washington elites and explaining his decision to retire from Congress.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/gop-rep-mark-green-will-not-seek-reelection/
Investigative Reporter Threatened by Border Patrol Agent While Documenting Illegal Crossings in Lukeville, Arizona (VIDEO)
by Jim H?ft Feb. 16, 2024 8:30 am104 Comments
International conflict zone reporter Jeff Rainforth was threatened with arrest by a Border Patrol agent while filming illegal crossings at the Lukeville port of entry.
Rainforth, who had been documenting the situation at the Lukeville port of entry for seven weeks, described an incident where he was warned by an agent for “trespassing” on the border road next to the port.
You can be arrested for trespassing but not illegally crossing the border.
“The agent ironically told me I could be arrested for trespassing as about 1000 illegal aliens were lined up against the border wall. They had come through cuts in the wall to the west,” Rainforth wrote on his website, JeffRainforth.com.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/investigative-reporter-threatened-border-patrol-agent-while-documenting/
Alexei Navalny, vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, dies in prison: Russian government
The Russian opposition leader was 47 years old.
LONDON — Alexei Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin — often considered to be a vocal and prominent thorn in the side of the Russian government — has died in prison at age 47, according to the prison service.
“On 02/16/2024, in correctional colony No. 3, convicted Navalny A.A. felt ill after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness. The medical staff of the institution immediately arrived, and an ambulance team was called. All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out, which did not give positive results. The doctors of the emergency medical service pronounced the convict dead,” the release said.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/alexei-navalny-vocal-critic-putin-russian-government-dies/story?id=107286433
Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Circle Soviet Era Gulag According to Prison Authority
by Kristinn Taylor Feb. 16, 2024 1:00 pm0 Comments
Russian democracy activist Alexei Navalny, 47, died in a Soviet era gulag located north of the Arctic Circle on Friday, according to the Russian prison authority. Navalny leaves behind his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, and their two children.
Navalny reportedly fell ill and died while taking a walk. Navalny’s wife and lawyers are awaiting confirmation of his death. Navalny was an opponent of Russian President Vladmir Putin and had been persecuted for decades, poisoned and jailed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/russian-dissident-alexei-navalny-dies-arctic-circle-soviet/
Was Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Working with CIA? Former Putin Critic Was Caught on Video Requesting $10-20 Million from British Spy to Launch Revolution (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft Feb. 16, 2024 3:20 pm
As reported earlier by Kristinn Taylor, Russian democracy activist Alexei Navalny, 47, reportedly died in a Soviet era gulag located north of the Arctic Circle on Friday, according to the Russian prison authority. Navalny leaves behind his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, and their two children.
Navalny organized anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government.
In 2021 Navalny was ordered to prison for 2.5 years.
Navalny reportedly fell ill and died while taking a walk. Navalny’s wife and lawyers are awaiting confirmation of his death. Navalny was an opponent of Russian President Vladmir Putin and had been persecuted for decades, poisoned and jailed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/was-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-cia-op-former/
But the few Russians who knew he existed figured he was a tool of MI6. Describing him as “Putin’s opposition” was always a howler.
Fani Willis won’t be cross-examined | Raw court
Rantz: Seattle English students told it’s ‘white supremacy’ to love reading, writing
Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”
As part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School were given a handout with definitions of the “9 characteristics of white supremacy,” according to the father of a student. Given the subject matter of the class, the father found it odd this particular lesson was brought up.
https://mynorthwest.com/3950467/jason-rantz-seattle-english-high-school-students-white-supremacy-reading-writing/
Police: Shooting at Chiefs parade appears to stem from dispute
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities in Kansas City said Thursday that the mass shooting that left one person dead and 22 injured at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration appeared to have stemmed from a dispute among several people.
Police Chief Stacey Graves said Thursday that the total number of victims is 23, including Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who was killed in the shooting. Graves said that the 22 people injured in the shooting ranged between the ages of 8 and 47 years old and that half of the injured were under the age of 16.
Fire Chief Ross Grundyson said the victims included eight critically hurt and seven in serious condition.
An adult who had been detained has been released from custody, police spokesperson Alayna Gonzalez told multiple media outlets Thursday. That leaves two juveniles detained.
“The two juveniles are currently being held in custody while we work with juvenile prosecutors to review investigative findings and determine
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39531862/police-shooting-chiefs-parade-appears-stem-dispute
Biden Admin Unleashes Woke Trifecta: Trans Official Calls Climate-Change Racist
Tyler Durden’s Photo
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Feb 16, 2024 – 09:40 AM
In case you wondered where, oh where, all the trillions of dollars go, transgender Assistant HHS Secretary Admiral Rachel Levine is here to help.
In what some have called the ‘woke trifecta’, the white trans official took to social media today to explain that, apparently, climate-change is racist.
“Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of black communities.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-unleashes-woke-trifecta-trans-official-calls-climate-change-racist
Criminals in Black Robes
By Joe Fried
Jack Smith wants to put Donald Trump in jail because Trump aggressively interpreted aspects of the Electoral Count Act. However, other people (not connected to Trump) were far more aggressive. They decided to completely ignore a constitutional requirement that had been firmly settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who were those lawbreakers? They were revered justices of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. Will Jack Smith or Merrick Garland put those justices in jail? Will the Hawaii bar association suspend their licenses? Will anyone even comment on their defiance? Don’t hold your breath.
The Spirit of Aloha Legal Standard
In Hawaii, a man named Christopher Wilson was charged with a felony for violating three gun laws, but the charges were dismissed by a Hawaii circuit court in 2022. The court reasoned that the charges against Wilson violated his right to bear arms, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
Recently, however, the circuit court’s ruling was reversed by the Hawaii Supreme Court. According to the Epoch Times, the high court of Hawaii decided the case based upon a new legal standard:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/criminals_in_black_robes.html
BREAKING: Far-Left Judge Engoron Releases Verdict in Trump Civil Fraud Trial: Orders Trump to Pay More Than $350 MILLION and 3-Year Business Ban in NYC
by Cristina Laila Feb. 16, 2024 2:15 pm1306 Comments
BREAKING: Far-Left Judge Engoron Releases Verdict in Trump Civil Fraud Trial: Orders Trump to Pay More Than $350 MILLION and 3-Year Business Ban in NYC
by Cristina Laila Feb. 16, 2024 2:15 pm1306 Comments
“DISGORGEMENT OF ILL-GOTTEN GAINS”
“[W]here, as here, there is a claim based on fraudulent activity, disgorgement may be available as an equitable remedy, notwithstanding the absence of loss to individuals or independent claims for restitution. Disgorgement is distinct from the remedy of restitution because it focuses on the gain to the wrongdoer as opposed to the loss to the victim. Thus, disgorgement aims to deter wrongdoing by preventing the wrongdoer from retaining ill-gotten gains from fraudulent conduct. Accordingly, the remedy of disgorgement does not require a showing or allegation of direct losses to consumers or the public; the source of the ill-gotten gains is “immaterial,” Engoron wrote.
“As detailed in the Findings of Fact, there is overwhelming evidence that each of these defendants made or participated in making a false statement in the business records of an enterprise, the Trump Organization, with the intent to defraud,” Engoron wrote in the filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were also ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines.
Eric Trump and Don Jr. were ordered to pay $4,013,024 each.
“There is also sufficient evidence that Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump intentionally falsified business records. They served as attorneys-in-fact for Donald Trump and were under a heightened duty of prudence,” Engoron wrote.
Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg was ordered to pay $1 million.
The non-jury Soviet-style show trial played out in court for 11 weeks. Judge Engoron delayed the verdict to mid-February after he demanded information about possible perjury by Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg at the eleventh hour.
The fix was in.
Engoron had already ruled that Trump engaged in fraud and ordered the dissolution of Trump’s New York businesses. The New York appellate court stayed Engoron’s order.
Recall that radical Marxist New York Attorney General Letitia James sought $370 million in ‘damages’ when there is no victim in this fraud case and she is also seeking to ban Trump and his sons from operating any businesses in New York. She accused Trump of inflating his assets and defrauding lenders and insurance companies.
James originally sought $250 million in damages from Trump.
In addition to increasing the amount of ‘damages’ she wanted Trump to pay, Letitia James sought a lifetime ban for him from the real estate industry.
In November a Deutsche Bank executive who worked to approve at least one of Trump’s loans testified that it is “atypical, but not entirely unusual” to reduce a client’s asset values and still approve a loan.
Trump is expected to speedily appeal Engoron’s decision.
“Given the grave stakes, we trust that the Appellate Division will overturn this egregious verdict and end this relentless persecution against my clients,” Trump’s attorney Alina Habba said in a statement.
This is a breaking story…please refresh page for updates.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/breaking-far-left-judge-engoron-releases-verdict-trump/
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Morbid Messaging: AI-Generated Gun Control from the Grave
Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 15, 2024 by Dave Workman
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The gun prohibition movement has entered a new and macabre realm, using AI-generated messages delivered in facsimiles of the voices of the dead, and the project is being defended by David Hogg, co-founder of March For Our Lives and one-time media darling following the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
As reported by NPR, one of the voices from beyond the grave is that of Joaquin Oliver, a Hogg classmate and victim of the tragic shooting.
Quoted by NPR, Hogg justifies the morbid messaging effort: “We have to interrupt people’s regularly scheduled programming as a movement to get their attention…And we have to use all the tools that we can at our disposal in an ethical way, of course, to get their attention in the first place. And if that means using AI to simulate the voices of people that have been stolen by gun violence, then so be it.”
The Guardian quotes the AI-generated imitation of Oliver’s voice: “I’m back today because my parents used AI to recreate my voice to call you. Other victims like me will be calling too, again and again, to demand action. How many calls will it take for you to care? How many dead voices will you hear before you finally listen?”
Apparently, more than one voice of the dead is part of this gun control crusade, which also involves a group called Change the Ref, started by Oliver’s parents, NPR reported. According to that report, here’s another AI-generated remark from the slain teen: “I’m back today because my parents used AI to recreate my voice to call you. Other victims like me will be calling too, again and again, to demand action. How many calls will it take for you to care? How many dead voices will you hear before you finally listen? Every day your inaction creates more voices. If you fail to act now, we’ll find somebody who will.”
According to NPR, all of the messages will be found on the Shotline, described as “an online platform…where users can individually send the AI-generated audio directly to the offices of members of Congress, demanding further action on gun violence prevention.”
One is compelled to wonder whether members of Congress will be impressed by such messaging or offended. Does this effort cross the invisible line separating “clever” from “grotesque?”
https://www.ammoland.com/2024/02/morbid-messaging-ai-generated-gun-control-from-the-grave/#axzz8RpKFKpIw
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F is for False: Washington Post Fact Check Refutes Leading Gun Control Talking Point
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The Washington Post’s own fact-checker has weighed in on the matter and has grudgingly admitted that the statement is only true if “children” include adults. IMG NRA-ILA
It has become practically mandatory for any firearm prohibitionist to preface gun control rhetoric with the assertion: “Gun violence is the leading cause of death of children.”
It’s a favorite of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the White House Briefing Room, and just about every gun control advocate and anti-gun media outlet you could name (for example: here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, to cite merely a few examples).
As we have pointed out time and time and time again, however, it’s simply not true.
Now, the Washington Post’s own fact-checker has weighed in on the matter and has grudgingly admitted that the statement is only true if “children” include adults. “When you focus only on children – 17 years and younger –,” the Post article states, “motor vehicle deaths (broadly defined) still rank No. 1.”
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, the veracity of the statement depends on the meaning of what a “child” is. Gun control proponents arrive at their statement about “children” by including young adults aged 18 and 19 (and sometimes even older) in their datasets. As the Post article also notes, researchers additionally use different definitions of “motor vehicle death” to examine the issue of child mortality. Some count only crashes involving moving vehicles, while others count all vehicle-involved deaths, including those involving stationary vehicles and vehicles colliding with pedestrians. Only by using a narrow definition of “motor vehicle death,” a definition of “child” that includes young adults, and a broad definition of “gun violence” does the number of “children’s” firearm-related deaths exceed those of vehicle-related deaths.
https://www.ammoland.com/2024/02/false-washington-post-fact-check-refutes-leading-gun-control-talking-point/#axzz8RpKFKpIw
Donald Trump Is Blessed With the Very Best Enemies
As we are seeing unfold across the country in real time, Trump is truly blessed with the best enemies. For all of Trump’s bad luck, he is also aided right now by some very, very good luck.
By Josh Hammer
February 16, 2024
On the one hand, Donald Trump, the former and perhaps future president of the United States, seems uniquely hapless. He lost an election unlike any other before—one in which insecure mail-in balloting proliferated, many states made constitutionally dubious changes to their voting procedures, and Big Tech put a decisive and perhaps outcome-altering thumb on the scale. Even worse, Trump last year became the first former president to be criminally indicted—four separate times.
Tough luck, for sure. But on the other hand, there is one thing that should provide no small amount of solace to Trump and his many supporters. As we are seeing unfold across the country in real time, Trump is truly blessed with the best enemies. For all of Trump’s bad luck, he is also aided right now by some very, very good luck.
Consider some of the current biggest enemies of Trump as he marches through the Republican presidential primary and looks toward a general election rematch with President Joe Biden.
First, there is Biden himself. The nominal president of the United States is an indescribable embarrassment to the nation—physically corpse-like, palpably senile, chronically misinformed, utterly lacking in judgment, and generally clueless as to where he is and what words emanate from his mouth. He is a disgrace to his office, and it is a shocking public disservice that his wife and handlers even permit him to seek reelection in such a debilitated state. Special counsel Robert Hur’s report filed last week, in which he explained that one reason he is not recommending criminal charges against Biden is because he is mentally unfit to stand trial, is an astonishing open admission of the harrowing reality Democratic Party elites have frantically tried to hide.
Second, there is former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Trump’s final competitor in the Republican presidential primary. Haley is the very embodiment of all that was wrong with the pre-Trump GOP: She is a laissez-faire fundamentalist out of touch with Republican voters’ concerns and priorities, a strident neoconservative personally corrupted by the military-industrial complex (viz., Boeing), an enthusiast for mass immigration who is guided not by voters’ clearly expressed desire to close the border but by corporations’ desire to keep it open, and a coward when it comes to the righteous prosecution of the culture war against the forces of civilizational arson. Haley’s caricaturable nature makes her a perfect foil for Trump.
Third, there is Alvin Bragg, the Soros-funded lawyer in New York City now prosecuting Trump on the laughable grounds that “hush money” payments ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election amounted to falsified business records in furtherance of … well, something. Bragg’s indictment never actually stipulates what the records were falsified in furtherance of—and Bragg needs an additional crime in order to 1) overcome the falsified recording crime’s three-year statute of limitations and to 2) enhance to a felony what would otherwise be a mere misdemeanor. Bragg’s is a remarkably frivolous case, and the fact that this is how he expends prosecutorial resources in a metropolis now in the throes of a generational crime epidemic makes him another ideal foe for Trump.
Finally, there is Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, whose courtroom meltdown this week, and the likelihood that she lied in court about the timing of her extramarital affair with her own appointed special prosecutor have crystallized what already seemed likely: The Georgia prosecution, which once seemed the most dangerous of Trump’s four criminal cases, is imploding. Willis came across as highly unprofessional during Thursday’s hearing on her possible disqualification from the case. She snapped at Trump’s attorneys, and she was warned numerous times by the presiding judge. At this point, Trump’s Georgia case is not reaching a verdict before the election; the only questions are whether a trial commences at all and whether Willis ends up being the one to go to jail instead of Trump or his codefendants.
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It is often said that it is better to be lucky than good. Donald Trump could still be derailed by special counsel Jack Smith’s federal probe in Washington, D.C., and he is about to get smacked by an unjust verdict in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case. But everywhere else Trump looks, Lady Luck seems to be shining.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/16/donald-trump-is-blessed-with-the-very-best-enemies/
How Progressive Policies are Designed for Civilizational Suicide
Evidence now clearly establishes that moderate liberals should face reality and reject the policies of the progressive vanguard, leading them to civilizational suicide.
By John D. O’Connor
February 16, 2024
We all understand, in the timeless words of the poet Robert Burns, that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Most Americans are accustomed to assessing the various failed initiatives of our country’s leaders as well-intended actions that turned out badly. The Vietnam, Afghan, and Iraq wars, the 2008 financial meltdown, and the COVID pandemic overreaction, all in hindsight, can be viewed as simply the unfolding of human stupidity in the contingency of time.
In accordance, it is understandable that many are inclined to believe that our country’s current serious problems are, once again, merely the failed result of well-intentioned policies. But what if, we ask, seemingly fumbled programs were intended to be the initial throes of civilizational suicide? What if apparent missteps were actually directed at the purposeful destruction of a prosperous, free, safe, and secure society?
As we examine the policies pushed by the Biden administration progressives regarding climate, national security, crime, and the border, we can rationally conclude that they are being purposely implemented to render our society unsuccessful, not successful, in its traditional aims, causing what could be the ultimate destruction of a thriving, liberal enlightenment society.
Let us begin with escalating climate mandates, now reaching gas stoves and tires, seeking the total elimination of fossil fuels. Because our mainstream media, more out of reflexive conformity than malevolence, constantly amplify climate alarmism, most Americans believe climate programs are designed in good faith to protect us from planetary disasters. Climate subsidies are aimed, they are led to believe, at increasing prosperity through good “green” jobs in emerging “green” industries, all part of the supposedly improved “Bidenomics” economy, however counterintuitive many think them to be.
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When Biden, immediately upon assuming office, stopped issuing new drilling leases, canceled the Keystone Pipeline, and issued EPA regulations effectively shutting down multiple power plants in the near future, was he, however idealistically, trying to wean our country off of fossil fuels in favor of clean, “renewable” energy? If so, what could be wrong with that?
If the administration had calculated that lost energy from stifling fossil fuel sources could actually be replaced, these initiatives, even if overly optimistic, could be viewed as well-intended.
However, within the climate camp, it has been well known that fossil fuels, which power 82% of world energy needs, cannot conceivably be replaced by renewable energy to any substantial degree. So, as these policies take effect over the coming years, our hospitals and medical centers, relying on petroleum-based plastic furniture, fixtures, and equipment, energy-dependent stainless-steel implements, and high-power physical plants, will be hit hard. Health care costs will soar, while treatment will decrease to emerging society levels. Our food costs, already rising dramatically, will skyrocket as petroleum fertilizer, now tripling yields, becomes economically impractical. Housing costs, dependent on fuel-powered equipment and concrete and steel needing massive energy inputs to manufacture, will put homeownership out of reach for all but the rich and reduce housing to cramped, third-world levels. And, of course, transportation will become an expensive luxury for both people and products.
But isn’t this all meant well? For trusting, uncritical moderates and traditional liberals, yes. For the progressives pulling the strings, no.
Maurice Strong, the Canadian socialist responsible for steering the United Nations into the bureaucratic sinecures of the climate alarmist IPCC, has stated from the outset that his intention is the diminishment of the wealth of the Western industrialized nations, making them more like less-advantaged societies.
Although they tout their certainty, climate warriors conceal that for decades, their computerized GCMs (General Circulation Models) have overpredicted global warming by 300%. Well, they respond when confronted by the knowledgeable, the increased heat was swallowed by the oceans, or perhaps tamped down by those pesky aerosols. They know better, but gullible, well-intentioned believers do not.
Documents from a key IPCC research center in East Anglia, the GRU, reveal the fear of climate activists that the public will learn of the Medieval Warm Period and that its temperatures were warmer than today without any claimed assistance from carbon dioxide. Progressive climatologists, in essence, know they are pushing a canard.
Progressive border policies need little discussion. When Biden was elected, the country was led to believe that he would aim to control the southern border, but do so in a humane, non-Trump manner, no longer putting children in cages (which in truth and in fact were Obama-inspired).
Of course, to any rational observer, it is now clear that the massive invasion at our southern border was intended by progressives. The “great replacement” theory is not needed to prove this invasion intentional, obvious to any observer. Three-star New York hotels and thousand-dollar-a-month payments to migrants? Free health care? These are among the positive incentives to illegally migrate, revealing intentionality after the maligned Trump proved that the border was substantially controllable.
The intended result of mass migration is not just new Democratic voters; the most obvious result. It is, more significantly, a deliberately overwhelming burden on our social welfare system, heretofore supported sufficiently by taxes on a powerful economy. With more unemployment and more burdens on social welfare, the progress of the aspiring poor, primarily minorities, will be crushed. Our society is headed, as intended by progressives, to socialism, which, as Winston Churchill noted, has “as its greatest virtue the equal sharing of misery.”
Moving to national security, the tinderbox of the Middle East was not caused by Trump’s irrational temperament, which, in hindsight, has proven its deterrent value. Rather, putting Obama’s progressive policies on steroids, Biden both directly sent cash to Iran and also removed oil sanctions, giving the country financial power to fund Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and, of course, Iran’s own depredations on U.S. troops. Biden’s special Iran envoy, the pro-Hamas Rob Malley, and other pro-Iran and pro-Hamas officials influence our Middle East policy to intentionally favor our enemies.
But what could be the progressive motive for Iran’s hegemony in the Middle East? Clearly, it is to cause the demise of “right-wing” leadership in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, all American allies, so that the region will be controlled by anti-American repressive regimes. Interestingly, progressives revealed their anti-democratic, authoritarian roots by supporting Mullahs who kill members of the LGBT community and subdue women. Again, Iran’s terrorism is not an unfortunate artifact of balanced statesmanship. Rather, it is intended to exterminate a democratic Jewish society and a Saudi regime seeking to modernize itself. In a remarkable exercise in projection, progressives at the same time deem Trump to be a Hitler stand-in.
Similarly, the cause of increasing crime in our cities is no mystery. Progressives applauded, not decried, the George Floyd mayhem, largely an exercise in looting. Beautiful cities such as San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles, all run by progressives, have become dystopian hellholes.
So, sincere, well-meaning liberals should, but generally do not, see that they are being led like lemmings to the sea, toward civilizational suicide, by the progressives they have long trusted as being in the liberal leadership, not the socialist vanguard.
In the nineteenth century, the brilliant French observer of American culture, Count Alexis de Tocqueville, said that democratic despotism would be effectuated, if at all, not by overt state terror but by the infantilization of a trusting population. The evidence is now clearly established that moderate liberals should face reality and reject the policies of the progressive vanguard, leading them into civilizational suicide.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/16/how-progressive-policies-are-designed-for-civilizational-suicide/
Alexei Navalny, vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, dies in prison: Russian government
by Jon Haworth and Patrick Reevell – February 16, 2024
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/alexei-navalny-vocal-critic-putin-russian-government-dies/story?id=107286433
Missouri Republicans Shoot Down Gun Control Talk After Kansas City
By Tom Knighton | 8:29 AM | February 16, 2024
As soon as the news broke, we all knew that Kansas City would spark gun control discussions. Even before we knew exactly what happened, someone was going to start pushing for restrictions on our right to keep and bear arms.
It’s the inevitable result of a society filled with people who blame the tool, not the tool using it.
However, Missouri isn’t exactly a gun control mecca. They like their guns and they respect gun rights throughout most of the state. I mean, this is a state that’s been trying to nullify federal gun control.
But the voices are loud.
Republican lawmakers, however, don’t care how loud those voices get.
While the Kansas City Star wanted to seemingly mock Eigel for what he said–all because police were in the proximity–he wasn’t wrong.
The good guy with a gun thing isn’t a myth, but the problem is that you need enough of them so that there’s one present when something awful happens.
In this case, had one been in the crowd, close enough to the shooter, a lot of damage could have been prevented.
The police who were present probably wanted to get to the bad guy as quickly as they could, but note the language used. They were “near the rally.” They weren’t in it. They weren’t right there where they could do the most good.
Had an armed citizen been there, he or she might have done some good.
But that’s just a reaction to the gun control talk. What about action?
Undoubtedly, a lot of gun control bills are going to be introduced in the legislature, but so far, there’s not any signs that Republicans, including the governor who was at the rally, are inclined to support any of it.
This is the time when, if they were so inclined, Republicans would be tripping over themselves to talk about the need to have some kind of gun reform.
They’re not.
It should be remembered that two of the three suspects were juveniles, meaning they couldn’t lawfully own any kind of firearm at all. That suggests what happened had little to do with the lack of gun control but with a failure of gun control to do what proponents claim it does.
For what it’s worth, it looks like lawmakers in Missouri will be able to resist the gun control push. Things will settle down as people stop being irrational and upset over what happened and the state will go back to business as usual.
Which is good because gun control didn’t stop this and it won’t stop whatever is next.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/02/16/missouri-republicans-shoot-down-gun-control-talk-after-kansas-city-n1223849
Swing State That Passed Constitutional Carry Sees Decrease in Gun Crime, Dealing Blow to Gun Control Claims
by Samantha Chang, The Western Journal Feb. 16, 2024 9:30 am176 Comments
In a smackdown of gun control crusaders, six of Ohio’s eight largest cities experienced a drop in gun crime after the state allowed its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without a permit.
That’s the finding of a study by the Center for Justice Research, a partnership between the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Bowling Green State University.
In June 2022, Ohio’s constitutional carry law went into effect.
“In the year following, crime involving guns dropped across Ohio’s eight largest cities as a whole and in six of the eight individually,” the state attorney general’s office said in a Jan. 3 news release.
“Researchers analyzed data spanning from June 2021 to June 2023 — a year before and a year after the law took effect — focusing on crimes involving firearms, verified gunshot-detection alerts and the number of officers struck by gunfire,” the office said.
“The study showed significant decreases in the number of crimes involving firearms in Akron, Columbus and Toledo, and across all eight cities combined,” it said.
Parma had the largest drop in gun crime at 22 percent. The total decrease across the eight cities was 8 percen
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/swing-state-passed-constitutional-carry-sees-decrease-gun/
Case Against Assault Weapon Bans’
Second Amendment attorneys (and frequent Bearing Arms Cam & Co guests) Chuck Michel and Kostas Moros are veterans at challenging unconstitutional restrictions on our right to keep and bear arms in court, but their latest defense of our Second Amendment rights can be found in the Wyoming Law Review, where the pair offer up the “historical case against assault weapon bans.”
As the gun control lobby works to enact sweeping semi-auto bans at both the state and federal level (unsuccessfully, thankfully, in New Mexico this session despite Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s push to ban gas-operated semi-automatic rifles), Michel and Moros’s article is both a timely reminder that the generation of Americans who enshrined the right to keep and bear arms in our Constitution would never have accepted these infringements, as well as a wonderful bit of scholarship that will hopefully have an impact on court decisions going forward… including at the Supreme Court, where justices will soon consider multiple requests to take up “assault weapon” ban cases out of Illinois and Maryland.
We’ve seen several courts around the country conclude that AR-15s and other modern sporting rifles aren’t protected by the Second Amendment; they’re too similar to machine guns, that only arms most commonly used for self-defense are covered, and that any and all arms that could be useful in a military setting are beyond the scope of the right to keep and bear arms, to give just a few examples. As Michel and Moros argue, however, the national tradition of the right to keep and bear arms undoubtedly includes both the right of individual self-defense as well as the right to resist tyranny. “Simply put,” they write, “this Article examines American historical tradition to show that the commonly owned civilian firearms of the era that are also optimal in warfare are the most protected of all when it comes to firearm regulation.”
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/02/15/2a-attorneys-offer-the-historical-case-against-assault-weapon-bans-n1223847
The 3D-Printed FGC-9 Keeps Getting Easier To Build
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These days, gun control has a big problem on its hands: enforcement. In past decades, governments could control the flow of gun parts over borders to some extent, and then crack down on production internally. The cost of production and the skills necessary to produce weapons usually meant people needed to use the economy to share resources, which in turn meant gun production was easy to control.
The results were never perfect, as smuggling and illicit production continued, but almost nobody was making whole guns at home without giving cops an opportunity to bust them.
Now, things have changed. Additive manufacturing technology, encrypted internet communications and online design teams came up with weapons that just about anybody could build at home using unregulated materials and components. It started with flaky and dangerous designs like the all-plastic Liberator pistol, and then progressed until the FGC-9, a durable semi-automatic 9mm AR-like pistol came out.
As we’ve repeatedly covered here, the design has been popping up all over the world. Burmese rebels, the latest versions of the Irish Republican Army, concerned citizens in Taiwan and even an 18-year-old girl in Belgium have all been found with the guns. For every person caught with one, there have to be hundreds if not thousands of others who were a little smarter and didn’t get caught.
Another Barrier Falls
While the FGC-9 lowered the barrier to entry, it still requires some skill to build. Personally, I tried to build one and planned to write a series of articles on the topic, but with all of my family demands and other things competing for my time, I didn’t have time to get it all figured out (a bad nozzle was the biggest issue). Other skills that hold people back include the need for basic welding, tools to use electrochemical machining for a rifled barrel and more.
So, anything that can be done to cut back on skills will mean more proliferation and quicker death for global gun control.
The good news is that people have been working on that, and a new variant of the FGC-9 called the “Nutty 9” removes the need for welding. How? By using nuts from the hardware store and making the bolt ride in a hexagonal buffer tube instead of a cylindrical one.
You can find more information and photos here, but basically it’s just a regular FGC-9 that’s easier for anybody to build. Unless a country is going to try to regulate regular nuts and bolts from hardware stores as gun parts, it’s not going to be possible to stop an increasingly large number of people from building them.
If governments are smart at all, they’d take the opportunity to get ahead of this through legalization. If strict gun control laws are kept, they’re basically pushing all production into secret where they’ll have about no practical control or ability to influence the outcomes. If they legalize guns, they’ll at least have the ability to encourage people to get training and be responsible.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-3d-printed-fgc-9-keeps-getting-easier-to-build/
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Admiral “Rachel” Levine: “Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on black communities.”
I wish this was satire. It’s real.
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Democrats THREATENED Biden Crime Family Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski as He Confirmed Under Oath That Joe Biden is “The Big Guy” – Here Are Key Takeaways from His Testimony
by Cristina Laila Feb. 16, 2024 12:40 pm12 Comments
On Tuesday former Hunter Biden business partner, Tony Bobulinski testified before the House Oversight Committee behind closed doors in the House impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden.
According to the transcript released on Friday, Democrat lawmakers THREATENED Tony Bobulinski as he confirmed under oath that Joe Biden is indeed “The Big Guy.”
Recall that Tony Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the US Navy, was the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family.
Bobulinski has repeatedly stated that he met with Joe Biden numerous times to discuss Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/biden-crime-family-whistleblower-tony-bobulinski-confirms-under/
Senate Democrats Push Bill That Could Prevent Churches From Having Armed Security
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/02/16/senate-democrats-push-bill-that-could-prevent-churches-from-having-armed-security/
A female israeli (?) soldier is called “sharmuta” at 0m04, which is arabic for whore. The harasser then goes from hero to zero in a few seconds:
https://www.instagram.com/silwanic/p/C3Z-WgPI8As/
I posted wrong link. The video is here:
https://www.instagram.com/silwanic/reel/C3Z-UYcL3I1/
Tough guy lol.
Minnesota School District Allows Muslim Families to Opt Out of LGBTQ Curriculum
by Anthony Scott Feb. 16, 2024 1:20 pm419 Comments
Alpha News has reported the St. Louis Park School District will now allow parents to opt out of their children from any curriculum that promotes LGBTQ ideology.
The move by the district comes after the First Liberty Institute and True North Legal sent a letter on behalf of six Muslim families that stated forcing Muslims to learn LGBTQ lessons is a violation of the First Amendment.
The six families previously requested the school to notify them of when LGBTQ-centered lessons were being taught so they could opt their children out of those particular lessons.
In a statement, the Liberty Institute shared, “The St. Louis Park (MN) public schools are allowing several Somali American children to opt-out of sexually based materials being taught in English classes after the law firms sent two letters explaining how the district’s previous denial of opt-outs violated the First Amendment and state law.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/minnesota-school-district-allows-muslim-families-opt-lgbtq/
90 Year-Old Woman Fired from Volunteer Position She Held for 60 Years for Asking What Pronouns Meant (Video)
by Margaret Flavin Feb. 16, 2024 1:40 pm307 Comments
Fran Itkoff, 90, has volunteered for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) for over 60 years. But after expressing confusion and asking “what pronouns meant,” she was forced to step down from the organization.
Itkoff, who lives in California, is a Lakewood/Long Beach Self-Help Group leader. She was allegedly asked by an unnamed worker at NMSS to use her preferred pronouns. Itkoff replied that she did not understand the request
Itkoff spoke with Libs of TikTok, sharing, “I was confused. I didn’t know what it was and what it meant,” she said.
“Because it sounds like you are labelling for females, not males, if you are just putting in she/her.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/90-year-old-woman-fired-volunteer-position-she/
Snoop Dogg’s 44-Year-Old Brother Dies One Month After Rapper’s Daughter Suffers Stroke
by Cristina Laila Feb. 16, 2024 2:00 pm198 Comments
Snoop Dogg’s 44-year-old brother Bing Worthington has suddenly passed away.
Rapper Calvin Broadus, AKA, Snoop Dogg, made the announcement on social media on Friday.
The cause of death is unclear.
TMZ reported:
Snoop Dogg’s brother Bing Worthington has died … with his famous sibling commemorating him on social media.
Snoop posted a couple times on Instagram to honor his younger brother’s passing … sharing a pic of them in a dressing room and also posting a clip of him and Bing hanging out with their other brother, Jerry, in a cemetery.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/snoop-doggs-44-year-old-brother-dies-one/
The Supreme Court Could Permanently Break the Government. Liberals Have a Chance to Stop Them.
The administrative state is squarely in the high court’s crosshairs. But public pressure has successfully kept the justices from going over the brink before—and it might work again.
On January 17, the Supreme Court hosted oral arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo which, while over a hyper-technical legal issue, lasted more than three hours, drawing wide coverage from mainstream media. At issue was whether the court should overturn what’s become known as “Chevron deference.” Established as a precedent in a 1984 decision, Chevron v. NRDC, Chevron deference requires federal courts to “defer” to—that is accept without attempting their own interpretation—“reasonable” executive agency interpretations of governing statutes.
The consensus, following the oral arguments, held that the justices did seem likely to abolish Chevron. Liberals reacted to this prospect in near-apocalyptic horror, typified by the Center for American Progress, which put out a statement saying that “completely do[ing] away with Chevron deference [will be] existentially threatening.” Indeed, the argument seemed to indicate that at least three of the right-wing bloc—Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch—and, quite plausibly, as many as all of the remaining three—Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts—could wind up doing just that. (For his part, The New Republic’s Tim Noah came away unconvinced that Barrett and Roberts were locks to vote against the doctrine.)
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) EXPLODES After Judge Engoron Hits Trump with $364 Million Fine and 3-Year Ban in New York Civil Fraud Case, Says, “None of us could find a case like this!” Well, no one else has gone through this!!!!! WATCH
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“We Will Continue the Fight on Appeal!” – Trump Responds to Judge Engoron’s Verdict Ordering $350 Million+ Fine, 3-Year Biz Ban in New York
by Cristina Laila Feb. 16, 2024 5:20 pm263 Comments
Judge Arthur Engoron on Friday released his verdict in Letitia James’ New York City fraud trial against President Trump.
The judge made his decision in a 92-page filing.
Judge Engoron ordered Trump to pay more than a $355 million fine and barred Trump “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.”
Engoron claimed Trump and each of the defendants “participated in aiding and abetting the conspiracy to commit insurance fraud by their individual acts in falsifying business records and valuations, causing materially fraudulent SFCs to be intentionally submitted to insurance companies.”
“As detailed in the Findings of Fact, there is overwhelming evidence that each of these defendants made or participated in making a false statement in the business records of an enterprise, the Trump Organization, with the intent to defraud,” Engoron wrote in the filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were also ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines.
Eric Trump and Don Jr. were ordered to pay $4,013,024 each.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/we-will-continue-fight-appeal-trump-responds-judge/
Trump Reacts to Verdict in Civil Fraud Trial at Press Conference: “This is Russia, This is China… and It’s Happening Right Here in Our Country” (VIDEO)
by Jordan Conradson Feb. 16, 2024 7:20 pm92 Comments
Trump responded to New York Judge Arthur Engoron’s verdict while speaking to the press on Friday, slamming the judge as “not a respected man” and comparing the radical left Judge and New York Attorney General’s tactics to Russia and China.
The non-jury Soviet-style show trial played out in court for 11 weeks. Judge Engoron delayed the verdict to mid-February after he demanded information about possible perjury by Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg at the eleventh hour.
The fix was in.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Friday that Judge Arthur Engoron released a 92-page verdict, ordering Trump to pay a more than $355 million fine and barred Trump “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.”
video at site
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/trump-reacts-verdict-civil-fraud-trial-press-conference/
See Fani Willis’ entire defiant testimony in stunning courtroom moment