Posts on Friday, August 4, 2023
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) stated that people have negative views of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy because they haven’t gotten over their feelings from “the last year of the Trump administration, in which he did absolutely nothing to protect people from coronavirus.” Pritzker also blamed “the false rhetoric coming from the Republicans, who are pushing Facebook fakery.”
Co-host Poppy Harlow asked, “He’s just not resonating with voters on the economy. We have this new CNN polling out this week, 63% of folks disapprove of how he’s handling the economy, 70% disapprove of how he’s handling inflation.
Dershowitz: Jack Smith Could be Indicted
for Fraud for Omitting Trump’s ‘Peaceful’ Statement replies
for Fraud for Omitting Trump’s ‘Peaceful’ Statement replies
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says that under his own “fraud” standard, Special Counsel Jack Smith could be indicted for omitting a key portion of then-President Donald Trump’s speech in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.
The indictment charges Trump with four counts, including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” But in a portion recounting Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally, Smith repeats the errors made by House Democrats in Trump’s second impeachment trial: he focuses on Trump’s use of the phrase “fight like hell,” and omits a sentence highlighted by Trump’s defense team: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to pick apart former President Donald Trump's tough guy image, saying her rival looked like a 'scared puppy' during his court appearance Thursday.
Pelosi, who repeatedly clashed with Donald Trump during his presidency, offered her take on video images of Trump's historic arraignment on four charges related to his election overturn effort.
The California lawmaker, now called speaker emerita, ridiculed Trump hours after he pleaded not guilty after glancing at special counsel Jack Smith inside a federal courthouse.
Former President Donald Trump dined with Melania, Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo and her husband at his New Jersey golf club after his D.C. court appearance.
DailyMail.com can reveal that Trump took up his usual hosting duties when he returned to Bedminster with a double date on Thursday night.
Members went 'wild with love' and gave him a hero's welcome as he walked around saying 'hello' and shaking hands. He then sat down for dinner with the first lady, Bartiromo and her husband Jonathan Steinberg - just hours after pleading not guilty to four federal charges related to the 2020 election and January 6.
The Problem with Modelling
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The book, The Plague of Models: How Computer Modeling Corrupted Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulations by Kenneth Green, is banned by Amazon. [snip] The book is available at Barnes and Noble.
The Plague of Models is a wide-ranging attack on a broad spectrum of government regulation and policy, including alleged cancer-causing substances, air pollution, and doomsday predictions like global warming, acid rain, and the ozone hole. [snip]
Scientists want to generate important-sounding, even sensational results. They want to be famous and enjoy the benefits of higher social status. That desire leads to stretching or breaking the rules
On Friday morning, The Gateway Pundit published an explosive explosive video of Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor who was removed from office under pressure from then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. (snip) During our research on this video we found that the video was censored by YouTube. (snip) The Ukrainegate.info videos on YouTube were posted on January 28, 2021. This was a week after Joe Biden’s inauguration.
And the videos were already being censored. (snip) The videos are being censored by Google-YouTube. If you run a search on “Shokin video” on YouTube the video WILL NOT pop up. Google is HIDING THE VIDEO.
A 16,000-plus word interview with former President Barack Obama’s award-winning biographer has raised eyebrows for an assortment of reasons, ranging from his renewed allegation that Obama's first memoir was fictionalized to the observation he's as "insecure" as political rival Donald Trump. Tablet’s lengthy Q&A with historian David Garrow, who wrote the lengthy 2017 biography "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," has stunned social media with its various claims about the former president, who remains one of the Democratic Party's most popular and influential figures. The New York Times reviewed Garrow's biography as an "impressive if gratuitously snarly" book that "clearly intended to break the 44th president’s monopoly
During his arraignment on Thursday, Donald Trump was warned by Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya that he could be "held pending trial" if he violated the strict conditions of his release. The former president was allowed to return to his summer home in Bedminster, New Jersey, but only after agreeing to abide by the conditions agreed upon by prosecutors and the defense. Trump "must not violate federal or state laws; he must appear in court as required; he must sign an appearance bond; and he must not communicate about the facts of the case with anyone Trump knows to be a witness, except through counsel or in presence of counsel."
History provides examples of third-party presidential candidates swinging elections. Ross Perot denied George H.W. Bush a second term in 1992, running on the Reform Party ticket and garnering 18.9% of the popular vote. Bill Clinton won with only 43.0%. In 1980, Congressman John Anderson ran an incoherent candidacy yet captured 6.6% of votes. Reagan prevailed over Carter 50.7% to 41.0%. It is unclear if Anderson’s bid was engineered by Reagan’s campaign to split votes from Carter. Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 third-party run split Republican votes, yielding Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive leftist president.
Now comes RFK Jr. with a platform exhibiting substantial overlap with the MAGA agenda.
Now that Donald Trump has been indicted for using lies about the 2020 presidential election to seek to overturn its results, it’s become a matter of grave national concern that big majorities of Republicans apparently don’t think he was lying at all. A new CNN survey shows that 69 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents do not believe “Joe Biden legitimately won enough votes to win the presidency” in 2020. It’s worth asking what if anything might have convinced them to believe Biden’s win was legitimate, if only to establish what could happen differently in 2024 to avoid another contested Democratic win — if not an attack on the Capitol.
‘Full-on riot’ breaks out during Twitch
influencer Kai Cenat’s PS5 giveaway
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influencer Kai Cenat’s PS5 giveaway
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A riot broke out Friday afternoon during a social media influencer’s giveaway in Union Square Park.
Twitch gamer Kai Cenat scheduled the real-world meet-up at 3:30 p.m. and planned to give away PS5s, computers, microphones and other gaming accessories. (Photo) Influencer Kai Cenat is surrounded by the huge crowd as he arrives in Union Square. (Photo) About 1,000 kids flooded the park. (Photo) The riot broke out during a Kai Cenat giveaway. (Photos) Videos online capture the kids screaming and climbing on what appear to be vehicles.
Attorney Reveals the “Exculpatory”
Evidence Jack Smith Possesses that Exonerates
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Evidence Jack Smith Possesses that Exonerates
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It turns out that Special Counsel Jack Smith either failed to review evidence that exonerates President Trump and Mayor Rudy Giuliani or he ignored the findings altogether.
Tim Parlatore, the attorney for former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, told CBS News that Smith’s office has within thousands of pages of records turned over by Kerik that contains “exculpatory evidence.” The exact reason why Smith has not disclosed this critical information remains unclear.
According to CBS News, these documents were submitted to Smith on July 23.
Former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin is speaking out and revealing his side of the story after then Vice President Joe Biden demanded he be fired back in 2016. (Snip) At the time of his firing, Shokin was investigating corruption at Ukrainian gas company Burisma -- the same company that was paying Hunter Biden $80,000 per month to sit on the board. During closed door testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee earlier this week, Hunter Biden's former business partner -- Devon Archer -- said he believed Burisma would have gone under if not for the Biden "brand" -- including Joe Biden -- being attached to the company.
One of the best online fundraising days for Democrats this year was the day of Joe Biden’s campaign launch — but even that day’s haul was meager compared to his campaign kickoff four years ago.
That’s among the findings of an analysis of fundraising for the first half of the year through ActBlue, the party’s primary donation processor. Small-dollar giving at the federal level totaled $312 million in the first half of 2023 — a drop-off of more than $30 million compared to this point in the 2020 cycle. The platform also had 32 percent fewer donors in the second quarter this year compared to four years prior, although
Writing in Tablet Mag, David Samuels outlines his discussion with very well-respected historian David Garrow about Barack Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King, but mostly about Obama.
It is an intensely interesting albeit very long read, much of it drawn from a transcript of the conversation initiated by Samuels about the research Garrow did for his 2017 book on Obama called “Rising Star.”
The type of intense, deeply cited and granular research(snip) historians 50-years from now will be citing as they outline the legacy of President Obama. (snip) non-pretending analysis you will never see approved for conversation by those who currently maintain the false pretense of the subject.
The Obama Factor
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There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. In Dreams, Obama describes a passionate disagreement following a play by African American playwright August Wilson, in which the young protagonist defends his incipient embrace of Black racial consciousness against his girlfriend’s white-identified liberal universalism. As readers, we know that the stakes of this decision would become more than simply personal: The Black American man that Obama wills into being in this scene would go on to marry
Democrats are pushing for former President Donald Trump’s trial to be televised, as detailed in a letter to Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf, who serves as director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts as well as secretary to the Judicial Conference.
The letter, signed by well over two dozen House Democrats, requests that the Judicial Conference “explicitly” authorizes Trump’s criminal trials to be televised, asserting that it is crucial for the sake of transparency. Notably, Chief Justice Chief Justice John Roberts stands as the presiding officer (Snip) Signers included Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Dan Goldman (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and many more.
Sunday marks the 78th anniversary of the Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Three days later, we dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The Japanese warlords still voted 3-3 on surrendering. Intervention by the emperor ended the war and the Japanese told the allies it planned to surrender, which it did on September 2.
With the new movie Oppenheimer’s debut last month and the end of the teaching of American history in a positive light, lefties have resurrected the argument against using the A-bomb to end World War II.
Former President Donald Trump will make his first public appearance since he was arraigned in Washington, D.C. on Thursday stemming from a recent indictment alleging fraud and conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump, as expected, pleaded not guilty to the charges.The former president will be speaking in downtown Montgomery tonight at the Alabama Republican Party Summer Dinner, an event expected to draw a sellout crowd of over 2,200 people. Trump will be the sole headlining speaker at the event which is expected to run for roughly two hours.
An old video of Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor who was removed from office under pressure from then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, is making the rounds online again following the damning testimony of Devon Archer. This video was removed on Youtube.
In a detailed and extensive interview, Shokin has responded to allegations from the Biden regime, laying out his side of the story regarding the investigations into Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that once employed Hunter.
It is unclear when this video was recorded or published but includes his reaction to Biden’s accusations.
Rev. Al beclowns himself
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We all do it. Occasionally we say something monumentally stupid and look like an idiot. (snip) Rev. Al managed to put on display both his venality and his ignorance in one shining moment while commenting on Donald Trump’s 89th or so indictment this week. (snip) “We’re looking at American history”
“Can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power?” (snip) Now of course we all know that Rev. Al cares deeply about what our Founders thought about anything and everything,
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) requested answers from U.S. Prosecutor David Weiss to questions about whether Alexander Mackler, a former Biden lawyer, interfered in the criminal probe into Hunter Biden.
Mackler is Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) of Delaware and a former deputy counsel to then-Vice President Joe Biden. He also served alongside Assistant United States Attorney Lesley Wolf at the Delaware office, where Wolf worked on the criminal probe into Hunter Biden and allegedly prevented investigators from asking about “the big guy.”
IRS agent whistleblowers allege Wolf refused to allow investigators to ask about Joe Biden being “the big guy.”
Hunter's ex-best friend Archer revealed new details about his personal and business relationship with the president's son during the second part of Tucker Carlson's interview that was released Friday.
Archer addressed the toll that Hunter's struggle with his crack cocaine and alcohol addiction took on their 10-year partnership.
For the initial part of their business partnership Hunter was 'sober,' he said. So his addiction struggle 'wasn't apart of our relationship.'
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday night halting the enforcement of Illinois's new law targeting crisis pregnancy centers, sparking further tension in one of the few states in the Midwest where abortion faces few restrictions.
"This is a huge win for women and their families seeking assistance for an unplanned pregnancy, many of whom have nowhere else to go for help," said the plaintiff in the case, Thomas Glessner, president of the National Institute of Family Life Advocates. (snip) Johnston was appointed to the federal bench by then-President Donald Trump and was confirmed by the Senate in September 2020.
During an interview with Milwaukee’s TMJ4 News on Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris answered a question on demands for protections for the unborn at the point of viability while still allowing some abortion by stating that “the government should not be telling women what to do with their bodies.”
TMJ4 Chief Political Reporter Charles Benson asked, “Wisconsin has an 1849 abortion ban law in place after the Supreme Court decision was reached on Roe v. Wade. Prior to that, it was a 20-week ban on abortion. So, my question for you is, what is your position on protecting reproductive rights while those and others are saying they want some protection
Former President Barack Obama once wrote that he fantasized about having sexual relations with other men, biographer David Garrow said in an interview published on Wednesday.
The former president expressed his fantasies in a letter to a girlfriend at the time, Garrow told Tablet magazine in the interview. That letter has been redacted and is currently in the possession of Emory University, according to Garrow. The ex-girlfriend provided a copy of the letter, but had redacted one paragraph, Garrow told Tablet, who said she revealed the paragraph was about “homosexuality.”
I don’t know which is more discouraging: that the Mayor of Chicago actually tried this verbal flim-flammery or that the assembled media at his press conference didn’t erupt in laughter at his attempt to blackwash rampaging looters. He thought he could get away with it, and so far as one can see, he did. Watch this Grabien video, where Mayor Brandon Johnson says: "Johnson: “That’s not appropriate. We’re not talking about mob actions, I didn’t say that — hold on a second, okay. Respectfully, these large gatherings —“
Reporter: “That caused damage.”
Johnson: “— these large gatherings —just hold on a second, y’all. I promise you, we have time to talk.
Just Hours After Arrest in Washington
D.C., Trump Surprises Newlyweds at His
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D.C., Trump Surprises Newlyweds at His
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On Thursday, former President Donald Trump left his home in Bedminster, New Jersey, to make a court appearance in Washington, D.C., at US District Court. Upon arrival, he was placed under arrest, processed, and arraigned.
Appearing before Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, Trump pleaded not guilty.
Outside the courthouse, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba spoke to reporters, addressing the timeline of the President’s indictments. She strongly argued that every time allegations have arisen against the “Biden Crime Family,” the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden has indicted Trump.
“I think a witch hunt is really the way that anybody should describe this because it’s not something we’ve seen in our time,” Habba said,
Podcast host Joe Rogan said the U.S. Department of Justice’s multiple indictments against former President Donald Trump are the “actions of a banana republic.”
Rogan spoke about how the indictments against Trump galvanized his supporters.
“Yeah, and the people that love Trump, they feel like this is a witch hunt. And they feel like all the things he’s getting indicted for are bull**** anyway,” Rogan said. “Not only does it not work, but it kind of hardens their position that he’s being targeted. And these are like the the actions of a banana republic.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended former President Donald Trump in the wake of his new indictment related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Pompeo slammed President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday, accusing it of violating one of the country's founding principles
Handing Trump the Sword
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As the multi-year federal government cover-up of Biden family grifting collapsed, the Democrats, driven mad by their self-induced psychosis of Trump Derangement Syndrome, abandoned all rationality and common sense to double-down on their political persecution of Donald J. Trump.
He now has the right to argue in court -- for the first time ever -- that he told the truth about the 2020 Presidential election.
Until today there has been no court examination of relevant evidence on the legality of ballots counted and no court determination that the election was either fair or fraudulent.
So a Democratic Party operative has once again indicted Donald Trump on transparently foolish grounds. The result of the Democrats’ seeming obsession with Trump is that he continues to dominate headlines and suck up oxygen nearly three years after he lost the presidential race in 2020. This is truly extraordinary.
Did Jimmy Carter dominate headlines in 1983, years after he was thrashed by Ronald Reagan? Was Walter Mondale a fixture in the press in 1987, after being clobbered by Reagan in 1984? Were the papers full of commentary on Michael Dukakis in 1991, three years after he was obliterated by George H.W. Bush? How about John McCain and Mitt Romney?
Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. (Snip)
Harding campaigned on what he called “a return to normalcy” after the upheavals of World War I.
Normalcy meant reining in federal spending, and Harding established what became the Office of Management and Budget in the White House.
Normalcy also meant a restoration of civil liberties.
Wilson’s administration jailed critics of the war, including socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, who ran for president in 1920 while serving a 10-year prison term.
Harding commuted Debs’ sentence—and invited him to the White House.
That same day, Harding commuted the sentences of 23 others jailed by Wilson as well.
When Ron DeSantis got into a car crash last week, many couldn’t help seeing a morbid irony. The governor’s botched campaign launch set the tone for a spectacular fall from grace. DeSantis was supposed to be the alternative to Trump, the more “electable,” disciplined version who would rescue the country from Joe Biden. DeSantis is now barely scraping by in the double digits and struggling to reassure the wealthy donors who believed he was the key to taking the party back from Trump. On the campaign trail, DeSantis is awkward and unable to connect with voters. The “extremely online
"Trickle-down economics has never worked.”
That’s what President Joe Biden says any time he’s talking about economic policy. Assuming our Octogenarian-in-Chief knows what he’s talking about, he’s guilty of what psychiatrists call projection.
Because it’s Bidenomics that has failed everywhere it’s been tried. At home. Abroad. Throughout history. And right now in states across the U.S.
Earlier this week in our What We’re Reading column, we linked to a multitude of stories that had been published detailing how Biden’s approach to economic policy — high taxes, heavy regulation, attacks on the rich and businesses,
This may be one of Al Shaprton’s greatest hits.
Al Sharpton on Thursday weighed in on Trump’s latest indictment and appearance in federal court.
President Trump was arrested and arraigned at the Elijah Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in DC on Thursday on a new set of garbage charges.
Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Evidence of Biden Family corruption is now so blatantly obvious that even Democrats have stopped trying to cover it up.
Like a zit on their foreheads, they're just hoping no one notices.
'Is it fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father?' Congressman Dan Goldman asked Devon Archer, Hunter's former business partner, in a closed-door interview this week.'Yes,' said Archer.
Thanks, Congressman Dan.
He was our helpful guide walking us all through a veritable step-by-step of Biden Family international influence peddling.
An Iowa school district will review nearly 400 books that were flagged for depictions of sex acts and references to gender identity.
The Urbandale Community School District northwest of Des Moines will review 374 books to figure out whether they violate a new state law.The new law prohibits schools from purchasing books that depict sex acts and also prohibits teaching gender identity or sexual orientation to students younger than seventh grade.
Governor Kim Reynolds (R) signed the law in May, and it took effect on July 1.
President Joe Biden embraced the “Dark Brandon” meme in a video released on the same day that former President Donald Trump was arraigned on charges related to January 6.
“A cup of Joe never tasted better,” the president’s Twitter (X) account stated on Thursday in a tweet with a video of Biden drinking a cup of coffee from a mug bearing the “Dark Brandon” meme wedged between 2024. “I like my coffee dark,” Biden says in the video. He also provided a link to purchase the mug. (X Tweet/Video) “Dark Brandon, dark roast. Tea drinkers welcome. Purchase is a donation to Biden Victory Fund,”
Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America.
Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers.
Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home.
So far Joe Biden seems exempt from just such legal jeopardy. But as a senator and Vice President with no right, as does a president, to declassify files, Biden removed and, as a private citizen kept for years classified files in unsecure locations.
Biden’s team strangely revealed the unlawful removals after years of silence.
It did so because the Biden administration found itself in the untenable position of prosecuting the former president for “crimes” that the current president
Special counsel Jack Smith made history on Tuesday.
It wasn't just the federal indictment of a former president. Smith already did that in June with the indictment of Donald Trump on charges that he mishandled classified documents.
No, Smith and his team have made history in the worst way by attempting to fully criminalize disinformation by seeking the incarceration for a politician on false claims made during and after an election. The hatred for Trump is so all-encompassing that legal experts on the political left have ignored the chilling implications of this indictment. This complaint is based largely on statements that are protected under the First Amendment.