Alvin Bragg against Trump and "White Man" Marine, Daniel Penny

 “Next year, the Manhattan DA will be up for reelection, with the Democratic primary in June. He deserves a serious challenger,” we argue. “So does New York.” Madeleine Kearns

Can't Let Go: New York's Crusading Anti-Trump AG Letitia James Refuses to Drop Civil Fraud Case  . . ."Letitia James joins Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the company of “New York’s worst people.” They politicize the justice system and divide the citizenry. This type of lawfare, and people like James, are exactly what voters made very clear in the November elections that they are sick and tired of."  Next comes the usual "hey-hey, ho-ho" schtick

Bragg was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read nor did he argue the case at trial. He directed his underlings to do most of the dirty work.   ..."Assistant district attorney Jillian Shartrand repeatedly referred to Penny as "the white man" in front of the jury in an apparent effort to racially charge the case. At the outset of trial, the prosecution tried to control what witnesses could say about Penny, particularly how they were allowed to characterize him in court. Assistant DA Dafna Yoran said witnesses shouldn't be permitted to praise Penny as a "hero" or "good Samaritan."  Only as "the white man". TD

Daniel Penny’s Innocence—and the Shame of Alvin Bragg   . . ."Bragg’s approach to enforcing the law—or rather, not enforcing it—has been a disaster, as has been true of every city that voted in a so-called progressive prosecutor. As of November 2024, according to the New York Post, there were 27,122 reported felonies, up 16.9 percent from before Bragg took office. Meanwhile, rape has jumped 7.4 percent across Manhattan, robbery 8.9 percent, felony assault 16.8 percent, and grand larceny 29.8 percent. These are crimes that overwhelmingly affect the poorest New Yorkers."

Who cares about BLM? 

. . .Dropping the manslaughter charge at the request of Alvin Bragg and his chipmunks was supposed to render a guilty verdict on the lesser-and-included charge. It failed.  Pressure from BLM and the media also failed." . . .

Eye-Opening Arrest: Luigi Mangione Detained in Nation-Rocking Shooting, Dragging Political Family Into Scandal

Wayne Dupree    "Key Takeways:

• Luigi Mangione was detained for his role in a major shooting, drawing media attention and impacting his cousin, Maryland State Delegate Antonio ‘Nino’ Mangione.
• Media outlets, including Fox News, questioned Nino’s inaction and stressed vigilance within personal circles.
• Luigi’s capture, thanks to an alert McDonald’s customer, raises concerns about its impact on Nino’s political career.

"Authorities detained Luigi Mangione on suspicion of his involvement in the recent nation-shaking shooting, which negatively impacted his family’s reputation, especially that of his cousin, Maryland State Delegate Antonio ‘Nino’ Mangione.

"​​​​​​​This incident has sparked a flurry of media attention, bringing to light the unexpected connection between a high-profile crime and a political figure. As investigators continue to unravel the details of this case, questions mount regarding the dynamics within the Mangione family and how such a significant oversight could occur." . . .

Maryland Del. Mangione related to suspect in health care CEO’s killing

"Antonino D. Mangione (born April 1, 1987) is an American politician from the Republican Party who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 42A since 2023, and District 42B from 2019 to 2023. He also served as a Baltimore County co-chair for the state's Trump Victory Leadership County team. ^{. . ."}

^{Ladies of "The View" will love this!}  Pictured: Nino Mangione, Luigi’s cousin and a Maryland politician, released the family statement Monday night

Luigi Mangione’s prominent relatives ‘shocked and devastated’ by his murder arrest | The Independent  "Luigi Mangione's family couldn't merely afford medical care. They could afford to donate more than $1 million of their own money to healthcare.

"That’s according to a report Monday from The Baltimore Banner, which chronicles the wealthy family history of the man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

"Following the news of Mangione’s arrest Monday, his family released a statement saying they were “shocked.”

" 'Unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding Luigi Mangione,” said the family in a statement posted on X by Luigi’s cousin Nino Mangione, a Republican member of the lower house of Maryland’s state legislature. “We only know what we have read in the media.”

"He noted: “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest. We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson, and we ask people to pray for all involved.”. . .

Vox Media Drops Taylor Lorenz Amid Backlash Over Controversial Healthcare Comments  

"However, Lorenz’s online behavior has continually attracted scrutiny and criticism, casting a shadow over her professional achievements. Her recent comments on social media regarding the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson have sparked intense debate and backlash."

The ‘Tolerant’ Left Sure Does Like Assassinations

Issues & Insights

 . . ."And who hates America? Oh, right, those on the left."

They all have a manifesto, don't they?

"A manifesto recovered from the alleged shooter of UnitedHeathCare CEO Brian Thompson says that “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

This is music to the ears of many on the left, who cheered when they learned that Thompson had been gunned down and are treating the shooter as some sort of folk hero.

“Social media users have sometimes outright gloated at the killing,” is how The Hill put it, describing it as an expression of “populist rage” and then spending the rest of the article trying to obliquely pin the blame on Donald Trump.

"The Atlantic dismissed the “mockery and disdain” of the cold-blooded murder as an “expression of widespread fury at a broken system.”

"Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz reposted an article about how Blue Cross Blue Shield will no longer cover anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries, adding, “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.”

“ 'Saturday Night Live” joked that “it really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood and the two main reactions were, ‘Yeah, well health care stinks!’ And also, ‘Girl, that shooter hot.’ “

"If this reminds you of anything it should. Because the same cast of miscreants cheered the would-be assassin of Donald Trump as well.

"In fact, the only problem they could find was that the shooter’s aim was off.

"The left had effectively been calling for Trump’s assassination for years. Every time they described him as a “threat to democracy,” compared him to Hitler, and said that he had to be “stopped at all costs,” it was a call to action that at least two would-be assassins heard.

"Is this sort of bloodlust confined to the left? Of course not. But if you follow the pundit class, you’d believe that it’s entirely contained on the conservative side of the spectrum.

"The truth is that leftists are far more prone to want to murder their opponents because they’ve been infected by the Marxist-power-struggle virus, which leads them to think that the murder of a political opponent is always justifiable homicide.

"In the case of health care, the left will never be satisfied until the government controls the entire system, soup to nuts, with Sen. Bernie Sanders making decisions about which patients live or die. If that means sacrificing a few health insurance CEOs on the road to this socialist Nirvana, so be it." . . .

"In the midst of this sickness, there were some voices expressing common sense.". . .

MSNBC's race lady Joy Reid: Mad at UnitedHealthcare? Voted for Trump? You voted for U.S. to be run like UnitedHealthcare  Only Joe Biden, in his speeches, cried harder for the killing of Republicans. Since John Wilkes Booth, I'd say. TD

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to appear in pro-transgender Broadway musical

Andrea Widburg

  . . ."However, a judge should not participate in extrajudicial activities that detract from the dignity of the judge’s office, interfere with the performance of the judge’s official duties, [or] reflect adversely on the judge’s impartiality..."

"[Ketanji} Brown Jackson may not know what a woman is, but she knows what it is to go to bed one night as just an ordinary Supreme Court justice and to wake up the next day as a Broadway star. Yup, she’s hitting the Great White Way (or, maybe, in her case, the Great Black Way) to fulfill a childhood dream: taking a turn in a Broadway musical.

"Interestingly, the particular musical she’s chosen, “& Juliet,” is a tawdry pro-transgender show. I think we can now guess how Jackson will vote on Tennessee’s “no ‘gender-affirming’ care on minors” law.

"The Hill reported Jackson’s dream come true, including offering an anodyne description of this particular musical:

The 54-year-old justice will appear in a walk-on role in the Broadway musical comedy “& Juliet” on Saturday night, the production and a Supreme Court official confirmed Monday.

[snip]

“& Juliet” is a modern take on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” in which the female protagonist “ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second change [sic] at life and love — her way,” according to a promotional site. The musical features ’90s and early aughts pop songs from the likes of Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Clarkson.

"An updated take on Romeo and Juliet sounds fairly innocent, but don’t be fooled. This is yet another Broadway show that is really an homage to deviant sexuality, particularly so-called transgenderism. Here’s my trimmed-down version of Wikipedia’s minute plot description:" . . .

Trump will reverse Biden’s Israel delusions and bring an era of Mideast peace

Israel deserves better allies than Carter, Obama, and Biden. TD

 Caroline Glick  

. . ."Biden and his team have blocked Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear installations, arguing that such a strike will cause a regional war that will force direct US military involvement. Trump recognizes that by attacking Iran’s nuclear installations, Israel will end the regional war that has been raging for 400 days — and enable the United States to stay out of the hostilities." . . . 

"On Sunday, Israel reportedly killed Hezbollah terror boss Ali Musa Daqduq in Syria, bringing a measure of justice to the US military’s Iraq war veterans.

"In 2007, Daqduq and his underlings infiltrated a US base in Karbala, Iraq, killing one soldier and kidnapping — and later brutally executing — four more. CENTCOM sources on Monday expressed confidence that Daqduq had in fact been slain.

"Israeli forces have killed hundreds of terrorists with American blood on their hands since Iran launched its seven-front war against the Jewish state last year.

"Yet their achievements have made President Biden and his advisers uncomfortable — because they expose the truth that the Biden team has refused to countenance.

"Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies. And when Israel defeats its enemies, America wins.

Biden and his team are not alone in their discomfort. For over 30 years, the US foreign policy establishment produced one failed policy after another, because its members collectively refused to reconcile themselves to the fact that Israel is America’s greatest ally in the Middle East.

"Instead, they all insisted that Israel is the source of regional instability and that the only way to forge peace was for Israel to appease its enemies — all of whom seek its annihilation.

"Since that is a self-evidently impossible goal, all of those efforts failed.

"Cycles of US-induced appeasement, instability, terror and war led to further US-induced appeasement, and the pattern circled on and on and on.

"Donald Trump is the only US president in the past 30 years who insisted that reality be his guide.

"His willingness to recognize Israel as America’s greatest regional ally enabled him to see that the more powerful Israel is, the less America has to do. Conversely, the weaker Israel is, the more America has to do.

"For his part, Benjamin Netanyahu is the only Israeli leader in the past generation who has refused to play along with the delusions of America’s elite.

"Only Netanyahu has refused to accept blame for the pathologies of Israel’s enemies. He alone has refused to empower them for fear of unpleasant confrontations with Washington." ..

Full article here...

"Without their nuclear installations, their terror proxies or their oil revenues, and faced with an American administration committed to standing with Israel, Iran’s jihadist regime will soon lose its grip on power. The long-suffering Iranian people will finally be in a position to overthrow and replace the ayatollahs. With the threat of Iran removed, and Israel the unquestioned victor in the war, Trump and Netanyahu will usher in a new era of peace." 

 

. . .Glick is the adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and directs the Israeli Security Project at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. She travels frequently throughout the world to brief policymakers on issues related to Israel’s strategic environment and other related topics. She lectures widely on strategic and political issues affecting global security, Israel and the Jewish people, US-Israel relations, Israel-Diaspora affairs and Israel’s changing strategic landscape."