Judge Splits the Baby in Ruling on Fani Willis Disqualification

 BREAKING: Judge Rules Fani Willis Can Continue Trump Prosecution—But There's a Catch – PJ Media  . . ."McAfee ruled that Willis can continue to prosecute the former president and his co-defendants, but he has given the state multiple options to handle the case. All options involve Nathan Wade stepping away from the team.

“The prosecution of this case cannot proceed until the State selects one of two options,” McAfee wrote in his decision. “The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office, and refer the prosecution to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council for reassignment... Alternatively, (Special Assistant District Attorney) Wade can withdraw, allowing the District Attorney, the Defendants, and the public to move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from and potentially compromising the merits of this case.”

"Willis campaigned as an anti-corruption candidate in 2020 because accusations of sexual and financial wrongdoing surrounded her predecessor, Paul Howard. She declared to an interviewer that the people of Fulton County “deserve a DA that won't have sex with his employees [and] won't put money in their own pocket.” . . .

Judge Splits the Baby in Ruling on Fani Willis Disqualification (townhall.com)

Georgia DA Fani Willis can remain on Trump election fraud case, judge rules (nypost.com)  "District Attorney Fani Willis can stay on and prosecute the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election — if special prosecutor Nathan Wade steps aside, a judge ruled Friday.

"Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued the decision after deliberating for two weeks following testimony from Willis, Wade and others close to them.

"In the decision, he noted that the defense had produced evidence of “a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team.” . . .

U.S.-Israel Relations Are Teetering and Biden Is to Blame. How can Democrats not be affected by the following account?

 Opinion (msn.com)  

Senator Schumer, we beg you to read the excerpted account below! If these words do not make you clench your fists, you would have to be devoid of all humanity. The Tunnel Dweller

Hot DAMN! 'Cocaine Mitch' McConnell Is BACK, LIGHTS Chuck Schumer UP for Calling for New Israel Elections – Twitchy

And US liberals fault Netanyahu for being angry over this?  Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hearsWARNING: CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE.    "Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack told us they had seen multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.  

Video testimony of an eyewitness at the Nova music festival, shown to journalists by Israeli police, detailed the gang rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.

Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers.

Few victims are thought to have survived to tell their own stories.

"Their last moments are being pieced together from survivors, body-collectors, morgue staff and footage from the attack sites." . . .

Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony that they filmed of a woman who was at the Nova festival site during the attack. She describes seeing Hamas fighters gang rape a woman and mutilate her, before the last of her attackers shot her in the head as he continued to rape her.

Israel's Women's Empowerment Minister, May Golan, told the BBC that a few victims of rape or sexual assault had survived the attacks, and that they were all currently receiving psychiatric treatment. 

Videos filmed by Hamas include footage of one woman, handcuffed and taken hostage with cuts to her arms and a large patch of blood staining the seat of her trousers.

. . ."She goes on to detail how the men cut off parts of the victim's body during the

 assault.  "They sliced her breast and threw it on the street," she says. "They were playing with it."  The victim was passed to another man in uniform, she continues.  "He penetrated her, and shot her in the head before he finished. He didn't even pick up his pants; he shoots and ejaculates."  One man we spoke to from the festival site said he heard the "noises and screams of people being murdered, raped, decapitated". To our question about how he could be sure - without seeing it - that the screams he heard indicated sexual assault rather than other kinds of violence, he said he believed while listening at the time that it could only have been rape.  A statement he made through a support organisation describes it as "inhuman".

 "Eighteen young men and women have been hospitalised in mental health hospitals because they could no longer function," he said. Others are reportedly suicidal. One of those working with the teams around survivors told the BBC that some had already killed themselves. 

And members of the US left, including congressional Democrats have expressed no problems with what their people have done and continue to do! TD

Media Gaslight The Public About The Disastrous Biden Transcripts

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity. Over time, a gaslighter’s manipulations can grow more complex and potent, making it increasingly difficult for the victim to see the truth."

"Soon after the transcripts of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden were released, the mainstream press — as though handed talking points by the White House — said they weren’t nearly as bad as Hur had made them out to seem in his report.

“Paints a nuanced portrait,” says the Washington Post. “Transcript shows nuance,” says The Hill. “The interview transcript is more complicated,” says AP. “Shows memory lapses, but also detailed exchanges,” says NBC News.

"CBS News even dismissed evidence of dementia — “Biden appears to be reaching for words he cannot find. Twice, the phrase ‘fax machine’ eludes him, and he confuses Iraq and Afghanistan for Iran” — by saying that such “missteps appear to be common lapses for Mr. Biden who for years has struggled with names and dates in public speaking engagements.”

"So, you see, no problem here.

"But read the transcript yourself. It’s not “complicated,” or “nuanced.” As we suspected, it provides the perfect context for Hur’s contention that Biden is an old man with memory problems.

"For example, we counted 37 instances where Biden says “I don’t remember” during his interviews with Hur, and 26 times when he says “I don’t recall.” That’s a lot of nuance.

"The transcript also shows that Biden flat-out lied to the public about Hur bringing up Beau’s death, or that Hur asked him when he died. What actually transpired should be deeply troubling to anyone who cares about the nation." . . .

Judge DISMISSES three charges against Trump in Georgia election interference case as pressure grows on Fani Willis

  Daily Mail Online

FANIS WILLIS Political Cartoon added by TD

"The ruling comes as DA Fani Willis awaits a separate decision over whether she is disqualified from the case after revelations about her affair with prosecutor 

• The dropped charges relate to alleged solicitation of oaths of office
• Judge McAfee has said he'll decide this week whether to disqualify Willis 

"Former President Donald Trump has had three charges in his Georgia election case thrown out by the judge considering whether to disqualify Fani Willis. 

"Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote Wednesday in an order that six of the charges in the indictment must be quashed, including three against Trump. 

"But the order leaves intact many other charges in the indictment and the judge wrote that prosecutors could seek a new indictment on the charges he dismissed.

"The six charges in question have to do with allegedly soliciting elected officials to violate their oaths of office. That includes two charges related to Trump's infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, on Jan. 2, 2021 asking him to 'find' 11,780 votes.

"The surprise ruling comes at a time when McAfee faces a self-imposed deadline of this week to rule on whether to disqualify Willis from the case following bombshell revelations about her affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade." . . . 

The corruption runs rampant in Congress...

. . .Especially among Democrats. 

 Election Interference: Chuck Schumer Demands New Vote in Israel to Oust Netanyahu; Joel B. Pollak

. . ."Democrats have resented Netanyahu ever since he publicly opposed President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, which gave billions of dollars to the Iranian regime for its terror activities and would have allowed Iran to emerge as a nuclear power after roughly a decade even if it complied fully with the terms of the deal. Netanyahu has also opposed President Joe Biden’s proposal to establish a Palestinian state as the outcome of the current war, which was started by Hamas terrorists. Netanyahu has also pushed back against Biden’s warnings not to attack Hamas in the town of Rafah." . . .

Starting a war and losing doesn't make you a victim.

Poll: Netanyahu Tops Rivals as Biden Pressure Campaign Fails (breitbart.com)

Schumer pumps his little Democrat fists

Schumer Wants Netanyahu Ousted, Calls for New Elections in Israel – PJ Media  "I’m old enough to remember when Democrats expressed outrage over foreign countries allegedly trying to interfere with U.S. elections. But like everything else, foreign election interference is okay if they do it.

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on Israel to hold new elections because he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way.”

Sounding more like a pro-Palestinian protester than the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States, Schumer has become increasingly critical of Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas and will condemn Netanyahu in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday.

In prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press, Schumer says the prime minister has put himself in a coalition of far-right extremists and “as a result, he has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.”

“Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” Schumer will say.

" The speech comes as an increasing number of Democrats have pushed back against Israel and as President Joe Biden has stepped up public pressure on Netanyahu's government, warning that he needs to pay more attention to the civilian death toll in Gaza. The U.S. this month began airdrops of badly needed humanitarian aid and announced it will establish a temporary pier to get more assistance into Gaza via sea.

This move comes despite his Jewish roots and his past public support of Israel in the wake of the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas. In November, Schumer admitted that the rise in antisemitism in America after October 7 was coming from the political left." . . .

Biden was not - repeat NOT - exonerated

The more I see Congressional Democrats defending themselves, the more depressed I get over the integrity of the people we place in power. TD

Hur insists that he 'did not exonerate' Biden, repeatedly shuts down Democrat characterizations | Fox News  . . ."Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., also said Hur "exonerated him."

"But Hur pushed back."

"I did not exonerate him," Hur told Jayapal. "That word does not appear in my report."

When questioned about Nadler and Raskin’s characterizations of his report as an "exoneration," Hur fired back again.

"That is not what my report does," Hur testified." . . .

 Five key takeaways from the House hearing on Robert Hur’s Biden report | Joe Biden | The Guardian  . . . “You cannot tell me you’re so naive as to think your words would not have created a political firestorm,” said the Democratic congressman Adam Schiff of California. “You were not born yesterday. You understood exactly what you were doing.”

"Hur rejected that characterization, telling Schiff: “Politics played no part whatsoever in my investigative steps.”

"And yet, when Hur was directly asked whether he would rule out taking a position in the Trump administration if the former president wins the election in November, the special counsel would not do so.

“I’m not here to speak about what may or may not happen in the future,” Hur said." . . .

Here Are the Most Embarrassing Moments for Democrats During Hur’s Testimony – PJ Media   . . ."“I need to go back and make sure that I take note of a word that you used, ‘exoneration,’” Hur said in response. “That is not a word that is used in my report and that is not a part of my task as a prosecutor.”

" 'You exonerated him,” Jayapal insisted.  

“I did not exonerate him,” Hur explained. "That word does not appear in the report."

An embarrassed Jayapal then cut him off and insisted it was “her time."

Hur corrects House Democrat: ‘I did not exonerate’ Joe Biden - Washington Examiner   . . ."Jayapal observed that in Hur’s report, the special counsel wrote that “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.”

“So this lengthy, expensive, and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration,” Jayapal said, before diving into a question about specific statutes governing classified material.

" Hur took issue with Jayapal’s comment, asserting that he did not clear Biden’s name of all wrongdoing in the manner she had suggested.

“I need to go back and make sure that I take note of a word that you used, ‘exoneration.’ That is not a word that was used in the report, and that’s not part of my task as a prosecutor,” Hur said.

"Jayapal interjected, “You exonerated him.”

“I did not exonerate him,” Hur shot back. “That word does not appear in the report.” . . .

Do Only Suckers Buy EVs?

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)  

"The latest evidence that electric vehicles are nothing more than environmental snake oil can be found in a recent Wall Street Journal article pointing out that these “clean” cars are actually more polluting than their gasoline-powered brethren.

"By polluting, we mean actual pollution, not carbon dioxide emissions – which is not pollution but plant food.

"The Journal was highlighting a study from 2022 that, naturally, was ignored by the mainstream press at the time. What the study found was that “brakes and tires on EVs release 1,850 times more particle pollution compared to modern tailpipes.”

"Why? Because EVs are as much as 30% heavier than gas-powered cars, which means more stress on their “regenerative” brakes and much faster tire wear.

"Car buyers expect their tires to last 40,000 miles. But EV owners are finding that they last only 13,000 miles. Not only does that significantly increase the cost of ownership of an EV, but it also adds to air pollution.

"That’s because tire wear, in case you didn’t know, is a major source of “fine particulate matter” – often called soot – which the Environmental Protection Agency, in case you didn’t know, considers “one of the most dangerous forms of air pollution and it’s linked to a range of serious and potentially deadly illnesses, including asthma and heart attacks.”

"In fact, just days before the Wall Street Journal published that op-ed, the EPA announced new rules that sharply reduce acceptable levels of this form of pollution.

"So, here we have President Joe Biden’s EPA clamping down on allowable levels of soot while the same EPA is trying to force drivers into soot-producing EVs.

"Michael Buschbacher and Taylor Myers, writing in the Journal, point out that environmentalists are lying to the public about this while pushing for bans on gas-powered cars." . . .

The Temporary Pier and the Question of Why

"This example, in fact, proves what we have been saying about Hamas and the people of Gaza for decades: these people are impoverished because it serves their masters’ purpose to have them starve."

The Temporary Pier and the Question of Why - John F. Di Leo   . . ."But ever since Hamas’s horrific attacks on Israel on October 7 that started this long-needed police action, the global anti-Israel lobby has declared that they need another way to bring in humanitarian aid – one outside Egypt.  They need a seaport, they tell us, to bring in aid directly from the Mediterranean.

"Why?

"The answer is obvious.  The terrorists of Hamas and their fellow travelers have allies in Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Iran, and the United Nations.  Anyone else who might ship cargo to Gaza would – intentionally – have weaker security checkpoints than Egypt has.  

"There’s a reason, after all, why Israel hasn’t been allowing relief vessels to serve Gaza, and it dates back to long before October 7.  Israel has frequently caught weapons caches being smuggled into Gaza by sea in the past – always under the guise of humanitarian aid.

This isn’t Israel being mean or suspicious; this is Israel learning from experience, and acknowledging reality.

"If the West wants to get food, medicine, and beverages into Gaza, all they have to do is send it to Rafah, and Egypt will make sure it gets there.

"But Hamas doesn’t want Western food, medicine and beverages.  Hamas wants weapons." ...

A Pier for Gaza - Gerald McGlothlin   . . ."In conclusion, while the humanitarian crisis in Gaza undoubtedly requires attention and aid, the juxtaposition of the Biden administration's efforts in Gaza with its approach to domestic border security illuminates a contentious debate over policy priorities, on that any objective observer would conclude: that Biden loses."

Biden’s ‘Trojan Pier’ for Gaza | Frontpage Mag    "Six Americans are still being held hostage by Hamas, and Biden has sent no troops to help them, but at the State of the Union address, he promised to send troops to build a pier for Gaza.

"The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as 2 months laboring to build a floating pier in a war zone under potential attack to help transfer aid to the Hamas supporters living in Gaza.

"Nothing about this plan makes sense.

"The media has taken to falsely claiming that the Arab Muslims occupying parts of Gaza are starving. Vice President Kamala Harris attacked Israel, claiming that she had “seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed.” Social media videos however show the locals gorging themselves on shawarma and other foods in preparation for the Islamic period of Ramadan.

"But if the Biden administration really believed that Gazans were starving right now, what would be the purpose of spending two months building a pier to deliver aid? A program with a two month lead time will not help people who are starving right now. It would be a grim joke.

"And the pier plan only gets stranger from there." . . .

Biden bows to the anti-Israel left

 2015, Anyone? Biden Administration's Efforts Against Netanyahu Looked Doomed to Fail  

Of course, what Hamas really wants to do is be able to destroy Israel. They also broke the ceasefire that was in place before October 7 and the temporary pause that was in place late last November.  

. . ."As Cruz explained about the implications of the president's words, "he's bragging to a fellow Democrat about how he was threatening the Prime Minister of Israel" and that he said so "as a way to like beat the hell out of him." Cruz, who along with Ferguson is a Southern Baptist, pointed out that "if a Republican had said that the media would lose their minds."

" 'There is an offensive condescension, and understand what he means, the come to Jesus meeting," Cruz explained. "What he means is you stupid Israeli, stop killing Hamas terrorists. That's what he's saying. We're gonna force you, as a response to October 7, to allow the Hamas terrorist who murdered 1,200 Israelis, 1,200 Jews, who kidnapped Americans, who murdered Americans, we're gonna force you to allow them to create their own state where they can engage in acts of terror like this over and over and over again."

"Cruz highlighted how "it's the anti-Israel animus (Pictured above in part) in this administration and in, sadly, today's Democrat Party," which he said "keeps getting worse." Such remarks, he continued, show "this is how Biden talks behind closed doors. 'I'm gonna beat up these damned Israelis,' like that’s just terrific."

"Although Ferguson called it "shocking," he added, "it also goes hand in hand with him basically pandering to the extreme left, that is all about Hamas and supporting the terrorists and the Palestinian protesters that are supporting these terrorists who butchered children, who took hostage 80-year-old women, grandmothers and put babies in ovens to burn them for sport," as he spoke of some of the more heinous atrocities Hamas carried out. 

"Speaking of Hamas and their atrocities, Cruz pointed out what Biden didn't say. "He didn't say we will utterly and completely destroy Hamas. He didn't say, as Israel defends itself, we have your back. We are with you. You are right, we must destroy Hamas, we stand together. That's what a real American president would say. That's what an American president defending America defending our allies would say," the senator declared." . . .

Silence of the Feminist Lambs: Not a Word on Hamas Horrors

Those supporters of #MeToo said nothing.

. . ."Another long-time feminist (a friend, not merely an ally) is adamant that Israel is “committing genocide” and is an “apartheid, colonial, occupying state.” I told her that we cannot discuss Israel ever again. But now our conversations are thinned, brittle. There is no way we can discuss Oct. 7 without endangering our suddenly fragile friendship.

"Why are my views so different? Here’s one reason.

"Most Western pro-Palestinian feminists have never lived in a Muslim country or moved in Muslim circles, as I have — and still do. When I was young and oh-so-foolish, I traveled to Kabul with my Westernized Afghan husband, whom I had met at college. Once we landed, an airport official smoothly, officiously, removed my American passport; I never saw it again. I found myself trapped in the 10th century with no way back to the future." . . .

A feminist open letter justifies Hamas rape   . . ."There is just too much support for Israel for the framers and the signatories of this letter to bear. There were too many fact-based condemnations of Hamas’s sadistic barbarism on Oct. 7. The left-wing and lesbian feminists could stand it no longer. They finally had to speak out against what they call the “weaponization” of rape by those who dare to oppose Hamas. They do so, the signatories claim, in order to justify Israel’s “war against the people of Gaza.”. . .

The longer Palestinians keep the Israeli hostages the more one fears for their ever being normal once more. TD

Douglas Murray Reacts to Blinken Criticism of Israel "Undercutting" Palestinian State

Douglas Murray Reacts to Blinken Criticism of Israel "Undercutting" Palestinian State (youtube.com)  Comments to this video below.

 "Biden said Israel has to stop taking measures to undercut Palestinian self-governance. Douglas Murray responds."

"I am not tied to politics at all and I’m not a Jew but what Douglass is saying is pure logic. How can the world not see this[?]"

"If Anthony blinkin can get the Palestinian women to love their kids as they hate Israel, they will have peace. At first, you have to educate these women. Not to hatred."

360 degrees of hostility: The Biden administration and Israel

CarolineGlick.com

. . ."Three and a half months ago, when Biden came to Israel, most Israelis couldn’t imagine his warm embrace would transform into a torrent of hostile actions." . . .

"The Mothers of IDF Soldiers group led a demonstration last week of army mothers, reservists in the Israel Defense Forces, bereaved families and other concerned citizens outside the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. They demanded that President Joe Biden stop leveraging power to force Israel to resupply Hamas.

The following day, hundreds of Israelis, including parents of soldiers, families of hostages and terror victims gathered outside Ashdod Port. For hours, they blocked trucks laden with supplies for Gaza from exiting the port. Activists have been blocking trucks from entering Gaza via the Kerem Shalom and Nitzana border crossings for more than two weeks.

Speaking to the crowd in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, Shifra Shahar, who runs a nonprofit organization that cares for the needs of soldiers, addressed her remarks to Israel’s leaders:

“Government of Israel, defense minister, IDF chief of staff, get ahold of yourselves!

“We had elections last year. I don’t recall voting for [U.S. Secretary of State Antony] Blinken! Blinken is sitting in the war cabinet and protecting the interests of my enemy. … We have sons in Gaza. We have sons fighting. The entry of the trucks endangers them, prolongs the war, increases the number of casualties and delays the return of the hostages!

“They tell me, ‘There are constraints.’ He who is constrained doesn’t win the war.

“They tell me, ‘The Americans are threatening not to provide us with ammunition.’

“To this, I say, if we were besieging them, we wouldn’t need ammunition! The war would end. They’d be screaming for help, returning the hostages and the war would end!”

"The rising expressions of rage at the Biden administration from ordinary citizens are a testament to the shock and anger Israelis feel at what they perceive as a betrayal of Israel’s most basic interests by Biden and his top advisers." . . .

VDH: Hamas and Hezbollah think the U.S. will not help Israel - CarolineGlick.com  "On this week’s episode of “The Caroline Glick Show,” my guest was noted American classicist, military historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institute at Stanford. Prof. Hanson and I talked about the state of American politics and culture, and how it will affect the Middle East and Israel. Will the progressive takeover of American educational, political and military institutions continue to erode U.S. support for Israel? Should Israel supporters just wait in the hopes that a pro-Israel president like Donald Trump will win the presidency? How should Israel react to American foreign policy?"

Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization

 Heather Mac Donald - Imprimis (hillsdale.edu)

In the post-George Floyd era, black juveniles are shot at 100 times the rate of white juveniles. Blacks between the ages of ten and 24 are killed in drive by shootings at nearly 25 times the rate of whites in that same age cohort. Dozens of blacks are murdered every day, more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are just 13 percent of the population. The country turns its eyes away. Who is killing these black victims? Not the police, not whites, but other blacks.

"The most consequential falsehood in American public policy today is the idea that any racial disparity in any institution is by definition the result of racial discrimination.

"If a cancer research lab, for example, does not have 13 percent black oncologists—the black share of the national population—it is by definition a racist lab that discriminates against competitively qualified black oncologists; if an airline company doesn’t have 13 percent black pilots, it is by definition a racist airline company that discriminates against competitively qualified black pilots; and if a prison population contains more than 13 percent black prisoners, our law enforcement system is racist.

"The claim that racial disparities are proof of racial discrimination has been percolating in academia and the media for a long time. After the George Floyd race riots of 2020, however, it was adopted by America’s most elite institutions, from big law and big business to big finance. Even museums and orchestras took up the cry.

"Many thought that STEM—the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—would escape the diversity sledgehammer. They were wrong. The American Medical Association today insists that medicine is characterized by white supremacy. Nature magazine declares that science manifests one of “humankind’s worst excesses”: racism. The Smithsonian Institution announces that “emphasis on the scientific method” and an interest in “cause and effect relationships” are part of totalitarian whiteness." . . .