Friday, April 19, 2024

The NY Trump trial; the ball begins.

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

The trouble with Trump’s jurors shows the results of a post-truth society - Andrea Widburg    . . ." I’m also not talking about the judge having a daughter who is a highly-placed anti-Trump activist raising money off the trial. Instead, this post focuses on one specific thing: The fact that it is impossible for Trump to have a fair jury in this corrupt trial.

"The lack of fairness begins with the fact that Trump is the most famous man in the world, and he is running for president. There is literally no one on earth, unless they have the awareness of a potato, who doesn’t have an opinion on the case, and who doesn't understand that its outcome will affect the election.

"There’s another fascinating and mostly unspoken lack of fairness here: The judge did something very unusual, which was to make Wednesday the day off from the trial rather than Friday. By doing so, he effectively barred from the courtroom the single most pro-Trump demographic in New York; namely, Orthodox Jews:

Orthodox Jews to be exclused from Bragg's jury pool. The NYC demographic group most strongly supportive of Trump is the orthodox Jewish community. So, no surprise that the very biased judge in Bragg's case scheduled the trial to include Fridays instead of Wednesdays. Very unusual, but understandable since this switch will necessarily exclude all orthodox Jews from the jury pool. 

LIVE UPDATES: Trump Manhattan Trial - Day 4 – RedState  . . ."Here's a rundown of the seven men and five women selected thus far — fair to say there are some who aren't particular fans of the former president, though some seemed to admire his business success and his bluntness." . . .

Meanwhile down in Georgia... Yes, Ms. Willis, You Are On Trial – In The Court Of Public Opinion – Issues & Insights   . . ."But you are also deservedly on trial in the court of public opinion based on an even bigger abuse than hiring your boyfriend: your outlandish, outrageous, and out-of-bounds misapplication of an anti-racketeering statute to target a former president for exercising his First Amendment rights to question a highly questionable election result.

"Along with 18 co-defendants, one of whom heroically put his life on the line in deploying the federal version of the same statute as intended, against five New York City mob families – a defining moment in a career as distinguished as yours is apparently now extinguished.

"How abusive is your unprecedented RICO indictment, which sweeps in non-criminal actions outside the state of Georgia, much less Fulton County? Convictions would reportedly result in mandatory five-year sentences with no possibility of pardon or parole under Georgia law.

"Moreover, Madame District Attorney, you’re not the only one on trial in this respect. The last few weeks’ news underscores how an entire cohort of Trump tormentors is deservedly in the people’s dock.

"For the equally unparalleled stretching of another state’s anti-consumer fraud statute to cripple Trump and his family financially through a half-billion dollar fine, despite no victims in sight." . . .

Trump's hush money trial now has its 12 jurors | AP News  "The first-ever trial of a former American president is unfolding in New York during this year’s race for the White House, meaning the presumptive Republican nominee will spend his days in court confronted by salacious and unflattering testimony about his personal life while simultaneously campaigning to reclaim the office he held for four years.

" 'He’s made clear his determination to use his legal jeopardy, already a central issue in the race against Democratic incumbent Joe Biden, to his advantage. After a full day of jury selection, he complained to reporters that he should have been out campaigning but was in court instead for what he said was a “very unfair trial.”

“ 'Everybody’s outraged by it,” he said. “You know the whole world’s watching this New York scam.” . . . 

"The trial centers on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, made to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the final days of the 2016 race.

"Prosecutors say Trump obscured the true nature of the payments in internal records when his company reimbursed Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2018 and is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution." . . .

AF Branco - Townhall

Show this to your friendly pro-Hamas protestor

 New Video Shows Israeli Hostage Yarden Bibas Being Brutally Beaten by Gazan “Civilians” on October 7 (legalinsurrection.com)   "A newly surfaced video shows missing Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas being brutally beaten by a crowd of Hamas supporters and driven into Gaza on a motorbike on October 7.

"The 40-second footage shows a frenzied mob beating and punching Yarden. The blood-soaked 34-year-old man, who’s wife and two kids were also taken captives by Hamas, is seen paraded though the triumphant crowd of Gazans as they appear to shout ‘Allahu Akbar’.

"Yarden is father of the youngest Israeli hostage in Hamas captivity. He was separated from his 32-year-old wife Shiri, and two young sons; 11-months-old Kfir, and 4-year-old Ariel. The family of four was abducted by Hamas terrorists from Kibbutz Nir Oz, when they stormed their tiny community in southern Israel."

. . ." Despite conflicting claims made by Hamas about their well-being, relatives are still hoping for their return. In recent month, Hamas has been refusing to handover the names of the living hostages in its custody, suggesting that most of them may have been murdered by the Gaza-based terrorists.

"The Israeli news website YNET reported Wednesday:

In the harrowing footage, he’s seen surrounded by terrorists beating and shouting at him, being led by another armed terrorist riding a motorcycle. At one point, the video cuts off – and then starts again, with Bibas’s head and face covered in blood.

President Issac Herzog shared the disturbing video on his X account. “The world must not remain silent in the face of such crimes,” he wrote.

In February, the IDF made public a security video in which Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, are seen, apparently in southern Gaza, on the day of their abduction, on October 7. In the video, the three are seen alive, but it is unclear what their condition is now, 194 days after their abduction." . . .  

"Hamas claimed at the end of November that Shiri and her two children were no longer alive. The terror organization didn’t provide any evidence to back their claim, leading Israel to reject them. Later, Hamas even released a video of Yarden from captivity, allegedly after being informed of their death. (…)"The video not only reveals the widespread complicity of Palestinians in the October 7 massacre, it also exposes how deeply the so-called Gaza journalists were embedded in the Hamas-led terrorist operation. Some of these ‘journalists’ and ‘photographers,’ who drove in with Hamas on October 7, were awarded international prizes for their coverage." . . .

Meltdown Joe begs you to love the US military

Useful Idiots*

A screaming MSNBC tirade for anyone not happy with the military industrial complex 

“AMERICA IS STRONGER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER BEFORE!” yells Morning Joe at an uncomfortable panel of MSNBC pundits. He is LIVID with Fox News for their Hate America First propaganda, when they should be celebrating HOW STRONG WE ARE!

(If that seems like an exaggeratory amount of caps lock, wait until you hear how loud Joe’s pro-military sermon is.)

"But while Joe Scarborough is fuming at Fox News for their fake reasons to be angry at America, what all of these corporate pundits are missing is that America really does have problems. As we’re bombing the rest of the world, breaking up peace talks, and blocking ceasefires with our impressive military, US citizens are suffering the highest rates of poverty we’ve ever seen – homelessness and suicide rates are up, healthcare is increasingly unaffordable, and more than half the country can’t afford to pay their rent.

"So as Morning Meltdown Joe berates his audience with why America is the greatest it’s ever been, we take a look at what is actually going on under the watch of our powerful country.

"In the House, an overwhelming majority of representatives just voted to ban the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” because apparently equality for oppressed people is antisemitic. In the Senate, Chuck Schumer accidentally admits that the US’s proxy war in Ukraine was a complete failure and caused the deaths of huge numbers of Ukrainians, all while arguing we need to fund the war even more.

"Congressmembers Raskin and Gottheimer are each finding ways to blame Russia for anything wrong in the US (and yes, using that to argue for more weapons money), and a CNN host attacks Cornel West with pre-written questions from the IDF." . . .

*Useful idiot - Wikipedia  "useful idiot or useful fool is a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically being used by the cause's leaders.[1][2] The term was often used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and psychological manipulation.[1] A number of authors attribute this phrase to Vladimir Lenin, but this attribution is not supported by any evidence. Similar terms exist in other languages." . . .

'Death To America' seems to have a nice ring for Democrats

 

From the parodigal son: Biden Unveils Official Campaign Slogan 'Death To America' | Babylon Bee  . . ."According to sources within the campaign, Biden began considering the slogan after hearing his supporters organically chanting "Death To America" at his speeches. "Nothing fires up a Biden crowd like calling for the violent destruction of the United States," said campaign manager Steve Roscoe. "It's like how whenever Trump needed to juice the crowd in 2016, he would start saying 'Build The Wall'. For Biden, it's 'Death To America'. That really sends the crowd into a frenzy."

"After weeks of considering alternatives such as "Allahu Akbar" and "From The River To The Sea", Biden chose "Death To America" for its inclusive messaging. "It's a big-tent slogan that encapsulates the heart of the Democratic Party," explained Roscoe. "Maybe you want to bankrupt America through entitlements - death to America! Maybe you want to murder the next generation in the womb - death to America! Maybe you want to brainwash children into a suicide cult that amputates healthy organs - death to America! Maybe you're an Islamist terrorist that want to literally bring about the deaths of Americans - death to America! Everyone who wishes the destruction of this country is welcome in the Democratic Party."

 Oh, the troubles we have from poorly educated kids with no original thoughts.  As posted yesterday: simple tools for evil people. Dig through the piles of anti-Trump actions you find these people financed by George Soros.

Oops! Zhe Did it Again: Trans Wacko Planned Another School Shooting

Kevin Downey Jr – PJ Media


. . ." So Ye couldn't be bothered to buy a mask and spend some time building a bomb to slaughter kids. Thank God.

"As expected, Ye is a self-centered maniac who feels "victimized" and believes killing small kids it acceptable.

"More from Ye:

I have also considered shooting up my former elementary school because little kids make easier targets. And, I run the risk of getting attacked or tackled midway through with high schoolers. I also hated elementary school. The teachers were evil and the other students were little assholes. I always got in trouble and had to sit out during recess. The other kids would pretend to be my friends but make fun of me to my face. It would be the perfect revenge.

 "For those of you who read my articles, you will understand that I am a former liberal, but I can not, and would never, condone these beliefs.

"Ye's victimy BS is a joke. The left sells victimhood, even to the privileged, and I find it nauseating.

"Like most trans folks, Ye just wants attention:

High school's the best target. I'm the most familiar with the layout, I know where the doors with windows are, and it's the most convenient to enter. Truthfully, I would rather become a serial killer than a mass shooter. Serial killers are romanticized a lot more.
They get tons of love letters and Netflix documentaries about them. Mass shooters are brushed off unless they are truly unique or good-looking.

"You will understand that I am sick and tired of attention-starved murderous people, trans or otherwise.

"If you need more proof that Ye is an attention-hungry narcissist, read this:" . . .

I suggest she take up a hobby like sports as this chick did:

Biden's Secretary of Education Expresses Desire to Shut Down Grand Canyon University

  Nicholas Dolinger (resistthemainstream.com)

"Rather, it’s part of a concerted effort to snuff out education choice and promote far-left values. It’s critical that Americans be aware of this shameful campaign and that we do all we can to put a stop to it.' ”


"A Biden administration cabinet official has declared his intention to shut down the largest Christian university in the United States, claiming that the institution of higher learning was preying on students for profit.

"During a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona declared a decisive action against Grand Canyon University (GCU), stating the administration’s commitment to shutting down the institution.

“We are cracking down not only to shut them down, but to send a message to not prey on students,” Cardona said in response to the eccentric Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro’s inquiry about how the administration is tackling what she described as “a predatory for-profit school,” as reported by Fox News.

DeLauro
"DeLauro highlighted past actions against GCU, criticizing the university for deceptive practices related to the cost of education.

" 'Last year, your Department took action against Grand Canyon University, a predatory for-profit college, over the school’s failure to accurately disclose its cost to students, driving up the true cost for those students requiring them to pay for continuation courses before they would graduate – scam courses added about $10,000 or more to the cost of education to these kids,” DeLauro explained." . . .

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Biden should go back to supporting Israel in full force -

 Farley Weiss- JNS.org

. . ."However, as Reform Rabbi Maurice Hirsch recently said, and as a Sienna poll recently found, the Biden administration is likely losing massive Jewish support as a result of its criticisms of Israel." . . .


"Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu formed a unity government on Oct. 12—just five days after the terrorist attacks in southern Israel by Hamas—and no longer is the Israeli government a so-called “narrow right-wing government.” Despite that fact, the Biden administration has made clear its goal to have the democratically elected prime minister removed from office. 

"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s recent speech, which included a public call for Netanyahu’s ouster, was praised by U.S. President Joe Biden. However, the Biden administration concoction that the problem of Israel is some right-wing government is patently false because the current decision-making is being made by a three-man group, of which one of the members—Benny Gantz—is the current head of what polls show is the leading opposition party. The other two are Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. 

"Ridiculously, this push for Netanyahu to step down or call for new elections was reiterated by David Horovitz, editor of The Times of Israel, and Bret Stephens, a The New York Times columnist, even though a unity government is currently in place. It is noteworthy that both the Biden administration and Schumer’s preoccupation with criticizing National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is also coming at a time when neither man is a member of the War Cabinet that has been making key decisions over the past six months for the government of Israel.

"The criticisms the Biden administration has made against Netanyahu were over policies that were not only adopted by the unity government but were also consensus positions in Israel. For example, the Biden foreign-policy team has complained publicly that it wanted Netanyahu to make more concessions in hostage negotiations (namely, to free many more mass murderers of Jews in exchange for Israeli grandfathers and women taken captive on Oct. 7 and dragged back into Gaza). When Netanyahu finally acquiesced, Hamas still said no." . . .

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Suggests Trump Trials Are A 'Poetic' Racial Reckoning:

 “Every night [Joy Reid] spews hatred against white people,” she wrote. “Who knows what pathology drives her, but it’s not healthy, for her or any of her dwindling audience. Shame on MSNBC for elevating such a hate-filled racist to prime time. She has zero charisma….But for some unfathomable reason, she has Teflon protection at the network, even after being caught with homophobic and anti-Semitic comments on her blog." Miranda Devine

'My DEIs Are Bringing It Home' (resistthemainstream.com)

Watch MSNBC with Joe Scarborough, Nicolle Wallace, and the "race lady" Joy Reid to get daily doses of "Jim Crow".


MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested that the criminal trials against former President Donald Trump represented a form of racial reckoning, indicating that the “DEIs” were “bringing it home.”

"X users swiftly pushed back on Reid’s comments, dubbing her a “race baiter.”

"Reid made these comments on Monday, coinciding with the commencement of the New York hush-money trial.

"She expressed admiration for the symbolism of seeing black public officials such as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis taking the lead in prosecuting Trump.

“But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact … the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad,” Reid said."
I thought we were supposed to reject racism. What is MSNBC's stand on racism? Never mind; we know. TD

Losers And Suckers

 Steve Krakauer

"Be skeptical of the "losers and suckers" consensus narrative - and others like it when it comes to Trump and the press"
Does the media really have a dearth of unimpeachable direct hits on Trump that it has to stoop to this nonsense? Surely not! And yet — they never seem to miss an opportunity to be exposed as the losers and suckers who keep falling into the trap of emotion over facts, laziness over nuance.

"On Wednesday afternoon, Joy Behar was on “The View” talking about how former President Donald Trump “called American military members who died in wars ‘losers and suckers.’” The next night, “The Daily Show” co-host Desi Lydic made an almost identical comment. It was the same a few weeks ago on MSNBC, when Nicolle Wallace mentioned that phrase too, in a similar context, as part of one of her lengthy anti-Trump screeds.
"The “loser and suckers” line has been around for years — and I’ll trace the genesis of it below. It has become simply conventional wisdom of the consensus elite at this point — just a bullet point for the corporate press when listing the long litany of Trump’s worst moments. Right up there with “very fine people” and “inject bleach” — which is actually the point. Those phrases that have become ubiquitous when those on the political or journalistic left are looking to highlight the severity of Trump’s evil… are actually outright false. The “losers and suckers” line exists in maybe a bit more of a gray area — a blend between innuendo and urban legend, perhaps. But certainly not something that rises to the level of “factual.”
"And it’s important to dig into the circumstances of this phrase, because we know this will become a major talking point as we approach the final seven months ahead of Election Day this year. It has been a part of President Biden’s usual campaign speeches, when he makes them. And “Doctor” Jill Biden has repeated the line too.
"But it’s not just the repeating of the line that has become a point pushed by the Biden campaign — and, by extension, the Acela Media. It is the insinuation that this phrase uttered by Trump had been “confirmed.” That’s the framing pushed by the Biden campaign’s active X campaign last month — which was republished by a prominent #Resistance account, and reposted by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: . . ."

"The White House blamed the canceled cemetery visit on poor weather. Responding to The Atlantic's reporting, Trump said the accusation was "a disgraceful situation" by a "terrible magazine."

"Trump strongly denied calling fallen soldiers "losers" and "suckers." Speaking to reporters on Sept. 3, 2020, upon returning from a campaign rally to Washington, D.C., just after the report came out, Trump said: "I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more. No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?"

"Just days later, Zach Fuentes, a former White House aide who left the administration in early 2019 and was with the president on the Paris trip and presumably near him during the in-question conversations about the cemetery visit, stood up for Trump in an interview with Breitbart." . . .

Sexual violence: New details about hostages life in Hamas captivity

 Kim Hjelmgaard (usatoday.com) 

 'We know they were raped in Hamas captivity': Chilling details of what hostages faced.

Naama Levy before Hamas

"Handcuffed and dazed, she struggles to exit the trunk of the Jeep. She's barefoot and limping. She's bleeding near her temple. Her ankle is cut.

"Her gray sweatpants are bloodied. At gunpoint, she is dragged by her long brown hair into the vehicle. A crowd looks on. The car speeds off.

"That is the last time, captured in a video taken on Oct. 7, that Naama Levy, 19, was seen alive. She is among 17 female hostages ages 18 to 26 still held by Hamas somewhere in Gaza.

"Their families fear the worst.

"Time is running out for Naama," said Levy's mother, Ayelet Levy Shachar. "Time is running out for the vulnerable young women being held hostage at the hands of those who torture and abuse them." 

Naama Levy with Hamas, her smile erased, perhaps forever.

"Shachar was referring to the mounting evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women and men during the Hamas attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7.

"But sexual assault appears not to have been confined to Oct. 7. Two Israeli doctors, who have been treating released hostages, and an Israeli military official familiar with the matter confirmed to USA TODAY that some released hostages revealed they suffered violent sexual assaults in captivity.

"All three spoke on the condition of anonymity.

"One of the doctors assessed that "many" of the released Israeli female hostages ages 12 to 48 − there are about 30 of them − were sexually assaulted while held by Hamas in Gaza.

"The doctor did not want to elaborate on the specific nature of the assaults out of concern for survivors. The doctor said people who have been sexually abused typically have a mortality rate four times higher than someone who has not been sexually abused." . . .


“The voices of so many of these women and girls were stolen by Hamas, but their bodies tell the tale,” Pildis said. “Broken pelvises. Mutilated genitals. Brutalized bodies. Then we have eyewitnesses coming forward with stories of gang rape, of torture, of murder."   "
Anti-Jewish bias makes it easier for some people to refuse to believe these accounts, Pildis said."

 “We are living in this believe-all-women era, and somehow that philosophy vanished very quickly when we're talking about Israeli women,” she said. “It’s really hard not to see that as ingrained antisemitism, ingrained bias that leads people not to want to believe these voices.”

Full article here. Share it with your "river to the sea" classmates. Brought to you by George Soros and his chanting followers. TD

NPR Suspends Editor Who Blew Whistle On Left-Wing Takeover Of Newsroom

 Jason Cohen | The Daily Caller   "National Public Radio (NPR) on Friday officially suspended veteran editor Uri Berliner, who recently published an essay exposing the government-funded outlet’s alleged bias during former President Donald Trump’s presidency.

"Berliner, who has worked at NPR for 25 years, alleged in the essay published in The Free Press that the outlet was seeking to take down Trump during his presidency by citing Russia-collusion accusations that subsequently were debunked. The outlet suspended Berliner without pay for five days starting on Friday, NPR reported on Tuesday. 

. . ." Berliner claimed in his essay that all of NPR was in agreement on the prioritization of race and identity, causing a lack of “viewpoint diversity” and rise in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The editor also criticized the outlet for failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election, and uncritically accepting the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“ 'Colleagues contend Berliner cherry-picked examples to fit his arguments and challenge the accuracy of his accounts,” according to NPR. “They also note he did not seek comment from the journalists involved in the work he cited.' ” . . .

O'Keefe Media Group Uncovers who is Really Running the White House

 MUST SEE: Special Advisor Reveals That Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Are Still Involved Behind The Scenes! (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

. . ."He revealed that some refer to former Facebook board member and Biden Chief of Staff Jeff Zients as “the second most powerful person in Washington” and that “by getting Jeff’s sign off, you’re getting the President to sign off.”

“Whatever this guy says, it’s what the President says,” Robinson told an undercover journalist. Robinson also said Jeff Zients is the most powerful person at the White House, “other than like the President.” Zients is even more powerful than Kamala Harris “in some ways” but “not legally,” according to Robinson.

Zeints’ approval for activity within the Administration includes his sign-off on activity that potentially violates the Hatch Act, which prevents federal employees from taking part in partisan activity or influencing an election. Robinson says that SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman indirectly campaigns for Joe Biden and helps to get Democrats elected in Congress. “Pretty much every week, she goes somewhere in the country… We can tell their accomplishments; she can’t like go on a stage and be like, ‘Hey, vote for Joe Biden.’ Like that’s illegal,” said Robinson.

“Any time we go [to a state], we try to visit with a Member of Congress, if they’re a Democrat… because then we can help them get reelected as well. So we’re going to Montana because Senator Tester, he’s the Democratic Senator from Montana, like he’s in a tough reelection race, and that’s like a seat we need in the Senate to maintain a majority.” Robinson added, “We all, like as an office, were going, and the White House was like, ‘yes, go. Invite Senator Tester. Don’t invite the other Senator because he’s a Republican, and don’t invite the two members of Congress because they’re Republicans.'” He then confirmed that the White House authorized the SBA to campaign for this Senator.

"Robinson also revealed that Biden’s shadow cabinet of advisors, which includes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. According to Robinson, Hillary Clinton is close to people in the White House, such as Director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, a former employee of Hillary Clinton, and uses them to influence policy. “She does a lot of the international stuff… They have like the Clinton Initiative,” he added.

"Recall that O’Keefe previously exposed another White House official who admitted that Joe Biden’s mental health is in decline and that there are closed-door discussions about how to remove Kamala Harris from the 2024 ticket without stirring a “scandal” and giving poor optics to the American people." . . .