Fox News "Legal panelists Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy and Katie Cherkasky provide analysis on former President Trump's New York criminal trial on 'Your World.' "
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Monday, April 29, 2024
Free Speech Crushed on Campus while Corporate Journalists Celebrate
KATIE HALPER AND AARON MATÉ (usefulidiotspodcast.com)
"The elitist White House Correspondents' Dinner comes in stark contrast to the muffled cries against genocide"
Walter Cronkite and Eric Severeid are no longer with us, but there will always be CNN's Jim Acosta. Count the times the name Jim Acosta appears below. TD
"Standing before a massive crowd of cardboard cutouts of Jim Acosta, Jim Acosta humbly accepted 'The Jim Acosta Award For Courageous And Handsome Journalism' from himself.
The award ceremony lasted over thirty minutes due to the multiple components of the award Jim Acosta accepted from Jim Acosta:
- The Jim Acosta Trophy of Distinguished Journalism adorned with an engraved image of Jim Acosta.
- The Jim Acosta Medal of Journalistic Valor, also engraved with Jim Acosta's likeness.
- The Jim Acosta Commemorative T-Shirt, which lists, in 12-point font, the numerous risks taken by Jim Acosta on the front lines as CNN's Chief White House correspondent.
- The Jim Acosta Collector's Plate, with a watercolor portrait of Jim Acosta.
- An autographed copy of Jim Acosta's book, "The Enemy of the People." The autograph reads, "To my biggest fan, from your biggest fan. Love, Jim Acosta."
"During Jim Acosta's acceptance speech, which was printed on the back of The Jim Acosta Commemorative T-Shirt, Jim Acosta recounted being the first-hand witness to some of the most pivotal moments in the history of the United States, like when Jim Acosta yelled super loud at the President of the United States, and that other time when he was called mean names by the President of the United States.
"At press time, Jim Acosta was seen filling out a job application for Wendy's."
We Now Know Why Biden Wouldn’t Name Qatar a State Sponsor of Terror: James Biden Was Doing Business With Them!
100PercentFedUp.com * by Vince Quill "The Biden crime family’s business deals have once again come into sharper focus.
"Qatar is widely considered to be one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism—they fund religious fundamentalist groups all over the Middle East and cause trouble for all their neighbors.
"Many believe that the bankrolling of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and funding for ISIS both came from this tiny country located in the Persian Gulf.
"According to the latest reports, James Biden, the brother of Joe Biden, was doing business with Qatari officials—he was doing deals with their government.
"Is this why the Biden administration is so soft with Qatar? Here’s what we currently know:" . . .
For the past DECADE, the Biden Crime Family has been laundering U.S. tax dollars through Ukraine to benefit his family. Joe Biden doesn’t want Trump to investigate what’s happening with the money, because that would expose Biden’s elaborate money laundering operation.
— Errol Webber (@ErrolWebber) April 25, 2024
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. . ." Politico broke the story dissecting the deep business ties between James Biden and Qatar:
The alleged arrangements stem from an effort by Jim Biden to raise money from Qatari sources for ventures in the U.S. beginning in the months after his older brother left the vice presidency.
"Here are just some reactions to the news of the Biden crime family’s foreign business deals. Is there anyone they haven’t sold the country out for?" . . .
NYC firefighter, 36, dies of heart attack after being fired to pay for migrants -- leaving his family with nothing
Floyd had been just shy of vesting additional medical benefits for his family and more than $600,000 worth of death benefits when he was booted, leaving his family with nothing despite his years of service.
"An FDNY firefighter has died of a heart attack just months after he was fired as part of the city’s effort to free up funds for its migrant crisis — leaving his grieving widow and kids struggling to keep a roof over their heads.
"Derek Floyd, 36, suffered cardiac arrest and passed away April 15, four months after the city gave him the boot as part of a larger effort to pare staff and pay for housing and services for the tens of thousands of migrants flooding the Big Apple.
"Floyd was one of about 10 fire department employees who had been on “long-term duty” — either injured on the job and given office work or out sick for an extended period — and fired weeks before Christmas, FDNY sources told The Post." . . .
How do we solve a problem like...George Soros?
Alan Dershowitz: George Soros Is Funding the Radical Pro-Palestinian Groups on US Campuses (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit . . ."Professor Dershowitz blamed George Soros and the Rockefeller brothers for funding the unprecedented, radical anti-Semitic protests on college campuses across the country.
Maria Bartiromo: What are the groups, funding the chaos? Many of these people are showing up with the same tent, same outfits. Someone’s funding it. I want to know who you think is behind it? You just heard Carlos Jimenez talking about the Chinese Communist Party, which oftentimes the CCP jumps on our political conversations and tries to create discord in America.
Alan Dershowitz: There’s no question about that, and Russia does, too. There’s no question that they’re organizations funded by George Soros and the Rockefeller Brothers. Take, for example, an organization called Jewish Voice for Peace. It has been behind many of these demonstrations. They’re not Jewish, and they don’t want peace. It’s a fake organization. It’s an old-line group of communists and anarchists that want to overthrow the United States government. These are people who support Iran. These are people who support China. These are people who support America’s enemies. They are funding much of this, as well as some Arab countries that are funding some of this.
But these organizations are funded by George Soros and other organizations that help fund these academic and turn these useful idiots into protesters and eventually into terrorists. That’s what terrifies me because I know I saw it. What happened to Kathy Boudin? She became a murderer. Then she was released from prison. Guess what happened to her? She was hired to teach students at Columbia University. She probably taught some of these people who are now demonstrating against America, down with America, death to America. Cathy Boudin and others who were terrorists, who stole from the protesters, became terrorists, then became teachers of future protesters.
This is a much deeper problem than what’s going on at Columbia University.
"It’s true. George Soros funds the radical leftist group Jewish Voice for Peace that is promoting the Jew hatred on the American streets.
Gen Z doesn't know why they're protesting for Palestine (nypost.com) . . ."A Columbia University student who rushed down to NYU’s campus in solidarity with protesters there said on camera that she actually had no idea what they were protesting, eventually admitting she needed to be “more educated” on the issue.
"I’m sure that’s very much the case with her countless classmates donning keffiyehs and chanting anti-Israel slogans." . . .
George Soros (forbes.com) . . ."Soros has long been one of the Democratic Party's most generous donors and poured $125 million into a super PAC ahead of the 2022 midterm elections." . . .
"She also looks at the impact of his activities, which she says have fomented “violence and division in the country, weakening it from within while decreasing its influence in the world.”
"[Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of “The Soros Agenda,”] is founder and president of the New York-based American Center for Democracy and its Economic Warfare Institute." . . .
President Joe Biden has come under scrutiny by members of the Roman Catholic clergy.
Never Again. Except When Biden Voters Want To. (Scott Hogenson)
"On September 14, Biden told a gathering of rabbis, “I, you might say, was raised in the synagogues of my state. You think I’m kidding, I’m not*.” A few months later, Biden was promoting “our shared moral responsibility to stand up to antisemitism and hate-fueled violence at home and abroad and to make real the promise of ‘Never Again.’”
"But earlier this week, the president told a reporter asking whether he would condemn the outbreak of antisemitic violence on college campuses "I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians.” It was perhaps the most tone deaf comment of his presidency to date.
"On one hand, Biden extolls the need to remember the promise of ‘Never Again’ but at the same time, condemns people for not understanding why American college students are engaged in threatening and violent protests against American Jews on campuses around the nation. This escalation of hatred toward Jews and Israel makes one wonder if ‘Never Again’ still matters.
"The United States is a long way from the atmosphere of bigotry in 1930s Germany and most Americans share little to nothing with the ideology of campus militants screaming “death to America, death to Israel,” and other antisemitic slogans and threats. But current events suggest that too many people have failed to learn the lessons of the Holocaust." . . .
* Perhaps better worded as "You assume I'm lying but. . ."
. . ."It is not surprising that an American student would have no idea what the story and truth behind “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is. Honestly, it’s not really an issue on this half of the planet. What is surprising, and a testament to just how effective the Democratic Party has been in indoctrinating kids, is how even after these protesters learn that it is a literal call for genocide against Jews created by terrorists and terrorist sympathizers, these morons still chant it." . . .
Speaking of idiots, don't miss this TW post: Tunnel Wall: Woman Who Survived Hamas Attack Is Facing Death Threats and Doxxing
Ilhan Omar Hates Jews Almost As Much As She Hates America (Which Is A Lot) (Derek Hunter)
. . ."She hates them so much you’d think it was Jews who’d overrun her homeland, unleashing hell and forcing a young, pre-three marriages (so far) Ilhan to come to the oppressive United States of America, that made her rich." . . .
Sotomayor Pushes Democrats' Debunked 'Fake Electors' Smear
Contrary to Sotomayor’s web of dishonesty, the naming of contingent Republican electors during the 2020 election was neither unprecedented nor unlawful.
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AF Branco |
Shawn Fleetwood (thefederalist.com) "Justice Sonia Sotomayor used Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing of Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claims to further Democrats’ debunked “fake electors” narrative.
"The moment came during the high court’s questioning of Trump lawyer John Sauer, who argued that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictments against Trump should be dismissed because presidents are granted lifelong immunity from criminal prosecutions and therefore cannot be charged for actions they took while in office that fall within the scope of their official duties as president. Citing the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Smith indicted Trump in August over his speech questioning the administration of the 2020 election.
"In Thursday’s hearing, justices probed Sauer on hypotheticals and whether immunity could be granted to a president who, for example, uses the military to target his political opponents. Justice Samuel Alito discussed the issue of viewing such actions through an objective lens and noted that “one could say it’s not plausible … that that action would be legal.”
“ 'I’m sure you’ve thought of lots of hypotheticals where a president could say, ‘I’m using an official power,’ and yet the president uses it in an absolutely outrageous manner,” Alito said. Sauer responded, “That, if it were an objective determination, may well be an interesting approach to take.”
"Sotomayor then interjected, asking Sauer to apply such an approach to the allegations against Trump and repeating the baseless claim that the Republican electors who cast their votes for Trump ahead of Jan. 6, 2021, are “fake.”
“What is plausible about the president insisting and creating a fraudulent slate of electoral candidates?” Sotomayor asked. “Assuming you accept the facts of the complaint on their face, is that plausible that that would be within his right to do?”
“Absolutely, your honor,” Sauer argued, citing President Ulysses S. Grant “sending federal troops to Louisiana and Mississippi in 1876 to make sure that the Republican electors got certified in those two cases, which delivered the election to Rutherford B. Hayes.” . . .
" . . .As my colleague Jordan Boyd previously highlighted, Democrats and their media allies had no problem “calling for electoral disobedience” after Trump won the 2016 election. In an effort to keep Trump out of office, so-called “news” outlets ran “[a]rticles demanding state electors ‘prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office’ and overrule Americans to install Hillary Clinton as president' ”
As the Manhattan DA's case implodes, the Supremes warn of prosecutorial abuse against ex-presidents.
" This leaves us with the following state of affairs — legal experts can’t figure out what the Bragg case is about, the Supreme Court will probably give Trump a win on immunity and his poll numbers will continue to climb — as they did in the new CNN survey released Sunday." David Catron
A defense strategy for the case of NY v. Trump -Howard J. Warner "The sham trial in NYC being orchestrated by DA Alvin Bragg against Donald Trump is designed to keep Trump off the campaign trail and further salacious material to create more doubt about him in the minds of undecided voters. The judge, Juan Merchan, is an acting Supreme Court judge, appointed to this position by the Administrative Chief Judge Ann Pfau and selected for this case since he has presided over other Trump cases. Though I am not a lawyer, the obvious failings of this case are numerous. I propose to outline a strategy for a not-guilty verdict instead of a hung jury." . . .
Bragg’s Trump Trial Refutes Case Against Immunity - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics "Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wasn’t formally involved in last Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing in Trump v. United States, yet his transparently politicized prosecution of the former president provided a poignant subtext for the oral arguments. The hearing concerned Special Counsel Jack Smith’s claim that ex-presidents enjoy no immunity from prosecution for crimes allegedly committed while in office. It could hardly have been lost on the justices that, as oral arguments proceeded, Trump was cooped up in a New York courtroom while Bragg’s prosecutors accused him of offenses that legal experts of all political stripes have pronounced legally unintelligible.
"Writing in the New York Times, for example, Boston University law professor Jed Handel Shugerman described the Bragg prosecution as an embarrassment and a historic mistake: “As a reality check: It is legal for a candidate to pay for a nondisclosure agreement.” Yet Bragg and his lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo — late of the Biden Justice Department — have gone through all manner of legal contortions to transform Trump’s NDA with a porn star into an election interference case involving the 2016 presidential contest." . . .
The Democrats Validate an Einstein Postulation - John Green . . ."The Dems came up with a surefire battle plan to prevent Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office. Just prosecute him for something — it didn’t matter what. The Donald would become “damaged goods,” and voter outrage would prevent a return of mean tweets to the office that comes with an armed entourage and a big blue airplane. It should have been foolproof. But as engineers say: “One should never underestimate the ability of fools to screw things up.' ” . . .
Woman Who Survived Hamas Attack Is Facing Death Threats and Doxxing
"Sanandaji’s story comes amid widespread pro-Hamas protests on college campuses. Many of these demonstrations have devolved into violence. She noted that many Jewish students “are escorting each other to class so that nobody’s walking alone” and that “their lives are in danger.' ”
"On October 7, 2023, the terrorist group Hamas launched a major surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,200 men, women, and children. Terrorists also kidnapped hundreds of hostages, many of whom are still being held in Gaza as Israel’s military works to eliminate the organization while rescuing its citizens.
"Earlier this week, one of the Israelis who escaped during the attack announced that she had received a myriad of threats after speaking out as a vocal opponent of Hamas. During an interview in October, days after the attack, Natalie Sanandaji, originally from Long Island, recounted how she escaped the dance festival in which numerous Israelis were murdered.
Photos from before the horror show 28-year-old Natalie Sanandaji of Great Neck visiting Israel for a wedding, then onto a desert celebration of peace, love and dance music.
At dawn, rockets from Gaza began thundering overhead.
"If this festival happened anywhere else in the world, as soon as they saw those first rockets, they would have ran for their lives. But for these kids, that's a reality," said Sanandaji.
Soon came the order from festival security: "Everybody pick up your things and go to your cars," she said.
First they were sent out one way, then told to turn around. Next, they were told to abandon their cars and run.
"We can't understand. We're thinking the fastest way to get out of here is by car, why would you tell us to go on foot? And then that's when we heard the first gunshots," said Sanandaji.
"Now, Sanandaji is facing death threats and has even been doxxed for her statements against Hamas. During an appearance on “Just the News, No Noise” she said her phone number “was posted on a website and I was getting hundreds of texts and phone calls a day.” . . .
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Rep. Keith Self Warns U.S. Can’t Survive ‘Fourth Obama Term’
"Pointing to Hamas’s remaining battalions in southern Gaza, Self, who serves as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, insisted that Israel intends to “clean it out and finish the job.' ”
"U.S. global influence is declining under President Joe Biden, whose presidency is a continuation of former President Barack Obama’s policies, according to Republican Congressman Keith Self, who warned that America could not survive a “fourth Obama term.”
"He also blasted Biden’s weakening alliance with the Jewish State and the rise of anti-Israel protests on college campuses, which he attributed to socialist ideology fueled by “woke” academia, while advising that children be prepped with conservative values before entering higher education institutions.
"In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Hungary 2024 on Friday, Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) lamented the “decline in the influence of the United States around the world” under Biden.
“ 'It started with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soon after that, people started testing us and Putin started moving troops into Ukraine within two months of the withdrawal,” he said. “And, frankly, that’s lightning speed when you talk about a nation making a decision to start moving troops toward combat.”
"He then asserted that Biden’s term mirrors Obama’s while warning of the risks such policies pose to the country." . . .
This college generation doesn’t know why the heck they’re protesting for Palestine
Should Israel desert her hostages to please the likes of these mental infants? TD
"Palestine has an intifada. We’ve got intifaddists."; Rikki Schlott
". . .nearly half of Zoomers say they get their news from TikTok (where Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” went viral because so many young people were praising it), and you have a disaster on your hands. They don’t know the truth about Israel, Gaza and Hamas and they can’t be bothered to check. But they get likes!"
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| Columbia students erected a “Trans People 4 Palestine” sign. |
"Do the Gen Z pro-Palestine protesters even know what they’re screaming, yelling, and encamping about? Definitely not.
"A Columbia University student who rushed down to NYU’s campus in solidarity with protesters there said on camera that she actually had no idea what they were protesting, eventually admitting she needed to be “more educated” on the issue.
"I’m sure that’s very much the case with her countless classmates donning keffiyehs and chanting anti-Israel slogans.
An unnamed Columbia University student interviewed when she rushed to NYU to join the protests there admitted she did not know what they were actually protesting.
"Forget the three r’s, these Ivy League elitists are schooled in the three i’s: ignorance, indoctrination and Instagram.
". . ."Palestine has an intifada. We’ve got intifaddists."
American Universities Have Squandered The Public's Esteem - The American Spectator
“Stop the Genocide” reads the signs in support of a group who only failed to commit genocide on October 7 because they were stopped by military force (and who have vowed to keep on trying to do so, an aim furthered by the utterly unironic sign-carriers).
. . ."For several years, I taught a unit on the Holocaust in a small Jewish day school in Dayton, Ohio. I thought it important not just to expose the horror but to teach students where hope lies as well. To that end, I once brought in a woman who had been newly married when her native Holland was conquered by the Nazis. She and her husband sheltered a series of Jewish families in their home, saving them from the fate of 90 percent of Dutch Jews. She was no intellectual and put on no airs. But the students’ jaws dropped when they heard her matter-of-factly detail the risk they ran for years. “How could you be so brave?” one student asked her at the end.
"She seemed genuinely puzzled. “Brave? Anyone would have done what I had done.”
"An ordinary person, she was in her own mind.
"But the people who thought themselves extraordinary usually did less well. How few acted as she did! How many of the better educated and more self-regarding were skilled at the rationalizations that kept themselves safe and that eased Hitler’s path." . . .
Clever College Students Figure Out It’s Not Racist To Call For The Murder Of All Jews If You Just Call Them 'Zionists' | Babylon Bee "In ongoing protests over the war between Israel and Gaza, clever college students found an effective way to avoid being racist by simply calling for the murder of ‘Zionists' instead of Jews.
" 'Zionists clearly aren't people," student protestor Bashir Telum told the press. "I am allowed to call for their deaths and that doesn't make me a bad person or anything. You, know, because they aren't the same thing as Jews. Or people.
"With data from hundreds of polls, more than 95 percent of Jews identify as Zionists. Zionism is the idea that the Jewish people are entitled to a homeland in the Middle East, with the establishment of Israel in the early 1900s as a fulfillment of this entitlement. To get around accusations of racism, brilliant college students have been calling for the deaths of Zionists.
" 'I wish death to all Zionist pigs!" protestor Cassidy Jones yelled at one Harvard event this week." . . .
Graham predicts Supreme Court will send Trump presidential immunity case to lower courts
"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted Sunday that the Supreme Court will send former President Trump’s immunity case back to the lower courts.
"“Well, I think the court’s gonna find that presidential immunity exists for President Trump like every other president, but you got to be within the scope of being president. I think they’ll send it back to the lower courts to find out exactly what actions fall within presidential immunity and what are considered personal. I think that’s the way this will end — there will be some immunity for some of the actions,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
"The Supreme Court heard arguments last week over whether Trump could have presidential immunity from criminal prosecution in the federal Jan. 6 case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. The high court appeared open to some presidential immunity for the former president, which could potentially delay the criminal cases brought against him even further.
"Graham said the question of immunity may be “decided partially” for the former president.
“ 'There’s no absolute immunity in the Constitution. It will be a legal analysis, you know, the president needs to be protected. You know, we don’t become a banana republic here. We prosecute, you know, our political opponents, which is going on really in many jurisdictions,” he said. “But I think the immunity question will be decided partially for Trump and some legal, some factual analysis as to when and where it applies.” . . .
The Supreme Court is likely to uphold immunity for Trump | the Aspen beat
"When the establishment finally regained power by beating Trump in 2020, they began criminally prosecuting him for his acts in office, timed to come to a head just before the next election where he hopes to reclaim that office.
"One of those prosecutions is a joke, namely the Manhattan Project where a stupid political hack of a District Attorney hopes to gloriously nuke Trump’s campaign with a criminal charge that is as bogus as it is convoluted (which may well produce a jury conviction in ultra-Blue Manhattan, but will surely be overturned on appeal)" . . .
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