The Biden administration staged a shambolic press conference outside the Trump trial, complete with Robert DeNiro

  Andrea Widburg - American Thinker   "There are two times people make really bad mistakes: When they’re over-confident and when they’re desperate. The Biden administration is not over-confident. Desperation is why it dragged out an over-the-hill, minimally coherent, not-very-bright actor to be its spokesman regarding the show trial that Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan have staged in Manhattan to try to sideline Trump’s increasingly successful candidacy.

"The big headline was that Robert De Niro spoke outside the courthouse where the Trump trial was being held. I’ll have more on that in a minute, but the real news should be that it was the Biden administration that organized De Niro’s appearance, along with the appearance of Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, who worked for the Capitol police on January 6, which their testimony basically described the battling grannies as being akin to what the Marines faced at the Battle of Fallujah.

"If you read articles from Reuters or AFP, all you learn is that DeNiro, Dunn, and Fanone showed up at the courthouse. In fact, it was the Biden administration that organized the event:

. . ."Instead, in the face of Trump’s seemingly unstoppable momentum, the Biden administration embroiled itself directly in this sham criminal trial, and it used a moron as its frontman. In other words, it got dirty and stupid, which pretty much sums up Biden, his presidency, and his campaign. All in all, a good day for Trump, and that’s true no matter what verdict the progressive Democrat jury returns."

Even Anti-Trumper Karl Rove is Dunking on the Biden Campaign Over Robert De Niro Stunt: 'A Stupid Mistake' (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

. . ."But this was so over-the-top as to simply be useless. And what a stupid mistake on the part of the Biden campaign. More reason why Democratic leaders are probably going to be concerned that he’s the likely nominee of their party." . . .

These people aren’t mad that she spoke at an antisemitic conference with links to a terrorist organization. They’re mad because she dissed Biden.

 Democrats are Not Happy With Tlaib Attacking Biden at Anti-Israel Conference (legalinsurrection.com)  "Anti-Israel Rep. Rashida Tlaib faces heat from fellow Democrats after she urged Democrats to vote against President Joe Biden because he supports Israel.

"Yes, that’s why these people are mad at her. They’re not ticked that she spoke at an antisemitic event with links to a terrorist group.

"They’re ticked because she dissed Biden.

"Tlaib made the remarks at the People’s Conference for Palestine (PCP), which has links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

"It’s not the first time Tlaib has made the remarks. She’s not going to stop." . . .

"Hey Jeffries and the democrat leadership, just so you know Tlaib was never “one of you”. She is just a rabid anti-semite moslem that will do whatever necessary to advance the islamic ideology in the United States.. And if that means encouraging those democrat voters to vote for someone other than the approved democrat candidate she will do it. Being a “democrat” is just a means to an end for her. Nothing more. And she’ll throw you under the bus if necessary."

Obama-Biden Have Been Punishing Israel Since 2013

  Edward Davis - American Thinker  

Obama recently began taking an active role in Biden’s campaign, and for anyone who watches their joint campaign ads, it seems clear which of them is in charge.  Given another term, Biden's policy towards Israel reportedly could get even worse.

"Joe Biden’s vicious betrayal of Israel has surprised and alienated some of his supporters, who thought he was a moderate Democrat.

"In the most recent outrage, his administration sent condolences over the death of Iran’s President Raisi and joined the U.N. in a reverent minute of silence.  In stark contrast, Biden disparaged Prime Minister Netanyahu as “a bad f------ guy and “a-hole” at a time when Israelis were traumatized and fighting for their lives.

"It was predictable, considering that Biden brought back much of the foreign policy team of President Obama, whose backstabbing of the Jewish state foreshadowed Biden's hostile policies.

"Early in 2013, when the U.S. was still in shock over the December 14, 2012 Newtown massacre, the newly re-elected Obama decided that one of his priorities would be to pressure Israel to release scores of convicted killers, among whose victims were children.

"Although political leaders, including presidents, are expected to flip-flop occasionally, this might have been the first administration in history to flip-flop on the issue of the murder of innocents. 

"That same year marked two anniversaries of child slaughter that the Obama administration reacted to in chillingly conflicting ways, apparently based on the victims’ nationality and religion.

"To observe the 50th anniversary of the 1963 firebombing murders of four African-American girls in Birmingham, President Obama solemnly paid tribute to the victims.

"One month later, Israel marked a similar tragic milestone — the 25th anniversary of the firebombing murders of the nine-months-pregnant Rachel Weiss, a 26-year-old second-grade teacher, and her sons — Netanel, 4; Rafael, 2; and Ephraim, 21 months.  Israeli soldier David Delorosa also died in a heroic attempt to save them.  Israel considered imposing the death penalty for the first time since Adolf Eichmann was put to death in 1962.

"Unfortunately, the Weiss brothers did not look like Obama’s own imagined sons, and unfortunately, they, their mother, and the soldier who died trying to save them were citizens of the nation Obama’s mentor Jeremiah Wright referred to as “that dirty word.”  And so, using secretary of state John Kerry as his point man, Obama began pushing for the release of their killers, along with scores of other terrorists convicted of murder or attempted murder." . . .

The Plan to Convict Trump

  John Cleer - American Thinker  

"The underlying charge, then, on which the validity of the case relies, is literally anything, and Bragg's charges only exist in the mind of the juror." 

"At last, we can see Alvin Bragg's underlying criminal theory: he doesn't have one. Bragg and Judge Merchan are running the real trial in the court of public opinion, not to deliver justice but to hurt Trump's presidential campaign by branding him a convicted felon during the election. They seek to do this by lying to the jury -- for example, by pretending to have a criminal theory.

"The prosecution rested their case without specifying the second crime, nor giving a shred of evidence for the first: even if we took Michael Cohen's testimony at face value, ignoring that he's a serial perjurer who confessed to six different felonies on Monday morning alone, his claim that Trump himself ordered the monthly payments that were calculated from Cohen's loan reimbursement demand and deemed them “legal fees” would not constitute a crime.

"That case is dead in the water on appeal, but Merchan's parallel trial, which has little to do with established law and instead runs on innuendo and vagaries, aims for a temporary conviction. In it, Cohen and David Pecker explain election law to a rigged jury while Merchan allows the prosecution to dazzle them with inadmissible evidence and irrelevant, noncriminal details couched in nefarious-sounding terms like “hush money” and “catch and kill,” all the while keeping crucial information like Cohen's SDNY charges and Brad Smith's expert testimony on actual election law from reaching the jury.

"Merchan reneged on his promise to release the jury instructions by Thursday night, apparently to prevent lawyers from picking apart his instructions so jury members don't find out how preposterous they are, because they're going to read the news and talk to friends, family, and co-workers in the week Merchan gave them off.

"That's why he gave them the week off." . . .

JUST IN: GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik Files Misconduct Complaint with New York State Unified Court System Related to "Random" Assignment of Judge Merchan | The Gateway Pundit    "GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (NY) on Tuesday filed a misconduct complaint with the New York State Unified Court System related to the “random” assignment of far-left radical and conflicted Judge Juan Merchan to Trump’s NYC ‘hush money’ trial.

" 'I just filed an official misconduct complaint with the New York State Unified Court System related to the “random” assignment of Acting Manhattan Justice Juan Merchan, a Biden donor whose daughter is fundraising millions off his unprecedented work, to criminal cases against President Donald J. Trump, his companies, and his allies.” Elise Stefanik said.

"Stefanik is not the only one raising questions about the “random” assignment of crooked Judge Juan Merchan as the judge to oversee the Trump Bragg case." . . .

Libertarians Endorse Trump After Party Nominates 'Gay Race Communist' Chase Oliver For President

 (resistthemainstream.com)

Libertarian nominee Chase Oliver:

99% of drag queen story hours are fine for kids. If he had children, he says he'd bring them to one and leave them there.

"It's just like the Wiggles" pic.twitter.com/grNYFtAVHQ

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 27, 2024

"The Libertarian Party (LP) was dragged on social media over Memorial Day weekend after it endorsed “gay race communist” Chase Oliver for the 2024 election.

"Oliver was seen as such an embarrassing pick by many that a top Libertarian has already jumped ship to endorse Trump instead.

"Yesterday, I held up this sign calling Donald Trump supporters socialists. Tonight, the Libertarian Party nominated a gay race communist for president. With those choices, I’m standing with Donald Trump,” Jeremy Kauffman wrote.

"Tim Pool replied to his post, adding, “Trump won the LP after all.”

"Oliver was quickly blasted online over his past and current stances on key issues." . . .

A President Who Exalts Evil

 A President Who Exalts Evil (townhall.com)

"Joe Biden:  “George Floyd should be alive.  He deserved so much more.  Today, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death.  He changed the world.  Now, let’s act in his memory.”

"There have always been evil people in the world, and there always will be.  Sometimes, and with horrible consequences, they get into positions of supreme power—Hitler, Stalin, Mao—and huge tragedies result.  We are facing this in America now.

"Joe Biden has never been a good man, but it does seem that, as an extremely weak man, he has let the utterly Evil left wing of the Democratic Party lead him farther and farther into a cesspool of decadence.  His words above about George Floyd are just depraved, and it saddens the hearts of decent, patriotic, God-fearing Americans that such a man as Biden is President of their country.  He praises a drug addict, a criminal.  What is this telling the youth of America?  That they should use drugs and become criminals so that they can die, too, like George Floyd did?  But this is Joe Biden and the current Democratic Party.

"They’re sick.  They’re evil.

"Let me briefly analyze what Biden said.

1.  “George Floyd should be alive.”  Yes, he should.  And if he had lived a godly, virtuous life as a productive citizen, rather than following the godless philosophy of Biden and the Democrats and becoming a drug-addicted criminal, he probably WOULD be alive today.  But he’s dead because he listened to Biden and the Left lie to him.  

George Floyd being dead yet speaketh.  But what he is speaking tells us how NOT to live.  That’s the lesson of George Floyd.

2.  “He deserved so much more.”  No, he didn’t.  He deserved exactly what he got, because “whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.”  George Floyd made his choices.  Nobody forced him to use drugs.  Nobody forced him to become a criminal.  He made those choices all by himself, and the consequences he suffered were warranted and resulted from the choices he, and he alone, made.  Don’t blame the police when the criminal commits a crime.  And George Floyd was a criminal.  100% his choice.  And not praise-worthy.  Except for Democrats.

Full article ....

Relations between EU and Israel plummet as Spain, Ireland prepare to recognize a Palestinian state

  AP News

“From now on, I will never again say ‘Israel,’ (but) will say ‘Netanyahu government’ because it is this government who is taking these decisions,” Borrell said.

Hamas visits Israel

"Relations between the European Union and Israel took a nosedive Monday, the eve of the diplomatic recognition of a Palestinian state by EU members Ireland and Spain, with Madrid insisting that sanctions should be considered against Israel for its continued deadly attacks in southern Gaza’s city of Rafah.

"Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Spain that its consulate in Jerusalem will not be allowed to help Palestinians.

"At the same time, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell threw his weight to support the International Criminal Court, whose prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, including leaders of the Hamas militant group.

“ 'The prosecutor of the court has been strongly intimidated and accused of antisemitism — as always when anybody, anyone does something that Netanyahu’s government does not like,” Borrell said. “The word antisemitic, it’s too heavy. It’s too important.”

"Spain, Ireland and Norway plan to make official their recognition of a Palestinian state on Tuesday. While dozens of countries have recognized a Palestinian state, none of the major Western powers has done so, and it is unclear how much of a difference the move by Ireland, Spain and non-EU member Norway might make on the ground. The recognition, however, is a significant accomplishment for the Palestinians, who believe it confers international legitimacy on their struggle." . . .

Hillary Clinton Can't Just Accept the Fact She Lost In 2016 Because Trump Is Better

 Sarah Arnold (townhall.com)

"Twice failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton refuses to accept the fact that she lost the 2016 election to former President Donald Trump because Americans like him better. "

"During an interview with The New Times, Clinton blamed sexism for losing out to Trump.

"Instead of taking accountability, Clinton claimed that women voters abandoned her for not being “perfect,” arguing that they took a “risk” on Trump because he is a man. 

"Just days before the election, then-FBI Director James Comey re-opened an investigation into Clinton. 

“ "Once he did that to me, the people, the voters who left me, were women,” she claimed. “They were willing to take a risk on Trump - who had a long list of, let's call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection - because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.” 

"She accused authoritarians— political and religious-based— of always attacking women and their rights, saying it is written in history and will always happen in the U.S. 

"Clinton wasn’t the only one to pull out the sexism card when making excuses for why the Democrat candidate lost. 

"Tracy Sefl, a Democratic consultant and Clinton surrogate said there is a “double standard” on the campaign trail. 

"The Democrat also expressed her frustration with female voters not understanding that Roe v. Wade was under a considerable amount of threat at the time. She claimed that her advisors would repeatedly tell her to stop saying that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.” . . .

Here is how we'll save dying Cracker Barrel with quirky menu items, paint job and price rises

 Daily Mail Online

"Last year, Cracker Barrel was accused of 'going woke' when the restaurant lined its front porches with rainbow-colored rocking chairs during Pride Month - and customers even boycotted the chain, which has locations in 45 states." 

"Masino, who joined nine months ago from Taco Bell, outlined the five pillars of improvement in the earnings call. DailyMail.com listened to it - and we summarize the plan below. 

" 'The brand has lost some of its shine and particularly post-pandemic,' she said. 'But to ignite growth, we must revitalize the brand.'

Refreshed logos 

" 'Cracker Barrel is an iconic brand, but even iconic brands have to evolve. We know from our research that despite high levels of consumer affinity, we're just not as relevant as we once were,' Masino said." . . .

Fear Trump—or Bust? › Victor Davis Hanson

 American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Trumpophobia (fright over Trump) is cresting with his polls.

"As Trump continues to show leads in critical swing states, as various lawfare-inspired cases against him seem to the public to be more persecutions than prosecutions, and as Joe Biden appears daily more incoherent and lost, the left on spec has resorted to warning the nation about all the supposedly catastrophic consequences of a future Trump presidency.

"Ironically, the left seems oblivious to the reality that one reason Trump leads Biden in the polls is precisely because voters can compare the four-year record of the prior Trump presidency to Biden’s last 40 months.

"Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that Trump will conspire with oil executives to spike gasoline prices. But even after Biden drained the strategic petroleum reserve before the 2022 midterms and is now again doing the same as the 2024 election approaches, gas prices have averaged only one-third cheaper than under Trump.

"Trump tried to top off the reserve but was blocked by Democrats in Congress. Nevertheless, he left Biden a nearly full reservoir of 638 million barrels (about 90 percent full), which Biden has now drained by some 270 million barrels to the present 51 percent full—and the levels are falling further as voting nears.

"We are warned that 77-year-old Trump looks haggard after his long hours in court. He seems sleepy, we are told. He has aged terribly, the media tell us. But polls show that concern over Biden’s dementia greatly outweighs normal worry over septuagenarian candidate Trump.

"Why would any sane pro-Biden handler bring up Trump’s supposed gait or occasional forgotten word when that only reminds the public of the contrast with Biden, whose speeches seem delivered in something other than English and whose transcripts must be heavily edited to airbrush away his incoherence?

"We are told that Trump will increase racial tensions. Almost daily, blacks and Hispanics are warned that Trump is a racist—even as polls show that he may well receive the highest percentage of minority votes by any Republican in modern history and has some chance of winning outright the Hispanic vote. Oddly, the media is now attacking minorities on the Marxist principle of false consciousness, as if they are deluded into voting against themselves rather than being perceptive critics of the Biden disaster of high inflation, green mania, a deluge of illegal aliens, and loss of deterrence abroad.

"It was not Trump, but Biden, who, during the last election cycles, called one African-American journalist a “junkie” and warned another podcaster, “You ain’t black,” if he voted for Trump. And during his presidency, on occasion, Biden has referred to black subordinates as “boy,” uses the ossified term “Negro,” and has a long history of racist drivel and smears, from “put y’all back in chains” to referencing Barack Obama as the first “clean” and “articulate” presidential candidate to proudly reminding us that his home state of Delaware was once a “slave state." . . .”

Joe Biden spends his Memorial Day weekend celebrating George Floyd

Why cannot Democrats feel shame over what they have become? The generation that gave us Antifa and honors Hamas is the one Biden panders to here. Sadly, he may be right. As British Journalist Sophie Corcoran bitterly noted:

The Tunnel Dweller

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker

The Memorial Day weekend is on us, so quite a few people were surprised to see Joe Biden tweeting about this instead of our selfless servicemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice: . . .

George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more.
Today, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death.

He changed the world.

Now, let's act in his memory. pic.twitter.com/uPSCkxFMRs

— President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2024

. . ."Nothing good came of the death of George Floyd, a career criminal whose death, while a tragedy for him, was a pretty preventable one. As for the public, his death and the radical response, driven to some extent by Cuban and Venezuelan agents, was a disaster.

"Yet even though someone called May 25 "George Floyd Day," it's outrageous to see it cut into the Memorial Day weekend, which is a period of solemn observance for those servicemen and servicewomen who gave their lives for something good -- our country.

"Biden's nattering on about Floyd at the most inappropriate of times calls to mind that he's been pretty hellish as commander in chief. He has yet to make right the COVID vaccine mandate which drove many topflight members of the service from the service. Military housing remains dilapidated, while military paychecks have been ravaged by Bidenflation.

"Biden lost Afghanistan, leaving that country in shambles and in the hands of the Taliban while our enemies snickered. Worse still, thirteen U.S. servicemembers lost their lives at the hands of these monsters and Biden stared at his watch as their coffins were brought into the U.S. He silenced the families of these servicemembers who paid the ultimate sacrifice at his State of the Union address. And as Memorial Day rolls around, he has yet to bring up these casualties of his military incompetence, who ought to be honored on Memorial Day.

"He has since lost a major military base in Niger while U.S. troops were held hostage, gotten the U.S. mired in a war in Ukraine, and foolishly schemed to use the U.S. military to build a pier to Gaza for humanitarian aid has since seen broken off and fallen away and washed onto some Gaza beach, $350 million down the drain.

"Memorial Day is a special day, it's not to honor veterans, or first responders, however worthy they genuinely are. It's to honor the fallen in U.S. wars and nothing else." . . .

 That Biden has yet to understand this, and instead demonstrates that it's somehow about George Floyd only goes to underscore how unfit he is as commander in chief.

Biden Campaign Gets Dismantled by Tim Scott for Dishonest Ad

 Rebecca Downs (townhall.com)  

Bash segued into talking about the dishonest Biden ad by bringing up the Bronx rally that Trump held last Thursday.  

Bookworm Room

. . ."More recently, in his remarks from March, Trump was clearly talking about "a bloodbath" in the economic sense, specifically to do with the U.S. auto industry.

"Those remarks abut how he "vowed to be a dictator" were clearly made in jest, as he himself confirmed. If anyone "wants revenge on his enemies," that would be Biden, championing the criminal trials against Trump as a form of election interference. 

"That the Biden campaign would target black voters specifically with such an ad is interesting. Do they think that black voters are not informed enough to see through the lies?

"As the clip aired for CNN viewers, Scott was specifically asked "what do you say to black Americans, black voters who watch that ad and share those concerns about Donald Trump?" He's been a fitting campaign surrogate for Trump since he endorsed him for president ahead of the New Hampshire Primary in January, despite himself running for president, though he dropped out last November. This includes assisting with getting Trump support from black voters." . . .