Prosecutors file alleged letter from Trump suspect: 'This was an assassination attempt'

 Zach Schonfeld (thehill.com)  

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"The suspect being investigated in the recent apparent assassination attempt of former President Trump wrote a letter detailing his plans months prior, prosecutors alleged in court documents filed Monday.

" 'Dear world, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” the alleged letter reads

"Prosecutors said Ryan Routh, the 58-year-old suspect, put the letter inside a box and dropped it off with an unnamed witness “several months” before he pushed the muzzle of a rifle through the perimeter of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida on Sept. 15. 

"The witness only opened the box, which also contained ammunition and other letters, after learning of the incident.

"The filing also revealed that Routh’s phone pinged cell towers near Trump’s golf course and Mar-a-Lago for nearly a month in the lead-up to the incident.  When searching Routh’s car, authorities also purportedly found a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump had appeared or was expected to be present. 

" 'Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less as US president. U.S. presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity,” it reads. 

"A photo of the first page of the letter was attached as part of prosecutors’ written arguments for why Routh should continue to be detained. He is scheduled to appear in court later Monday for a detention hearing." . . .

Ilhan Omar says thousands of Haitian migrants overrunning Springfield actually revived town. Wait! Who?

In Islam, her words can be called "Taqiyya", can they not? TD

 Harold Hutchison (alphanews.org)

Residents of Springfield interviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation outlined how the community has struggled to handle the influx of migrants.

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. . .“ 'These are people who have revived and breathed a new life into a community that was desperately seeking change,” Omar continued. “The kind of, the kind of ways in which their new employers and their new neighbors describe them is what every immigrant, when they come to this country, wants to be described. That they are hardworking, that they are warm, that they are friendly, that they are excited to be part of this new community that they find themselves. Because ultimately, that is what immigrants do and we should know that as a nation of immigrants.”

"The Biden administration has allowed migrants from Haiti to come into the U.S. via the “CHNV” program, which allows Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to receive parole and enter the country by plane, even if they might not normally receive visas, according to the America First Policy Center.

“We should know what it means for our country to have that renewed promise every single day of being a beacon of hope, of providing that opportunity,” Omar said. “And for us to want to be seen by the world as such and not be seen through the lens of small men like Trump and J.D. Vance, who have so much insecurities, that instead of uplifting people that they want to put them down. So I am so proud to be in this body with colleagues who have the bravery, the courage and the backbone to say we are not going to allow in our name for our Haitian siblings to come into this country and face this derogatory, demeaning narrative.”

"While the DCNF has been unable to corroborate reports of pets being stolen and eaten, Ohio Republican Attorney General Dave Yost defended the citizens making the reports in a Sept. 11 post on X." . . .

Democrats Rush to Rashida Tlaib’s Rescue Over Cartoon Depicting Her With Exploded Pager

  Stacey Matthews (legalinsurrection.com) 

"The bad news is the Outrage Mob is continuing to do its thing. Hopefully, NRO won’t back down in the face of demands for an apology/retraction."

"The story of the exploding pagers and how they wreaked absolute havoc on Hezbollah terrorists last week will be studied, analyzed, and debated long after anyone reading this is gone.

“ 'The attack on the militant and political group Hezbollah via exploding pagers and walkie-talkies this week, widely believed to be conducted by Israel, was a novel use of a well-trodden spy tactic and a devastating intelligence blow to Hezbollah, ” NBC News reported after interviews with warfare and intelligence experts.

"The tactic, of course, was condemned by The Usual Suspects including members of the so-called “Squad” of anti-Israel radicals in Congress like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who called it “disgusting” and retweeted a post from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who declared “This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict.”

"Two days later, cartoonist Henry Payne shared the following cartoon on his Twitter/X page, which featured Tlaib acting shocked that her pager had exploded:" . . .

Iconic American Company Shutters Its Last Full Size Store, Marking End of an Era

  TFPP Wire 

"With only a downsized store remaining in Miami, Kmart’s journey from a retail powerhouse to near oblivion is a brutal reminder of the relentless pace of change in the retail sector and the necessity for businesses to adapt or face extinction."

 "The last full-size Kmart store in the continental United States will close its doors for the last time in October, according to a new report from Fox Business. According to reports, the Bridgehampton, New York store, operational for the past 25 years, will cease operations on October 20th. This closure highlights the end of an era for the once-dominant retailer, leaving only a reduced-size store in Miami as the sole Kmart in the continental U.S., alongside three locations in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Key Facts:  

– The final full-size Kmart in Bridgehampton, New York is closing on October 20.

– Post-closure, the only remaining Kmart in the continental U.S. will be a downsized store in Miami.
– Kmart, under the ownership of Transformco, still maintains three stores in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
– The first Kmart opened in 1962; the company has since faced multiple bankruptcies, the most recent in 2018.

The Rest of The Story:  "The closure of the last full-size Kmart in the continental U.S. represents a significant decline from the chain’s peak in the early 1990s, when it boasted around 2,300 locations. The Bridgehampton store, which has been a community staple for a quarter-century, is set to shut down, according to a report from Newsday, citing store employees.

"This move will make the Miami store, which now occupies a fraction of its original size in the Kendale Lakes Plaza, the last standing Kmart in mainland America. Kimco Realty Corp., the real estate company that owns the shopping centers housing these stores, confirmed the upcoming closure.

Commentary:  "This latest closure is emblematic of Kmart’s inability to evolve with the changing times, signifying the end of an era for what was once a retail titan.

"Kmart’s decline has been long and fraught with challenges, including multiple bankruptcies and an ill-fated merger with Sears.

"Their inability to adapt to new retail models and consumer preferences has left them trailing far behind competitors who embraced digital transformation and more agile business strategies." . . .

Please do not interrupt; I'm speaking!

 

AfterMath

'Nobody Trust Oprah': Oprah’s Kamala Harris Interview Sparks Chaos from Trump Fanatics, Forcing Her to Lock Down Comments (atlantablackstar.com)

(Excerpt). . ."However, the comment section quickly devolved into a battleground for political rhetoric, with Trump supporters flooding in. “One billionaire and one millionaire telling us we can’t trust the Rich,” read one comment, while another added, “This will be a pass. No more respect for Oprah and never had any for Kamala.” "Fanatics" = voters; TD

Kamala Harris left ‘grasping for answers’ after ‘softball’ Oprah interview

Kamala Harris hit for being vague, dodging questions in recent interviews: 'She owes us these answers' | Fox News  "The WSJ's Peggy Noonan said Harris 'couldn't or wouldn't answer a single question straight' "

Kamala Harris panned online for delivering rambling remarks during Oprah event: 'Unbelievable CRINGE'

. . ."Critics online accused the vice president of offering rambling commentary that didn't seem to have much substance. 

"Oprah is looking at this moron thinking, "What the sh*t is she saying?" Unbelievable CRINGE," author Juanita Broaddrick wrote on Thursday.

" 'The fact that she is within 20 points of Trump is a depressingly sad commentary on the state of our body politic and the media that poisons it,," attorney David Limbaugh wrote. "Stunning."

" 'To call this pablum is an insult to pablum," ReaclClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan said on Friday. 

HARRIS TELLS OPRAH ANYONE BREAKING INTO HER HOME IS 'GETTING SHOT:' 'PROBABLY SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT'

" 'This might just be the most spectacular two minutes of Kamala’s nonsensical wisdom I have ever heard," political commentator Kate Hyde wrote on Thursday.

"Writer Steve Skojec also responded to the video on Thursday: "I can't. I can't do it. I made it 17 seconds and I just cannot continue.' " . . .

James Woods ...Hilariously BRUTAL Cartoon – Twitchy   "Every time Kamala Harris or Tim Walz say something about 'not going back' anyone with half a brain in the heads should see a giant red flag. Going back to what, exactly? Secure borders? Safer communites? A booming economy? Job growth? Women's spaces and sports protected? Peace? Prosperity?  Why WOULDN'T we want to go back to that?" . . .

Kamala's Celebrity Brigade and Their Reasons for Supporting Her Show Just How Out of Touch She Is  

"Meanwhile there was very little policy or answers from Harris, just a bunch of word salads, as I reported earlier. And they can't get around the fact that she's been in office now and has only made things worse. You can't pretend to be the "new" candidate when you're essentially the incumbent." 

Our So-called ‘Experts’ and their Silly Group-speak Letters; Victor Davis Hanson

As a general rule, anytime we read an election-cycle solicited letter from retired functionaries, replete with their grandiose former titles, we should completely discount it.VDH

American Greatness

They inevitably were rounded up by politicos. The signees in many cases are likely angling for a return to government; in others, they are loudly virtue-signaling—and in nearly all instances, are usually wrong but will never issue a second letter of apology when their concocted expertise and pretentiousness are thoroughly discredited by subsequent events.

"One of the most preposterous recent trends has been the political use of supposed expert letters and declarations of support from so-called “authorities.”

"These pretentious testimonies of purported professionalism are different from the usual inane candidate endorsements from celebrities and politicos.

"Instead, they are used by politicians to impress and persuade the public to follow the “expertise,” “science,” or “authorities” to support all sorts of injurious initiatives and policies—of dubious value and otherwise without much political support.

"Think of all the health experts who collectively swore to us that the COVID mRNA vaccinations would give us ironclad and lasting protection from being either infectious or infected and were without any side effects.

"Other “authorities” assured us the first nationwide lockdown in U.S. history would stop COVID without hurting the social or economic life of the country.

"Ditto testimonies about the pangolin-bat origins of COVID or the authenticity of the bogus Steele dossier.

"Do we still remember the 1,200 healthcare “professionals” who in June 2020 told us that hitting the streets in mass numbers to protest during the post-George Floyd riots was a legitimate exemption from their own prior insistence on a complete nationwide quarantine? Or as these ideologues lectured us as “experts”:

" 'We wanted to present a narrative that prioritizes opposition to racism as vital to the public health, including the epidemic response. We believe that the way forward is not to suppress protests in the name of public health but to respond to protesters demands in the name of public health.”

"To convince the public to get behind the agendas of politicians—increasingly on the left—ideologues round up groups of politically kindred professors, researchers, retired officials, and former bureaucrats to show off their supposed expertise and convince the public by means of their “authority”." . . .   Sen. Rubio discusses gaslighting

Clueless or Deluded? 700 'National Security Officials' Release Letter Endorsing Kamala Harris – RedState   "Of all the things that Kamala Harris is unfit to do, of all the duties she should never be entrusted with, commander-in-chief of the American armed forces and the national intelligence apparatus has to be at the top of the list. That is not, however, preventing over 700 "national security officials" from endorsing her in her POTUS run. That's an endorsement that is almost as chilling as her endorsement by the tax collectors union." . . .

"Vice President Harris, if we're being perfectly honest, has no leadership qualities whatsoever. She is not prepared. In the few softball interviews she has done, she has yet to give one direct answer, even to the list of carefully prepared softball questions she has had gently lobbed at her. Even in her one debate with former President Trump, her "rebuttals" were weak - not one direct answer, not one unambiguous policy position." . . . 

Nine of Those 'Intelligence Experts' Who Just Endorsed Kamala Signed False Hunter Laptop Disinfo Letter

 Bob Hoge RedState

. . ."Ward Clark wrote in his story about the Harris endorsement, titled appropriately enough, “Clueless or Deluded? 700 'National Security Officials' Release Letter Endorsing Kamala Harris” . . .

"The second I read the headline about 700 former national security and military officials endorsing Kamala Harris for president, I thought, “Were any of them the same ones who signed the infamous, duplicitous letter in October 2020—right before the election—that claimed Hunter Biden’s lurid laptop was likely Russian disinformation?”

"It was a lie, and many if not all of those 51 “experts” knew it. To this day, most make no apology for their attempts to gaslight the public and affect the outcome of a presidential election:

"Not surprisingly, the answer to my question above is “yes.” Nine of those miscreants signed on to the Kamala Harris endorsement. Not surprisingly, one of the most dishonest men in public life is one of the them—none other than former CIA Director John Brennan. He’s joined by his equally ethically challenged cohorts, former CIA Director Leon Panetta and former DNI James Clapper. Here are all nine:

• former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper
• former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden
• former CIA Director Leon E. Panetta
• former CIA Director John Brennan
• former Acting CIA Director John E. McLaughlin 
• former CIA chief of staff Laurence M. Pfeiffer
• former Department of Defense chief of staff Jeremy Bash
• CIA chief of station John Sipher
• former National Intelligence Council Chair Gregory Frye Treverton. . . .

No Shame: Intel Officials Who Signed Hunter Laptop 'Russian Disinformation' Letter Call It 'Patriotic'

Response From Intel Letter Signers Tells You Everything You Need to Know

Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explodes over Detroit News cartoon mocking notorious Israel-hating Congressman Rashida Tlaib

 The Gateway Pundit (barenakedislam.com)  

Security sources confirmed that the devices were the latest models used by Hezbollah and were thought to be critical in their communications amidst their war efforts against Israel.

. . . "On Friday, AOC lost her ‘mind’ over a cartoon published in The Detroit News that referenced the pager incident. The cartoon in question showed notorious anti-Semitic congresswoman Rashida Talib (D-MI) looking at a blown-up pager on her desk. She quips: “Odd. My pager just exploded.”

"The purpose of the cartoon was not to promote racism but to likely make a point about Talib’s pro-terror sympathies while referencing a prominent worldwide event. But AOC just saw it as an attack on all Muslims and pitched a fit over it on X.

“The way Islamophobia and anti-Arab hatred is so deeply normalized and accepted in our politics is horrifying,” AOC whined.

“It rarely receives the equal condemnation it deserves, she added. It is inexcusable and a massive double standard.

“This is disgusting. And so is the silence around it. We see it.” . . .

The flag of those who want Israel destroyed.

Former Israeli PM responds to AOC scolding Israel for attacks on Hezbollah 

Video:  This is a very professional interview by Martha; well done. And by Bennett; he represents his nation and the essentials of the conflict with reason and objectivity.

After Two Failures, "They" Are Getting Desperate

Dems Are One Step Short Of Offering A Bounty On Trump (DianeLGruber)

Democrat Activist Ryan W. Routh: “Iran, you are free to assassinate Trump. No one here in the United States seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work, or even unnatural selection.” 

"From the minute Donald J. Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, Democrats, Big Media, and all types of Useful Idiots have been demonizing him, daily, with such nonsensical labels as “Hitler,” “Satan,” “threat to democracy,” virtually begging the nutwings among them to become historical figures by “taking out” Trump."

"Democrats have been promoting & funding political violence for well over a decade now. Sunday’s second assassination attempt on Trump can only be seen as a symptom of the hate and vitriol Democrats at the highest levels, the lowest levels and everywhere in between, have been spewing at him for eight years now.

"Before the latest assassination attempt, Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-FL, met with a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who said that there are at least five known assassination teams in the United States right now, “at least three of which are foreign that are out to kill Trump . . . two of them we know are domestic in nature, . . . Iran, Ukraine, Pakistan.” YET THE SECRET SERVICE DID NOT INCREASE HIS LEVEL OF PROTECTION!!!  WHO IS FUNDING THE DOMESTIC HIT TEAMS?

“THEY” WANT TRUMP DEAD

“ 'They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you,” Trump said after the first attempt. “I’m just standing in the way.”

“They” have been coming after Trump since he won the 2016 election, and soon thereafter “they” started coming after Trump supporters.

“ 'They” can’t stand it when Trump exposes how Americans are being abused. THAT is why they are still lying about the hell Americans in Springfield, Ohio and Aurora, Colorado are living through due to Biden/Harris’s importation of 21 million foreign nationals. There are thousands of neighborhoods across the country that are intentionally being destroyed under Biden/Harris’s replacement plans." . . . All emphases in the original

ABC's Trump fact check blows up

 Mike McDaniel - American Thinker 

 Friday afternoon, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called on Muir, the anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” to “issue an immediate public apology to President Trump for wrongly and rudely fact checking him on the debate stage.”

"Crime rates are on the ballot in November. Donald Trump won’t be
 holding his breath while waiting for Muir’s apology."

"Now infamously, ABC’s David Muir, during the Trump/Harris debate, “fact checked” Donald Trump’s assertion that crime rates had increased under the Harris/Biden Administration, arrogantly sniffing they were decreasing. That was only one of several ludicrously false “fact checks” against Trump, as opposed to no fact checks at all against Harris. What a surprise. It was only a few days later that the truth came out, but first, let’s explore some of the reasons why statistics, particularly those of the FBI, are blatantly false.

"At one time, the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR) was the gold standard of crime statistics, but that hasn’t been true for a very long time, and during the Harris/Biden years, the FBI’s reporting has become purposely inaccurate.

"Part of the reason for this is the success of “Defund the Police” lunacy. Particularly in blue cities, cutting police budgets has created a crime doom loop. Wages comprise most of any police budget. Cut the budget, and officers are fired. Firing officers for political reasons makes recruiting qualified candidates virtually impossible. It also causes officers who can retire to pull the pin, and forces others to flee to states where police officers are allowed to do their jobs. Stuck with DEI mandates and few or no qualified candidates, blue city police forces dramatically reduce hiring standards, accepting even people with drug and alcohol abuse histories and criminal records.

"The officers that remain are grossly overworked and have high incidences of illness and stress. Overtime goes through the roof, depleting city coffers. Those blue cities also tend to harass and prosecute officers for doing their jobs, while simultaneously denying them necessary and constitutional tools like stop and frisk, so in self-defense remaining officers tend to do as little as possible, and particularly avoid contact with black criminals, who tend to commit the most crimes, largely against honest black people." . . .

Levitation 101; Illusion

Victory for the Democrats will depend on the perpetuation of the illusion that Kamala Harris is in any way a plausible candidate for the presidency of the United States.

  Roger Kimball › American Greatness 

"Even Winfrey, a prominent anti-Trump Harris supporter, seemed taken aback by her guest’s incoherent flights of flaccid, cringe-making glossolalia. Harris supporters just winced and bit their tongues while critics pounced upon and ridiculed the seeping, leaking emission of empty saccharine vocables." 

Toon added by TD

"Every honest commentator, and even some dishonest ones, acknowledges the supreme oddity of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

"As has been oft remarked,  the oddity begins with the campaign’s origin.  Exactly how is it that Kamala Harris even became the candidate?  By what process was Joe Biden, the undisputed winner of the Democratic primary, ousted, eliminated and defenestrated from contention?  The rumors and stories are plentiful, but the actual facts—to say nothing of the dramatis personae behind the facts—remain obscure.

"But somehow, exactly two months ago, Joe Biden raised his sleepy head in Rehoboth Beach and announced his departure from the campaign but not, pointedly, from the presidency. (Will that happen before January 20, 2025?  I wonder.)

"No sooner had the public begun to get its head around that surprise than they were hit with an even bigger one: Biden’s replacement would be Vice President Kamala Harris.  How did that happen?  Who voted for her? Shhh!  Some questions are mood breakers, and it was clear from the get-go that the Harris campaign was going to have to depend heavily, some experts say nearly exclusively, on mood.

"In the weeks since July 21, when Biden made his fateful announcement, there has been a lot of Dr. Johnson’s dog about the Harris campaign.  When it came to female preachers, Dr. Johnson said, we are reminded of dogs who can walk on their hind legs.  They do not do it well, but we are surprised they can do it at all.

"Mindful of Harris’s, er, challenges in public speaking and responding ex tempore to questions from interviewers,  her handlers have been assiduous about keeping her out of such dangerous situations. The more she vocalizes (I almost said “talks”), the more damage she does to her candidacy. Her embarrassing performance on a ninety-minute livestream exchange with Oprah Winfrey in Detroit a few days ago underscored the problem." . . .

Why We Inherently Despise Kamala Harris; Even her handlers know she is not capable.

"Harris, though despicable and contemptuous, may cackle and slither her way to the top, G-d forbid. Taylor Swift’s fans on TikTok will find their dreams come true. And so will Kim Jung Un, Vladimir Putin, Xi of China, and the mullahs of Iran."  Dov Fischer

The American Spectator

Dov Fischer    . . ."Most Republicans cannot fairly be described as having despised Harry Truman. Or Adlai Stevenson. Or John Kennedy. Or Lyndon Johnson. Hate? Maybe. But visceral despising? No. Nor Hubert Humphrey. Nor George McGovern. McGovern was more pathetic, not despicable in his gut. The man was a WWII air force fighter.

"Jimmy Carter? That was disgust, not hate per se. Walter Mondale — pitiful. Michael Dukakis — pathetic. Bill Clinton — slick and slippery. Al Gore — loathsome. John Kerry — imperious, narcissistic, arrogant. Even Biden — simply beneath contempt.

"But this past decade has presented the first time in a century or so that a Democrat opponent could be termed “despicable.” There were: (i) Obama (If you don’t adore him and worship him, you despise him.); (ii) Hillary, (whom no one adored or worshipped, but was impossible not to despise), and (iii) our present focus, Kamala Harris.

"No fair Republican despises the likes of more worthy Democrat presidential contenders, whose views are anathema to true conservatives, like Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, or others of that ilk. But Harris, for those who do not worship her, leaves no middle ground other than to be deeply despised. But why?" . . .