Butler: The Riveting Untold Story of the Shooting of Donald Trump; Salena Zito’s witness to the near assassination of the president is a must-read.

 The American Spectator  

"In her fascinating insider’s account, Salena Zito talks about still much more: the Milwaukee convention, Thomas Matthew Crooks and his family, Corey Comperatore and his family, and, yes, the epic failure of the Secret Service to protect Donald Trump."

. . . "Of course, we knew right away that Trump was not killed. I still marvel at turning to my wife amid the trauma and saying, “Wow, Trump just shook his fist in the air and said, ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’” We weren’t really worried about the former president. Our concern was for our son, his friends, and the tens of thousands of others. Those bullets fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks had to hit flesh somewhere. A fatal victim was a firefighter from Buffalo Township, Corey Comperatore. My son was fine. But Corey — someone else’s son, husband, father — was not.

"I figured that my longtime friend Salena Zito — also a longtime friend of The American Spectator — was there. A fellow Pittsburgh-born, lifelong native of western Pennsylvania, who I first met when we both wrote for the late Dick Scaife’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Salena has distinguished herself as one of America’s best on-the-ground reporters with her “The Middle of Somewhere” dispatches. And no journalist knows or has covered Donald Trump like Zito. She was the one who in a September 2016 interview with Trump for the Atlantic coined the brilliant formulation: “Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally, whereas his critics take him literally but not seriously.” She predicted a Trump victory that November, claiming he would win our home state of Pennsylvania.

"Zito certainly would not have missed Trump’s Butler appearance on July 13, 2024. She attended with the intention of doing a scheduled interview after his speech. She experienced much more than an interview. She saw everything, heard everything, and then repeatedly heard from Donald Trump over the next 24 hours in an intimate way no one else did. What she experienced was so remarkable that she has written a book titled, Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.

"The book is riveting. This review cannot do it justice. I’ll underscore some highlights, but I strongly advise getting the book for yourself and for friends." . . . More...

The Judicial Tyranny of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

 Larry Elder 

. . ."Scalia, in 2007, said: "Over the past 40 or 50 years, the philosophy of a living, or evolving, Constitution has become popular. It is enormously seductive. You think everything you care about passionately is there in the Constitution. Everything comes out the way you want it to. ... (The Constitution) is not an empty bottle to be filled up by each generation. 

"How can you tell if the newest Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an "activist" judge? She admits it. Worse, she appears to think it is her job, if not her duty, to engage in (left-wing) judicial activism.

"In an interview with CBS News, Jackson explained what she hopes to accomplish in her many dissents. "I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues," she said, "and that's what I try to do." She added, "And I'm not afraid to use my voice." This sounds like a podcaster rather than a judge.

"You might be forgiven for thinking judges are supposed to interpret the law as intended by the legislature and apply the law to resolve disputes before the court.

"Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, compares the role of a justice to that of an umpire whose job is to call balls and strikes. "Judges," Roberts said, "are like umpires. They don't make the rules, they apply them." As to judges deciding cases based on policy or on "how (they) feel about the issues," on their weighing in on policy, Roberts said, "I don't think you want judges deciding cases based on what is good policy ... there are legal questions here."

"Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in her majority decision that reined in the power of district courts to impose nationwide injunctions, scolded Jackson for departing from this conventional view of the role of a judge. Barrett wrote, "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."

"Jackson's judicial philosophy mirrors that of then-Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall who described his judicial philosophy as follows, "You have to do what's right and let the law catch up." . . .

Exclusive | George Soros funneled $37M to groups backing Zohran Mamdani

 NY Post

 "George Soros’ Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled over $37M combined to the Working Families Party and other left-wing groups who helped Zohran Mamdani win NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary."

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

"That’s rich.

"Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

"Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.

"But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.

"Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP — which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo — has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.

"And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities — including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records." . . .  More...

Mamdani to 'Discourage,' Not Condemn, 'Globalize the Intifada'    "Democrat leaders in Congress have reportedly been able to push New York Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani to at least "discourage" the antisemitic "globalize the intifada" mantra – albeit stopping short of calls to condemn it.

"After public admonishments from Jewish Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Mamdani told a private New York business leaders meeting that he will not spread the "globalize the intifada" propaganda and will "discourage" others from using it, The New York Times reported.

"Past remarks refusing the condemnation of that antisemitic speech have damaged the Mamdani campaign in New York's Jewish community and led to tepid support with congressional Democrats." . . .

The Ideological Hustle Masquerading as Journalism

 Charlton Allen 

"When entire sectors of an economy depend on illegal labor, federally prohibited drugs, and resistance to immigration enforcement, the problem isn’t federal enforcement." 

“ 'Advocates say.” Two words that signal attribution—but have become a shield, a cudgel, and a journalistic sleight of hand. This phrase, and others like it, are increasingly used in what is presented as mainstream reporting but is actually laced with opinion.

"But “advocates say” is not journalism—it’s an ideological hustle that holds the truth hostage. It is, well, advocacy.

"Consider this lede from the Los Angeles Times:

A federal judge … temporarily blocked federal agents from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests that advocates say have terrorized Angelenos, forced people into hiding and damaged the local economy.

"A lot is going on in that snippet from the Times, but it is illustrative of what we are seeing more and more in mainstream media reporting on the Trump administration—particularly in the context of immigration enforcement.

"So, let’s take it apart:

• “Indiscriminate” and “racial profiling” are a legal oxymoron. If the government is targeting by race, it’s not indiscriminate. If it’s indiscriminate, it’s not targeted. You can’t have both—unless you’ve abandoned logic, emotional restraint, and the premise that words have meaning. But that contradiction doesn’t matter when emotional impact is the goal—and critical thinking has been replaced with narrative scripting. This isn’t journalism. It’s ideological storytelling, spoon-fed for mass consumption.
• “Terrorized Angelenos”? No evidence. No sourcing. Just a free-floating assertion from unnamed “advocates”—repeated uncritically as if it were fact.

"Terrorized? No. Hamas terrorizes. Hezbollah terrorizes. Al-Qaeda terrorizes. ICE enforces federal immigration law. They do not terrorize anyone by executing their duties within the bounds of the law." . . .

Charlton Allen is an attorney and former chief executive officer and chief judicial officer of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. He is founder of the Madison Center for Law & Liberty, Inc., editor of The American Salient, and host of the Modern Federalist podcast.

CA bill to let LA buy fire-destroyed lots for low-income housing

 MSN

"The Center Square) - The California Senate passed a bill to allow Los Angeles County and other municipalities to use property taxes to fund “Resilient Rebuilding Authorities" that would have to use at least 40% of their funding for building low-income housing. Senate Bill 549 now has a hearing in the state Assembly scheduled for Wednesday.

"As a funding mechanism, the bill would allow the RRA for the Los Angeles wildfires to “Issue, receive, and administer funds, including, but not limited to, tax-increment financing, federal loans and grants, state loans and grants, and philanthropic grants, to support recovery.”

"RRA-LAW would then be able to use taxpayer funds to oversee most of the construction process, and would be granted the power to “Purchase lots at a fair price for land banking,” “purchase critical construction materials in bulk,” and “Support the reconstruction workforce by partnering with trades, facilitating training and workforce development, and creating temporary workforce housing.”

"RRA-LAW would also “Facilitate reconstruction of lost rental housing stock, including by promotion of accessory dwelling units, senior-serving housing, and replacement of affordable housing lost in the fires.”

"The remaining funding could be used for “multifamily affordable housing projects,” “transit capital projects,” and “transit-oriented development projects.”

"Wednesday's hearing is set for just over a week after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the allocation of $101 million in taxpayer funds for “multifamily low-income housing development” in communities in Los Angeles devastated by the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes wildfires.

"In conjunction with the governor’s funding announcement, which provides per-unit funding of up to $450,000 in loans and up to $90,000 in grants, funding from RRA-LAW could make it easier for more income-restricted housing to be built in the Los Angeles area.

"In Los Angeles, 73% of city planning applications for new units are for income-restricted housing. In the previous four years, income-restricted housing represented only an average of 30%, meaning the latest data reflects a precipitous drop-off in production for standard, market-rate housing."

Tom Homan destroys Politico's Dasha Burns when she casts doubt on need for ICE to wear masks

‘Let Me Answer’: Tom Homan Steamrolls Reporter Who Casts Doubt On Need For ICE To Wear Masks

“The same people that are complaining about ICE wearing masks, have they ever said anything about BLM [Black Lives Matter] protesters wearing masks?”

"BURNS: "I think one of the things that's had a lot of folks up in arms is that ICE agents — unlike other law enforcement — have been masked to protect their identities. That's not something that we've really had on this scale in this country. Do you—"

HOMAN: "Well, we never had the scale of attacks on ICE we have now — up 700% attacks on ICE, doxing against ICE agents."

BURNS: "Well, you've had increased attacks on police officers as well in the wake of the defund the police movement, too. But they haven't put masks on."

HOMAN: "Name a police agency that has a 700% increase in assaults. Name one. You can't."

BURNS: "I haven't looked at that data, yeah."

HOMAN: "You won't find one. The attacks on ICE is unprecedented, 700% increased. And we're not even talking about the doxing of agents, their spouses and their children. So they're wearing masks to help give them some sort of protection."

"The same people that are complaining about ICE wearing masks, have they ever said anything about BLM protesters wearing masks?"

BURNS: "Well, I mean, that leads me to the question that like: do you have concerns that it—?"

HOMAN: "Let me answer though. Let me answer. Did they ever say anything about the masked protesters that became criminals on college campuses that threatened Jewish students and took over buildings, destroyed property? They were all wearing masks."

"Did anybody pass legislation saying they can't wear a mask during a protest? No."

"I support ICE wearing masks ... there needs to be some level of protection because the attacks is unprecedented."

"They're trying to make this country safe again — and they're being vilified for it and attacked for it."

"Zero tolerance on this."

@DailyCaller

Divine Justice? Schiff Criminal Referral Accuses Him of Same Thing Dems Prosecuted Trump For

 Western Journal  

"This karmically satisfying incident is poetic justice for Schiff, who has never been punished for shamelessly pushing the bogus Russian-collusion hoax."

 

"In a farcical irony, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California could face criminal prosecution for financial real-estate fraud — something Democrats had toothlessly accused President Donald Trump of doing.

"As a reminder, Trump was not criminally charged in the 2022 civil lawsuit filed by left-wing New York Attorney General Letitia James.

"In contrast, Schiff could be criminally prosecuted and faces a potential jail sentence of 20 years.

"William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, made the criminal referral in a May 27 letter to the Justice Department, but the allegations were made public this week.

"In his letter, Pulte said, Schiff “has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property.” 

" In a nutshell, Schiff — a resident of California — is accused of falsely claiming his Maryland home was his primary residence in order to get a lower interest rate.

" 'Mr. Schiff appears to have falsified records in order to receive favorable loan terms, and also appears to have been aware of the financial benefits of a primary residence mortgage when compared to a secondary residence mortgage,” Pulte wrote in his criminal referral letter to the DOJ.

"In 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013, Schiff refinanced his Maryland home and listed it as his “principal residence.”

"At the same time, he simultaneously listed his California condo as his primary residence in separate financing documents.

"If these allegations are true, Pulte said, it appears Schiff committed the following federal crimes:  

• Bank fraud.
• Making false statements to a financial institution.
• Wire fraud.
• Mail fraud.

More here...     Let me confess that this one was hard to believe but some hoaxes are hard to let go. This is from Miranda Devine, a lady known for crashing a hoax or two.   

I guess that this is, as Miss Devine points out, a reflection of where we get the news. It's hard for some to shut off that network with a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Who is also going to tell these Democrats that the reporter they've been reading won a Pulitzer for peddling something based on a lie?     

The party of ‘compassion and caring’ extends neither if you disagree with them.

American Spectator  

"I am not sure what will become of a party that, despite its declarations of compassion and caring, time and time again allows unfettered hunger for hatred to delude rational thinking." 

 "Just when I thought the lefties reached rock bottom, they resurface with creative catastrophes that I couldn’t have dreamed up in my most degenerate dreams.

"I’ve gotten used to dodging bullets fired from those I used to consider friendly acquaintances, if not friends, over the past few years, but recently, the posts and comments I’m reading on social media have left even me speechless. “She has gone full Heritage Foundation and doesn’t care,” someone I don’t really know commented on an article I wrote concerning women in politics. Considering Heritage is my employer, I can affirm this is a factual statement. However, the rest left my jaw agape. “But she will care when they take away her laptop and cut off her finger for reading and writing. Women who sell out women are vile.” Pardon me for a moment while I alert our HR department that half of our company is in jeopardy of losing limbs!

"Another former colleague posted an article on Facebook from some random internet site I’ve never heard of called “Raw Story,” which, I am sure, is known for its non-partisan, award-winning journalism. The title of the piece? “Evangelical church urges Trump admin to ‘execute’ LGBTQ Americans.” I chuckled to myself. No one of sound mind would take this headline seriously. But my Facebook friend’s comment on the piece was even more hysterical. “Like all the sane people in America told you. First they come for one group. Then it keeps getting bigger. As a person who had family and friends escape the holocaust. We are telling you. This is just the beginning. To those who voted for this, a big FU.” Remind me, please, how they are the sane ones.

"It takes a decent amount of self-control not to fire back at posts that are this stupid. Sometimes, I become particularly snarky and fire off a response like “OMG. I was just down on the White House front lawn and you should see the camps they are building for all the gays!” Other times, I have the urge to explain that two of Trump’s top cabinet officials are gay and that he is more liberal than conservative, particularly when it comes to social policy. However, I know any efforts to appeal to their rational mind will be futile. If they ever had one, Trump has killed it.

"Increasingly, I simply feel grateful that God pulled me out of the cesspool of progressive ideology that deludes the mind and corrupts the heart." . . .

"Newsom isn’t the boss. He’s not the guy who owns the plantation. He’s more like the overseer."

 Gavin Newsom Is Now the Simon Legree of Modern American Politics

"Until it happened in real life, the idea that California’s governor would have come out publicly in defense of child trafficking and forced labor on illegal drug farms in his state would have been relegated to the dustbin of the absurd.

"But of course, the absurd is real life in Gavin Newsom’s California…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media Thursday to bash a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California, where agents clashed with protesters and sprayed tear gas.

“Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum,” Newsom wrote on X in response to a video from KTLA of protesters and apparent targets of the raid running from tear gas sprayed by officers in Camarillo, Calif.

Trump administration officials hit back at the governor’s comment.

“Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?” the account for the Department of Homeland Security replied.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said 10 minors in the country illegally were found at the facility, which he said is “now under investigation for child labor violations.”

“This is Newsom’s California,” Scott wrote. 

"And when the absurd rears its head, it’s rightly ridiculed by the sane"

. . ."The President of Glass House Farms, the cannabis farm that federal immigration authorities raided in California on Thursday despite protests, has donated thousands to Democrats in California.Co-founder, president, and board director Graham Farrar, who self-identifies on social media as residing in Santa Barbara, California, has made numerous political donations to the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee’s federal political action committee and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., according to Federal Election Commission records.According to California public campaign finance records, he also donated $10,000 to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018, and his most recent public political donation was to California Democratic Assemblymember Gregg Hart in July 2023."

…

“ 'The rhetoric does not match the reality,” Ingoglia told Politico. That's the Democrat party in a nutshell, right there." RedState

 "We've noted before that today’s Democrats are operating with a mental deficit. A new poll further confirms they are a broken people. While it’s good for a cheap laugh, because they are often smug, condescending and hateful to those who disagree with them, their fragile psychological state poses a threat to the republic."

Is There No Cure For Democrats’ Derangement?  . . ."In other words, there was nothing to investigate, because the entire rancid stew was concocted to drive Trump from the presidency. “President Obama” and then-CIA Director John Brennan “knew before the FBI opened up on that information that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton,” says John Solomon, chief executive and editor in chief of Just the News.

"Much of the blame for the Democrats’ belief in the myth goes to the press, which put its full faith in the fraudulent story and convinced tens of millions of readers, viewers and listeners that Trump was, if not a Russian agent, a collaborator with Moscow in a plan to ensure his election. Two legacy outlets, the New York Times and Washington Post even shared a Pulitzer Prize for covering a lie as if it were the truth. They won’t return the prize and the craven Pulitzer board won’t rescind it.

"Of course the Democrats chose then as they choose now to believe a big lie. It’s consistent with their dark personality qualities, their “high narcissistic and psychopathic traits,” their penchant for always looking for “opportunities for positive self-presentation and displays of moral superiority, to gain social status, to dominate others, and to engage in social conflicts and aggression to satisfy their need for thrill seeking.”

"Democrats even admit they need help – 45% of those who say they’re liberals believe they have poor mental health. Only only one in five say their mental health is excellent and just one in four say it is very good." . . .

A Spectre Is Haunting the Democrats: The Spectre of Communism   . . ."That sounds quite similar to accusations Democrats have hurled at Republicans over the years: “How dare you question my patriotism,” and all that. As the Democrats’ policies grew progressively more anti-American, the gang of hacks, DEI hires, and grifters that once proudly styled itself as the Party of Jefferson and Jackson did everything it could to make people think pointing out that increasingly obvious fact was both ridiculous and offensive. And so, ever fewer people have dared to do so, even as it became even more obvious that hating America and having a taste for Marxism went with being a Democrat like arrogance and self-righteousness went with being Barack Obama." . . .  Robert Spencer

Why the left, from normal Dems to Antifa, have lost their collective minds 

..."Jeffries harangued Congress for eight hours; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker went on for 25 — both to no effect. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hit the rally trail in private jets to rail about oligarchs, omitting that the ultra-rich are not only mostly leftists but also the funders of the Democratic Party.Sometimes the Democrats in Congress make bizarre videos, featuring profanity like f—k or s—t. On other occasions, they scream and interrupt Congress."

"Finally, the left is outraged that so far, the Trump counterrevolution is working.

"The economy is solid. The border is closed. Military recruitment has radically recovered.

"The budget bill has passed. The Iranian nuclear threat has lessened. NATO is strengthening. The Middle East has a chance for calm.

"Tariffs did not cause inflation. Deportations created more, not fewer, American jobs. Biological men will likely no longer be winning women’s athletic contests." . . .

How do we explain the left’s hatred of America and their undying affection for criminal illegals?

Patricia McCarthy  

"Trump’s re-election has turned the left into mind-numbed blithering idiots; protectors of all manner of criminal invaders – murderers, rapists, pedophiles, etc." 

"There can no longer be any doubt that the Democrat party not only hates America as founded, they mean to re-imagine our nation as a socialist/communist country it was never meant to be.  

"As many others have observed, the Democrat party has moved so far to the left, they are embracing socialist/communist Zorhan Mamdani, to take just one example.

"Our mis-educated youth has been so thoroughly indoctrinated for the last two generations, taught to hate the country that is the freest in the world, and to systematically undermine everything that has made America great over the last 249 years, they have no concept of how they have been misled. 

"They do not know what socialism is, what fascism is, nor do they have an inkling of what communism is about (100 million lives lost to it in the 20th century, with millions more driven into exile), and yet the young people of New York came out to vote for an Islamic communist without their having a shred of understanding of what communism is, what Islamo-fascism is.  

"If Mamdani wins, they will find out. 

"He is a fraud who will pretend to be whatever and whoever he thinks will gain him a position of power.

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”  --Voltaire

"If there is anything that has been made clear of late, it is that the Democrat party has morphed into a Marxist organization that not only supports violence but encourages it with gusto.  

"They want to see blood spilled, preferably law enforcement blood but a martyr's blood would serve their purpose even more.  

"They are supporting the vicious, recruited and well-paid protesters who show up to attack ICE, the Border Patrol, local police and sheriffs." . . .  

Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points to destroy Trump and Republicans and to elect Democrats  

"The Democrats are the ones who want to dictate what kind of cars, trucks, appliances, health care, and energy that people are allowed to use, not Trump. Trump wants to give freedom of choice to the people and private sector on all these things."

More wisdom from Melanie Phillips: Why the West Fell for the Palestinian Lie

Matan Hasidim  "Melanie Phillips is a British-Jewish author and journalist, known for her ideological journey from the liberal left to the conservative right. She is a frequent guest on international podcasts and media channels.

"To watch my full conversation with her, click here: • מלאני פיליפס: "המערב החילוני מתאבד אל מול ...  

"Among her books are "Londonistan" (2006), which warned of the Islamization of Britain, and "The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power" (2010), on the dangers of secularism and the collapse of Western identity. Her latest book, "The Builder's Stone: How Christians & Jews Built the West", was published in 2025." #israelnews #israel #israelhamaswar

Nova survivor recounts her experience with Palestinians on Oct 7th: