The war with Iran; Yesterday's Israeli strikes revealed a new strategy that's now beginning to unfold

 Melanie Phillips: Substack

"According to Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, head of the Israel Defence and Security Forum (a group composed of robust Israeli military and security analysts), the US election on November 5 is a crucial factor in Israel’s next moves."       (Emphasis mine. TD)

"This morning, people have been trying to work out the significance of the Israeli strikes on Iran that were carried out in the early hours of yesterday.

"Given that Israel didn’t strike Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities, oil terminals or members of the Iranian regime, in line with the enormous American pressure to limit such an attack, some people have leapt to the conclusion that although this was a tactical success it was a strategic failure in not striking a decisive blow against Tehran. 

"Such an assessment is distinctly premature.

"First, it’s important to register the scale of the achievement. Israel openly attacked Iran in a complex operation involving 100 fighter jets over a distance which presents significant challenges. Iran’s air defences were simply brushed aside and then crippled along with its missile and drone production capabilities. Iran has now been shown to be widely exposed to Israeli attack and its capacity for retaliation has been diminished.

"Although Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stated that the US didn’t dictate Israel’s targets, the Israel Air Force operated entirely within the red lines set down by the Biden administration. 

"Yet Israel may have achieved what it needed to do at this stage, given a range of factors that have a direct bearing on the urgency of neutralising the threat from Tehran while minimising the likelihood of acute damage to Israeli lives in any possible Iranian response. 

"The targets struck by the Israel Air Force were far from negligible. The New York Times, quoting three Iranian and three senior Israeli defence officials, reports that targets for attack included defences at the Bandar Imam Khomeini petrochemical complex in Khuzestan Province, at the major economic port Bandar Imam Khomeini, and at the Abadan oil refinery. Air-defence systems were also struck in Ilam Province, at the Tange Bijar gas refinery.

"Such strategic targeting, which reportedly shocked Iran, carries a double message: first, as a deterrent against further Iranian aggression, and second, as the essential precursor to a far more significant attack.

Michelle, do you recall how this country elected Barack, pampered you all, celebrated you, and pretty much spoiled you rotten?

Legal Insurrection

"And how have those Democratic "grown-ups" in the White House worked out? Not very well, to our great chagrin, which is why people want to vote them out." 

Toon added by TD

"Michelle Obama is another one who just cannot accept the fact that VP Kamala Harris sucks.

"I really think the Obamas think she’s great. Therefore, racism and sexism have to be the reason why she’s not demolishing former President Donald Trump:

I got to ask myself, “Well, why on earth is this race even close?” I lay awake at night wondering what in the world is going on. And it’s clear to me that the question isn’t whether Kamala is ready for this moment because by every measure, she has demonstrated that she’s ready.

The real question is, as a country, are we ready for this moment?

"Lady, get over yourself."

Having realized that their candidate is horrible, Michelle Obama has decided that the best strategy is to suggest that Americans are racist and sexist for not supporting Kamala Harris.

This is what a losing campaign looks like.

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 26, 2024

In the next few days we expect to take this schtick to "The View", Colbert, and MSNBC. TD

Obama said they were ready to turn the page on the politics of division when they have been the chief proponents of such politics

"Now it's Michelle Obama's turn. Once again, just like her husband, what you got was someone who was angry, preaching at you, and telling a fantasyland of falsehoods about her "dear friend," Kamala Harris."

Wow. Michelle Obama blatantly lies on stage while campaigning for Kamala Harris:
"[Kamala's] not ducking interviews or cowering in safe spaces only with fawning audiences." pic.twitter.com/QroUlZ0IRJ

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 26, 2024

. . ." This is the person who hid herself and wouldn't do an interview for weeks. She hasn't faced her "harshest critics." She's concealed herself behind fawning or softball interviews, with the exception of one Fox interview where she tried to filibuster and ended up stumbling all over herself. Meanwhile, Trump has been doing interviews with everyone, including interviews Harris is ducking like the "Joe Rogan Experience." She's not seeking out Republicans to find common ground. No, she's finding "Republicans" like Liz Cheney, who have already thrown in with the Dems, who have been rejected by other Republicans and/or voted out." . . .

Americans’ Justified Media Mistrust

"Such blatant bias from the media suggests a once respected institution has little if any standing left."

 J.T. Young  

"America’s establishment media loves to hide behind the First Amendment. However, there can be no freedom of the press if there is no freedom in the press.  No greater blow is being struck for such a freedom than Americans’ tuning out of the establishment media."

 "Recent polling shows Americans’ mistrust of establishment media at an all-time high. The only surprise is that it isn’t higher. America’s establishment media bias is so consistent that they clearly no longer just cover the news from one side, but for one side.

"Gallup recently released a poll (10/14) showing that “trust in the fourth estate — the mass media — is at a new low.” Less than one-third of Americans (31%) expressed “‘a great deal’ or ‘fair amount’ of confidence in the media to report the news ‘fully, accurately and fairly.’” In contrast, almost seven in ten Americans have “no trust at all in the media” (36%) or “not very much” confidence (33%) in the media.

"Gallup’s question was not a new one. Back in the 1970s, America’s confidence in the media was 68%-72%.  Even in the late 1990s and early 2000s, trust ranged between 51-55%. Today, Gallup finds “the news media is the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic political institutions.”

"Far from being merely a perception problem, the establishment media’s faults run far deeper. The Media Research Center has long cited numerous polls finding “journalists are much more liberal than rest of America” and that this liberal advantage is growing. These journalists report the way they lean with “most of the journalistic elite offering reflexively liberal answers to practically every question a pollster can imagine.”

"A 2022 Syracuse University survey showed that only 3.4 percent of American journalists say they are Republicans. And this summer, the Media Research Center found media coverage of Kamala Harris had been 84 percent positive, while Trump’s had been 89 percent negative.

"Certainly, Americans don’t need polls to tell them about establishment media bias; case after case exists.  There was the Russian dossier that was breathlessly reported on and used for extensive investigations by Congress. It turned out the FBI should never have undertaken a Trump-Russia probe.  Then there was case of Hunter Biden’s laptop that was treated as a hoax; only to turn out to be true and a key piece of evidence in his trial — in which he was convicted on all three charges." . . .

J.T. Young is the author of the new book, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing and has over three decades’ experience working in Congress, Department of Treasury, and OMB, and representing a Fortune 20 company.

How Democrat Lawfare Launched Trump’s Comeback

 The American Spectator  The legal war meant to end his political career actually revived it.

. . ."Then, after “defeating” him in 2020, they maligned him in the media as an aspiring dictator, raided his home, illegally removed his name from state ballots, arrested him, forced him to sit for demeaning mugshots, and convicted him based on a legal theory that most experts found laughable. This would have caused almost anyone reading this column to throw their hands up and say, “Nothing is worth this.” But he knows we are worth it."

This article is taken from The American Spectator’s fall 2024
 print magazine. 

"When Donald Trump left Washington on January 20, 2021, the consensus among our ruling elites was that his tumultuous career in politics was at an end. The Democrats, however, were taking no chances. Having impeached him just a week earlier in the House of Representatives, they were hard at work preparing to put him on trial in the Senate for “incitement of insurrection” despite the fact that he was no longer in office. They were so fearful that Trump might stage a comeback that they hoped to convict him of an offense that would forever disqualify him from holding public office at any time in the future.

"Three weeks later, the Senate began an impeachment trial that was so constitutionally questionable that Chief Justice John Roberts refused to preside over the farce. During the ensuing antics, one of Trump’s attorneys, Bruce Castor, explicitly called out the Democrats concerning their real motive for insisting on the unprecedented proceeding: “Let’s understand why we are really here. We are really here because the majority in the House of Representatives does not want to face Donald Trump as a political rival in the future.” Trump was inevitably acquitted by the Senate, and Castor proved remarkably prescient. 

"This impeachment charade was the beginning of a multi-year legal campaign, the primary purpose of which was to associate the former president, in the public psyche, with a fictitious conspiracy to undermine our democracy™ and to assure that his viability as a future presidential candidate was irreparably damaged. Trump, however, was not so easily disposed of. As Gallup reported at the time of Trump’s departure from Washington, “Republicans’ average 88% approval of Trump ties Eisenhower’s as the highest own-party approval score, though most presidents had better-than 80% approval among their fellow partisans.”

" 'Moreover, a mere five weeks after leaving office, he appeared at CPAC in Orlando, Florida, where he delivered a ninety-minute speech that made it clear that he had no intention of retiring in disgrace. Trump spoke to an enthusiastic audience that cheered when he teased a 2024 presidential run and said his political career was “far from over.” This rattled Democrats, who decided to conduct a public “investigation” of the January 6 riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed a select committee consisting of seven Democrats and two notorious RINOs, which predictably devolved into a nakedly partisan inquisition. As Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation put it:. . ."

As the Dodgers play the Series, thinking back to their tolerant glory days

Jumping ahead to the real heart of this article:

Will O'Toole  . . . "The Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees are squaring off once again in the Fall Classic, the first time the league and one-time city rivals face off in the World Series since the strike season of 1981. It’s their 12th meeting.

"Interestingly, the Yankees and Dodgers matchups have had some historical meaning. In 1947, Jackie Robinson became not just the first African American to break the color barrier in the National League for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers but became the first to play in the World Series.

"Robinson handled the pressure, stress, and anxiety with professionalism, tact, and class. Then-Dodger’s manager Branch Rickey’s choice in his pursuit of integrating baseball was a deliberate “social engineering,” a strategy that paid off with more and more black players moving from the Negro Leagues to Major League Baseball over the course of the late 1940s and 1950s." . . .

 . . ."Today, when thinking of the Dodgers, many baseball fans cannot help but think of the incident last season when the Dodgers hosted an Anti-Catholic group, “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” to their stadium. In that one brief inglorious moment, LA management forgot its past tolerance.

The Dodgers invited a group that blasphemed the tenets, beliefs and protocols of a religion and people that have had a bond with the franchise since its days in Brooklyn. This would never have occurred under the leadership of owner Walter O’Malley, the same man who respected Koufax’s faith.

According to The Angelus, the Catholic newspaper of Los Angeles, Walter O’Malley credited his Catholic faith for his success. Named “Brooklyn’s Catholic Man of the Year” in 1952, O’Malley was a daily Mass attender.

"Nor would this have occurred until the leadership of Branch Rickey or Tommy Lasorda.

"True, the Dodgers retreated, performed a “corporate mea culpa,” and engaged its Christian fans with “their own night” to celebrate a “Faith and Family Night” in Chavez Ravine. Still, for a franchise long held in esteem for its “progressive and social justice ways,” the damage has been done. Their hypocrisy is just another sad reflection on the state of sports.

"A franchise that portrayed itself as pristine, pure and perfect in all manners, methods and machinations forgot its roots not just logistical but culturally."

Mika Brzezinski takes 'crazy' to a new level. She watches too much MSNBC, I'd say

 Eric Utter   

"Ah, of course, she was referring to Trump being insufficiently thrilled by abortion. So she said: “He’s making us afraid to have babies.” This is the Mother of All Non Sequiturs."

"I thought perhaps I’d seen and heard it all, and that those on The Left couldn’t possibly attain a higher level of hypocrisy and insanity.

"I see now that I was mistaken.

"There is batsh*t crazy … and then there is Mika Brzezinski crazy.

"Mika used a recent Morning Joe broadcast on Fake News MSNBC to embark on a rant so unhinged and unmoored from reality that it boggles the mind. 

"She bizarrely stated: “As important as Trump’s fascism is,” before asserting “it’s the lead story every day” and referring to “his cozying up to, uh, dictators.”

"She not only called Trump a fascist, as if everyone know this unassailable fact, but implied fascism is very important to his identity. And then averred that Trump has somehow been snuggling/spooning with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"But she was just getting started. She referenced “what he has said about our veterans” and “what he wants to do with the military against his political adversaries.”

"Unlike Democrats and their organ grinder monkeys in the mainstream media, Trump truly respects the military, the individuals that comprise it, and veterans in general. And it is the Democrat Party, as evidenced by the Obama-Biden-Harris administration, that has weaponized the military against its enemies … i.e., American citizens who have the temerity to publicly disagree with its agenda.

"For the vast majority of folks, this would have been enough stupid slander for a lifetime, but not for Mika, who was almost foaming at the mouth now. She then asserted, “He is killing us. I’m talking about us women. He’s killing us.”

"He is? Are women’s bodies being piled up like cordwood somewhere where we can’t see them?

"Ah, of course, she was referring to Trump being insufficiently thrilled by abortion." . .  .

Mika must watch The View daily. TD

“Donald Trump is a mensch; he has always stood with the Jewish people,” UPDATED

 RTM  

 “Donald Trump is a Mensch ; he has always stood with the Jewish people,” Wartski stated, emphasizing that the comparisons Harris makes not only distort the legacy of the Holocaust but also insult its victims, including his own parents.

Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, has criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her recent comparisons between former President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, describing it as one of the most offensive statements he has encountered in his lifetime. Wartski, who endured the horrific conditions of the Auschwitz concentration camp as a child and lost most of his family during the Holocaust, finds such parallels deeply troubling." . . .

. . .The Vice President has repeated her stance in several venues, including social media platforms and public appearances, where she alleges that Trump seeks unchecked power akin to that wielded by dictators. During a town hall meeting, Harris stated, “Donald Trump aims to create a military loyalty reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s generals, prioritizing his own interests over our Constitution.”

"These remarks have caused significant backlash among Republican leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who issued a joint statement condemning the comparisons. They have suggested that such rhetoric could incite further hostility against Trump and his supporters.

"Trump, in turn, has publicly rebuked Harris, labeling her claims as unfounded and disrespectful. His campaign has utilized Wartski’s testimony in advertising efforts, showcasing his criticisms of Harris. Trump’s enduring relationship with the Jewish community has also been highlighted, particularly in light of Wartski’s testimonials."

More on this here  How ironic that those calling Trump "Hitler" include those blocking Jews from streets. TD

Obama Uses 'Nazis' To Attack Trump. Ambassador Grenell Wrecks Him. 

  . . ."Not long after Obama utilized Nazis in his attack on Trump, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell responded with a tweet, writing: " 'Fact check: Donald Trump kicked the Nazi out of NYC after 14 years and multiple Presidents allowed him to stay."

. . . " 'The Nazis killed 6 million Jews," Grenell told The Daily Wire. "No one should ever joke about this horrific part of history." . .  .

UPDATE: Democrats point out that she's made too many cases against Trump — a scattershot approach that was bound to fail. The final pathetic, desperate attempt to paint Trump as Hitler has failed to move the needle.  . . ."Harris herself is being fingered for never getting around to defining herself for voters beyond "Donald Trump is a poopy head." 

"Democrats point out that she's made too many cases against Trump — a scattershot approach that was bound to fail. The final pathetic, desperate attempt to paint Trump as Hitler has failed to move the needle.

"No need to wonder why. Like the massive overuse of the charge of "racist" during the Obama years, the "fascist" label has lost its power to do damage." . . .

Yet it continues: Tim Walz Calls Trump Madison Square Garden Attendees Nazis. Great idea, Hillary thanks for this.

Kamala Harris’s Climate Czar: Fossil Fuel Industry Is ‘Death Cult’; Contains the word "fascism" as usual

 Breitbart

"The Kamala Harris campaign has tapped eco-loony Camila Thorndike as its “climate engagement director,” a far-left activist who says oil and gas workers are part of the “toxic patriarchy.”

"This “race against fascism is still too close,” Thorndike stated last week. “The only way to stop Trump’s Project 2025 from wrecking our progress and lives is to take action.”

"In early September, the Harris-Walz campaign brought on Thorndike, who had worked for Sen. Bernie Sanders as a legislative aide drafting climate-related policies, and who served in a senior director post at Rewiring America.

"While with Sanders, Thorndike said there is “something evil” about the fossil fuels sector, adding that “there’s no greater source of harm than continuing to cook the planet.”

As pointed out by the attentive folks at the Washington Free Beacon, Thorndike has a history of radical climate activism, in which she has attempted to demonize anyone associated with fossil fuels.

In one post, she said she has had no children because of the fear they would die young, asserting that “the fossil fuel industry’s ecoterrorism” is “great birth control.” . . .

   Climate Change Activists Endorse Kamala Harris

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jet-Setting Climate Doomer, Endorses Kamala Harris to ‘Help Save the Planet’    . . .“Now he’s promised the oil and gas industry that’ll get rid of any regulation they want in exchange for a billion-dollar donation.”

"The final claim is based on an anonymously-sourced Washington Post article from May; Trump has only received about $14 million from oil and gas industry donors this cycle.

“Climate change is killing the earth and ruining our economy,” DiCaprio continued. “We need a bold step forward to save our economy, our planet, and ourselves. That’s why I’m voting for Kamala Harris.”

"Shockingly, the actor touted Harris’s tie-breaking vote on the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which he describes as “the most significant climate action in U.S. history.” The law has haunted Harris’s campaign, as it did nothing to stop soaring prices, and President Joe Biden has even admitted it was deceptively named." . . .

Israel strikes inside Iran

"Should Iran choose to respond, we're fully prepared to defend Israel and support Israel, and there will be consequences," said a U.S. official.

JNS   

“I think he’s got that one wrong,” [Trump] said of Biden. “Isn’t that what you’re supposed to hit? I mean, it’s the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons. … The answer should have been: Hit the nuclear first, and worry about the rest later.”

"Israeli Air Force fighter jets conducted precision strikes on military targets in Iran overnight Friday, nearly one month after Tehran launched a massive ballistic-missile attack on the Jewish state.

"According to the Israel Defense Forces, dozens of aircraft, including refuelers and spy planes, conducted “waves” of attacks over the course of a few hours across several regions of Iran, located some 1,600 kilometers from Israel. The targets included missile and drone manufacturing facilities and launch sites, as well as air-defense batteries.

"The state-run SANA news outlet reported simultaneous Israeli strikes against military targets across central and southern Syria, amid Tehran’s decades-long effort to entrench itself in that country.

"The IDF named the operation “Days of Repentance.”

“ 'I can now confirm that we have concluded the Israeli response to Iran’s attacks against Israel. We conducted targeted and precise strikes on military targets in Iran—thwarting immediate threats to the State of Israel,” said IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.

“ 'The Israel Defense Forces has fulfilled its mission. If the regime in Iran were to make the mistake of beginning a new round of escalation, we will be obligated to respond. Our message is clear: All those who threaten the State of Israel and seek to drag the region into wider escalation will pay a heavy price,” Hagari continued. 

 “ 'We demonstrated today that we have both the capability and the resolve to act decisively, and we are prepared—on offense and defense—to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel,” he added." . . .

Trump’s Media Haters Still Don’t Get It

Martin’s Substack

    This isn’t lost on voters. The majority of Americans say they were better off four years ago than they are today. Of course they were. Jones and others in the media want me to focus on Trump’s loose and occasionally profane rhetoric. I prefer to focus on his policies and the relative normalcy of his first term.

"This is an actual headline that appeared in a “journalism” newsletter 13 days before the election: “How much coverage of Donald Trump is too much?”

""The column is from Tom Jones, senior media writer at the Poynter Institute and, you’ll not be surprised to learn, a man consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome. I’ve said in the past that Jones’ daily “Poynter Report” column would be more accurately titled, “Why I Hate Donald Trump and Fox News.” (For what it’s worth, Jones would dispute this. In 2020, I sent him an email pointing out glaring biases evident in his commentary. He responded, among other things, by writing, “I can promise you that I don't have an agenda other than to point out really good journalism and call out shoddy journalism.” Self-awareness apparently isn’t his strong suit.)These days I only occasionally read Jones’ tedious, predictable commentaries, and only then for the same reason that a child pinches himself: to see how much pain I can endure.

" 'In this instance, Jones claims to be upset that the legacy media has devoted so much time to Trump trolling Kamala Harris in a McDonald’s photo op and his outrageous asides, most notably ruminating on the late Arnold Palmer’s junk.

"Jones also displays the blind spots of someone immersed in the Leftist bubble: “Just as disturbing, (Trump) keeps talking about the enemy within this country — his political opponents whom he has seemingly threatened with punishment if he becomes elected. And he repeatedly doubts that he’ll accept the result of the election if he loses.”

"There is no shortage of video of Democrats denying election results, with no end in sight. Just two weeks ago, Axios reported that Democrats would not commit to certifying Trump if he wins. That sounds kind of insurrection-y.

"As for the “enemy within” theme, well, can you blame Trump? Just this year, he’s been the target of an orchestrated lawfare campaign in New York, Florida, Georgia and the District of Columbia. He routinely is compared to Hitler (even Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin in the same column by one recent critic), and has survived two assassination attempts by nutjobs who clearly were motivated by the overheated rhetoric of the Harris campaign and the media, who have done their damnedest to memory-hole those attacks.

"The reality, which eludes Jones, is that the legacy media, for which he runs cover, focuses on these peripheral matters to avoid talking about what voters say are the election’s most important issues – the economy, inflation, border security and crime. On those issues, voters favor Trump." . . .

Trump and Rogan

 ROGAN: “The rebels are Republicans now. You want to be punk rock? You want to buck the system? You are conservative now.  

Joe Asks Trump About Ending Military Conflicts and Avoiding WW3

 . . ."The liberals are now pro-silencing criticism. They are pro-censorship. They talk about regulating free speech. It’s bananas to watch.” TRUMP: “They come after their political opponents. They did something that’s only done in third-world countries. They came after their political opponent. I could have put crooked Hillary in jail.” ROGAN: “Not only that, but then they’re weaponizing it by saying that’s what you’re going to do when you get into office while ignoring what they are doing right now. It’s crazy.' ”. . . 

"I don’t know how anyone could watch the Trump episode on Rogan, and come away thinking this guy is Hitler. Trump comes off as human and relatable. You might not like him, you might not agree with him, but at least he is real.

"Joe Rogan and Donald Trump call out the corporate media propagandists’ “very fine people,” Russiagate, and “bloodbath” hoaxes. TRUMP: “It’s a lot easier if you are a Democrat.” ROGAN: “The media, to a large extent, acts as a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party… Most young people are aware of it. I think boomers still read the newspapers and believe in CNN.” ROGAN: “The very fine people hoax, the Russiagate hoax, all these things that they’ve tried to pin on you. It’s a clear distortion.” TRUMP: “The bloodbath hoax. I was talking about the auto industry. It’s a terrible thing they do.” ROGAN: “That’s the problem with propagandists. They take things out of context, and ultimately, they diminish their own credibility.”  Video

This is SPOT ON. Trump and Rogan agree on the left’s war on cops. This entire back and forth should be common sense, but it’s not. So refreshing: ROGAN: “The morale that the police department has in a lot of these cities where they’ve done this defund the police bulls**t, the morale of these poor cops is f***ing horrible.” TRUMP: “You don’t even have an 1/8th of a second to to make a decision that’s going to change their life. If they make the wrong decision they’re going to end up on the front page of every newspaper in the country, and they’re going to lose their house, their pension, and their wife.”

Trump’s Candid Chat with Joe Rogan: Unfiltered Insights on Politics, Diplomacy, and Energy   ..."During his time on the podcast, Trump’s candid and straightforward style was highlighted by Rogan, who noted that this approach has resulted in Trump’s rising popularity. Many Americans, Rogan suggested, have grown weary of typical political rhetoric, leading them to resonate more with Trump’s unfiltered communication. The show provided a platform for the former president to delve into his decision-making processes, including his controversial termination of John Bolton as National Security Adviser, whom Trump characterized as a “nut job.”

"Trump shared insights about his diplomatic interactions with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, recalling how he advised him to “just relax” instead of concentrating on nuclear development. Additionally, he criticized the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, expressing concerns about the military equipment left behind, which he described as “the best equipment in the world.” . . .

Florida Sues DOJ for Stopping State’s Probe Into Trump Assassination Attempt

"I’m old, but sadly not old enough to remember when the Founders gave the federal government NO police powers, and it was a creature meant to be controlled by the states and not the capital city (Foggy Bottom Swamp)."  Comment by henrybowman

 Mary Chastain; Legal Insurrection

 "Interestingly, until the 1960s, the only time the Feds investigated/prosecuted presidential assassination plots is when those plots/attempts occurred on federal property. Leon Czolgosz – McKinley’s Assassin – was arrested by Buffalo police, tried and eventually put to death by the state of New York. Lee Harvey Oswald was in Dallas POLICE custody when he was murdered. Congress didn’t enact the statutes the Feds use now until after the Kennedy assassination."  TargaGTS in reply to henrybowman

"Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a complaint against the DOJ after the agency blocked the state from investigating the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

"Ryan Routh faces charges for allegedly wanting to kill Trump at his golf course in Florida.

Federal prosecutors charged Routh with federal gun crimes. Federal prosecutors also asked the DOJ “to approve the more serious attempted assassination charge, which carries a maximum of life in prison.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed “an executive order directing agencies to ensure that appropriate state charges are brought against” Routh.

The DOJ and FBI “cited 18 U.S.C. § 351(f), which purports to temporarily ‘suspend the exercise of jurisdiction by a State or local authority’ when the federal government asserts jurisdiction over an assassination attempt of a major presidential candidate.”

18 U.S. Code § 351(f) states: “If Federal investigative or prosecutive jurisdiction is asserted for a violation of this section, such assertion shall suspend the exercise of jurisdiction by a State or local authority, under any applicable State or local law, until Federal action is terminated.”

Moody said federal officials told Florida officials the state “may not conduct its own investigation, may not interview witnesses, and may only cooperate with the federal government’s investigation.”

“Because § 351(f) does not prohibit such conduct, and because it would violate the Tenth Amendment if it reached so far, Florida sues to vindicate its sovereign interest to investigate violations of state law, as delay may impact the outcome of any prosecution,” added Moody." . . .