Biden Funnels $110M to Haiti Despite PM’s Corruption Admission

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Biden Funnels $110M to Haiti Despite PM’s Corruption Admission

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration will deliver $110 million in taxpayer-funded aid to Haiti, even after the poverty-stricken country’s prime minister raised alarms about rampant corruption within his government. 

On Thursday, a Biden official told Reuters that the U.S. will provide the multi-million aid package for security and police assistance.

“The security situation in Haiti remains untenable due to violence perpetrated by violent gangs, and the people of Haiti cannot wait,” the official claimed. 

The announcement coincided with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille’s remarks about public corruption within the government he inherited after being appointed as acting prime minister in June. 

“Nearly 30% of public workers receive money from the federal government without actually working,” Conille said during a press conference from the Haitian capital on Friday, according to EFE. “These are things that we are obliged to correct immediately, and we are going to take measures to correct everything.”

The $110 million aid includes $95 million for security and $15 million for the Haitian National Police, which has struggled against violent criminal gangs reigning over Haiti. 

The Biden administration’s aid package bypasses the will of Republicans in Congress who have placed a hold on U.S. aid to Haiti. 

“The Biden Administration’s choice to override the hold I had placed on U.S. taxpayer funding for the ill-conceived Haiti MSS (Multinational Security Support Mission) is extremely disappointing,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch, R-Idaho, told Reuters. 

The Republican hold on Haitian aid comes after the Biden administration failed to properly detail the strategic plan for Haitian security. 

“The human suffering and devolving crisis in Haiti is tragic. Yet, after years of discussions, repeated requests for information, and providing partial funding to help them plan, the administration only this afternoon sent us a rough plan to address this crisis,” Risch said in March.  

“Whether it’s ‘credible and implementable’ remains to be seen. Given the long history of U.S. involvement in Haiti with few successful results, the administration owes Congress a lot more details in a more timely manner before it gets more funding,” he added.

The statement was co-signed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas.

Haiti is currently in turmoil as gangs have seized control of several parts of the country, releasing thousands of criminals who were held in two of its largest federal prisons.

Landry Turns ‘Pent-Up Republican’ Louisiana into Red Paradise

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Landry Turns ‘Pent-Up Republican’ Louisiana into Red Paradise

(Headline USA) Louisiana has long been reliably red. The Bayou State has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000, with residents overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump during the past two, and the GOP has held a majority in the statehouse for years.

But policies in the state have veered even farther right under the leadership of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, who has carried out a sweeping conservative agenda in just six months on the job.

This week he signed the nation’s first law requiring that the 10 Commandments be posted in every public classroom. He enacted a new law tightening restrictions on abortion pills to protect pregnant mothers from being poisoned. He has voiced support for a bill on his desk calling for a Texas-style immigration crackdown that could authorize law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants.

And lawmakers who have appreciated Landry’s tough law-and-order stance on issues such as new death penalty methods await his action on a first-of-its-kind bill allowing judges to order the surgical castration of rapists who prey on children.

The moves have made global headlines and firmly embedded Louisiana in the conservative movement on practically every issue animating the Republican base in 2024.

Democrats are appalled at the message Landry is sending, but some conservatives in Louisiana see the moves as a bold and powerful step as he raises his national profile.

“From about 500 miles away, it certainly appears that he has been effective very quickly,” said Matt Mackowiak, a Texas-based GOP strategist who has worked for two Congress members and a governor. “He has hit the ground running and the potential is really high.”

‘Pent-up Republican policy preferences’

When Landry entered office in January, he did so with Republicans having secured every statewide elected position for the first time in nearly a decade.

With the help of the Legislature, he also upheld one of the country’s strongest pro-life and pushed family-values-affirming policies, including Louisiana’s version of an anti-grooming bill.

While Landry hasn’t indicated whether he will sign the castration bill into law, many Republicans and several Democrats supported it.

GOP lawmakers, in turn, have often praised the former state attorney general and one-time congressman.

“It certainly gives you hope that your efforts are going to be productive when you’ve got a governor who you know where he stands on things and also know that there’s a good chance he will sign them,” said speaker pro tempore state Rep. Michael T. Johnson.

Johnson, who was elected to the House in 2019, described Landry as easy to work with, transparent and a leader who he believes will “move the state forward.” He added that the session was “more productive” because there were “clear and organized goals we were trying to accomplish.”

“I think what you saw in this latest legislative session is pent-up Republican policy preferences,” said Robert Hogan, a professor and chair of Louisiana State University’s political science department. “They opened up the floodgates and it started pouring out, with a lot of them very successful.”

Across the aisle, Democrats expressed outrage Landry’s effectiveness and argued that the bills were being passed too quickly.

The LGBT community, which for eight years prior had an ally in the governor’s mansion, has become one of Landry’s harshest critics.

“It is definitely a different climate here in the Legislature, especially with Gov. Landry prioritizing these very harmful bills, pushing them through very fast and making it very difficult and uncomfortable to be here,” said Sarah Jane Guidry, executive director of the LGBT group Forum for Equality, said in an interview during the session.

Louisiana’s recent political shift was at times fended off by former Gov. John Bel Edwards, who couldn’t immediately run again because of term limits.

Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South during his two terms, sought over eight years to steer the state toward more liberal agendas by joining climate change initiatives, instituting mask mandates and restrictions on public gatherings—including religious gatherings, as well as vetoing many of the measures that Landry has since signed into law.

Many voters seemed ready for the change Landry has brought. He won the election outright with 52% of the vote, obliterating the Democratic runner-up’s 26%.

While some people didn’t support Landry for the job, many agree he has followed through on campaign promises—whether they support the policies or not.

“I’m not surprised one iota, this is completely what I expected when he became governor,” said Chris Dier, a high school teacher in New Orleans who has opposed a lot of Landry’s initiatives. “I think a lot of the conversations before he even became governor were how do we respond to certain pieces of legislation when they pass.”

Eyeing a bigger stage?

In a time of Trump-era conservatives, some believe Landry could follow in the footsteps of other high-profile governors—becoming a national figure or running for higher office.

His eagerness to put into place first-of-its-kind legislation, willingness to pick and enter national fights and tendency to court media coverage echo tactics employed by other politicians who rise to the national stage.

Pearson Cross, a political science professor at the University of Louisiana, points to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as examples of where Landry could go.

“I think Jeff Landry is very comfortable with that kind of profile. I think he feels like he is standing up for the state and representing his constituents who are generally conservative—and perhaps pushing back against federal government overreach,” Cross said.

Like Abbott, Landry was a state attorney general for years before he became governor. He also, like DeSantis, spent time in the U.S. House of Representatives, though with a much shorter tenure.

But Landry, whose office declined an interview request from the Associated Press, has given little indication of where his future aspirations lie.

He recently joined Abbott and other Republican governors at Eagle Pass, a Texas town that has become the center of a turf war over immigration enforcement, to discuss the border crisis. He also headlined the Tennessee Republican Party’s annual fundraising dinner in Nashville last weekend.

He also signed a bill that hides from public records details about his schedule and/or those of his spouse or children on grounds of safety concerns. While not unusual, opponents argue the law will be used to hide who Landry meets with and where he travels to.

Chatter at the state Capitol is meanwhile swirling about whether Landry might be offered a cabinet position if Trump wins the presidential election in the fall. Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign team, said there haven’t been any discussions about who would serve in the administration. But, that hasn’t stopped people from speculating.

“I think he has that [national recognition] and as it helps our state I certainly am glad, but I don’t want it to result in him leaving for a cabinet position,” Johnson said. “However, I think Louisiana has so much to offer, and if he can be an ambassador on a national level then I think absolutely that is positive.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Bannon Asks SCOTUS to Delay Sentence over Partisan ‘Contempt’ Charges

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Bannon Asks SCOTUS to Delay Sentence over Partisan ‘Contempt’ Charges

(Headline USA) Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena from House Democrats’ partisan Jan. 6 Committee.

The emergency application—addressed to Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversees emergency appeals from courts in Washington, D.C.—came after a federal appeals court panel rejected Bannon’s bid to avoid reporting to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence.

Roberts reportedly ordered the Justice Department to respond by Wednesday, offering Bannon the hope that his appeal will at least receive consideration.

The court earlier denied a similar request from Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who began serving his four-month sentence in March.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, earlier this month granted prosecutors’ request to send Bannon to prison after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld his conviction.

Bannon’s lawyers asked the appeals court to allow him to remain free while he continues to fight the conviction all the way up to the Supreme Court, if necessary. But in a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit panel said Bannon’s case “does not warrant a departure from the general rule” that defendants begin serving their sentence after conviction.

Judges Cornelia Pillard, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama, and Bradley Garcia, a nominee of President Joe Biden, voted to send Bannon to prison. Judge Justin Walker, who was nominated by Trump, dissented, writing that he should not have to serve time before the Supreme Court decides whether to take up his case.

Bannon was convicted nearly two years ago of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the House Jan. 6 committee and the other for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election outcome, which Democrats have attempted to use as a political bludgeon against the former president despite having long pursued similar challenges.

Ironically, Attorney General Merrick Garland—who made the decision to prosecute Bannon and Navarro for contempt of Congress—received the very same charges last week but opted not to prosecute himself, claiming he had not committed a crime.

Bannon’s lawyer at trial argued that the former Trump adviser didn’t ignore the subpoena but was still engaged in good-faith negotiations with the congressional committee when he was charged.

The defense has said Bannon had been relying on the advice on his attorney, who believed that Bannon couldn’t testify or produce documents because Trump had invoked executive privilege.

Lawyers for Bannon say the case raises serious legal questions that will likely need to be resolved by the Supreme Court, but he will have already finished his prison sentence by the time the case gets there.

In court papers, Bannon’s lawyers also argued that there is a “strong public interest” in allowing him to remain free in the run-up to the 2024 election because Bannon is a top adviser to Trump’s campaign.

Bannon’s lawyers said the Justice Department, in trying to imprison him now, is “giving an appearance that the government is trying to prevent Mr. Bannon from fully assisting with the campaign and speaking out on important issues, and also ensuring the government exacts its pound of flesh before the possible end of the Biden Administration.”

Prosecutors said in court papers that Bannon’s “role in political discourse” was irrelevant.

“Bannon also cannot reconcile his claim for special treatment with the bedrock principle of equal justice under the law,” prosecutors wrote disingenuously, despite their brazen pursuit of two-tiered justice in the Garland matter and many others. “Even-handed application of the bail statute requires Bannon’s continued detention.”

Navarro, too, has said he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive privilege. The judge barred him from making that argument at trial, however, finding that he didn’t show Trump had actually invoked it.

The Jan. 6 committee’s final report asserted that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 election and failed to act to stop his supporters from entering the Capitol.

Since then, however, the 18-month investigation into the former president, stacked with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked members, has been denounced as deeply partisan and illegitimate.

It was found to have selectively released information while actively concealing other relevant information that undermined its narrative, and to have later tried to withhold the encrypted data—and possibly delete some of it, illegally—when Republicans took control of Congress.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Stonehenge Terrorists Cry About Being Taunted by Group of American Men

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Stonehenge Terrorists Cry About Being Taunted by Group of American Men

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) One of the Just Stop Oil climate change cultists who vandalized Stonehenge on June 19, 2024, said that American males taunted him at the site of the demonstration.

The disruptive climate protest outfit that is sponsored by wealthy far-left Americans via a U.S.-based nonprofit hosted a Zoom call on June 21, 2024, for Rajan Naidu, a 73-year-old activist for Just Stop Oil who participated in the act of terrorism. He and another climate change ideologue activist sprayed orange paint on the prehistoric monument, the Daily Caller reported.

Naidu recalled that a group of young male Americans made fun of him and other climate terrorists, chanting “Oil” and otherwise mocking the leftists.

“We were completely focused on our task. We were aware of them, we were aware of the shouting and we didn’t make, we didn’t make eye contact with anybody in the world. We avoided eye contact because people were trying to send hostile messages to us… They started chanting ‘Oil,’ and boasting that they would go back and use even more oil. So that was one kind of reaction. And other people were silent,” Naidu said.

Naidu, who was arrested for the stunt, said that “[his] background is in social justice and human rights.”

The Caller joined the Zoom call to ask Naidu if he thought these acts of terrorism would attract ordinary people to his cause and to explain why a prehistoric monument such as Stonehenge became a target of climate change propagandists.

Within minutes, the call’s organizers kicked the news source out of the Zoom meeting, proving that the leftists are fine with censorship and “bullying,” as long as they are the ones who are doing it.

This wasn’t the first time when Just Stop Oil activists appeared on the news pages. In recent years, they’ve staged disruptive protests on roadways, major sporting events and museums to bring attention to their unscientific and destructive ideology.

One of their stunts involved geriatric activists attempting to break the glass casing that protected one of the few copies of the Magna Carta that still exists today.

Leftist WaPo Writers Succeed in Scaring Away Rupert Murdoch-Linked British Editor

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Leftist WaPo Writers Succeed in Scaring Away Rupert Murdoch-Linked British Editor

(Headline USA) The Washington Post said Friday that newly named editor Robert Winnett had decided not to take the job and remain in Britain instead, another upheaval at a news outlet where a reorganization plan has gone disastrously wrong.

The Post’s CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, announced Winnett’s decision to withdraw in a note to staff on Friday morning, and said a recruitment firm would be hired to launch a search for a replacement immediately.

The financially struggling Post had announced Winnett would take over as editor of the core newsroom functions after November’s presidential election, while it was also setting up a “third newsroom” devoted to finding new ways for its journalism to make money.

Three weeks ago, then-executive editor Sally Buzbee said that she would quit rather than take a demotion to head this revenue-enhancement effort. Former Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray was brought on as her interim replacement and future leader of the “third newsroom.”

Both the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Telegraph, where Winnett will remain editor, are regarded as conservative-oriented news products that are part of the Rupert Murdoch-owned family of publications under which Fox News also falls.

While the subtext remains largely unspoken, the effort to rehabilitate the Washington Post, long seen as having a leftward bias since the days of the Watergate scandal, but which has grown increasingly far toward the radical fringes under the ownership of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, appeared to have sent the newspaper’s so-called journalists into an apoplectic tizzy, triggering a mini-revolt similar to that seen previously at CNN under the leadership of Chris Licht.

Since then, several published reports had raised questions about the journalistic ethics of Lewis and Winnett stemming from their work in England. For example, both men worked together in a series of scoops about extravagant spending by British politicians fueled by information that they paid a data information company for—a practice frowned upon by American journalists.

That practise, of course, would seem to pale in comparison to the cloak-and-dagger tipoffs that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein received from an anonymous source named “Deep Throat”—later identified as top FBI official Mark Felt.

While some migh frown on allowing intelligence officials to plant stories with the utmost political implications, undermining a democratically elected leader and replacing him with a president—Gerald Ford—who was never elected either president or vice president by the people, while using the veil of anonymity to avoid any sort of accountability, those practices have long been lionized and romanticized by leftist media.

The breathless press likewise was far too willing to forgive and forget many of the ethical lapses during the Trump administration that depleted its credibility and led it to its current predicament while carping on the relatively trivial foibles of the British media.

The New York Times wrote that both Winnett and Lewis were involved in stories that appeared to be based on fraudulently-obtained phone and business records, notwithstanding the fact that the Times itself published Trump’s illegally purloined tax records and those of several other wealthy individuals it hoped to discredit.

The lack of self awareness, paired simultaneously with navel-gazing at a publication smitten with the notion of covering its own palace intrigue like it were news, led to an uneasy marriage of comedy and pathos on the pages of the Post.

David Maraniss, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has worked at the newspaper for four decades, whined this week that he didn’t know anyone there who thought the situation with the publisher and “supposed new editor” could stand.

“The body is rejecting the transfusion,” Maraniss wrote on Facebook.

Lewis, a former Wall Street Journal publisher and vice chairman of the Associated Press board of directors, started at the Post earlier this year, hired by Bezos to stem a costly exodus of readers. The Post had said it had lost $77 million last year.

In a memo to key staff members earlier this week, Bezos assured them that journalistic standards and ethics at the newspaper would not change—an ominous pledge given the root cause of the paper’s problems. “I know you’ve already heard this from Will, but I wanted to also weigh in directly,” he wrote.

“To be sure, it can’t be business as usual at The Post,” Bezos wrote. “The world is evolving rapidly and we do need to change as a business.”

In his Facebook note, Maraniss said that the issue for staff members is integrity, not resistance to change. To that end, it remains to be seen whether Lewis can gain staff support.

Lewis said Friday that the recruitment firm and process for replacing Winnett will be announced soon. Winnett’s sudden hiring—without any indication of an extensive search—had also rankled staff members.

But Lewis also said that the reorganization efforts would continue.

Winnett is staying at the Telegraph in London. Telegraph editor Chris Evans told that newspaper that “he’s a talented chap, and their loss is our gain,” according to the Guardian.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump Won’t ‘Underestimate’ Biden’s Debate Skills, Claims He Does Coke

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Trump Won’t ‘Underestimate’ Biden’s Debate Skills, Claims He Does Coke

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Donald Trump said on June 20, 2024, that he won’t “underestimate” Joe Biden because he is a “worthy debater.”

CNN will host the debate between Trump and Biden on June 27, 2024, according to the Daily Caller.

“I thought he was not a smart person, and that was told to me by a certain member of the Kennedy family who was actually very friendly with me through a Palm Beach relationship. So, I was never a fan of his. But I will say, he beat Paul Ryan — still, years ago. But he beat Paul Ryan pretty badly,” Trump said.

According to him, that was the reason why he wouldn’t underestimate Biden.

“I assume he’s gonna be somebody that will be a worthy debater. I don’t want to underestimate him,” Trump said.

Additionally, Trump said on June 18, 2024, at his rally in Racine, Wisc., that Biden was going to do cocaine to get “pumped up” for next week’s presidential debate, the Daily Mail reported.

“He’s gonna be so pumped up. He’s gonna be so pumped up,” Trump said.

He then referenced the small bag of cocaine discovered in lockers where both staff and guests placed their phones at the White House nearly a year ago, on July 2, 2023.

“You know all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the White House? What happened? Somebody didn’t pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. I wonder who that could’ve been. I don’t know. Actually, I think it was Joe,” Trump said.

The discovery of the bag with cocaine occurred as Biden and his family, including his infamous son Hunter, were away at Camp David ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.

Far-left propagandists also suggested that Americans should expect “surprises” from Biden during the upcoming presidential debate at the end of this month.

“[I was told] that we should expect some surprises because this is such a critical performance for President Biden not only on the content but on his physical performance,” CBS News senior correspondent Weijia Jiang said.

Judge Drops Lawfare Charges Against Nevada’s 2020 Alternate Electors over Withheld Evidence

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Judge Drops Lawfare Charges Against Nevada’s 2020 Alternate Electors over Withheld Evidence

(Headline USA) A Nevada state court judge dismissed a criminal indictment Friday against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election.

The decision potentially kills the case, accusing leftist state prosecutors of intentionally withholding exculpatory evidence from the defendants and the grand jury, as well as filing the case in the wrong venue.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, stood in the Las Vegas courtroom a moment after Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus delivered her ruling, declaring that he would take the case directly to the state Supreme Court.

“The judge got it wrong and we’ll be appealing immediately,” Ford told reporters afterward. He declined any additional comment.

However, defense attorneys bluntly declared the case dead, saying that to bring the case now to another grand jury in another venue, such as Nevada’s capital city of Carson City, would violate a three-year statute of limitations on filing charges that expired in December.

“They’re done,” said Margaret McLetchie, attorney for Clark County Republican party chairman Jesse Law, one of the defendants in the case.

The judge called off trial, which had been scheduled for next January, for defendants who included state GOP chairman Michael McDonald; national party committee member Jim DeGraffenreid; national and Douglas County committee member Shawn Meehan; and Eileen Rice, a party member from the Lake Tahoe area.

Each was charged with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument, felonies that carry penalties of up to four or five years in prison.

Defense attorneys contended that prosecutors failed to present to the grand jury evidence that would have exonerated their clients, and said their clients had no intent to commit a crime.

They also added that Ford improperly brought the case in Las Vegas instead of Carson City or Reno, northern Nevada cities closer to where the alleged incident occurred but where the political climate may have been less favorable to the desired outcome of his lawfare prosecution.

Las Vegas voted largely for Biden, much more than Carson City or Reno, meaning Las Vegas would’ve been an easier venue for them to pick a biased jury pool.

All but Meehan have been named by the state party as Nevada delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention next month in Milwaukee.

Meehan’s defense attorney, Sigal Chattah, said her client “chose not to” seek the position. Chattah ran against Ford in 2022 for state attorney general but lost by just under 8% of the vote.

Nevada is one of seven battleground states where Republicans put forward slates of alternate electors disputing the certified outcome in favor of Democrat Joe Biden due to widespread irregularities that had yet to be resolved at the time—and many of which remain inconclusive to this day.

Others are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Democrats had previously advocated for sending alternate slates of electors in such scenarios as a legal and constitutionally sound remedy but were determined to push back against any such challenges in the highly disputed and deeply suspicious 2020 race.

Leftist prosecutors have since attempted to punish their political rivals by bringing criminal charges in several of the states, including Michigan, Georgia and Arizona.

According to government-issued election results, Trump lost Nevada in 2020 by more than 30,000 votes to Biden. The state’s Democratic electors certified the results in the presence of Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican, which led to her being censured by the Nevada GOP.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Judge Judy Has Choice Words for Alvin Bragg: ‘Take Care of’ Real Criminals

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Judge Judy Has Choice Words for Alvin Bragg: ‘Take Care of’ Real Criminals

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Judy Sheindlin, known as the reality TV star Judge Judy, harshly criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump, labeling it “nonsense.” 

In an interview on CNN’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on Friday, Sheindlin expressed her dismay at Bragg’s decision to prosecute Trump, arguing it was a waste of taxpayer money. 

“You gotta twist yourself into a pretzel to figure out what the crime was. [Bragg] doesn’t like him. New York City didn’t like him for a while,” Sheindlin said. 

“I would be happier, as someone who owns property in Manhattan, if the district attorney of New York County would take care of criminals who were making it impossible for citizens to walk in the streets and use the subway,” she added.

Sheindlin added that she would have preferred Bragg use his powers to keep criminals “off the street, than to spend $5 million or $10 million of taxpayers’ money trying Donald Trump on this nonsense.” 

Her comments came after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to payments to his former attorney Michael Cohen.  

The case, which has been widely scolded as dubious, was revived by Bragg, a prosecutor with ties to George Soros who had campaigned on a promise to target Trump and his businesses. 

Judge Judy did not mince words when calling out Bragg’s political motivations. “I, as a taxpayer in this country, resent using the system for your own personal self-aggrandizement,” she stated during the CNN appearance. 

Judge Jury hailed Trump as a “good businessman’ and a “real estate guy,” but said she did not believe he should be president again. She endorsed former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley for president in the 2024 GOP primary.

“I don’t think that Donald ever should have been president,” Sheindlin said, “and I don’t think that even Donald thought he was going to be president.” 

Rep. Good Pledges Lengthy Fight in Va. Primary, Cites Suspicious Election Day Fires

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Rep. Good Pledges Lengthy Fight in Va. Primary, Cites Suspicious Election Day Fires

(Elias Irizarry, Headline USA) A highly contentious primary in Virginia’s 5th congressional district between incumbent Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who sits as chairman of the Freedom Caucus, and challenger state Rep. John McGuire, who is backed by President Donald Trump and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has now escalated to allegations of intra-party election meddling.

“We had 3 ‘fires’ on election day in 3 precincts, all requiring the precincts to be evacuated for 20 minutes,” Good wrote Thursday night on his campaign X account.

“Albemarle County, Hanover County, and Lynchburg City,” he continued. “What is the probability? Does anyone recall even 1 fire at a precinct on election day?”

In a follow-up post on the social media platform, Good calculated the miniscule probability that such a series of mishaps could occur randomly.

“AI estimates the probability being 0.0000000318% chance,” wrote Good.

The same day, Good appeared on the War Room podcast with his longtime ally Steve Bannon to discuss the pending results of the election, as well as the shenanigans that he alleges took place during the election.

Good claims poll workers in Albemarle County, which encompasses the city of Charlottesville, began the process of counting the ballots two hours early.

“Why did they start two hours early?” Good asked during his War Room appearance.

“Why was my opponent’s representative notified and we were not notified?” Good continued. “We don’t know what took place in those two hours.”

The current vote count stands with McGuire leading Good by approximately 300 votes, with over 60,000 votes counted in the primary. However, according to Good, these results are not absolute as mail-in ballots won’t even be counted until at least Friday.

Ironically, it’s not the first time in recent memory that accusations of fraud have occurred in the district involving rival Republicans.

In the 2020 primary, the incumbent at the time—self-described “Bigfoot scholar” and former Rep. Denver Riggleman—was unseated by Good 58% to 42% after controversy stemming from his officiating of a gay wedding.

Following his loss, Riggleman went on to become a vocal critic of Trump, condemning “outlandish theories surrounding this presidential election” in his farewell address, working as a senior staffer for the Jan. 6 committee, and even becoming a member of Hunter Biden’s legal team.

But before formally coming out as a leftist, Riggleman, from his official campaign account, accused Good of taking advantage of “voter irregularities and ballot stuffing.”

Good—whose 100% voting record on conservative causes makes hime one of the most reliable right-wing members in Congress—is not likely to follow the same path of his predecessor should his re-election bid fail.

For now, though, he’s focused on exercising every option available to him, including a full state-funded recount.

According to Virginia law, the current result of the election currently falls within the threshold for a state-funded recount.

“We’re going to have a full recount. We’re going to have a full investigation,” Good told Bannon.

“It’s going to stretch out for a couple of weeks,” he added. “We’ve got lawyers at the ready, thankfully—a tremendous number of lawyers at our disposal, many who are ready to help us.”

Good—one of the “Gaetz Eight” Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy last fall by invoking the motion to vacate, which the Freedom Caucus had initially helped to negotiate as a condition of its support for his speakership—has claimed he’s being targeted by the former speaker for his vote.

“Are we going to allow this seat to be bought by the McCarthy revenge tour?” Good asked Bannon. “We are going to make sure that every—to the best of our ability—every legal and legitimate vote is counted.”

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Dan Bishop Reacts to DOJ’s Courtroom Attack against Journalist

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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Dan Bishop Reacts to DOJ’s Courtroom Attack against Journalist

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) CHARLOTTE, NC—Rep. Dan Bishop, R-NC, was in North Carolina Thursday for a political event, but he had time for a brief interview with Headline USA about the Justice Department’s attack on the free press in a federal courtroom earlier that day.

Lounging in an outdoor sofa and talking to a local reporter about his upcoming race to be his state’s next attorney general, Bishop hadn’t heard about the DOJ’s attack on reporter Trevor Aaronson. Earlier that day, DOJ lawyers argued that Aaronson, who’s making a documentary about how the FBI manufactures terrorism, shouldn’t have access to evidence from the case.

When this reporter described the situation, Bishop, who sits on the House Weaponization Subcommittee, expressed concern.

“It sounds like, by description, the DOJ is taking overbearing action against someone exercising their rights under the First Amendment. And it’s very important for reporters to have robust freedom,” he said, emphasizing that he wasn’t familiar with the details of the case.

Earlier that day, Aaronson published a story about his ordeal ahead of a court hearing where the DOJ would seek to prevent him from seeing evidence in the case of Aws Mohammed Naser, a Michigan man whom Aaronson’s reporting suggests likely had his constitutional rights violated by the FBI.

According to Aaronson, the FBI had been conducting surveillance on Nasser for a terrorism investigation when he robbed a convenient store. The FBI took over the case and later slapped terrorism charges on him undre highly suspicious circumstances, according to Aaronson.

Much of Naser’s discovery is under a protective order ahead of his upcoming trial. But that hasn’t stopped him from describing the evidence to Aaronson over the phone from prison—with the Bureau of Prisons intelligence unit listening to their conversations all the while.

The documents are reportedly damning, according to Nasser.

“In phone calls in April, Naser told me that these FBI reports describe an improper arrangement between federal agents and the parole officer. According to Naser, the reports state that the parole officer’s daughter had reportedly been the victim of a sexual assault that had gone unsolved and that he wanted FBI agents to investigate the case,” Aaronson wrote.

“Naser, describing the alleged arrangement, told me: ‘In return for that help, he was going to help them with me.’”

But in a May 31 court filing, the DOJ accused Aaronson of trying to “taint the jury pool and undermine the fairness of the trial.” And for Nasser, prosecutors said he’s more concerned with making a documentary about his case than he is defending himself.

“Naser, however, seeks the unsealing of the documents in this case for a different purpose. Specifically, to sway public opinion in his favor and taint the jury pool against the FBI by publicizing and sensationalizing the FBI’s investigative techniques in terrorism cases through the production of a one-sided documentary,” prosecutors argued.

“That is an improper purpose.”

Rep. Bishop did say that Nasser might have violated a gag order or some other rule about discovery. However, the DOJ is not seeking to sanction Nasser over his discussions with Aaronson.

“Well then that’s bizarre. I would like more detail because I do believe that would reflect a policy that is troubling and perhaps unconstitutional,” Bishop said in response to the lack of sanctions on Nasser.

The hearing on whether to restrict Nasser from disclosing more evidence started Thursday and continued into Friday. Close to the publication of this article, a decision was posted that Nasser’s motion to unseal more discovery was “partially denied.” No more details were posted, but the rest of the motion hearing was bizarrely postponed until Sept. 4, according to the docket.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

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