Johnson, conservatives and Republicans have been saying since the charges were brought in the first place that the prosecutions against Trump, two at the hands of Joe Biden’s own Department of Justice and two brought by Democrat DAs in Georgia and New York are politically motivated, the Post Millenial reported.
Trump also previously said that these trials represent election interference since he spends a lot of time in the courtrooms instead of campaigning for the upcoming presidential election.
When Jean-Pierre was asked by one of the reporters whether it was appropriate for Johnson to show up at Trump’s trial, she admitted that the leftist establishment keeps him in these courtrooms because it is “related to the 2024 elections.”
“So look. I can’t speak to… [I] don’t wanna comment obviously as this is related to the 2024 elections, and I can’t speak to the Speaker’s schedule, that is something for him to decide on,” she said, admitting that the trial is part of Biden’s campaign plan.
QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Karine Jean-Pierre says she can't comment on the Biden-led witch hunt against President Trump because it's "related to 2024 elections" pic.twitter.com/N9bzK72Xrm
Biden boosters also previously said that they would prefer Trump to be in prison before the 2024 election. Even though their dreams didn’t come true, Biden still campaigns while Trump wastes his time in courtrooms.
When Biden faced an investigation for illegally holding onto classified documents, the case was dropped because the investigator said Biden was old and sympathetic, the news source reported. On the other hand, a case against Trump for holding classified documents continues in federal court.
On May 14, 2024, Johnson spoke outside the courthouse in New York where Trump faced his fifth week of a criminal trial for falsified business records.
Speaker Johnson: “President Trump is a friend, and I wanted to be here to support him … The people are losing faith right now in this country”
“[My grandfather] is doing OK. He has been in hospice, as you know, for almost a year and a half now, and he really is, I think, coming to the end… [As] I’ve said before, there’s a part of this faith journey that is so important to him, and there’s a part of that faith journey that you only can live at the very end and I think he has been there in that space,” Jason Carter said at a mental health forum named in honor of his grandmother, the late former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at the Carter Center.
Jimmy Carter, 99, became the oldest living president in history after George H.W. Bush died in 2018 at the age of 94, CNN reported. Carter survived metastatic brain cancer, liver cancer and several health scares, including brain surgery after a fall in 2019. In February 2023, Carter entered hospice care after a series of hospital stays, making only one rare public appearance to attend his wife’s memorial service back in November.
“My grandmother’s passing was a difficult moment for all of us, including my grandfather, but the outpouring of love and support that we, as a family, received from people in this room and from the rest of the world was so remarkable and meaningful to us. And it really turned that whole process into a celebration,” Carter’s grandson said.
During the speech, Jason also recounted one conversation with his grandfather as they watched an Atlanta Braves game together.
“I said, ‘Pa Pa… people ask me how you’re doing and I say I don’t know.’ And he said, ‘Well, I don’t know myself.’ And so, he’s still there,” Jason said.
The news source reported that the former president’s health has been the subject of widespread attention in recent years, especially after he entered hospice.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Infamous Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, made remarks on Wednesday in favor of former President Donald Trump, potentially positioning himself for an audition for a role in a future Trump administration.
In an interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, Romney expressed hypothetical support for pardoning Trump, stating, “Had I been President [Joe] Biden, when the Justice Department brought out indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him.”
He emphasized, “Frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president.”
In an exclusive interview with @SRuhle, Senator Mitt Romney says that if he were President Biden, he would have pardoned Donald Trump. Watch the full interview TONIGHT on @11thHour at 11pm ET. pic.twitter.com/Hujb1ysojO
Romney’s recent statements in favor of Trump contrast sharply with his previous criticisms and actions.
In 2016, Romney, initially a vocal critic of Trump, shifted his stance when he vied for the position of secretary of state in Trump’s cabinet.
However, after being snubbed for the role, Romney’s attitude toward Trump soured, leading to his support of both impeachment efforts led by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., against the former president.
During the 2020 impeachment proceedings, Romney voted in favor of impeaching Trump, citing allegations of abuse of power related to purported threats to withhold congressionally approved aid to Ukraine.
“The President asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival,” Romney claimed, echoing the Democratic Party’s talking point at the time.
“The President withheld vital military funds from that government to press it to do so. … Accordingly, the President is guilty of an appalling abuse of the public trust,” he added.
In 2021, Romney once again aligned with Democrats in voting to impeach Trump, this time over alleged “incitement of insurrection” in connection with the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol
“After careful consideration of the respective counsels’ arguments, I have concluded that President Trump is guilty of the charge made by the House of Representatives,” Romney reiterated, echoing partisan sentiments from the left.
Romney’s recent remarks coincide with increasing speculation about Trump’s potential return to the White House, as shown by various swing state polls.
Despite Trump’s willingness to reconcile with former adversaries, it is unlikely that he would welcome Romney, once a prominent figure in the GOP, who has since been labeled by many as a “RINO,” or Republican In Name Only.
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden officially agreed this week to two debates against former President Donald Trump ahead of November’s election.
The first will be held on June 27 on CNN, and the second on Sept. 10 on ABC News.
The 81-year-old Democrat finally ended speculation over whether the presidential debates would happen at all on Wednesday, taking to social media to challenge Trump to the debates.
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice,” Biden claimed in a video posted on Twitter.
Trump underperformed in the first debate of 2020 after testing positive for COVID-19 three days prior and showing clear signs of weakness. Biden also was suspected to be wearing an earpiece during the debate.
The second debate was universally panned due to the acrimonious bickering of both candidates. Nonetheless, Trump by and large won it, particularly in hindsight due to the fact that Biden brazenly lied about several significant concerns, including his son Hunter’s laptop.
DEBATE: Will Biden apologize for lying to the American people about Hunter’s laptop? At the last debate Biden falsely claimed the laptop was Russian disinformation. pic.twitter.com/vqShChn6Z6
Biden’s decisiont to agree to the debates comes following a particularly brutal poll that showed him trailing in all but one of the key battleground states by significant margins—perhaps fueling talk among Democrat party officials about the possibility of replacing him.
Committing to a debate schedule could forestall such conversations, or at least throw some speculative pundits off the scent of his imminent demise.
However, the Biden campaign raised some eyebrows by releasing specific requirements that needed to be met for him to participate, including moving up the timeline, banning in-person audiences and stricter enforcement of the debate rules on speaking time.
Even so, Trump quickly agreed to take Biden up on the offer, saying on Truth Social that he was “ready and willing to debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times.”
He also urged Biden to agree to two additional debates and, “for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds.”
The former president added, “Just tell me when, I’ll be there. Let’s get ready to rumble!!!”
In a follow-up post, Trump proposed hosting one of the additional debates on Fox News, with anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum serving as the moderators.
Biden’s campaign had not yet responded to this latest offer by Trump at time of publication. They did, however, cast doubt on whether Trump would even participate in the agreed-to debates.
“Donald Trump has a long history of playing games with debates: complaining about the rules, breaking those rules, pulling out at the last minute, or not showing up at all – which he’s done repeatedly in all three cycles he’s run for president,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Biden-Harris 2024 chair, said in a statement.
“No more games. No more chaos, no more debate about debates,” she continued. “We’ll see Donald Trump on June 27th in Atlanta—if he shows up.”
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A video of Secretary of State Antony Blinken playing a cover of rock artist Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” onstage Tuesday in the war-torn nation of Ukraine went viral, and raising eyebrows on both sides of the political aisle.
Reports indicated that Blinken played at a subterranean club called Barman Dictat in Kyiv, sitting in with a punk band called the 19.99.
Blinken played guitar and sang for the cover after making a brief but impassioned speech about how the entire free world stands with Ukraine.
“Your soldiers, your citizens, particularly in the northeast and Kharkiv, are suffering tremendously,” he said. “But they need to know—you need to know—the United States is with you. So much of the world is with you, and they’re fighting not just for Ukraine, but for the free world—and the free world is with you too.”
The 1989 song ironically was written after Young’s plans to tour in the Soviet Union fell through, and the lyrics suggest a sharp condemnation of the globalist “new world order” politics that were represented by then U.S. President George H.W. Bush in the waning years of the U.S.S.R.
The purpose of Blinken’s surprise Ukraine trip, ostensibly was to reassure the country of America’s support following the passage of a contentious $61 billion federal aid package.
However, not long after the much ballyhooed musical performance, Russia announced the capture of the village of Robotyne in the southern regions of Ukraine.
Moreover, despite the auditory weapon of mass distraction unleashed by the out-of-tune official, the irony was not lost on critics of America’s involvement in the war effort that Ukraine is not part of the “free world” in the least.
In fact, Blinken’s performance came almost directly after he announced the indefinite suspension of elections in the nation, which has long been plagued by corruption.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Elections in Ukraine will take place when all Ukrainians can vote, all of them. – Blinken
So as long as Russia holds territories, there will not be an election, even if there is a long term ceasefire or peace. pic.twitter.com/kqHehXPlV7
“We’re working with the government and civil society groups to shore up Ukraine’s election infrastructure,” Blinken dubiously claimed.
“That way, as soon as Ukrainians agree that conditions allow, all Ukrainians—all Ukrainians, including those displaced by Russia’s aggression—can exercise their right to vote,” he continued. “People in Ukraine and around the world can have confidence that the voting process is free, fair, secure.”
American taxpayers were less than impressed with both Blinken’s musical and diplomatic performances.
“Since we can’t produce enough artillery shells, Blinken will (try) to kill them with cringe,” said Twitter user @CyberPunkCortes.
Since we can’t produce enough artillery shells, Blinken will (try) to kill them with cringe. https://t.co/a3AJcZLfkz
Even the Associated Press admitted that Blinken’s song choice missed the mark, pointing out that “the tune is a lament about despair and misery caused by homelessness, drug addiction and poverty in the celebrated free world.”
Despite the secretary of State’s dog-and-pony show, another American leftist with close ties to the White House was busy attending to serious business matters.
As Blinken jammed the night away, Alex Soros, son of billionaire George Soros, reportedly attended “informative meetings and briefings in Kyiv about the situation on the battlefield.”
Soros goes down to business in Ukraine, while Blinken jams with his guitar and eats pizza. pic.twitter.com/yQHHnOD9bs
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s almost summer, which means that it’s time for another cocaine scandal in Washington DC.
The Capitol Police announced Wednesday that a bag of cocaine was found on the floor of a hallway inside USCP headquarters.
“The hallway is on the second floor in an area that has been a staging spot for furniture and supplies. The area is heavily trafficked by various contractors and employees. It is also near offices such as Prisoner Processing, Crime Scene, Intel and Reports Processing,” the Capitol Police said in a press release.
— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) May 15, 2024
“The baggie was found in the middle of the floor just before 1:00 p.m. by an officer, who immediately reported it to a supervisor. The residue was field tested and came back positive for cocaine. The USCP Investigations Division has opened an investigation, which will include further testing, including DNA testing of the baggie.”
The Capitol Police cocaine comes nearly a year after a bag of the booger sugar was found in the White House last July.
At the time, Hunter Biden, a self-acknowledged former crack cocaine addict, was staying at the White House.
Initially, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre promised that the Secret Service would “get to the bottom of this.”
“Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered,” the Secret Service claimed in a statement on July 12, 2023.
The investigation has since been officially closed. A list of 500 suspects was generated, but the Secret Service claimed that — despite the White House being one of the most secure buildings in the world — surveillance footage failed to capture the individual responsible for funneling the cocaine.
(Headline USA) Republican voters advanced strong U.S. Senate contenders in Maryland and West Virginia on Tuesday, giving the GOP a big boost in its push to claim control of Congress’s upper chamber.
Former Gov. Larry Hogan claimed the Republican nomination in what will be a marquee race in Maryland against Angela Alsobrooks, a top local official from Prince George’s County.
Meanwhile, another popular Republican, Gov. Jim Justice, won the Senate nomination in deep-red West Virginia, becoming the overwhelming favorite in the race that represents the one of the GOP’s best pickup opportunities in the nation.
In both states, which share a border but feature antithetical politics, the Republican nominees represent a serious challenge for Democrats in the general election as they cling to a 51-49 Senate majority and defend seats in other states that former President Donald Trump won four years ago.
At the same time, Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden sought to project strength in low-stakes presidential primaries. And further down the ballot, two people who were on opposite sides of the Jan. 6 uprising lost their U.S. House bids—a former Capitol Police officer running in Maryland and a former West Virginia state lawmaker who participated in the riot.
In all, three states hosted statewide primary elections Tuesday—Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia—as Republicans and Democrats picked their nominees for a slate of November elections that will decide the presidency and control of Congress.
RINO HOGAN MAY BE GOP HERO IN MD.
In Maryland, Hogan gives Republicans a legitimate chance at picking up a Senate seat in the deep-blue state for the first time in more than four decades.
For Trump, it would be a mixed blessing. With Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (anoter previous blue-state governor) poised to retire, Hogan would likely be elevated into immediate prominence as the top intra-party critic should both prevail in their November races. Nonetheless, an unreliable Republican would be better than a reliable Democrat.
After getting trounced in the 2022 midterm while attempting to field a MAGA-friendly senatorial candidate, Republican primary voters in the state learned a valuable lesson. This time around, they overlooked Hogan’s yearslong criticism of Trump—a position that will undoubtedly help him in the general election this fall. Maryland voters gave Biden a 33-point victory over Trump four years ago.
On the other side in the Senate contest, Democratic voters nominated Alsobrooks, the top official in Prince George’s County outside of Washington, who would be the fourth black woman to serve in the Senate and just the third one elected to it.
The 53-year-old county executive defeated the early favorite Rep. David Trone—the wealthy cofounder of Total Wine, who had invested more than $61 million into his unsuccessful bid—-after Trone inadvertently used the term “jigaboo” during a debate on the House floor instead of “bugaboo.”
Top black leaders in the state, including Gov. Wes Moore, took the opportunity to rally around Alsobrooks, in hopes that she can motivate minority turnout in a state where roughly one in three residents identifies as African American.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen and U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer also threw their weight behind Alsobrooks, who can strike a greater idealogical contrast with the centrist Hogan even as Democrats brace for losses among independents and undecideds.
Hogan tweeted his congratulations to Alsobrooks, while saying, “Voters have a clear and stark choice: more of the dysfunctional partisan status quo or real independent and bipartisan leadership.”
While Alsobrooks is certain to bring the race card into her campaign, another notable primary win came for rising GOP star Kimberly Klacik in Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District.
Klacik rose to prominence in the 2020 race to replace the late Rep. Elijah Cummings in Baltimore. Although the deep-blue district ultimately went to Democrat Kweisi Mfume, a viral video she created with Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson garnered her national media spots on Fox News and elsewhere.
Klacik became one of the leading black critics of the “Black Lives Matter” movement which was dominating political discourse at the time.
She now faces a white male, John Olszewski Jr., to fill the seat of retiring incumbent Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger in a large district that circumscribes Baltimore from the east, north and west and expands into some of the more suburban and rural areas in the central part of the state.
JUSTICE PREVAILS IN WEST VA.
Justice won his primary against U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney for the seat of retiring Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, which is almost guaranteed to turn red come November.
The Trump-endorsed Justice, a multimillionaire with a folksy personality, is wildly popular in the state. A former Democrat whose 2016 gubernatorial bid was endorsed by Manchin (also an ex-governor), Justice switched to the Republican Party in 2017, announcing the change at a Trump rally.
Despite his connection to the former Republican president, Justice doesn’t pander to Trump as much as most statewide GOP officials, and he largely avoids focusing on some of the culture-war issues, such as transgender rights.
Mooney had tried to win over conservatives by labeling Justice a RINO who would support Democratic policies. Justice did support Biden’s so-called infrastructure law, saying West Virginia couldn’t afford to turn away the money offered in the bill.
At a polling place in West Virginia’s capital city, voter Steve Ervin said his votes Tuesday were directly related to Trump.
“I really did an exhaustive study of the sample ballot of who I believe supported Trump and Trump supported them,” said Ervin, who works in the state’s unemployment office. “That’s what I made my whole decision on.”
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the Republican nominee in the 2018 Senate race against Manchin, won the nomination for West Virginia governor.
PRO-HAMAS FALLOUT CONTINUES
Democrat voters continued to register significant dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s support for Israel in its war against Hamas.
Although the nationwide protest movement on college campuses was winding down with schools letting out for the summer, roughly 10% of Maryland voters—many of whom wished to show their solidarity with Hamas—opted to select “uncommitted to any presidential candidate.”
Results coming in Tuesday night suggested the “uncommitted” vote was running behind the margins of similar movements in Michigan and Minnesota, two major battleground states with sizable Muslim populations.
The political pressure may have had a direct role in swaying some of Biden’s antagonistic rhetoric toward Israel—as well as the controversial and potentially impeachable decision to withhold material support that Congress had previously voted to approve.
There was no “uncommitted” option in West Virginia (where Biden performed worse due to a crowded field of alternatives) or Nebraska (where he performed slightly better, with only Rep. Dean Phillips to compete against).
Everett Bellamy, a Democrat who voted early in Annapolis, said he voted “uncommitted” instead of Biden as a protest against the killing of women and children and noncombatants in Gaza—despite recent statistics showing those numbers were greatly exaggerated.
“I wanted to send a message,” Bellamy, 74, said after leaving an early voting center.
In blue states with open primaries in particular—such as Maryland, where some of Hogan’s supporters may not necessarily have been traditional Republicans—Trump also continues to see protest votes directed toward ex-GOP rival Nikki Haley.
Haley, the former South Carolina governor who also served as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, formally suspended her campaign on March 6, the day after Super Tuesday.
NO POINTS FOR JAN. 6 PARTICIPANTS
Tuesday’s elections also included two candidates who were intimately involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In Maryland, former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn was among nearly two dozen Democrats running in the state’s 3rd Congressional District. The 40-year-old Democrat lost to State Sen. Sarah Elfreth.
In West Virginia, a former member of the House of Delegates, Derrick Evans, lost his bid to oust incumbent Republican Rep. Carol Miller in the 1st Congressional District. The 39-year-old Evans served a three-month jail sentence after livestreaming himself in the U.S. Capitol.
OTHER KEY RACES
In Nebraska, Republican Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts both won their primaries, one of the rare occasions when both senators in a state were on the ballot at the same time. And in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon fended off a challenge from his right flank.
In North Carolina, voters finalized their pick of the Trump-endorsed Brad Knott in what had become a one-person Republican primary in the state’s 13th Congressional District.
The Tarheel State also selected Hal Weatherman—a political veteran with deep ties in state politics—as the nominee for lieutenant governor. Weatherman will round out a high-impact ticket with current U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop and current Lt. Gov Mark Robinson, who are running for attorney general and governor, respectively.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock—the length of five U.S. football fields—into a beach in northern Gaza.
And that may be the end of the easy part for the Biden administration’s two-month-long, $320 million effort to open a sea route to get humanitarian aid into Gaza, with dangers and uncertainties ahead for aid delivery teams as fighting surges and the plight of starving Palestinians grows more dire.
For President Joe Biden, the Pentagon’s new floating pier and causeway are a gamble, an attempted workaround to the challenges of getting aid into Gaza from intensifying war and the restrictions its ally Israel has placed at land crossings since Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel launched the conflict in October.
However, the Pentagon has warned that the pier could lead to the U.S. military being directly involved in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin admitted as much during a congressional budget hearing last month.
BREAKING: Secretary Lloyd Austin ADMITS likelihood of shooting warfare between U.S. service members and Gaza forces soon 👇
GAETZ: “This is a very telling moment, Mr. Secretary, because you've said something that's quite possible that could happen. Shots from Gaza on our service… pic.twitter.com/HmS1bfqeWB
At the hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., expressed concerns that the 1,000 US troops operating just off the coast of Gaza are prime targets for Hamas. A staging area for the pier has already come under mortar fire, as noted by antiwar.com.
“They have the right to return fire to protect themselves,” Austin responded.
Gaetz then asked if he thinks an attack is likely, and the defense secretary said it’s “possible.”
Austin insisted that there won’t be American boots in Gaza. But Gaetz said he didn’t see the difference of U.S. boots being on Gaza’s physical land and them being on a pier connected to Gaza.
“You guys seem to be sort of saying that boots on a pier connected to the ground connected to servicemembers shooting into Gaza doesn’t count as boots on the ground,” Gaetz remarked.
“It does not,” Austin responded.
More than a week later, the Pentagon still apparently doesn’t have a firm plan for protecting the pier.
When asked about the matter at the daily Pentagon briefing Tuesday, Air Force Gen. Pat Ryder said that U.S. Central Command has been working very closely with a number of entities, including USAID, the Israelis, and other partners in the region, on putting together a comprehensive security plan for this temporary pier and the aid distribution routes.
“And so a lot of work has gone into that, and of course as we’ve said all along, force protection is going to continue to be of paramount concern. All that to say we do believe that we have the — the pieces and parts in place so that when we do begin operations, we’re confident that — that we’ll have the security in place that we need,” he said.
Responsible Statecraft editor Kelley Vlahos expressed concern at Gen. Ryder’s non-answer.
“We don’t know if aid can safely get into Gaza. We don’t know where the trident pier is … Finally, how long will this pier be in operation? When asked, the DOD won’t say,” she wrote Wednesday.
“To ask ‘why’ wouldn’t hurt either,” she added. “Wouldn’t using U.S. leverage to ensure land routes were opened, rather than spending millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars and putting U.S. service members at risk be a better option?”
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The Guatemalan government has launched an investigation into potential child trafficking at the United States southern border, trafficking allegedly facilitated by supposedly humanitarian NGOs.
Robby Starbuck, a conservative influencer and filmmaker who raises awareness of child trafficking, posted video footage of his recent interview of Guatemalan Secretary General Ángel Pineda, who offered Starbuck some disturbing details:
There’s a scandal going on in Guatemala that everyone needs to know about. The Attorney General in Guatemala is investigating child trafficking at the US border and it appears that the Biden Admin is retaliating.
According to Starbuck, it is likely that NGOs are “potentially involved in some way in these operations,” though he was quick to clarify that “nothing’s been proven yet.”
In response to Starbuck’s line of questioning, Pineda suggested that tens of thousands of children from his country have disappeared into the United States and are now unaccounted for.
“Somebody told me about 85,000 children going to the United States that nobody knows what happened to them,” he told Starbuck, noting that he and his colleagues often hear reports of child abuse at various NGO facilities, prompting the investigation.
However, upon attempting to request aid from the U.S. federal government, Pineda and other officials were simply dismissed and told to stay out of it because they were “playing with fire.”
Specifically, the Guatemalan government has indicated that, Changing the Way We Care, the World Childhood Foundation, Arise and La Unión del Pueblo Entero may be using their positions to abuse children.
Such an ambiguous claim could be taken several ways, but notably the early stages of the investigation materialized in a recent raid of an NGO called Save the Children–an NGO with ties to President Joe Biden, as First Lady Jill Biden was previously the chair of Save the Children.
During the interview, Pineda largely reiterated claims reported initially by Fox News contributor Sarah Carter about the Guatemalan government’s dealings with both U.S. officials, as well as their more fruitful collaboration with officials in the state of Texas.
Carter noted that that Guatemalan Attorney General María Consuelo Porras asks Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton were cooperating in the investigation.
“These Guatemalan children have reportedly been placed in shelters and organizations throughout Texas under the guise of providing them with a family environment,” Porras wrote last month, adding that “sexual abuse” appears to be prevalent in the shelters provided.
In response to the news, the ever-left New York Times ran a hit piece on Guatemalan officials suggesting that their attempts to protect children are nothing more than a political maneuver to target nonprofits.
Despite much of the American media and government aligning against them, Pineda said he and his colleagues intend to continue the investigation.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen testified Tuesday in Manhattan court that he made hush-money payments to a porn star on behalf of Donald Trump—an action District Attorney Alvin Bragg says was intended to illegally influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
But a day later, Cohen’s own former attorney, Robert Costello, accused his ex-client of fabricating his allegations about making hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels. Costello made this accusation while testifying to the House Weaponization Subcommittee.
#BREAKING: Michael Cohen's former attorney reveals huge news:
1. Michael Cohen didn't actually believe the Stormy Daniels allegation.
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 15, 2024
According to Costello, he was trying to get Cohen to flip on Trump in 2018, but Cohen said he had no information that Trump committed any crimes.
“I explained that if Cohen had truthful information that would implicate Donald Trump, I could get him out of his legal troubles by the end of the week, if he cooperated against Donald Trump,” Costello said Wednesday, explaining that he can talk about his private discussions with Cohen because he waved his attorney-client privilege when he cooperated against Trump.
“Cohen said to me: ‘I swear to God, Bob, I don’t have anything on Donald Trump.’ Cohen must have said this at least ten times because I kept coming back to it from different approaches. Cohen kept on saying: ‘Guys I want you to remember, I will do whatever the fuck I have to do, I will never spend one day in jail.’”
Cohen has testified in detail about how the former president was linked to all aspects of the hush money scheme, and prosecutors believe Cohen’s testimony is critical to their case. But their reliance on a witness with such a checkered past — he was disbarred, went to prison and separately pleaded guilty to lying about a Moscow real estate project on Trump’s behalf — could backfire, especially as Trump’s attorneys continue to cross-examine him.
Cohen was the prosecution’s last witness. It’s not clear whether Trump’s lawyers will call any witnesses or if Trump will testify in his own defense.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records and denies any of the sexual encounters happened. Trump’s attorneys last week asked the judge to declare a mistrial over testimony from a crucial witness, Stormy Daniels, who spoke about the alleged sexual encounter with Trump that prompted the hush money payment just weeks before the presidential election in 2016. Jurors saw Daniels on the witness stand for 7.5 hours over two days.
