Lawyers for Fulton County Withdraw from Case over Missing Ballots

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Lawyers for Fulton County Withdraw from Case over Missing Ballots

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Two high-powered criminal-defense attorneys have withdrawn from a 2020 election-fraud case in Fulton County, Georgia, prompting speculation that things look bleak for the fraud deniers, Becker News reported.

Attorneys Donald F. Samuel and Amanda R. Clark Palmer, who were defending the county, motioned to withdraw themselves from the Favorito v. Wan case dealing with the fallout from the increasingly-probable election fraud in Georgia during the 2020 election.

Although Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger adamantly denied any widespread mishandling of ballots and refused to investigate claims to the contrary following the election, considerable evidence has since revealed the extent to which left-wing activist groups appeared to interfere, likely delivering the state to Democrat candidates—including Joe Biden, as well as Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, by razor-thin margins.

Much of that evidence has been generated by the Woodstock-based nonprofit VoterGA.org and its co-founder, watchdog activist Garland Favorito, who sought an outside review of suspicious ballots that, witnesses said, appeared to have been marked by printers and not human hands during a previous count.

“We have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrink-wrapped ballots in a county warehouse,” he said

However, following the election, the many of the contested ballots mysteriously disappeared—and may have been illegally destroyed by county officials.

According to Rasmussen Reports, the behavior of the lawyers—and of the voting officials in their previous cover-up efforts—can only lead to one logical conclusion.

“There is NO EVIDENCE, they claim (because it’s been kept secret for over 3 years),” tweeted the polling company.

“Take it to COURT, they whine (GA Supreme Court said bring out the ballots)… No JUDGE has found, they assert (because they all run away)… Joe Biden didn’t ‘WIN’ Georgia in 2020, you can now reply.”

Initially, things looked bleak for Favorito after a Georgia appeals court dropped his case with the all-too-common refrain in 2020 election challenges that he lacked standing because his “claims of vote dilution did not allege particularized injuries.”

To the appeals court, an entire state’s loss of representation in the presidency due to fraud in a single corrupt city did not constitute a specific injury, but if a minority were denied the vote via “racial gerrymandering,” then the injury would be sufficient to proceed to trial.

Fortunately for Favorito, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned that initial decision, and now things look increasingly favorable for those who have questioned the 2020 election in Georgia.

His case is proceeding against the backdrop of an even more high-profile Fulton County case, in which radical District Attorney Fani Willis is attempting to prosecute former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen alleged “co-conspirators” (some of the initial 18 accused with the former president have since struck plea bargains) on racketeering charges under the pretense that they tried illegitimately to overturn the election results.

If Favorito’s case were first to establish that there was, indeed, widespread vote fraud in the county, it stands to reason that the outcome could significantly bolster Trump’s defense, if not render Willis’s case altogether moot.

In an epic thread late Friday, Twitter influencer KanekoaTheGreat compiled several other pieces of evidence related to Favorito’s case.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Antifa Terrorism? Fentanyl-Laced Letters With Leftist Symbols Sent to U.S. Election Offices

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Antifa Terrorism? Fentanyl-Laced Letters With Leftist Symbols Sent to U.S. Election Offices

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The FBI has opened an investigation into five suspicious letters sent to election offices in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Georgia.

Four out of the five letters contained fentanyl based on preliminary tests, according to Scripps News.

The letters contained threatening messages, demanding that officials “end elections now.”

“Stop giving power to the right that they don’t have. We are in charge now and there is no more need for them,” the letters read, referencing the round of elections that took place on Tuesday.

The letter concluded with a note warning that ballot drops were susceptible to noxious chemicals, followed by the pride flag, a pentagram and a symbol representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany originating in 1932.

Election workers opened the notes containing “unknown powdery substances” in several counties across the respective states.

One letter sent in Washington state tested positive for baking soda. Another, sent to Spokane, tested positive for fentanyl.

Washington State bomb squad also responded to a similar letter in Pierce County on Wednesday.

Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, where the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his allies is taking place, also recounted the discovery of a similar letter.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed Fulton County was the only one to receive such letters.

“We’re working with our state and federal partners to determine if any additional Georgia officials are being targeted,” Raffensperger said. “Domestic terrorists will not trample on our right to free and fair elections.”

Tacoma’s police department claimed that the letters had nothing other than a “vague statement” and there was no indication of the responsible party.

Other local law enforcement agencies and the Justice Department refused to share additional information about the ongoing investigation, leaving the mainstream media to speculate about the mystery senders.

But according to FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, investigators have determined that all the letters originated from a single point: Portland.

Rep. Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint against Judge in Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial

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Rep. Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint against Judge in Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial

(Headline USA) Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., filed an ethics complaint this week against the judge overseeing the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump.

In the complaint, which was filed with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Stefanik accused Judge Arthur Engoron of exhibiting “bias” and “bizarre behavior” in the courtroom.

“I write today to express my serious concerns about the inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance shown by Judge Arthur F. Engoron in New York’s lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization,” Stefanik reportedly wrote. “This judge’s bizarre behavior has no place in our judicial system, where Judge Engoron is not honoring the defendant’s rights to due process and a fair trial.”

The civil case against Trump, which was brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, is over whether the Trump Organization and its top officials knowingly misrepresented the value of multiple real estate holdings over the years. Trump and his three adult children have all testified in Engoron’s court.

Trump’s allies have accused Engoron of displaying bias against him from the start of the trial, when cameras caught him smiling as Trump and the other defendants were brought into the courtroom.

When Trump took the stand as a witness, Engoron chided the former president and demanded that his lawyers “control” his answers.

“This is not a political rally,” Engoron claimed.

He also imposed a limited gag order on Trump and his lawyers, claiming he has received multiple threats since the trial started.

“Judge Engoron has gone on to gag and fine President Trump for merely criticizing Judge Engoron’s law clerk, which is core political speech protected by the First Amendment,” Stefanik said. “If anyone in America must have the constitutional right to speak out against the judge, his staff, the witnesses, or the process, it’s a defendant going through a process he believes is politicized and weaponized against him.”

Brother of Top White House Aide Has Made Millions From Biden’s Policies

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Brother of Top White House Aide Has Made Millions From Biden’s Policies

(Headline USA) The brother of a top White House aide has reportedly made millions since President Joe Biden took office, with several of the firms he represents directly benefiting from Biden’s policies.

Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti, has earned $8.3 million since 2021 through his lobbying firm Ricchetti Inc., according to Senate lobbying disclosures. That is four times more than he earned during former President Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, according to the New York Post.

Ricchetti’s success is largely due to the fact that Biden’s White House has cozied up to several companies he represents, including General Motors, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and TC Energy. The White House has even directly accepted calls from Richetti—which it did not do during the Trump administration, according to the Wall Street Journal.

In fact, after paying Jeff Richetti $200,000 in 2021, General Motors earned an official visit from Biden, who then showcased its new electric vehicle factory. Biden has since sent billions of dollars in electric vehicle subsidies to General Motors and other auto companies.

Jeff Richetti also represents Applied Materials, a semiconductor manufacturer whose headquarters Vice President Kamala Harris visited in May to promote the passage of the CHIPS Act, which provided Applied Materials and other domestic semiconductor producers with billions in subsidies.

The concerning finances have prompted calls from ethical experts for Steve Richetti, who works in the Biden White House, to recuse himself from policy discussions that his brother’s firm is lobbying on.

“I’m sorry, I know some folks don’t like hearing any criticism of him. But this royally sucks. I’m disgusted,” said Walter Shaub, who served as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics during the Obama administration. “A lot of us worked hard to tee [Biden] up to restore ethics to government and believed the promises. This is a real ‘f*** you’ to us — and government ethics.”

Jeff Richetti denied lobbying the White House or his brother directly.

Judge Pauses DOJ’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Discrimination Lawsuit against SpaceX

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Judge Pauses DOJ’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Discrimination Lawsuit against SpaceX

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A federal judge in Texas has granted SpaceX’s request for a moratorium on the Justice Department’s administrative proceedings that were launched over the company allegedly discriminating against foreigners—deeming such proceedings unconstitutional.

After the DOJ sued SpaceX in August for discriminating against asylees and refugees, the company filed a counterclaim in September—alleging that the administrative law judges on the case were “unconstitutionally appointed” because they possess authority that only those appointed by the president should have. The DOJ’s lawsuit is being litigated in the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, as opposed to a federal court in the judicial branch.

In an apparent attempt to counteract SpaceX’s lawsuit, the DOJ hastily passed a regulation in October, giving the Attorney General the power to review decisions made by administrative law judges. The DOJ apparently thought this would address SpaceX’s concerns by having the presidentially appointed Attorney General conduct oversight of otherwise unaccountable administrative judges.

However, SpaceX said that the DOJ’s new regulation is also illegal. While the entire administrative court process is unconstitutional, the DOJ can’t fix the process with a simple regulation, the company said.

“DOJ cannot fix the inherent constitutional defects in Section 1324b via a regulation that runs directly contrary to it,” SpaceX said in an Oct. 25 filing. “Only Congress can amend the statute.”

The federal judge presiding over SpaceX’s counterclaim agreed.

“The [DOJ regulation] is unlawful, and the proceedings are unconstitutional because the Attorney General is not allowed to review the [administrative judges’] decisions,” said District Judge Rolando Olvera in his Wednesday decision.

The judge’s decision signals that the entire legal process for the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer.

Along with the legal issues, the case was already loaded in irony as soon as it was filed, as the DOJ itself advertises specifically for U.S. citizens—a fact that didn’t escape SpaceX owner Elon Musk.

It has also been revealed that the DOJ’s lead attorney suing SpaceX is none other than its Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Kristen Clarke, who was an avowed black supremacist while attending Harvard University.

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

Sketch Artist Slammed for Making Ivanka Look Evil

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Sketch Artist Slammed for Making Ivanka Look Evil

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A courtroom sketch artist was slammed by political pundits and casual observers alike for a series of drawings that made Ivanka Trump look as evil as possible during recent testimony in the New York civil trial accusing her family’s business of fraud, BizPacReview reported.

Ivanka appeared in court Wednesday in New York testifying in the ongoing trial, in which her father, former President Donald Trump, has been a regular fixture.

The GOP presidential frontrunner testified earlier in the week and had several hours of combatitive exchanges with far-left judge (and online exhibitionist) Arthur Engoron.

The judge already predetermined a guilty verdict prior to the trial, and the hearing is to establish the amount of punitive damages that the state—led by partisan New York Attorney General Letitia James—is allowed to assess.

The Trump Organization is expected to appeal the outcome regardless and ask that the current spectacle be declared a mistrial, citing Engoron’s unseemly behavior and conflicts of interest.

Ivanka’s brothers, Don Jr. and Eric, also made recent appearances on the witness stand.

But as has frequently been the case, left-wing vitriol seemed to fixate on the president’s eldest daughter, who appeared well-dressed and well-kept during her testimony.

Nonetheless, Reuters sketch artist Jane Rosenberg downgraded Ivanka Trump’s beauty and gave her a menacing look.

In one sketch in particular, Ivanka’s large head sat atop an incredibly long neck as she gazed at the room with an evil stare.

Rosenberg was slammed after photos of the sketch began to spread.

One Twitter user suggested that, by making Ivanka uglier, Rosenberg would feel less bad about her own lack of beauty.

“Someone else who’s insanely jealous of Ivanka Trump and her breathtaking beauty must have drawn this court sketch,” the Twitter user wrote.

Others said that it probably was not jealousy, but pure artistic incompetence that led to such pitiful sketches.

“I’m guessing the Reuters sketch artist is somebody’s nephew or something, and that’s how they got the job?” another Twitter user wrote. “Because they’re really not very good at this. At all.”

Others joined in, mocking it as the product of a child’s art project.

According to the New York Post, however, Rosenberg claimed that she tried her hardest to make her Ivanka sketch reflect reality.

“It’s very hard to capture the subtleties of her likeness in such a short time,” she said. “She’s smooth and perfect! Tell my models to hold still and give me more time! Apologies to Ivanka!”

Rosenberg also noted that courtroom artists have a difficult profession because they receive much criticism.

“This bashing of courtroom artists is really hard to take,” she said.

However, many compared it to the exceedingly flattering portrait of disgraced cryptocurrency con-artist Sam Bankman–Fried, who—despite convicted of felony fraud charges last week, might have found some measure of solace in his resemblance to a young Brad Pitt.

Prior to his testimony, in fact, Don Jr. reportedly approached Rosenberg with a copy of Bankman–Fried’s sketch and specially requested that she “make [him] look sexy.”

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Michigan Moves to Impeach Soros-Backed, Alcoholic, Lesbo AG Dana Nessel

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Michigan Moves to Impeach Soros-Backed, Alcoholic, Lesbo AG Dana Nessel

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Several state-level Republicans in Michigan introduced articles of impeachment for state Attorney General, Dana Nessel, on the grounds of “corrupt conduct.”

State Rep. James DeSana introduced the articles along with co-sponsors Neil Friske, R, 107th District; Joseph Fox, R-101st District; Rachelle Smit, R-43rd District; Matt Maddock, R-51st District; Steve Carra, R-36th District; Josh Schriver, R-66th District; and Angela Rigas, R-79th District, according to the Gateway Pundit.

DeSana authored three articles of impeachment in his resolution, claiming Nessel violated her constitutional oath of office.

“[Nessel] has failed to charge individuals responsible for ‘clearly fraudulent’ voter registration applications uncovered in a joint investigation involving her office in October 2020,” the first article explained.

The news of a statewide illegal voter-registration ring broke in August.

An investigative report into the matter landed on the desk of voter integrity activist Phil O’Halloran in October 2020—a month before the election—in the coastal town of Muskegon, according to the Gateway Pundit.

Despite the fact that the report came out of the local police department and contained official evidence of fraudulent activity among voting officials, Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson reportedly neglected to make the results of the investigation public.

According to Rep. Ann Bollin, chair of the House Election Integrity Committee, voting clerks and other officials within the Michigan State Legislature never received word to be on the lookout for fabricated voter registration forms.

The guilty party never faced charges for their proven crimes.

The second article addressed the “malicious prosecution of the 16 Michigan Republican Electors,” who cast electoral votes for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

Nessel charged each of the 16 alternate electors with eight felonies each.

All but two of the electors were senior citizens, and many of them lived on fixed incomes. If charged, they will all face life sentences for submitting their alternate electoral votes for Trump after they knew he had lost.

Finally, article three concerned a personal conflict of interest on Nessel’s part.

The AG allegedly used her powerful government seat to help Traci Kornak—a friend, personal injury lawyer, a former member of her 2018 transition team and Michigan Democratic Party treasurer—out of a sticky legal situation last year.

Kornak was accused by the director of a West Michigan nursing home of using an elderly client with brain damage to bill an insurance company for almost $50,000 under false pretenses.

After the accusation, the AG’s office opened an investigation into Kornak despite numerous ethical violations.

Scott Teter, director of the Michigan AG’s Financial Crimes Division, voiced his concerns about the very apparent conflict of interest.

“Because the suspect in this matter assisted with Attorney General Nessel’s transition into office, I believe it would create the appearance of impropriety for AG Nessel to access information about this investigation,” Teter wrote.

“Specifically, if the Department of Attorney General declined to seek charges against the suspect, it might appear that the professional relationship between Attorney General Nessel and Traci Kornak had influenced the investigation.”

Teter requested the establishment of a conflict wall, preventing Nessel from accessing information about the case.

Nessel completely disregarded the wall and received several reports on the case.

Nessel, one of Michigan’s infamous “three witches,” has a history of no-holds-barred leftist agenda, vowing never to enforce a Michigan pro-life law and forcing Christian adoption centers to allow LGBT couples to adopt children.

Leftists Outraged after Libs of TikTok Removed from ADL’s ‘Extremism’ Blacklist

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Leftists Outraged after Libs of TikTok Removed from ADL’s ‘Extremism’ Blacklist

(Karen Freeman, Headline USA) Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik fought back and claimed at least a temporary victory this week after a hit piece from USA Today got the social-media account and its owner blacklisted by the Anti-Defamation League.

However, the popular anti-woke meme site’s removal from the ADL’s “Glossary of Extremism and Hate” has left many on the Left livid, according to Blaze Media.

The ADL added Libs of TikTok to the list after USA Today asserted that Raichik was responsible for countless bomb threats and harassment of those in the LGBT community.

Raichik maintained her opposition to violence and that there was no proof any of the reported threats came from Libs of TikTok followers.

Curiously, Gannett’s flagship newspaper is not the first leftist media outlet to pursue a hit-piece on Raichik, who previously called out the George Soros-funded VICE News for a similar attack in October. 

While it is unclear if those efforts were coordinated, both may have originated in talking points issued from the far-left propagandist orgazination Media Matters for America, which also has longstanding ties to Soros.

Raichik quickly responded to the ADL’s actions by threatening legal action for—ironically enough, given the organization’s name—defamation.

The ADL quickly removed the entry but stressed the deletion was only “temporary” according to ADL’s chief legal officer, Steven Sheinberg.

It nontheless maintained its claim that the Libs of TikTok founder was an “anti-LGBT extremist.”

Other far-left activist groups, including LGBTQNation, likewise characterized Raichik as a terrorist while citing the baseless smear attack to support their claims in an attempt to damage her reputation and compel others to cancel her.

“Chaya Raichik, the former Brooklyn real estate agent turned anti-LGBTQ+ activist behind the LibsofTikTok social media accounts, celebrated a USA Today exposé linking her posts to incidents of harassment and even bomb threats at schools, libraries, and hospitals,” it wrote in an unhinged article on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, some leftists lashed out at the ADL for its decision to back off when faced with a losing lawsuit that could potentially humiliate the powerful Jewish watchdog and pro-censorship lobbying group, which is already overextended by the rise of anti-Semitism following the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas.

One Twitter user, Right Wing Cope, accused the of “absolutely cowardly behavior.”

Another account, Eyes on the Right, called the decision, “absolute chickensh*t.”

As Trial Starts, Paul Pelosi’s Cultist Attacker Blames Actions on Belief in Cults

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As Trial Starts, Paul Pelosi’s Cultist Attacker Blames Actions on Belief in Cults

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) David DePape, who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer last year, is a drug-addicted, mentally ill homeless man once associated with a nudist cult.

He also allegedly sexually abused his children, to boot.

But according to DePape’s defense attorney, it was his purported belief in “conspiracy theories” that motivated his attack on Paul Pelosi.

Defense attorney Jodi Linker said Thursday, at the beginning of DePape’s federal trial, that she won’t dispute that her client attacked Pelosi, an encounter caught on police body camera video. Instead, she will argue that he believed “with every ounce of his being” that he was taking action to stop government corruption and the abuse of children by politicians and actors.

“This is not a ‘whodunit.’ But what the government fails to acknowledge is the ‘whydunit,’ and the why matters in this case,” she said.

“These beliefs matter because both charges require that the government prove that Mr. DePape acted because of her performance of her official duties as a member of Congress,” Linker added.

DePape’s defense fits the narrative spread by mainstream media, which has focused on the defendant’s purported belief in the “right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory that claims the U.S. government is run by a cabal of devil-worshipping pedophiles”—as stated by the Associated Press.

Those same mainstream reports have largely ignored DePape’s past association with the so-called Castro Nudists cult—a name derives from San Francisco’s well-known gay district and not from the late communist Cuban dictator.

They’ve also ignored that his stepdaughter, Inti Gonzalez, accused him of abusing the two sons in a Facebook post and a post on her now-deleted blog.

As New York Post journalist Miranda Devine said in January—when police body cam footage of the attack was released—DePape’s supposed beliefs in conspiracies should be disregarded for the “real story.”

“The real story was that Democrat-run cities are now so overrun with the drug addicted, mentally ill and criminals that even the husband of Speaker Pelosi is not safe in his own bed,” she said. “Instead, we got silly theories from the right and fake claims from the left that a Trumpist did it.”

DePape faces federal charges of assaulting an immediate family member of a federal official and attempted kidnapping of a federal officer. The charges carry 30- and 2-year prison sentences, respectively.

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

Judge Denies Bid to Delay Classified Docs Trial Until after Election

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(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A federal judge on Friday denied former President Donald Trump’s motion to delay his classified documents trial until after the 2024 presidential election.

Trump, 77, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination to challenge incumbent President Joe Biden, has pleaded not guilty to 40 felony counts that allege he kept sensitive military documents, shared them with people who didn’t have security clearance, and tried to thwart the government’s attempts to get them back.

Trump and his attorneys have argued that prosecutors have proposed an unrealistic schedule for what’s expected to be a complex case, especially in light of Trump’s pending criminal charges in Washington D.C., Georgia and New York.

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon agreed Friday to push back some pre-trial deadlines, but said it was “premature” to postpone the trial date.

The trial is set to start in May 2024, right in the middle of the Republican presidential primary calendar. The judge said she will consider the issue again at a conference set to take place on March 1.

“First, and most significantly, the quantity of discovery in this case remains exceedingly voluminous, even more so than initially thought,” Cannon wrote in her order.

“To be sure, the Special Counsel has taken various steps to produce discovery on a regular basis,” she added. “But even with these efforts, discovery has increased sizably from initial estimates.”

The case involves about 1.3 million pages of unclassified discovery, 60 terabytes of closed circuit television footage, and 5,500 pages of classified discovery.

Cannon also cited other issues, including the complexity of the case, significant disagreements between defense attorneys and prosecutors and Trump’s other pending trials.

“The Court cannot ignore the realities of pretrial and trial schedules in two other criminal matters,” she noted, citing the federal case in Washington D.C., where Trump stands accused of trying to interfere with the transfer of power after the 2020 election, and the New York hush money case.

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