Trump Looks to Statute of Limitations, Divine Intervention for Help in N.Y. Trial

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Trump Looks to Statute of Limitations, Divine Intervention for Help in N.Y. Trial

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Despite having the deck stacked against him in a New York civil trial in which state Attorney General Letitia James hopes to confiscate all his property for overvaluing collateral on loans he already paid back, former President Donald Trump drew encouragement from a possible legal safeguard involving the statute of limitations, the Daily Mail reported.

According to Trump, who has been accused over inflating his property values by $2.2 billion, 80% of the $250 million in charges will be tossed because the statute of limitations has expired.

The revelation coming from an appellate court shortly before the trial’s start marked a rare silver lining in an otherwise tense day that saw the former president at times appearing to lash out against brazenly corrupt Judge Arthur Engoron as the judge mugged shamelessly for the MSNBC cameras during the trial.

Trump suggested that Engoron’s behavior might be considered criminal after the leftist jurist wrongly undervalued his properties, including his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago, in order to unilaterally issue a fraud finding last week against Trump and his family-run corporation.

“A discrepancy of this order of magnitude, by a real estate developer sizing up his own living space of decades, can only be considered fraud,” Engoron wrote last month, noting that Trump and his allies have demonstrated the “propensity to engage in persistent fraud.”

But Engoron did side with Trump a few times during the trial’s opening day on Monday, including an acknowledgement of the appellate court’s verdict regarding the statute of limitations.

The judge slammed prosecutors for continually bringing up Trump’s financial situation prior to the time period of concern, despite Engoron’s orders to focus on 2014 and later.

“I trust that you can relate the 2011 documents to something that happened later,”
Engoron told the prosecution. “Or this has all been a waste of time.”

Trump praised the acknowledgement as one of the first instances of fair treatment he has received in the entire lawfare process.

“The judge’s last statement was very fair,” Trump said, after previously calling the Obama-appointed Engoron a Democratic operative and accused him of being engaged in “political lawfare and a witch hunt at a level never seen before.”

According to Trump, Engoron’s interjection was both unexpected and welcome.

“The way I interpret that … the statute of limitations is a very real thing in this country and that would kick out 80 per cent of this case would be over,” Trump said, continuing to call it a “big big” surprise.

“I greatly respect that,’ Trump added.

The former president’s lawyers agreed with Engoron’s statement, and Trump himself gave a thumbs up in court.

In any case, if Engoron is not tossing the majority of the case, he at least recognized a prior decision made by an appeals court regarding Trump’s property valuations.

In addition to outside judicial intervention, Trump also suggested he had something else working for him during the trial—and throughout his constant ordeal of lawfare attacks, which also includes 91 counts of criminal indictment in four other trials scheduled between now and Election Day 2024.

Trump retruthed what appeared to be a courtroom drawing that showed Jesus Christ seated next to him. The original post, which was tweeted by conservative influencer Dom Lucre, said “This is the most accurate courtroom sketch of all time. Because nobody could have made it this far alone.”

Woke Army to Focus on Recruiting Already Indoctrinated College Grads

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(Headline USA) Traditionally, the U.S. military has conducted boot camp in order to break down the individualistic spirit of new recruits and help them to form into more of a military fighting unit.

Under the Biden administration, however, military training has instead focused on divisive neo-Marxist lessons such as racial grievances and gender equity, leading to a seismic drop off in their recruitment numbers that have already resulted in several branches lowering their standards.

Now, the woke military is once again trying to think outside the box by catching already indoctrinated individuals who have recently graduated from four-year learning institutions but are struggling to put their critical-race training to good use as they compete for entry-level jobs with millions of illegal immigrants.

The Army is launching a sweeping overhaul of its recruiting to focus more on young people who have spent time in college or are job hunting early in their careers, as it scrambles to reverse years of enlistment shortfalls.

A major part of this is the formation of a new professional force of recruiters instead of relying on soldiers randomly assigned to the task.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, in an interview with the Associated Press, said some of the changes will begin in the next 90 days but a wholesale transformation will take years.

“We have not been recruiting very well for many more years than one would think from just looking at the headlines in the last 18 months,” Wormuth said, adding that the Army hasn’t met its annual goal for new enlistment contracts since 2014.

Last year, the Army fell 15,000 short of its enlistment goal of 60,000. In the fiscal year that ended Saturday, the Army brought in a bit more than 50,000 recruits, falling short of the publicly stated “stretch goal” of 65,000.

Army officials, however, said that number still allows the service to meet its required total strength of 452,000. They said the Army also signed up an additional 4,600 recruits for future contracts, in an effort to build back the pool of delayed-entry recruits, which had eroded. Those recruits will go to basic training over the next year.

In testimony before Congress during his confirmation hearing, Gen. Randy George, who is now chief of staff of the Army, called recruiting ” the No. 1 challenge that we face and the one thing that we have to be focused on.” And he said the service must better tailor its messaging and marketing.

The Navy and the Air Force also fell short of their recruitment goals for the fiscal year that ended Saturday, but leaders said both did better than predictions earlier this year. The Marine Corps and the tiny Space Force have said they would meet their enlistment targets.

Marine leaders, including Brig. Gen. Walker Field, who heads the Corps’s eastern recruiting region, have said one key to their success is choosing the right recruiters and encouraging successful ones to stay on. The Marines are also repositioning recruiting stations to areas where populations have grown.

The Army’s recruiting increase this year is considered a short-term victory made possible by a number of new and upgraded programs and benefits. But Wormuth said it will take systemic changes in how the Army approaches the labor market and sells the service as a career to turn things around.

At the same time, she said the Army must concentrate on the things it can change since there are many things it cannot, such as lack of fitness among youths and unwillingness to serve.

While recruiters have long relied heavily on high school seniors or graduates to fill the ranks, Wormuth said they need to reach beyond that pool and seek applicants on job sites like ZipRecruiter, Indeed or Glassdoor.

“The vast majority of people who are out there making employment decisions are people who have more than a high school education,” Wormuth said. “We need to figure out how to talk to that much broader labor market.”

She said that as more students go on to college, high school graduates now make up just 15% to 20% of the labor market. And the Army gets about half of its recruits from that shrinking population.

“We are not abandoning the high school market by any means,” Wormuth said, but by 2028 she wants the Army to have one-third of its recruits to have more than a high school diploma, rather than the current one-fifth.

Part of that is showcasing the Army’s higher-tech jobs with computers, satellites and artificial intelligence to lure those who may still think of the service as just infantry troops.

The other major change, which will begin to form in the coming months, is the transition to a professional recruiting workforce. Rather than using soldiers who are “voluntold” to take on a special assignment as recruiters, the Army is establishing a new permanent and specialized enlistment workforce.

There are currently about 8,000 Army recruiters, and only a bit more than a third have recruiting as their actual job classification.

As an added benefit for the woke military, these trained recruiters may be able to assist with one of the Biden administration’s stated objectives of screening out those it considers to be right-wing extremists—likely by targeting specific demographics such as minorities and transgender populations.

Even if a Republican president were to assume office, it would likely be very difficult to restructure such a recruitment system once it took effect, given the notoriously slow pace of the military bureaucracy.

It may all tie into the Left’s plan to control all the mechanisms of force and eventually declare martial law in the event that citizens revolt against their clear abuse of power and corruption.

The change will mirror how private companies work and will take several years. But Wormuth said the Army will quickly start a pilot program to begin identifying and training the new force. As part of the process, the Army will use a new aptitude test designed to identify soldiers who have a higher potential for being successful recruiters.

Other changes will include planning larger Army career fairs and restructuring the command leadership, elevating the head of recruiting to a three-star job with a four-year term for more continuity.

And, while the Army will still look at increased bonuses and push the health care and education funding in the military, money is not likely to be a key driver for recruits. And recruiters will need to sell the less tangible benefits of service.

“At the end of the day, I think that what offsets what we don’t offer in terms of compensation we make up for with being part of something bigger,” Wormuth said. “Ask anyone wearing a uniform in my office. They will tell you that what keeps them re-enlisting or staying until 20 years or beyond is the people and doing something that really matters.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Looks to Renew Anti-Gun Fiat, Despite Prior Humiliation

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New Mexico Gov. Looks to Renew Anti-Gun Fiat, Despite Prior Humiliation

(Headline USA) Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope Tuesday in New Mexico, where the far-left Democrat governor is testing the boundaries of her authority and constitutional law in response to violent crime in the state’s largest metro area.

The standoff is one of many in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year expanding gun rights, as leaders in blue states explore new avenues for restrictions.

A court hearing was scheduled for the morning on legal challenges to the “public health order” from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that suspends the right to carry firearms in most public parks and playgrounds in and around Albuquerque.

Advocates for gun rights have filed a barrage of challenges to the 30-day mandate, which originally included broad restrictions on carrying guns in public.

However, local sheriffs and the state’s Democrat attorney general were among the many from Grisham’s own party who came forward to denounce the fiat as unconstitutional and said they would refuse to enforce it in what amounted to a humiliating betrayal to the governor.

Even David Hogg—the anti-gun activist who has spent the past six years capitalizing on his experiences as a survivor of the February 2017 Parkland, Fla., school shooting—said Grisham had gone too far.

The governor will reissue orders on gun violence and drug abuse for an additional 30 days, spokeswoman Maddy Hayden said Monday. She claimed the urgent approach was spurring arrests and reining in gunfire. The orders include directives for monthly inspections of firearms dealers statewide, reports on gunshot victims at New Mexico hospitals and wastewater testing for illicit substances.

U.S. District Judge David Urias ruled last month that gun restrictions in the governor’s original order were likely to cause irreparable harm to people deprived of the right to carry a gun in public for self-defense and granted a temporary restraining order blocking it until Tuesday’s hearing.

The governor has tied the suspension of some gun rights to a statistical threshold for violent crime that applied only to Albuquerque and the surrounding area.

Urias said in a recent court filing that restrictions on gun activity at playgrounds and other places where children play “may very well be constitutional.”

State police briefly would have authority under the order to assess civil penalties and fines of up to $5,000 for infractions.

The order has energized advocates for gun rights, including Republican lawmakers who have threatened impeachment proceedings against Grisham.

Some influential Democrats and civil rights leaders warn that the governor’s move could do more harm than good to overall efforts to ease gun violence, and the Democratic state attorney general has urged her to reconsider.

Other states including California, Washington, Colorado and Maryland have passed gun laws this year that face legal challenges.

Last week California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed nearly two dozen gun control measures, including ones banning the carrying of firearms in most public places while doubling taxes on guns and ammunition sales.

Newsom has acknowledged some of the gun measures might not survive in the courts. Last month a federal judge struck down a state law banning guns with detachable magazines that carry more than 10 rounds.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Heartbreak: GOP Sen. Killed in Utah Plane Crash w/ Wife, 2 Young Kids

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(Headline USA) A state senator from North Dakota, his wife and their two young children died when the small plane they were traveling in crashed soon after a refueling stop in Utah, a Senate leader said Monday.

Doug Larsen’s death was confirmed Monday in an email that Republican Senate Majority Leader David Hogue sent to his fellow senators and was obtained by the Associated Press.

The plane crashed Sunday evening shortly after taking off from Canyonlands Airfield about 15 miles north of the desert recreation town of Moab, according to a Grand County Sheriff’s Department statement posted on Facebook. The sheriff’s office said the senator was the pilot and all four people on board the plane were killed.

“Senator Doug Larsen, his wife Amy, and their two young children died in a plane crash last evening in Utah,” Hogue wrote in his email. “They were visiting family in Scottsdale and returning home. They stopped to refuel in Utah.”

“I’m not sure where the bereavement starts with such a tragedy, but I think it starts with prayers for the grandparents, surviving stepchild of Senator Larsen, and extended family of Doug and Amy,” Hogue wrote. “Hold your family close today.”

A bouquet of roses was draped over Larsen’s desk in the Senate chamber, just above the nameplate that reads: “D. Larsen – District 34.”

The crash of the single-engine Piper plane was being investigated, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a post on Twitter.

An NTSB spokesman said a board investigator was expected to arrive at the scene Monday “to begin to document the scene, examine the aircraft, request any air traffic communications, radar data, weather reports and try to contact any witnesses. Also, the investigator will request maintenance records of the aircraft, and medical records and flight history of the pilot.”

Officials didn’t release the plane’s origin or final destination. After landing at the airport, the travelers took a car into Moab before taking off in the refueled plane, NTSB spokesman Fabian Salazar said at a news conference at the airport.

The agency will have a preliminary report on the crash within a couple weeks, followed by a final report in a year to year and a half, Salazar said.

Larsen was a Republican first elected to the North Dakota Senate in 2020. His district comprises Mandan, the city neighboring Bismarck to the west across the Missouri River. Larsen chaired a Senate panel that handled industry and business legislation. He and his wife, Amy, were business owners.

Larsen served 29 years in the North Dakota Army National Guard. He mobilized twice, to Iraq from 2009-10 and to Washington, D.C., from 2013-14, according to Gov. Doug Burgum’s office. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Service Star and Army Aviator Badge among other honors.

Burgum in a statement said Larsen “was a father, husband, coach, entrepreneur, businessman, state senator and lieutenant colonel in the North Dakota National Guard who committed himself fully to each of those roles with an unwavering sense of honor and duty. As a legislator, he was a tenacious advocate for individual rights and the freedoms he defended through his military service.”

Maj. Gen. Alan Dohrmann, who is adjutant general of the North Dakota National Guard, said, “I cannot think of a more tragic loss for one family, and the North Dakota National Guard sends our condolences to all of (the Larsens’) friends and family. Doug was a true patriot who dedicated his life, both in and out of uniform, to serving others. I had the distinct pleasure to call him a Brother in Arms.”

Republican state Sen. Scott Meyer, who sat behind Larsen in the Senate, remembered him for his unique and dry sense of humor, candor on issues and passion for flying. He recalled a Saturday afternoon in the Senate chamber when Larsen talked with fellow senators for roughly an hour about flying planes and working on his private pilot’s license.

“He was passionate about flying. He really was,” Meyer said.

District Republicans will appoint a successor to fill out the remainder of Larsen’s term, through November 2024. His Senate seat is on the ballot next year. Republicans control North Dakota’s Legislature with supermajorities in the House and Senate.

Moab is a tourism-centered community of about 5,300 people near Arches and Canyonlands national parks.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Democrat Rep. Carjacked a Mile from U.S. Capitol as D.C. Crime Wave Continues

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Democrat Rep. Carjacked a Mile from U.S. Capitol as D.C. Crime Wave Continues

(Headline USA) Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked by three armed attackers but was unharmed, his office said.

Cuellar’s chief of staff Jacob Hochberg released a statement Monday night saying: “As Congressman Cuellar was parking his car this evening, 3 armed assailants approached the Congressman and stole his vehicle. Luckily, he was not harmed and is working with local law enforcement.”

Hochberg said police recovered Cuellar’s vehicle.

The Washington Post reported that the robbery happened in Washington’s Navy Yard area, about a mile from the U.S. Capitol.

Monday’s carjacking was the second assault on a member of Congress in the District of Columbia this year.

In February, Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota was assaulted in her apartment building, suffering bruises while escaping serious injury. Her chief of staff said the attack did not appear to be politically motivated.

In June, Kendrid Khalil Hamlin pleaded guilty in that case to charges of assaulting a member of Congress and assaulting law enforcement officers. Hamlin was also accused of assaulting two officers as they attempted to arrest him on the day of Craig’s attack.

The out-of-control crime rate in the nation’s capital comes in spite of direct intervention from Congress to rein it in.

In March, the newly elected Republican majority in the House passed a measure to nullify ordinances from the D.C. city council that relaxed penalties for serious crimes—including carjackings specifically.

“Getting murderers off our streets and foreign poison out of our neighborhoods are among the most basic governing responsibilities you can possibly think of,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Democrats largely objected to the intervention and attempted to use it as justification to push for the cause of D.C. statehood, which is expressly prohibited under the U.S. Constitution.

“On the one hand, I really support D.C. statehood, I support D.C. home rule,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii. “On the other hand, the mayor vetoed the [D.C. council] bill saying that it would not provide enough safety … so I am torn.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Missing 9-Yr-Old Found Safe; Man Linked to Ransom Note Caught by Fingerprint

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Missing 9-Yr-Old Found Safe; Man Linked to Ransom Note Caught by Fingerprint

(Headline USA)  A 9-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York was “safe and in good health” Monday after a massive two-day search ended with her rescue and the arrest of a person suspected in her abduction, police said.

Charlotte Sena disappeared while riding her bike early Saturday evening at Moreau Lake State Park, a heavily wooded area some 35 miles north of Albany.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday night during a news conference that investigators were able to identify a fingerprint from a ransom note allegedly left by the suspect she identified as Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 47.

“What happened was extraordinary,” she said.

She said while the rest of Charlotte’s family remained at the campground where she had gone missing, police watching their home saw someone drop a note in their mailbox at 4:20 a.m. Monday. State police pulled fingerprints off the note and the second one matched Ross, who was in a database from a 1999 DWI case, Hochul said.

Law enforcement agents linked Ross to a property owned by his mother, made entry and found him in a camper at about 6:30 p.m., she said.

“After some resistance, the suspect was taken into custody and immediately the little girl was found in a cabinet,” Hochul said. “She knew she was being rescued. She knew that she was in safe hands.”

Charlotte was taken to a local hospital, as is customary, Hochul said, adding that she appeared physically unharmed and that she and her family have been reunited.

No charges have been brought against Ross, but they are expected, Hochul said. Ross was still being questioned on Monday night, Hochul said.

The governor named Ross as the suspect late Monday night and it wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer to comment on his behalf.

Authorities said it was still an active investigation.

The rescue marked the end of an intense search. About 400 people took part in the hunt for the girl Monday, including forest rangers, police officers and firefighters. The search had expanded over 46 linear miles.

Charlotte, a fourth grader from nearby Greenfield, had been riding her bike around a campsite loop in the park with other children when she decided to ride around one more time by herself. Her parents became alarmed when she failed to return after 15 minutes, Hochul said at a briefing Sunday.

The girl’s mother called 911 after her bicycle was found at around 6:45 p.m. Saturday.

Officials issued an Amber Alert on Sunday morning after an exhaustive search because “it was quite possible that an abduction had taken place,” state police Lt. Colonel Richard Mazzone said. The alert described her as a white girl with blonde hair and green eyes who is about 4 feet 6 inches tall.

The girl’s family pleaded with the public for help in finding Charlotte, including providing any tips to the state police.

“We just want her returned safely like any parent would,” the family said in a statement earlier Monday. “No tip is too small, please call if you know anything at all.”

Troopers had set up several checkpoints on the winding, rural roads around the park. They stopped drivers and asked if they knew the family, had seen the girl’s photo or had any other information that could help the search. They also had some drivers open their trunks.

The park remained closed because of the search, and officials asked members of the public who showed up hoping to help to stay away and leave the search to professionals. Federal authorities also issued a temporary flight restriction over the park for the safety of law enforcement air operations.

The Corinth Central School District said it had extra counselors at Charlotte’s elementary school for any students or staff who need support.

“Our hearts go out to the Sena family,” the district said in a statement.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Leftist Reporter Shot Dead in Philly after Mocking Increase in Violent Crime

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Leftist Reporter Shot Dead in Philly after Mocking Increase in Violent Crime

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A left-wing journalist and activist for the homeless tragically died after being shot and killed inside his Philadelphia home in what police officers categorized as a homicide-related incident.

Josh Kruger, 39, had been inside his home when an unknown assailant entered and opened fire, hitting the journalist multiple times and ultimately taking his life. His death comes after the journalist downplayed numerous warnings that gun violence was skyrocketing in Philadelphia.

The details of the alleged break-in remain uncertain, with detectives leading an investigation to determine how the perpetrator gained access to the residence.  

“Either the door was open, or the offender knew how to get the door open,” a detective said, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “We just don’t know yet.” 

Kruger managed to storm out of his home before collapsing on the sidewalk. Just last August, he received a threat when someone threw a rock through his window. 

Two weeks later, he took to Facebook to claim somebody had broken into his home allegedly looking for their boyfriend. The individual reportedly went by the name of “Lady Diabla, the She-Devil of the Streets.”  

Journalist Andy Ngo lamented the death via Twitter and also underscored Kruger’s history of dismissing concerns about crime in the Pennsylvania-based city, which is led by Democratic politicians  

In one post, dated July 20, Kruger sarcastically celebrated what he perceived as a decrease in crime. “Looks, it’s that lawless of liberals in Philly where shootings are…dropping to levels not seen in years.”

He also derided uncited statistics suggesting that Philadelphians were more likely to die from gun violence than COVID-19. “Folks, four times as many Philadelphians have died of COVID than gun shots this year,” he said on Aug. 14, 2021. “I understand math is hard but do better.”

In another undated tweet, Kruger dismissed claims that the city was in a state of ruin. “Bro speak for your block mine isn’t ‘ruined,’ the city isn’t ‘ruined,’’ he continued. “Like the rest of the country we are dealing with upticks in crime.”

SCOTUS Rejects RINO Attempt to Block Trump from Ballot

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SCOTUS Rejects RINO Attempt to Block Trump from Ballot

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Oct. 2, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take a challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on New Hampshire’s ballots during the 2024 election.

Several weeks ago, John Anthony Castro filed an appeal with the SCOTUS, claiming that Trump should be disqualified under a reading of a section of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, the Epoch Times reported.

Castro, a Texas lawyer who’s also running for president, said that Trump partook in an insurrection against the federal government, using what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, as “evidence,” even though Trump told his supporters to protest peacefully.

“The decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissing Petitioner John Anthony Castro’s civil action on the grounds that he lacks constitutional standing to sue another candidate who is allegedly unqualified to hold public office in the United States pursuant to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution,” according to the SCOTUS document.

Aside from having Trump Derangement Syndrome, it was also revealed that Castro was very biased when it came to Trump because the latter’s name appearing on the ballot injures the former’s ability to obtain donations since he is also a Republican candidate.

Castro hasn’t raised any money for his campaign and appears to have given his own campaign $20 million, the records from the Federal Election Commission revealed.

However, Castro wasn’t the only person who tried to block Trump from appearing on state ballots. Several leftist activist groups did the same thing, sharing the same kinds of “arguments” with Castro.

Castro filed lawsuits in multiple states, including Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming, also intending to submit court papers in Massachusetts and other states.

The Epoch Times said that the SCOTUS may be asked to evaluate the 14th Amendment-related claims against Trump again in the future because similar litigation is playing out in lower courts.

Republicans Advance Resolution to Expel Fire-Alarm Hoaxer from House

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Republicans Advance Resolution to Expel Fire-Alarm Hoaxer from House

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) House Republicans have prepared a resolution that would expel radical “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D–N.Y., from Congress after he pulled a fire alarm to prevent the Stopgap bill from being signed — an attempt that turned out to be unsuccessful.

Lawmakers who looked at what happened said that the act was a felony, according to Slay News.

As a result, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., authored the resolution seeking to expel Bowman.

“This is the United States Congress, not a New York City high school. This action warrants expulsion & I’m introducing a resolution to do just that,” she said.

The resolution will be formally filed on Monday when the House is next in session.

Expulsion is the most serious form of disciplinary action available to the House for its members, Slay News reported. Only five members have ever been expelled in the entire history of the House.

The House Administration Committee and the U.S. Capitol Police [USCP] started the investigation of Bowman’s action.

In addition to the resolution and investigation, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., also started working on a motion to censure Bowman. Even though censure is a serious disciplinary procedure, it is not as severe as expulsion.

“USCP had to waste resources investigating rather than actually keeping the Capitol safe. The House must hold Rep. Bowman accountable,” she said.

After he got caught, the only “excuse” that Bowman was able to come up with was that he “thought the alarm would open the door,” for which he was ridiculed by the public and conservatives, in particular.

To save Bowman from this situation, his team circulated a memo of talking points for his fellow Democrats that called Republican lawmakers “Nazis.”

“I believe Congressman Bowman when he says this was an accident. Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party before anything else,” the offending passage said.

After conservatives discovered that, Bowman’s office tried to pull back the talking points, with Bowman himself claiming his staff had slipped in the Nazi reference without him knowing about it, the New York Post reported.

“I condemn the use of the term Nazi out of its precise definition. It is important to specify the term Nazi to refer to members of the Nazi party & neo-Nazis,” he said.

Zelenskyy Suddenly Finds Money to Fund His Own Weapons After US Aid Slips

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Zelenskyy Suddenly Finds Money to Fund His Own Weapons After US Aid Slips

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a significant shift, Ukrainian officials have announced their intention to manufacture their own weapons, driven by a massive reduction in foreign donations, particularly from the United States.

This decision was reached during a crucial meeting of Ukrainian government officials in Kyiv, where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged he found money in the federal budget to fund the manufacture of some weapons, as reported by Politico on Monday. 

This decision followed the passing of a clean stopgap funding bill by the U.S. government, which did not allocate additional taxpayer funds to Ukraine. Some Republican lawmakers cited concerns about corruption within the Ukrainian military.

Meanwhile, some world leaders are concerned about sacrificing their own weapons. Reflecting the growing frustration among foreign nations over Ukraine, one European official acknowledged, “We cannot keep on giving from our own stockpiles.” 

Zelenskyy had reportedly met with military officials at a hotel conference room where he made the announcement. His administration has been marred by corruption, forcing him to fire his top defense leader, who was scheduled to meet with high-ranking Biden officials. 

“Ukraine has long been an industrial giant, producing heavy machinery and engines for Russian navy ships and military helicopters, along with armored vehicles, aircraft, and small arms,” Politico reported. 

“Many of those production facilities have been damaged in the war. Still, Ukrainian officials are looking to Western defense firms for commitments that they’re willing to invest and build in Ukraine even before the fighting stops,” the news outlet added.

Notably, President Joe Biden admitted in July that the U.S. military was running low on ammunition, which prompted him to greenlight the donation of cluster munitions, a move criticized by several world countries because of the danger posed to civilians. 

In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Biden explained, “The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition. This is a war relating to munitions and they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on them.”  

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