Oversight Republican Subpoenas Feds over Alleged Hunter Biden Interference

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Oversight Republican Subpoenas Feds over Alleged Hunter Biden Interference

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) House Oversight Committee James Comer, R-Ky., announced Tuesday he is sending six subpoenas as part of an investigation into allegations of the Biden administration’s interference into the case of Hunter Biden, the president’s son.

Comer made the announcement, saying he is subpoenaing U.S. Secret Service agents, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and employees at the agency.

“The Department of Justice initiated the Biden family coverup and now DHS under the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas is complicit in it,” Comer said. “Investigators were never able to interview Hunter Biden during the criminal investigation because Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off about the planned interview. This is just one of many examples of the misconduct and politicization during the Department of Justice’s investigation.”

DHS oversees the Secret Service.

The subpoenas are part of a broader investigation into the interference into the Hunter Biden case. Hunter Biden faces tax and gun-related criminal charges for which a court hearing is set. He also faces more allegations of helping coordinate an international “bribery scheme” using his father, President Joe Biden, to rake in millions of dollars from nations adversarial to the U.S.

Two IRS whistleblowers testified before Congress over the summer that the U.S. Department of Justice interfered in their investigation of Hunter Biden in what they considered an improper and unusual way.

“The Oversight Committee – along with the Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees – is seeking interviews with key witnesses, including employees at the Secret Service,” Comer said. “The Department of Homeland Security is obstructing our investigation by muzzling the Secret Service from providing a response to Congress. The American people deserve transparency, not obstruction.”

Comer, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., sent a letter to the Secret Service in June wanting answers to allegations that the Secret Service may have helped interfere into the investigation into Hunter Biden.

“Specifically, the Committees seek to examine whistleblower claims that on December 7, 2020, a whistleblower was informed ‘that FBI headquarters had notified Secret Service headquarters, and the Biden transition team, about IRS CI’s plan to interview Hunter,’” the letter said. “The whistleblower added, ‘this essentially tipped off a group of people very close to President Biden and Hunter Biden and gave this group an opportunity to obstruct the approach on the witnesses.’”

Comer said the Secret Service was willing to comply with the letter’s request for interviews, but that DHS blocked it.

Texas AG Paxton Pleads Not Guilty to All 20 Articles of Impeachment

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Texas AG Paxton Pleads Not Guilty to All 20 Articles of Impeachment

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) On the first day of the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Tuesday, the majority of Republicans voted with Democrats to allow all 20 articles of impeachment to be tried. They denied all motions filed by Paxton’s attorneys seeking to dismiss the charges.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who’s presiding over the trial, also said Paxton could not be compelled to testify at trial.

After the senators voted on pretrial motions, the clerk read all 20 articles of impeachment, one by one. After each article was read, Patrick asked Paxton, “How do you plead?”

His lead attorney, Tony Buzbee, replied stating, “not guilty,” after the first two articles were read. He then added statements beginning with Article 3, saying, “everything she just read is not true,” referring to the clerk, adding Paxton “is not guilty.” After the clerk read Article 4, Buzbee said, “every one of those allegations is false” and Paxton is “not guilty.” After Article 5 was read, he said, “AG Paxton is innocent” and not guilty.

After Article 6 was read, he said, “everything she said is legally and factually incorrect” and Paxton is not guilty. After Article 7, he said, “the allegations she referenced are untrue,” adding that Paxton is not guilty. After Article 8, he said, “the attorney general is innocent of the charges;” after Article 9, “allegations are flat out false;” after Article 10, “allegations are offensive, false;” after Article 11, “stand by the court and plead not guilty,” also adding after each statement that Paxton is not guilty.

One of the attorneys for the House managers, Rusty Hardin, objected halfway through and said Buzbee couldn’t add statements to his plea statement; he could only say Paxton pleads guilty or not guilty. Patrick sustained his objection.

Buzbee then replied to the remaining charges saying Paxton is “absolutely not guilty” and “is innocent and pleads not guilty.”

After the charges were read, six witnesses were sworn in as a group, not individually. Patrick did not state who the witnesses were. However, one appears to be the AG’s former first deputy and a whistleblower, Jeff Mateer.

Mateer is one of 8 former staffers who worked for Paxton who filed a complaint with the FBI alleging that Paxton committed misconduct. He did not join the wrongful termination lawsuit against Paxton and is not part of the $3.3 million settlement at the heart of the impeachment allegations.

On Tuesday afternoon, Mateer was the first witness to testify and respond to questioning from the lead prosecuting attorney, Hardin.

As previously reported by The Center Square, during the wrongful termination lawsuit trial, while under oath, Mateer said he could not affirm that Paxton committed any alleged criminal activity.

When asked, “Did you come to believe that the Office of Attorney General was being engaged in ongoing criminal activity in connection with Nate Paul,” Mateer replied, “I know it called for yes or no, but it’s a question that it’s hard to give a yes or no, so that makes it difficult for me – as – as the witness. What I would say is it – it could have led to that. Certainly, it’s – did I have concerns? I had potential concerns.”

After the witnesses were sworn in, the Senate took a one-hour break and returned to hear opening arguments.

All Decisions Are ‘Business Decisions’: College Football Made a Bad One

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All Decisions Are ‘Business Decisions’: College Football Made a Bad One

(John Tamny, RealClear Wire) “In reality all economic activity outside the stationary state is speculation.” – Ludwig von Mises, Human Action

A constant refrain over the last several years as college football has transformed itself into a sub-NFL league is that the transformation was “about the money,” or more specifically, “a business decision.” Which was and is a statement of the obvious. Figure that all actions taken within the commercial realm are “business decisions.”

So while what’s happening is and was a “business decision” born of a desire among teams to attract exponentially more in the way of television money, not discussed enough has been whether or not the decision was a good one. Seemingly lost in all the trite observations “about the money” and “greed” is the simple truth that businesses make decisions all the time about money that turn out to be really bad ones. In which case it’s no sure thing that the path college football powers-that-be are taking the sport down will prove a good one for college football.

This is most evident in a dynamic economy like that of the U.S.’s where so much money can be earned by winning the fandom of the richest fans on earth. Did college football make the right “business decision”? The bet here is no.

About the above speculation, George Will makes the more-than-compelling point that the decisions disdained by college-football traditionalists (including yours truly) were inevitable in a sense, that it was no longer serious to graft “a multibillion-dollar entertainment industry onto institutions of higher learning.” Will is difficult to argue with here, but then it was the “tradition” that gave college football life, and that made it a multibillion dollar industry in the first place.

Put another way, there’s a reason that southerners (the most rabid college football fans of all) prefer the college game to the professional version: It’s the tradition. It’s the wacky rankings system that teams navigated in the past, the edge-of-one’s-seat regular season whereby one loss can end the pursuit of a national championship, it’s the furious recruiting battles between charismatic coaches, and yes, it’s the season-ending bowl games on January 1st (of course) that settle precisely nothing, only to set the stage for decades of debate about “Who was #1?”

No doubt people in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts love the professional game, its playoffs and the season-ending Super Bowl. They can have it. The Super Bowl similarly settles nothing as Patriots and Giants fans know well (see 2008, 2012), but worse, a season defined by playoffs over bowl games devalues the very regular season that has long made college football so special.

It all raises a counterfactual that Will might appreciate given a childhood spent in Champaign, Illinois, home of Big 10 member Illinois. What if the Big-10 and PAC-12 had banded together only to tell the SEC that it could have its low-rent playoff while they would stick with the tasteful Rose Bowl as their annual championship? One guesses Notre Dame would have joined such a coalition, with ND replacing the PAC-12 or Big-10 entrant in years that it was ranked higher than one of them. Who knows, but the speculation here is that the playoff system would have been broken before it started. Alas, it didn’t happen.

It all raises an obvious business question: will the fans who treasure tradition, and whose soaring wealth turned the tradition into a multibillion dollar enterprise, stick around for a sport that is in the process of putting the past out to pasture? The bet here is no. When future sports archaeologists ask what happened to college football’s formerly soaring popularity, the answer will be bad business decisions made in the 2020s.

Biden Biography Bombshell: Hillary Violated Logan Act, Drew Rebuke from Ex-Crony

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Biden Biography Bombshell: Hillary Violated Logan Act, Drew Rebuke from Ex-Crony

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Once again, Hillary Clinton appears to have flagrantly violated federal law and faced no consequences for her actions, according to an inadvertent admission from a new biography of President Joe Biden.

The book, Franklin Foer’s The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future,” casts an otherwise rosy glow on Biden’s catastrophic tenure—perhaps as part of a last-ditch bid to rehab the flailing president’s popular support and legacy while making it appear as though his scripted policymaking has been carefully studied and scrutinized.

But according to a report from the Associated Press on some of the key takeaways from it, the book reveals how Clinton, the former secretary of State under Barack Obama, took an active role in attempting to help Afghan women flee the Taliban after Biden’s botched military withdrawal plan went awry.

Her efforts to assist the female refugees at first appeared noble—in particular due to the fact that they seemed so selflessly removed from Clinton’s thirst for money, power and acclaim.

“She directed a group of them to wear white scarfs [sic] so they could be identified by U.S. Marines guarding the Kabul airport, and unilaterally contacted world leaders to find places for their eventual evacuation flights to land,” the AP reported.

However, Clinton’s decision to “unilaterally contact” world leaders as a civilian also put her in direct violation of the Logan Act.

The act prohibits any U.S. citizen “who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government… in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States…”

Its punishment includes up to three years in prison, as well as a hefty fine.

Specifically, after reaching out directly, without authorization, to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the prospect of taking in Afghan refugees, Clinton drew a rebuke from her own former campaign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan.

According to Foer’s book, Sullivan—who is currently the Biden administration’s national security adviser—told her “What are you doing calling the Ukrainian government?”

Clinton, in turn, responded, “I wouldn’t have to call if you guys would.”

While the stunning violation of protocol is likely to go unpunished by the Biden administration, it is easy to imagine the many ways that Clinton’s outreach to Zelenskyy might have undermined delicate negotiations already in progress over the likelihood of what would soon be a full-scale Russian invasion.

Sullivan had undoubtedly been deeply involved, at that point, in laying the scaffolding for the proxy war—an extension of the CIA-backed color-revolution that began in the country during Obama’s presidency.

Apart from any unspoken obligations the U.S. may have to aid in the country’s defense, the Biden administration’s peculiar interest in Ukraine spans an array of possible motives—from money-laundering to child-trafficking to blackmail to helping globalist oligarchs like BlackRock and George Soros to use the country as their sandbox for the Great Reset.

Notwithstanding, it is clear that Clinton was the last person they wanted in the middle of those diplomatic discussions.

Clinton, meanwhile, joined her own successor as secretary of State, John Kerry, in having egregiously violated the 1799 law.

Kerry controversially inserted himself into foreign policy negotiations with Iran during the Trump administration, even having the chutzpah to tell the rogue regime that it should wait out Trump’s presidential term before taking any rash steps.

He was not prosecuted for his actions.

Ironically, the person closest to being prosecuted under the Logan Act may have been Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

Members of the Clinton campaign team and the Obama intelligence community collectively strategized on how to ensnare Flynn in a legal trap after having illegally unmasked him for unsolicited phone calls he had received from a Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.

After Obama imposed sanctions against Russia for its alleged interference in the 2016 election, Kislyak sought—and received—Flynn’s assurances that the Trump administration would not continue with his predecessor’s policy.

On Jan. 5, 2017, top Obama team members, including his top spies, seditiously plotted to use the Logan Act as the pretense to open a secret investigation into the incoming administration, giving them the ability to wiretap Trump and his top deputies, based on the false pretense—which they knew to be false at the time—that Trump was colluding with Russia.

Shortly thereafter, FBI agents, led by Peter Strzok, interviewed Flynn in his office and snared him in a perjury trap for failing to remember the exact details of his conversations with Kislyak—which, unbeknownst to Flynn, they had been given a transcript of.

The transcript of the calls was later leaked to the Washington Post for the purpose of embarassing the new administration, and it ltimately was what triggered the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the Russia-collusion hoax.

Fittingly, Jake Sullivan was deeply involved in both Kerry’s operation as “lead negotiator” in Iran, and in Clinton cover-ups such as her e-mail scandal and Benghazi cover-up.

He also testified against Flynn during a House Oversight investigation of the Russia hoax—which he, himself, had helped to concoct and spread.

Sullivan claimed before Congress that Flynn had “absolutely” colluded with the Russians in violation of the Logan Act.

“lf l went out right now and started telling foreign officials, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll avoid some action the current government is taking,’ that would be a violation of the Logan Act,” Sullivan testified in response to a question from then ranking minority member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

“And I think what Flynn did here—I mean, I’m not an attorney, but just on the face of what the purpose of this act is, what he did ran directly contrary to it,” he added.

Other highlights from Foer’s Biden biography:

  • Biden reportedly was angered when contronted by Chinese president Xi Jinping about the rumors of U.S.-backed bioweapons facilities in Ukraine, telling Xi: “You know better than that, this is crap. Stop mouthing nonsense Russian talking points: I know you know that, so give me a break,” the Daily Caller reported.
  • Despite having spent four decades as a political elite, Biden was resentful of Barack Obama’s Ivy League education and claimed he couldn’t even curse properly, the AP reported, saying Obama was unable to deliver a “f—- you” with “the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of consonants; it was how they must curse in the ivory tower.”
  • Vice President Kamala Harris damaged her rapport with Biden by initially asking to be in charge of relations with Scandinavia because it was “away from the spotlight.” Biden, in turn, bestowed on her the “thankless” job of uncovering the “root cause” of immigration at the U.S. border.
  • Biden has privately admitted to feeling “tired” despite denying publicly that he is unfit to lead due to his advanced age.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Mississippi Democrat Accuses Party of Staging ‘High Tech Election Heist’ Against Him

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Mississippi Democrat Accuses Party of Staging ‘High Tech Election Heist’ Against Him

(Headline USA) A Mississippi Democrat accused his party this week of staging a “high tech election heist” to prevent him from winning.

Hinds County District 2 Supervisor David Archie was seeking his second term in the Democrat primary election held on Aug. 8, but accused the Democrat county chairperson of conspiring with his rival to prevent him from winning the nomination, ABC affiliate WAPT reported.

After losing to challenger Anthony Smith by 63% of the vote, Archie said he requested a ballot box review of the election results but was provided only with paper ballots. He said he was denied secondary confirmation measures, such as a voter signatures or the thumb drives from voting machines that show when each individual ballot was submitted.

Archie said Jacqueline Amos, chairperson of the Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee, is behind the “fraud,” pointing to a recent report that showed Amos privately disparaging him.

In a text message exchange, an unidentified person reportedly texted Amos, “Hey, don’t let them cheat Debroha Dixon out of her election. She won fair and square.”

Amos replied: “She won. But  I’m going to f*** David Archie on the site!!!”

Archie said he also has evidence of Amos “going into boxes, bringing in thumb drives, bringing in ballots to be inserted into machines. We have pictures of Jacque Amos participating in what we think is fraud as well as corruption.”

“The bottom line is that we have the text, she’s the chairperson, she’s the one that’s responsible,” Archie said at a press conference. “She must be impartial to any and all elections here in Hinds County and this does not speak that she was being impartial to an election.”

Amos’s office released a statement in response, claiming the election “results speak for themselves.”

“We understand that one candidate who lost, namely David Archie, has decided to challenge the results of the August 8, 2023, primary. He has the right to challenge the results. We stand ready for the challenge and will cooperate however necessary,” Amos said.

Fauci Complains Americans ‘Will Not Abide By Masking Recommendations’

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Fauci Complains Americans ‘Will Not Abide By Masking Recommendations’

(Headline USA) Former COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci complained this weekend that Americans are reluctant to follow masking guidance again as COVID cases rise. 

“I am concerned that people will not abide by recommendations,”  Fauci told CNN on Saturday. “I would hope that if we get to the point that the volume of cases is such and organizations like the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] recommend – CDC does not mandate anything – that people wear masks, I would hope that people abide by that recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and their families.”

When asked about a Cochrane review released earlier this year that concluded there was little to no evidence that masks prevent the spread of COVID-19,  Fauci claimed there are other studies that show masking offers a benefit to individuals.

“When you’re talking about the effect on the pandemic as a whole, the data is less strong,” Fauci said. “But when you talk about an individual basis of someone protecting themselves … there’s no doubt that there’s many studies that show that there is an advantage [to masks].”

The Cochrane study, led by 12 researchers from universities around the world, found that “wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (nine studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (six studies; 13,919 people).”

Some companies and universities are bringing back mask mandates amid an uptick in positive case numbers. Even the White House announced on Tuesday that President Joe Biden plans to wear masks indoors over the next few weeks after First Lady Jill Biden tested positive.

“He will be masking while indoors and around people in alignment with CDC guidance,” White House press secretary Karine Jean Pierre said.

Man Admits Having Drug-Fueled Sex w/ Barack Obama in New Tucker Carlson Tell-all

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Man Admits Having Drug-Fueled Sex w/ Barack Obama in New Tucker Carlson Tell-all

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In an interview snippet posted on Twitter by Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, Larry Sinclair made explosive allegations about a gay sexual encounter he claims to have had with then-Illionis State Senator Barack Obama. The full video, scheduled for release on Wednesday, echoed previous allegations made against Obama.

In the snippet, Sinclair described a shocking encounter with the former president in 1999. “Pulled up in a bar, outside and there’s this guy that’s introduced to me as Barack Obama,” the man said, before detailing the alleged sexual encounter which he allegedly paid for.

“I’ve given Obama $250 to pay for coke, I start putting a line on a CD trait to snort, and next thing I know, he’s got a little pipe and he’s smoking,” Sinclair told Carlson. “I started rubbing my hand along his thigh to see where it was going, and it went the direction I had intended it to go.”

At the time, Obama was serving as an Illinois state senator, a role he was first elected to in 1997. Obama left the state Senate to run for the U.S. Senate in 2004 and was elected as the first black U.S. president just four years later.

Carlson asked Sinclair whether he knew of Obama’s true identity. “Even though you had sex with him twice, you did cocaine with him, and watched him smoke crack twice, you had no idea who he was,” Carlson asked. However, the man maintained that he had no prior knowledge of Obama’s identity.

Carlson further questioned Sinclair about Obama’s alleged drug use and interaction with a male, to which the interviewee responded, “It definitely wasn’t Barack’s first time, and I would almost be willing to bet you it wasn’t his last.”

The snippet comes three weeks after the New York Post confirmed the authenticity of an infamous letter, reportedly from Obama to his then-girlfriend, where the former President admitted to having sexual relationships with men.

“I make love to men daily, but in the imagination,” Obama wrote to Alex McNear in November 1982. 

As reported by the Post on August 12, the 40-year-old letter first resurfaced amid the release of a Forbes tell-all interview with Obama biographer David Garrow.

It isn’t immediately clear whether Sinclair has evidence to support his allegations against Obama. He first brought these allegations in 2008, but the mainstream media chose not to cover his claims, instead focusing on his legal troubles.

“This guy is running for president and credible information comes out that he’s smoking crack and having sex with dudes; that seems like a story,” Carlson asked Sinclair. In response, the accuser said, “Well, it would be a story if the media really cared about telling people the truth.” 

Biographer: Biden Insecure about Being Seen as Stupid

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Biographer: Biden Insecure about Being Seen as Stupid

(Headline USA) The author of a new tell-all book about President Joe Biden revealed the  80-year-old has insecurities over “being perceived as stupid.”

Franklin Foer, whose book The Last Politician releases this month, said Biden remains self-conscious about the plagiarism scandal that rocked his presidential campaign back in the 1980s after it was revealed he lifted multiple speeches and papers.

“One of his primary insecurities is that he doesn’t want to be perceived as stupid because he had this plagiarism scandal back in the 1980s. So when he walks into an interview or walks into a press conference, he wants to have mastery of what he’s discussing. So his prep sessions can go on for long periods of time,” Foer told NBC’s Meet the Press.

It is in part because of these insecurities that Foer said he “would not be shocked” if Biden drops out before the 2020 election.

“I would say it would, it would be a surprise to me. But it wouldn’t be a total surprise. … It wouldn’t be a total shock,” Foer explained. “When he talks about his life, he uses this word, fate, constantly … And he always talks about, he can’t say where fate goes. And so I always, when I hear that, to me, it’s the ellipses in the sentence when he’s talking about his own future.”

Foer also revealed in his book that Biden has privately admitted to being tired amid rising concerns about his age and mental acuity. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that two-thirds of Democrats and 73% of registered voters believe Biden is too old to be seeking re-election, and just 36% of the survey’s respondents say they believe the president is mentally fit for office.

The looming scandal over his family’s business dealings could be another factor leading Biden to drop out, as House Republicans ramp up their investigation into the president’s ties to Hunter Biden’s alleged influence peddling scheme.

Migrant Mayhem: NYC Illegal Arrested 6 Times for 14 Crimes in 2 Months

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Migrant Mayhem: NYC Illegal Arrested 6 Times for 14 Crimes in 2 Months

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In what the New York Post called a “wanted poster boy for the migrant crisis” that has overwhelmed sanctuary cities, a Venezuela immigrant embarked on a brutal crime spree in the two months since his arrival in the Big Apple.

Daniel Hernandez Martinez, 29, landed in the city on June 27 and wasted no time spreading mayhem, allegedly committing his first crime the following day, the Post reported.

In the ensuing two months, Martinez “randomly attacked at least three strangers and two cops, and gotten arrested – and released – six times on 14 different charges,” police and sources said, with one cop telling the Post the migrant has “been wreaking havoc.”

The revolving door of injustice that allowed the migrant to continue his terror spree was indicative of an emerging pattern, the officer said.

“This is not an isolated incident. These migrants are getting arrested quite often here, and we really don’t know who they are. They really don’t have ID. They’re not being vetted properly, but some of them are committing some of the most violent crimes here.”

The migrant’s alleged crime jag started relatively tame, when Martinez stole “a jar of Nutella, slippers, sneakers, hats, Gillette razor blades, and Dove body wash,” from a Costco in Brooklyn. He was charged with petty larceny and released on on his own recognizance, according to the Post.

That was followed by alleged thefts of a “tool kit,” a day before he allegedly assaulted a store security guard who tried to stop the migrant from stealing a bag of chips and toothpaste. In that instance, courts records show that Martinez “pulled out a large knife and advanced toward an undercover officer” while yelling unintelligibly.

Despite the escalating intensity of crimes, the migrant was again released on his own recognizance. Thanks to the city’s Soros-based crime reforms the charge wasn’t bail-eligible.

Left to roam loose, the illegal alien allegedly violently attacked  women in Midtown, with court records informing that he “grabbed a stranger by the hair, dragged her across the floor and kicked her.”

After being charged with  menacing, assault, criminal mischief and weapon possession, he was again released. Four days later, he was arrested after allegedly using a chain as a weapon to threaten a total stranger, and again released with no bail. The one-man crime spree continued four days later when he allegedly stole bicycles in Times Square.

After being taken into custody and requesting medical services, Martinez was transferred to Beth Israel Hospital where “he assaulted a police officer who was trying to change his handcuffs, kicking him twice in the shins and stomping on his foot, the records show. He was charged with assaulting a police officer,” the Post reported.

Additionally, Martinez has an open case pending in Brooklyn, his sixth arrest, “for petty larceny on which three bench warrants have been issued because he didn’t show up for court.”

After assaulting the police officer while being treated for medical services, a judge set bail at $5,000 and Martinez was sent to Rikers Island, despite prosecutors requesting $10,000 bail and $10,000 bond for the cop assault case, according to the Post.

“The U.S. State Department, Venezuelan consulate, and Homeland Security didn’t answer questions about Martinez’s criminal history in Venezuela or how he made it into the U.S.,” the outlet noted.

New York residents blasted the ongoing crime chaos, expressing concerns that the soft-gloves treatment of illegals has become the state’s new normal.

“They come knowing they can do these things and will never be made to leave,” said one frustrated commentator, while another cracked, “But… I was told that the migrants just wanted a better life here and were all hard workers just trying to make their way…?”

Mark Pellin is an editor at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/sabrepaw70.

Vagrants Take Over Wyoming Town, Leave a Quarter-Ton of Feces

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Vagrants Take Over Wyoming Town, Leave a Quarter-Ton of Feces

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Squatters ravaged a picturesque town, leaving behind a wake of property destruction and 500 pounds of human feces at a local motel, prompting the mayor of Wyoming’s second largest city to call it a “third-world country.”

Casper’s local Econo Lodge motel, which was foreclosed due to flooding, validated the mayor’s point-of-view as squatters destroyed the property that would cost millions to fix, worse than any damage caused by water.

“It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Mayor Bruce Knell told the Cowboy State Daily. “They destroyed everything. It’s horrible. You cannot wrap your head around what happened to that hotel.”

Approximately 200 homeless people ruined other properties in the second-largest city in Wyoming. People defecated on the streets, private property, parks and bike paths –costing the city thousands of dollars to clean up the waste.

City officials, tasked with resolving the issue, claimed they had run out of ideas. Fines and arrests were not enough.

“We know very well we cannot litigate our way or arrest our way out of the problem, but our police need some teeth to start dealing with the squatting,” Knell said. “They’re just causing so many problems.”

The mayor acknowledged many homeless arrived in Casper for the homeless shelter. “Not everyone is approved, others get kicked out, and many of those homeless people who are rejected by the shelter never leave the city,” he said.

And yet, there’s a certain group of the homeless population, whether it’s from substance abuse or mental illness, who “don’t want to conform to society’s rules,” Knell said. “When they do that, they’re not allowed to go in the shelter, which means they’re just out and about in our community raising hell.”

While Wyoming is usually considered a conservative state, the former mayor of Caper was a Democrat who embraced leftist policies similar to ones that have wreaked havoc in other states. Oregon and California have passed laws to allow squatters to pitch tents on private property and should the owners try to remove them, they will face arrest and possible fines.

 

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