Twitter Still Showing Child Porn from Convicted Pedophile

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Twitter Still Showing Child Porn from Convicted Pedophile
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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In June, Idaho man Ronald Emerson was sentenced to at least four years imprisonment after he repeatedly posted sexual content involving children on Twitter.

Emerson is in prison now, but his content is still online—including videos of him apparently raping his stepdaughter.

Headline USA emailed Twitter about the still-active account, @RonnieE420, on Monday morning. A Twitter spokesman responded: “We’ll get back to you soon.”

But by the close of business hours on Monday, the account and the apparent child pornography were still online.

The pedophile’s still-active account highlights new Twitter owner Elon Musk’s failure in curtailing sexual abuse content on his platform, despite deeming it “priority #1” in a tweet last November.

The New York Times published an investigation on the matter in February, showing that some child pornography on Twitter still gets over 100,000 views.

Twitter’s child porn problem extends long before Musk’s tenure, and child abuse content is perhaps even more rampant on other platforms. In June, for instance, the Wall Street Journal published an investigation exposing a vast pedophile network operating on Instagram.

“Though out of sight for most on the platform, the sexualized accounts on Instagram are brazen about their interest. The researchers found that Instagram enabled people to search explicit hashtags such as #pedowhore and #preteensex and connected them to accounts that used the terms to advertise child-sex material for sale,” the report said.

“Such accounts often claim to be run by the children themselves and use overtly sexual handles incorporating words such as ‘little slut for you.’”

Meanwhile, after Musk briefly promoted free-speech principles when he first acquired the company last year, censorship has seemingly returned to the platform since the hiring of World Economic Forum crony Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter CEO.

The renewed censorship crackdown extended to Headline USA. When this reporter posted a photo in June of the charred corpse of tax protestor Gordon Kahl—who the FBI killed and conflagrated 40 years ago—Twitter had it removed.

Headline USA appealed the decision, explaining that the picture was posted for journalistic reasons—it’s the same photo used in this story—but Twitter maintained its decision.

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

Top Russiagate Investigator to Plead Guilty over Undisclosed Ties to Russian Oligarch

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Top Russiagate Investigator to Plead Guilty over Undisclosed Ties to Russian Oligarch

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former FBI official Charles McGonigal, who was involved in the U.S. government’s sham investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia, will plead guilty to circumventing sanctions to secretly work for a Russian oligarch.

District Judge Jennifer Rearden announced McGonigal’s intentions in an order filed Monday.

“The Court has been informed that Defendant Charles McGonigal may wish to enter a change of plea [from not guilty to guilty],” she said. “Accordingly, on August 15, 2023, at 12:15 p.m., a plea proceeding will take place.”

McGonigal, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York from 2016 to 2018, was accused of working with a former Soviet diplomat-turned-Russian interpreter on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire they purportedly referred to in code as “the big guy” and “the client.”

McGonigal, who had supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska, worked to have Deripaska’s sanctions lifted in 2019 and took money from him in 2021 to investigate a rival oligarch, the Justice Department said.

McGonigal, 54, and Russian interpreter Sergey Shestakov, 69, were charged with violating and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and conspiring to commit money laundering.

Shestakov is also charged with making material misstatements to the FBI. His not-guilty plea is still intact and he has a status conference scheduled for next month, according to the federal court docket.

According to the DOJ, the U.S. Treasury Department added Deripaska to its sanctions list in 2018 for purported ties to the Russian government and Russia’s energy sector amid Russia’s ongoing threats to Ukraine.

That year, while McGonigal was still working for the FBI, Shestakov introduced him to a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who functioned as Deripaska’s agent, the indictment said.

According to the indictment, Shestakov asked McGonigal for help getting the agent’s daughter an internship in the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism and intelligence units. McGonigal agreed, prosecutors say.

After retiring from the FBI, according to the indictment, McGonigal went to work in 2019 as a consultant and investigator for an international law firm seeking to reverse Deripaska’s sanctions, a process known as “delisting.” The law firm paid McGonigal $25,000 through a Shestakov-owned corporation, prosecutors said, though the work was ultimately interrupted by factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

After McGonigal’s indictment was unsealed in January, observers were quick to note that he was a top official who took part in the U.S. government’s investigation of the Trump campaign in 2016.

A September 2022 Business Insider article on McGonigal also noted that he led the WikiLeaks investigation into Chelsea Manning, busted Bill Clinton’s national security advisor Sandy Berger for removing classified material from a National Archives reading room and led the search for a Chinese mole inside the CIA.

“He was one of the first officials to learn that a Trump campaign official had bragged that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, sparking the investigation known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane,” Business Insider reported.

“Later that year, FBI Director James Comey promoted McGonigal to oversee counterintelligence operations in New York.”

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

Mitch McConnell Jeered, Told to ‘Retire’ in Home-State Speech

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Mitch McConnell Jeered, Told to ‘Retire’ in Home-State Speech

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Attendees at the 143rd Annual St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic gave Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell a loud jeering as a welcome on Saturday, when “retire” echoed as the brain-freezing RINO tried to give his speech.

The 81-year-old Republican has been a party leader in the Senate since 2006 and is scheduled to serve until 2026, according to the Western Journal. 

However, some people in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky seemed to believe it’s time for him to leave office as soon as possible. A video showed some of the crowd of about 15,000 people refusing to listen to his speech as they chanted “retire” at the top of their lungs.

A report by Spectrum News noted that some in the crowd also shouted “lost the senate” as McConnel tried to give his speech.

Many citizens have shown concerns about the minority leader’s health as he has suffered from several health issues since a fall earlier in March. 

However, McConnell noted on Saturday, “This is my 28th Fancy Farm, and I want to assure you it’s not my last,” as his early retirement might be securing another senate seat for the Democrats. 

Ignoring the jeers, McConnell continued, “it’s not hard for Republicans to look good these days. We’re up against the folks who gave you record high inflation, we’re up against folks who close schools and then told you teachers’ unions know what’s best, we’re up against folks who rather let repeat offenders walk free.”

With only three months left for Kentucky voters to make their voting decision, McConnell gave his two cents to the crowd. He said, “Biden and Beshear aren’t working for Kentucky. Andy might as well be on the White House payroll, and it’s high time he was honest about it.”

Concluding his pitch, McConnell said, “It’s good we have a Republican General Assembly to keep the governor in check.”

Anheuser-Busch Heir Blasts Company over Dylan Mulvaney Debacle: ‘Rolled over in Their Graves’

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Anheuser-Busch Heir Blasts Company over Dylan Mulvaney Debacle: ‘Rolled over in Their Graves’

(Headline USA) Anheuser-Busch heir Billy Busch blasted Bud Light last week for partnering with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, saying his ancestors would have “rolled over in their graves” if they had seen the campaign.

Busch argued his family’s company was never supposed to wade into divisive political or cultural issues.

“I think my family — my ancestors would have rolled over in their graves,” Busch told TMZ. “They believed that transgender, gays, that sort of thing was all a very personal issue. They loved this country because it is a free country and people are allowed to do what they want, but it was never meant to be on a beer can and never meant to be pushed in people’s faces.”

When asked whether he agrees that Bud Light should try to be more inclusive, Busch acknowledged that the beer’s customer base is sick of having leftist values shoved “pushed down their throat.”

“You know, I think people who drink beer, I think they’re your common folk. I think they are the blue-collar worker who goes and works hard every single day. The last thing they want pushed down their throat or to be drinking is a beer can with that kind of message on it,” he said.

The consumers drinking beer are not “into transgenders,” Busch continued. “People who drink beer care about wholesome things.”

Busch also lamented that Bud Light has lost its reputation as “America’s beer.”

“[Consumers] want their beer to be truly American, truly patriotic, as it always has been. Truly, America’s beer, which Bud Light was and probably isn’t any longer,” he said.

Anheuser-Busch’s revenue has tanked as a result of fall-out from the Mulvaney controversy, with its revenue dipping by 10% since the start of this year. Its sales in U.S. retailers have likewise declined by 14% compared to the previous year.

Corrupt DOJ, D.C. Judge Collude to Hide Evidence from Public in Trump J6 Case

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Corrupt DOJ, D.C. Judge Collude to Hide Evidence from Public in Trump J6 Case

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith appears to be colluding with a DC judge to conceal evidence from the public as former President Donald Trump‘s indictment hearings continue, Julie Kelly reported on her Declassified substack.

Tanya Chutkan, an Obama-appointed judge who has gone on the warpath against Trump’s J6 defendants, has a long history of opposing the former president and everything that he attempted to do.

“On January 6, 2021, hundreds of rioters converged on the U.S. Capitol,” Chutkan wrote in November 2021.

“They scaled walls, demolished barricades, and smashed windows in a violent attempt to gain control of the building and stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results,” she continued, proceeding to call the rally an “unprecedented attempt to prevent the lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next.”

Now it appears that Chutkan is favoring Smith at every turn, particularly helping him outmaneuver Trump and his legal team.

Smith initially wanted Trump to agree “not disclose…materials provided by the United States. . . other than [to] persons employed to assist in the defense, persons who are interviewed as potential witnesses, counsel for potential witnesses, and other persons to whom the Court may authorize disclosure,” but Trump’s team objected.

Despite the objection, assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston filed a motion soon thereafter asking Chutkan to move quickly to approve the government’s protective order “without awaiting a responsive brief” from Trump’s legal team.

In effect, Trump’s ability to campaign, or talk about the highly-politicized trial during his campaign, will be severely restricted.

And though Gaston attempted to argue that Chutkan’s hurrying along of Smith’s demands would “expedite the flow of discovery in this case [and] give the defendant prompt access to a large portion of the discovery he ultimately will receive,” it remains clear that such a restriction will harm Trump’s 2024 odds.

Sikh Store Owner Investigated for Defending His Business against Shoplifter

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Sikh Store Owner Investigated for Defending His Business against Shoplifter

(Headline USA) A California convenience store owner is reportedly under investigation after he apprehended and beat a shoplifter who tried to get away with thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise.

Video footage of the incident shows the owner, a Sikh man, and another store employee confronted a thief who entered the store with a 20-gallon trash can and began filling it with fistfuls of tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and vapes.

At first, employees begged the thief to stop — until the thief tried to push past one of them and ordered everyone to move out of his way.

One employee quickly tackled the thief to the floor and the convenience store owner began hitting the thief with what appears to be a broomstick.

“That’s called whoopin’ your a**! Whoop his a**! Get him!” a bystander said, before asking the thief if he was ready to give up the heist.

“Yeah, I’m done!” the robber admitted. “I’m going to go.”

The employees then ordered the thief not to come back to his store or try stealing again, prompting the thief to ask if he could get a free soda on his way out.

“What kind of **t you telling me? You do this **t and you want a soda? No, no, no. Get the f**k out, man,” the bystander told him.

The convenience store owner later revealed that the thief had stolen from his business at least two other times and had threatened the safety of his employees.

Now, the two convenience store employees who stopped the thief are under investigation for assault, according to local reports. It will be up to the district attorney to determine whether to file charges against them.

Conservatives pointed out that average citizens are going to begin to take the law into their own hands more and more frequently, if leftist policymakers continue to refuse to punish criminals.

“What would solve all these problems and avoid scenes like those in that video is having local jurisdictions and state governments that are willing to put shoplifters and other common criminals behind bars so they can’t continue to terrorize people,” argued RedState’s Bonchie. “Until that happens, we are going to see a lot more of what we saw in that video.”

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Pay Legal Fees for Victims of Cancel Culture

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Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Pay Legal Fees for Victims of Cancel Culture

(Headline USA) Elon Musk announced last week that Twitter will pay the legal fees for those who were unfairly treated by their employers for liking or posting content on the platform, which recently rebranded itself as X.

“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know,” Musk said on Saturday.

The billionaire hinted that this was just the first step he plans to take to fight cancel culture.

“And we won’t just sue,” he said, “it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too.”

Musk’s announcement came just one day after NASCAR driver Noah Gragson was indefinitely suspended for liking a meme about George Floyd on social media. Gragson allegedly liked an insensitive meme on Instagram that portrayed Floyd as “Sebastian the Crab” from The Little Mermaid, along with the words, “Under Da Knee.”

The driver apologized on Twitter, writing, “I am disappointed in myself for my lack of attention and actions on social media. I understand the severity of this situation. I love and appreciate everyone. I try to treat everyone equally no matter who they are. I messed up plain and simple.”

Plenty of other potential cases have been brought to Musk’s attention as well. One example is the cancelation of writer David Volodzko, who was fired from the Seattle Times last month after he posted an article on Twitter and claimed that Adolf Hitler was “less evil” than Vladimir Lenin.

“This does sound like a good case,” Musk tweeted after users brought up Volodzko.

Musk also took interest in the firing of Kara Lynne by Limited Run Games back in January. Lynne was fired by the gaming company after being accused of “transphobia” on Twitter.

Former Disney actress Gina Carano also presented her case. Carano was axed by Disney after the actress posted a number of conservative views on Twitter.

Rapper Apologizes for Questioning Tranny Mafia on Gender Grooming

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Rapper Apologizes for Questioning Tranny Mafia on Gender Grooming

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Hip-hop star Shaffer “Ne-Yo” Smith succumbed to woke critics and offered his “deepest apologies” after questioning parents for allowing children to choose their gender.

“I just personally come from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman,” Ne-Yo said during a Friday appearance on VladTV with Gloria Velez. “You could identify as a goldfish if you feel like, I don’t care—that ain’t my business,” he said, sparking outrage from the transgender community.

The Daily Caller reported Ne-Yo initially defended his opinion on Twitter in a post now deleted: “Why should I care if my opinion upsets you when you don’t care if yours upsets anyone? Opinions aren’t special. We all have one,” he said.

On Sunday, however, the rapper issued an apology to the transgender community, stating he’s an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBT community.

“I understand how my comments could’ve been interpreted as insensitive and offensive,” he wrote. “Gender identity is nuanced, and I can honestly admit that I plan to better educate myself on the topic, so I can approach future conversations with more empathy.”

And yet, it won’t be enough to appease the woke mob, conservative social-media followers assured the singer.

Twitter user @TheLibsOfReddit posted that it’s a never-ending cycle. “Make a valid point Get attacked by the woke mob Apologize and promise to better educate yourself continue to get attacked by the woke mob anyway.” 

“It would have been better if you said nothing at all then. These public apologies are always worded the same,” wrote @2Genders1Truth. “These activists still won’t like you. Their only concern is making people bend the knee. It’s a grave crime to disagree.”

R&B singer Macy Gray was in the same position last year when she was slammed for opposing transgenderism after stating that changing one’s body parts doesn’t make one a woman. However, after receiving backlash, she backtracked and claimed that being a woman was more of a “vibe.”

Ne-Yo seems to be one of a growing number of male African-American performers in particular o question the leftist dogma, which has long enjoyed a stranglehold on the black vote through its coercion of community leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Among the most prominent defectors is Kanye West, who has been vocal about his anti-establishment political views, even meeting on several occasions with former President Donald Trump both during and after his term in office.

Rapper Ice Cube also recently spoke out against the woke mindset during an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, noting that his refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccine had put him at odds with the Hollywood community.

Some, such as rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, have buckled under the pressure from cancel culture.

Jackson was shamed by a leftist comedian for endorsing Trump and later insisted it had been a joke. Nonetheless, he recently spoke out lamenting the fact that Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies had left Los Angeles in shambles.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

House Dems Want to Impose 1,000% Excise Tax on ‘Assault Weapons’

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House Dems Want to Impose 1,000% Excise Tax on ‘Assault Weapons’

(Headline USA) A group of House Democrats unveiled their new gun control strategy last week, which includes a 1000% tax on all “assault-style weapons.”

More than two dozen Democrats, all members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, signed a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Friday, demanding that he bring their proposed bill to the floor for a vote “as soon as possible.”

Their demand comes after House leadership canceled votes on what was supposed to be the final legislative day before Congress’s August recess.

“We are disappointed that Republican leadership canceled votes in July with so many pressing issues facing our country. Foremost amongst those is the gun violence crisis that is the leading cause of death for children in America,” the letter reads.

One of the policies proposed in the task force’s bill is a 1,000% excise tax, which places a duty on the product when it is manufactured, on all “assault-style” rifles. A previous version of the proposal also subjected magazines or related devices that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition to the tax.

In other words, a firearm that normally costs $2,000 would cost customers more than $20,000 if this bill passes.

Under the bill, a “semiautomatic assault weapon” is defined as a semi-automatic rifle or pistol with a magazine of 10 rounds or more.

“As Members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, we call on you to schedule votes on gun violence prevention legislation as soon as possible this year,” the lawmakers said. “We also have a new standing request that should the vote schedule fall apart again, you would fill that time to vote on life-saving gun violence prevention legislation, instead of canceling votes altogether.”

Democrats proposed this same bill last year when their party controlled the House — but it never moved.

Trump: Rapinoe’s Botched World Cup Kick Symbolizes Broken America

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Trump: Rapinoe’s Botched World Cup Kick Symbolizes Broken America

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Former President Trump didn’t hold back after Megan Rapinoe missed a penalty kick leading to an early elimination at the 2023 Women’s World Cup against Sweden on Sunday — the earliest exit from the competition in team history.

Trump blasted Rapinoe and the team for the loss, which he deemed symbolic to the decay of America under President Joe Biden.

“The shocking and totally unexpected loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the [sic] our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close.”

Trump said the entire team as openly “hostile to America” and representing Joe Biden’s broken America, Fox News reported.

Trump ended his message by telling the soccer team and Rapinoe, “WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. “Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA,” he told the player who referred to missing her penalty kick as a “dark comedy.”

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Rapinoe also appeared to laugh at the missed kick, stirring more controversy around the match. Explaining her initial reaction afterward, Rapinoe said, “That’s like a sick, sick joke. I’ve never hit it over, when I miss, they are saved. That’s why I had that smile on my face.”

Ever since Rapinoe kneeled during the National Anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police brutality, it marked the beginning of her feud with then-president Trump in 2016. The USWNT has since faced mounting criticism from Americans for not respecting the country by not taking part in the National Anthem — a sign of disrespect.

“Team USA’s downfall was delivered by anti-America, anti-woman activist Megan Rapinoe’s EMBARRASSING free kick,” noted Benny Johnson.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden took pride in the failure, congratulating the team on an excellent run.

“This team is something special and I’m looking forward to seeing how you continue to inspire Americans with your grit and determination – on and off the field,” Biden tweeted.

Television personality, Piers Morgan, chimed into the tone-deaf tweet with a smile emoji.
“They just put in their worst ever World Cup performance and most of them refused to sing the National Anthem. Who did they make proud, exactly?”
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