‘Whistleblower X’ in Hunter Biden Case Reveals Himself as Gay Democrat

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Update: Hours after the publication of this article, the identity of “Whistleblower X” was revealed to be IRS agent Joseph Ziegler.

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The anonymous IRS agent known only to this point as “Whistleblower X” is set to reveal his identity when he testifies Wednesday afternoon about the Justice Department’s alleged political interference in the Hunter Biden tax investigation.

A copy of Whistleblower X’s written testimony was released Wednesday morning before the hearing. According to the testimony, Whistleblower X is a gay Democrat—which undermines criticism that the whistleblowers are conservative partisans.

“I hope that I am an example to other LGBTQ people out there, who are questioning doing the right thing at a potential cost to themselves and others,” Whistleblower X said in his testimony.

“We should always do the right thing, no matter how painful the process might be.”

But Whistleblower X said people shouldn’t just believe his testimony because he’s gay. This part of the testimony is likely referring to recent comments from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who said earlier this month that he believes the IRS whistleblower allegations because one is a “gay Democrat married to a man.”

“I’m no more credible than this man sitting next to me due to my sexual orientation or my political beliefs,” his testimony states, referring to the other whistleblower testifying Wednesday afternoon: IRS agent Gary Shapley, who was Whistleblower X’s supervisor in the Hunter Biden tax investigation.

Shapley’s written testimony was also released Wednesday.

Shapley’s testimony contains information that has already been made public—most notably, the explosive claim that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who was ostensibly in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation, said in a private October 2022 meeting that he was “not the deciding person on whether charges are filed.” This is significant because it undermines Attorney General Merrick Garland’s April 2022 congressional testimony that Weiss had complete autonomy over the Biden investigation.

Both whistleblowers are testifying as momentum increases in the GOP to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland and other top Biden administration officials.

“What’s becoming crystal clear is that the political brass at DOJ stonewalled & slow walked this investigation into Hunter,” said Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on Friday. “If the purpose of this obstruction was to protect Joe, these are serious allegations which in my view lead to impeachment proceedings of Garland & POTUS.”

Sen. Cruz has also explicitly accused Garland of potentially having committed several felonies.

“If what the IRS whistleblowers are saying is true, then Merrick Garland is guilty of multiple felonies,” Cruz said last week.

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

Paul Pelosi’s Assailant Wants Trial Moved from San Francisco

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Paul Pelosi’s Assailant Wants Trial Moved from San Francisco

(Headline USA) Lawyers for the man charged in last year’s attack against former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband want his federal trial to be moved out of San Francisco, saying intense publicity—not to mention the Democrat leader’s stranglehold on the local political machine—means he won’t get a fair trial.

Already, the Pelosis have used their tremendous influence to wage what many consider to be an extensive cover-up concerning the circumstances of the assault, just days before the 2022 midterm election, which the Democrat leader falsely attempted to pin on right-wing extremism.

Prosecutors have charged David DePape with breaking into the Pelosis’s home on Oct. 28 seeking to kidnap the former speaker—who was out of town—and instead beating her 83-year-old husband with a hammer.

But preliminary police and media reports indicated that Paul Pelosi may, in fact, have known DePape, and that the two were both found at the scene in their underwear. Other evidence likewise pointed to a domestic struggle.

That evidence was quickly covered up, and San Francisco police not only backpedaled on their own reports but refused to release the body-camera footage as the case underwent considerable public scrutiny.

DePape, a Canadian national who was staying in the area on an expired visa and had ties to a local nudist cult, is set to appear in federal court Wednesday. His lawyers will ask the judge to move the trial to the city of Eureka, in neighboring Oregon. The federal trial is set to start Nov. 13.

His federal public defenders, Jodi Linker and Angela Chuang, say media attention on the case in the San Francisco Bay Area has tainted the pool of jurors. They said a survey they commissioned shows many potential jurors already believe he is guilty of the crimes and would be unable to change their minds.

Moreover, a judge initially assigned to the case, Loretta “Lori” Giorgi, had previously worked with one of the Pelosis’ daughters, Christine, in the San Francisco city attorney’s office. Giorgi ultimately recused herself in favor of Superior Court Judge Stephen Murphy.

However, the connection underscored the Pelosis’ extensive personal ties in the local political ecosystem, which has often proven a breeding ground for aspiring state- and national-level figures like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris, all of whom began as local San Francisco government officials.

DePape, 43, pleaded not guilty to federal charges of attempting to kidnap a federal official and assaulting a federal official’s family member. He also pleaded not guilty to state charges, including attempted murder, burglary and elder abuse. He remains jailed without bail. The state trial hasn’t been scheduled.

Linker and Chuang also said they fear potential jurors in San Francisco could be biased against DePape because Nancy Pelosi, who has represented the city in Congress since 1987, remains a popular figure in the Bay Area.

They said Bay Area media outlets have extensively covered the case and played video footage of the assault on Paul Pelosi, the 911 call, and a police interview of DePape shortly after his arrest.

Footage of the attack was released to the public in January after a California judge denied prosecutors’ request to keep it secret. The publicly released footage alone was inconclusive in ascertaining any prior relationship between DePape and Paul Pelosi, although it confirmed that only the latter was in his underwear at the time police responded.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Fla. Judge Shoots Down Biden DOJ’s Attempt to Rush Trump Trial to Dec.

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Fla. Judge Shoots Down Biden DOJ’s Attempt to Rush Trump Trial to Dec.

(Headline USA) A federal judge signaled Tuesday that December may be too soon to begin former President Donald Trump’s politically motivated trial concerning the mishandling of classified documents.

But Judge Aileen Cannon did not say whether she would agree to Trump’s request to put the trial off until after the 2024 election, in which the former president is currently the GOP frontrunner by a large margin.

Cannon said she would issue a written order “promptly” after the nearly two-hour hearing in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, where Trump’s lawyers pressed for an indefinite delay of a trial date.

The sparring over setting a trial date, a routine matter in criminal cases, underscores the unprecedented nature of prosecuting a former president who is also running to reclaim the White House in 2024.

It reopens a line of attack that Democrats themselves made in their previous politically motivated effort to impeach Trump for a phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During the call, Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to reopen a corruption probe into the Biden family that then-Vice President Joe Biden himself had forced into dormancy by coercing the prior administration to fire the investigating prosecutor.

Democrats claimed at the time that Trump’s intention was purely political, using the alleged “quid pro quo” as the main basis for their impeachment attack. However, evidence has shown that the Bidens were, indeed, involved in a bribery scheme related to the Burisma energy company.

With the tables now turned, special counsel Jack Smith must prove that his dual indictments of Trump—part of an extensive lawfare attack against the rival political leader—are more than an unprecedented political ploy to undermine America’s democratic process.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyers say the Republican can’t get a fair trial ahead of the election.

They insist need more time to review evidence and prepare for what they describe as a complex case following the imposition of an onerous set of guidelines for evidentiary discovery.

The judge repeatedly pressed Trump’s lawyers to set some dates and a more concrete timetable, but acknowledged she understood they needed more time to review documents and footage.

“We need to set a timetable,” Cannon said. “Some deadlines can be established now.”

She also questioned prosecutors on whether there were other similar cases involving classified documents tried in such a short time frame.

Smith’s team, which is pushing for the trial to begin in December, told the judge the case is not complex and there’s no need for a lengthy delay. They rejected insinuations by the defense that Trump was charged because he’s running for president. Prosecutor David Harbach claimed there was “no political influence.”

“No one in our team is a political appointee,” he said, noting that they are all career prosecutors.

Smith himself has a long track record of involvement in highly partisan prosecutions, including some high-profile failures during the Obama administration. After IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner flagged Republican nonprofits and denied then their tax-exempt status in the 2012 election, giving advantage to Democrat ones, Smith reportedly added insult to injury by attempting to prosecute the innocent right-wing activist groups. Lerner ultimately was charged with contempt of Congress but faced no consequences from the Obama Justice Department.

Tuesday’s hearing was the first time arguments were held in front of Cannon, after Smith earlier tried to have much of the preliminary trial work done using a more government-friendly Washington, D.C. judge who allowed him access to a secret grand jury for the indictment.

Democrats have already begun targeting Cannon, a Trump appointee who last year allowed the appointment of a special master to review the classified materials following the FBI’s unprecedented raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. That decision was later reversed on appeal.

Trump’s co-defendant, Walt Nauta, attended the hearing, but Trump did not. He traveled Tuesday to Iowa, where he was taping a town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

The court date unfolded hours after Trump disclosed that he had received a target letter from the Justice Department in a separate investigation by Smith attempting to charge him with staging insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021 uprising at the U.S. Capitol.

Democrats already attempted to impeach Trump over those same charges but failed to convict him in the Senate. Smith’s case is likely an extension of the work of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked Jan. 6 Committee, a highly produced, made-for-TV spectacle that went defunct after Republicans took the House majority in January.

Harbach told the judge that Trump’s legal team has repeatedly suggested he should be treated differently because he’s running for president.

“He should be treated like anybody else,” Harbach said. “He is not different than any other busy, important person.”

But Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s lawyers, pushed back against the idea that this case be treated like any other. Trump’s team said it believes the circumstances to ensure a fair trial would improve after the election.

“It is intellectually dishonest to say this case is like any other case,” Blanche said. “It is not.”

Chris Kise, a Trump lawyer, asked the judge to consider the amount of attention the case was receiving and whether finding impartial jurors would be possible before an election. But Cannon said she wanted to first focus on discovery and set a concrete “road map” for the case.

Kise suggested meeting again in November to discuss scheduling the trial. As the hearing was about to end, Kise said a trial date of mid-November 2024 would be preferred.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

House Reaffirms Israel Support after Jayapal’s Anti-Semitic Attack

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House Reaffirms Israel Support after Jayapal’s Anti-Semitic Attack

(Headline USA) The House on Tuesday passed a Republican-led resolution reaffirming its support for Israel with strong bipartisan approval—an implicit rebuke of a leading Democrat who, over the weekend, unleashed an anti-Semitic attack on the Jewish state but later apologized.

The resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, passed with over 400 lawmakers backing the measure. It did not mention Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., by name, but was clearly a response to her recent remarks.

The measure was drafted soon after she accused Israel of being “racist” at a conference on Saturday for its treatment of Palestinians who routinely wage terrorist attacks on Israel from settlements including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as northern Hezbollah outposts like Beirut, Lebanon.

Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, also voted in support of the resolution. “I am not going to be bullied by their political games, and I’m not going to let them try to continue this debate,” she told reporters after the vote.

The Washington Democrat had walked back her comments from over the weekend, insisting they were aimed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not the Jewish state.

Netanyahu, the country’s longtime leader, returned to power in December after a year and a half hiatus during which the country disastrously failed to convene a functional coalition government under his successor—the leftist, pro-Iranian Naftali Bennett.

“I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist,” Jayapal said in a statement Sunday. “I do, however, believe that Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies and that there are extreme racists driving that policy within the leadership of the current government.”

The GOP-led effort highlighted the divide among House Democrats over Israel, with younger progressives adopting a more critical stance toward the longtime U.S. ally than party leaders.

“If there’s anybody in the Democrat party that does not think that anti-Semitism is bad, then I think this puts them on the record,” Pfluger said Monday.

Some radical Democrats are vowing to boycott on Wednesday when Israeli President Isaac Herzog is slated to address a joint session of Congress in commemoration of Israel’s 75th anniversary.

The same handful—nine Democrats in total, including all of the members of the notorious “Squad”—voted against the resolution Tuesday.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.—the only Palestinian–American in Congress—who is not attending the session, criticized the resolution as normalizing violence against those living in the West Bank.

“We’re here again reaffirming Congress support for apartheid,” Tlaib said during floor debate. “Policing the words of women of color who dare to speak up about truths, about oppression.”

Over at the White House, Herzog on Tuesday sought to assure President Joe Biden that Israel remains committed to democracy, despite leftist smear attacks over Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul his country’s corrupt judicial system and ongoing settlement construction in the West Bank.

Top Democrat leaders in the House also reaffirmed their support for Israel ahead of the vote, responding Sunday to Jayapal’s comments with a blistering joint statement.

The statement—from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and members of his leadership team—declared that “Israel is not a racist state.”

It also said America’s long-held commitment to “a safe and secure Israel as an invaluable partner, ally and beacon of democracy in the Middle East is ironclad.”

Jeffries has weathered his own accusations of anti-Semitism, including allegations that he has shown tacit support for the radical hate speech of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has previously likened Jews to “termites.” His uncle, Leonard Jeffries, is also an outspoken anti-Semite who has taught controversial theories as a professor at City University of New York.

Hours later, more than 40 House Democrats, including a large group of Jewish members, issued a separate letter also condemning Jayapal’s comments.

“Any efforts to rewrite history and question the Jewish State’s right to exist, or our historic bipartisan relationship, will never succeed in Congress,” the group, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., said Monday night.

Most Democrats supported the GOP resolution Tuesday, even as they accused Republicans of playing politics.

“These are straightforward things that we should be supporting,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who is Jewish, told reporters.

“But I certainly questioned the intentions of the Republicans by putting it on the floor,” added the disgraced ex-Democratic National Committee chair, who was caught trying to rig the 2016 presidential primary for Hillary Clinton and later resigned.

“I wish their intentions were genuine,” Schultz added.

Schultz also called out House Republicans’ efforts to condemn Jayapal’s comments with a vote but their refusal to disinvite Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from a hearing Thursday on censorship, despite off-the-record comments he made about the COVID-19 virus being engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

“That type of vile messaging and statements should never be given those world’s largest platforms to fan the flames of conspiracy theories and racial and ethnic and religious hate,” she said. More than 100 Democrats have signed a letter as of late Tuesday calling for Republican leadership to remove him from the panel.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and committee chair Jim Jordan, who is holding the hearing, have so far refused to disinvite Kennedy. Both said while they disagree with his comments, taking him off a panel about censorship would be contrary to the point Republicans are trying to make.

Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic and traditional liberal who threatens to derail President Joe Biden’s stranglehold on the increasingly radical and out-of-touch Left, has attempted several times to clarify his remarks by offering a scientifically supported justification for what he actually said: that a particular area of the cell known as the furin cleave docking site, which the COVID-19 virus was known to attack, is more pronounced in some ethnic groups than others.

Several of his Democrat critics, hoping to neutralize his political threat on the 2024 campaign trail, carped only on the alleged anti-Semitic trope while ignoring entirely the Sinophobia that ostensibly accompanied it, underscoring the cynical focus on optics and messaging over principles that have often driven the Democratic narrative.

Some came to Kennedy’s defense, observing that even if COVID-19 was not a genetically engineered bioweapon, it is certainly within the realm of plausibility that China is attempting to develop such a technology, and that it would be dangerous simply to dismiss those concerns as a racist “trope.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Bongino Reveals What Secret Service Knows of WH Cocaine Smuggler

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Bongino Reveals What Secret Service Knows of WH Cocaine Smuggler

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a recent interview with The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino shed light on a shocking incident that has left the Secret Service furious and embarrassed.

Bongino, who is now a popular podcast host, revealed that he had received numerous communications from current agents expressing their outrage over the disturbing cocaine smuggling incident at the Biden White House.

“A lot of my former colleagues at the Secret Service who retired, they are absolutely furious about this,” Bongino told the Signal before describing his communications with the Secret Service.

“I got 50 emails, communications, texts from people. ‘This is embarrassing, humiliating.’ These are good guys, man, guys who worked for [former presidents Barack] Obama and [George W.] Bush, nonpartisan guys, most of them aren’t even political. This is embarrassing, they know exactly who it was,” Bongino added.

According to Bongino, there are fewer than 200 individuals who could have been responsible for smuggling the illicit substance into the White House.

He further speculated that the identity of the culprit is likely known, but there appears to be pressure from the current White House administration to suppress the investigation.

“They gotta know who did it. The question is, who’s pressuring them… to not find out who did it. And it’s gotta be coming from this White House,” Bongino added.

When asked if he believed whether the cocaine belonged to Hunter Biden, the embattled first son, Bongino said, “The question is, is it Hunter or one of his friends. I’m in the Secret Service for 12 years a good amount of time. We never had this problem.”

Bongino’s scathing remarks come five days after the Secret Service swiftly ended its investigation into the smuggling. The investigation ultimately led to no suspects.

“On July 12, the Secret Service received the FBI’s laboratory results, which did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons,” the Secret Service claimed in a press release on July 15. “Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals. The FBl’s evaluation of the substance also confirmed that it was cocaine.”

Explosive Biden Timeline Exposes Alleged Influence Peddling Scheme

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Explosive Biden Timeline Exposes Alleged Influence Peddling Scheme

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has released a comprehensive timeline outlining alleged influence-peddling schemes involving the Biden family.

The timeline focuses on specific dates when then-Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine, Romania, and China as an official representative of the U.S. government. According to the report, the Biden family is implicated in scheme campaigns in these countries.

The timeline commences with the inauguration of the Obama-Biden administration on January 20, 2009. The first questionable transaction took place on November 1, 2013, when Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, established an investment fund named BHR. The timeline asserts that BHR is controlled by the Bank of China, and its license was approved shortly after Hunter and Biden traveled to China on Air Force 2.

The report’s main findings reveal that “Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies—most were limited liability companies formed after Joe Biden became Vice President.”

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has frequently referred to these companies as “shell” companies intended to conceal alleged crimes.

The committee asserts that “the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ and their related companies.” These payments were made during Biden’s tenure as Vice President and even after he left public office.

Comer initially disclosed the existence of the infamous FD-1023 informant file, which details a $5 million bribe involving Biden, Hunter, and a Ukrainian business contact.

House Republicans further allege that the Biden family employed external companies to receive foreign funds in a potential attempt to obscure the source of the funds. “After foreign companies sent money to business associates’ companies, the Biden family received incremental payments over time to different bank accounts,” the timeline indicates.

President Biden has repeatedly denied any involvement in the alleged schemes, often stating that he had no knowledge of these business dealings, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.

The comprehensive timeline also reveals the Biden family’s involvement in Kazakhstan. Read it in full here.

Univ. of Fla. Lied to DeSantis, Downplayed Scope of Massive DEI Spending

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Univ. of Fla. Lied to DeSantis, Downplayed Scope of Massive DEI Spending

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Woke officials from the University of Florida massively downplayed the scale of their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in official filings to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Christopher Rufo, a man who was hired by DeSantis to fight the indoctrination in the educational system of the state of Florida, accused university bosses of “lying through their teeth to the governor,” the Daily Mail reported.

“I’ve discovered through public records requests and the threat of litigation that the University of Florida, which is under the purview of a Red state legislature, explicitly lied to the governor, in its official response to his request about their DEI programs,” Rufo said.

“But I’ve discovered through these bombshell documents that they, in fact, had more than 1,000 separate DEI programs embedded in every facet of the university’s programs and administration.”

The Gainesville-based university, which has roughly 8,000 academics and 60,000 students, said in its official reply that it runs some 30 to 40 DEI schemes at a cost of more than $5 million per year.

The officials included the salaries of DEI staffers — a chief diversity officer, assistant director, senior advisor to the president and an executive assistant, among others — that gobbled up more than $1 million each year, with most of this money coming from state coffers, the news source reported.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were also spent on fostering a “welcoming, inclusive work environment” in the university’s various schools for nursing, design, engineering and other disciplines.

Of the $5.3 million spent on DEI work, $3.3 million of it is funded by the state government, according to the filing. Additionally, the university got money from federal sources, tuition fees, grants, donations and other sources.

“What we see over and over in America’s institutions is that the leaders have been captured by radical left-wing DEI ideology,” Rufo said.

“And then when they’re discovered, they make every attempt to hide, obfuscate and conceal the true nature of what’s happening inside their institutions.”

Michigan AG Blasted over Draconian Charges of Trump Supporters, Retirees

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Michigan AG Blasted over Draconian Charges of Trump Supporters, Retirees

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a predictable turn of events, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed felony charges against 16 Michigan residents for their alleged involvement in an alternate elector effort during the 2020 election, following years of investigation.

Nessel accuses the 16 supporters of secretly meeting in the basement of the Michigan GOP and signing certificates that falsely claimed they were the duly elected representatives for the state. These alleged fraudulent certifications were then submitted to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives, with the intention of replacing the electors chosen by Michigan voters.

Nessel, a Democrat known for her far-left stances, defended the charges against Trump supporters despite ongoing criticism. “The false electors’ actions undermined the public’s faith in the integrity of our elections and, we believe, also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan,” Nessel claimed in a press release on Tuesday.

The Michigan attorney general claimed to have previously prosecuted cases of voter fraud but characterized the alternate elector movement as an “organized effort” to circumvent the 2020 election. If found guilty, the suspects now face multiple charges that could result in a maximum sentence of 66 years.

The severe charges, celebrated by anti-Trump critics, drew sharp criticism from concerned Republican leaders who believe it is merely a witch hunt intended to tarnish former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, condemned what he perceived as the weaponization of the government. What’s happening to the pro-Trump patriots in Michigan is HORRIFIC!” Jackson said in a fiery Twitter post on Tuesday. “Democrats EVERYWHERE want to turn Trump supporters into criminals. The weaponization of government against conservatives is OUT OF CONTROL!!”

Similarly, DC Draino, a prominent conservative attorney, expressed outrage over the charges, citing a double standard. “Michigan AG charges 16 Trump electors w/felonies for sending alternate electors,” Draino said on Tuesday. “Here’s video of a van dropping off 100s of thousands of ballots around 3 AM in Detroit w/o any GOP monitors Where are the felonies for these election stealers?”

Raheem Kassam, the editor-in-chief of the National Pulse, echoed Draino’s sentiments, stating, “They’re criminalising being pro Trump now.” Prominent commentator Cernovich joined the chorus of criticism, adding, “Check the ages. Michigan’s Democrat machine is targeting retirees. The average age of the defendants is north of 70. This is designed to eliminate the most experienced Republican poll watches.” In a separate Twitter post, Cernovich said, “The Bolsheviks have returned.”

LAPD Union Official Advises Cops to Escape from L.A.

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LAPD Union Official Advises Cops to Escape from L.A.

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A top official in the Los Angeles police union has strongly hinted the organization’s membership should seek law enforcement employment elsewhere.

In a subsequently deleted Facebook post on her personal page, Sgt. Jerretta Sandoz, vice president of the L.A. Police Protective League, hardly minced words.

“Go somewhere that respects the work you do and you don’t have to beg for a great contract,” she wrote, according to the Los Angeles Times.

LAPD cops and the city are currently wrangling over a new contract to replace the previous one that expired on June 30.

“Go somewhere that has a city council or city manager that openly acknowledges the great work you do, go somewhere that doesn’t have Two or more City Council members who hate you (no exaggeration),” Sandoz continued.

She avoided mentioning the councilors’ names, but the Times did identify them, noting that the duo “regularly vote[d] against spending proposals at the LAPD.”

Sandoz also lamented a decision by poliece chief Michel Moore to ban the “thin blue line” flag.

Los Angeles is just one of many Democrat-run, crime-infested cities where lawlessness is through the roof and police morale has sunk through the floor.

Some beleaguered cities have now implemented forced overtime because there aren’t enough already overworked cops to adequately cover the shifts.

In some instances around the country, lawmen or women have taken off even before they became fully vested in the pension plan.

As far as Los Angeles, in particular, is concerned, the Times asserted that “LAPD is hemorrhaging officers.”

The force is currently short of about 1,000 officers in a roster that, as recently as 2019, numbered about 10,000.

Although Sandoz’s original post got scrubbed, she doesn’t seem to be backing down.

“My comments were part of a larger online thread about officers who stated they already decided to leave the LAPD, and I stand by every word I wrote to those who decided, or are strongly considering leaving the LAPD for another agency,” she explained.

She described the controversy over the post as “much ado about nothing.”

In a follow-up, Sandoz said she hoped the new LAPD agreement, whenever it’s inked, would encourage retention and that “criteria I advise officers to evaluate when they are choosing to work for another agency is, in many respects, the same criteria officers are using to determine if they are going to stay with the LAPD.”

Lowering minimum standards is one of the solutions proposed by newly elected Mayor Karen Bass to address the police manpower shortage.

Another union official described as “a recipe for disaster.”

Bass, formerly a far-left congresswoman, has also vowed to purge the LAPD of officers with mythical links to “right-wing domestic extremist organizations.”

Report: Ancient Jewish Artifacts Stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

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Report: Ancient Jewish Artifacts Stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Classified documents aren’t the only government property to be found recently at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

According to the Israeli news site Haaretz, antiquities belonging to Israel have also been found there in recent months.

“Among the antiquities are ancient ceramic oil lamps which are part of Israel’s national treasures collection,” Haaretz reported Tuesday.

Haaretz reported that the archeological items were shipped from Israel to the U.S. for a Hanukkah event attended by Trump in 2019, but bureaucratic snafus prevented the artifacts from being returned.

“An Israeli official briefed on the matter described it Tuesday as “a misunderstanding” and said the antiquities authority “woke up too late” instead of resolving the issue closer to the original White House event,” the publication reported.

“Several months ago, Israeli authorities learned that the antiquities eventually ended up at former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where they still remain.”

The Haaretz article prompted many jokes online about the matter.

“He has the Ark of the Covenant,” jested the prominent right-wing Twitter account, Second City Bureaucrat—referring to the artifact that’s believed to be the most sacred relic of the Israelites.

Others wondered whether Trump stored some of the Israeli antiques in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom—much as the classified documents allegedly were. According to Haaretz, this might have actually been the case.

 A source updated on the affair told Haaretz that he wouldn’t be surprised if ‘the items Israel seeks are also eventually found in some bathroom there,’” the publication said.

Haaretz added that “it is unclear whether Trump himself is aware that the items are on the premises of his estate.”

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

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