Embattled Alvin Bragg Bemoans NYC Subway Crime Surge: ‘Knot in My Stomach’

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Embattled Alvin Bragg Bemoans NYC Subway Crime Surge: ‘Knot in My Stomach’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Alvin Bragg, the controversial Soros-bought Manhattan district attorney, has broken his silence regarding the surge in violent crime in the New York City subway system.

In an interview with FOX5 NY, Bragg admitted to his own fear of riding the subway. “I know the statistics that transit crime is down, but when one of my family members gets on the train, I get a knot in my stomach,” the Manhattan DA stated.

Despite his reputation for being soft on crime, Bragg asserted that his office remains committed to implementing measures to prevent crimes in the subway.

However, Bragg’s promises were met with criticism from several New York City residents, who expressed ongoing concerns about street safety. “I think it’s still iffy,” one resident told FOX5, casting doubt on claims that crime is decreasing. “It depends on the neighborhood that you’re in and the time of day; you might run into something.” Another resident attested to witnessing crime regularly, stating, “I didn’t see anything change.”

Bragg’s tenure as DA has been marred by controversy, including allegations that he misused his office to pursue a politically motivated case against former President Donald Trump, a claim made by Republicans and some Democrats.

Prominent conservative voices reacted to Bragg’s remarks with scorching statements. Lee Zeldin, a former U.S. representative and candidate for New York governor, took to Twitter to sarcastically say, “If only Alvin Bragg was in a position to actually do something about it.”

Deneen Borelli, an author and Newsmax contributor, echoed Zeldin’s remarks, saying, “Dude… you’re part of the problem.”

According to the New York Post, Bragg appeared to highlight data from the New York City Police Department indicating a 4.6% decrease in major crimes. However, the same report revealed an 18% increase in subway crimes compared to the previous month.

In 2023 alone, significant cases have rocked New York City’s transit system. One such case involved Kemal Rideout, a 28-year-old individual with a lengthy history of arrests, including charges of rape and forcible touching, who carried out multiple random slashings, leaving several women injured.

Another incident involved Jordan Neely, a homeless man who allegedly terrorized innocent bystanders on an NYC train. Neely was confronted by Daniel Penny, a retired Marine hailed as a hero by many New Yorkers. Penny subdued Neely in a chokehold until law enforcement arrived, but the homeless man later died at a nearby hospital.

Despite public outcry not to prosecute Penny, Bragg charged the marine “hero” with second-degree manslaughter.

Additionally, Bragg faced embarrassment when a grand jury acquitted 20-year-old Jordan Williams, whom he had charged with fatally stabbing “ex-con” Devictor Ouedraogo. The jury found that Williams had acted in self-defense.

Kamala Harris’s New ‘STUNNING’ Gaffe Raises Questions

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Kamala Harris’s New ‘STUNNING’ Gaffe Raises Questions

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris has once again sparked controversy during a recent speech addressing the development of artificial intelligence, a role she serves as the czar.

Harris’s speech, aimed at explaining the definition of AI during a roundtable at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, faced criticism from prominent conservative leaders who accused her of being condescending toward the American public.

In the video, Harris can be heard saying, “AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence.”

Political commentator Clay Travis took to Twitter to respond to the video, stating, “Kamala Harris talks to Americans like we are all in kindergarten.” Travis made his remarks on Wednesday. Another prominent Twitter user, ALX, mocked Harris’s explanation of AI and questioned whether she would be involved in other AI developments, asking, “Will Kamala be helping out with @xai,” referring to Elon Musk’s new AI bot.

Political strategist Steve Guest, known for his viral Twitter responses, sarcastically commented, “STUNNING INSIGHTS from Kamala Harris,” before sharing the now-viral video. Twitter personality Vince Coglianese echoed Guest’s sentiments, suggesting the need for a website dedicated to Harris explaining things, humorously called “Wikamalapedia.”

This is not the first time Harris has been mocked for her role as Biden’s “AI Czar.” Musk ridiculed Harris shortly after the Biden administration appointed her to oversee AI development, stating on May 7 via Twitter, “[M]aybe someone who can fix their own wifi router wouldn’t be too much to ask.”

Harris’s public appearances have also previously come under scrutiny, as she currently holds the lowest approval ratings in the history of NBC polls. Her uncontrollable laughter during a speech at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona triggered speculation about her potential involvement in a White House cocaine scandal.

One Twitter user responded to the video of Harris’s unusual laughter by saying, ‘Maybe it’s not Hunter’s [sic] cocaine after all,’ referring to her husband being the ‘first Second Gentleman of the United States.'”

Sotomayor’s Net Worth Has Quadrupled Since Joining Supreme Court

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Sotomayor’s Net Worth Has Quadrupled Since Joining Supreme Court

(Headline USA) Mired in a potential ethics scandal related to a reported book-selling scheme, Fox News uncovered financial documents that showed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s net worth has skyrocketed since being appointed to the bench in 2009.

In 2007, two years before former President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to join the Supreme Court, Sotomayor’s net worth was between $50,001 and $115,000, according to financial disclosures. She had only two reported assets: a checking account and a savings account.

In 2008, Sotomayor’s assets were about the same, totaling between $15,000 to $65,000.

But in 2021, Sotomayor’s financial disclosure revealed her investments totaled betwen $15 million and $6.4 million. Last year, her investments were between $1.6 million and $6.6 million.

Currently, justices on the Supreme Court make $285,400, except for the chief justice, who makes about $300,000. 

The sharp increase in Sotomayor’s wealth raises serious questions about where she’s receiving extra income. One source is her book deals, including her memoir and several children’s books, which have made her at least $3.7 million and provide six-figure royalty payments annually.

However, even this raises ethical concerns given a recent report that Sotomayor’s staff pressured schools and universities to buy her books in bulk.

Another report from the Associated Press revealed Sotomayor’s publisher, Random House, also pressed public institutions that wanted to host Sotomayor for a speech or lecture to commit to buying a certain number of copies beforehand.

Sotomayor has not recused herself from cases involving Random House.

In a statement, the Supreme Court said it works with the justices and their staff to ensure they are “complying with judicial ethics guidance for such visits.”

“When [Sotomayor] is invited to participate in a book program, Chambers staff recommends the number of books based on the size of the audience so as not to disappoint attendees who may anticipate books being available at an event,” the court said. “Chambers staff assist the justices in complying with judicial ethics guidance for such visits, including guidance relating to judges; publications.”

White House Moves to Muzzle Black Reporter Critical of Biden Regime

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White House Moves to Muzzle Black Reporter Critical of Biden Regime

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The White House press office warned a black journalist from Africa that he may lose his pass to the complex if he won’t stop his “frequent interruptions,” in what many perceived as a either racial insult or an attempt to shut down uncomfortable questions about the Joe Biden regime.

Simon Ateba, a reporter for Today News Africa, shared the text and screenshots of the official letter from the White House press suppressors with his Twitter followers. The unsigned document laid out multiple instances when Ateba was doing his job by trying to ask questions during press briefings.

“The White House recognizes that members of the press often raise their voices or shout questions at press briefings or events. Ordinarily, such shouting stops when a reporter is called on for a question, and the briefing or event is able to continue,” the letter stated.

“Continued interruptions are different; they prevent journalists from asking questions or administration officials and guests from responding. The Press Secretary’s only option in response to such disruptions is to stop the briefing or event, which is to the detriment of all journalists.”

Journalists outside the fake news realm blasted the White House for trying to silence any critical questioning of the Biden administration as it struggles through multiple scandals and investigations.

“The WaPo is working w/ the Biden Admin to silence the only independent African reporter in the W.H. press poll,” accused journalist Tom Elliott.

“This kind of thing used to be a an attack on the first amendment and press freedoms,” The Spectator’s Stephen L. Miller tweeted. “It unified journalists against an authoritarian administration. Democracy is dying a little bit today.”

Driving home that accusation, the warning letter to Ateba stated, “If you continue to impede briefings or events by shouting over your colleagues who have been called on for a question, even after you have been asked to stop by a White House employee, then your hard pass may be suspended or revoked, following notice and an opportunity to respond.”

Social media was quick to point out the double standard applied to Ateba and other loudmouthed, disruptive reporters with decidedly leftist bents. Special note was given to former CNN activist Brian Karem, who was praised for verbally assaulting a Trump-era press secretary who dared to note that CNN had to retract a story on the bogus Russia collusion hoax.

“Coordinated vicious attacks against me to assassinate my character and silence me remind me of the law of unintended consequences,” Ateba wrote in his Wednesday tweet, using as examples Ancient Rome, 19th century India, the 18th Amendment in the Constitution of the United States and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

Manchin Exploring 3rd-Party Revenge Run after Dems Betrayal

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Manchin Exploring 3rd-Party Revenge Run after Dems Betrayal

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has dropped hints that he may be interested in exploring a third party alternative after supporting the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, Red State reported.

Manchin held out in the weeks leading up to the Inflation Reduction Act in order to appeal to his deep-red home state of West Virginia. But eventually he caved, leaving thousands of voters dissatisfied.

His support for the bill came with demands that the coal industry–which commands much leverage in the state of West Virginia–receive certain protections.

Since the passage of the Act, Manchin has become increasingly belligerent in his dealings with Democrats, going so far as to hinder Biden’s ability to appoint far-left activists to the EPA.

But not only is the senator considering leaving the Democrat Party, he is reportedly considering a run for president as a third party candidate, according to a Daily Mail report.

Manchin will reportedly be the headline speaker on July 17 for a group called No Labels, which defines itself as a bipartisan political action group.

According to No Labels, the townhall event will give “the American public” a chance “to see two leaders practice what they preach – taking part in a meaningful dialogue across party lines to address the pressing issues that our country faces.”

With it looking increasingly unlikely that Manchin will run for reelection–especially given the announced candidacy of Jim Justice, current West Virginia governor and a serious challenger–it appears that Manchin has little to lose.

Manchin’s appeal to moderate Democrats could shake up the race and have a particularly negative impact on President Joe Biden’s chances of victory. And though Manchin has not committed any particular course, he made comments seemingly to spur speculation regarding a potential run for president.

“My main concern—and to all of you and all of your viewers, my main concern is, how do we bring this country together?” he asked in a February interview with Fox News.

“How do we make it work?” he continued. “How do we make Democrats, Republicans become Americans again, and not just party affiliates? And we’re pushing people further apart, making people take a side, and then we’re rewarding for bad behavior.”

Report: Fingerprints Found on White House Cocaine Baggie

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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Citing anonymous sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Soldier of Fortune reported Wednesday that fingerprints were found on the bag of cocaine left in the White House earlier this month.

“We know who handled it,” one security source reportedly told the publication. “We’ve known since last week.”

Soldier of Fortune also said it knows the identity of the person suspected of handling the cocaine bag. But the outlet said it’s withholding the person’s name “pending confirmation.”

“The results came in quickly on the fingerprints because the sample was sent to a unit that gets results within 24 hours,” Soldier of Fortune reported, adding that it has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with three agencies that might know about the fingerprint results: the Washington DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia and the U.S. Secret Service.

The outlet’s major scoop comes as a Secret Service representative is set to brief the House Oversight Committee on the matter Thursday.

Other anonymous sources have reportedly said the cocaine culprit will likely never be apprehended.

“It’s gonna be very difficult for us to do that because of where it was,” an unnamed official told  Politico.

“Even if there were surveillance cameras, unless you were waving it around, it may not have been caught [by cameras],” the source added. “It’s a bit of a thoroughfare. People walk by there all the time.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said the White House is confident that the Secret Service would “get to the bottom of this.”

Jean-Pierre has also sought to dispel any notion that the cocaine belonged to known drug abuser Hunter Biden.

“The President and the First Lady and their family were not here this weekend,” she said in the wake of the discovery. “They left on Friday and returned yesterday,” she added. “Where this was discovered is a heavily travelled area … I just don’t have anything more to share.”

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

St. Louis Mayor Privately Admits Gun Control Doesn’t Work Despite Publicly Pushing for Restrictions

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St. Louis Mayor Privately Admits Gun Control Doesn’t Work Despite Publicly Pushing for Restrictions

(Headline USA) St. Louis Democrat Mayor Tishaura Jones privately admitted that gun control policies do not work despite publicly advocating for them, according to obtained messages.

Jones has called for stricter gun restrictions on a number of occasions, including last month following a mass shooting that killed one and injured 11 others.

“Our state’s lax gun laws make our challenge even more difficult,” Jones said in June following the shooting. “The legislature’s lack of action on gun safety laws encourages the proliferation of guns on our streets and puts our responding officers directly in harm’s way.”

Specifically, Jones has called for “expanding background checks to all gun sales, regulating assault weapons and passing a federal red flag law.”

However, in a private group chat with her father, Virvus Jones, and adviser Richard Callow on March 21, Jones admitted that such policies would be pointless.

“Chicago has strict gun laws as well but that doesn’t deter gun violence,” Jones wrote, according to KSDK. “It’s about investing in the people.”

In another text to her father and Callow, Jones compared St. Louis’s crime rates to Newark, New Jersey, which has far fewer murders and better violence prevention programs.

“Newark, NJ has the same size population, same size police force, and similar racial demographics, yet had 50 murders in 2022,” she wrote. “I visited these programs first hand and I know that they work. We just need the will….”

After the text messages were released, Jones’s office insisted that they mayor still supports gun control.

“Gun laws are just one part of the solution,” Jones spokesman Nick Desideri said. “There’s a difference between deterring behavior and making it harder to get firearms and weaponry; for example, there’s no doubt that gun laws in the blue region around Newark help reduce violence as opposed to here.”

Ray Epps Says He’ll be Charged by DOJ, Blames Tucker Carlson

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Ray Epps Says He’ll be Charged by DOJ, Blames Tucker Carlson

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) J6 provocateur Ray Epps claims that the Justice Department plans to criminally charge him for his actions at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest.

Epps disclosed this Wednesday in his freshly filed defamation lawsuit against Fox News, in which he blamed Fox and Tucker Carlson for his legal conundrum. Epps claimed that the impending criminal charge will disprove the theory that he was a federal asset who encouraged Trump supporters to commit violence on Jan. 6.

“In May 2023, the Department of Justice notified Epps that it would seek to charge him criminally for events on January 6, 2021—two-and-a-half years later. The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges,” Epps said in the lawsuit.

“Although it is difficult to believe that the Department of Justice would have pursued this matter if Fox had not focused its likes on Epps, ultimately the criminal charges conclusively demonstrate the falsehood of the story that Mr. Carlson and Fox told about Epps.”

Epps didn’t specify what aspect of the Fox/Carlson story would be disproven if he’s charged with a misdemeanor for trespassing on Capitol grounds. Other FBI informants, such as Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys, were charged in relation to J6, and it’s a common tactic for law enforcement to criminally charge informants to bolster their cover stories.

Epps is the controversial figure seen on camera on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, urging protestors to enter the Capitol. He initially appeared on the FBI’s wanted list in relation to the Capitol rioting, only to be removed in the summer of 2021 with no explanation.

More damning information about Epps has come out since then, including a text message he sent to his nephew saying, “I was in front with a few others. I also orchestrated it”—referring to the initial breach of the Capitol grounds.

Epps also reportedly admitted to the FBI that he trespassed on Capitol grounds—a crime other J6ers have been arrested for—and made a bizarre comment about expecting a bombing to happen that day.

But despite this, liberal institutions such as 60 Minutes, the New York Times and the Jan. 6 Commission have come to Epps’s defense—raising more questions among those who suspect he may be a federal asset.

“Ray Epps is the only person I’ve seen on video January 5th and January 6th urging and directing people to go into the Capitol,” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said after 60 Minutes aired an interview with Epps. “In a text message on January 6th he bragged that he orchestrated it. Why do democrats and the media portray him as the victim? So bizarre.”

In his lawsuit, Epps claimed that the conspiracy theories about him have destroyed his life.

However, Epps has yet to announce a lawsuit against Revolver News, the publication that broke the first stories about him.

Epps has also yet to answer questions from Headline USA about an warrant that was issued for his arrest in Pennsylvania in 2016.

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

Former Fox News Star Arrested for DUI in West Palm Beach

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Former Fox News Star Arrested for DUI in West Palm Beach

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former Fox News personality Ed Henry was arrested in Florida for allegedly driving under the influence, Radar Online reported.

Henry, who worked as Fox News’s chief White House correspondent, was pulled over on June 20 while driving a black Cadillac Escalade with a flat tire and a car rim dragging along the ground.

According to the police report, Henry’s driving almost caused at least one accident as he recklessly swerved through the streets.

“In doing this the front driver’s [side] tire came off the rim and rolled into the east bound lanes almost striking an oncoming vehicle,” the report stated. “That vehicle had to apply [its] brakes and swerve to avoid being hit by the tire.”

Authorities pulled him over in the parking lot of a Cadillac dealership, where Henry said he had been driving to get his tire repaired.

The deputy who pulled him over noted that Henry’s drunkenness was obvious.

“While Henry was talking, I was able to smell the odor of unknown alcohol coming from his breath,” the deputy noted, adding that his visual appearance was particularly telling. “Henry had glassy and bloodshot eyes…His gait was unsteady. His speech was slightly slurred.”

Nonetheless, Henry was reportedly “cooperative and polite” in his dealings with the officer. He admitted to having downed two bourbons roughly an hour before at at nearby Singer Island.

Despite appearing to fail several field sobriety tests, Henry blew below the legal limit of 0.08 in the blood–alcohol breath test, according to his lawyer, David Tarras.

“Mr. Henry cooperated with law enforcement during their investigation,” Tarras wrote. “He respectfully provided a sample of his breath that was below a .08, and thus below the legal limit in Florida.”

Tarras expressed confidence that Henry would be the charges in court.

Henry was fired in 2020 following serious rape and sexual misconduct allegations involving a Fox News coworker, Jennifer Eckhart.

Among the Eckhard made was that he violently raped her in 2018 and then sought to use “revenge porn” to intimidate her into silence.

The case remained pending as of December 2022, with Eckhart having amended her complaint after New York used the Adult Survivors Act to expand the legal options of many purported victims of sex crimes.

San Fran’s Drug Dealers Reportedly Fueling ‘Real Estate Boom’ in Impoverished Honduras

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San Fran’s Drug Dealers Reportedly Fueling ‘Real Estate Boom’ in Impoverished Honduras

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Dealers allegedly running San Francisco’s open-air drug markets are reportedly making enough money to prompt a home-construction upsurge in a central Honduras village cluster when they—or some of their profits—return across the border.

Democrat-run San Francisco’s sanctuary city status for illegal aliens, and its general soft-on-crime approach, seem to be enabling a “real estate boom” in the otherwise impoverished Siria Valley, the San Francisco Chronicle claimed in a very lengthy report that was a culmination of an 18-month investigation.

“The valley is also the hometown of a high concentration of people who, fleeing poverty and a country with one of the world’s highest murder rates, migrate to San Francisco, where they ultimately sell drugs,” the Chronicle revealed.

One dealer explained to the left-leaning news outlet why the northern California city is a popular destination.

“The law, because they don’t deport, that’s the problem…Many look for San Francisco because it’s a sanctuary city. You go to jail and you come out.”

According to the report that was the result, in part, of interviews with 25 current or former drug dealers, Honduran migrants allegedly started “dominating” the out-in-the-open drug sales in crime-infested San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authorities there have charged an estimated 200 Honduran migrants with drug dealing since last year alone.

The purported Bay-Area-to-Honduras cashflow has had a significant impact back home in the Siria Valley. And construction jobs paying $35 a day is an upgrade over the average $8 a day that locals earn in farming or performing menial tasks.

“More extravagant emblems of San Francisco appear unexpectedly and often, alongside crumbling adobe huts, stray roosters and heaps of singed garbage. Handsome new homes, some mansions by local standards, some mansions by any standard, rise behind customized iron gates emblazoned with San Francisco 49ers or Golden State Warriors logos,” the Chronicle asserted.

Some dealers who operate or operated in San Francisco boasted that they can supposedly rake in up to $350,000 a year in illegal drug transactions, including involving deadly fentanyl, while others are just scraping by.

In the previous four years, authorities have only managed to convict a paltry 6% of San Francisco drug-dealing suspects on drug-related crimes.

Most of the cases were plea-bargained down to about one month in jail, dismissed, or sent to a diversion program. Some never show up in court.

“Almost all of the alleged dealers are released on their own recognizance before trial, which means they do not have to post bond but may be required to check in regularly with a case manager.”

Further from the Chronicle: “Under the central tenet of the sanctuary law, the city jail does not allow ICE to place holds on local prisoners so they can be picked up upon release and deported. The only way most dealers face deportation is if they are arrested on federal charges or in another city.”

Even that perhaps may be a waste of time because many of the accused drug dealers apparently just turn around and again cross the border illegally.

“Most Hondurans reaching the cities in the Bay Area or elsewhere in the U.S. find legal work,” the Chronicle noted, however.

Although the news organization does not mention the Biden administration’s disastrous open-borders policy, the expose also seemed to confirm that the degree to which the cartels are very much in charge of the “secure” border region.

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