Megyn Kelly Exposes Fox Exec. Behind Tucker Carlson’s Leaks

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Megyn Kelly Exposes Fox Exec. Behind Tucker Carlson’s Leaks

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) SiriusXM podcast host Megyn Kelly is accusing Fox News of plotting a smear campaign against former host Tucker Carlson by leaking unreleased footage to leftist news watchdog Media Matters. 

Kelly, a former Fox host herself, explicitly name-dropped a Fox News public relations executive as the mastermind of the footage leaks against Carlson. 

“This ‘drip drip drip of kill him’ is backfiring,” Kelly said on Thursday episode of her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show. “Everything they’ve released. And I’m sure it’s them. It’s my opinion. I don’t have proof but I’m sure in my head that it’s Irena Briganti who’s pouring through Tucker’s on-camera but off-air mode moments to try to find anything to make him look bad.”

Briganti, who Kelly previously called “as vicious as they come,” serves as the chief of public relations at Fox News.

“One of the reasons I suspect Irena Briganti is a) I think she’s a very terrible person,” Kelly continued, adding that the Fox News executive attempted to tape an exclusive 2019 interview she gave Carlson, who was abruptly dismissed by the network on April 24. In the interview, Kelly opened up about working for NBC News.

“[Irena Briganti] taped me,” a fired-up Kelly said. “Tucker’s team had protocols in place. They were in DC at that time. She’s up in New York. They had protocols in place to protect their on-air feed which would go up to New York from being bastardized or taped or you know so that nobody could use anything against Tucker or anybody else in those days.” 

Fox News’ attorneys issued a cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters for releasing the off-air clips of Carlson’s former show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. 

“We write on behalf of Fox Corporation to clarify any misunderstandings Media Matters may have had regarding previously unaired footage that Media Matters has published in a series of articles headlined “FOXLEAKS,” the attorneys wrote on Friday. 

“That unaired footage is Fox’s confidential intellectual property; Fox did not consent to its distribution or publication; and Fox does not consent to its further distribution or publication,” the letter continued. 

Fox has previously denied having any involvement in the leaking of Carlson’s tapes. “This is completely false and an outright lie,” Fox News spokesman claimed on Wednesday. 

Sec. of State Says 2020 Election Was Stolen After Reviewing Evidence

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Sec. of State Says 2020 Election Was Stolen After Reviewing Evidence

(Headline USA) Mac Warner, the secretary of state of West Virginia, announced that he has come to the conclusion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen after two years of reviewing investigations and evidence.

Warner, who runs elections in West Virginia, toed the line for more than two years before going on a talk show this week to say he can “now firmly say” he believes the election was stolen.

“That election was thrown, it was stolen, and we should not rest easy,” he said on Talk Radio WRNR in the state’s Eastern Panhandle.

Some Republicans have regularly pointed out that the 2020 presidential race was stolen.

President Donald Trump himself has made and reinforced those observations.

Trump has also embraced broader claims that tech companies, the media and federal intelligence officials colluded to cover up incriminating information found on the laptop of Biden’s son Hunter.

In an interview last week, Warner called the actions “treasonous” and said they need to be examined more deeply before the next election.

Before this week Warner had not said that he believed the election was stolen publicly.

This week, however, he said that view has crystallized in his mind as new information has come out.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Report: DeSantis to Skip Exploratory Committee and Announce Campaign

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Report: DeSantis to Skip Exploratory Committee and Announce Campaign

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Ron DeSantis is likely to skip forming an exploratory committee and directly announce his candidacy for President of The United States in June.

Exploratory committees are half measures that allow potential candidates to behave like a candidate (give speeches about their plans for the office, raise funds, attack opponents, and other such things) without requiring them to be a candidate, as explained by FiveThirtyEight.

DeSantis intends to skip this unnecessary and indirect phase of a campaign and directly announce his bid for office, according to ABC News.

The move has been labeled as aggressive and comes immediately after many significant victories in Florida, such as:

Anonymous sources told ABC News that Governor DeSantis is considering skipping the exploratory committee because he is anxious to make his argument to the American people.

DeSantis seems well prepared to make such an argument, as he has already broken fundraising records before announcing either his candidacy or an exploratory committee.

The sources also told ABC News that DeSantis is already engaging in debate preparation. Because President Trump declared he might skip the debates, DeSantis is preparing for debates against Trump and without Trump.

Despite Trump’s announcement, the sources said they expected Trump and DeSantis to face off on the debate stage.

The sources say the important part of the debate will be introducing DeSantis to the country as a national candidate, not him sparring with the former president.

Hot Air’s contributing editor, John Sexton, noted that the latter half of the ABC article was focused on a former opponent of DeSantis who was attacking him for having a hot temper and not being an agile debate opponent.

“It makes me wonder who is doing the leaking here,” he said.

Nurse and Landlord Arrested for Sexual Deviancy

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Nurse and Landlord Arrested for Sexual Deviancy

(Headline USA) More than 70 tips have poured in after an Iowa nurse practitioner who is accused of photographing a teen’s genitals during an exam was arrested on sex crime charges, police say.

Several districts and one university also have issued alerts that Carl Markley, 44, performed school physicals for their students, although none of the charges against him allege that crimes occurred during those exams.

Markley, who is free on bond, is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, pimping, prostitution and human trafficking. The charges were filed in two batches, and police in Ames arrested him the second time Monday.

His attorney, Nicholas Arthur Sarcone, didn’t immediately respond Saturday to a phone message and email from The Associated Press seeking comment.

According to the affidavit, several electronic devices, a hidden camera clock and pen were seized from Markley’s residence. During examination of the seized devices, detectives located a commercial pornographic video depicting doctor models conducting sex acts with patient models in a clinical setting.

Detectives also located multiple thumbnail images, including one of a teen boy with his genitals exposed, taken covertly in Markley’s clinic, the affidavit says

The minor later said that he was 15 to 16 years old at the time and had been told by Markley that he needed the physical examination to work at Markley’s business, according to the affidavit. It says Markley touched the minor male’s genitals during the appointment with the intent of the act being recorded so it could be viewed later “for purposes of arousal or sexual gratification.”

Markley’s search history also showed searches on “tween porn sites.”

Another criminal complaint alleges that Markley paid for sex at a local motel and at an apartment complex he owns.

WHO-TV reports that police believe the allegations against Markley date back to 2008. They now have a special unit dedicated to investigating Markley.

Ames and Gilbert public school districts both contracted Markley to provide pre-activity physical examinations. Both school districts are now urging potential victims within the schools to come forward.

Grand View University President Rachelle Keck said in an email Friday that Markley also performed physicals there.

“This is the first we have heard of these allegations and wanted to share what we know so far,” the statement said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

‘Reparation Task Force’ to Announce Recommended Policies

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‘Reparation Task Force’ to Announce Recommended Policies

(Headline USA) California‘s reparations task force is set to wrap up its ‘work’ Saturday, voting on policy recommendations it will give to the state.

Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former Democratic assemblywoman, authored legislation in 2020 creating the task force.

The goal was to study proposals for how California can offer recompense for harms perpetuated against descendants of enslaved people, according to the bill.

The nine-member committee, which first convened nearly two years ago, is expected to give final approval at a meeting in Oakland to a hefty list of ambitious proposals that will then be in the hands of state lawmakers.

The recommendations range from the creation of a new agency to provide services to descendants of enslaved people to tailored calculations of what the state owes residents for decades of harms such as overpolicing and housing discrimination.

Sober minded people, with an eye on the budget, suggest that these proposals are dead on arrival.

“There’s no way in the world that many of these recommendations are going to get through because of the inflationary impact,” said Roy L. Brooks, a professor and reparations scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Documents outlining recommendations to the task force by economists previously showed the state could owe upwards of $800 billion, or more than 2.5 times its annual budget.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Planned Parenthood to Spend Millions to Fight DeSantis’s Abortion Ban

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Planned Parenthood to Spend Millions to Fight DeSantis’s Abortion Ban

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Planned Parenthood plans on launching a ballot measure initiative to roll back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ newly-signed six-week abortion ban and continue murdering babies.

On Apr. 16, DeSantis signed a bill to protect the lives of the unborn after six weeks of gestation, according to the Daily Caller. The only exceptions when a woman is allowed to have an abortion are in cases of rape, incest, human trafficking, or when the mother’s life is in danger.

PP — the major institution in the United States that is responsible for murdering babies in the womb — didn’t like it and decided to curb the governor’s efforts to save innocent lives by attempting to create a ballot initiative that allows abortions until the so-called “fetal viability.”

“Floridians know what is best for their own bodies and their own lives,” Sarah Standiford, the group’s national campaigns director, said. “People are ready to vote for reproductive freedom and to take back power from lawmakers who have literally gone against the will of the people.”

PP is ready to spend millions to pass the initiative that will allow them to murder babies. The abortion organization seeks to gather 890,000 signatures by February 2024 to get the measure on the ballot next year. The measure intends on returning the ability to decide whether to murder a baby or not to the mother’s healthcare provider by determining when the fetus is viable.

However, PP is not doing it all by itself. The baby-murdering organization is also teaming up with other leftist organizations, like Florida’s American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] and Florida Rising, which advocates for sexual deviants, a so-called “right” to murder a baby in the womb, criminal justice reform and other issues that leftoids care about.

“We know that Floridians overwhelmingly support safe, legal and accessible abortion care. They don’t believe that politicians or lawmakers should make decisions — especially personal decisions — about their health care or their body,” Moné Holder of Florida Rising said.

‘Kiss’ Singer Caves to ‘Trans’ Mob, Takes Back Anti-Mutilation Statement

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‘Kiss’ Singer Caves to ‘Trans’ Mob, Takes Back Anti-Mutilation Statement

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Kiss frontman Paul Stanley caved to the “trans” mob by retracting his previous statement on Twitter, in which he criticized the mutilation of children.

Stanley published another tweet after the backlash where he wrote that his words “clearly were not” clear and that he supports the sexual deviants who are not able to understand whether they are male or female.

On Apr. 30, Stanley posted his original tweet where he criticized leftist parents who push their children into the so-called “gender transition surgeries” too easily and attempt to normalize the butchering of innocent human beings, according to the Blaze.

“There is a big difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children,” he wrote.

However, on May 4, the rock star changed his tune by publishing another tweet, in which he caved to the leftists.

“While my thoughts were clear, my words clearly were not. Most importantly and above all else, I support those struggling with their sexual identity while enduring constant hostility and those whose path leads them to reassignment surgery,” he wrote.

“It’s hard to fathom the kind of conviction that one must feel to take those steps. A paragraph or two will remain far too short to fully convey my thoughts or point of view so I will leave that for another time and place.”

Conservatives didn’t wait to point out the cowardice of Stanley.

“This is why I didn’t rush to praise this guy for his original statement like many conservatives did. I saw the cave coming from a mile away,” the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote.

“To hell with cowards who can’t stand firmly by the truth. This dude is 70 years old and rich. What does he have to lose exactly? Pathetic.”

Singer Five Times August agreed with Walsh.

“Let’s see action. How far will they go with this statement? Probably no further. More likely they will backtrack and apologize in a few days,” he wrote.

Ukraine Delegate Punches Russian for Snatching Flag

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Ukraine Delegate Punches Russian for Snatching Flag

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A Ukrainian delegate attacked a Russian delegate’s secretary after the latter snatched away the Ukrainian flag.

According to CBS News, the fistfight erupted in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday in the corridors of talks on Black Sea cooperation. Oleksandr Marikovski, the Ukrainian delegate, posted a video of what happened on his Facebook page

“Paws off our flag, paws off Ukraine, you bastard!” Marikovski wrote in the post after the confrontation.

The incident happened in the lobby when the Russian delegate’s secretary, Valery Stavitskiy, decided that it will be a good idea to snatch away the Ukrainian flag in front of Ukrainians. After Stavitskiy took the flag, Marikovski grabbed it back, while punching and slapping the Russian in the process.

After the incident, the consul and a doctor came to the hotel to attend a Russian flag snatcher, according to Russia’s news agency TASS.

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya also authenticated the video when he spoke to CBS News on Friday, asking if Americans or people of any nation would be okay with someone taking down their flag.

Russia’s U.N. first Deputy Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy confirmed the video as well. In his interview, he said that “it was an apex of the whole day” of the so-called Ukrainian provocations during the meeting, even though it is a Russian who snatched away the flag of another country.

Earlier, members of Ukraine’s parliament hung a Ukraine flag at their table before Turkey’s parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop nixed it and later used the same gaslighting tactic that Russians used by condemning some of the Ukrainian delegates’ “provocative and physically offensive actions.”

Both the Ukrainian and Russian U.N. Ambassadors stated that the meeting where the beating took place was not at the talks in Istanbul, Turkey, that took place on Friday. During the talks, the U.N., Turkey, Ukraine and Russia were meeting to try to salvage the grain deal that is up for renewal on May 18.

‘Racist’: Dem. Lawmaker Ripped over White Taxes to Pay Reparations

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‘Racist’: Dem. Lawmaker Ripped over White Taxes to Pay Reparations

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Denver lawmaker is under fire after proposing a tax on white-owned businesses that would effectively ransack their sales to black-owned companies—all in the name of reparations. 

Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca, a member of the Democratic Socialist of America, touted the race-based taxes at a forum before the non-profit Great Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance.  

“Capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labors and stolen resources,” CdeBaca claimed. “A check today could not undue to the cumulative impact of generations of that stolen wealth in all of those categories.” 

CdeBaca faces a June 6 run-off election against challenger Darrel Watson, who also endorsed reparations to black Americans. CdeBaca, however, was endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.,’s leftist Working Families Party. 

The self-proclaimed democratic socialist called out Business Improvement Districts, which are self-taxing districts primarily focused to improve the wealth of certain communities. Instead, she called for taxes for white Americans. 

“Instead of a BID collecting extra taxation, from the black and brown businesses that are struggling, you could be collecting those extra taxes from white-led businesses all over the city and redistributing them to black and brown-owned businesses who are not part of it,” CdeBaca continued. 

The race-based system was first flagged by the Libs of TikTok account, which blasted the radical proposal, gaining over 2.9 million views as of May 5.  

“Denver City Council member Candi CdeBaca, who is running for re-election, says white owned businesses should be taxed extra and redistributed to black owned businesses,” the famed Twitter account of Libs of TikTok wrote. 

The race-based taxation proposal made conservatives erupt in fired-up responses. “This is evil. This is wrong. This is racist,” conservative host Charlie Kirk said via Twitter. 

Conservative commentator Robby Starbuck took to Twitter and condemned the Marxist-inspired proposal. 

“Communists are so predictable,” said Starbuck, who was quickly blocked by the leftist councilwoman.

AOC Protégé Juan Ardilla Scorched over Sexual Assault Claims

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AOC Protégé Juan Ardilla Scorched over Sexual Assault Claims

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Yet another Democrat politician from New York is under fire amid alleged sexual assault. 

Queens’ Assemblyman Juan Ardila, an AOC-endorsed Democrat, was slammed by a round of fired-up constituents on a Thursday virtual meeting to discuss leftist policy proposals and the state’s new budget, which included an overhaul of woke criminal justices they themselves passed in 2019.

“I want to make sure that I make it clear that you have to address what the women are calling [for] and you cannot ignore the calls for resignation from the victims and then not say anything,” Councilwoman Julie Won told Ardila. “You have to explain why you’re refusing to resign.”

Ardila, a first-time member of the New York State Assembly and life-long resident of Queens, received the endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. through her Courage of Change PAC ahead of his 2021 candidacy.

The leftist lawmaker received his own feature on the AOC-led PAC’s website, which lists candidates “who have taken the Courage to Change pledge.” The PAC’s site defines the pledge as “a tool to help New York City voters elect a strong progressive city council in our new ranked-choice system.” An archive of Padila’s now-defunct campaign website highlighted the endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez.

According to a March expose published by The Queens Chronicle, the first-term Democrat is being accused of inappropriately touching a woman while she was heavily intoxicated and of indecent exposure to a second woman in a bathroom the same night in October 2015.

The embattled lawmaker admitted to misconduct and demanded a second chance.

“I fully take responsibility for my actions and I am committed to a process of accountability,” Ardila said in a statement released in March. “I want the public to know that I am deeply apologetic for my past behavior and acknowledge that my actions have caused great harm.”

Ardila tapped prominent attorney Stuart Slotnick to represent him amid the allegations and is being accused by Won of using attorneys to silence the alleged victims.

“What you are doing to these women is not OK — for you to intimidate them, harass them and silence them via your lawyer,” she said. “This is not OK.”

Following the accusations, several lawmakers called for Ardila’s resignation. Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., is among those politicians demanding Ardila to step down. Hochul is unfamiliar with sexual misconduct scandals after she became governor amid the resignation of embattled ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Ocasio-Cortez, a self-proclaimed democratic-socialist, has not commented on Ardila’s sexual assault claims, focusing instead on demanding the resignation of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over dubious leftist media attacks.

Editor’s Note (5/14/23): Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has since called for the resignation of Assemblyman Juan Ardila over sex assault allegations.

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