Hilaria Baldwin Complains of ‘Emotional Time’ for Family Amidst Manslaughter Charges

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Hilaria Baldwin Complains of ‘Emotional Time’ for Family Amidst Manslaughter Charges

(Headline USA) Hilaria Baldwin, wife of actor Alec Baldwin, complained about the “emotional time” her family is undergoing as a result of the impending involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec for his role in the deadly Rust shooting.

“It’s been an emotional time for my family,” Hilaria said on her podcast, “Witches Anonymous,” this week.

She went on to thank her listeners for their “support and your kindness and your reason.”

“Quite honestly, I think without it, we would crumble,” she said. “So thank you so much for being our rock right now, because I don’t feel so strong.”

Specifically, Hilaria said she worries about the effect the public scrutiny will have on her seven children.

“Kids are sponges,” she said. “And while certain conversations are not always age-appropriate, we cannot deny that they don’t feel the energy and pick up on certain things in the family and at home. Also, parenting little people can be stressful regardless of added stress.”

Alec Baldwin was charged Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter for the death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Tuesday. He could face up to five years behind bars if convicted.

“The District Attorney and the special prosecutor are fully focused on securing justice for Halyna Hutchins,” said Heather Brewer, a spokesperson for Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies. “The evidence and the facts speak for themselves.”

Baldwin’s legal team has dismissed the charges as “politically motivated” and said they will challenge them in court.

“This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’ tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice,” Baldwin attorney Luke Nikas said in a statement. “Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win.”

Trump Files $49M Lawsuit Against Bob Woodward

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Trump Files $49M Lawsuit Against Bob Woodward

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump filed a $49 million lawsuit against investigative journalist Bob Woodward this week, accusing the author of inappropriately selling tapes of his interviews.

Trump claimed in the lawsuit that the interviews he agreed to with Woodward were only for the purpose of writing a book or a story. He did not give permission for their public release, the lawsuit states.

He is accusing Woodward, his publisher Simon & Schuster, and parent company Paramount Global of unfairly profiting off of the interviews and engaging in copyright infringement.

“This case centers on Mr. Woodward’s systematic usurpation, manipulation, and exploitation of audio of President Trump gathered in connection with a series of interviews conducted by Mr. Woodward. Said audio was protected material, subject to various limitations on use and distribution,” the lawsuit reads.

The complaint went on to accuse Woodward and Simon & Schuster of intentionally editing the audio files to tarnish Trump’s reputation.

“Far from being a ‘raw’ and unedited recording, it seems that extreme license was taken with the responses provided by President Trump in which he has a copyright interest, and the answers were manipulated to alter President Trump’s language as well as to support the particular narrative desired by Woodward, SSI, and Paramount,” the complaint says.

Trump sat down for at least 19 interviews with Woodward between 2016 and 2020 when Woodward was writing his book, Rage. Last October, Simon & Schuster published the audio of the interviews, called “The Trump Tapes.”

“As he fully understands, writer Bob Woodward never got my permission to release tapes of my various interviews with him. Those tapes were allowed only for purposes of making sure that he got my quotes & statements correct for ‘the WRITTEN WORD,’ in other words, for his, nevertheless, highly inaccurate book. The tapes are much better than the book,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the tapes’ release.

How Rebel News Stole the Spotlight at the World Economic Forum

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How Rebel News Stole the Spotlight at the World Economic Forum

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Of the hundreds of credentialed and independent media members who attended the World Economic Forum in January, none had their coverage seen more than Rebel News—a conservative-leaning site that produced viral videos of its reporters questioning WEF power brokers and influencers such as Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

For Rebel News reporter Callum Smiles, his outlet’s formula for success was straightforward: “Ask the uncomfortable questions the people want answered,” he told Headline USA.

While simple, Smiles’s job was by no means easy. He and six other people from Rebel News worked 16-hour days throughout the week of the WEF, he said.

The Rebel News team’s day would start at the crack of dawn, with the reporters out their door and headed to Davos by around 8 a.m., Smiles said.

Once in Davos, the reporters set up shop at a local market before roaming the streets near the WEF main entrance.

“We couldn’t get into the conference itself, which has what it looks like an East German checkpoint,” Smiles said. “But they’d be walking out from there and it was a chance to catch them. If we just hung around that checkpoint, they had to walk past you.”

Along with reporting, Smiles said one of his main jobs was serving as the Rebel News “spotter,” keeping a keen eye out for the various high-level WEF participants.

“The people with the white lanyards underlined in blue—those were the ‘big cheeses,’” he said.

Having been crowdfunded by Rebel News supporters for the Davos trip, Smiles said he felt the pressure to produce.

“We don’t have billionaire backers. There was a bit of pressure because people were donating to get us out there. We needed to get results,” Smiles said.

Smiles said he would have been happy to make impactful video. Rebel News ended up interacting with dozens of prominent politicians, business executives, media members and other personalities.

Smiles said his personal favorite was questioning Thunberg about her political activism, including her scientific credentials, whether her recent arrest was staged, and if she would be denouncing the WEF participants who traveled to Davos in carbon-belching private jets. Smiles was the reporter who at one point even made Thunberg laugh out loud when he sarcastically asked when climate change would be warming the chilly weather in Davos.

Smiles said he was also proud of his interaction with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who ignored his questions about why he called people who haven’t taken the Covid-19 vaccination “idiots.”

However, Smiles regrets missing the Rebel News scrum with Pfizer boss Bourla. In that exchange, Rebel News founder Ezra Levant and Australia reporter Avi Yemini peppered Bourla with numerous unanswered questions, including about myocarditis, sudden deaths and when he knew that Pfizer’s Covid vaccine doesn’t stop transmission.

“I had gone for my lunch and left them out there, so I missed the big scoop,” he said.

Not to worry, though: Smiles said he plans on attending the next WEF meeting, where he’ll again be posing the tough questions to otherwise largely unaccountable world leaders.

In the meantime, Smiles said he’s focused on covering news in his home country, the United Kingdom. Founded and headquartered in Canada in 2015, Rebel News has since branched out to “tell the other side of the story” with bureaus in the UK, United States, New Zealand and Australia.

“I want to do this until Larry Fink or Tony Blair has me suicided,” Smiles said with a chuckle. “Rebel has become my dream job. There aren’t many jobs that will actually get me out there to ask the uncomfortable questions the people want answered.”

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

REPORT: Hunter Biden Allies Considering Legal Defense Fund for Embattled First Son

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REPORT: Hunter Biden Allies Considering Legal Defense Fund for Embattled First Son

(Headline USA) Allies of Hunter Biden have reportedly discussed setting up a legal defense fund for him amid the federal investigation into his shady foreign business deals and taxes, according to the Washington Post.

Hunter—the only surviving son of President Joe Biden—has had multiple attorneys over the past several years, but he has struggled to pay them all due to dwindling financial resources, the report revealed.

Sources close to the situation estimated that Hunter’s legal debt could reach into the millions of dollars—an amount that is likely to continue going up as the House GOP ramps up its own probes into the Biden family’s finances.

Hunter—who was believed to have re-entered rehab last year for his drug addictions—doesn’t have a steady source of income, despite his having taken up residence in a posh Malibu mansion, and the lucrative business deals he once relied on have dried up under continued public scrutiny.

He’s instead tried to enter into the art industry, working with art dealers to sell paintings for a massive sum, as much as $500,000 a painting in some cases.

But some potential buyers have already reneged on their purchases due to potential blowback from congressional investigators. Just last week, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to a Soho gallery owner asking for information on who has purchased Hunter’s paintings.

Forming a legal-defense fund is one proposed solution for Hunter’s financial troubles, especially since there are few federal regulations regarding defense funds.

Former President Bill Clinton relied on a legal-defense fund during his second term for representation in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, the Whitewater investigation and an impeachment inquiry.

However, it is still not clear who would run Hunter’s legal-defense fund, or what sorts of parameters there would be.

Clinton’s defense fund, for example, capped voluntary donations at $10,000 a year and barred donations from lobbyists, government employees and noncitizens. The Clinton fund also disclosed the names of each of its donors.

Freshman Rep. Dan Goldman Angling to Be the Next Adam Schiff

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Freshman Rep. Dan Goldman Angling to Be the Next Adam Schiff

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., announced last week that he was eyeing a possible move to the Senate after losing his spot on the House Intelligence Committee and receiving at least one serious ethics complaint.

Fortunately for Democrats, freshman Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., is looking to fill the void by becoming the party’s top attack-dog in the House.

Like the twice-failed impeachment manager Schiff, Goldman also has something to prove after having served as the lead majority counsel in the first impeachment attempt against then-President Donald Trump.

According to Axios, Goldman is hoping to become a Democrat incendiary to counter GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado.

But he is gunning in particular for a fellow freshman lawmaker from a district just two over from his own: Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y.

Goldman already filed a complaint against Santos after it was discovered that he falsified his resume. He quickly followed that up with legislation that would require congressional candidates to disclose more information.

“Part of the reason that I have been leading the effort to hold George Santos accountable is that he resembles so many of the fraud defendants that I had in my 10 years as a prosecutor,” Goldman told Axios in an interview in his Capitol office.

Goldman also is taking part in the House Oversight and Homeland Security committees—both of which Greene was recently appointed to, with Boebert joining them on the Oversight committee.

The 46-year-old Goldman has made it clear that he will not refrain from criticism of his Republican colleagues should he deem it “appropriate.”

Schiff, who worked closely with Goldman throughout the impeachment process, offered high praise for the up-and-comer.

“There is nobody you want in the trenches with you more than Dan Goldman,” he explained. “With Republicans set to overreach, and overreach in a major way, Dan has all the skills needed to set the record straight and will be a real asset to our caucus.”

Nation’s 3rd Largest Egg Production Plant Burns Down, Kills 100,000 Hens

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Nation’s 3rd Largest Egg Production Plant Burns Down, Kills 100,000 Hens

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The nation’s third largest egg production plant burned down last week, wasting tremendous amounts of food amid soaring inflation and food shortages.

Elijah Schaffer, and independent journalist and podcaster, posted a video of the burning building on twitter.

The Oklahoma City Sentinel reported on the blaze.

“Last Saturday, a massive fire burned down the egg farm and plant at the Hillandale Farms in Bozrah, Connecticut,” it reported. “The huge blaze likely killed close to 100 chickens and is expected to have an effect on the already high prices of eggs.”

RFD TV reported numbers that were significantly worse. “Officials estimate 100,000 birds died in the fire,” according to RFD TV.

Regardless of the numbers, the Sentinel reported that police have not identified the cause of the fire, but that investigations are underway.

“We have not heard any response from authorities regarding the causes of hundreds of other plant fires over the last year and unfortunately don’t expect this case to be any different,” the paper wrote.

This fire is just one of the recent disasters plaguing the American food supply in the last year.

  • A fire in Pendleton Ore., destroyed a flower mill.
  • Another fire destroyed Shearer’s food processing plant in Hermiston Oregon, according to the East Orgonian.
  • A Taylor Farms Processing Facility in Salinas, Calif., was destroyed by a massive fire, according to ABC 7 News.
  • Another processing plant in Oregon, Azure Standard’s headquarters, was burned to the ground this year.

This rash of fires has led the FBI to warn of cyber-attacks targeting food processing centers.

“Ransomware actors may be more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain,” the FBI alert stated.

The year 2022 saw a 60% increase in the price of eggs, according to Yahoo! With such rising prices, any harvesting of eggs is a “critical … harvesting season,” and thus vulnerable to malicious actors.

“How did one of the largest egg production plants burn down during a national egg shortage?” Schaffer asked.

Santos Steps Down from House Panels Amid Ethics Issues

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Santos Steps Down from House Panels Amid Ethics Issues

(Headline USA) As Democrats moan and groan about horrifically unqualified leftists like Reps. Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell being dropped from key House committees, Republican Rep. George Santos of New York told GOP colleagues Tuesday he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees, a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Santos has faced numerous calls for his resignation and is facing multiple investigations by prosecutors over his personal and campaign finances and lies about his resume and family background.

Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Still, his arrival has left GOP leadership frequently anwering questions about the congressman rather than on their priorities for the coming months.

In a prepared statement, Santos said he wanted to focus on serving his constituents “without distraction.”

“I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees,” Santos said. “To my constituents, I remain committed to serving the district, and delivering results for both New York’s Third Congressional District and for the American people.”

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Olka., said the decision was well-received from the GOP conference, saying “I think it was the appropriate thing to do and I was proud of him for getting up and doing this.”

McCarthy met with Santos on Monday night, but did not disclose their conversation.

“You’ll see,” McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol.

The questions surrounding Santos go beyond his misrepresentations to voters, but also whether his congressional campaign followed the law in its reporting to the Federal Election Commission. There have been lingering questions about irregularities in his campaign committee’s financial reports and the source of Santos’ wealth.

If Santos’ campaign is found to have knowingly and willfully made any “materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation” on its paperwork, it could potentially face criminal charges, the FEC said in a letter to the campaign last week.

Republicans described the decision by Santos to temporarily step down from the two House panels as voluntary. Rep. Roger Williams, the chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, said he was surprised.

“The bottom line is that he’s chosen to be off committees until his situation gets handled at a level that he’s comfortable with,” Williams said.

Democrats have been highly critical of Santos as well as McCarthy for his efforts to oust three Democratic lawmakers from committee assignments while at the same time appointing Santos, who has lied so thoroughly to his constituents about his background.

“The hypocrisy just grabs you by the throat,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who himself has a long and sordid history of peddling blatant disinformation for political and personal gain. “This is a Republican speaker who is seating a human fraud, George Santos, on committees, a serial fabricator about every part of his existence.”

McCarthy blocked Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, from being re-appointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, though they will be able to serve on other committees. He’s also committed to removing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from serving on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, though such a move would come to the full House for a vote, where undoubtedly Democrats would renew questions about the propriety of allowing Santos to sit on committees as their members are being removed.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Dems Secretly Question Kamala’s ‘Basic Political Skills’ in WaPo Hit Piece

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Dems Secretly Question Kamala’s ‘Basic Political Skills’ in WaPo Hit Piece

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a recent hit piece published by the Washington Post, a number of prominent Democrats slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for lacking “basic political skills.”

Harris, who some believe is considering a 2024 Presidential run, has made numerous gaffes during her time in office, and has generally been inactive.

But according to one South Carolina Democrat strategist, Harris simply does not have what it takes to be president in hard times.

“Every fiber in my body wants her to be president; everything I’ve ever fought for is for someone like her to be president,” the anonymous leftist said.

“I think she’s a good person with a good heart who can lead the country. But I don’t know that the people who have to make that happen feel that way right now. I don’t know that she has what it takes to get over the hump in our present environment.”

Other “Democratic leaders in key states” expressed concerns that her lack of performance as VP indicates that she would not be a viable presidential candidate.

Per former Cobb County Democrats Chair Jacquelyn Bettadapur, a Harris supporter, Harris has struggled with basic communication as VP.

“People are poised to pounce on anything — any misstep, any gaffe, anything she says — and so she’s probably not getting the benefit of the doubt,” she said. “It doesn’t help that she’s not [that] adept as a communicator.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., also refused to openly endorse Harris, deferring to the judgment of the president.

“I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on his team,” Warren said, hinting that there may be a growing rift in the White House.
“I’ve known Kamala for a long time. I like Kamala. I knew her back when she was an attorney general and I was still teaching and we worked on the housing crisis together, so we go way back. But they need — they have to be a team, and my sense is they are — I don’t mean that by suggesting I think there are any problems. I think they are.”

Fake-News NYTimes Scrambles to Get in Front of Damning Durham Report

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Fake-News NYTimes Scrambles to Get in Front of Damning Durham Report

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In the past several days the corporate hacks at the fake-news New York Times have been scrambling to pre-set the narrative regarding the Russia-gate hoax investigation, which is presumably about to be undermined by special counsel John Durham’s imminent report.

The NYT’s top three Russia-collusion hoaxers, Charlie Savage, Adam Goldman and Katie Benner began the assault on Durham and former Attorney General William Barr after concluding what they claimed to be a months-long investigation into Durham’s soon to be released special counsel report.

“Mr. Durham’s work is coming to an end without uncovering anything like the deep state plot alleged by Mr. Trump and suspected by Mr. Barr,” the Times declared.

Per the three journalists, the investigation “went unsuccessfully down one path after another,” ultimately concluding unsuccessfully.

In a follow-up op-ed, penned by NYT journalist Michelle Goldberg, the outrageous claims continued.

Per Goldberg, former President Donald Trump, aided by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Durham, and Barr, engaged in the “weaponization, the flagrant use of federal law enforcement powers to target an administration’s political enemies.”

She also noted that what she calls a “squalid episode” is a perfect example of “Republican scandal-mongering,” by which conservatives construct theories of a “putative deep state, monstrous corruption and elaborate conspiracies,” using leftist tactics to fight back.

Goldberg also wrote that she hopes to see that “our political media is up for the task” of covering Durham’s forthcoming report in an appropriate way.

Of course none of the accusations should come as any surprise, given that Durham’s report is expected to expose the lies and fraudulence of DC, particularly the intelligence agencies.

The Federalist published a response, noting that the NYT’s report holds no water for the following reasons:

  1. The media is trying to step in to set the narrative before the evidence is made available.
  2. The NYT moved forward with its report on the assumption that Russia collusion is in fact real, which it is not.
  3. Durham never launched a criminal investigation into Trump, as the NYT claimed.

Think Tank: Fewer Gov’t Regulations Could Help Alleviate Housing Crisis

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Think Tank: Fewer Gov’t Regulations Could Help Alleviate Housing Crisis

(Glenn Minnis, The Center Square) Three out of every four voters agree that housing affordability is a problem, with many saying they would like to see government take more direct action in easing the burden for residents, said a recent poll from the State Policy Network.

Pollsters found that 63% of those surveyed support establishing rent-control rates as the most popular housing-related policy that’s been tested, with pluralities also supporting placing limits on foreign-citizen ownership (43%) and relaxing zoning laws (44%).

The poll had a margin of error of 2%.

While not surprised to see so many impacted by the housing bubble, SPN messaging strategist Erin Norman told the Center Square she doesn’t expect to see any measurable levels of relief coming any time soon.

“We’ve seen the cost of housing skyrocket in recent years and that coupled with inflation is making housing a larger and larger part of household budgets, squeezing Americans,” Norman said. “The polling data we have reflects the pain of the tradeoffs people are having to make because of that.”

Overall, the SPN State Voices opinion poll of roughly 2,000 registered voters—conducted in partnership with Morning Consult through online interviews—-found that, of the 75% of respondents who pointed to the issue as a problem, 41% thought it was a significant one.

Norman lamented that government regulations add to the problem.

“This is the natural result of increasing layers of regulation on buildings,” she said. “The regulations restrict what can be built and drive up the cost to builders of supplying housing.”

Recent immigration trends have seen people fleeing blue states such as California and New York, where the nanny-state demands and cost of living have both become unsustainable for the typical middle-class family.

“I’m actually surprised we aren’t seeing more people leave high-cost metro areas for lower cost ones given the trouble many companies have had filling positions in the last year and the increase we’ve seen and the number of jobs that don’t require you to be in the office,” Norman said. “Prices in those markets are also going up, but it is a way Americans can find some relief.”

To see so many people supporting rent control speaks to the level of desperation many feel in their ongoing struggle to keep a roof over their head, Norman added.

“A big part of it is that people need relief now,” she said.

“Many of the reforms that could ease the cost of housing are long-term solutions that will ultimately result in greater supply,” she added. “It’s hard to favor those types of reforms over immediate subsidies when you aren’t sure how you are going to pay your rent.”

Branding rent-control policies as short-term fixes, Norman said there are more concrete steps officials can take in making housing more affordable for more people.

“Reducing paternalistic regulations will make more types of housing available to more people,” she said.

For example, in urban areas where car ownership is not a necessity, regulations mandating a minimum number of parking spaces may be obsolete, Norman noted.

“Other areas have effectively made dense housing illegal with minimum lot and square-footage requirements, pricing people who might be happy with a home of 500 or 600 square feet completely out of the market,” she continued. “A lot of building codes are designed to encourage single-family homes, which is a housing model that doesn’t necessarily work for everyone.”

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