Senate Report Undermines Biden’s Go-To ‘No Evidence’ Claim on Burisma Corruption

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Senate Report Undermines Biden’s Go-To ‘No Evidence’ Claim on Burisma Corruption

Update: An earlier version of this story suggested, incorrectly, that the above clip was from Wednesday. The clip was from an October 2019 press conference, which is why Biden is shown before a live audience without a mask.

Biden spent Wednesday in Charlotte, NC, at the Black Economic Summit, where he pledged to commit millions of dollars to “systemic racism.”

He is not believed to have taken any questions from media regarding the Senate report that was released Wednesday implicating his family in widespread corruption involving foreign nationals and asserting—based on subpoenaed documents, testimony and other evidence—that the Obama administration was complicit in Ukrainian corruption.

Original story (edited for clarification) below:

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden has long hidden behind a complicit media and corrupt Ukrainian prosecutors in claiming there was “no evidence” linking him and his family to scandalous misconduct over their unethical business dealings.

But a long-awaited report released this week by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee painted a damning picture of conflicts of interest that surrounded his son Hunter‘s role on the board of Burisma, potentially undermining US–Ukraine policy and promoting Russian disinformation.

During the buildup to highly partisan impeachment hearings last year, Biden did little to help his case last year by becoming irrationally angry over a question and falling back on the now-obsolete standby line that there was no proof.

“It’s not a conflict of interest!” the agitated former vice president told reporters. “There’s been no indication of any conflict of interest, from Ukraine or anywhere else. Period!”

He then refused to speak any further on the matter.

“I’m not gonna—I’m not gonna respond to that,” Biden chided reporters.

“Let’s focus on the problem! Focus on this man!” he continued. “What he’s doing, that no president has ever done! No president!”

Among the shocking revelations from the report—which committee chair Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., spearheaded alongside Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa—was evidence that the Obama administration was fully aware of the concerns about Hunter’s role on the corrupt energy company’s board.

The Obama administration dismissed complaints from State Department emissaries such as George Kent, who said Hunter’s name came up repeatedly during an investigation into Burisma and its subsequent bribing of the lead prosecutor to drop the investigation.

Joe Biden later stepped in to force the firing of a new prosecutor–general who had resumed the Burisma corruption probe.

The Senate report also outlined the considerable payoffs that Hunter and other members of the Biden family, as well as business associates received from foreign entities including China.

And it noted that Hunter was frequently found in the company of foreign women presumed to be prostitutes.

Some of the issues uncovered could potentially be criminal in nature, the report indicated.

But Democrats have not only circled the wagon to conceal the evidence from coming out—they even attempted to turn President Donald Trump’s efforts to expose it against him, waging an impeachment campaign that distracted the nation and allowed the deadly coronavirus pandemic to take hold.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, doubled down on the Left’s denials Wednesday, claiming that the GOP-backed report “reads as if Putin wrote it.”

“While the rest of the country was busy fighting COVID, Senate Republicans have been abusing the power of the Senate to conduct opposition research for President Trump’s campaign,” he claimed.

“… Despite their zeal to smear Vice President Biden and his family, Senate Republicans found no evidence, no evidence to support the conspiracy theories pushed by Putin’s intelligence agents,” Schumer continued.

“Senators Grassley and Johnson should reimburse taxpayers for the money they wasted, and this entire disgraceful affair and the Johnson report should be relegated to the dustbin of history.”

One Officer Indicted in Breonna Taylor Case; Not for Her Death

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One Officer Indicted in Breonna Taylor Case; Not for Her Death

(Headline USA) A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted a single former police officer for shooting into neighboring apartments but did not move forward with charges against any officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death.

The jury announced that fired Officer Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment in connection to the police raid of Taylor’s home on the night of March 13.

Immediately after the announcement, people were expressing frustration that the grand jury did not do more.

“Justice has NOT been served,” tweeted radical leftist Linda Sarsour of Until Freedom, a group that has pushed for charges in the case. “Rise UP. All across this country. Everywhere. Rise up for #BreonnaTaylor.”

Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Taylor’s family, tweeted that the charges involved “NOTHING for the murder of Breonna Taylor. This is outrageous and offensive!”

At a news conference, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Hankison and the two other officers who entered Taylor’s apartment announced themselves before entering the apartment and did not use a no-knock warrant.

“According to Kentucky law, the use of force by (Officers Jonathan Mattingly and (Myles) Cosgrove was justified to protect themselves. This justification bars us from pursuing criminal charges in Miss Breonna Taylor’s death.”

Regarding the inevitable disappointment by those who wanted criminal charges brought in Taylor’s death, he remarked, “The decision before my office as the special prosecutor in this case was not to decide if the loss of Ms. Taylor’s life was a tragedy. The answer to that is unequivocally yes.”

Cameron added that, “I understand that Breonna Taylor’s death is part of a national story, but the facts and evidence in this case are different than others” involving police shootings.

“If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice,” Cameron said. “Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice. It just becomes revenge.”

He added that the FBI is still investigating potential violations of federal law in the case.

A Republican, Cameron is the state’s first black state attorney general and a protege of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who has been tagged by some as his heir apparent. His was also one of 20 names on President Donald Trump’s list to fill a future Supreme Court vacancy.

Taylor, an emergency medical worker, was shot multiple times by officers who entered her home using warrant during a narcotics investigation. The warrant used to search her home was connected to a suspect who did not live there, and no drugs were found inside.

Cameron’s office had been receiving materials from the Louisville Police Department’s public integrity unit while they tried to determine whether state charges would be brought against the three officers involved, he said.

Before charges were brought, Hankison was fired from the city’s police department on June 23. A termination letter sent to him by interim Louisville Police Chief Robert Schroeder said the officer had violated procedures by showing “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he “wantonly and blindly” shot 10 rounds of gunfire into Taylor’s apartment in March.

Hankison, Sgt. Johnathan Mattingly, Officer Myles Cosgrove and the detective who sought the warrant, Joshua Jaynes, were placed on administrative reassignment after the shooting.

Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, opened fire when police burst in, hitting Mattingly. Walker was charged with attempted murder of a police officer, but prosecutors later dropped the charge.

Walker told police he heard knocking but didn’t know who was coming into the home and fired in self-defense.

On Sept. 15, the city settled a lawsuit against the three officers brought by Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, agreeing to pay her $12 million and enact police reforms.

Protesters in Louisville and across the country have demanded justice for Taylor and other black people killed in confrontations with police in recent months. The release in late May of a 911 call by Taylor’s boyfriend marked the beginning of days of protests in Louisville, fueled by her shooting and the violent death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.

Several prominent African American celebrities including Oprah and Beyoncé have joined those urging that the officers be charged.

Adapted from reporting by Associated Press.

CNN’s Don Lemon Tries to Walk Back Call to ‘Blow Up the Entire System’

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CNN’s Don Lemon Tries to Walk Back Call to ‘Blow Up the Entire System’

CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday tried to walk back his call to “blow up the entire system” if President Donald Trump successfully appoints another Supreme Court justice.

After facing considerable backlash, the controversy-courting anchor claimed that his remarks were “taken out of context” during a show hand-off to fellow anchor Chris Cuomo.

“I woke up and I saw all of these headlines—‘Don Lemon is calling for the abolishing of the Electoral College!’—but I was responding to you when you said we need people with integrity,” Lemon told Cuomo.

“I was responding to you when you said we want people with integrity in office, and I said, ‘Well, then we’ve got to blow up the whole system, right?’ And I said here’s what Democrats can do and that’s the danger: they can stack the court.”

But during his segment earlier this week, Lemon did not once specify that he was referring to Democrats’ options. Instead, he said quite clearly: “We’re going to have to blow up the entire system,” to which Cuomo responded, “I don’t know about that.”

Even after being corrected by Cuomo, Lemon continued to argue that Democrats could block Republicans from gaining power ever again.

“You’re going to have to get rid of the Electoral College,” he said. “Because the minority in this country get to decide who our judges are and who our president is. Is that fair?”

Lemon later claimed that he was never “calling for the abolishing of the Electoral College.”

Instead, he meant that “the American people,” not just Democrats, could decide to change the electoral system if they wanted to.

He then added that perhaps the Electoral College should be destroyed after all, because “it disenfranchises voters, both Democrats and Republicans.”

“Should it be abolished? It’s not for me to say,” Lemon continued. “I’m saying this is what Democrats are saying: stack the courts, get rid of the Electoral College. But there is no nuance and no context anymore, so who cares.”

Despite Lemon’s false claim, the reality is, in fact, that abolishing the Electoral College would result in voters across the nation—regardless of their own state’s voting laws and safeguards of voting integrity—being subject to the notoriously fraud-plagued systems of populous blue states like California and New York.

Those states, in turn, could continue to increase their pull on the national outcome by unilaterally refusing to abide by voting restrictions that bar non-citizens and other ineligible individuals from voting.

Already, San Francisco has allowed non-citizens to vote in local elections and is considering lowering the voting age to 16.

Other states have laws varying on the eligibility of incarcerated felons, as well as different law dictating how voting is administered.

GOP Sens. Seek to Ban Biological Males from Competing in Women’s Sports

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GOP Sens. Seek to Ban Biological Males from Competing in Women’s Sports

A group of Republican senators introduced a bill this week to prevent biological men who might identify as transgender women from competing in women’s sports.

Sens. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga.; Mike Lee, R-Utah; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; and James Lankford, R-Okla., rolled out the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act on Tuesday to make sure that women have equal access to athletic opportunities.

Under the bill, any school that allows biological males to participate in women’s athletics would have its Title IX funding stripped.

“Title IX established a fair and equal chance for women and girls to compete, and sports should be no exception,” Loeffler, who owns part of a Women’s National Basketball Association team, said in a statement.

“As someone who learned invaluable life lessons and built confidence playing sports throughout my life, I’m proud to lead this legislation to ensure girls of all ages can enjoy those same opportunities,” she continued. “This commonsense bill protects women and girls by safeguarding fairness and leveling the athletic field that Title IX guarantees.”

The senators cited a recent lawsuit filed in Connecticut by three young female athletes, who alleged that they were barred from competing in their own events because the biological males who had been allowed to compete alongside them swept several track and field events.

Two transgender students at the girls’ school took “more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher-level competitions from female track athletes” from 2017 to 2019, according to the lawsuit.

“Men and women are biologically different,” Lee said.

“That’s just a scientific fact,” he continued. “For the safety of female athletes and for the integrity of women’s sports, we must honor those differences on a fair field of competition.”

Blackburn pointed out that Title IX is worthless if it cannot protect women from discrimination on their own sports teams.

“Maintaining the integrity of healthy competition is crucial for the future of women and girls in sports,” she said. “Schools and universities that allow males to participate in women’s sports defeats the purpose of Title IX.”

ICE: Ilhan Omar Tried to Halt Deportations of Convicted Murderer, Rapist

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ICE: Ilhan Omar Tried to Halt Deportations of Convicted Murderer, Rapist

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., tried to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from deporting a number of violent illegal immigrants back to Somalia, even though some of the immigrants had previous convictions for rape, murder and crimes against children.

“This week, ICE removed 39 Somalia nationals, 36 of whom have criminal histories,” acting ICE director Tony Pham wrote in a letter addressed to Omar.

“These crimes include murder, rape, domestic violence, assault, sexual assault, crimes against children, drug trafficking, and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization,” he continued.

Omar wrote a letter to ICE earlier this month calling for a halt to the deportations, citing the coronavirus pandemic as a “risk” to the safety of the illegal immigrants.

She called ICE’s actions “cruel” and accused the agency of “exporting the virus to other countries.”

In a response to Omar, Pham shared a list of case backgrounds that he said “should give you reason to applaud the good work ICE has done to protect the American people, including the people of the state of Minnesota.”

Among those being deported was a Somali national who had been convicted for second degree murder, and another with multiple convictions for rape, and indecent liberties and communication with a minor for immoral purposes, ICE said.

San Francisco ‘Resistance Studies’ Professor to Host Palestinian Airplane Hijacker

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San Francisco ‘Resistance Studies’ Professor to Host Palestinian Airplane Hijacker

San Francisco State University professors will host a discussion with Leila Khaled, a Palestinian flight-jacker with Marxist political objectives, on Sept. 23 as part of a lecture series called “Teaching Palestine,” Forward reported.

Khaled hijacked TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and EI AI Flight 219 in 1970. British police arrested her after the second hijacking, but the government released her in a hostage exchange.

She belongs to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist–Leninist terrorist organization committed to a Palestinian state and the destruction of the Israeli state.

Khaled’s talk is titled, “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, and Resistance.”

Rabab Abdulhadi, associate professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies, will host the event along with Women’s Studies Prof. Tomomi Kinukawa.

Abdulhadi co-founded the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which the United States defines as anti-Semitic.

Abdulhadi praised Khaled, saying that she feels “honored” to host a terrorist whose “steadfastness, resilience, and resistance, has and continues to be a huge inspiration to me and to generations of Palestinian women.”

Khaled broke one inspiring glass ceiling: She was the first woman to hijack an airplane.

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., wrote a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to inform her about the terrorist’s appearance at a taxpayer-funded university.

Lamborn said Khaled will be able to appear at the discussion only because its of online format, since she the federal government would have denied her a travel visa, as the governments of both Italy and the United Kingdom have in the past.

Even so, it may be against federal law for SFSU to host Khaled on Zoom since the university is “aiding the dissemination of terrorist propaganda and materially supporting terrorism.”

Lamborn asked Devos and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to withhold federal funds from SFSU if the university has violated federal law.

Did ‘Defund the Police’ Advocate Alyssa Milano Calls Cops on Teen w/ Air Gun?

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Did ‘Defund the Police’ Advocate Alyssa Milano Calls Cops on Teen w/ Air Gun?

Actress and leftist activist Alyssa Milano, who is an open proponent of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement, was mocked after she reportedly called the police on Sunday thinking a gunman was on her property.

Seven Ventura County Sheriff’s vehicles arrived to investigate, according to the Daily Mail, and a helicopter and K-9 unit were also called to the scene.

“We first noticed the helicopter circling overhead very low and knew something was going on; it’s usually such a quiet community,” said a resident of the neighborhood where Milano lives with her husband and two children.

“Then, we saw all the police cars parked in front of Alyssa’s home,” she continued. “They had their guns at the ready and seemed very serious.”

Police were told that the suspect was “male, 40 years old, with a long rifle.” But the shooter was actually just a 12 year old boy shooting at a squirrel with an air gun.

The teenager turned himself in after police searched for the alleged gunman for nearly three hours, according to a neighbor.

Milano had no problem running to the police for help despite the fact that she has been an ardent supporter of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement since earlier this summer.

In August, she called on her followers to support the People’s Budget L.A., which would strip law enforcement of all but 1.64% of the city’s general funds.

Milano’s former television co-star-turned-rival Rose McGowan, who also has been an outspoken MeToo advocate, was among those who lampooned the purported hypocrisy.

But Ventura police later suggested Milano may not have been the original caller, Yahoo News reported.

“The initial call came from someone else in the neighborhood who had spotted the man with the rifle in the open space,” the office’s Sgt. Marta Bugarin said in a statement.

“Once deputies arrived and began searching the area, our dispatchers received calls from multiple people on multiple streets who provided information about the man with the rifle.”

NY Dems Consider Soaking the Rich to Make Up For Lost COVID Revenue

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NY Dems Consider Soaking the Rich to Make Up For Lost COVID Revenue

New York lawmakers are considering raising the taxes for wealthy residents in order to make up for the revenue the state lost during the coronavirus shutdown.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued that the state should demand additional federal funding before it considers raising taxes, but several state Democrats are pushing for the legislature to follow New Jersey’s example and raise taxes on millionaires.

Such a move could push wealthy New Yorkers—already fleeing due to the excessive cost of living, coronavirus mismanagement and anarchist riots—out of the state at a faster rate, Cuomo warned.

“Before you talk about tax increases in New York City or New York state, let’s first focus on the better options,” Cuomo said during a press conference earlier this month.

The governor previously acknowledged that he had begged some of his 1-percenter friends to return to New York City, even offering to cook for them if they did.

He has repeatedly sought to pin blame for the exodus on the city’s most famous refugee, President Donald Trump, who relocated his permanent residence to Florida in early 2019.

New York’s revenue is set to be $14.5 billion less than it needs to be due to the economic shutdown.

Cuomo has demanded that the federal government help close that gap by providing additional funding, but Congress has been unable to decide whether to give more aid to the states.

A recent analysis by the Justice Department named New York City one of three urban regions—alongside Portland and Seattle—that was providing safe harbor for anarchist rioters in defiance of federal law.

Pro-tax progressives in the state said in a June statement that New York can no longer rely on the federal government.

“We must fight to maximize federal aid to fill New York’s gaping budget gap, but we must also be prepared to raise needed revenue from those who can afford to contribute to our recovery,” wrote the group of more than 100 state lawmakers and labor-union leaders.

“To get through this crisis, we are going to need both massive federal aid and a significant contribution from New York’s most well-heeled residents,” said the statement.

A few of the proposals New York Democrats are considering include raising the top marginal tax rates for millionaires, taxing billionaires’ unrealized capital gains, and/or doing away with rebates for payments of the state’s stock transfer tax.

In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy agreed to raise the tax rate on income between $1 million and $5 million from 8.97% to 10.75%.

New York could adopt a similar tax hike and residents would hardly notice,said New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica, a Cuomo appointee.

“The overwhelming majority of billionaires and millionaires in this state live or work in New York City,” Muijca said.

“The combined state and city income tax rate is already 12.6 percent—which is higher than New Jersey’s new top rate or a proposed 12 percent ‘billionaire/millionaire tax rate,’” he said.

NC Dem Officials Enable Ballot Harvesting after Blaming GOP for Doing It in 2018

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NC Dem Officials Enable Ballot Harvesting after Blaming GOP for Doing It in 2018

Democrats in North Carolina—where a recent, high-profile case debunked false media claims that ballot fraud does not exist—have now confirmed the party’s bad-faith intentions for stealing swing states in the November election by using mail-in voting.

A settlement agreement from the North Carolina Board of Elections threatened to bypass the state legislature to loosen absentee-voting laws in November—less than two years since an extensive investigation by the board revealed evidence of systemic vote fraud that exploited the absentee-ballot system.

“If approved, this action shatters confidence in the Board of Elections’ intent to fairly conduct this election,” said Republican state Sen. Phil Berger, the president pro tempore of the General Assembly, in a statement.

“We knew they would play around on the margins to give Democrats an edge, but this is a full-frontal assault on election integrity laws passed after widespread absentee ballot fraud undid the results of the 2018 Congressional election.”

In 2018, the Democrat-led NCSBE sought to reverse the results of a congressional election in the state’s 7th district, citing the open secret of longstanding ballot-harvesting operations in several counties.

Using the “taint” of ballot-harvesting to upend the narrow victory of Republican candidate Mark Harris, the investigation ultimately took so great a toll on Harris’s health and family life that he withdrew, forcing a special election.

Republican Dan Bishop—a leading state senator at the time—replaced Harris on the ticket and handily won against the same Democrat opponent.

Leading the “prosecution” that represented Democrat candidate Dan McCready in the NCSBE’s hearings over the ballot-harvesting was Marc Elias—a top lawyer for Washington, DC-based law firm Perkins Coie, which also represents the Democratic National Committee and many of its prominent leaders, including the Joe Biden campaign.

In 2018, Elias was named by President Donald Trump as Democrats’ “top Election stealing lawyer” for his reputation of reversing GOP victories by finding bags of mysteriously discarded ballots favoring Democrats.

He also was one of the first to call for mail-in voting following Trump’s March declaration of a national emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Ironically, Elias sought to accuse Harris’s campaign of doing exactly what he was known for, while asserting that the ballot-harvesting in the NC07 race had tainted the election and undermined the outcome.

Yet, he has since returned to Raleigh—this time waging lawsuits to force the state to loosen its ballot-harvesting laws, extend the deadline for absentee ballots and effectively eliminate the requirements for a witness signature.

One such phony lawsuit—waged by the Teamster affiliated North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans—went before a far-left, activist judge notorious for making biased, partisan statements against the GOP state legislature.

The lawsuit ultimately led the NCSBE to settle on an agreement to reverse its ballot-fraud safeguards without even consulting the legislature.

“We’re not exactly in a judicial world now that leans toward the Right,” said David Black, one of NCSBE’s two Republican-appointed board members, while rationalizing the unanimous settlement, according to WRAL.

The lawsuit is one of several that radical activist groups have barraged the court system with in North Carolina—and in other battleground states throughout the country where they hope to use mail-in ballots to reverse a potential election-night landslide for Trump.

Groups like the George Soros-linked Transition Integrity Project have publicly outlined the Left’s plans to have tossup states headed by Democrat governors like North Carolina’s Roy Cooper refuse to certify a Trump victory and appoint rival, pro-Biden electors instead.

Cooper—who is currently running for re-election—notably fended off accusations that he, himself, had used suspicious ballot-harvesting to narrowly defeat incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in 2016.

Representing him in his defense was Elias, who was able to find uncounted ballots at the last minute to pad Cooper’s lead before the NCSBE ultimately dismissed the complaint.

After muddying the upcoming election’s outcome by sending rival sets of electors, Democrats have indicated they will hold hostage the electoral process until Republicans either agree to a raft of democracy-killing “reforms”—such as abolishing the Electoral College, and admitting the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as states—or until the Jan. 20 presidential term lapses, thus installing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the country’s de facto leader.

In the meantime, left-wing operatives will continue to promote anarchist riots to wear down their opponents’ resolve and distract from their election shenanigans.

And they will brazenly use the propagandist mainstream media to accuse Republicans of trying to steal the election for any efforts to challenge their corruption.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, offered a sneak preview of the gas-lighting narrative by coyly deflecting on the recent NCSBE settlement.

He said state GOP leaders “should be ashamed of themselves for trying to undermine people’s faith in the electoral process,” according to WRAL.

“The bipartisan State Board of Elections unanimously determined that these measures are important to protect the security and integrity of our election and to ensure that every eligible voter’s vote counts,” Stein claimed. “Every eligible voter should be able to vote easily, safely, and securely confident that the candidate who wins the most votes will win the election.”

However, Berger challenged anybody willing to believe such claims to consider the opposite scenario—as was the case in Mark Harris’s 2018 victory.

“Can you imagine the reaction if President Trump and Attorney General Barr went into a backroom and rewrote election laws weeks before the election?” Berger asked in his statement.

“I cannot overstate how unethical this collusive behavior is,” he continued. “The Board of Elections, which is controlled by Gov. Cooper and acting through its lawyer, Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, went around the legislature and agreed with Democratic plaintiffs to undo basic election laws passed to prevent a repeat of actual absentee ballot fraud.”

NYPD Released Illegal Alien 10 Times During Two-Year Crime Spree

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NYPD Released Illegal Alien 10 Times During Two-Year Crime Spree

The New York Police Department arrested and released a criminal illegal alien 10 times in the past two years, despite requests from federal immigration authorities to take him into custody.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued 10 immigration detainers—one each time he was arrested—for Dominican national Jhonny Alejandro Soto–Ubaldo, but they were all ignored, according to a press release.

Each time the NYPD released Soto–Ubaldo, he re-offended.

The charges he accumulated in Queens and Nassau counties during the past two years include: assault, harassment, criminal mischief, grand larceny, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a firearm.

“Jhonny Alejandro Soto-Ubaldo is one of many examples of how New York’s sanctuary city policies place the safety of the residents at risk,” said Tony H. Pham, senior official performing the duties of the director for ICE.

“Their willful uncooperative nature provides criminals such as Soto–Ubaldo the opportunity to re-offend,” he added.

The NYPD arrested Soto–Ubaldo for the first time in June 2018, but the department released him in defiance of an immigration detainer. Later that year, he was arrested and released again, and the NYPD ignored ICE’s second request.

The next year, the NYPD arrested and released Soto–Ubaldo six times between April and October 2019. ICE lodged immigration detainers with the NYPD after each arrest, but they were all rejected.

The US Marshal Service arrested Soto–Ubaldo this month and charged him with federal firearms violations. The Federal Bureau of Prisons currently holds him.

ICE lodged a detainer with the FBP, which will be obeyed after Soto–Ubaldo’s trial.

“How can local politicians—in good conscience—say they’re protecting their constituents when they pass laws that release criminals back into our communities? asked Thomas R. Decker, field office director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations New York Field Office.

“Detainer non-cooperation threatens public safety,” he said. “It’s fortunate for the residents of New York City, that the subject is now being held on federal charges, and the ICE detainer will finally be honored.”

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