As Chaos Consumes Seattle, Mayor and Media Allies Insist Everything is Fine

‘We could have a summer of love!’

Chicago Rolls Out Soros-Funded Coronavirus Relief Package for Illegal Immigrants
Jenny Durkan / IMAGE: Reuters via YouTube

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Sleepless in Seattle? Not Mayor Jenny Durkan.

As violent unrest gripped the city, armed Antifa-linked warlords threatened to hold hostage the municipal government with a list of 19 demands that include Durkan’s firing and the complete defunding of local law enforcement.

But the liberal mayor insisted all was well.

Although the radical protesters on Tuesday hijacked a six-block section of downtown Seattle and named it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Durkan said she had no immediate plans to restore order.

During an interview with CNN on Thursday, she dismissed reports that protesters within the “CHAZ” were extorting businesses and threatening other residents, despite video evidence to the contrary.

And when asked how long Seattle would allow the protesters to occupy the CHAZ, Durkan refused to say whether the protesters would be kicked out at all.

“I don’t know,” Durkan responded. “We could have a summer of love!”

She then doubled down and insisted that the CHAZ is a “peaceful expression of our community’s collective grief.”

Meanwhile, reporter Andy Ngo has documented the lawless behavior of many protesters within the autonomous zone, telling Fox News on Thursday, “It is hard for me to overstate the anarchy that is on the streets.”

Ngo said there are armed protesters acting as security, as well as border checkpoints requiring residents to show ID. Businesses in the zone are on their own, he said, and police officers have reported an alarming increase in 911 calls over the past few days.

“It is complete anarchy, because the police precinct has been boarded up, the police have abandoned it,” he said.

Following the lead of leftists like Durkan and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, those in the mainstream media who haven’t entirely ignored the story continue to portray the CHAZ as a peaceful “experiment in life without the police.”

The zone is “part street festival, part commune,” wrote the New York Times. “Hundreds have gathered to hear speeches, poetry, and music,” and “children made chalk drawings in the street,” the Times said.

Durkan, thus far, has maintained that the city will find a compromise with the protesters. That seems unlikely, since the protesters are demanding the total abolition of law enforcement as well as her resignation.

She has refused to step down, however, and has deflected responsibility to the Seattle Police Department, which was forced to evacuate its precinct during the height of the protests.

After city leaders demanded that police stop using “chemical weapons” such as tear gas, protesters threw rocks and “improvised explosives” at officers to force them out of the precinct, according to Police Chief Carmen Best. At least 25 cops were injured.

Best insisted that it was not his idea to abandon the police station. Notably, council member Kshama Sawant used her own keys to allow the protesters into city hall and gave delivered a speech to the group earlier in the week.

According to reporting by the conservative National File, warlord chieftain Raz Simone has said he is now in complete control and speaks each morning with the mayor’s office.

Still, Durkan refuses to admit that she has a problem on her hands, refuting President Donald Trump’s accusation that she is allowing “domestic terrorists” to run her city.

“It’s simply not true. Lawfully gathering and expressing First Amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, and providing true equity for communities of color is not terrorism,” she said earlier this week. “It’s patriotism.”

Trump has made it clear that if Durkan doesn’t restore order, he will.

“If there were more toughness, you wouldn’t have the kind of devastation that you had in Minneapolis and in Seattle,” Trump told Fox News on Thursday.

“I mean, let’s see what’s going on in Seattle,” he continued.  “I will tell you, if they don’t straighten that situation out, we’re going to straighten it out.”

Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

LAWSUIT: Mich. Voter Rolls Exceed No. of Eligible Voters; Dead Remain on Lists

‘Retaining voter rolls bloated with ineligible voters harms the electoral process, heightens the risk of electoral fraud, and undermines public confidence…’

Michigan Resident Sues SOS for Bloated Voter Rolls That Exceed Eligible Voters
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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Michigan citizen Tony Daunt sued multiple state election officials—including the state’s secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson—for allowing the voter rolls in 16 counties to become bloated and susceptible to fraud, according to Fox News.
In Leelanau County, there are more people who have registered to vote than there are residents of voting age, the lawsuit claims.
“Comparing the registered voter count to the 2014-18 American Community Survey reveals that Leelanau County has a registration rate of 102%,” the complaint said.
Daunt said voting rolls are “suspiciously high” in the other 15 counties, since the state has not taken time to remove ineligible voters, including those who have died, moved or lost eligible voter status due to a felony conviction.
In these 15 counties, the registration rate exceeds 90 percent.
“Retaining voter rolls bloated with ineligible voters harms the electoral process, heightens the risk of electoral fraud, and undermines public confidence in elections,” said Daunt’s complaint.
Daunt said accurate voter rolls will be crucial in the 2020 presidential election, since President Donald Trump won Michigan by less than half of a percentage point in 2016.
The lawsuit alleges that the state has an obligation to maintain accurate voter rolls under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
In response, the far-left American Civil Liberties Union claimed, without evidence, that states have used voter roll lawsuits as “a method of mass disenfranchisement, purging eligible voters from rolls for illegitimate reasons or based on inaccurate data, and often without adequate notice to the voters.”
The statistics that Daunt used in the lawsuit come from Honest Elections Project, the Census Bureau’s 2014-2018 American Community Surve, and the Michigan secretary of state.
Daunt filed the lawsuit against Benson, Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater and others in the federal District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

CONGRESSMAN: Pelosi Peddles Bogus Conspiracy Theory Over Election Day in Ga.

‘Eighty percent were in Fulton, which is run by Democrats. So, if it was…voter suppression, it’s Democrats suppressing Democrat votes…’

Ga. Congressman Rips Nancy Pelosi for Peddling Election Lies 1
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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) House Speaker  Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., caught an earful from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., on Thursday, for peddling lies about the Peach State’s primary elections.

Delays and precinct mismanagement, largely in minority areas, led to long waits for some during the Tuesday voting. In response, Pelosi promoted a baseless claim that Republicans in the state had sabotaged them “by design.”

“That’s ‘suspicious’ in Nancy’s world, where everything is a conspiracy theory,” Loudermilk said. “If she can blame anything on Republicans or President Trump, she will.”

It was also, no doubt, a foregone conclusion that the Left would find flaws in Georgia’s electoral process—or else fabricate some where none existed—given the amount of time and money they’ve invested in peddling the claim.

Long regarded as one of the deepest red states, Georgia has been on Democrats’ minds for November. A decisive win there early on election night could derail President Donald Trump’s momentum and sway the turnout in later-voting states.

Both failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms have been included on presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden’s short list of running mates in hopes that they might mobilize the state’s black Democrat voters.

Abrams, who refused to concede her 2018 race after losing to current Gov. Brian Kemp, has fully devoted herself to convincing the public that mass voter suppression is disfranchising minorities, even though little evidence exists to support the claim.

Her Fair Fight PAC and other organizations, funded in large part by leftist mega-donors like George Soros and Tom Steyer, have fed talking points to sympathetic media outlets in order wage to a smear campaign against GOP opponents who advocate for election integrity.

That includes a recently announced initiative, Voter Suppression Watch, to support the Left’s scheme for conducting a mail-only election, which would be ripe for voter fraud.

Despite Pelosi’s incendiary comments, however, and a deluge of negative news reports speculating about minority-voter suppression during the recent primary, the vast majority of Georgia voting locations experienced zero problems.

Out of the state’s 159 counties, 150 conducted voting operations without a hitch. Of the nine counties that reported problems, most were resolved early in the day.

“Eighty percent were in Fulton [Atlanta]—which is run by Democrats—so, if it was…voter suppression, it’s Democrats suppressing Democrat votes,” Loudermilk told Stuart Varney on Fox Business News’s Varney and Co.

He chalked up the voting problems to Wuhan virus-related disruptions and sheer incompetence by urban election officials who by law have the sole authority to run local elections.

“This was them not being prepared for this election,” Loudermilk said.

“… [T]he reason so many people showed up to the polls, is because they did not get their absentee ballots,” he continued. “… The county officials did not get them to the states’ vendor in time… and they didn’t notify people.”

Loudermilk also explained that untrained poll workers were added at the last minute because many workers didn’t show up for fear of catching the coronavirus.

“We do have issues, but we have to address those with the facts of what [actually] happened, and not some conspiracy theory that Nancy Pelosi wants to use to further divide the country,” he said.

Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Nat’l Debt Breaks Record for Highest Portion of US Economy in History

‘The consequences of government debt are not merely potential dangers that might occur at some point in the future. They may, in fact, have already begun…’

U.S. Economy Continues to Grow as Trump Enters His Third Year
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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) The national debt is the highest it’s ever been in the nation’s history—and not just in total dollars, but more importantly, as a percentage of GDP.

The previous debt-to-economy record was 118 percent. But that figure came in 1946, or just one year after World War II, the bloodiest and costliest war in human history.

Now, federal debt is 120.5 percent of the nation’s economy.

It’s also about to get a lot worse, according to James D. Agresti, president of the public policy think-tank Just Facts.

While the latest national debt figure includes the massive $2.5 trillion CARES Act, otherwise known as Wuhan virus stimulus, it has yet to account for the bulk of the damage caused by government-imposed economic shutdowns.

This will soon “make the debt ratio significantly larger by decreasing its denominator,” said Agresti.

“Although this decline has already begun, most of it is not yet reflected in the official data on the size of the U.S. economy,” he said.

The numbers are staggering, and the implications are being downplayed in the news media, Agresti contends.

“Contrary to claims that government debt isn’t a major problem, a broad range of facts show that it can have serious negative consequences, such as lower wages, weak economic growth, increased inflation, higher taxes, reduced government benefits, or combinations of such results.”

Amazingly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is currently pushing for another $3 trillion in government stimulus.

The national debt has been steadily rising since World War II, with the main driver being social programs. Over the past 60 years, social spending has tripled and nearly amounts to two of every three dollars of debt.

Under President Barack Obama, the national debt exploded. Obama’s eight years in office roughly equaled the debt total of all 43 previous presidential administrations combined. Thanks to the Wuhan virus, President Trump in on pace to surpass Obama’s first-term debt.

“The consequences of government debt are not merely potential dangers that might occur at some point in the future. They may, in fact, have already begun,” said Agresti.

Antifa Spinoff Group Tied to Soros, Steyer, Silicon Valley

‘The main thing about this, is that we see this is not going to happen through ‘normal channels’ because we are living in abnormal times…’

Project Veritas Exposes Refuse Fascism's Ties to Soros, Steyer, Tech Companies
Andy Zee / IMAGE: Project Veritas via YouTube

(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Project Veritas taped undercover videos that show officials with RefuseFascism, an Antifa-like group, claiming they received money from George Soros, Tom Steyer, and other leftist activists to promote an overthrow of the “Trump–Pence regime.”
The videos (below) show private conversations in which Tee Stern, head of Atlanta’s RefuseFa chapter, and Andy Zee, national organizer of RefuseFa, disclose their connections to Soros and Steyer, Project Veritas reported.
“We did apply for a grant from Soros at one point, a long time ago when I was doing more abortion rights and defending clinics,” Stern said. “We actually did get a grant from them [Soros] around…we started a thing called a ‘National Day of Appreciation’ for abortion providers.”
Stern also discussed the group’s tactics and goals.
“The ultimate vision is … for people to break with their comfort and come into the streets—day after day, night after night—into the hundreds of thousands, into the millions and not leave until they [Trump and Pence] have to step down,” she said.
She said the group will not cause political change through debate and voting.
“The main thing about this is that we see this is not going to happen through ‘normal channels’ because we are living in abnormal times,” she said.
Stern said again that people will need to “come into the streets and demand that the Trump-Pence regime must go.”
Zee discusses RefusaFa’s contacts with Steyer’s impeachment advisor.
“We’re trying to meet with Tom Steyer,” Zee said. “Tom Steyer’s been retweeting some of our stuff, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s gonna wanna … I believe he has political ambitions. That he may actually want to not be directly connected [to RefuseFa].”
Zee also disclosed the group’s connection to Silicon Valley technology companies, such as Electric Frontier Foundation.

Chicago Rolls Out Soros-Funded COVID Checks for Illegals, Felons and College Kids

‘Nancy Pelosi basically lost me with that package when she has $1,200 checks for illegal immigrants…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced on Wednesday that the city will be providing a $5 million coronavirus relief fund to illegal immigrants, college students, and anyone else excluded from the federal government’s stimulus package.

The fund—sponsored in part by liberal billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations—will give illegal immigrants, dependent adults and residents who recently left prison $1,000 per household, Lightfoot said in a statement on Wednesday.

“This fund serves as a critical resource for the thousands of Chicagoans who so sorely need support and relief from the impact of COVID-19, but are unable to receive it through the federal government’s own stimulus channels,” Lightfoot said.

Illegal immigrants were not included in Congress’s stimulus package because Republicans wanted to make sure that American workers came first, said Chris Chmielenski, deputy director of Numbers USA.

“With one of the worst jobless reports in quite a few years, the primary focus right now should be on American workers and lawful immigrants,” Chmielenski told CNN back in March.

And, in order to qualify, beneficiaries needed to provide Social Security numbers, which illegal immigrants do not have because they are not citizens.

Congressional Democrats tried to squeeze funding for illegal immigrants into Congress’s stimulus package, but the White House made it clear that that would be a non-starter.

“Nancy Pelosi basically lost me with that package when she has $1,200 checks for illegal immigrants,” White House economic adviser Peter Navarro told ABC News at the time, adding it “just goes downhill from there.”

Tim Scott Blasts Libs for Calling Him ‘Token,’ ‘Boy’ on Twitter

‘Ask my Democratic colleagues what their staffs look like…I guarantee you won’t like the answer…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, blasted Democrats for referring to him as the “token” black Republican, when they face a diversity problem of their own.

Scott, who was tapped by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to lead the GOP’s legislative efforts on police reform, said that he’s been repeatedly called a “token” by online users who think he’s “being used.”

“And don’t throw ‘you’re the only black guy they know’ at me either,” Scott continued. “There are only two black Democratic senators, stop pretending there’s some huge racial diversity gap in the Senate. Ask my Democratic colleagues what their staffs look like…I guarantee you won’t like the answer.”

Senate Democrats have faced criticism for years for the lack of diversity in their offices.

A 2016 report by Politico found that the vast majority of senior congressional positions in Democratic offices were held by white males, which is an act of “soft bigotry,” according to leftist activists.

Scott, however, plans to focus on criminal justice and law enforcement reform as he works on the GOP’s legislation. The bill will likely focus on increased training on deescalation tactics and more funding for police body cameras, Scott told NPR.

The legislation will aim to address the “obvious racial discrimination that we’ve seen on display on our television screens over the last two weeks,” according to McConnell.

However, it will leave out some of the more radical reforms being proposed by Democrats, such as abolishing qualified immunity for law-enforcement or defunding police departments entirely.

“I basically shy away from telling local law enforcement: You shouldn’t do that or you can’t do this,” Scott said. “I think [the Democratic] bill has a tendency to be seen as perhaps a nationalization of some of the underlying issues or techniques.”

NYPD Officers Looking to Leave Force Because of Poor Treatment

‘Honestly, we feel alone out there…’

NYPD Helps Feds Deport Illegals Against Sanctuary City Policy
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A growing number of New York City police officers are preparing to leave the force because of the way city and state government officials have treated them in the wake of recent protests.

Because of the ongoing protests, NYPD officers have had to work 12-hour shifts, endure constant conflict with rowdy protesters, and deal with the vandalism of their own vehicles.

It’s no longer safe to be a cop in the city, according to one NYPD sergeant, and the people at the top don’t seem to care.

“At our level, It’s hard to say, but in the past, you felt like chiefs like [Joseph] Esposito had your back. Even Ray Kelly. Without Rudy [Giuliani], or even with [Michael] Bloomberg, things have changed,” the sergeant told the Washington Examiner, referencing former police chiefs and two of the city’s recent mayors.

The city’s current mayor, Bill de Blasio, has failed to treat the NYPD with the same respect, and some of the upper management in the NYPD are scared to speak out for fear of retaliation, said Ed Mullins, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association.

One recent example of this was when de Blasio condemned a New York City police officer for pulling his gun on a group of protesters and demanded that he be fired from the department.

Additional evidence, however, proved that the cop was acting in self-defense after violent rioters threw a brick at his head, knocking him to the ground.

That police officer should have had the city’s support, but it’s no longer there, Mullins said.

“Honestly, we feel alone out there,” he said. “You go out and spend 17 hours on this day, and then you check your phone, and you have certain members of Congress, the governor, the mayor, and they’re saying that we’re not doing a good job.”

UPDATE: T-Mobile CEO Gleeful in Removal of Ads from Tucker Carlson’s Show

‘This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about black lives…’

UPDATE: Following the revelation that advertisers have removed sponsorships for Tucker Carlson’s program on Fox News, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert tweeted gleefully in confirming his company’s decision:

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: (Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is paying a high price for reporting on Black Lives Matter in a manner that’s less than flattering — a decision that’s proved intolerable for five major corporate advertisers.

The host of Tucker Carlson Tonight has unleashed show-after-show of fearless truth-telling in regard to nationwide riots, widespread looting and violence, attacks on police, destruction of historical monuments and even the perceived weak response from President Donald Trump.

But criticizing Black Lives Matter—not African Americans—has made him a pariah.

Walt Disney, T-Mobile, Papa John’s, Vari and SmileDirectClub have all discontinued their ad spending on his weeknight prime-time show.

In one instance, Carlson claimed Black Lives Matter is a political party, “and it may be the strongest political party in the United States,” he said.

He’s also asked why opinions that are critical of mob violence are considered racist, and why looting and violence in the streets are considered free speech.

“Is America being ripped apart by total lies—destroyed by cynical media manipulators and unscrupulous politicians who understand that racial strife is their path to power? You can decide what’s really going on,” he said last week.

In response, T-Mobile tweeted: “We haven’t run ads on Tucker Carlson Tonight since early May and have cancelled all future placements. We will continue to support those who stand against racial injustice.”

Disney also responded, saying commercials were placed “without our knowledge by third-party media buyers who were unaware that we do not advertise on the show.”

Carlson, whose show netted an average of 4.19 million nightly viewers last month, remains unfazed.

“This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about black lives—and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will,” he said.

Partisan journalists and political activists regularly attempt to cancel media personalities and unsuspecting people who deviate from the progressive status quo. Attacking advertisers and employers has proved a useful, if ruthless, tactic.

When pressed about Carlson’s use of the words “they” and “come for you,” insinuating racism, a statement from Fox News Channel clarified that Carlson was referring to Democratic Party leaders and other activist left-wing power-brokers.

Interestingly, the Fox spokesman confirmed that the advertising dollars that pulled from Tucker Carlson Tonight weren’t actually pulled from the network. Instead, the funding was repurposed to other Fox News programs.

Carlson defiantly tweeted encouragement to his audience members to stay strong in the face of politically-correct adversity—and to stay tuned.

Biden Repeats Claim that Trump Will Try to ‘Steal’ the November Election

‘I am absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch…’

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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) In a nationally televised interview, Joe Biden baselessly repeated his claim that President Donald Trump may try to “steal” the November presidential election.

The presumptive Democratic nominee made the once unthinkable comment in an interview with Daily Show host Trevor Noah on Wednesday night.

“It’s my greatest concern, my single greatest concern. This president is going to try to steal this election,” said Biden.

Such destabilizing language has traditionally been beyond the pale, as it undermines the legitimacy of elections.

However, Democrats used a similar scare tactic in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and an allied news media speculated that Trump might refuse to accept an election loss.

Biden also reiterated a debunked talking point that Trump’s concern about “blue state” efforts to mandate universal absentee ballot voting was an attempt to cancel legitimate voting, rather than combat voter fraud.

Biden further conflated Trump’s personal history of absentee voting as if it were inconsistent with his election integrity concerns.

“This is a guy who said all mail-in ballots are fraudulent, voting by mail, while he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office and writes his mail-in ballot to vote in the primary,” Biden said, adding that GOP-led states are trying to keep people from voting.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had already clarified the president’s position on the issue two weeks ago.

“Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person,” said McEnany

“President Trump is against the Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud,” she continued. “This is a simple distinction that the media fails to grasp.”

Biden also told Noah that the military would intervene and forcibly remove Trump if he refused to leave.

“I am absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch,” Biden said in a stunning remark.

But while Biden floated a constitutional crisis without evidence, history shows that the Democratic Party and the mainstream news media, ironically, failed to accept the results of the last election—and may be hellbent of preventing another loss at all costs.

Immediately after Trump’s election, the New York Times called for “faithless electors,” or dissenting members of the Electoral College, to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton instead of Trump. The Times even published an op-ed by a defecting Texas GOP elector.

Progressive activists stormed some state capitol buildings in protest, and more than 200 people were arrested for wreaking havoc throughout Washington, D.C. in the aftermath of his inauguration.

Troves of de-classified documents and thousands of pages of reports from the Department of Justice’s inspector general have also proved that there was a highly coordinated effort by senior Obama administration officials—even involving the president and vice president—to destroy the Trump campaign with fraudulent innuendo about Russian collusion.

For more than three years, Democrats like Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have stonewalled attempts for transparency and justice while leaking off-the-record and classified information to friendly reporters.

The entire “Russiagate” affair—including unimaginable FISA abuses and the Mueller investigation targeting President Trump and his Republican inner circle — was centered on a Clinton campaign-funded dossier that was never verified and turned out to be laughably false.

Pelosi also led an unprecedented House impeachment effort along strict party lines for the first time in the nation’s history. The initial impeachment inquiry was conducted in secret by the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Schiff, rather than in the historical plain view of the House Judiciary Committee.

Trump was ultimately acquitted in the Senate of two non-criminal charges. The votes were along party lines, save Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who voted for the dubious charge of “abuse of power.”

All 47 Democratic senators voted in favor of the meritless charge of “obstruction of Congress,” which was based on Trump’s constitutional prerogative to defer to federal courts, or the third branch of constitutional government, to resolve a pretextual dispute with House Democrats.

A constant barrage of negative, misleading and inaccurate news coverage has also been levied at the president with coverage only intensifying during the summer lead-up to the general election.

Based on post-2016 election events, Democrat critics could easily argue that Biden’s alleged concerns about Trump not conceding a 2020 election loss are in fact a psychological projection that Trump is guilty of what Democrats are actually doing.