#2
No, you mean whoever runs Biden's twitter account hasn't mentioned it.
Joey can barely string six words together while talking. I shudder to think what happens when he tries to use a keyboard. (Maybe they plugged AI into the loop, and it said 'Nope'.)
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J. Christopher's this morning. 2 poached eggs with ham on muffin with potatoes and coffee. $18.35 (before gratuity)
[PJ] It was a bad week for Alvin Bragg and his case against Donald Trump. There's no other way to put it.
For starters, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, may have made a critical error that could reverse the Trump verdict upon appeal by allowing prosecutors to make certain arguments.
As I reported earlier, "Last week, during an appearance on 'Fox & Friends,' GWU law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News that Merchan made a mistake by allowing Bragg's prosecutorial team, which former Biden administration official Michael Colangelo is leading, to say unequivocally that Trump was involved in federal election law violations."
"That jury has now been told repeatedly that there are federal election crimes here, strongly suggesting that the payment to Stormy Daniels did violate federal election laws," Turley explained. "That’s just not true."
He cited the recent overturning of Harvey Weinstein's conviction for similar reasons as precedent.
But even the actual allegations against Trump are falling apart. Keith Davidson, the lawyer representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels, testified that the $130,000 payment to Daniels should not be construed as "hush money" but rather as a legitimate "consideration" payment. Davidson also testified that Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was "despondent" when he didn't get a White House job after Trump won the presidency in 2016.
#3
Typically, a lot of the people who make up a jury have regular jobs and resent their time being wasted by irresponsible prosecutors and incompetent (or in this case biased) judges. I'm not sure if the jury in this case has anybody like this but if they do they are pretty ticked off at this point.
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05/08/2024 10:15 Comments ||
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#4
Just remember sentence first, trial after words!
#5
Call Avenatti. The whole thing is a goat rodeo already.
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05/08/2024 12:52 Comments ||
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I'm pretty sure they will get a conviction despite the obvious farce of the entire trial. It will be reversed on appeal with scathing criticism from the appeals court about the utter travesty that was the "trial", but sometime after the November election, as was the entire point.
Given the enormous, financial, political and violent reaction if they actual tried to imprison Trump, they will go with some form of residential confinement. The entire purpose here is to let Jojo abandon the need to debate "a convicted felon", use the term in the massive Basement Bunker Campaign Redux strategy for the fall, and to keep Trump from campaigning.
[JustTheNews] The results of the investigation determined that President Joe Biden still won the county over former President Donald Trump, because the vote margin was substantial enough in three independent vote counts. But the county still violated regulations and statues in its counting process.
The Georgia State Election Board is requiring Fulton County to implement an independent election monitor in the 2024 election, after an independent investigation found that the county likely scanned thousands of ballots twice in a recount of the 2020 election.
The state board voted to implement the independent monitor in a 2-1 vote on Tuesday, which ended one of the last probes into the results of the 2020 election, which Trump claimed was stolen from him. The board also voted to dismiss several other complaints against the county, including allegations that it added 16,000 votes to its count before certifying the election, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The results of the investigation determined that President Joe Biden still won the county over former President Donald Trump, because the vote margin was substantial enough in three independent vote counts. But the county still violated regulations and statues in its counting process.
Biden won the state by 11,779 votes in the first count, but 939 more votes for Trump were counted in a recount. If there were ballots that were scanned twice, it only amounted to 3,000 votes. State officials confirmed that the election results were legitimate.
"As long as we have the paper ballot, we have the paper trail that accurately reports the voter’s choice," Charlene McGowan, general counsel for the secretary of state’s office, told the outlet. "Fulton County used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest of 2020. The investigation shows there are some duplicative ballot images in the ballot images that Fulton County provided, but what cannot be confirmed conclusively is if those ballots were included in the count."
State officials said it is not clear whether the votes were actually counted twice, or if they were just scanned twice. The county has long faced scrutiny over issues with election integrity.
Board member Ed Lindsey said he voted for the reprimand instead of a more serious punishment because he was focused on making sure future elections were secure rather than focusing on previous elections. He also threatened to open an investigation into the county in July if they do not hire a monitor for the November election.
"There is clear evidence that in 2020 there were numerous violations of regulations and statutes, and the county has acknowledged that," Lindsey said. "My purpose here is not to let it ride but to move this matter forward so we can have some assurances going into the 2024 election."
Fulton County said it has implemented multiple changes since the 2020 election, in order to make sure the vote counting is safe and legitimate going forward.
"Fulton County’s performance during the 2020 elections has been exhaustively scrutinized, but the results, confirmed by three different counts, have not changed. Nor has there been any evidence of fraud or malfeasance," county spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt said. "Since the 2020 election, Fulton County has hired a new director, implemented numerous procedural updates and invested in a new elections headquarters. It has conducted six elections, and independent monitors have noted improvement."
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On the recounts, they just reran all the ballots back through the machines. This picked up the double scans. They were cheating and were never charged. They were also scanning without the mandatory observers. Raffensperger called this normal operations - this means that he was in on it and should have been impeached. They are also on video passing around the machine thumb drives like a drug deal. This was likely the process of assigning manufactured ballots to dummy or voter files who did not vote. In other states the ERIC system was used to give Dem folks real time data of who had voted. The simultaneous pause was where the dummy ballots were assigned to “voters.”
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[Hill via MSN] You go, Bish. Gonna be fun times ahead
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) said Monday that she would not be testifying before a Republican-led Georgia state Senate panel investigating her.
At an event where she earned the endorsement of many local Black religious leaders, Willis said the committee investigating her may not have the authority to subpoena her.
"First of all, I don’t think they even had the authority to subpoena me, but they need to learn the law," she said, reported by Fox 5.
She continued, saying she would not appear for anything unlawful because she had "not broken the law."
"I’ve said it amongst these leaders; I’m sorry folks get pissed off that everybody gets treated equally," Willis said.
Willis, who is conducting a historic indictment of former President Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, has also made headlines for her personal relationship.
Months of controversy have disrupted Willis’s original case, after it was made public that she had a romantic relationship with someone she hired for the case.
A judge ruled in March that she could continue the prosecution, if she or special prosecutor Nathan Wade stepped down, which he ultimately did.
Now, the state Senate is looking to investigate whether Willis and Wade used taxpayer dollars during their relationship.
County Commission Chair Robb Pitts testified before the committee this week that the board has little power over Willis’s spending once it approves her budget, but also dodged opportunities to criticize Willis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The Hill has reached out to the state Senate press office for comment on Willis’s remarks, but the committee’s chair, state Sen. Bill Cowsert (R), told Fox 5 that he maintains the committee has the power to make Willis testify about her spending. He said Willis could be held in contempt if she doesn’t cooperate.
"I sure hope it doesn’t get to that," Cowsert told the outlet.
Georgia’s local and state election day is May 21. Willis, who is in the middle of running her reelection campaign, will face a Democratic challenger, Christian Wise Smith, a former prosecutor in the Fulton County district attorney’s ofice, in the primary, 11Alive reported.
"[There] ain’t no one above the law, either," Willis said at her press conference Monday. "So, I don’t care how rich you are, how powerful you think you are, who your daddy is, what your political party might be, how much money you think you got and how evil your supporters are." "I'm black, and a wymyn. Hear me roar!"
"I don’t care how many times they threaten me. I will gladly leave this place knowing that I did God’s work," she said.
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Having been exposed and now facing disbarment, jail time for Malicious Prosecution, abuse of public $$$, and other Felony Level crimes. Ms. Willis has decided to play the Race Card to cover her crimes.
MSM: Please provide the Black religious leaders names that are endorsing her crimes. Or would it expose greater political issues?
[10News] Good. Jack Smith is interfering in the election.
In a filing on May 7, District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , said there were pretrial issues that would have to be resolved before the case could proceed. Ha! "Mishandled evidence".... yes, I suppose one could say that.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida, has vacated the start date of the trial, which was most recently set for May 20.
Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, set the May date as a compromise between the prosecution's plea to set the trial in December and the defense's request to postpone it until after the 2024 presidential election.
In a filing on May 7, Judge Cannon wrote: "Finalization of a trial date at this juncture — before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and CIPA issues remaining and forthcoming — would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court's duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions before the Court, critical CIPA issues, and additional pretrial and trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury."
Cannon has not set a replacement date for the trial.
Trump is accused of unlawfully retaining hundreds of classified documents at his resort in Florida. He is charged with 37 felony counts of mishandling classified material. In July of 2023, prosecutors added more felony charges of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information.
The Zero Hedge article links to the original order to vacate, and adds background. More from PJ Media courtesy of DarthVader at 9:04 a.m. ET:
Special Counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has been on shaky ground lately. On Friday, Smith’s team admitted to misleading Cannon and tampering with the evidence that had been used as the basis for his case against Trump.
Last month, Cannon unsealed a trove of new documents in the case that also revealed that an FBI agent had testified that the General Services Administration (GSA) was in possession of Trump's boxes in Virginia before ordering Trump's team to come get them. The same boxes that the GSA had been holding and ordered Trump’s team to retrieve ended up being the boxes that contained classified markings, raising questions about whether the Biden administration had set up Trump.
"So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago," independent journalist Julie Kelly noted. "Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with 'classified markings.'"
The Supreme Court also heard oral arguments over Trump's claims to presidential immunity, which may affect this cause.
Cannon's decision is a major win for President Trump, who has repeatedly sought to delay the case until after the presidential election in November. In early April, Cannon rejected Trump's previous attempt to dismiss the case, which he based on the argument that the documents found at his estate were personal records. Trump had filed multiple motions for dismissal back in February, employing various arguments, such as asserting presidential immunity and questioning the legitimacy of Smith's appointment.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden had classified information that he was never entitled to have stored in boxes in his garage for years but was not charged. In February Special Counsel Robert Hur's report concluded that Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen" and that his actions "present[ed] serious risks to national security.” However, Hur wouldn’t bring charges against him because Biden "would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
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The judge is, however, holding hearings into selective prosecution, the handling of evidence, the lies about said evidence, and last but the very best is if Jack Smith was legally appointed as a special prosecutor. Its gonna take months for them to sort it out, and if Smith get replaced it will all have to start over.
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#2
The DC Swamp having been clearly exposed that they PLANTED Classified documents at at the Trump Fla. location. Now needs time to regroup and develop a new Fictional Media issue.
[NY Post] Explains a lot
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a deposition taken more than a decade ago that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head.
RFK Jr., now 70, made the bizarre admission during his 2012 divorce proceeding, detailing "cognitive problems" he initially feared were a brain tumor — only for a second doctor to tell him the dark spots on his brain scans were a dead parasite, according to the New York Times.
Before getting a second opinion, Kennedy had been set to undergo surgery by the same doctor who operated on his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who had died from brain cancer in 2009.
However, a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital believed the abnormality on his scans "was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died," Kennedy said in the transcribed interview.
RFK Jr. also said during the 2012 deposition that he suffered from mercury poisoning after eating too many tuna fish sandwiches, which doctors told the Times was probably the actual cause of Kennedy’s neurological issues.
"I have cognitive problems, clearly," the son of the late attorney general and senator from New York said at the time. "I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me."
Kennedy said he suffered from “severe brain fog” and had trouble retrieving words around the same time that his mercury levels were 10 times what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.
The vaccine-skeptic politician said he was certain his diet was causing the issue.
“I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time,” he said.
Kennedy also said he recovered from the memory loss and fogginess and had no aftereffects from the parasite, which he claims had not required any treatment. "It turned me into a Newt. I got better"
The longtime environmental lawyer added that he made several changes following the two health scares, including getting more sleep, traveling less and consuming less fish.
The septuagenarian has used his relative youth to make the case for his insurgent candidacy against former President Donald Trump, 77, and President Biden, 81.
When asked if his health issues would impact his ability to serve as president, a spokesperson for the Kennedy campaign told the Times, “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”
The longshot candidate has suffered from a variety of health issues over the years — including atrial fibrillation, a common heartbeat abnormality that increases the risk of stroke or heart failure, as well as drug abuse in his youth.
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Bible whacking wedding ring guy who is probably utterly compromised by meetings with underage boys.
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Johnson does not negotiate with Republicans.
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#4
^^^ This
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#5
I often wonder what ESPN would be like if the people running it actually loved sports? In a similar vein, I wonder what Republicans in office could accomplish if they actually loved conservatism?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Republicans are accusing Biden administration officials of being behind a 'vote grabbing' operation in a critical swing state.
The House Small Business Committee Chair Roger Williams, R-Texas, subpoenaed multiple officials from the Small Business Administration.
He says they're involved in an alleged scheme to improperly register voters in Michigan as part of an effort to boost Biden.
The committee has been investigating how the SBA is involved in voter registration efforts following a March 2021 executive order by Biden aimed at increasing access to voting.
It is the first time in history that the body has subpoenaed members at the SBA.
'These actions were necessary because of the agency’s refusal to comply with the Committee’s ongoing investigation into potential electioneering activities by the SBA regarding the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) they have entered with Michigan’s Secretary of State to register voters,' a release announcing the subpoenas stated.
'The fact that we are having to issue subpoenas to speak with SBA officials is extremely disappointing,' Williams said in a statement announcing the enforcement action.
'The committee has given these two individuals the opportunity to speak with us voluntarily, but this appears to be the only way to get them to comply with our constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities.'
'The American people deserve answers and transparency on the electioneering activities of the SBA and how they have or plan to insert themselves in the upcoming federal elections,' Williams continued.
'The SBA's sole mission is to help Main Street thrive and grow, and they have repeatedly strayed from that mission to pursue outside political objectives.'
The SBA under Biden announced in March the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Michigan's Department of State.
The SBA program came the same month Biden campaigned in the important swing state.
Notably, the president beat Donald Trump in the battleground state by less than three percent in 2020.
According to a release announcing the plan, the goal of the Biden action was to 'promote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan,' which was dubbed a 'first-of-its-kind collaboration.'
The program is set to run through 2036 and 'will help connect Michiganders to vital voter registration information from the State of Michigan so that more small business owners can exercise their right to vote,' SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman said in a March statement.
But Republicans are saying the collaboration is blatant election interference and that the Biden administration is targeting swing states with the program ahead of the November election.
'It is unconscionable that during such a precarious time for our nation’s small businesses, the sole federal agency created to serve as their advocate is instead utilizing their limited taxpayer resources and time to advance partisan political campaigns,' Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., said in a statement.
'The SBA’s MOU with the Michigan Department of State is a blatant attempt by the Biden Administration to illegally use the SBA as an extension of the President’s campaign.'
'They are working to elect Democrats, which is abundantly clear considering registration efforts are targeted at cities like Detroit and other urban areas. And if this is being done in Michigan, we can make an educated assumption that it is also happening in other swing states.'
The subpoenas demand that both SBA officials sit for interviews on May 21.
[MSN] A member of the far-left "Squad" facing a tough challenge from within his own party recently attended a fundraiser co-hosted by an Islamic leader who said he was "happy to see" the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who represents New York's 16th Congressional District, attended the May 1 fundraiser at a private residence in Fairfax, Virginia, and didn't seem to mind the presence of Nihad Awad, a highly controversial and antisemitic figure who serves as the national executive director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Awad faced sharp scrutiny last year after expressing his pleasure with the Hamas attack that resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,200 Israelis, including women and babies, and claiming Israel "does not have a right to self-defense."
"The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege — the walls of the concentration camp — on Oct. 7," Awad said during the 16th annual Convention for Palestine on Nov. 24 near Chicago. "And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were not free to walk in."
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Given his clear and open Racist remarks in support of a Genocidal attack done by Terrorists?
When will his House Censorship and Impeachment hearings start?
Surely he violated his Oath of Office and placed himself in violation of the US Code as being supporter of a known and DOS listed Terrorist Group. A known group that's been on the US Dept Of State's Terrorist Watch List for 25+ years?
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[JustTheNews] The results of the investigation determined that President Joe Biden still won the county over former President Donald Trump, because the vote margin was substantial enough in three independent vote counts. But the county still violated regulations and statues in its counting process. 
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
[MSN] A member of the far-left "Squad" facing a tough challenge from within his own party recently attended a fundraiser co-hosted by an Islamic leader who said he was "happy to see" the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians.
