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Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem: We're ready to fight — no to disarming, no to surrender.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Trump sues Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal for $10B over Epstein sex bombshell
[IsraelTimes] Publisher of newspaper vows to ‘vigorously defend against any lawsuit’ as US president rages over report on ‘bawdy’ birthday letter to Epstein.

Don Surber has thoughts:
The counterfeit letter on Epstein may end the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal late last night published a counterfeit letter it falsely accused Trump of sending to Jeff Epstein in 2003—long before law enforcement or the future president discovered Epstein pimped minors.

How do I know the letter is false? Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ told me so.

You see, it ran a 13,000-word expose on Epstein on December 17, 2023. The piece did not mention Trump. Not once. If the publication had the goods on Trump, it would have exposed him ahead of the 2024 presidential primary season.

If the deep state had the goods on Trump, the end of him would have come years ago.

Trump warned Murdoch the letter was fake but he ran the story anyway, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.”
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/19/2025 2025-07-19 00:36 || Comments || Link || [176 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think they settle quickly. Trump’s MO is super models not kids. The Russian hooker stuff was more believable.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2 
May the truth come out and Trump be paid accordingly.

But say what if....
Wouldn't this help Musk's American party venture?
So what if Elon was behind the leaks
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/19/2025 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  WSJ's editorial board is nominally conservative, but not always. The rest of the rag is liberal bullshit
Posted by: Frank G || 07/19/2025 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Centrist and fiscally sensible on the editorial page rather than conservative, it seems to me. The reporters are some of the best put out by the leading journalism schools, which means they’ve been pre-sorted for attitude. They just have better manners than the NY Times hires — no walkouts or protests in the newsroom.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/19/2025 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess the WSJ would have an excellent legal department. I'd be surprised if they didn't triple check this.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/19/2025 9:13 Comments || Top||

#6  I also have an Epstein story for you.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/19/2025 10:15 Comments || Top||

#7  ...unless one counts on a heavy case of TDS which seem to effect too many Homo Relictum.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/19/2025 10:16 Comments || Top||


#9  Trump is two for two in this kind of lawsuit. WSJ might be in trouble.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2025 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  No coincidence this story comes out at the same time Tulsi Gabbard drops the criminal referrals on Obama, Brennan, Clapper and Rice.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 07/19/2025 13:43 Comments || Top||

#11  If I was Trump, I would not settle. Let everything play out openly in the courtroom with no sealing of any records.

Fuck You WSJ
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/19/2025 16:43 Comments || Top||


Jury finds Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell guilty of felony burglary
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Continued on Page 47
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [81 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess she had a vested interest in gun control. Did they already replace her with a Somali?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ..no she held on to her seat because the commies needed to have one more vote in the Senate to avoid it being evenly split D-R.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/19/2025 10:19 Comments || Top||


Europe
Academic Warns Banning German Opposition AfD Party a ‘Sure Path to Civil War'
[Breitbart] While eliminating your political opposition at the stroke of a pen may seem appealing to the German left, a prominent academic has now spoken out to warn against the move, predicting that undermining the basic principles of democracy could be detrimental to the country.

Speaking to Euronews, chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Professor Andreas Rödder, is reported to have said: "The German Left should think carefully about what it is doing and what consequences it has for liberal democracy."

The report cites Rödder as one of the "most important intellectuals" of Germany’s centre-right, so he is by no means an instinctive supporter of the AfD, which has eroded the support of the centrist Christian Democrats, just as populists have done to neoliberal "conservative" parties continent-wide.

Nevertheless, using language now increasingly heard in some European states, he told the publication: "A ban that would eliminate all votes for the AfD and thus lead to [a left-wing] parliamentary majority" would be a "sure path to civil war".
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Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 07/19/2025 10:11 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Perhaps civil war is inevitable. Or self-extermination.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/19/2025 15:53 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
News Leaks say Adam Schiff has hired an attorney after Tulsi exposed the ''Russia-Russia Hoax''
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Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [95 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm curious about the Light Bringer's massive, unexplained, Epstein-like wealth. Just curious, that's all.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2025 3:04 Comments || Top||

#2  As was once said, Schiff doesn’t need an attorney, he’s going to need about six.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 7:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I've been calling him Schifferbrains for years and I always figured he was dishonest enough to commit a crime but it'd still be a pleasant surprise to learn that he was, in fact, dumb enough to get caught.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2025 13:01 Comments || Top||


JP Morgan Paid $290m To Epstein Victims - For Nothing?
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…$290 million unless there’s something to settle.

Victims were real. So were the crimes.

Which means someone - likely many someones - committed them.

Funny (crazy) how the money moved fast... but the client list still can’t.

Source:
@TRHLofficial
,
@Chesschick01
, Reuters


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Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [97 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Buying silence can be very expensive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2025 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I disagree with Trump about this being relevant. The rich, the celebrities and the royals don’t get to prostitute our kids and get away with it because their names aren’t Jesus or Manuel. Sure this happened awhile ago, but anyone who believes that these crimes were isolated incidents for these people haven’t studied the behavior of Al Gore since he lost the 2000 election. These people could have gone to Cannes or Rio, but they went to Epstein Island knowing exactly what was being proffered by Satanic Mr Rourke. If Epstein was on the payroll of the US taxpayer, that’s revenant too because that implicates me and I don’t like that.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think anyone believes this is all about because nothing happened; as I posited yesterday if the evidence is corrupted for wiped with a cloth, wouldn't making the accusation, like the WSJ did, without a proper case open one to a defamation lawsuit?

Let me ask another question - can one open the files of the grand jury part of a case in which the proper case portion has had a non-disclosure settlement?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/19/2025 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  List or no list, look what happened with the Diddy trial; have to get that aspect taken care of before anything. As far as I understand they didn't even explore the biggest open secret of assault, extortion, blackmail using compromising video required to be made to join the label.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/19/2025 12:07 Comments || Top||


Declassified Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency
From the Facebook page of Clarice Feldman:

Link goes to the DNI page where links are posted concerning the "Russia-Russia-Russia" hoax:

@C__Herridge

Breaking…
Newly declassified records from @DNIGabbard are additional, compelling evidence that the 2016 Russia Collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting, but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.

Gabbard has taken the rare and transparent step of declassifying a December 2016 draft of the President’s Daily Brief or PDB.

This highly classified record, which is a daily national security analysis for the President, assessed that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against (election) infrastructure.”

But after push back from the FBI, then led by James Comey, the PDB was spiked “based on new guidance.”

After a White House Principals meeting, a new intelligence assessment was commissioned, and media leaks followed, reinforcing a new narrative that “Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.”

TIMELINE
December 8, 2016
Draft PDB - Russia “did not impact US election results”

Hours later, FBI withdraws support.

PDB is killed “based on new guidance”

December 9, 2016 Obama White House Gathers Top Cabinet Officials including Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe and others.

New Intelligence Assessment is commissioned

January 6, 2017 New Intel Assessment : Russia interfered to help Trump

More from Clarice Feldman:
Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge

SPIKED - KEY DOCUMENT
Declassified and released via @DNIGabbard

Whistleblower is SPIKED after calling out Intelligence Community leadership for creating a new assessment about Russian election interference in December 2016 that was “contradicted” by multiple, existing reports.

Fast forward three years.

September 2019 Whistleblower was “shocked” the Steele Dossier was part of the January 2019 intelligence report because it was seen as “untrustworthy.”

CONTEXT: Late 2016 is a critical period for the FBI under
@Comey who used the Steele Dossier to justify the FISA surveillance warrants for Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

It would have gutted the 2016 FBI investigation if the intelligence community had reported, at that time, there was no evidence that Russian interference changed the outcome.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [115 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More on the two latest Presidential assassination attempts please, just a bit more.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2025 3:10 Comments || Top||

#2  They seem to have documented what they did. There are mob families all over America shaking their heads in disgust.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone want to revisit whether it was OK to put Tulsi into the position to do this?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 6:59 Comments || Top||



#6  Makes Watergate Look Like Amateur Hour

I've been saying for years that these people make Richard Nixon look like a Boy Scout. Sorry, in spite of all the man's flaws, I still think Nixon was a far better president than any Democrat ever was and better than some of the recent RINOs too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2025 13:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
federal workforce has shrunk by over 22,000 in the DC area ALONE during Trump's first months in office
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Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [142 views] Top|| File under:


#2  It's a good start.
Now move the agencies out of DC and into America.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 07/19/2025 3:46 Comments || Top||

#3  At a certain point people’s severance pay will run out and things will get ugly. The Beltway Bandits can’t absorb this many folks simultaneously. The housing market bubble around DC is going to come back to earth like a meteor. Stand by for tear full human interest stories.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 6:56 Comments || Top||


#5  Might be some bargains to be had in DC, Maryland and northern Virginia real estate.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2025 13:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe even better than Pacific Palisades.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2025 13:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Stand by for tear full human interest stories.

Sob stories. The mainstream media is good at that sort of thing. You should see the local TV stations in LA and San Diego crying about illegal aliens getting deported. It's kinda funny really.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2025 13:26 Comments || Top||

#8  A reduction of 22,000 in the DC area alone.

Appears to be no 'negative' impact to the economy or services. What am I missing ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2025 14:22 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ The SD Union Tribune had a full-time tear jerker writer on Illegals: Kate Morrissey. Glad she's gone
Posted by: Frank G || 07/19/2025 14:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Take anything written by John Maynard Keynes and throw it right in the trash.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 14:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Maybe this is why they're so concerned about restrictions on Medicaid fraud...
Posted by: Regular joe || 07/19/2025 16:18 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announces a complete REJECTION of the World Health Organization’s global health treaty and IHR amendments
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [69 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/19/2025 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Why would anyone even consider a proposal to give a third world communist dominated bureaucracy the power to 'switch off' Western free and open societies on a whim?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/19/2025 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm withholding my opinion until I hear from Dr. Fauci.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2025 8:24 Comments || Top||



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