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Biden drops out. Endorses Kamala
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
BUTLER TOWNSHIP had NO Security Detail. USSS lies.
[Twitter]


… only assigned to a traffic detail, and not security detail.

It was the responsibility of Secret Service to protect President Trump, and they failed.

Kim Cheatle must resign and face criminal charges for being an accessory to the murder of Corey Comperatore, and the attempted murder of President Trump.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 00:14 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  still a toss-up between incompetence or collusion... although "and" is a real possibility.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  If its a choice between incompetence or malice, choose incompetence. "And" gets a distant 2nd.
Posted by: Nguard || 07/21/2024 19:34 Comments || Top||


Washington Post proves that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas *LIED*
[Twitter]


… about the denial of Trump team security requests.

“The assertion that a member of the former president’s security team requested additional security resources that the U.S. Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security rebuffed is absolutely false,” said Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service.
Former Chicago PD spokeshole. Referred to as "Google Me" by Second City Cop
The Washington Post later reported "Guglielmi said the agency had learned new information indicating the agency’s headquarters may have in fact denied some requests for additional security from Trump’s detail and was reviewing documentation to understand the specific interactions better."

The Congress already had enough justification to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over deliberately causing a border crisis. The Secret Service's mishandling of the Trump assassination attempt and the DHS cover-up add to the disgraceful record of one of the worst Cabinet officials in U.S. history.

Mayorkas should have been removed from office a long time ago. The fact he is still there means that the Biden administration and the Congress feel they are above accountability to the American people.

Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  The Congress also already has enough info to impeach Biden for his mismanagement of US border security, bad enough to be called either a "high crime" or a "misdemeanor" justifying removal from office.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2 

Has the WaPo suddenly gone Real News?
Or has its declining readers and Ad revenues forced it to report some occasional truth?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  WaPo is in a brief period where it will actually commit journalism when the facts are against the Biden regime. This period will end when Biden resigns.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/21/2024 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  In a just world she would be fired and jailed for criminal negligence.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2024 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  They allowed the shooter to scan the security setup with a drone and then sent the president to the podium with no knowledge of the security threat. They are broken.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 15:10 Comments || Top||


Democrat Mayor Arrested for Possession of Child Porn hung out with celebrities and other important people
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Ex-Maryland mayor sentenced to more than a century in child pornography case may end up serving a fraction behind bars

[MSN-Law&Crime] The 48-year-old former mayor of College Park, Maryland was sentenced to more than 100 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to 140 charges for the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Associate Seventh Circuit Court Judge Karen H. Mason on Monday ordered Patrick Wojahn to serve 150 years in a state correctional facility, but decided to suspend 120 years of that sentence, authorities announced.

Specifically, Wojahn in August pleaded guilty to 60 counts of distribution, 40 counts of possession, and 40 counts of possession of child sex abuse material with intent to distribute, records show.

Judge Mason also sentenced Wojahn to serve five years of probation upon his release and to register as a sex offender. Under Maryland state law, defendants convicted of nonviolent mostly peaceful crimes are eligible to be released on parole after completing 25% of their sentence. In Wojahn’s case that would be 7 1/2 years.

Effectively, that means that if Wojahn is released and violates the conditions of his probation, he can be sent back to prison for the remaining 120 years of his sentence.

THE SENTENCE
In a news conference following the sentencing hearing, prosecutors said that the CSAM found on Wojahn’s electronic devices was quite disturbing and included pictures and videos of infants and toddlers being sexually abused by adults.

Prosecutors reportedly also said that there was hundreds of child victims being sexually abused in the material found on Wojahn’s devices, noting that Sherlocks were able to identify 52 of the victims, at least one of whom had died by suicide. Several of those victims penned victim impact statements that prosecutors read in court, The Baltimore Sun reported.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Wojahn in March resigned as mayor of College Park — home to the University of Maryland campus — following his arrest in March 2023.
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  [RT]Children raped at US migrant shelters
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 7:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
Fun video from France Parliament showing how much they love and respect each other
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 16:45 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Rod Blagojevich SPEAKS

I’ve known Obama since 1995. We both come out of Chicago politics. I know how it works. He’s behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary voters & replace Biden with his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics. Selection over election. The bosses over the people. pic.twitter.com/5ibvaX9IzP

— Rod Blagojevich (@realBlagojevich) July 21, 2024
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 15:53 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


deleted post by Ark DanWhitCongress
Yes, it's been deleted.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 02:09 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dan Whitfield was born in Clearlake Oaks, California. He earned three associate degrees from Northwest Arkansas Community College, magna cum laude, in 2020. Whitfield's professional experience includes working as an information services intern and as a quality engineer intern with JB Hunt, as an instrumentation technician, in cable, and with Dominos Pizza. - BALLETPEDIA
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 5:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't you just feel the love and compassion he has for the people of Arkansas?
Posted by: Crusader || 07/21/2024 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Would you eat a Dominons Pizza delivered by this freak ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Whit appears to be a twit that doesn’t

Finish as you please.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 15:19 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Secret Service says it denied Trump additional resources in recent years even as his team complained
[CNN] Former President Donald Trump’s security detail had complained they were not being given enough resources and personnel by the Secret Service over the past two years, and the agency acknowledged Saturday it denied some requests.

A spokesperson for the Secret Service said in a statement Saturday that the agency has not provided certain resources in the past but has instead provided other security measures including from local partners.

The news comes amid widespread concerns about how a sniper was able to obtain rooftop access roughly 150 meters from Trump’s position at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last week.

The Washington Post and The New York Times reported earlier Saturday that the Secret Service denied previous request from Trump’s security team over the past two years.

Some close to the former president felt the decisions, which they believed were personal to Trump, came from the top ranks of the agency.

While Trump holds close relationships with members of his Secret Service detail, the relationship between those agents and the upper ranks of the agency has been tense for some time, according to multiple sources familiar with the dynamic.

In response to questions from CNN over whether the Secret Service had denied additional security requests, a spokesperson told CNN the agency makes "modifications" when certain resources are not provided to protectees.

"In some instances where specific Secret Service specialized units or resources were not provided, the agency made modifications to ensure the security of the protectee," Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, wrote in a statement. "This may include utilizing state or local partners....
Or 'Joe Shi* the Rag Man' from DHS.
....to provide specialized functions or otherwise identifying alternatives to reduce public exposure of a protectee."
Emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 08:08 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some close to the former president felt the decisions, which they believed were personal to Trump, came from the top ranks of the agency.

Of course it "came from the top."

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||



#4  ^ What about bald corrupt incompetent traitors?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 11:30 Comments || Top||

#5  It seems the US-SS can't make its mind up, as they were denying this fact a week ago.
Posted by:   || 07/21/2024 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  The horse faced Secret Service director will likely resign just before testifying to congress, them plead the 5th.

She was likely turning down the additional resurce requests for Trump as directed by the WH. No one under her would dare make such a decision, nor would she make the decision without POLITICAL COVER !

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:15 Comments || Top||

#7  The security that day was deliberately weakened. While I'm not completely in the "They knew about the shooting and wanted Trump dead" camp (although they would shed no tears and private pop Champaign if he was), it was a deliberate process to bring the USS to that state.

1)First a DEI incompetent chief is pushed into the position by Jill
2) DEI hires and promotement are pushed through the agency preventing competent people from being hired or getting promoted.
3) USS refuses to give Trump more protection. And while it is USS policy to only give candidates the full protection, it was pretty bloody obvious Trump was the guy.
4) Jill decides to have an event on the same day as the rally pulling agents (and I'm assuming the more experienced ones)
5) Trump is now "protected" by his core group he had and a bunch of ones thrown in without adequate training and leaders.

The stage was set for what happened.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2024 13:24 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Er huh, Mr. President we've just had a sitation develop that we need to run to ground before you speak. Can you hold-off for 15-20 miniutes ?

Was the Orange Man or his staff TOLD there was a potential situation developing? Oh FOK NO !
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Wonder how well staffed the 2028 Dem nominee's detail is going to be staffed - three fat broads and a token male is what he / she / xer deserve after this crap. Severe payback in every conceivable way and manner is the only way to stop this.
Posted by: Raj || 07/21/2024 13:35 Comments || Top||

#11  As all of this was unfolding, did ANYONE on the Butler Secret Service team contact folks monitoring in events from D.C.? Ask for guidance? You know damn well there's D.C. monitoring and reporting effort, either Secret Service, Homeland Security, FBI, or all three.

Come on you sorry SOB's, come clean or leave the field.

I'd like to hear from Erik Prince. Has anyone heard from him. How about JSOC at Fort Bragg? Opinions, comments ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:41 Comments || Top||

#12  They all need attempted murder charges...
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||

#13  Just the most casual glance at the visible security at Butler fairgrounds at the time of the rally would have led a decent security team to directly tell the candidate "Sir, we cannot adequate protect you for this event. You must call it off."
Has that ever happened, even once?
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 15:06 Comments || Top||

#14  European Union Parliament Refuses to Condemn Trump Assassination Attempt
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 15:43 Comments || Top||

#15  #14 Link isn't working?
Posted by: Crusader || 07/21/2024 18:52 Comments || Top||

#16  The echo chamber is your friend. ;-)

European Union Parliament Refuses to Condemn Trump Assassination Attempt
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 07/21/2024 19:06 Comments || Top||

#17  Maybe if Joe steps down, we can clean up the media Butler, PA stories.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 21:46 Comments || Top||

#18  Thank you for finding Grom’s link, Pancho Poodle8452. He accidentally pasted the headline where the URLis supposed to go — a first for him, I think.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/21/2024 23:01 Comments || Top||


Nevada: Obama Judge Tosses GOP Lawsuit Seeking to Ban Mail-In Ballots Received FOUR DAYS After Election Day
[Gateway] An Obama judge has tossed out a lawsuit by the GOP to ban mail-in ballots in Nevada received up to four days after election day.

The challenge to the state’s law passed in 2021, which is designed to allow Democratic organizers to commit fraud and steal elections from Republicans, was dismissed by Obama-appointed Federal District Court Chief Judge Miranda Du as lacking standing.

In her 15-page ruling, Du said there was no evidence that the plaintiffs "have suffered, or will likely suffer, an injury" from the rules, which allow Democrats and corrupt election officials to "find" the required number of votes to steal elections in which Republican candidates have a small but surmountable lead.

"It does not necessarily follow that mail ballots arriving after Election Day will skew Democratic," she wrote. "And even if later-arriving mail ballots have favored Democrats past elections, it is far from guaranteed that Nevada voters will behave similarly this November."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 02:02 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The principal strength of Democratic party is people in high positions who KNOW they would be in the gutter without DEI.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 3:04 Comments || Top||

#2 
Give the snail pace for the USPS since 2020.

How about at least not accepting for count and holding unopened, all ballots with a US Postmark AFTER the Election date?

Then have those envelops opened only by State Police investigators, while witnessed by a Political Party Candidate appointed poll watcher.

Have those Post Election ballots each assigned a tracking serial #, fingerprinted, counted and the prints and results entered into a database.

Then run and eliminate all matching fingerprint stuffed ballots.

ID the Stuffers, arrest and charge them with Felony Civil Rights Violations for each ballot found matching another.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 6:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting ruling because I recall in the 2020 Pennsylvania lawsuit about counting ballots the judge ruled ‘plaintiffs should have sued before the election; not after’. So there you have it. Per-election=no standing —— post-election = too late to change the rules.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/21/2024 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  There's that whole "lack of standing" thing. Legalese for "your position offends my personal beliefs".
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  And so it begins again. 400 million votes coming in for whoever the Dems run for president.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 15:12 Comments || Top||


Cheatle using Signal to evade FOIA requests?
[X]
Serious allegations have been raised that USSS Director Kim Cheatle may be using Signal to communicate with colleagues, potentially hiding or altering communications to evade FOIA requests. Such actions are against federal law and could lead to legal action and investigations.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 00:44 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Twitchy - Report Claims That the Director of the Secret Service Will Resign Monday

Can't take the Fifth Amendment as a Federal employee ?

She's hiding something, WTF is it ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^That she's as suitable for her job as much as Joe suitable for his?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 2:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Send her funky ass back to Frito-Lay (owned by Pepsico) whence she came.

Have you ever seen a more lawless Administration?

Have you ever seen a more toothless system to do anything about it? Well, except for old Blood and Guts Jim Jordan. He's all over things and will get to the bottom of those things since it's all for the "American people".

Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/21/2024 4:52 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Have you ever seen a more lawless Administration?

No.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 5:16 Comments || Top||

#5 
Nothing is 100 % secure, if you run it over the Public Internet.

IF the Deep State really wanted the info., it's obtainable.

Just do a little digging on "Signal" and see what Cellebrite claims.

Or what WikiLeaks found and released "Vault7",
years ago found.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 7:11 Comments || Top||

#6  I read somewhere that Cheatle had 27 years with the USSS before being 'promoted' to Pepsico. She's got more to hide than just the last few years.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/21/2024 12:04 Comments || Top||

#7  If she broke the law, she ought to be charged in January.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 15:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm sure it was going on long before then but when Hillary was found to be evading various "Sunshine" laws by conducting official business via non-official-un-accountable communication systems, the hammer should have dropped. We can't as a society ever hold government accountable if we're going to not prosecute those who violate this principle at the highest of levels.
Posted by: Crusader || 07/21/2024 18:06 Comments || Top||


RUMINT? Kim Cheatle to *RESIGN* as soon as Monday
[X]
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  Believe it when I see it, and maybe not then.
Posted by: alanc || 07/21/2024 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The gun is right but it should be Old Overholt for the real suicidal depression thing.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Cheatle Bailey has no credibility regardless of whether she stays or goes. The Secret Service now has a reputation equivalent to the FBI. Institution after institution are being sucked into the Honey Dipper truck.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 15:02 Comments || Top||


FBI informant Alexander Smirnov's face is finally seen for the first time in unearthed photos after...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … being charged with lying to feds about Joe and Hunter Biden bribery claims.
Good lord. Exactly how gullible are those FBI agents?
FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who was indicted for lying to the feds after claiming Joe Biden took a $5million bribe, has been unmasked for the first time by DailyMail.com. Israeli-American Smirnov, 43, was secretly used for years by the FBI as a trusted Confidential Human Source. But every time he appears in public he goes to great lengths to cover his face to avoid being recognized. But now DailyMail.com has obtained previously unpublished pictures of the man who told his FBI handler he was at meetings with a Ukrainian oligarch who bragged about bribing Joe Biden and his son Hunter with $10million.

Republican lawmakers published an FBI write-up of the claims, and seized upon it as evidence of the president's corruption.

Smirnov now faces 25 years in prison for allegedly fabricating the claims, and is accused of 'high-level' and 'extremely recent' links with senior Russian intelligence officials – including the chief of an assassination squad.
Or is someone trying to gin up another Russia, Russia, Russia!
An FBI report describing his claims about the Bidens became one of the shocking documents in the Republican impeachment probe of the President when it was published last year.

The allegations are now being cast as potential Russian propaganda by Special Prosecutor David Weiss. In federal court filings, Weiss said Smirnov's travel and communication records show he didn't engage with Burisma executives until 2017, and he never met Zlochevsky.

One of Weiss's court submissions claimed Smirnov had 'high-level contacts with Russian intelligence operatives,' and that he passed on 'false information' to the FBI from these sources. The filing said Smirnov told his FBI handlers that one of his confidants was a son of a 'former high-ranking Russian government official,' who 'controls two groups of individuals tasked with carrying out assassination efforts in a third-party country.'

Prosecutors said Smirnov had planned to be back in the US for just two days, before flying to meet his Kremlin spy contacts, when he was arrested in Vegas.

Weiss claimed Smirnov had $6million in 'liquid funds', including $3.8million accessible by his 'wife/girlfriend', who pays his personal expenses from her own account – an apparent reference to Lavrenyuk, 58.

Residency records show her living with Smirnov in San Juan Capistrano, California, until 2023. A three-bed, 2,805 sq ft condo in a Vegas luxury high-rise was purchased in her name for $980,000 in February 2022.

Smirnov has a murky background with ties to trading of penny stock public companies and offshore companies. A source who worked with Smirnov provided company documents showing the FBI informant is linked to a firm called A.S. Financials Ltd in the Republic of Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific island chain off the northeast coast of Australia.

But in February prosecutors charged Smirnov with lying to the FBI by fabricating the bribery story – and suggested that he was in fact a Russian double agent planting Kremlin disinformation.

Smirnov, represented by top Vegas attorney David Chesnoff, has entered a not guilty plea.

Photographs exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com show him partying in Las Vegas, his city of residence before he was thrown in federal prison awaiting trial.

The mysterious informant has never been pictured in public without a mask. At a court hearing on February 20, Smirnov's girlfriend Diana Lavrenyuk, 58, and cousin Linor Shefer, 38, were pictured flanking him as he walked through a gaggle of journalists and photographers with his face covered with sunglasses, a face mask, scarf and hood. Photographs inside the federal courthouse were prohibited.

The unmasked pictures, obtained by DailyMail.com from a source who has worked with Smirnov, show him flying business class with Lavrenyuk, taking a selfie while smoking a cigarette beside the Bellagio Fountain in Vegas, and attending a gala dinner with his girlfriend, who wore a red dress, furs, and a costume mask over her eyes.

Other undated photos show Smirnov dressed in a black suit, red rose boutonniere and gold chain, appearing sloppy with his eyes closed, at a Vegas hotel dinner table with Lavrenyuk posing by his side.

In April CBS News previously obtained a grainy passport photo of Smirnov from several years ago – the only other unmasked picture of the mysterious man.

The Israeli-American kept a low profile while he acted as a paid informant for federal law enforcement over 13 years, helping numerous criminal and counterintelligence probes, according to prosecutors.

His indictment revealed he was the 'Confidential Human Source' who told handlers about alleged 2015 and 2016 meetings with the owner of Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, in which the oligarch boasted about bribing Joe and his son Hunter Biden with $5million each.

Smirnov and his girlfriend are pictured again during the same Vegas trip, posing around the dinner table

Despite being named after Smirnov's initials, the firm's sole director and shareholder is his father, Konstantin Smirnov, a Russian-born Israeli resident, 2017 company documents show.

Konstantin is also a partner in Felymos Trades Inc, a company based in the offshore tax haven of Panama, another document obtained by DailyMail.com shows.

Hints of the FBI informant's double-life slipped through to neighbors at his former home in San Juan Capistrano in conversations over dinner at a local steakhouse or backyard barbecue.

'He said he had connections with important people. In one conversation he mentioned that he had a meeting with the Minister of Defense in Afghanistan,' one neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, told DailyMail.com. 'And he had connections with important people in the US.'

'I know he was involved with the government. I know he was originally from the East Bloc. Though I don't think he actually told me that,' said Mike Pastore, a 75-year-old mortgage broker who lives opposite the terracotta-tiled four-bed house where Smirnov resided the past five years before moving to Vegas in 2023.

'From time to time, we talked about geopolitical stuff, and he was well informed. It was an interesting conversation with him… He traveled a lot.'

The government's prosecution of Smirnov for lying is a dramatic reversal of their position from just last year, when FBI director Christopher Wray said that the then-unidentified informant was so valuable to the Bureau's investigations that they could not release a write-up of his interviews with a handler to Republican lawmakers.

And after using the intelligence Smirnov provided for many federal probes over a decade, the new charges against him have opened a can of worms for the government.

Other defendants, who were convicted after federal probes involving Smirnov, have started challenging their charges.

Andrew Hackett, 35, says he is a victim of a government cover-up of Smirnov's involvement in his case, over a pump-and-dump stock trading scheme.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:


Secret Service honchos denied Trump additional security for 2 years before assassination attempt: damning report
[NY Post] The rank smell continues
Secret Service officials repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s request for additional security in the two years before last weekend’s assassination attempt, The Post has learned.

The ex-president, 78, asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues, four insiders told The Washington Post, which first reported the damning revelation.

Each request was shot down by senior officials who claimed the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for, the outlet reported.

Secret Service agents, alone with local law enforcement, were responsible for securing the rally when 20-year-old gunman Matthew Thomas Crooks opened fire at the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign outdoor rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday.

Crooks was lying on a rooftop just 130 yards away from Trump when he squeezed off as many as seven rounds, grazing the politician in the ear and killing an audience member who sat behind the stage. Two others were seriously injured.

Outrage at the security lapse led the federal security agency to up Trump’s detail to the same level as President Biden, The Post exclusively reported earlier this week.

The Secret Service initially denied claims that someone from Trump’s camp asked for more help ahead of the deadly shooting as “absolutely false.”

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has faced mounting pressure to resign in the last week, doubled down on the denials in a meeting with Trump campaign leadership in Wisconsin on Monday, the insiders said.

After massive holes in the ex-president’s security team were revealed, however, the agency has changed its tune.

Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, admitted to The Washington Post that the agency had denied Trump’s request for additional security, but claimed it had only learned about the new information in the wake of the tragedy.

Trump has continued on the campaign trail despite the terrifying experience, this time with beefed-up security at his disposal.

He was given a “pretty unprecedented level of police officers” Saturday for his indoor event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the presidential hopeful and his new running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, were welcomed by roughly 14,000 adoring supporters.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail’s take:
Secret Service chiefs REJECTED Trump's requests for more agents and snipers at his events for two...

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … years before assassination attempt - as their shocking reasons are revealed.

Secret Service officials refused to provide Donald Trump with additional security in the two years prior to last weekend's assassination, according to a report.

The damning details revealed that the ex-president's request for more agents and magnetometers at events he attended was denied.

Four insiders told The Washington Post that each request was rejected by senior officials. The higher-ups of the Secret Service allegedly claimed that the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for.

It has also been revealed that Trump was receiving less protection - after losing the election and his bid for a second term in 2020 - than other former presidents and major party presidential candidates.

These oversights have been unearthed in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Trump, 78, last Saturday at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Crooks' attempt on Trump's life was enabled by multiple instances of negligence on behalf of the security agents. Somehow, Crooks was able to fly a drone over the rally site the same day as the event - which investigators believe was an effort on his behalf to scope out the situation and prepare for his assassination attempt. Additionally, he was spotted and then watched by law enforcement at the Trump rally site - because they sensed something wasn't right - and yet they managed to lose sight of him before the carnage unfolded, according to reports.

They now face a torrent of questions about how the first assassination attempt in 43 years was allowed to happen.

Last Saturday night, FBI Special Agent Kevin Rojek released a statement saying that it was 'surprising' that Crooks managed to fire off so many shots.

There have been suggestions that routine checks would have eliminated all potential threats - which calls into question the standard of the Secret Service under the current administration. Experts have told DailyMail.com that these failings are a symptom of an 'agency in crisis' after decades of understaffing and corrupt promotion and hiring practices.

John Koskinen, from the nonpartisan National Academy of Public Administration, led an 18-month study into the Secret Service's workforce in 2019.
That was on President Trump’s watch. No wonder they were out to get him.
Saturday's events shocked him, but Koskinen was not surprised by the whistleblower claims, telling DailyMail.com that the Service has been struggling to cover an increasing number of people and respond to more sophisticated threats in recent years.

'Life has gotten much more complicated,' he said, 'the threats are more sophisticated and ongoing, and now you're in the middle of a campaign.'

Cheatle, 53, was appointed director of the Secret Service in 2022, having worked for the agency for 27 years before leaving in 2019 to head up global security at PepsiCo.

Announcing her selection, President Joe Biden revealed that 'Kim' had 'served on my security detail when I was Vice President' and he and Dr. Jill Biden 'came to trust her judgment and counsel'.
Sure, but he is an idiot.
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#2  They will remove the figurehead at the top but the acting director will likely be the one who was really blocking Trump’s protection and swapping in the non-Secret Service personnel.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 14:52 Comments || Top||

#3 
it was 'surprising' that Crooks managed to fire off so many shots.
Not only that, he was able to fire two bursts which sounded so different from each other.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 15:16 Comments || Top||


Gavin Newsom would appreciate it if you didn't retweet this video of him apologizing for getting caught sleeping with his campaign manager's wife
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

That would be the then-hard drinking Ms Ruby Rippey Gibney, his appointment secretary when he was mayor of San Francisco, known socially as Mrs. Alex Tourk. The affair was revealed in 2007, and she reportedly quit drinking shortly thereafter. One wonders how much less appealing Hizzoner was without beer goggles…

Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, at least he sleeps with women.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2 
A Heterosexual affair in California?
Surely, that will cost him reelection.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  I am deeply sorry I got caught.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 07/21/2024 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Newsom is not interested in losing to Trump. He will wait til 2028.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 14:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Tulsi Gabbard speaks in video.
[X] Biden’s out, Kamala is in. Don’t be fooled: policies won’t change. Just like Biden wasn’t the one calling the shots, Kamala Harris won’t be either. She is the new figurehead for the deep state and the maidservant of Hillary Clinton, queen of the cabal of warmongers. They will continue their efforts to engulf the world in war and taking away our liberty.
.. more in the video at the link.
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Biden drops out. Endorses Kamala
[FoxNews] President Biden announced Sunday that he will suspend his 2024 re-election campaign amid mounting pressure from within the Democratic Party for the president to end his 2024 bid after a disastrous debate performance last month.

The unprecedented announcement came as an increasing number of Democrat lawmakers had begun to publicly call for Biden to step aside and the party's leadership reportedly was engaged in efforts to convince Biden, 81, he could not win in November's general election against former President Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee who Biden defeated four years ago to win the White House.

And Biden quickly offered his "full support and endorsement" for Vice President Kamala Harris to take over as the party's presidential nominee.

"It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president," Biden wrote in a public letter. "While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term."

Biden said he will formally address the nation later this week about his decision.

The Trump campaign quickly started fundraising off the blockbuster news. Within 440 minutes of the preisdent's announcement, the Trump campaign put out a fundraising post on X with the subject line, "Biden just suspended his campaign."

Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2024 14:18 || Comments || Link || [11153 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So the rumors of him dropping this Sunday were true.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2024 14:19 Comments || Top||


#3 
Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Bee: Jill Biden Drops Out Of Presidential Race
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 14:41 Comments || Top||

#5  I honestly didn't think he would. Wow.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/21/2024 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  The Hollywood influence was apparently a factor in his decision. Something to think about.
Posted by: Pheresing Chaviper1396 || 07/21/2024 14:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Will donks rally around CackleHo or will the convention be a brawl? I'm hoping for a brawl.
Posted by: Pheresing Chaviper1396 || 07/21/2024 14:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm kinda hoping for a full on Arkancide throwdown at the convention. I'd love for Cankles to go caveman on Harris and Harris to truly let loose.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/21/2024 14:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Chuckie approves!

https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1815090503060521274
Posted by: Bobby || 07/21/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#10  It is national ice cream day.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#11  I sure called that one wrong.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 15:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Blood is in the water. See if he can barricade himself in the Oval Office.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||

#13  Debate was 27 June.

For the Bidens, it took over 3 weeks to go from Denial to Anger to Bargaining to Depression to Grief.

For most of us it went from satisfaction to elation to schadenfreude and back to elation.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/21/2024 15:25 Comments || Top||

#14  Watch for the blanket pardon for the Biden crime Family
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||

#15  Perhaps Musk can offer a 6 month buy-out and he can leave tomorrow after nap time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||

#16  Biden was just waiting for the check to clear.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/21/2024 15:50 Comments || Top||

#17  Joe gonna be pissed when he finds out.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/21/2024 16:01 Comments || Top||

#18  Waited until the assassination attempt didn't work.
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 16:05 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ This
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/21/2024 16:11 Comments || Top||

#20  The Biden-Clinton-Harris wing of old-demokrat kleptocrats are now aligned against Obama and the zealot/ideologues for control of the Presidency/government lottery. Hilda just endorsed Kamala and Obama did not. Signals to minions have been set. Both sides will play nice for about a week and then the blackbooks open and the battery-counterbattery fires begin. Interesting and the quality of the dirt, when it gets to stuff that can be collected by sources only governmental resources like the 3-letters command, will show where the Deep State betting is going and who they gave it to. Fascinating.

BUT...the people in the WH, The Foreign Policy/National Security leadership at senior levels, are ALL going to taking their eyes off the ball, polishing resume's and sucking up. The already amateur-hour level of attention will rapidly diminish, and Iran, Russia, China, Cuba, and mutts from every third rate-shithole will know it and see this as the moment to act! This is a DEFCON 2 moment my friends....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/21/2024 16:25 Comments || Top||

#21  Fred has it at #18.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 16:36 Comments || Top||

#22  My bet is Hillary comes on board as veep to mind the store and keep Kammy looking over her shoulder. Ideal Dem candidates are then Sherrod Brown with Tulsi Gabbard. Sherrod offsets Vance and can play “the adult in the room.” Tulsi punches the DEI buttons and is also a vet. She can play up reconciliation with the Dems the way Vance did with Trump to chase the swing votes. More mainline candidates increase making the margin of cheat believable
Posted by: Griter+Slash1619 || 07/21/2024 16:40 Comments || Top||

#23  Tulsi filleted Kamala like a (pick your color) perch in 2020 - they can't coexist.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 16:55 Comments || Top||

#24  A millenial vp vs a boomer vp.

I think millennials and below are sick of old people.

Posted by: Cravirt Poodle4329 || 07/21/2024 16:58 Comments || Top||

#25  And just stood up for Vance. I don’t trust her, but was surprised she wasn’t a daytime speaker at the RNC.

Posted by: Cravirt Poodle4329 || 07/21/2024 17:04 Comments || Top||

#26  Harmeet K. Dhillon
@pnjaban
We are witnessing a third world-style coup engineered by oligarchs as we speak, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Stay calm, folks. It’s about to get crazy.
11:40 AM · Jul 21, 2024
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Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 17:12 Comments || Top||

#27  There are questions being floated as to why Biden doesn't resign now instead of finishing out his term.

Perhaps it would be because of who's in line for a President Harris' Vice President until January. That would scr*w up the Senate.

That and she'd be the first female Prez instead of Saint Swillery.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/21/2024 17:21 Comments || Top||

#28  There are questions being floated as to why Biden doesn't resign now instead of finishing out his term.

Perhaps it would be because of who's in line for a President Harris' Vice President until January. That would scr*w up the Senate.

That and she'd be the first female Prez instead of Saint Swillery.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/21/2024 17:25 Comments || Top||

#29  Ref #22. "Not thus shit again" graphic here please.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 17:25 Comments || Top||

#30  Whoops. Double post.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/21/2024 17:26 Comments || Top||

#31  There is a chance Joe gets up tomorrow and forgets he dropped out… he will remember when he sees a Kamala for President ad on CNN where she takes credit for ‘finally defeating Medicare’.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/21/2024 17:44 Comments || Top||

#32  Why not resign? Maybe because the Speaker of the House would be next in line of succession. You think the Donks would nominate someone to fill the position (see - Gerald Ford) that the Trunks would confirm? I guess they could ask for Mitt Romney RINO who they called Hitler when he ran against Obama.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2024 18:40 Comments || Top||

#33  Apparently it's conspiracy theory season - already one circulating that someone simply persuaded Joe's Twitter poster to slap that thing up during his afternoon nap. Unlikely - but it'd be hilarious watching him try to walk it back.
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 07/21/2024 19:06 Comments || Top||

#34  Wait a minute. To be clear Biden has not said anything. This announcement, I think came from his personal twitter account. He as said NOTHING in public.

Fishy?
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/21/2024 20:28 Comments || Top||

#35  Too angry to show his face or make any recording? Jill and others cut the deals and made the announcements knowing he can't let the public know he is that disconnected from power?

He may well be that far gone, the last couple of days he has look really decrepit and damaged, perhaps Kamala may be President for a time after all?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/21/2024 20:36 Comments || Top||

#36  See how quickly the deep state and mainstream media ditched the Butler, PA news cycle? Memory Hole traffic backed up for miles, all lanes.

Hey Joe! Thanks for your assist. We'll see what we can do for Hunter and the rest of the BCF.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 21:32 Comments || Top||

#37  COVID ravages old people.
Posted by: Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857 || 07/21/2024 22:05 Comments || Top||

#38  /\ "Old people" are the problem, don't ya know ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 23:20 Comments || Top||


Plaudits and protests: What to expect when Netanyahu addresses the US Congress
[ToI]
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 06:38 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:


Dems Plot 'Loophole' Of Rebellion If Biden Won't Step Down
[ZH] The Chicago DNC Convention is gonna be LIT
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 06:27 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Super Duper Delegates!?!?
Posted by: Airandee || 07/21/2024 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Neither Biden or Harris would still be in it unless they knew the fix was in (like last time). They'll be riding it out if Joe has to be wheeled in on a gurney with IV's.

The day after his inauguration, all bets are off.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:21 Comments || Top||

#3  If they send Brandon to a taxidermist he'd still get at least 20% of the vote. It's not the person, it's the power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2024 13:41 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Amen !
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Biden drops out of US presidential race
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  So he can still pardon Hunter and prevent Kamala from being president.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/21/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||

#7  After Biden resigns his presidency, he will be available to assume leadership of the Secret Service. He has a proven record of incompetence.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 15:08 Comments || Top||


Vance to Harris: ‘What the Hell Have You Done?'
[AmericanGreatness] Speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, MI, Vice Presidential Nominee J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) mentioned said that Vice President Kamal Harris doesn’t like him and even said he was disloyal to the U.S.

Vance’s response:

@JDVance1
: Kamala Harris said that I had no loyalty to this country. Well, I don't know Kamala — I did serve in the United States Marine Corps and built a business. What the hell have you done other than collect a check?

Vance, who has represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate since 2023, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2003 after graduating from Middletown (OH) High School and served in Iraq.

Harris’ career has consisted entirely of government and political jobs, having begun her career as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, Calif.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 02:34 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think she closed the border as Border Czar.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/21/2024 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Will Vance receive a call from Willi Brown?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  As California Attorney General Kamala Harris
prosecuted David Daleiden for his undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood for the
selling of fetal tissues and organs for big bucks to research institutions.
This was her pro-abortion qualification to run as VP to Joe Biden.
Posted by: boomerc || 07/21/2024 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden to Harris: No, you won't be president.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/21/2024 14:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh I thought what she did was sleep her way up the political ladder.

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/21/2024 14:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Not only has Harris cashed her checks, she is eligible for a nice stiff lifetime pension and healthcare!
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 15:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Biden just dropped out.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 15:19 Comments || Top||


Election fraud video of Hillary Clinton's campaign coordinator... Trevor LaFauci busted ripping up Trump ballots
[X] Project Veritas caught him on video.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 01:33 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  At least the Moslems ain't drinkers...

Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 2:26 Comments || Top||


Mark Zuckerberg Praises Donald Trump as An American 'Badass'
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] My, how quickly the winds can change [or do they]. Previously in order to assist his ideological travelers, specifically Barack Obama
That’s just how white folks will do you....
, Mark Zuckerberg
...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates....
gave the DNC (If you're white you ain't right!)
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate...
a $500 million ballot harvesting operation as a gift in 2020. It was one of the most obvious examples of election fraud facilitated.

Fast forward a full election cycle, the installed 2020 outcome, Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
, is on the ropes and being isolated, ridiculed and marginalized -in part- by the same network of ideological travelers (i.e. the Obama network).

When asked if he was going to participate in funding the goals and objectives of the political apparatus in 2024, Zuckerberg announced his intention to stay out of the game of influence, he would not be endorsing "any political candidate." He then went further saying what he witnessed in the liquidation attempt of President Trump, "was one of the most badass things I ever witnessed in my life."
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Big call from an American candyass.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 07/21/2024 3:44 Comments || Top||

#2  What will a badass do to a punk who orchestrated and funded the 2020 steal?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 14:43 Comments || Top||


CNN's John King Spells Out Bad News For Biden
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dude has Trump at 272 before he even calls the swing states.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 19:57 Comments || Top||

#3  "Bring Chapstick"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 19:58 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 19:58 Comments || Top||


Anthony Fauci Dismisses Trump's Wounds From Assassination Attempt
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Anthony Fauci
…who hasn’t practiced medicine for over half a century, having gone straight into government research following his internship…
dismissed the gunshot wound Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
sustained during Saturday's liquidation attempt, telling CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
viewers: 'he's in the clear.'

Fauci made the comments after the former president, 78, wore a large white bandage over the gunshot wound on his ear throughout the Republican National Convention this week.

'I don't think there is much more to it,' Fauci, 83, said of Trump's wounds while talking to CNN host Wolf Blitzer on Friday. 'It was a bullet shot that grazed his ear.'
And Covid-19 is just a common cold virus, dude. No reason to force the population to isolate while shutting down the nation’s economy.
Trump was nearly killed last week when gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks shot up a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania - but there has been no formal update on his condition.

Fauci, who served as chief medical advisor to the president, added that, according to the physician who examined Trump, there was no other further damage.
The point isn't that the bullet only grazed Trump and left a hole in his ear. The reason he got grazed was that somebody tried seriously to murder him. Had he not turned his head precisely when he did, his brains would have splattered the people behind him.

Update on Trump's wound
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] What President Trump’s physician has to say on the subject:
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Question, is he willing to stand about 140 meters from an amateur shooter and have his ear grazed?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||


#3  Add to Trump's "Firsts":

First POTUS with a pierced ear.*

* record is asterisked because there is evidence Carter had his labia pierced.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  "I'VE DONE WORSE TO BEAGLE PUPS AND LOOK HOW THEY TURNED OUT."
Posted by: `AlmostAmonymous5839 || 07/21/2024 10:57 Comments || Top||

#5  The left has many experts that routinely lie to them. Fauci is the only one who has made a profit out of making his believers sick or dead.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 14:35 Comments || Top||


Most donors are calling for the ouster of both Biden and Harris.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Hillary will be 77 years old in October 2024.

A lot of the Democratic bigshots are in this age group.

Pelosi born in 1940.
Bernie born in 1941.
Hillary born in 1947.
Liz Warren born in 1949.
Schumer born in 1950.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/21/2024 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The 'voters' had their say in the primaries and chose Biden/Harris. That's nice. Now the 'donors' want to buy their way out of that quandary?

If only the donors had recognized JoJo's problems sooner!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/21/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4 
Their operation of a illegal shadow government, after Mr. Biden mentally lost it about 2 years ago. Then their conspired denials to hide it from the American Public, is now costing them millions in needed campaign dollars.

For some, it may even cost them rest of their free lives, given the US Criminal code punishment for such treasonous crimes.
Posted by:   || 07/21/2024 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  ZH: 'A Total Failure' - Donors Vent Over Kamala Harris Conference-Call Flop
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 11:29 Comments || Top||


Democratic Party plans virtual roll call for president between Aug. 1-7
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Democratic Party plans to formally nominate Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
for president in an early virtual roll call vote in early August, the Democratic National Committee said Friday, as calls for the 81-year-old leader to step down from the campaign mount.

The DNC (If you're white you ain't right!)
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate...
's convention rules committee met virtually Friday and decided the vote would not take place before Aug. 1 or after Aug. 7. The committee said a final date would be set by DNC leadership after a second committee meeting next week.

The 3,896 pledged delegates will be given a 24-hour notice before the virtual ballot window opens.

There also are 700 automatic "superdelegates," which include members of the House and Senate, governors, state party chairs and DNC members. They are not permitted to vote on the first ballot unless it's determined that one candidate has an absolute majority of pledged delegates.

Biden won 99% of the pledged delegates.

The four-day Democratic convention is scheduled to start Aug. 19 in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Typically, parties nominate their candidates at their national conventions, during live roll-call votes. In 2020, the process was conducted virtually because of the pandemic.

Party leaders say the virtual roll call is necessary to avoid litigation in Ohio, which requires major parties to have a presidential nominee by 90 days from the presidential election to appear on the ballot. This year that date falls on Aug. 7.

"My goal as counsel is to ensure we address and avoid all unnecessary legal risk on the way. And that's why we need a virtual nominating process," Dana Remus, a former White House counsel advising the DNC on the process, said. "It's why the wisest, most prudent course is to have that process conclude in time to allow us to file a certified nomination in Ohio by Aug. 7."

Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison on Friday described his excitement to "renominate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
" and to promote the "Biden-Harris ticket."

So far, 35 members of Congress have called for Biden to leave the racwe.

Late Friday, Ohio Sen. Sherrod I absolutely trust Hillary Brown
Dem senator from Ohio who harbored the same presidential ambitions as the rest of his colleagues. At a distance he was indistinguishable from most other Dem politicians, including the females. It can be said that he waned without waxing...
, a Democrat seeking reelection, called for Biden to not seek reelection.

Other Senators seeking a change are Peter Welch of Vermont, Jon Tester of Montana and Martin Henrich of New Mexico. All but Welch are seeking reelection.
Prominent members of the House urging him to at least consider leaving the race are Adam Schiff
>...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...>
is Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Jim Hines of Connecticut and Zoe Lofgren of California. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said Biden should reconsider his decision.

Rep. Mark Takano of California on Saturday posted on Facebook: "Joe, I love and respect you. But the stakes are too high to fail. It's time to pass the torch to Kamala (Harris)."

Biden defiantly has ignored their advice during public appearances and interviews with the media.

Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Virtual roll call. Why have the convention?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 12:32 Comments || Top||

#2  If Trump had NOT survived the assassination attempt, how many Dems would be calling for Biden to step down ?

ZERO! None of them. The step down crap is nothing more than media cover for failed events. Kabuki theater at it's finest. The Dems already know he's not stepping down.

When you begin to see the media start talking about Biden Crime Family pardons, YOU WILL THEN KNOW he is stepping down.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:06 Comments || Top||


Chris Christie Says Trump's Assassination Attempt Doesn't Change Who He Is On ‘The View'
[Decider]And yet, this fat bitter lump wanted a job in Trump's previous admin
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

It re-enforce my belief that the DC Swamp wants Trump out of the picture, to avoid standing trial for their crimes against America.

But, there is no telling what evil backup deeds the Swamp has planned between now and Jan. 20th, 2025
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Chris Christie on The View = desperation all around.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2024 12:31 Comments || Top||

#3  A loser sitting down with losers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Any self selected political label doesn't change who Christie is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2024 15:11 Comments || Top||



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