“But make no mistake: Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death. Putin is responsible. What has happened to Navalny is yet more proof of Putin’s brutality. No one should be fooled,” President Biden.
At point during the brief Q&A Biden was asked whether the US believes this was an assassination. Biden didn’t affirm the question directly but said that “no doubt” it was the consequences of what “Putin and his thugs did.”
As for a US response, Biden only said: “We’re contemplating what else can be done.”
Navalny had been serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism and corruption. His supporters say these are all trumped-up charges while Russian media has at various times suggested he’s a CIA-supported opposition stooge.
But something very noticeably absent from Biden’s address and the Q&A that followed was this fact: An American citizen journalist died in Ukrainian custody… and his name has not been mentioned from the White House press podium, nor his case investigated.
Every single American politician that wants to send your tax $$$ to Ukraine has taken upon themselves to prematurely comment on the death of Alexey Navalny in a Russian prison.
Where were they when AMERICAN journalist, Gonzalo Lira, died in the custody of Ukrainians?!?
The Grift continues — But it remains that Gonzalo Lira’s death on Jan.24 – following an eight-month imprisonment on charges of ”justifying Russia’s military actions in Ukraine” – is not ‘useful’ to the Biden administration. Yet Biden during his speech was very quick to pivot from Navalny’s plight to the need for Congress to push through his funding package for Ukraine.
Last June, the leaked contents of a stonewalled FBI document, form FD-1023, alleging that President Joe Biden was paid $5 million by an executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter sat on the board, and also received an alleged $5 million.
The form, dated June 30, 2020, was from a “highly credible” confidential human source (CHS) who had detailed multiple meetings and conversationsthey had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, beginning in 2015. The CHS had been working with the FBI as a regular, reliable source of information since 2010, and has been paid approximately $200,000 by the bureau.
Now, as the 2024 election heats up, that source – Alexander Smirnov, 43, has been arrested and charged with lying about the bribes by special counsel David Weiss, who is investigating Hunter Biden.
According to the NY Times, “The story Mr. Smirnov told investigators was part of a series of explosive and unsubstantiated claims by Republicans that the Bidens engaged in potentially criminal activity — allegations central to the party’s efforts to impeach the president.”
Smirnov faces a two-count indictment for making false statements and obstructing the government’s long-running investigation into Hunter Biden. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
Smirnov was arrested in Las Vegas on Wednesday after disembarking from an international flight, and was expected to appear on Thursday before a federal judge.
According to the indictment, Smirnov lied when he said that Hunter Biden promised to protect Burisma “through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” and was only in contact with Burisma executives in 2017, after Biden left office.
Smirnov is accused of exaggerating his “routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma” into “bribery allegations” against Joe Biden.
Which raises the question – if Smirnov told the FBI about the alleged bribery in confidence – and had no expectation of a ‘leaked’ FD-1023 becoming central to Republican investigations, what did he have to gain from lying?
And why charge him with lying now?
If this paid, long-term, trusted FBI confidential human source really did lie to his FBI handler when he alleged that Joe and Hunter Biden each had received a $5m bribe from Burisma, then he deserves what he gets. But: 1. Why didn’t Weiss investigate the CHS’ allegations in the…
The Gold Codes are the launch codes for nuclear weapons in the United States. They are the commander-in-chief’s nuclear codes, which identify the president and confirm their authority to order a nuclear attack. The codes are printed on a credit-card-sized plastic card called the “biscuit” by the National Security Agency (NSA) every day. The card is filled with a gibberish string of alphanumerics, but buried somewhere inside is a code the President of the United States recognizes. Guess who has his hand on the button??
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel says Biden came across to investigators as ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’
Key parts of the report: Mr. Biden wrote his 2007 and 2017 memoirs with the help of a ghostwriter. In a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, about a month after he left office, Mr. Biden said, while referencing his 2009 Thanksgiving memo, that he had “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” Several defenses are likely to create reasonable doubt as to such charges. For example, Mr. Biden could have found the classified Afghanistan documents at his Virginia home in 2017 and then forgotten about them soon after. This could convince some reasonable jurors that he did not retain them willfully.
The place where the Afghanistan documents were eventually found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware garage-in a badly damaged box surrounded by household detritus-suggests the documents might have been forgotten. In addition. Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023.
And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires. Mr. Biden should have known that by reading his unfiltered notes about classified meetings in the Situation Room, he risked sharing classified information with his ghostwriter.
However, the evidence does not show that when Mr. Biden shared the specific passages with his ghostwriter, Mr. Biden knew the passages were classified and intended to share classified information. files. \Ve considered whether to charge the ghostwriter with obstruction of justice, but we believe the evidence would be insufficient to obtain a conviction and therefore declined to prosecute him.
We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. 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. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.
As he told his ghostwriter during a recorded interview, the same staff who arranged to secure his classified notecards “didn’t even know” he had retained possession of his classified notebooks.” Mr. Eiden explained that, despite his staffs views to the contrary, he did not think he was required to turn in his notecards to the National Archive.
Why does he blame his staff? Asked about reports that former President Trump had kept classified documents at his own home, Mr. Biden wondered how “anyone could be that irresponsible” and voiced concern about “[w]hat data was in there that may compromise sources and methods.” During the interview, Mr. Biden was emphatic, declaring that his notebooks are “my property” and that “every president before me has done the same thing,” that is, kept handwritten classified materials after leaving office” But, Biden was not president…Trump was.
Special Counsel Hur found both: (1) “faulty memory”; and (2) “diminished faculties.” That second finding is hugely significant. It is a finding the President not only has memory issues, but also has cognitive impairment. No surprise the White House strenuously objected to this language.
Special Counsel writes, “Mr. Biden took his classified notebooks home with him and stored them in unsecured and unauthorized locations…the (Presidential Records) Act does not exempt former presidents and vice presidents from…removing, retaining, losing, or disclosing… pic.twitter.com/MGsf8erdO9
Special counsel: the President is a criminal, but mentally unfit to stand trial. Quite a pitch for Biden to take to voters.
DOJ: “Evidence supports the inference that when Mr. Biden said in 2017 that he had ‘just found all the classified stuff downstairs’ in Virginia, he was referring to the same marked classified documents about Afghanistan that FBI agents found in 2022 in his Delaware garage.”
Special Counsel Robert Hur: “Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”
Biden blames his staff for storing classified documents in his home, office, and garage for five decades: “I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff would doing!”
What staffers? If they did it how did they get the docs? From his senate years as well? Did they have clearance? Are they also too old and infirm to stand trial?
The recent Frontline documentary Democracy on Trial reveals that the January 6th committee that their proceedings were crafted as a “miniseries” under the direction of James Goldston, former president of ABC News, raises serious questions about the integrity and purpose of the investigation. Their candid admission, acknowledging the utilization of manipulative tactics for television consumption, undermines the credibility of the committee and the seriousness of their mission.
By framing their efforts as a scripted production, the committee inadvertently exposes the underlying agenda: to captivate and manipulate the audience for dramatic effect. Such a revelation diminishes the authenticity of the proceedings and calls into question the sincerity of the committee’s pursuit of truth and justice.
The admission that the committee “knew how high the stakes were” underscores a calculated strategy to sensationalize the events of January 6th for maximum impact. However, the decision to prioritize theatrics over substance not only compromises the integrity of the investigation but also risks alienating the very audience they seek to inform and persuade.
Furthermore, the acknowledgment that the committee sought to “make people realize that this was important” highlights a fundamental misunderstanding of the public’s perception and awareness of the events surrounding January 6th. Attempting to manufacture significance through staged theatrics only serves to undermine the gravity of the situation and erode public trust in the investigative process.
The admission of the committee’s fabricated TV production underscores the dangers of prioritizing spectacle over substance in matters of national importance. Rather than engaging in genuine inquiry and dialogue, the committee’s approach perpetuates a culture of sensationalism and political theater that ultimately undermines the pursuit of truth and accountability.
In order to regain credibility and restore public trust, the January 6th committee must prioritize transparency, objectivity, and integrity in their investigative efforts. By eschewing theatricality in favor of genuine inquiry and collaboration, the committee can fulfill its mandate to uncover the truth and hold those responsible for the events of January 6th accountable.
Ultimately, the admission of the committee’s fabricated TV production serves as a sobering reminder of the dangers of political manipulation and sensationalism in the pursuit of justice. It is incumbent upon all stakeholders to uphold the principles of integrity and transparency in the quest for truth and accountability, lest the pursuit of justice be reduced to nothing more than a scripted spectacle for public consumption.
This was all theater and now with the release of more j6 tapes it has proven to be an inside job. Even more scandalous is the fact that those on this committee not only knew about it but participated in the manipulation and deletion of evidence. Americans are sitting in prison right now being treated worse than murders, rapists and even pedophiles because they were not allowed to use the videos in evidence to secure their freedoms. This production secured us the proof we need and once Trump is back in the White House the real indictments will begin.
Alvy Powell, Jr. Performs Broadway Show Tunes
The Historic Cokesbury Church and Cultural Center is thrilled to present a captivating evening of Broadway show tunes featuring the renowned Alvy Powell, Jr. Known for his powerful performances and rich baritone voice, Alvy Powell, Jr. will delight audiences with selections from “Porgy and Bess” and other beloved Broadway musicals.
Born in Birdnest and raised in Cheriton, Alvy Powell, Jr. is an esteemed American singer of opera and a former member of the U.S. Army Chorus. His illustrious career includes performances for nine American presidents and his acclaimed portrayal of Porgy in George Gershwin’s iconic opera, “Porgy and Bess.”
Master Sgt. Powell held the distinction of being the Army’s oldest enlisted soldier until his retirement in 2017, adding to his remarkable legacy of service and artistry.
Join us for this extraordinary event on Saturday, February 10th at 7:00 PM at the Historic Cokesbury Church and Cultural Center, located at 13 Market Street, Onancock.
Admission to the show is free, but donations are warmly welcomed to support the ongoing cultural initiatives of the Historic Cokesbury Church and Cultural Center.
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the mesmerizing talent of Alvy Powell, Jr. as he brings the magic of Broadway to our community. Mark your calendars and join us for an unforgettable evening of music and entertainment!
President Biden says he will immediately shut down the US-Mexico border if a bill with new emergency authority is passed—If the House Republicans fall for this, then Texas should call their entire delegation home from D.C.
You are Here — What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” “In 1984”, Huxley added, “people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.” In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman
In 2019, if you told me that within a year churches would be shuttered, beaches closed, and citizens forbidden from attending funerals, followed by nationwide riots, vaccine mandates, mass mail-in ballots, and the greatest wealth transfer in American history… all for a Chinese virus funded by our tax-dollars… I would have assumed it was the end of the world.
Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for gain-of-function experiments that waste money, torture animals, and create frankenviruses that can be used as bioweapons or cause pandemics.
“Things are gonna slide Slide in all directions Won’t be nothin’ Nothin’ you can measure anymore” (Leonard Cohen — “The Future”, 1992)
#NOW "War Criminals! You fkn piece of shit!" – Pro-Palestine Protesters throw water, heckle attendees of Temple Emanu-El where Henry Kissinger Service is allegedly held today in NYC.
In Great Britain (our ally)–The Royal Navy, bless their hearts, are now diverting marines and sailors to become diversity and inclusion officers. Yes, you heard that right. In the midst of grappling with recruitment woes and struggling to man their ships, they’re focusing on – wait for it – enhancing the “lived experience” of personnel. I got a gander at these internal job ads from The Telegraph, and they’re hunting for serving sailors and marines to dive into diversity policy. These gigs are up for grabs at the Navy Command HQ in Portsmouth. Their aim? To “improve the lived experience of our people.” Well, isn’t that just grand? But here’s the rub, as a Navy source rightly pointed out to The Telegraph: “Why, when we’re short on manpower, are we chasing more people to fuss over diversity and inclusion?” And let’s not forget the type of folks this might attract – power-hungry social justice warriors, as they put it. The Navy’s already inclusive, they say, and diversity will naturally follow suit with the changing population. No need for this pandering. And Lord West, a former First Sea Lord himself, didn’t mince words either. He told The Telegraph that diverting key personnel for diversity is utter nonsense. He reckons the Navy’s lost the plot, and this obsession with diversity could actually be the root of their recruitment issues. Remember the RAF’s positive discrimination schemes? Ended up sidelining some white blokes. Lord West’s advice? Scrap these diversity roles pronto. The Navy’s not just advertising any old roles, either. They’re looking for Lieutenants, Captains in the Royal Marines, and a bunch of other ranks, to hop onto this diversity bandwagon. They’ve even got a “climate assessment team” on the cards. And what’s this all about? Conducting assessments to understand the “lived experience” of personnel. Their official document on diversity and inclusion is a real page-turner. It’s got roles galore – diversity advisors, practitioners, you name it. And all to advance diversity in the workplace. But honestly, when did our armed forces become so embroiled in this social justice theatre? Last time I checked, their job was national security, not ticking boxes on a diversity checklist.
The total annual federal spending topped $1 trillion for the first time only a generation ago? Today, Washington spends five times as much. The national debt is now more than $34 trillion, and rising fast. Interest on the debt is one of the largest single items in the budget and is on track to hit $1 trillion in the next year or so. The numbers are almost as incomprehensible as Washington’s indifference to the danger they pose.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul released a report on wasteful government spending last month, and here are some interesting tidbits…
1) $659 Billion for Interest on the National Debt The national debt continues to skyrocket, from roughly $30 trillion last year to roughly $34 trillion today. One of the many problems with carrying such a heavy debt burden is the sheer volume of money that needs to be spent on interest. As Senator Paul’s report highlights, the U.S. Department of the Treasury spent $659 billion(!) in Fiscal Year 2023 just on interest payments.
What’s worse, there seems to be no end in sight. “The Congressional Budget Office predicts that we will add an average of $2 trillion in debt annually for the next decade,” the report notes. “The U.S. government will add over $5 billion of debt every single day for the next ten years. We borrow over $200 million every hour, we borrow $3 million every minute, and we borrow $60,000 every second.”
2) $6 Million to Boost Egyptian Tourism It is puzzling how the concept of foreign aid ever got off the ground. One can at least understand the reasoning for spending taxpayer money on local schools, roads, and the like, even if you disagree. But how on earth did they sell foreign aid to taxpayers? “Ok, here’s the deal. We’re going to take your money without your consent, and then we’re going to send it to our friends in a far-away country. There’s pretty much nothing in it for you, dear taxpayers.”
Um…thanks?
In just the latest example, the federal government spent $6 million to boost tourism—yes, tourism—in Egypt last year. “The U.S. has spent over $100 million on Egyptian tourism so far,” the report notes. “What’s next – rebuilding the pyramids? Apparently, Congress and the agencies it funds think our treasury is a bottomless pit.”
3) Training DHS Employees to Be Their ‘Authentic & Best Selves’ The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been pursuing some…creative training programs as of late. In a federally funded workshop last year, CISA employees focused on “effective strategies to build and sustain psychological safety that allows individuals to show up to work as their authentic and best selves.” The workshop was part of a 5-year “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA)” strategic plan.
“Ironically, the workshop coincided with CISA’s efforts to suppress protected speech on social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Paul notes. “Even I was censored at the behest of our government speech minders. And all while I thought I was being my best self.”
4) $38 Million to Dead People According to a special task force for tracking COVID payments from the federal government, $38 million went to people who were known to be dead in 2023. In fact, $1.3 million of that money went to 30 individuals who had been dead for at least a year.
COVID-relief funding has of course been rife with fraud and mismanagement since the beginning. You’d think politicians would have learned their lesson by now. Then again, it’s not like it’s their money on the line, so why should they care? What are taxpayers going to do, take their money to a competing relief organization?
5) $8,395 for a Lobster Tank The Department of Defense pays for a lot of tanks, but a $8,395 lobster tank probably isn’t what taxpayers have in mind when they picture a tank expenditure. Yet this is exactly what was purchased last year by the DOD, presumably to improve the diet of military personnel.
What’s concerning about this purchase is not so much the dollar figure itself but what it represents. No doubt countless other purchases like this take place every day in the military. And all those luxuries really add up.
6) Two Graphic Novels Combating ‘Disinformation’ In addition to their DEIA initiative, CISA has been hard at work creating not one, but two graphic novels about “disinformation” as part of their “Resilience Series.” The first one covers foreign interference in elections. The second covers COVID vaccines. “There is nothing comical about wasting taxpayer money to justify censorship of constitutionally protected speech,” Paul notes in his report.
7) $200 Million to Famous Music Artists from the ‘Small Business’ Administration Through the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, the Small Business Administration (SBA) funneled $200 million to some of the biggest names in entertainment. “So-called ‘small business owners,’ such as Post Malone, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, and Smashing Pumpkins, received up to $10 million each,” the report notes. “Even Nickelback received $2 million.”
The purpose of the program was to provide financial relief to small entertainment businesses during the pandemic shutdowns. But apparently, the SBA has a hard time defining the word small.
Of course, even the money that did go to genuinely small businesses arguably counts as government waste, as I’ve explained elsewhere.
The Right Way to Reduce Government Waste The 19th-century English polymath Herbert Spencer was well acquainted with government waste, and he frequently called it out in his writings. Some of his most powerful critiques of bureaucratic largesse can be found in his 1853 essay Over-legislation. Consider the following passages:
Between these law-made agencies and the spontaneously-formed ones, who then can hesitate? The one class are slow, stupid, extravagant, unadaptive, corrupt, and obstructive: can any point out in the other, vices that balance these? It is true that trade has its dishonesties, speculation its follies. These are evils inevitably entailed by the existing imperfections of humanity. It is equally true, however, that these imperfections of humanity are shared by State-functionaries; and that being unchecked in them by the same stern discipline, they grow to far worse results.…
As Spencer points out, the problem is not so much the people, but the system. Government waste does not exist for lack of good managers, but for lack of good incentives.
Given a race of men having a certain proclivity to misconduct… the question is, whether a society of these men shall be so organized that ill-conduct directly brings punishment, or whether it shall be so organized that punishment is but remotely contingent on ill-conduct? Which will be the most healthful community—that in which agents who perform their functions badly, immediately suffer by the withdrawal of public patronage; or that in which such agents can be made to suffer only through an apparatus of meetings, petitions, polling-booths, parliamentary divisions, cabinet-councils, and red-tape documents? Is it not an absurdly utopian hope that men will behave better when correction is far removed and uncertain than when it is near at hand and inevitable? Yet this is the hope which most political schemers unconsciously cherish…
Judicial Watch has filed a $30 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit against U.S. Government on behalf of Ashli Babbitt’s Husband and Estate (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Government on behalf of the family of Ashli Babbitt, the U.S. Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021 (Estate of Ashli Babbitt and Aaron Babbitt, et al. v. United States of America (No. 3:24-cv-00033)).
The lawsuit includes claims against the U.S. Government for wrongful death, assault and battery, and various negligence issues. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was a 35-year-old resident of San Diego, California, where she owned and operated a successful pool business with her husband Aaron. Ashli traveled alone from San Diego to Washington, DC, to attend the Women for America First (aka Save America) rally on January 6, 2021, at the Ellipse.
As the lawsuit details: Ashli loved her country and wanted to show her support for President Trump’s America First policies and to see and hear the president speak live while he remained in office. Ashli did not go to Washington as part of a group or for any unlawful or nefarious purpose. She was there to exercise what she believed were her God-given, American liberties and freedoms.After the rally, Ashli, like a great many other patriotic Americans attending the rally, walked to the Capitol peacefully, a distance of approximately 1.5 miles. Two undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers followed close behind Ashli as she climbed the stairs to the West Terrace. Ashli entered the Capitol on the Senate side long after others had done so. Once inside, Ashli encountered a female Capitol Police officer, who directed her to walk south toward the House side. Ashli complied, walking alone through the Capitol and ultimately arriving at the hallway outside the main door to the House chamber, where demonstrators had gathered. From there, Ashli walked by herself east, along the hallway outside the House chamber, then turned south, reaching the hallway outside the Speaker’s Lobby at the southeast corner of the Capitol.***The shooting occurred at the east entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby. After demonstrators filled the hallway outside the lobby, two individuals in the crowded, tightly packed hallway struck and dislodged the glass panels in the lobby doors and the right door sidelight. Lt. Byrd, who is a USCP commander and was the incident commander for the House on January 6, 2021, shot Ashli on sight as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight. Lt. Byrd later confessed that he shot Ashli before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Ashli was unarmed. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby.***The facts speak truth. Ashli was ambushed when she was shot by Lt. Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, “you just murdered her.” Lt. Byrd was never charged or otherwise punished or disciplined for Ashli’s homicide. The lawsuit further states: Lt. Byrd, who is a USCP commander and was the incident commander for the House on January 6, 2021, shot Ashli as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight.… Not one member of Congress was in the lobby, which was guarded by multiple armed police officers. Additional armed police officers were in the hallway outside the lobby and/or on the adjoining stairway. Ashli could not have seen Lt. Byrd, who was positioned far to Ashli’s left and on the opposite side of the doors, near an opening to the Retiring Room, a distance of approximately 15 feet and an angle of approximately 160 degrees. Sgt. Timothy Lively, one of the armed officers guarding the lobby doors from the hallway, later told officials investigating the shooting, “I saw him . . . there was no way that woman would’ve seen that.” Lt. Byrd, who was not in uniform, did not identify himself as a police officer or otherwise make his presence known to Ashli. Lt. Byrd did not give Ashli any warnings or commands before shooting her dead.***Ashli remained conscious for minutes or longer after being shot by Lt. Byrd. Ashli experienced extreme pain, suffering, mental anguish, and intense fear before slipping into pre-terminal unconsciousness. The autopsy report identified the cause of death as a “gunshot wound to left anterior shoulder” with an onset interval of “minutes.” The fact that Ashli was alive and conscious in extreme pain and suffering is documented in videos of the shooting. Furthermore, nothing about the wound track described in the autopsy report would be expected to result in immediate death or instantaneous loss of consciousness, and Ashli’s lungs contained blood, further confirming that she was alive and breathing after being shot. Ashli was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital Center at 3:15 p.m. The medical examiner determined that the manner of death was homicide. The lawsuit argues that, based on prior incidents involving Lt. Byrd, the Capitol Police, Capitol Police Board, and ultimately Congress, as Lt. Byrd’s employer, “knew or should have known that Lt. Byrd was prone to behave in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner:” Less than two years before January 6, 2021, on or about February 25, 2019, Lt. Byrd left his loaded Glock 22 – the same firearm he used to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt – in a bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) complex. Lt. Byrd’s loaded Glock was discovered during a routine security sweep later the same day. Approximately 15,00 to 20,000 people pass through the CVC, which serves as the main entrance for visitors to the U.S. Capitol, daily during peak season (March-July). Lawmakers and staff charged with oversight of the USCP were not made aware of the incident until contacted by a reporter.Lt. Byrd’s police powers had been revoked on more than one occasion prior to January 6, 2021, for failing to meet or complete semiannual firearms qualification requirements. In fact, Lt. Byrd had a reputation among peers for not being a good shot. Under USCP’s range management system, an officer who fails to meet firearm qualification requirements is given one week of remedial training. If the officer still fails to qualify after remedial training, police powers are then revoked until the officer qualifies.Lt. Byrd’s police powers also were revoked for a prior off-duty shooting into a stolen, moving vehicle in which the occupants were teenagers or juveniles. The stolen vehicle was Lt. Byrd’s car. Lt. Byrd fired multiple shots at the fleeing vehicle in a suburban area. Stray bullets from Lt. Byrd’s firearm struck the sides of homes nearby. An official investigation found that Lt. Byrd’s use of force was not justified.
Plaintiffs seek “the full and just amount of Thirty Million Dollars ($30,000,000), plus costs and interest according to law, and any and all further relief to which Plaintiffs may be justly entitled.” The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of California.
“The only homicide on January 6 was the unlawful shooting death of Ashli Babbitt. Her homicide by Lt. Byrd is a scandal beyond belief. This historic lawsuit seeks a measure of justice and government accountability for Ashli’s wrongful death,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch and our supporters are honored to represent Ashli’s steadfast widower Aaron Babbitt and her estate in this legal action. Ashli was shot in cold blood and the rule of law requires justice for her.”
Judicial Watch is extensively investigating the events of January 6. In October, Judicial Watch announced that it received the court-ordered declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.
In September, it received records from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, a component of the Department of Justice, in a FOIA lawsuit that detail the extensive apparatus the Biden Justice Department set up to investigate and prosecute January 6 protestors.
A previous review of records from that lawsuit highlighted the prosecution declination memorandum justifying the decision not to prosecute U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd for the shooting death of Babbitt. In January 2023, documents from the Department of the Air Force, Joint Base Andrews, MD, showed U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd was housed at taxpayer expense at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In November 2021, Judicial Watch released multiple audio, visual and photo records from the DC Metropolitan Police Department about the shooting death of Babbitt on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Building.
The records included a cell phone video of the shooting and an audio of a brief police interview of the shooter, Byrd. In October 2021, United States Park Police records related to the January 6, 2021, demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol showed that on the day before the January 6 rally featuring President Trump, U.S. Park Police expected a “large portion” of the attendees to march to the U.S. Capitol and that the FBI was monitoring the January 6 demonstrations, including travel to the events by “subjects of interest.”
More SCOTUS assassination prep in the WashPost, via Jennifer Rubin. Preemptively sowing doubt over legitimacy of ruling, thus undermining integrity of 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/SZxpP0YHDC
“It ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” – Rocky Balboa.
We are not a nation of laws and never have been, but a nation of political will, and we will always will be.
Democrats have become very dangerous. Protesting an extremely troubled election is not an insurrection and people should loudly condemn anyone who says it is.
BREAKING: Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state’s ballot under Constitution’s insurrection clause. The opinion of the Colorado Supreme Court is shameful and runs counter to our constitutional system. Donald Trump was not removed from office by Congress for engaging in insurrection. Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted in a court of law of engaging in insurrection. Whatever you believe about whether Donald Trump engaged in insurrection has no bearing on whether he’s eligible to run for president.
No legislative, executive, or judicial body of a state should engage in extraconstitutional decision-making to disqualify a federal candidate from the ballot. This isn’t accountability; it’s an assault on due process of law. It undermines our electoral system and threatens every federal candidate for office. Weaponizing the law is a hallmark of failed states and is a catalyst for a rapidly escalating, zero-sum game for total control. The moment the Supreme Court goes 5-4 to the Left, there’s no longer any recourse against this. The floodgates will be open for all the destructive mischief of the progressive Left and there won’t be a thing we can do to stop it. Just remember that when you vote.
The Goal is get Trump Nominated because the Left knows how to beat him.
Seriously? Do you guys think this tactic started yesterday? This is just the continuation of what Jack Smith and Letitia James have been doing for the last year to get Trump that “virtual lock” on the nomination.
And they will continue until the primary is sealed, we have chosen the most beatable candidate like they want us to, and then they will modify course however necessary to ensure a D victory in the general.
They will make sure the GOP can’t mount any sort of campaign beyond Defend Trump In Court, which the great mushy middle who already despises him will just love, after getting beaten over the head with it every day for a year. Then my guess is the Ds will convict him in one of their 100% D-controlled courts of a couple felonies, because they know all the low info voters in the purple states aren’t going to vote for a convicted felon.
None of this is secret or complicated. This is the kind of shifty vileness they get off on.
Even if Colorado GOP does an emergency switch to a caucus system like they are talking about this morning, thus bypassing the Colorado court decision, the dems won’t care. They got what they wanted. The Rs will rally around the guy the Ds know how to roll. This is all just fuckery for them to ensure a D victory in the general.
If anything, COSCOTUS probably jumped the gun, because commies are enthusiastic like that, and the more conniving malicious dems would have preferred to time that move for when they felt Trump needed another primary boost. But don’t worry, they’ve still got several other states with similar challenges, so they’ll play those cards when the Ds think it is helpful.
The Dems are playing Republicans and they are walking directly into their trap.
Dems will happily play with fire. They don’t care about the fate of the country or anything else they talk about. They care about power and winning. That’s it. Everything they do is a calculated ploy.
They know Republicans see this evil court stuff as an attack on the republic. They weaponize that. And, Republicans reflexively rally around the candidate they want us to run because they know how to beat him.
Dems want Republicans to run Trump against them.
Period.
But you FEEL, whatever. Dems know that. They use that. They know Conservative morals and values, and as much as Conservative hate the word, triggers. So they trigger Republicans and they react predictably, giving them exactly what they desire most.
Are these attacks on the fabric of our system vile? Yep. Are they dangerous and pushing America toward the edge of breakdown and violence? Absolutely.
But the Dems don’t care about any of that. They only care about winning. They aren’t even secretive about it. They will gleefully risk our lives and the nation’s future to gain more control.
And the best way for them to win is for us to be set up to lose.
So the evil party does evil stuff, and the stupid party reacts stupidly. They do a big dangerous stunt, we get outraged and back the Republican least likely to win the necessary middle to “own the libs”. Yet libs laugh because they know anything and anyone seen as Trumpy is DESPISED by the middle. So they lose. And lose. And lose more.
And the Dems keep tossing out the bait, and Repubs keep on taking it.
Over and over. It’s blatantly obvious, but they just don’t learn. Too many are blinded by pride.
But Trump is beating Biden in the polls! This time we will win those swing states! You mean the polls run by the same manipulative scum who have lied to you a million times before, but now you want to believe them because they are telling you what you want to hear?
The same polls Trump has ranted about as fake news dozens of times? The polls the man himself has said are designed to manipulate the audience’s feelings?
Yeah. Sure. So the purple states Trump lost last time, which his candidates lost in the midterms, Trump is now suddenly ten points up among suburban women? And you believe that?
It will flip back the minute after Trump secures the nomination, so the media has a whole year of psychological warfare to depress turnout. It isn’t like they don’t do this every time.
But but but, Trump was robbed! Democrats cheat! Of course democrats cheat. What’s the first thing I said? Dems have no morals and only care about power. And the bigger the margin, the harder they have to work, the harder it is to get away with cheating… so let’s just give them the candidate the middle of the country is programmed to reflexively despise so much they might not even need to cheat in those swing states.
And just like Dems manipulate Rs, they also manipulate the vapid middle. So after they steer us into choosing the weakest nominee, they will then convict Trump of some crime, because they know the great mushy middle won’t vote for a felon.
And America gets fucked once more.
Democrats are inclined to do evil but republicans don’t have to be stupid.
“The Colorado lawsuit was filed by a Soros-funded outlet, decided by an all Democrat-appointed Supreme Court and the Democrat Colorado Secretary of State, within a split second, was celebrating on MSNBC”
Biden admits collusion:
"We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power, if he does run, making sure under 'legitimate' efforts of the Constitution, does not become the next president again."
Banning Trump from the ballot is designed to spark riots and civil war so the establishment can take away more rights and change the way we are governed. We already live in a surveillance state due to 9-11, and now they want us scared, on edge and begging for the government to completely control us in the name of safety.
You can’t overstate how serious this is and how everything the establishment says Trump is doing is a projection and a confession of what they are doing.
Most people are going to fall for this cuz you have the billionaire-controlled media endorsing it as “normal” & pushing it.
So a federal judge finally orders 150+ Jeffrey Epstein client names unsealed, but three will remain sealed? Vegas is -500 and at least 2 of those 3 names are BIDEN.
BIDEN: “Wages for workers are up! Black wealth is up a record 60 percent!”
Under Biden, real wages are down almost 3% and middle-class households have lost, on average, more than $33,000 in real wealth over the past year.
NBC News – A 13-year-old boy who was arrested and accused of planning a mass shooting at an Ohio synagogue will have to read a book and then write a report about a Swiss diplomat who saved more than 62,000 Hungarian Jews during the war, a judge rules….Planning a mass shooting of Jews is treated like a Bart Simpson hijinks.
History Note- We all remember the “Summer of Love” in 2020 when major cities in the U.S. were burnt and destroyed by Antifa and BLM protesters with riots breaking out too. The damages caused to taxpayers for this destructive behavior were estimated to be between $1-$2 billion which is significantly more than the fedsurrection… I mean, the so-called “insurrection” of January 6. Let’s also never forget when CNN and other legacy news channels said these were “mostly peaceful” protests.
Here is what the Constitution says: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery….
Digging through primary sources from the early Cold War is to realize that the vast majority of today’s academics, corporate leaders, and lawmakers, who portend to speak on behalf of the American people, have far more in common with a mid-century communist than a conservative or liberal from the same period.
In the new Harvard/Harris poll, 67% of respondents aged 18-24 agree that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.” Consistent with other polls that have found relatively high anti-Jewish sentiment among young American adults. The “We don’t hate Jews, just Zionists” crowd is having a tough time right now.
“58% of 18-24 year olds agreed that ‘Hamas would like to commit genocide against the Jews in Israel.’” You see, the woke generation is perfectly fine with genocide — as long as it’s perpetrated against the right people….they only want a ceasefire because their team, Hamas, is losing.
The establishment Is in full meltdown. Most of these things they claim Trump will do they have already done, they’ve killed Democracy decades ago (U.S. is an Oligarchy) and they politicized and destroyed the Justice Department to go after Trump in repeated transparently political prosecutions. Every accusation they make is a confession.
Imagine the following: You’re a man who serves as Chairman of the Board of a large University who led the search for the recently hired president. Your wife runs a non-profit in the DEI (Diversity, equity, and inclusion) space. She is the only full-time employee of the organization, serving as Founder, CEO, and CFO. You serve as Treasurer. The non-profit ostensibly sells two principal products in the DEI space: 1. “Evidence-based ‘how-to-guides’ and 2. “The most comprehensive intersectional analytics platform of its kind…” but the non-profit has no revenues. It relies entirely on contributions to fund its operations, which principally consist of your wife’s salary and some other ancillary overhead. There have been only two contributors to the non-profit, the University whose board you chair, which has contributed: 2018 $100,000, 2019 $300,000, 2020 $150,000, 2021 $600,000, 2022 $789,000, and a donor-advised fund (DAF) affiliated with you which has contributed: 2018 $0, 2019 $0, 2020 $0, 2021 $10,000, 2022 $20,000. Doesn’t this seem very strange? What if the University was MIT?
Democrat Senator Ben Cardin has fired his staffer who was the subject of an amateur porn video filmed in the Senate hearing room. “No further comment.”
How dumb are these people?? No Confederate statues exist in Denver – so they toppled a Union soldier and Columbus and got the cowardly city officials to remove Kit Carson. Ironically, Carson led a regiment of mostly Hispanic volunteers from New Mexico on the side of the Union at the Battle of Valverde in 1862.
Also, why would the Leftists remove a monument dedicated to reconciliation? With no history, no story of improving ourselves, no story of forgiveness, there’s no America. This is the result of the hatred of our own country from our own politicians. To what end?
JOHN KERRY: “There shouldn’t be ANY more coal fired power plants permitted ANYWHERE in the world!” Or maybe, it’s really woke, rich guys preaching a false gospel of contrived scarcity who shouldn’t be allowed to influence public policy—“ANYWHERE in the world!”
Fun facts for Ivy League Presidents: (A) calling for genocide against Jews, if not delivered to incite a mob to violence, is 100% Constitutionally protected speech- only in the sense it can’t be punished by the government. (B) You are not the government, you are a cowardly college administrator and in no way does the 1st Amendment force you to accept brain-dead neo-Nazis in your student body.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the emergency trustees meeting at Penn “ended with Magill still in the job.” It did wipe that smile off of her face.
Ross Stevens, CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, is withdrawing a gift worth $100 million from @Penn: “Mr. Stevens and Stone Ridge are appalled by the University’s stance on antisemitism on campus. Its permissive approach to hate speech calling for violence against Jews and laissez faire attitude toward harassment and discrimination against Jewish students would violate any policies or rules that prohibit harassment and discrimination based on religion, including those of Stone Ridge. President Magill’s December 6, 2023 post on X admitted as much, when she belatedly acknowledged—only after her Congressional testimony went viral and demands for her termination amplified—that calls for genocide of the Jewish people constitute harassment and discrimination.”
Anti-Semites on the right are fringe and not part of any actual conservative coalition. Anti-Semites on the left get tenure and work at the Washington Post and BBC and join the Progressive Caucus and “The Squad” and get invited to all the best cocktail parties. Y’all believe me yet that anti-Semitism on the left is more pervasive than on the right?
As crooked as the Democrats are, at least they get things done. Mostly horrible things – open borders, child mutilation, exorbitant taxes, ballot fraud – but they know how to fight. Republicans are just useless. Honestly they wouldn’t know what to do with power, if they had it.
JUST IN: White House press secretary says “History will remember” Republicans who want to secure the US border before funding a war in Ukraine “harshly.” Or, History sure will remember the Biden administration playing games with a wide-open border. Not securing our border and warmongering in other countries.
News: John Kerry stepped off his jet at the COP28 Summit in Dubai and announced the US will be stopping all new coal plants from being built and will be working to shut down existing coal plants. This move will leave over 100,000 Americans unemployed between the plant workers and coal miners. The plan is to replace the coal plants with wind and solar power. I guess politicians aren’t looking out for Miners. How much more of America can they destroy?
Santos: gone. Bowman: pleaded guilty to false fire alarm. Schiff: lied about the Russia Hoax. Pelosi: Suspected stock trades. Swalwell: had an affair with a Chinese spy. Menendez: accused of taking bribes from a foreign govt. All still there
So, it turns out there were “at least 200” Feds and undercover operatives working the January 6 thing. That’s according to U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), “The FBI was not just participating in the January 6th acts from within. I suspect they had over 200 agents embedded in the crowd, including agents or, as they would call it, human assets inside the Capitol dressed as Trump supporters before the doors were opened.”
This figure is in the realm of possibility, given the newly released J6 videos, court documents, and witness statements. “And when you track the text threads and the communications within those groups and find the origins of suggestions of potential violence or an active occupation of the Capitol on January 6th, you’ll find that those messages were led by members of the groups that ended up to be the FBI agents that had infiltrated the group,” Higgins said.
“So the FBI’s involvement was deep, not just on J6, but on the days and weeks and months prior.”
It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas, and the J6 was possibly a set-up. The Trump “incitement” narrative had been hatched months prior, as the infamous Time “shadow cabal” article made clear. The J6 riot was war-gamed multiple times before the Electoral College.
The FBI unconstitutionally used NSA surveillance to track the groups seeking to disrupt the event. It had Federal informants embedded in multiple groups, including the Proud Boys. Yet, somehow, the FBI and Capitol Police were woefully “unprepared” despite multiple warnings, including from then Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. D.C. Mayor Bowser, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and others, refused to press for more National Guard, despite it being documented and on the record that former President Donald Trump wanted 10,000 National Guard troops outside Congress to protect the Electoral College.
Also, there was no ‘centrally coordinated’ plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as FBI sources told Reuters in an August 2021 report. Indeed, that was the entire point of the election challenges during the convening of the Electoral College. If Donald Trump wanted to overturn the 2020 election results, he would not have disrupted the Electoral College. He would have continued to pursue his legal challenges and his Constitutional right to challenge electoral slates in Congress. Trump would not have sent in unarmed extremists to disrupt the Electoral College to ‘retain power.’
This is illogical, nonetheless, this narrative has constituted the basis for prosecuting a former president in what has devolved into a partisan show trial.
Wonder why the J6 Committee never showed this video?
Watch as police throw 3 concussion grenades into a peaceful crowd
The man at the end says everything was peaceful until police did this