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  • RVM EXCLUSIVE: If Our Republic Is To Survive, McCarthy MUST Immediately Take Action On Three National Security Matters

    RVM EXCLUSIVE: If Our Republic Is To Survive, McCarthy MUST Immediately Take Action On Three National Security Matters

    Opinion (very well informed & sourced) – Pete Santilli, Investigative Journalist for Red Voice Media

    Since 2016/2017, I’ve had to gut-it-up for so many disastrous Trump administration picks from McMasters to Bolton to Pompeo. The final straw for me was sitting back; watching my favorite President Donald J. Trump push Kevin McCarthy across the finish line for Speaker of The House.

    There are 2 possible scenarios which caused this grave error in judgment, both of which will be fully exposed in the coming days & months. (1) President Trump has no idea what the CIA-run Democrat party did to setup the criminal downfall of the entire Republican party, or (2) President Trump knows the truth, and is complicit in helping to cover-up for the secret shadow government which has overthrown our country.

    I find it hard to believe that President Trump has a clue about what the CIA & Democrats just pulled. Sometimes he’s too naive for his own good, and if he knew about the FTX / Tether setup by the CIA, he still err’d in judgement thinking Kevin McCarthy will be able to cover-up facts unveiled thorough the investigation into foreign influence in the 2022 mid-terms.

    Right out of the gates — DAY ONE — McCarthy, and especially with President Trump’s influential persuasion — must address the following three major investigations if our Constitutional Republic can survive. It’s that serious, and I will outline some of the details below for each. Incidentally, the information I am revealing in this article puts me, my sources and whistleblowers in grave imminent danger. You may ask why I am doing it — continue reading and you’ll quickly realize the full magnitude and implications of the information I’m making public. Pardon me for saying so, but I’ve lived my entire life advocating for carpet-bombing corrupt communist dictatorships

    Since approximately October of 2017, I’ve been blessed with the experience, ability, discernment and confidence of some of the highest level sources any investigative journalist would work a lifetime to achieve. Based on the information I have gathered, and in light of the recent forced installation of a potentially “captured” speaker of the house, there can be no doubt that a scortched-earth strategy is critical at this stage of the coup upon America.

    Of course, I will make a very strong case below for publicly demanding the following three things of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but in bullet point summary, McCarthy MUST immediately, and with full transparency and force of the U.S. Government investigate the following three national security matters:

    1. U.S. GOVERNMENT DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN A “COLOR REVOLUTION” ON JANUARY 6TH – TO BE LEGALLY EXPOSED IN THE PROUD BOYS TRIAL-OF-THE-CENTURY.
      • MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT’s TEAM SPECIALIZED IN FACIAL RECOGNITION ARE BEGGING TO TESTIFY THAT THE FBI IS WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE THAT THE FACIAL RECOGNITION SCAN OF THE ENTIRE “FRONT LINE” OF THE INITIAL BREECH ON JANUARY 6th WERE “MAINLY FEDS”. UNTIL RECENTLY, NO ATTORNEY FOR THE JAN 6 DEFENDANTS HAS DEMANDING THIS INFORMATION AND IT CONTINUES TO BE COVERED UP.
    2. SECRET SHADOW GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS IN ONLINE GAMING CHAT ROOMS AND PORN SITES RUN BY THE FBI/CIA FOR THE PURPOSES OF COMMITTING CRIMES AND FRAUD UPON THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
      • AT VERY HIGH RISK TO THEIR PERSONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY, HIGH LEVEL, CREDENTIALED INVESTIGATORS, CONTRACTORS AND WHISTLEBLOWERS HAVE ACCUMULATED A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE, SOME OF WHICH HAS BEEN FORMALLY & LEGALLY TRANSMITTED TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR INVESTIGATION, BUT HAS BEEN IGNORED.
    3. FTX INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING & FLOW FROM UKRAINE FOR THE PURPOSES OF INFLUENCING THE 2022 MID-TERM ELECTIONS IN VIOLATION OF EXEC ORDER 13848.
      • OVERWHELMING CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE EXISTS TO SUGGEST THAT HIGH LEVEL DNC OPERATIVES CONSPIRED TO SABOTAGE THE GOP WHEN THEY INEVITABLY TOOK THE HOUSE AND SENATE. AS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY, MCCARTHY NEEDS TO IMMEDIATELY CONDUCT FULL INVESTIGATIONS & PUBLIC HEARINGS.

    There is absolutely no doubt, many people within the U.S. Government were involved in a conspiracy to perpetrate a “color revolution” and overthrow the United States of America on January 6th. Many internal whistleblowers within the U.S. Government who are directly involved in the January 6th investigation are desperately trying to open legal channels to convey evidence & testimony as to their knowledge of known government operatives tasked with entrapping and provocateuring the massive crowd peacefully assembled at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Former high-level FBI Special Agents and other retired government officials are acting as conduits between whistleblowers and the January 6 joint defense team to bring this vital evidence forward.

    IMPORTANT NOTICE: U.S. Government officials involved in the January 6th investigation with knowledge of any wrongdoing or potentially incriminating evidence of the coup are strongly advised to seek legal counsel in order to securely, confidentially and properly convey their testimony in federal court, and especially to seek legal counsel regarding their culpability for not reporting crimes against the United States of America. Additionally, please be advised that you are being surveilled by the most sophisticated computer technology and software programs known to mankind. No communication is secure, especially and including attorney/client privileged communications. CONDUCT YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY. Make absolutely sure you have “insurance policies” to protect yourself from certain retaliation and/or Clinton-cide by criminals within the U.S. Government. The list of law enforcement officials who (a) had first hand knowledge of wrongdoing or evidence incriminating officials within the U.S. Government involved in the coup. and (b) committed suicide immediately after January 6th is overwhelming. Essentially, you have a decision to make. Remain silent and be brought up for treason, or risk death by exposing the real criminals who have overthrown our government. In my opinion, the only thing in the middle of the road is a “yellow line” and in this instance, yellow is the universal color designated for cowards.

    If you’d like to know about the computer system being used to surveil every breath you take & move you make, look no further than the Interagency Training Facility (ITC) also known as Fort Washington Facility Building. 470 Tenants Include – NSA, CIA Office of Special Technology, Central Security Service (CSS). Whistleblowers have already testified and provided forensic evidence the the Obama Administration used the technology housed in this facility to commit an untold number of crimes against American citizens as well as for the purposes of overthrowing the U.S. Government. In fact, forensic evidence has also been provided to former FISA Court Judge Royce Lamberth in the Nevada District, as well as then FBI Senior Counsel James Baker — Yes, THAT Jame Baker who was recently fired by Elon Musk at Twitter for deleting internal company documents, reportedly exposing unlawful conduct between “private and public partnerships” (also know as fascist collusion).

    Important highlight: Former CIA contractor working directly for John Brennan, James Clapper, et. al. has been blowing the whistle on the CIA/FBI’s crimes since 2012, and with the assistance of Senoir FBI Counsel and disgraced Twitter executive James Baker, has handed over 47 multi-terrabyte hard drives containing forensic evidence of almost every allegation brought forth by Neumann.

    The U.S. Government has acknowledged in open federal court that this evidence; which includes evidence of high level government operatives utilizing child porn sites operated by the CIA and FBI. In fact, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts is alleged to have visited over 300 child porn sites for the purposes of communicating with criminals operating the “secret shadow government”.

    Sources with first hand knowledge of the communications channels indicate that “child porn sites run by the CIA/FBI are the perfect means to communicate with as close to 100% operational security as you can get — if anyone leaks, the company [CIA] dispatches their compartmentalized rookie child-porn investigators, and you go to jail for a very long time. It’s the ultimate collateral they have hangin over your head — if you step out of line.” “That reminds me, back in the day, it’s how we were able to capture almost the entire leadership of Al Qaeda and ISIS, and it eventually became our preferred way to communicate with them — they love porn, especially child porn, and we would embed messaging in videos. It’s sick. But, they’re even sicker, and they made our covert comms go viral for 2 reasons…they love kiddie porn and get their orders…2 for the price of one. Why do you think military leaders in Afghanistan gave stand down orders & ROE to turn a blind eye to raping little boys — the were making content for the CIA; had the protection of McChrystal, and that’s why they killed that journo [Michael Hastings] because he made the fatal error of reporting those crimes to the FBI — who were are actually running the child porn sites used to communicate with Al Qaeda/ISIS. “

    A Jan 6 “color revolution” operative Evan Neumann who was working for the CIA and their sister intelligence agency on January 6th has blown the whistle and is prepared to testify in the Jan 6th trials if given immunity and if called to do so, although he is concerned for his life if he comes forward to meet with corrupt U.S. Government officials, as he was already threatened by FBI agents in November 2021. Neumann, as well as sources and intermediaries who corroborate his story and have validated his documentary evidence indicated that the FBI’s warning to Neumann made it very clear that if he were to speak out in any manner, “incarceration would be the least of his concerns” especially since Neumann has been “known to communicate on child porn websites and chat forums over the past 10 years.”

    January 6th Attorney Norm Pattis, who is representing Decorated Army SSgt Joseph Biggs, is no stranger to the topic of FBI agents running child porn websites and disseminating child sexual abuse on the internet. See: The FBI likely ran nearly half the child porn sites on the dark web in 2016 Pattis will likely be the most qualified Attorney to unveil the government’s long history of running chid porn sites for the “purposes of investigating pedophiles”.

    Also See: Judge: FBI acted outrageously by running ‘dark web’ child-porn site, but prosecution will proceed

    Neumann is also prepared to provide forensically certifiable evidence that his CIA/FBI and Joint Terrorism Taskforce handlers use two mediums of covert communication worldwide: Internet gaming chat rooms, and for “higher level, operationally secure comms take place on U.S. government-run child porn websites worldwide. It’s typically how I receive orders for my next op, when I finish the job, I am told where to pick up my check, such as the local RV dealer, which is nothing more than a CIA store front. I have copies of the chat logs recorded on video, as well as the checks, pickup locations and audio recordings of the people who issued my checks laughing about how well I blended in at the Maidan without any help [from CIA disguises] because I look so f&^king Ukrainian. “

    Through intermediaries, Neumann has conveyed the following warning message to the upper echelon of CIA/FBI intel services: “When you tell me I’m on my own — no cover — then that’s exactly where my loyalty will be from here on out. I have insurance, and no matter what you try to do to me, my friends and family, you’re about to see how I handle things on my own….and you will regret ever messing with Evan Neumann. Who knows, maybe I might show up on a live or recorded Zoom call right in the middle of the Proud Boys trial with my boy Dan Love. LOVE working with him, especially on January 6th. I would have never made it up front without him! By the way Pete, his black book has way more than what everyone knows publicly. He has insurance too. Why do you think he is still around?”

    Why was the FBI tasked with scaring off & silencing Neumann? More importantly, why did the FBI let Neumann go? We will soon find out when the FBI provides documentation of their investigation of his Ukrainian friends who Neumann met after the Ukraine “color revolution” in 2004 / 2005 and who was kindly “guided around town” by Evan Neumann on behalf of the entity who wanted to overthrow the U.S. Government:

    UKRAINIAN “COLOR REVOLUTION” NAZI’s ID’d ON JAN 6th CONNECTED TO JOHN MCCAIN, LINDSAY GRAHAM & AMY KLOBUCHAR

    If you’re reading this article and some of this doesn’t make sense; don’t worry. The exact specific messaging laid out in the above paragraphs—written specifically for “them”— will send chills down the spines of the deep state. Don’t worry about my scotched-earth policy potentially putting my life in jeopardy. I’ve not only learned about how dirty these dirty rotten bastards are, I’ve learned how to beat them at their own game — and have 2 federal trials in the win column to prove it. Although I’ve already enjoyed being at the winning side of their $100 million+ prosecution of the Bundy Defendants, if I were not blessed with being a Bundy Defendant, I would never have earned the trust of the high level sources who are now coming to me — we’re on the precipice of scoring the biggest win in our nation’s history . As in our trials, not even a leftist corrupt judge will be able to stop the truth from coming out.

    Important note to the Jan 6th Proud Boys defense attorneys: Although each of you have known for months (or at least should have, because I gave it to you and you ignored it), now I’m giving the following advice on a silver platter: SUBMIT A MOTION TO DEMAND DANIEL P. LOVE’s FBI 302 report be provided to the Defendants. If they don’t have one, then call Danial P. Love to the witness stand and ask him 4 questions: (1) What is his current job. (2) Are you a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and (3) where were you on January 6th (4) Is this you removing restricted area barricades in front of the U.S. Capitol.

    After you subpoena Danial P. Love as a witness, please be sure to have Norm Pattis or Roger Roots call me, Peter T. Santilli, to the witness stand to give testimony of EVERYTHING I am providing in this article, as well as provide documentation of everything I’m alleging here — especially copies of the 47 disks that are in “safe keeping” at the CIA’s Office of Inspector General.

    Who knows, I might also feel confident enough to get a copy of the 3-6 disks that the TSA (at the behest of “Twitter-evidence-deleter-in-Chief) James Baker had stolen from Dennis Montgomery prior to submitting them to his designated FBI Special Agents in Miramar, Florida. (those disks reportedly contain evidence related to the Obama Administration’s surveillance and collection of blackmail collateral on high level Israeli Intelligence officers/agents, and possibly Israeli Intelligence operatives communicating with ISIS on child porn sites.)

    Who knows, I might go FULL SCORCHED EARTH and come with Whistleblower & Federal Special Agent Larry Wooten, who wrote “Larry Wooten 2” in the Bundy Trials — So explosive. So scathing. So incriminating against the U.S. Goverrnment, that every attorney was threatened with jail time if they revealed its contents; exposing the U.S. Government’s sources, methods and entrapment techniques almost identical to what they’ve done with the January 6th “color revolution”.

    The Secret Shadow Government / Deep State was so panicked about losing the 2022 mid-terms, they employed an old, stale tactic whereby they infiltrate their opponent who is expected to win against them, and send high-powered campaign finance attorneys, campaign manager, etc. to intentionally sabotage their “books” and violate FEC campaign finance laws. Essentially, their operatives infiltrate, frame the campaign with FEC law violations, manufacture evidence, and intentionally leave a paper trail of corruption and demonstrative of intent. Once the candidate wins, the DNC calls for an investigation into FEC law violations. The so-called “winning”, naive candidate who was swarmed by saboteurs who cook the books & frame the fraud is left stunned and off track from governing as the lawfare industrial complex is activated. Eventually, the elected official is indicted and never stands a chance in a Federal Judiciary stacked with Judges who have a trail of porn websites they’ve been visiting to receive orders from the Deep State. Congressman Steve Stockman is living proof of what happens to anyone who crosses the Obama/Clinton/Bush/Biden crime syndicate. See: Steve Stockman, former Texas congressman, sentenced to 10 years in federal prison

    There is an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence of this type of sabotage operation being employed

    Here’s a timeline snapshot of events that took place leading up to the 2022 mid-term elections:

    July 2017 – FTX Founded. By October 2021, the four-year-old firm landed a staggering $25 billion valuation. 

    November 2017 – Sam Bankman-Fried co-founded Alameda Research as a quantitative trading firm, after he left his job at Jane Street Capital.

    January 14, 2022 – FTX launches $2B Venture Fund with Amy Wu, Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Jan-November 2022 – FACTS: A source with inside knowledge and documentation, all of which has also been corroborated with a private contractor for the U.S. Government tracked “dark web communication” on internet gaming sites and porn websites run by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Source and contractor whistleblower have both agreed to testify under oath about their knowledge of secret shadow government dark-web communications via gaming and porn sites . CIA and Democrat Operatives devised a plan to sabotage the Republican party by intentionally funneling FTX dark money through the Bahamas; to Ukraine and back to GOP and DNC political campaigns for the purposes of influencing the 2022 mid-term elections. Essentially, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Chick Schumer, et al determined they would lose the House and possibly the Senate, and executed a plan to sabotage the Republican Party through Kevin McCarthy with FTX funds via Ukraine. Proper investigation of this scheme will show high level Democrat operatives willing to sacrifice undesirable members of their own party so as to provide cover.

    March 2022, the Ukrainian government launched a website to accept crypto currency in partnership with crypto-firms FTX and Everstake to funnel donations to Ukraine’s central bank as it combats a devastating invasion by Russia. Ukraine made history by successfully launching the world’s biggest cryptocurrency fundraiser. As of Sept 20 2022, over $178 million in crypto donations has been collected by various Ukrainian funds since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the analytics firm Crystal Blockchain.

    Jan-November 2022 – Sam Bankman-Fried gave millions of dollars to Democrats, making him the party’s second-biggest individual donor in the 2022 election cycle. One of his former top lieutenants, Ryan Salame, was also a massive donor but backed Republicans.

    September 7, 2022 – Biden renews President Trump’s National Emergency Executive Order 13848 and sends a notification letter dated September 7, 2022 to the House of Representatives and Senate.

    September 8, 2022 – Sam Bankman-Fried met with Biden aide Ricchetti at the White House, but the visit did not show up on the visitor’s logs. His brother, Gabriel Bankman-Fried, is recorded in a March meeting of his own and then took part in the May 13 session for a total of at least five this year that involved one or both of the brothers.

    November 2, 2022 – FTX Collapses

    December 9, 2022 – SBF Indicted. US prosecutors are alleging a slew of misconduct, including allegedly conspiring with others to use corporate money and shadow donors for political contributions and misusing billions of dollars of customers’ funds lent to FTX’s sister company Alameda Research.

    It’s very obvious that Kevin McCarthy has a lot on his plate but leading the world’s largest bureaucracy. In my well informed opinion, he must either make these national security issues a top priority, or we can legitimately consider him to be yet another captured entity within our Constitutional Republic. Imagine if he refrains from investigating FTX because he may be implicated in the campaign finance scheme. Imagine the FBI’s leverage over him if these crimes are not publicly dislosed.

    Imagine how panicked these criminals are after reading this article.

    Imagine how helpless they feel if they are smart enough to understand that there’s NOTHING they can do to stop this information from coming out.

    Imagine how much regret the FBI feels after making the biggest mistake of their criminals lives — releasing me from federal detention in October 2017 and then losing over $100 million to prosecute the Bundy Defendants.

    Imagine how shocked they will be when they discover that their worst days are yet to come.

    God Bless America.

    p.s. To those who would do everything in the power to prevent this information from reaching millions of people around the world: When you wrongfully and unlawfully put me me in shackles in an attempt to silence me, how did that work out for you? This time around, you won’t be able to catch me off guard. Make any move; come anywhere near me; try ANYTHING and that’s when the really bad stuff comes to out. I’m actually smirking as I type these words, knowing you too stupid & will not stop trying to suppress the information contained in this article. As a Christian man, I should not dare you or hope you’ll make the dumbest move you’ve ever made. I want you to just stand down in favor of the US. Constitution & the American family. If you chose otherwise, please don’t blame me for what happens next.

  • CIA’s Kevin “Tether” McCarthy Elected as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress

    CIA’s Kevin “Tether” McCarthy Elected as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress

    January 7, 2023 at 10:02AM Kevin McCarthy Elected as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress

    It took 15 votes beginning Jan. 3, but Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) finally gained enough votes to be elected the 55th Speaker of the House of Representatives in a nail-bitingly close election that ran past midnight in the lower chamber of the U.S. Capitol.

    McCarthy’s 216 votes total bested Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who received the votes of all 212 Democrats present in the chamber in all but one of the 15 votes that began a little after noon Jan. 3 when the 118th Congress convened for the day. Jeffries received 211 on an earlier vote when Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) missed balloting for surgery.

    McCarthy’s victory was made possible when the six remaining populist conservative dissidents who had opposed him from the first vote all voted present. That reduced the number of members voting to 428, which reduced McCarthy’s magic number from 218 to 216.

    When it became clear that McCarthy had finally secured the Speaker’s chair, the Republican side of the House chamber celebrated, with many hugging their new leader, shaking hands, laughing, and slapping one another on the back. McCarthy gave an especially spirited hug to his House Majority Leader, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.). McCarthy also posed for selfies with a number of his fellow Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

    During a 14th vote about an hour and a half earlier, when everybody in the chamber realized at the end of the roll call that only one more vote was needed to put McCarthy into the Speaker’s seat, highly animated conversations took place as members tried to persuade Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) or Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)  to switch their vote.

    But then Gaetz changed his mind and agreed to vote for McCarthy, and a motion to adjourn was defeated, and a 15th vote was to then be taken. Gaetz ended up voting present during the 15th round of voting.

    Epoch Times Photo
    Epoch Times Photo

    U.S. Rep.-elect Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) (L) and Rep.-elect Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) (R) talk to Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

    Speaker elections have been one-ballot affairs for the most part in recent years, so McCarthy’s inability to close the deal was a historic departure. Not since before the Civil War has the House required more than 13 ballots to pick a new speaker.

    The last time more than 13 ballots were required to elect a speaker was the 36th Congress, which took between Dec. 5, 1859, and Feb. 1, 1860, to settle on William Pennington, a New Jersey Republican.

    During a quick news conference with journalists outside the House chamber shortly after the 13th ballot, McCarthy expressed confidence in the outcome when the House would reconvene later in the evening, saying, “This is the great part because it took this long, now we learned how to govern. So now we’ll be able to get the job done,” he said.

    McCarthy had succeeded in switching 13 of the 20 earlier in the day when the votes were counted for the 12th time. Members assembled at noon for the fourth day of speaking, debating, negotiating, and voting in the historic effort to name a successor to now-former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

    Epoch Times Photo

    Epoch Times Photo

    U.S. Rep.-elect Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) is restrained by Rep.-elect Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) after getting into an argument with Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks away, in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

    When the 12th ballots were counted, McCarthy had 213 votes, besting for the first time Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who has received all 212 Democratic votes on every ballot. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who voted for McCarthy, received four, while Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), who also voted for McCarthy, got three votes.

    McCarthy had won 200–203 votes on all of the previous ballots taken. By converting 13 of the 20 to his side, McCarthy moved tantalizingly closer to becoming House speaker.

    All of the converts were significant, but especially so on Jan. 6 were House Freedom Caucus (HFC) Chairman Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), the three key leaders of the dissident group.

    Other dissidents coming over on the 12th vote to McCarthy were Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), and Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas).

    Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) voted for McCarthy after voting “present” in six previous ballots.

    Epoch Times Photo

    Epoch Times Photo

    The U.S. Capitol Building is seen at night as the House of Representatives continues to work to elect a New Speaker for the 118th Congress on Jan. 6, 2023. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

    The great obstacle to resolving the contest has been the 20 dissidents demanding multiple reforms in House procedures to empower rank-and-file members and decrease the power of the speaker.

    Shortly after the 12th balloting, Perry, whose HFC has been the heart of the dissident movement since last summer, told reporters outside the House chamber that he’s enthusiastic about the concessions from McCarthy and the resulting changes that will follow in how the House conducts its business.

    “I trust the framework of the agreement that we have. Quite honestly, the biggest win is the overall framework of it, there’s not one singular thing. You have accountability for the most powerful person in the building. You have changes in how we’re going to spend and allocate money here that are going to be historic, we’re going to be able to finally stop the Senate from rolling us,” Perry said.

    “We’re going to see more conservative representation on important committees … we’re going to deal with earmarks differently. All those things about the motion to vacate, the motion to vacate is accountability. One person should be able to make the motion, one person, but the whole body has to vote on it,” Perry continued.

    “But it needs to be what Thomas Jefferson envisioned it to be because the most powerful person must be held accountable, not only to the American people, but to the purse, the members of this body,” he said.

    Epoch Times Photo

    Epoch Times Photo

    U.S. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) (L) embraces Rep.-elect Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2023, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

    Perry also insisted that the dissidents were not seeking concessions to benefit themselves personally but rather to change the way the House works.

    “We’re asking for things to change how this institution works because it doesn’t work for the American people. And we just stood firm, demanded it. Now it makes it difficult for sure. Because this place operates on the status quo, the status quo serves this town, we are sick and tired of it,” he explained.

    Before Friday, the dissidents had cast votes for a string of candidates, including Donalds, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Rep. Ken Hern (R-Okla.), and Jordan.

    And, while the members voted, McCarthy and his team, including incoming House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.), engaged in intensive negotiations with Roy, Perry, Biggs, and Donalds, among the dissident group.

    McCarthy made multiple concessions to the dissidents and a draft written agreement was circulated late on Jan. 5. McCarthy expressed confidence before Jan. 6’s session convened that “good progress” was being made in the negotiations. His confidence was confirmed in the 13th ballot.

    Mark Tapscott

    Congressional Correspondent

    Congressional Correspondent for The Epoch Times.

    Madalina covers the U.S. Congress for The Epoch Times.

    via www.theepochtimes.com

  • How The Court Works: The Justices’ Conference Regarding Treason

    How The Court Works: The Justices’ Conference Regarding Treason

     

    January 6, 2023 at 07:08AM How The Court Works: The Justices’ Conference | Supreme Court Historical Society

    Of the cases remaining, the Justices screen the problems closely—by a process they explain freely in outline. They meet on Wednesdays and Fridays during the term in a conference room as secret as any in government. In a capital full of classified matters, and full of leaks, the Court keeps private matters private. Reporters may speculate; but details of discussion are never disclosed, and the vote is revealed only when a decision is announced. No outsider enters the room during conference. The junior Associate Justice acts as “doorkeeper,” sending for reference material, for instance, and receiving it at the door. “We could not function as a court if our conferences were public,” Justice Blackmun once explained, “There are just the nine of us, no more…[W]e can say what we initially believe, only to be proved wrong by the honing effect of conference and agreement and disagreement.”

    Five minutes before conference time, 9:30 or 10 a.m., the Justices are summoned. They exchange ritual handshakes and settle down at the long table. The Chief sits at the east end; the other Justices sit at places they have chosen in order of their seniority. Before each Justice is a copy of the day’s agenda. Each decides when he or she should refrain from taking any part in a case.

    The Chief Justice opens the discussion, summarizing each case. The senior Associate Justice speaks next, and comment passes down the line. To be accepted for review, a case needs only four votes, fewer than the majority required for a decision on the case itself. Counsel for the litigants are directed to submit their printed briefs so that each Justice has a set several weeks before argument.

    Paradoxically, perhaps—in light of the complete confidentiality of the conference—the Supreme Court is one of the most open of government agencies and one of the most public of courts. It acts only on matters of public record; it hears counsel’s arguments in public; all its orders and opinions are on the record; all materials presented to the Court for reaching its decisions are available to the public.

    All conference decisions are published. The disagreements among the Justices are fully exposed to the public in the written opinions, and on occasion the language of dissent becomes vehement.

    When the vote has been taken on a case, the writing of an opinion is assigned—by the Chief if he voted with the majority, otherwise by the senior Justice of the majority. Dissenters may agree among themselves on who will explain their view. Any Justice, concurring or dissenting, may write an individual opinion to emphasize a special point.

    via Supreme Court Historical Society

  • Matt Gaetz Calls McCarthy A “Squatter” For Prematurely Moving Into Speaker’s Office

    Matt Gaetz Calls McCarthy A “Squatter” For Prematurely Moving Into Speaker’s Office

    Matt Gaetz Calls McCarthy A “Squatter” For Prematurely Moving Into Speaker’s Office

    Update (2228ET): In a hilarious cap to today’s chaos surrounding the GOP House Speaker vote, anti-McCarthy Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida wrote to the Architect of the Capitol to ask how long McCarthy – who prematurely moved in to the Speaker’s office – would be able to occupy the room “before he is considered a squatter.”

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    Update (1836ET): The day ended without the election of a House Speaker, as support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) waned throughout the day.

    Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), meanwhile, saw his stock rise with each of Tuesday’s three votes.

    As The Epoch Times notes, in the first vote of a tumultuous first day of the 118th Congress, McCarthy, the California Republican who led the party to regain the majority in the November 2022 mid-term election, fell 15 votes short of the 218 he needed to become Speaker of the House.

    McCarthy received 203 votes from Republican colleagues, while 212 Democrats voted for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who will serve as House Minority Leader in 2023. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz), the leader of the anti-McCarthy members, received 10 votes. A handful of Republicans voted for candidates who were not nominated.

    Second Vote

    Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) cited Saint Paul’s admonition about “finishing the race” as he nominated House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for Speaker of the House.

    In his floor speech, Jordan said the House must do three basic things in 2023, including getting the U.S. border with Mexico under control and restoring U.S. military strength, stopping profligate spending by Democrats, and conducting a comprehensive oversight effort of President Joe Biden’s administration.

    “We have to do the Oversight and Investigations that needs to be done. This idea that bureaucrats who never put their name on the ballot but think they run the country, who assaulted our constituents’ First Amendment liberties. they need to be held accountable,” Jordan said.

    “That has to happen, we need to do it. We need to do it in a way that’s consistent with the Constitution, but we need to do it vigorously and aggressively. That is part of our duty as members of this body,” Jordan continued.

    Jordan’s nomination of McCarthy followed the California Republican’s failure to marshall a majority of the 434 Members of the Representatives assembled earlier in the day for the first vote on a new Speaker.

    Jeffries was also nominated a second time. Then Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) nominated Jordan, despite the fact the Ohio Republican made clear he continued to support McCarthy. Then the second ballot roll call was called.

    All of the 19 Republicans who opposed McCarthy in the first ballot shifted their votes to Jordan, including Biggs. While McCarthy gained the same 203 votes he received in the first balloting, which again left him short of the needed majority of 218. All 212 Democrats again voted for Jeffries.

    One of those who voted for Jordan was House Freedom Caucus (HFC) Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who during the second ballot posted on Twitter his determination to fight McCarthy no matter how many ballots are required.

    “I stand firmly committed to changing the status quo no matter how many ballots this takes. If McCarthy had fought nearly as hard to defeat the failed, toxic policies of the Biden Administration as he has for himself, he would be Speaker of the House right now,” Perry wrote.

    Tension is building on the House floor among Republicans. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told Fox News that “If all they want is somebody other than Kevin, let’s be candid. Steve Scalise is supporting Kevin, Jim Jordan is supporting Kevin. As a matter of fact, every member of the leadership team, including every ranking member without becoming a chairman, is supporting Kevin. So we are in a situation in which the 19 have to explain what they want.”

    Democrats were quick to seize on the GOP confusion, with Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) issuing a statement following the first vote observing that “Hunter Thompson was right: ‘When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.’ This is what a Republican majority gets us: chaos.”

    “Democrats are here and ready to do our jobs for the country. Republican disarray is standing in the way.”

    Third Vote

    House Republicans remained deadlocked after voting for the third time Tuesday without giving enough votes to make McCarthy the new Speaker of the House.

    McCarthy lost one vote—Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.)—on the third vote of the day for a total of 202 votes. Democrat Hakeem Jeffries of New York had the highest total with 212, with all of his Democratic colleagues but no Republicans voting for him.

    Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) drew 20 votes, but his own ballot went to McCarthy for the third time. Jordan received 19 votes on the second ballot.

    The conservative rebels who have held firm against McCarthy and coalesced around Jordan on the third ballot remained steadfastly determined to keep their California colleague from succeeding Democrat Nancy Pelosi, also of California, as the new Speaker.

    In an impassioned speech nominating Jordan on the third ballot, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) put the issue between McCarthy and the dissidents as one of how best to stand up to President Joe Biden and the Senate Democratic majority.

    “How many times have we been down here giving speeches, and there’s not a soul in the chamber? Yet this is what it takes to get 435 People in the chamber and have an actual debate,” Roy told the chamber.

    “The American people are watching, and that’s a good thing. What we’re doing is exercising our rights to vote and have a debate and have a discussion about the future of this country through the decision of choosing a speaker.

    “This is not personal. It’s not. This is about the future of the country. This is about the direction of the country.”

    Republican Infighting

    That vote capped a frenzied two days of back-room bargaining and media posturing by McCarthy and his supporters and a small group of dissident populist conservatives who demanded and got a host of reform concessions, but still voted no on the first ballot.

    The bottom line for the dissidents was they just don’t trust McCarthy to be the agent of change they believe must lead the House in what they are determined to make the last two years of President Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House.

    “I came to a broken and dysfunctional Congress to change it. Advancing the long-standing pecking order one notch has no prospect of doing that. Many don’t want to change it,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) posted on Twitter just before the first vote.

    “Kevin McCarthy is not the right candidate to be Speaker. He has perpetuated the Washington status quo that makes this body one of the most unsuccessful and unpopular institutions in the country. This is not about personality or who has ‘earned’ the position, it is about serving the American people. I will not support the status quo,” Bishop continued.

    In the final minutes before the new House assembled for the speaker contest, a clearly exasperated and frustrated McCarthy told reporters: “I have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor. I don’t have a problem getting a record for the most votes for Speaker, too.”

    He was referring to his more than 90-minute December address to the House in opposition to Biden’s $1.8 trillion omnibus spending bill.

    Read the rest here…

    *  *  *

    Update (1455ET): Kevin McCarthy has lost the second tally for Speaker of the House.

    Of note, when this happened in 1923, it went to nine ballots.

    And look who’s gaining steam…

    *  *  *

    Update (1310ET): Not even a quarter of the way through roll call, and Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has failed to secure enough votes to become Speaker of the House – which will push the contest into a multiple-ballot vote.

    According to the Washington Post‘s Paul Kane, the last time this happened was 1923.

    What’s next? As Politico reports:

    After McCarthy fails to get 218 votes on the first ballot, the Freedom Caucus antagonists have signaled that they will start backing another yet-unnamed candidate on the second ballot. The Daily Beast reported Monday night that that person is Ohio Rep. JIM JORDAN, the longtime McCarthy critic-turned-ally.

    The Ohio Republican, however, has no shot at being speaker — something that his adoring conservative colleagues know very well. But, per the Daily Beast story, that’s not the point: They’re hoping to peel off more Republicans to back Jordan, aiming to have McCarthy’s vote count decrease from the first ballot to the second.

    It’s an open question how long today will go until someone nominates a viable candidate for the gavel — someone like STEVE SCALISE (R-La.) or PATRICK McHENRY (R-N.C.). And there’s a fear that if one of these member’s names is called too early in the process, the conference will turn on them.

    Buckle up. It’s going to be a long day. 

    *  *  *

    Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave a Tuesday morning speech imploring fellow Republicans to elect him as Speaker of the House, as several notable members of the GOP have openly opposed McCarthy.

    According to Axios, McCarthy has given hardliners nearly everything they’ve asked for, however he still hasn’t secured enough votes for the position, meaning that for the first time in 100 years, the House will likely hold multiple ballots for the speaker.

    In his Tuesday speech, McCarthy listed all the concessions he’s made to the right, and pointed out that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) praised elements of his rules package. Gaetz, notably, has spearheaded the anti-McCarthy movement within the chamber.

    “I’ve earned this job,” said McCarthy, after running through everything he’s done to become speaker – to which Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) reportedly shook his head, according to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman.

    “This is bullshit,” said Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) in response to McCarthy’s speech.

    In December, Gaetz said he wouldn’t vote for McCarthy because he’s “just a shill of the establishment.”

    McCarthy also got into an argument with Rep. Perry, who accused McCarthy of having no track record on spending bills.

    McCarthy’s supporters chime in:

    In addition to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), McCarthy has the support of neocon Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who has called McCarthy’s detractors “enemies” and “narcissists.”

    “They are enemies now. They have made it clear that they prefer a Democrat agenda than a Republican,” Crenshaw told CNN‘s Manu Raju.

    “This handful of members is very clearly looking for notoriety over principle. That’s what it is. And anyone who suggests differently is in some kind of make believe fantasy reality. It’s not, it’s not true,” he continued, adding “They lost those debates.”

    “That should have been the end of it because that’s how a team works, right? But if you’re a narcissist, … then you’ll keep going. And you’ll threaten to tear down the team for the benefit of the Democrats just because of your own sense of self importance.”

    Another McCarthy supporter, Mike Rogers (R-AL), said the GOP should bar McCarthy dissenters from getting committee slots – an idea Chip Roy didn’t like.

    Here’s Roy in December explaining the situation;

    According to Axios, this could become a war of attrition in which “[a] good number of pro-McCarthy House Republicans are hoping some of the holdouts are bluffing and looking for a show — and will ultimately get worn down enough during the process to cave for McCarthy.”

    The likely candidate to replace McCarthy, in the unlikely event he pulls out, is Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who said he won’t run against McCarthy but has been quietly preparing for this scenario.

    It doesn’t look like McCarthy is too worried…

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    January 4, 2023 at 07:22AM

  • Kevin McCarthy Suffers Historic Defeat; Here’s What Happens Next….

    Kevin McCarthy Suffers Historic Defeat; Here’s What Happens Next….

    January 3, 2023 at 04:48PM Kevin McCarthy Suffers Historic Defeat; Here’s What Happens Next….

    For the first time since 1923, the House Speaker vote will require a second ballot as Kevin McCarthy has NOT secured enough votes to win the speakership.

    This marks the first time in almost a century that the majority’s nominee has required another vote. As voting continued, eleven Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy, preventing him from achieving the 218 threshold.

    During the first round of voting, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona was nominated as an alternative Republican candidate to McCarthy. Biggs had previously challenged McCarthy in a GOP conference meeting late last year and received seven of the eleven alternate GOP votes in the first round.

    Members of the House Freedom Caucus, known for their hardline stance, had indicated in the days leading up to the vote that they would nominate a new candidate for Republicans to support after the first vote.

    This Fox News segment reveals what will happens next:

    The Congressional Expert on the Fox News panel says other candidates could emerge from the Republican Party if McCarthy doesn’t gain the votes in a 1st or 2nd vote.

    More analysis:

    When it was Matt Gaetz’s turn to speak his mind on the House Speaker vote, he sounded the alarm over swamp Republican’s attempts to install Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

    Congress is reconvening to vote on whether or not McCarthy should become House Speaker and it is unknown whether or not he has the votes.

    “House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told colleagues that “I’ve earned this job” in a defiant closed-door speech ahead of what is expected to be a contentious vote for speaker,” the Washington Post reports. “Shortly before the new House was set to convene, McCarthy’s GOP foes remained adamant that they would oppose his speakership, which could lead to multiple ballots before a leader of the chamber emerges.”

    The contentious battle for House Speaker is causing many rifts within the Republican party.

    Rep. Gaetz revealed that things are so bad that establishment Republicans are threatening those who do not vote for McCarthy with removal from House committees.

    “But we were threatened by my committee chairman to be on the Arms Services, Mr. Rodgers, that if we did not vote for Mr. McCarthy that we would be removed from committees,” Gaetz said.

    “Our position is that if Kevin McCarthy is the speaker of the house and we don’t have an ability to ensure that there is umf behind the agenda and energy behind our oversight, then our committee assignments don’t mean that much anyway,” he slammed.

    “I’m not here to participate in some puppet show where we pass a bunch of messaging bills, send them to the Senate, watch them die, fail to use leverage and don’t hold the Biden Administration accountable,” Gaetz said. “I don’t want to relive the Benghazi experience where it’s just theatre pretending to be oversight”

    WATCH:

    Here is another clip:

    Lauren Boebert announced she voted for Jim Jordan for House Speaker:

    Follow us on Twitter @CollinRugg!

    This is a developing story. Stay tuned for more…

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  • BREAKING: Internal Source Says “Significant Miscount” In Abe Hamadeh’s Recount Nets Hamadeh With Hundreds of New Votes In Race Called by 511 Votes

    BREAKING: Internal Source Says “Significant Miscount” In Abe Hamadeh’s Recount Nets Hamadeh With Hundreds of New Votes In Race Called by 511 Votes

    December 29, 2022 at 07:20AM. BREAKING: Internal Source Says “Significant Miscount” In Abe Hamadeh’s Recount Nets Hamadeh With Hundreds of New Votes In Race Called by 511 Votes

    A “significant miscount” of hundreds of votes has been discovered in the recount results for Trump-Endorsed Abe Hamadeh’s statewide Attorney General’s race. 

    Hamadeh was only down by 511 votes against Mayes out of more than 2.5 million ballots cast in the Attorney General race.

    The Gateway Pundit reported that on Election Day in Maricopa County, over 50% of tabulators and printers failed the moment that polls opened, causing voters to be turned away from the polls and creating long wait times of four hours or more. According to cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh’s testimony in Kari Lake’s election lawsuit, this was an intentional act aimed at disenfranchising Republican voters who turned out 3:1 for Trump-Endorsed candidates.

    As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hamadeh contested the results in a lawsuit filed in the Mohave County Superior Court against Kris Mayes, Katie Hobbs, and all Arizona County election officials.

    Read Abe Hamadeh’s filing here.

    The Gateway Pundit reported that Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee F. Jantzen tossed out Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge in the Arizona Attorney General race against Democrat Kris Mayes.

    The judge denied the challenge based on testimony from Hamadeh’s lawyer, Tim LaSota, acknowledging that based on the ballot inspection (a small sample of ballots), his client would not be able to get over 511 votes needed to overcome Mayes.

    However, Charlie Kirk tweeted earlier that hundreds of new votes were discovered for Abe, and corrupt Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is attempting to hide this discrepancy from the public.

    Kirk: BREAKING: An internal source has shared that a rural AZ county has found a significant miscount netting @AbrahamHamadeh with hundreds of new votes. Sources suspect @katiehobbs is not quickly releasing this revelation to provide as little time as possible for public reaction.

    This was also confirmed by leftist Garrett Archer, who says the “discrepancy is not from Maricopa or Pima.”

    This could overturn the election that was decided by 511 votes. At the very least, it could help Abe’s case move forward.

    Hamadeh tweeted before this new revelation came out that he will assess his legal options when the recount results are released tomorrow.

    This is a developing story.

    via The Gateway Pundit

  • Corrupt Judge Peter Thompson Rules Elections with Broken Machines in 60% of Precincts and No Chain of Custody for Ballots Are Free, Fair and Certifiable

    Corrupt Judge Peter Thompson Rules Elections with Broken Machines in 60% of Precincts and No Chain of Custody for Ballots Are Free, Fair and Certifiable

    December 26, 2022 at 05:35AM  Judge Peter Thompson Rules Elections with Broken Machines in 60% of Precincts and No Chain of Custody for Ballots Are Free, Fair and Certifiable

    Phoenix, Arizona – Kari Lake has filed a lawsuit against her opponent Katie Hobbs, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, Maricopa County board of Supervisors members Bill Gates, Clint Hickman, Jack Sellers, Thomas Galvin and Steve Gallardo and Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarret for their roles in the most botched and embarrassing Election Day in the history of Arizona.

    Kari Lake said “This lawsuit puts an end to any doubt that our elections, especially in Maricopa County, are rigged and massive reforms are needed if the public is ever to trust the results again.” Lake continued, “Our sacred vote was trampled on. Every Arizonan should be furious, regardless of Party. Despite the desperate lies by the Fake News, my team has filed one of the strongest Election Lawsuits in history.”

    10 Key Points of the lawsuit, which can be read in full at SaveArizonaFund.com:

    ·  Cyber Expert Clay Parikh: Machine Failures that Arizona voters experienced on election day could not have occurred absent intentional misconduct. In summary, the errors were the result of deliberate actions and could have been prevented.

    ·  Between 15,603 and 29,257 Republican voters disenfranchised. Over 300,000 mail-in ballots had no chain of custody. This is a violation of Arizona law.

    ·  Whistleblowers: Tens of thousands of illegal ballots counted, many with little to no signature verification.

    ·  59% of the 223 Voting Centers in Maricopa County had printer and tabulator failure on election day. Reminder: Election Day Voters went for 3 to 1 for Kari Lake. Clear voter disenfranchisement in primarily red districts (Rich Baris Numbers)

    ·  Uncounted “Door 3 Ballots” were co-mingled with already tabulated ballots. There is strong reason to believe the actual number of door 3 ballots is far greater than the reported 16,724

    ·  Katie Hobbs and Stephen Richer both colluded with the federal government to censor constituents. This is election interference and a violation of the First Amendment.

    ·  Conflicts of Interest:

    o   Bill Gates – Spent the last two years obstructing every election integrity effort in AZ and contributed to a PAC that sought to undermine “America First” candidates

    o   Stephen Richer – Formed and used a well-funded PAC to defeat Kari Lake

    o   Katie Hobbs Secretary of State – governed over her own election

    o   Steven Gallardo – he is now a member of Katie Hobbs’ transition team.

    ·  Runbeck Whistleblower says 298,942 early ballots had no chain of custody.

    ·  Maricopa County adds 25,000 ballots to totals AFTER election day.

    ·  Video footage, first-hand accounts, and expert testimony directly contradict Maricopa County officials’ public statements deliberately attempting to downplay these events.

    These points are all thoroughly supported by the affidavits of whistleblowers within the system and backed by written expert testimony.

     In addition to skillfully laid out details of a completely botched election day, the lawsuit also names Secretary of State Hobbs as a corrupt operator who successfully silenced her political enemy’s freedom of speech by demanding Twitter take down their tweets which were critical of her.

    The relief sought includes throwing out illegal ballots, which would result in Lake’s rightful win over Hobbs in the November 8th election, or result in a new election conducted in Maricopa County, with a special master as administrator. In addition, inspection of the “signature verified” ballots that are highly questionable because of whistleblower testimony, is requested as relief in Lake’s suit.

    via The Gateway Pundit

  • ‘Some Sort Of Sex Slave’? Son Of Paul Pelosi’s Attacker Breaks Silence, Fuels Speculation

    ‘Some Sort Of Sex Slave’? Son Of Paul Pelosi’s Attacker Breaks Silence, Fuels Speculation

    December 16, 2022 at 07:18AM ‘Some Sort Of Sex Slave’? Son Of Paul Pelosi’s Attacker Breaks Silence, Fuels Speculation

    The son of Paul Pelosi attacker, David DePape, says his father ‘is not evil,’ and is ‘hardly a right-wing conservative.’ He also implied that the 82-year-old Pelosi may have invited DePape over for sexual activities.

    Speaking with the Daily Mail, Nebosvod ‘Sky’ Gonzalez said “He isn’t a danger to society, I don’t even know if he even attacked Mr. Pelosi. For all that we know he was some sort of sex slave, as Elon Musk pointed out.”

    The 42-year-old DePape appeared before a San Francisco Superior Court Judge on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing, and will be arraigned on federal charges on Dec. 28, which include attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder, first-degree burglary and threatening the family member of a public official . He has pleaded guilty to all charges. He has also been charged in federal court.

    When asked about first hearing of his father’s arrest, Gonzalez said he was in shock, and that “That’s not the type of person he is.”

    Official reports about the attack have changed several times. First, an ‘unknown third party’ opened the door after police arrived at the Pelosi house – after which police witnessed DePape take a hammer from Pelosi and hit him with it. Then, it was that Pelosi and DePape were both struggling with the hammer, and DePape wrested it from Pelosi and beat him with it. Then, in a now-retracted report which has gotten veteran NBC reporter banished from the air, after being alone in the home for 30 minutes, Pelosi opened the door when police arrived. However, he did not try to escape or alert police to an emergency, and he instead walked to the police and back toward DePape.

    NBC News deleted the clip from their Twitter feed and scrubbed it from their website.

    “I’m surprised about the whole thing. There is still a lot of info that hasn’t been given to the public. I have no clue what happened or how it happened. There are more questions than answers right now. Do we even know what really happened?” he told the Mail.

    There is “almost no person on this planet that has gone through so much suffering,” the 19-year-old Gonzalez said. “If you look into his eyes, you can see he’s such a sad person.”

    “He often told us he was raised in an abusive home and would be physically abused by his grandparents,” Sky continued, adding that DePape was bullied in school and didn’t have any friends.

    Their mother, Oxane ‘Gypsy’ Taub, gave them the last name “Gonzalez” as a tribute to a Mexican family that allegedly saved her life several years ago.

    Not politically motivated

    Gonzalez, who says he hasn’t seen his father in several years, told the Mail that the attack wasn’t likely to have been politically motivated.

    “My father had a lot of political views and told me about a lot of different things, but he didn’t subscribe to either political party, Democrat or Republican,” adding that the two parties ‘are just covers and colors.’

    Nebosvod ‘Sky’ Gonzalez

    “What matters are the policies of each individual person. Each individual person is unique, and it isn’t about right or left. That’s just a distraction,” he continued.

    “My father had progressive views. He believed in human rights, equality, and justice. He was against the war, he was a peace activist, hardly a right-wing conservative, as he has been branded.“

    Mental Illness

    Shortly after DePape’s arrest, Taub – who is currently imprisoned for the attempted abduction of a 14-year-old boy, told ABC30 that her former partner was “mentally ill,” and that he disappeared for a year in the mid 2010s.

    “He came back in very bad shape. He thought he was Jesus. He was constantly paranoid, thinking people were after him,” she said, adding “And it took a good year or two to get back to, you know, being halfway normal.”

    “When I met him, he was only 20 years old and he didn’t have any experience in politics, and he was very much in alignment with my views and I’ve always been very progressive.”

    “I absolutely admire Nancy Pelosi,” she added.

    According to Gonzalez, “We all deserve to know what happened, especially in such a high-profile case,” adding “But we don’t know what happened. I don’t know whether or not my father did what he’s been accused of. So far, what we know doesn’t make any sense.“

    via Zerohedge

  • DOJ COVER-UP! “Risk Of Flight Too Great” – Bankman-Fried Denied Bail, Remanded To Custody

    DOJ COVER-UP! “Risk Of Flight Too Great” – Bankman-Fried Denied Bail, Remanded To Custody

    “Risk Of Flight Too Great” – Bankman-Fried Denied Bail, Remanded To Custody

    Update (1700ET): Following his arrest last night, with its expectations of an imminent deportation, Sam Bankman-Fried told a Bahamian judge at an arraignment Tuesday that he wouldn’t waive his right to an extradition hearing.

    A defense lawyer said Bankman-Fried planned to fight being sent to the US.

    Counsel for SBF has requested bail be set at $250,000.

    Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams called the case “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history” and said the investigation of the alleged scheme is “very much ongoing.”

    Which may explain why presiding judge JoyAnn Ferguson-Pratt denied SBF’s bail application, highlighting his “risk of flight” and ordered the crypto executive to be held in custody at the Bahamas Department of Corrections until Feb. 8.

    The case has been adjourned to the said date.

    *  *  *

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission said it will file charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday relating to violations of securities law, accusing him of “orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX” and seeking to ban him from the cryptocurrency industry.

    “We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler

    The SEC made the announcement on Monday, shortly after Bahamian authorities arrest Bankman-Fried, the US Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York confirmed.

    The SEC has charged Bankman-Fried with violating the anti-fraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The SEC’s complaint seeks injunctions against future securities law violation that prohibits Bankman-Fried from participating in the issuance, purchase, offer, or sale of any securities except for his own personal account.

    Here are some of the wildest accusations from the SEC’s 28-page filing:

    SBF improperly diverted assets to his privately held crypto hedge fund:

    Unbeknownst to those investors (and to FTX’s trading customers), Bankman-Fried was orchestrating a massive, years-long fraud, diverting billions of dollars of the trading platform’s customer funds for his own personal benefit and to help grow his crypto empire.

    Throughout this period, Bankman-Fried portrayed himself as a responsible leader of the crypto community. He touted the importance of regulation and accountability. He told the public, including investors, that FTX was both innovative and responsible. Customers around the world believed his lies, and sent billions of dollars to FTX, believing their assets were secure on the FTX trading platform. But from the start, Bankman-Fried improperly diverted customer assets to his privately-held crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research LLC (“Alameda”), and then used those customer funds to make undisclosed venture investments, lavish real estate purchases, and large political donations.

    Bankman-Fried then exempted his crypto hedge fund, Alameda, from risk mitigation procedures:

    He told investors and prospective investors that FTX had top-notch, sophisticated automated risk measures in place to protect customer assets, that those assets were safe and secure, and that Alameda was just another platform customer with no special privileges. These statements were false and misleading. In truth, Bankman-Fried had exempted Alameda from the risk mitigation measures and had provided Alameda with significant special treatment on the FTX platform, including a virtually unlimited “line of credit” funded by the platform’s customers.

    While he spent lavishly on office space and condominiums in The Bahamas, and sank billions of dollars of customer funds into speculative venture investments, Bankman-Fried’s house of cards began to crumble.

    Here’s how he diverted funds:

    Bankman-Fried diverted FTX customer funds to Alameda in essentially two ways: (1) by directing FTX customers to deposit fiat currency (e.g., U.S. Dollars) into bank accounts controlled by Alameda; and (2) by enabling Alameda to draw down from a virtually limitless “line of credit” at FTX, which was funded by FTX customer assets.

    As a result, there was no meaningful distinction between FTX customer funds and Alameda’s own funds. Bankman-Fried thus gave Alameda carte blanche to use FTX customer assets for its own trading operations and for whatever other purposes Bankman-Fried saw fit.

    SBF had a secret ‘[email protected] account with a negative $8 billion balance’:

    Bankman-Fried directed FTX to have customers send funds to North Dimension in an effort to hide the fact that the funds were being sent to an account controlled by Alameda.

    Alameda did not segregate these customer funds, but instead commingled them with its other assets, and used them indiscriminately to fund its trading operations and Bankman-Fried’s other ventures.

    This multi-billion-dollar liability was reflected in an internal account in the FTX database that was not tied to Alameda but was instead called “[email protected].” Characterizing the amount of customer funds sent to Alameda as an internal FTX account had the effect of concealing Alameda’s liability in FTX’s internal systems.

    Here’s how ‘[email protected]‘ was ‘lost’ in the shuffle:

    In 2022, FTX began trying to separate Alameda’s portion of the liability in the “[email protected]” account from the portion that was attributable to FTX (i.e., to separate out customer deposits sent to Alameda-controlled bank accounts from deposits sent to FTX-controlled bank accounts). Alameda’s portion — which amounted to more than $8 billion in FTX customer assets that had been deposited into Alameda-controlled bank accounts — was initially moved to a different account in the FTX database.

    However, because this change caused FTX’s internal systems to automatically charge Alameda interest on the more than $8 billion liability, Bankman-Fried directed that the Alameda liability be moved to an account that would not be charged interest. This account was associated with an individual that had no apparent connection to Alameda. As a result, this change had the effect of further concealing Alameda’s liability in FTX’s internal systems.

    SBF has claimed in interviews he ‘wasn’t aware’ of how illiquid Alameda’s collateral had become, yet according to the SEC:

    Bankman-Fried was well aware of the impact of Alameda’s positions on FTX’s risk profile. On or about October 12, 2022, for example, Bankman-Fried, in a series of tweets, analyzed the manipulation of a digital asset on an unrelated crypto platform. In explaining what occurred, Bankman-Fried distinguished between an asset’s “current price” and its “fair price,” and recognized that “large positions – especially in illiquid tokens – can have a lot of impact.”

    Bankman-Fried asserted that FTX’s risk engine required customers to “fully collateralize a position” when the customer’s position is “large and illiquid enough.” But Bankman-Fried knew, or was reckless in not knowing, that by not mitigating for the impact of large and illiquid tokens posted as collateral by Alameda, FTX was engaging in precisely the same conduct, and creating the same risk, that he was warning against.

    SEC charged Bankman-Fried for orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX). The regulatory body noted that the former CEO concealed his “diversion of FTX customers’ funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1.8 billion from investors.”

    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

    Plaintiff: SECURITIES AND ) EXCHANGE COMMISSION,

    Defendant: SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED Plaintiff Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), for its complaint against Defendant, Samuel Bankman-Fried (“Bankman-Fried”), alleges as follows:

    SUMMARY

    1. From at least May 2019 through November 2022, Bankman-Fried engaged in a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading Ltd. (“FTX”), the crypto asset trading platform of which he was CEO and co-founder, at the same time that he was also defrauding the platform’s customers. Bankman-Fried raised more than $1.8 billion from investors, including U.S. investors, who bought an equity stake in FTX believing that FTX had appropriate controls and risk management measures. Unbeknownst to those investors (and to FTX’s trading customers), Bankman-Fried was orchestrating a massive, years-long fraud, diverting billions of dollars of the trading platform’s customer funds for his own personal benefit and to help grow his crypto empire.

    2. Throughout this period, Bankman-Fried portrayed himself as a responsible leader of the crypto community. He touted the importance of regulation and accountability. He told the public, including investors, that FTX was both innovative and responsible. Customers around the world believed his lies, and sent billions of dollars to FTX, believing their assets were secure on the FTX trading platform. But from the start, Bankman-Fried improperly diverted customer assets to his privately-held crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research LLC (“Alameda”), and then used those customer funds to make undisclosed venture investments, lavish real estate purchases, and large political donations.

    3. Bankman-Fried hid all of this from FTX’s equity investors, including U.S. investors, from whom he sought to raise billions of dollars in additional funds. He repeatedly cast FTX as an innovative and conservative trailblazer in the crypto markets. He told investors and prospective investors that FTX had top-notch, sophisticated automated risk measures in place to protect customer assets, that those assets were safe and secure, and that Alameda was just another platform customer with no special privileges. These statements were false and misleading. In truth, Bankman-Fried had exempted Alameda from the risk mitigation measures and had provided Alameda with significant special treatment on the FTX platform, including a virtually unlimited “line of credit” funded by the platform’s customers.

    4. While he spent lavishly on office space and condominiums in The Bahamas, and sank billions of dollars of customer funds into speculative venture investments, Bankman-Fried’s house of cards began to crumble. When prices of crypto assets plummeted in May 2022, Alameda’s lenders demanded repayment on billions of dollars of loans. Despite the fact that Alameda had, by this point, already taken billions of dollars of FTX customer assets, it was unable to satisfy its loan obligations. Bankman-Fried directed FTX to divert billions more in customer assets to Alameda to ensure that Alameda maintained its lending relationships, and that money could continue to flow in from lenders and other investors.

    5. But Bankman-Fried did not stop there. Even as it was increasingly clear that Alameda and FTX could not make customers whole, Bankman-Fried continued to misappropriate FTX customer funds. Through the summer of 2022, he directed hundreds of millions more in FTX customer funds to Alameda, which he then used for additional venture investments and for “loans” to himself and other FTX executives. All the while, he continued to make misleading statements to investors about FTX’s financial condition and risk management. Even in November 2022, faced with billions of dollars in customer withdrawal demands that FTX could not fulfill, Bankman-Fried misled investors from whom he needed money to plug a multi-billion-dollar hole. His brazen, multi-year scheme finally came to an end when FTX, Alameda, and their tangled web of affiliated entities filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022.

    The first thing to note in the rap sheet is the date, “From at least May 2019 . . .”, by which the SEC means FTX’s entire existence. It was around May 2019 that SBF bought the FTX.com domain and the first fundraising announcement didn’t drop until August of that year.

    Additionally SEC Chair Gary Gensler, warned:

    “The alleged fraud committed by Mr. Bankman-Fried is a clarion call to crypto platforms that they need to come into compliance with our laws.”

    Grewal said the charges will be filed publicly “tomorrow” on Dec. 14 at the Southern District of New York.

    Read the full complaint below:

    via Infowars

    December 14, 2022 at 07:14AM

  • UPDATE: I Gave Them Information on Ukraine Corruption and They Ignored It – Rudy Giuliani Names Names of Those Who Ignored Biden’s Corruption in Ukraine

    UPDATE: I Gave Them Information on Ukraine Corruption and They Ignored It – Rudy Giuliani Names Names of Those Who Ignored Biden’s Corruption in Ukraine

    December 12, 2022 at 05:24PM UPDATE: I Gave Them Information on Ukraine Corruption and They Ignored It – Rudy Giuliani Names Names of Those Who Ignored Biden’s Corruption in Ukraine 

    Rudy Giuliani was on with Newsmax this weekend and based on his review of his work in the Ukraine, he knew Joe Biden was “a lifelong criminal”. We all do now thanks to Rudy.

    Rudi Giuliani was on with Newsmax over the weekend where he discussed Joe Biden’s corruption in the Ukraine and Hunter’s laptop.  He made some remarkable statements as he went through his efforts to get the word out on the corrupt Biden family.

    Even former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was involved in burying the story on Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine, and Hunter Biden’s laptop — which altered elections and skirted free speech and the law — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax.

    “I had this whole thing – let’s say half of it; certainly enough to prosecute — in 2019,” Giuliani told “Saturday Report,” saying he was waking up every morning thinking about how to reveal it all to Americans, including sharing the information with TV host Sean Hannity, Just the News’ John Solomon, and even Pompeo. “I gave it to Hannity in early 2019, then to John Solomon, then to Mike Pompeo, who also buried it.

    [Update from Rudy Giuliani: Per a discussion with Rudy Giuliani today, Rudy explained that he gave the information on Biden’s corruption in the Ukraine to Sean Hannity and John Solomon who did report and even cooberate his information.  Mike Pompeo ignored it.]

    “And you should know that now that he’s running for president — and I will tell you the whole story about that at some point. I’ll write it out.”

    Giuliani was former President Donald Trump’s private attorney and was shocked to have learned Justice Department Attorney General Bill Barr had Hunter Biden’s laptop in late 2019.

    “And then Barr buried it in January of 2020, and I didn’t know that Barr has the hard drive,” Giuliani continued to host Rita Cosby. “He covered up the hard drive.”

    From the first allegations of Russian collusion to the Trump campaign to the presidential elections and now the deadly war in Ukraine, Americans could have known the truth in 2019, if they had just listened to Giuliani, he continued.

    “I’ve been living with this for 3.5 years when I first put out the information about Biden’s bribery in Ukraine, and I lived through that,” Giuliani said. “I got up every morning from the first moment I got that hard drive, saying to myself, ‘How can I get this to my fellow citizens? Because, you just read a just a little bit of that, you realize the candidate of the Democratic Party was a lifelong criminal, and I mean, there are 50-60 crimes outlined there and I’m not saying that lightly.”

    We were stunned when Rudi Giuliani said that the Bidens were as corrupt as the Clintons before the 2020 Election.  But he was right.

    Rudy would know.  He was a former prosecutor in New York and Mayor of New York before joining the Trump team.  He has stood up for President Trump all these years.

    When The Gateway Pundit got ahold of Hunter’s laptop we laid out multiple reports on the corrupt Biden family right before the 2020 Election.  We were censored and eventually permanently suspended for doing so.

    Rudy knows who the crooks are.

    [NOTE: This report was updated after a discussion with Rudy as noted above.  Rudy clarified that Sean Hannity and John Solomon both worked with him in reporting the Bidens’ corruption in Ukraine.  Mike Pompeo did not.   TGP is planning on interviewing Rudy tomorrow to address the Biden corruption in the Ukraine and Hunter’s laptop.]

    via The Gateway Pundit