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  • President Trump Arrives at Trump Tower Ahead of Arraignment

    President Trump Arrives at Trump Tower Ahead of Arraignment

    Former President Arrives at Trump Tower Ahead of Arraignment

    ‘He’s fighting for our country’: supporters rally behind Trump outside his Manhattan home

    NEW YORK—Former President Donald Trump waved to supporters on April 3 before entering his namesake tower in New York City, where he will spend the night before his arraignment on April 4, when charges from a grand jury indictment will be unsealed.

    Trump walked into the building through a side door on 56th Street, away from the throngs of reporters and dozens of supporters waiting for him at the main entrances. Three black helicopters hovered over the building ahead of his arrival at the 58-story skyscraper, where his motorcade pulled up not long after 4 p.m. local time.

    Stephanie Lu, a Chinese American, was among a small group of Trump supporters who waved U.S. flags and chanted “we love Trump” as the former president walked by with his son Eric Trump. She said she felt excited for the chance to express her support.

    “At least he saw us waving the flags,” she told The Epoch Times. “We love him so much, because he’s fighting for our country.”

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    Stephanie Lu outside Trump Tower in New York City on April 3, 2023. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned April 4 at the Manhattan Supreme Court following his indictment by a grand jury on March 30, 2023. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

    Trump faces charges relating to the payment of hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to bring charges alleging that Trump illegally classified the payment in violation of federal campaign finance laws. Trump has denied all wrongdoing in the matter.

    Security has ramped up near the tower and the Manhattan Supreme Court ahead of the April 4 arraignment, with police erecting metal barriers and blocking access to part of the courthouse in lower Manhattan where court proceedings are set to take place.

    During the course of the afternoon, drivers of several black vans passing by beeped their car horns to signal support for Trump, eliciting cheers from the crowd.

    At one point, a driver of a truck shouted obscenities directed at the former president, prompting supporters to shout back “we love Trump.”

    Paul Ingrassia, a member of the New York Young Republican Club who was showing his support outside Trump Tower, dismissed the charges against Trump as “bogus” and said that he hopes his presence could help show that “Donald Trump still has supporters, even in the most liberal part of the country.”

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    Police near Trump Tower in New York City on April 3, 2023. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled for an arraignment on April 4 at Manhattan Supreme Court following his indictment by a grand jury on March 30, 2023. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

    Echoing some political analysts, Ingrassia believes the indictment is only going to give Trump a boost in the 2024 presidential race, noting that Trump was able to raise $4 million within 24 hours after the indictment was reported.

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has urged people who are planning to travel to the city to protest to exercise control and “be on your best behavior.”

    “While there may be some rabble-rousers thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, our message is clear and simple: control yourselves,” Adams said on April 3. “New York City is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger.”

    Karen Lichtbraun, a 62-year-old preschool teacher in New York, rebuffed Adams’s warning, pointing to the rising crime rate in the city.

    “Why doesn’t he tell the people on the streets who are shooting up our city to behave themselves? We’re not violent, we protest peacefully,” Lichtbraun, another supporter outside Trump’s Manhattan residence, told The Epoch Times. “The city is going up in flames, and he tells MAGA supporters to behave?”

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    Media gather near Trump Tower in New York City on April 3, 2023. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned on April 4 at Manhattan Supreme Court following his indictment by a grand jury on March 30, 2023.(Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

    Lichtbraun, who is Jewish, said she was especially appreciative of Trump’s pro-Israel policy during his presidency.

    Meanwhile, Robert Hoatson was among a handful of counterprotesters waiting near Trump Tower.

    He was toting signs reading “Lock him up” and “Throw away the key,” a reference to the “Lock her up” chant that Trump helped popularize during the 2016 presidential campaign, which focused on Democrat rival Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information.

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    Robert Hoatson outside Trump Tower in New York City on April 3, 2023. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled for an arraignment on April 4 at Manhattan Supreme Court following his indictment by a grand jury on March 30, 2023.(Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

    “We’ve got to neutralize him to the point where he can have no part in any determination of American policy ever again,” he said.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is set to host a pro-Trump rally at a park near the Manhattan courthouse on the morning of April 4; Ingrassia, who is attending, thinks it will have a large turnout.

    “I’m sure many other supporters will be coming out from across not just New York state, but really across the country,” he said. “They’re going to be coming out to rally on behalf of President Trump and show that his base is strong, and we’re behind him.”

    via www.theepochtimes.com

    April 4, 2023 at 07:00AM

  • BREAKING: EMERGENCY MOTION FILED WITH JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN TO STOP PROSECUTION OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

    BREAKING: EMERGENCY MOTION FILED WITH JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN TO STOP PROSECUTION OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

    On Saturday April 1, 2023, Constitutional Advocate Peter T. Santilli announced to his audience on The Pete Santilli Show that he was taking a stand and intends to intervene as a voter for President Donald J. Trump.

    On Sunday April 2, 2023 at approximately 9pm, Santilli filed his motion with Judge Juan Merchan who is presiding over the impending so-called ‘criminal case’ against President Trump.

    In Santilli’s motion, he also requested that the judge formally address potential violations of federal law prohibiting depravation of Constitutional rights as set forth in 18 USC Code § 242 which states as follows:

    Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

    In his Emergency Motion, Santilli asserts that all eligible citizens of the United States have a right to vote, and the only purpose of government is to protect our unalienable rights. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was very clear when he wrote:

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

    Essentially, the motion makes it very clear that our founding documents which include the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution unequivocally state the intentions of our founders when they created the laws of our nation. Santilli states, “The truths they set forth are self-evident, meaning no further debate or discussion is necessary. That all men are created equal…endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights….and to secure our God given rights, government officials are elected, and given power by the people who voted for them.”

    Santilli has also expressed that he believes the timing of the criminal indictment of President Donald J. Trump at time in which he is a declared candidate for President in November 2024 is directly violating his Constitutionally protected right to vote for the person he believes will protect his God given rights.

    In the emergency motion Santilli asks the judge to “stay” or delay the proceedings until after the November 2024 election so as not to allow the case to interfere with his Constitutional right to vote, as well as interfere with his candidate of choice by influencing the public.

    Considering the gravity of indicting the President of The United States, who just so happens to be a candidate for re-election in 2024, the potential violations of Santilli’s individual voting rights, as well as the potential for public unrest in protest, this motion must be taken very seriously. Through this motion, the court has been noticed that a voter has asserted his rights, and if anyone in government or under color of law causes violence, injury or even death, they could be prosecuted under 18 USC Code § 242.

    The penalty for violating 18 USC Code § 242: “….shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”

    Santilli also states he is taking a stand to defend his right to vote — to give his consent to those who govern who he believes will protect his Constitutionally protected unalienable, or God given rights. “This is the hill I choose to die on, and in fact, many men and women have certainly sacrificed their lives for my inheritance. I will not back down from this. I will use every peaceful and lawful means available to me, but if anyone in our government thinks they can seize power without my consent and threaten to take away my God given rights, then we are no longer the United States of America i serve as a United States Marine.”

    “Hopefully, my fellow Americans will stand with me in defense of my individual rights. If not, at the very least, please cheer me on because I will never let all of my fellow veterans who have died for our Country to have died in vein. Ever! This is the hill I have always chosen to die on when I swore an oath as a United States Marine…and the only people who would feel threatened by me being an American are those who intend to take away my God given rights, and they should feel threatened.” Santilli states.

    “If you want my country. If you want my President, then you will have to get past me. I am prepared to die because there is no doubt that the people who have taken over our country want to kill me if I do not stand down. I will never stand down, and hopefully my fellow Americans are courageous enough to stand with me. “

    “Some people have recently told me, ‘Santilli, you need to be careful with what you say, we need you to be able to come back and fight another day’. I now tell anyone who repeats that nonsense, that if we don’t take a stand now for what is right — and be fully prepared to die for what we believe in (because they want to kill us) — there will not be another day. I’m lighting the first candle in hopes that this entire regime collapses in the same fashion Communist Romania did.”

    In Saturday’s live broadcast, Santilli describes in great detail how intends to move forward, and encouraged his fellow Americans to join him. Please also see the article he read during the live broadcast describing how Nicolae Ceausescu’s communist Romania fell when millions of Romanians held a candlelight vigil in their final stand: How a Reformed Church Overthrew Communism in Romania

    To download a template of the LETTER MOTION to Judge Marchan, text “DOR” to 844-837-9924

  • “I’m Petrified for My Country – This Is Third World Tactics Right Now” – Trump Attorney Alina Habba after Trump Indictment

    “I’m Petrified for My Country – This Is Third World Tactics Right Now” – Trump Attorney Alina Habba after Trump Indictment

    March 31, 2023 at 06:04AM     “I’m Petrified for My Country – This Is Third World Tactics Right Now” – Trump Attorney Alina Habba after Trump Indictment (VIDEO)

    Alina Habba, the Attorney for President Donald Trump, joined Tucker Carlson on Thursday night following the news of his junk indictment by a Soros-funded New York City District Attorney.

    Alina Habba was predictably disturbed by the news today saying, “I am petrified for my country.”  She is absolutely correct.  Today is the day Democrats officially took America into tyranny.

    Attorney Alina Habba:  He’ll be charged with something he didn’t do.  We know that for a fact from Michael Cohen himself and his lawyers…  And knowing Alvin Bragg, the Soros backed DA, I assume that he’s going to try and stack several of these misdemeanors that a normal person would never be indicted for, let alone charged with, and try and make a felony of something that the FEC basically the FEC has already turned down and the federal prosecutors. But that’s what happens when he’s leading in the polls…  This is proof that we need to change this country immediately. I don’t see him hiding from anything. I would be shocked if that would be the consequence or the result of this. I think he would deal with it head on. I would hope so…  I think my advice to him, Tucker, would be to go in, face them however which way they want. If they want a production that’s on them, I think they’ve already done that, frankly. And you know how it goes. We’ll hear leaks, just like we did with that Georgia. The forewoman that came out and wanted her moment on MSNBC. We’ll see what happens…

    Tucker Carlson:  Does this moment feel dangerous to you?

    Alina Habba: Terrible. I’m petrified for this country. I’m a lawyer, and I believe in the bedrock of this country. I believe in the Constitution. I believe that when I took my oath of office, I was supposed to take the laws of this country and abide by them, no matter what my personal beliefs and politics are. And this is the most extreme, scariest moment from somebody within my profession. And I’m embarrassed, frankly, for my profession at this moment, and I’m scared for our country. There’s no better way to say it, Tucker. I’m petrified for our country right now. This is third world stuff. We don’t put politics ahead of the law. We have a democracy. We have the right to vote. We have the right to have a fair and impartial jury. And evidently, if you’re a Republican, Donald Trump, or you just don’t agree with somebody, you don’t get that, and it’s not okay.

    Via Tucker Carlson Tonight.

    via The Gateway Pundit

  • J6 Trial Reveals FBI Had ‘Complex Web’ of at Least 20 Extremist Group Informants in Run-Up to Capitol Riot

    J6 Trial Reveals FBI Had ‘Complex Web’ of at Least 20 Extremist Group Informants in Run-Up to Capitol Riot

    March 27, 2023 at 07:25AM    J6 Trial Reveals FBI Had ‘Complex Web’ of at Least 20 Extremist Group Informants in Run-Up to Capitol Riot

    Attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ) would not tell a J6 defendant’s attorney if planned witnesses in the case were FBI informants.

    The prosecution’s refusal to disclose the critical information came after the government revealed that a planned witness had been an informant. The revelations come via a court transcript obtained by American Greatness’ Julie Kelly.

    The defendants in the case are former Proud Boys National Chairman Enrique Tarrio and members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. The defendants are accused of allegedly participating in a seditious conspiracy plot to overthrow the U.S. government.

    The DOJ said Wednesday that a defense witness for Enrique Tarrio, himself a prior FBI informant, had been a confidential human source (CHS) for the bureau from April 2021 to January 2023. Tarrio’s attorney, Sabino Jauregui, said at the Thursday hearing that he asked the DOJ if his next two witnesses were FBI sources as well, Kelly noted.

    “You know what they told me?” Jauregui said. “Nothing. They don’t know.”

    The New York Times has identified the female source as Jen Loh, a former member of “Latinos for Trump.”

    Loh, the FBI confidential source, reportedly had 20 to 30 communications with Biggs, his attorney, Norman Pattis, said at the Thursday hearing.

    Loh said in a Friday interview that she provided “useful information” about leftist protestors to the FBI, and then informed the bureau about “any type of domestic terrorism — on the right or the left,” the NYT reported.

    FBI San Antonio Special Agent Kristina Spindel swore in a Thursday statement Loh had given the FBI information as far back as fall 2019.

    Pattis told presiding Judge Timothy Kelly the defense was “very close to a stipulation on as many as eight or nine other” FBI sources.

    “There was a complex network of confidential human sources at the government’s disposal,” Pattis said.

    “My biggest concern is the fact that we still have confidential human sources who are unknown to us, ” Rehl’s lawyer, Carmen Hernandez, said.

    But Judge Kelly shot down a defense subpoena Tuesday for Proud Boys member Kenneth Lizardo. Kelly ruled that Lizardo had “a reporting relationship with the FBI” and had declared his intention to plead the Fifth if called to testify.

    Lizardo was an associate of Tarrio who went with him to a Jan. 5, 2021 meeting in Washington, D.C., with Oath Keepers militia group founder Stewart Rhodes.

    Rhodes was ultimately convicted on charges of participating in Jan. 6-related seditious conspiracy in November 2022.

    According to the NYT, the FBI had up to eight informants within the Proud Boys group in the months surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That includes a period of time both before and after the event. Former Tennessee Proud Boys chapter leader Matthew Walter told the Times in February that around 20 other group members besides himself had FBI relationships around that time.

    Follow Kyle Becker on Twitter @kylenabecker.

    via Trending Politics Conservative News and Commentary

  • Seymour Hersh makes new Nord Stream sabotage claim

    Seymour Hersh makes new Nord Stream sabotage claim

    March 25, 2023 at 09:07AM   Seymour Hersh makes new Nord Stream sabotage claim

    US President Joe Biden ordered the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines because he was unhappy with the level of support provided by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed. 

    Hersh first accused Washington of destroying the key European energy route in an article released in February, and made more allegations in an interview with the China Daily newspaper published on Friday.

    “The [US] president was afraid of Chancellor Scholz not wanting to put more guns and more arms [forward for Kiev]. That’s all. I don’t know whether that it was anger or punishment, but the net effect is that it cut off a major power source through Western Europe,” Hersh claimed.

    Despite attempts by the US to deny its involvement in the Nord Stream attack, “Europe is in crisis now” and Biden will receive “a lot of criticism for what he did” in the coming months, the journalist argued.

    The Pulitzer Prize winner alleged that “the people that were initially asked to do the job” of destroying the pipelines were contacted by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan towards the end of 2021.

    The initial purpose of mining Nord Stream 1 and 2, built to deliver Russian gas to Europe through Germany, was “to give the [US] president an option to say to [Russian] President Putin, ‘If you go to war [in Ukraine], we’re going to destroy the pipelines,’” Hersh claimed.

    Biden himself publicly confirmed that stance but “unfortunately, those people in the Western press seemed to have forgotten,” the journalist stated.

    Just under three weeks before the launch of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Biden warned during a press conference on February 7 that “if Russia invades… there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

    According to Hersh, the US leader decided to order the detonation of mines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last September because the conflict “wasn’t going great in Ukraine” from a US perspective. There was “at best a stalemate”during that period, in what Hersh described as “the American war that President Biden was so eager to support.”

    via Infowars

  • Seymour Hersh: CIA Planted Nord Stream Cover-Up Story

    Seymour Hersh: CIA Planted Nord Stream Cover-Up Story

    Seymour Hersh: CIA Planted Nord Stream Cover-Up Story

    Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com,

    Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article on Substack on Wednesday that said the CIA was instructed to come up with a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit.

    The cover-up story was created to shift blame from the US after Hersh’s bombshell report published on February 8 that said President Biden ordered the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany. “It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story,” Hersh was told by a source within the American intelligence community.

    Hersh said that the CIA was ordered to come up with a cover story after President Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on March 3. Scholz’s visit was very brief and did not include the routine joint press briefing that usually follows a meeting between the president and another world leader. Hersh was told that his report detailing how the US took out Nord Stream was discussed by Biden and Scholz.

    Hersh writes: “I was told by someone with access to diplomatic intelligence that there was a discussion of the pipeline exposé and, as a result, certain elements in the Central Intelligence Agency were asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with German intelligence that would provide the American and German press with an alternative version for the destruction of Nord Stream 2.”

    The result of the CIA’s work was published in The New York Times and Die Zeit on March 7. The New York Times report was very vague and said US officials are now claiming the Nord Stream bombings might have been carried out by a “pro-Ukrainian group.”

    The Die Zeit report claimed German investigators believe it was carried out by six people using a yacht rented in Poland that was owned by two Ukrainians. Other Western media outlets published similar articles reinforcing the cover story in the following days.

    Hersh said the information The New York Times received “originated with a group of CIA experts in deception and propaganda whose mission was to feed the newspaper a cover story—and to protect a president who made an unwise decision and is now lying about it.”

    The cover story offers a radically different narrative than what Hersh’s February 8 report alleges. Using anonymous sourcing, Hersh reported that the Nord Stream pipelines were destroyed by explosives planted by US Navy divers in June 2022 under the cover of NATO drills in the Baltic Sea. The operation was done in coordination with Norway, and a Norwegian spy plane detonated the explosives by dropping a sonar buoy on September 26, 2022.

    The last time Scholz visited Washington was on February 7, 2022. Biden vowed during a press conference that day that if Russia invaded Ukraine, he would “bring an end” to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. According to Hersh, the plot to destroy the pipelines was already underway at that time, and the plotters took Biden’s comment as a blatant threat.

    On Scholz’s possible complicity in the operation, Hersh said in his new article: “At this point, it must be noted that Chancellor Scholz, whether or not he was alerted of the destruction of the pipeline in advance—still an open question—has clearly been complicit since last fall in support of the Biden Administration’s cover-up of its operation in the Baltic Sea.”

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    via Zerohedge

    March 24, 2023 at 07:01AM

  • DeSantis says Trump should’ve given up power like George Washington

    DeSantis says Trump should’ve given up power like George Washington

    DeSantis says Trump should’ve given up power like George Washington

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    DeSantis says Trump should’ve given up power like George Washington after election loss and January 6: Florida Gov. takes a dig at rival for trying to overturn the election instead of acting like a Founding Father

    • DeSantis lauded Washington during interview where he trashed Trump’s chaos
    • The first U.S. president put the Republic over his ‘own personal interest’ and ‘surrendered his sword,’ said the Florida governor
    • Quoted King George III, saying the ‘greatest man in the world gives up power’

    By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor For Dailymail.com

    Published: | Updated:

    For the first time, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has criticized former President Donald Trump for refusing to concede power following the 2020 election – in a generalized comment referencing events more than 200 years ago.

    DeSantis, who condemned rioters inside the Capitol where he once served, but has said little about Trump’s push to have courts and allies toss out the results, made remarks during an interview with Piers Morgan, where he also blasted Trump administration chaos.

    He did so by invoking the nation’s most revered founder and first U.S. President, George Washington who Trump has frequently lionized (while once bragging he could probably beat the Virginian in an election).

    ‘So, somebody who really set the standard is George Washington because he always put the Republic over his own personal interest. When we won the American Revolution, Washington surrendered his sword,’ DeSantis said.

    ‘George III said he’s the greatest man in the world if he gives up power,’ said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in an interview where he stressed character, urged people to emulate the founders, and blasted ‘drama’ in the Trump White House

    DeSantis remarked on King George III’s possibly apocryphal remarks praising Washington for relinquishing power – drawing a sharp contrast with Trump.

    ‘George III said, “he’s the greatest man in the world, if he gives up power.” I think the person is more about how you handle your public duties and the kind of character you bring to that endeavor,’ he said.

    Morgan had asked him if personal conduct in a leader matters.

    ‘You really want to look to people like our Founding Fathers, like what type of character, it’s not saying that you don’t ever make a mistake in your personal life, but I think what type of character are you bringing?’ DeSantis said before referencing Washington and Britain’s king.

    DeSantis then contrasted his leadership style with the ‘daily drama’ of the Trump White House while poking at the former president’s character. He even doubled down on a Monday comment that he didn’t know ‘what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair.’

    DeSantis, a former Navy lawyer, referenced Washington’s decision to resign from his military commission in 1783 after leading the Revolutionary War effort for eight years.

    The gesture, carried out before the Continental Congress gathered in the Maryland state capital in Annapolis, is heralded by historians as one of the nation’s greatest acts of statesmanship in the nation’s history.

    It is depicted in a huge oil painting inside the Capitol Rotunda, where rioters rampaged on January 6 hours after Trump urged them to ‘fight like hell’ and pressed then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to accept votes certified by states.

    Washington’s decision not to seek a third term, set a tradition that is now enshrined in the Constitution.

    Democratic opponent Charlie Crist tried to make an issue of DeSantis’ refusal to explicitly condemn Trump’s election to overturn effort during the 2022 governor’s race, where DeSantis prevailed by a wide margin, accusing him of ‘silence’ about January 6.

    DeSantis offered blistering criticism of Trump in the interview, where he said ‘when we won the American Revolution, Washington surrendered his sword’

    Trump spoke at a ‘stop the steal’ rally before the Capitol riot on January 6. He told the Washington Post he could probably beat George Washington in an election

    A huge oil painting of Washington resigning his commission is located in the Capitol Rotunda along with other historical artworks

    King George III may have said if Washington gave up power ‘he would be the greatest man in the world’

    DeSantis issued a statement on Jan. 6, 2021 saying ‘violence or rioting of any kind is unacceptable, and the perpetrators must face the full weight of the law.’

    He also called it ‘totally unacceptable, and those folks need to be held accountable,’ adding the following day that, ”It doesn’t matter what banner you’re flying under — the violence is wrong, the rioting and disorder is wrong.’

    On the first anniversary of January 6, he compared it to Christmas for the ‘D.C.-New York media,’ who he said were allowed to put forward negative narratives.

    ‘They are going to take this and milk this for anything they could to try to be able to smear anyone who ever supported Donald Trump,’ DeSantis said.

    By breaking with Trump with the subtle historical analogy, DeSantis joins former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in calling out what could be a vulnerability as the presidential race dire. Haley made direct appeals to Republicans ‘tired of losing.’

    Taking on Trump in his role in 2020 carries risks in the primary, with polls showing a majority of Republicans believe Trump’s claims of election fraud. He was already in Trump’s crosshairs with the ‘porn star’ comments.

    Trump advisor Jason Miller returned with a furious response at DeSantis Tuesday night. ‘Ron DeSantis has finally shown his true colors. An establishment Never Trumper who despised the MAGA base and was faking it the entire time,’ he tweeted.

    One area where DeSantis may have gone beyond the historical record is his King George quotation, which continues to get traction on official sites.

    The quote comes from American artist Benjamin West, who spent time in the King’s court and passed on what he heard to another artist. As a historian and early American specialist, Elizabeth Norvara wrote on a Library of Congress blog, it only got recorded years after the King allegedly said it. ‘The King said if He did He would be the greatest man in the world,’ artist Joseph Farrington wrote in his diary, a second-hand account of what he told West.

    In another version, West told Rufus King, Washington’s ambassador to Great Britain, after Washington had decided not to seek a third term was an act that ‘placed him in a light the most distinguished of any man living, and that he thought him the greatest character of the age.’

    But that happened all the way in 1797, after Washington had left office, not after he resigned his military command.

    In any event, the King wasn’t so quick to relinquish power himself. He kept his crown until the end of his life, even after his son stepped in as regent amid his mental illness.

    DeSantis says Trump should’ve given up power like George Washington after loss

    via Mail Online

    March 23, 2023 at 06:55AM

  • Who Had It Worse, Trump or Jesus Christ? At Least Jesus Wasn’t Prosecuted By A Bunch Of Racist Black Communists

    Who Had It Worse, Trump or Jesus Christ? At Least Jesus Wasn’t Prosecuted By A Bunch Of Racist Black Communists

    Who Had It Worse, Trump or Jesus Christ?

    At Least Jesus Wasn’t Prosecuted By A Bunch Of Racist Black Communists

    WARNING:  THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY A MEMBER OF THE CIA MOCKINGBIRD MEDIA THAT IS COMPLICIT IN THE OVERTHROW OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

    Some of Donald Trump’s supporters can’t help but see similarities between the plight of their beloved former president, who’s in hot water, legally-speaking, for alleged schemes surrounding hush money to an adult film star, and the suffering of Jesus Christ.

    The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is reportedly preparing to indict Trump in relation to a $130,000 payment from his lawyer and fixer to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence prior to the 2016 election.

    Trump has tried to cast himself as a victim of political persecution by “evil and sinister people,” who are “killing our nation as we sit back & watch” in a series of blustering social media posts in recent days.

    The former president has long played a key role in the imaginations of Christian nationalists, who believe America is an inherently Christian nation, should have Christian laws, and that Trump is their savior. Christian nationalist language has seeped into MAGA-world rhetoric, but Trump’s imminent arrest has taken it to new heights.

    Lawyer Joseph McBride, who is representing a handful of Jan. 6 defendants, thinks that the timing of Trump’s likely arrest is notable.

    “President Trump will be arrested during lent—a time of suffering and purification for the followers of Jesus Christ,” McBride wrote on Twitter. “As Christ was crucified, and then rose again on the 3rd day, so too will @realdonaldtrump.”

    When he faced some pushback on comparing Trump’s plight to Jesus Christ’s hours-long torture, McBride doubled down. “JESUS LOVES DONALD TRUMP. JESUS DIED FOR DONALD TRUMP. JESUS LIVES INSIDE DONALD TRUMP,” McBride tweeted. “DEAL WITH IT.”

    Other Trump supporters see eerie similarities between the Manhattan DA and the Romans who crucified Jesus.

    “Rome tried to silence a peaceful leader via political persecution, and ended up creating the most pervasive & permanent religious figure in all of world history,” MAGA-world influencer Reanna Dilley wrote on Twitter.  “Good fucking luck, New York.”

    Others are writing Trump into the Bible.

    “To the wicked who are plotting against President Trump, who has committed no crime. Who has been chosen and appointed by Jesus Christ for such a time as this,” one person wrote on Truth Social. “May you fall into your own nets, While President Trump escapes safely. – from Psalm 141:10.”

    Trump’s base worshiped him as a heaven-sent, Christ-like figure, despite his crass language, reported philandering, and scant evidence that he regularly attended church before running for president. His presidency helped usher in a new era of Christian nationalism, a right-wing philosophy whose adherents believe Trump is on a mission to restore God’s kingdom in America by transforming its laws and cultural institutions to reflect evangelical Christian values. A widely-cited study identified Christian nationalism as the dominant ideology among the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters. And there’s even a book, “President Donald J. Trump, The Son of Man—The Christ,” written by a Trump supporter.

    In the Christian nationalist theological framework, all manner of right-wing culture war issues, including drag shows, COVID-19 vaccines, and now the looming indictment of Trump, became primordial battles between good and evil.

    Trump has harnessed surging Christian nationalism to his advantage, and has recently adopted increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric to imbue his campaign with a sense of urgency.

    “The greatest in our history, most important battle in our lives, is taking place right now as we speak,” he told CPAC earlier this month. “For seven years, you and I have been engaged in an epic struggle to rescue our country from the people who hate it and want to absolutely destroy it.”

    At CPAC, Trump namechecked the “George Soros money machine.” Soros, a Holocaust survivor and billionaire philanthropist who funds popular liberal causes, is regularly invoked as an antisemitic dog whistle by those on the extreme right—Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani once promoted a tweet calling Soros the “anti-Christ,” which is how he’s often referred to in far-right circles. And over the weekend, Trump repeatedly tried to discredit the Manhattan DA’s investigation into the Stormy Daniels hush money by claiming District Attorney Alvin Bragg was “Soros funded” (Soros donated money to a nonprofit civil rights group Color of Change, which donated money to Bragg’s campaign).

    “He’s giving them rhetoric to play around with, and enough violent groups are already looking for anything to grab onto”

    Thomas Lecaque, an associate professor of history at Grand View University focusing on apocalyptic religion and political violence, says that these dog whistles are always dangerous, but particularly within the context of Christian nationalism and at a moment of surging antisemitism.

    “This language is just going to keep reinforcing the narrative that your cultural and religious enemies are politically persecuting you,” said Lecaque. “Trump is an exemplar of how ‘your political enemies are persecuting you, we have to do something about it.’”

    On Monday night, a Christian nationalist group called Pastors for Trump held a National Prayer Call on his behalf. Trump allies Roger Stone and Michael Flynn joined the call, hosted by Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer.

    “Father, right now, I thank you for President Donald J. Trump and God I thank you for all that you’ve done to him and through him and for him over the last eight years,” Lahmeyer said. “We ask that every single person that refuses to submit to your will in Washington D.C., you would uproot them and you would remove them and replace them with men and women who will submit to the will of God.”

    The charges in Manhattan are likely just the tip of the iceberg for Trump’s legal woes. He’s also facing potential charges in Georgia, for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the DOJ is mulling federal charges for his alleged role on Jan. 6.

    Lecaque is concerned about the role that religious rhetoric and Christian nationalism could play in terms of justifying or fomenting violence later down the road, especially if and when indictments start landing. “Trump is a vessel for other people to put their paranoid, violent delusions into,” said Lecaque. “He’s giving them rhetoric to play around with, and enough violent groups are already looking for anything to grab onto.”

    The post Who Had It Worse, Trump or Jesus Christ? appeared first on VICE.

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    March 22, 2023 at 06:55AM

  • Attorney Robert Costello Speaks Out after Testimony: “It Was Clear to Me the Manhattan Grand Jury Did Not Want to Get to the Truth”

    Attorney Robert Costello Speaks Out after Testimony: “It Was Clear to Me the Manhattan Grand Jury Did Not Want to Get to the Truth”

    Attorney Robert Costello Speaks Out after Testimony: “It Was Clear to Me the Manhattan Grand Jury Did Not Want to Get to the Truth” (VIDEO)

    Michael Cohen’s former legal advisor Robert Costello on Monday attacked his ex client in front of the Manhattan courthouse.

    Robert Costello on Monday appeared before the Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump’s so-called ‘hush payment’ to Stormy Daniels.

    In January the Manhattan District Attorney’s office revived its criminal investigation into Trump’s ‘hush payments’ to porn star Stephanie Clifford, AKA, Stormy Daniels and elevated the case from a misdemeanor to a felony.

    Trump has been accused of paying Daniels ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.

    Robert Costello said he appeared before the grand jury to set the record straight since Michael Cohen is a pathological liar.

    Costello blasted Michael Cohen as a “convicted perjurer” in remarks to reporters in New York.

    Recall, Michael Cohen was previously sentenced to 36 months in prison for lying to Congress, campaign finance violations and tax evasion charges related to his taxi medallion business.

    “Michael Cohen is far from solid evidence,” Costello said.

    One reporter asked Costello if he thinks he convinced the grand jury against indicting Trump.

    Costello said he doesn’t know but he saw a few jurors shaking their heads “yes” agreeing with his assertion that Michael Cohen is a liar.

    The prosecutors “cherry picked” 6 emails, Costello said.

    Costello said Trump NEVER directed Michael Cohen to pay Stormy Daniels.

    Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.

    Costello told the FOX News audience that he testified for two hours in front of Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan Grand Jury.

    Robert Costello told Tucker Carlson, “I spoke to the jury for two hours… It was clear to me the Manhattan Grand Jury did not want to get to the truth.”

    Robert Costello: I just spent 2 hours or so testifying before the grand jury in downtown Manhattan, and I got my point across. Although it was clear to me that the Manhattan DA’s office did not want to get to the truth, I need to explain that a little bit. I called them up after I saw Michael Cohen on TV stating things that he said he was going to tell the grand jury and had told the grand jury that were contrary to what he told us when we first represented him in April of 2018. So I’m sitting at home watching these lies and I said I’ve got to do something about it. I don’t represent Donald Trump, but I do stand for justice. And I think I have a legal obligation to inform both sides. So that’s what I did.

    Costello then told Tucker that Michael Cohen has a “lie, cheat and steal, mindset.”

    Robert Costello: And I told them and told the grand jury today I was Deputy Chief of the criminal division of the US. Attorneys for the Southern District. I said I wouldn’t touch a witness like Michael Cohen for any amount of money. You simply cannot rely upon this guy.

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    March 21, 2023 at 07:11AM

  • Is Hillary Lackey and Michael Cohen’s Attorney Lanny Davis the Secret Witness in the Junk NY DA Case Against Trump? if So, He Previously Claimed Cohen Has No Evidence Trump Directed Him to Pay Stormy Daniels

    Is Hillary Lackey and Michael Cohen’s Attorney Lanny Davis the Secret Witness in the Junk NY DA Case Against Trump? if So, He Previously Claimed Cohen Has No Evidence Trump Directed Him to Pay Stormy Daniels

    Is Hillary Lackey and Michael Cohen’s Attorney Lanny Davis the Secret Witness in the Junk NY DA Case Against Trump? if So, He Previously Claimed Cohen Has No Evidence Trump Directed Him to Pay Stormy Daniels


    Michael Cohen with Lanny Davis behind him at Congressional Hearing

    The corrupt and now communist Democrats’ witch hunts never end. 

    It was just reported that President Trump may be arrested on Tuesday based on corrupt Soros-backed DA in New York, Alvin Bragg.  Then over the next 24 hours this weekend, the narrative changed and it was reported that President Trump might NOT be arrested on Tuesday.

    AMERICAN NIGHTMARE – Democrats Have Nothing – President Trump Did Nothing Wrong – But They Will Arrest Him Anyway

    PJMedia reported:

    But now it turns out that the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has Trump in its sights, just may be stepping back from the brink: Business Insider

    reported

    Saturday night that Trump’s indictment is “on hold” until one more witness testifies Monday afternoon.

    That’s about all that has come to light, as the relevant authorities are being quite closemouthed about this whole thing. Insider says that “a source with knowledge of the investigation” told them on Saturday night “there is one more witness.” The indictment is apparently not a certainty until this witness testifies.

    The witness who is supposed to speak in front of the committee is to come before the committee tomorrow.  President Trump shared that the individual is a “highly respected attorney who once represented Michael Cohen”.  He’s supposed to present something conclusive.

    JUST REPORTED THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT WITNESS TO GO BEFORE THE NEW YORK CITY GRAND JURY, A HIGHLY RESPECTED LAWYER WHO ONCE REPRESENTED CONVICTED FELON, JAILBIRD, AND SERIAL FAKE STORYTELLER AND LIAR, MICHAEL COHEN, WILL BE DOING SO TOMORROW AFTERNOON. THE INFORMATION HE WILL PRESENT WILL SUPPOSEDLY BE CONCLUSIVE AND IRREFUTABLE! WITCH HUNT!!!

    Business Insider reported that the attorney being brought before the Grand Jury is is Giuliani lawyer Robert Costello.

    Another attorney who represented Michael Cohen was Lanny Davis.  He’s a friend of the Clintons.

    Davis represented Cohen in 2018.  He noted at the time that he was himself a registered foreign agent for a Russian oligarch wanted by the US government and linked to Putin.  (Note that President Trump was virtually the only politician in D.C. not connected to Russia.).

    Davis himself previously said that Michael Cohen had no evidence that candidate Trump directed him to pay Stormy Daniels.

    Lanny Davis Admits Cohen Has No Evidence Trump Directed Him to Pay Stormy ‘It May Come Down to Cohen’s Word Versus Trump’s’

    If Lanny Davis is the secret witness in the Alvin Bragg garbage case against President Trump then he already said publicly he had no evidence that Trump directed him to pay Stormy Daniels.

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    March 20, 2023 at 07:18AM