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  • Putin’s arrest could spark World War III, Russia warns

    Putin’s arrest could spark World War III, Russia warns

    March 24, 2023 at 05:27PM. Putin’s arrest could spark World War III, Russia warns

    Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that any attempt by Germany to arrest President Vladimir Putin on the International Criminal Court’s warrant could spark World War III.

    The court, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, concluded on March 16 that Putin had committed war crimes in his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, citing the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.

    It is the first time an arrest warrant has been issued against the leader of one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

    Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s security council and was also prime minister for eight years, said that if the German authorities attempted to arrest the Russian president on the ICC’s warrant, it would be a declaration of war.

    Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev attend a ceremony at the Kremlin, on November, 4, 2016.
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    “Let’s imagine—obviously this situation which will never be realized, but nevertheless let’s imagine that it was realized. The current head of the nuclear state went to a territory—say, Germany—and was arrested,” Medvedev said, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti.

    “What would that be? It would be a declaration of war on the Russian Federation,” he added.

    When contacted by Newsweek, the ICC said: “The court does not comment on alleged political statements.”

    Germany is one of the 30 members of NATO, along with the U.S., so Medvedev’s warning suggests that any arrest would put the military alliance at war with Russia, sparking World War III.

    The former president’s remarks come a few days after Marco Buschmann, Germany’s justice minister, told the newspaper Bild that Putin would be arrested if he entered German territory.

    Under the International Criminal Court warrant, its 123 member states, including Germany, would be obliged to arrest Putin and hand him over to the court.

    Moscow does not recognize the ICC’s jurisdiction or extradite its nationals.

    Buschmann said: “I expect the ICC to quickly contact Interpol as well as participating states and ask them to comply with the demand.

    “Germany will then be obliged to arrest President Putin when he enters German territory and hand him over to the ICC.”

    Newsweek has contacted Germany’s Federal Foreign Office by email for comment.

    Medvedev previously suggested that Russia could strike the ICC with a hypersonic missile in response to its decision to issue an arrest warrant for Putin.

    Attempts to try Putin in the ICC would have “monstrous” consequences for international law, Medvedev said on his Telegram channel on Monday.

    “The ICC judges got excited in vain. Look, they say, we are brave, and we raised a hand against the largest nuclear power without c******* ourselves,” wrote Medvedev.

    “Alas, gentlemen, everyone walks under God and rockets. It is quite possible to imagine the targeted use of a hypersonic ‘Onyx’ from the North Sea from a Russian ship at the Hague courthouse,” he went on, referring to a naval cruise missile.

    “And the court is just a miserable international organization, not the population of a NATO country. That’s why they won’t start a war. They will be afraid. And no one will feel sorry for them. So, judges of the court, look carefully into the sky…,” Medvedev added.

    Update 03/23/23 6:48 a.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from the ICC and additional information.

    via Newsweek

  • 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

  • “Diversity” = The Dumbest Black American Judge In U.S. History. Biden Judicial Nominee Stumped By Basic Legal Question

    “Diversity” = The Dumbest Black American Judge In U.S. History. Biden Judicial Nominee Stumped By Basic Legal Question

    March 23, 2023 at 05:13PM Watch: Biden Judicial Nominee Stumped By Basic Legal Question

    A Senate judiciary nomination hearing exposed a Biden nominee’s alarming lack of fundamental knowledge of US law. This was no “gotcha” question about some obscure aspect of jurisprudence — it related to a basic rule that’s guided criminal law for the past 60 years and is familiar to plenty of well-informed laymen.

    The nominee is Kato Crews, whom Biden has put forward for the US District Court for the District of Colorado. His jarring knowledge gap was exposed Wednesday when Louisiana Senator John Kennedy asked him how he would analyze a “Brady motion.”

    That’s a reference to the “Brady rule,” which sprang from the 1963 Supreme Court case, Brady v Maryland. It requires prosecutors to give defendants information the government holds and that could aid in their defense.

    Even your humble Tyler Durden, without any formal legal education, knew what “Brady” requires, simply from previous reading about various trials. Others have learned it from TV dramas: The Brady rule has made appearances in about a dozen episodes of Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU alone. 

    However, when he was asked about it, the Honorable Judge Crews paused, looked up in the air for a few seconds and said, “In my four and half years on the bench, I don’t believe I’ve had the occasion to address a Brady motion.”

    When asked, “Do you know what a Brady motion is?”, Crews sidestepped by repeating nearly verbatim what he’d already said.

    An attempt to jog Crews’ memory didn’t work. “Do you recall the US Supreme Court case Brady v Maryland?” asked Kennedy. Crews merely claimed he recalled “the name of the case.”

    Things took a darkly humorous turn when Kennedy asked what the Supreme Court held in the case. Apparently hoping to get lucky on this game show — and perhaps trying to infer what Brady was about based on the Southern country drawl of his GOP questioner — Crews said, “I believe the Brady case involved something regarding the Second Amendment.”  

    Fair-minded observers can reasonably and empathetically cringe when legislators ask nominees exceedingly technical questions from the field they’re about to hold responsibility for. For example, earlier this month, Biden’s nominee to head the FAA had no answer when Senator Ted Budd asked, “Are you familiar with the difference between Part 107 and Part 44809 when it comes to unmanned aerial standards?“

    Kennedy’s Brady questions were nothing like that.  

    Even lefty Bloomberg’s Supreme Court reporter was aghast: 

    ZeroHedge readers may recall that, earlier this month, lawyers for a January 6 defendant cited Brady when moving for his case to be dismissed. That motion came after Tucker Carlson aired video footage that his lawyers called “plainly exculpatory” — and which had been withheld by the government.

    Crews has been a U.S. magistrate judge for the District of Colorado since 2018. His career started with a year at the National Labor Relations Board, where he investigated and prosecuted claims of unfair labor practices, before spending 17 years defending employers in civil suits.

    He studied law — well, to some extent, anyway — at the University of Arizona. His nomination has attracted endorsements from a black bar association, the Asian Pacific Bar Association of Colorado, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association, and a former Teamsters Union rep.

    In a letter submitted to the Senate judiciary committee, a group of civil rights lawyers explicitly touted Crews’ skin color as a qualifier: “Magistrate Judge Crews is the District’s first Black Magistrate Judge and we believe it fitting he be nominated to fill a seat vacated by a Judge of color.”

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  • 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

  • BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case

    BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case

    BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO)

    Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the 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.”

    And it now is being reported that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg was HIDING exculpatory evidence from the Grand Jury!

    According to FOX News legal mind Gregg Jarrett, Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg HID nearly 600 pages of exculpatory evidence to the New York Grand Jury investigating President Trump.

    Gregg Jarrett: I mentioned it yesterday, I think, when Bob Costello got into that Grand Jury room and told them, “Wait a minute. You don’t have the hundreds of pages I handed over to Alvin Bragg over here? You only have six cherry-picked documents?” You know, hiding from grand juries exculpatory information is reprehensible and unconscionable. And the conduct of Alvin Bragg and his henchman Mark Pomeranz, who specifically says in his book, “We’re targeting zombies because we don’t like his beliefs,” those guys should face disbarment proceedings.

    Once again the REAL crooks reveal themselves.

    And Jarrett is right. If there was a real justice system in the country, they should be disbarred.

    via The Gateway Pundit

    March 22, 2023 at 05:23PM

  • 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.

    via DNyuz

    March 22, 2023 at 06:55AM

  • BREAKING: Trump to Be Indicted Wednesday, Will Be Asked to Surrender for Arraignment Next Week — According to Report

    BREAKING: Trump to Be Indicted Wednesday, Will Be Asked to Surrender for Arraignment Next Week — According to Report

    BREAKING: Trump to Be Indicted Wednesday, Will Be Asked to Surrender for Arraignment Next Week — According to Report

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    Former President Donald Trump will be indicted on Wednesday and asked to surrender for arraignment in New York next week, according to a new report.

    “There will be no arraignment this week,” an unnamed source, said to be familiar with the proceeding, told the Daily Mail on Tuesday.

    The Mail reports that “the former president, who is currently in Florida, is expected to be formally charged tomorrow, after which the Manhattan District Attorney’s office will reach out to Trump and his Secret Service detail to make arrangements for his surrender.”

    After being flown to New York, he will be fingerprinted, arrested, and a mug shot will be taken.

    On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office responded to a letter sent by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan demanding that he testify before Congress about his “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” The prosecutor’s office said that they will not be “intimidated” out of filing charges.

    “We will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process, nor will we let baseless accusations deter us from fairly applying the law,” a spokesperson for Bragg’s office told Fox News on Tuesday.

    “In every prosecution, we follow the law without fear or favor to uncover the truth. Our skilled, honest and dedicated lawyers remain hard at work,” the spokesperson added.

    On Monday, Jordan had sent a letter to Bragg’s office saying, “in light of the serious consequences of your actions, we expect that you will testify about what plainly appears to be a politically motivated prosecutorial decision.”

    “Dear Mr. Bragg,” the letter began. “You are about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office. This indictment comes after years of your office searching for a basis — any basis — on which to bring charges, ultimately settling on a novel legal theory untested anywhere in the country and one that federal authorities declined to pursue. If these reports are accurate, your actions will erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the court of the 2024 presidential election.”

    The possible indictment stems from an alleged $130,000 hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 over an alleged sexual encounter that the two had in 2006. His former attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to charges over the payment in 2018 and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Jordan noted that by July 2019, federal prosecutors determined that no additional people would be charged alongside Cohen.

    “Now, in the words of one legal scholar, you are attempting to ‘shoehorn’ the same case with identical facts into a new prosecution, resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case against President Trump,” the letter said. “Even the Washington Post quoted ‘legal experts’ as calling your actions ‘unusual’ because ‘prosecutors have repeatedly examined the long-established details but decided not to pursue charges.”

    Trump has called for protests in the event of his arrest.

    via The Gateway Pundit

    March 21, 2023 at 05:18PM

  • 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.

    Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:

    via The Gateway Pundit

    March 21, 2023 at 07:11AM

  • Communist Agitators Pre-Staging! Steel Barricades Placed Outside of Manhattan DA Office

    Communist Agitators Pre-Staging! Steel Barricades Placed Outside of Manhattan DA Office

    Steel Barricades Placed Outside of Manhattan DA Office

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    CBS reporter Robert Costa took to Twitter on Monday morning and uploaded a video that shows NYPD officers placing steel barricades all around the Manhattan DA’s office.

    On Sunday, Costa made an appearance on Face the Nation and stated the DA of Manhattan Alvin Bragg has previously told his colleagues he will do everything to keep his colleagues safe so the barricades outside of Manhattan could be a request from Bragg himself.

    Watch NYPD set up the barricades here:

    Some barricades have yet to be deployed:

    The heightened security comes after Attorney Robert Costello, who was previously a legal adviser to disgraced attorney Michael Cohen, is expected to testify before a Grand Jury on Monday.

    It is expected Costello will refute Cohen’s claims against Trump because Cohen has been told to get ready as a rebuttal witness.

    Many conservative voices have warned Trump supporters to stay away from any protests outside of the Manhattan DA’s office due to possible agent provocateurs lurking around the scene.

    On Sunday, The Gateway Pundit reported “Republican” Presidential candidate John Castro has called for his supporters to bring bats outside of the Manhattan DA’s Office to put Trump supporters “in their place.”

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  • 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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    Joe Hoft is a Radio Host at TNTRadio.live, Author, Former International Corporate Executive in Hong Kong for a Decade, and a Contributor at TGP since 2016. Joe is the author of five books, including his new bestseller, “The Steal: Volume II – The Impossible Occurs” which addresses the stolen 2020 Election and provides an inventory of issues that prove that the 2020 Election was uncertifiable and never should have been certified for Joe Biden.

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    March 20, 2023 at 07:18AM