[Breitbart] Make the POS a non-person. Resign!
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced that he is suspending his campaign to be the next governor of California, days after he was accused of sexual assault by several women.
In a post on X, Swalwell expressed that he was “deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment” that he had made, while adding that he would “fight the serious, false allegations.”
“I am suspending my campaign for Governor,” Swalwell said. “To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past.”
“I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s,” Swalwell continued.
Swalwell’s announcement came after a former staffer told the San Francisco Chronicle that the Democratic congressman had allegedly sexually assaulted her on different occasions, once in 2019 and again in 2024, and that he had made attempts to “kiss her” while she worked for him:
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#5
Welcome to Byzantine politics. The Socialist party was in a panic. It appears their rigged 'preference' primary system designed to leave CA voters with the choice of only two members of their party is polling now with two Trunks in the lead. They needed someone in their party to drop out to up their numbers. Swalwell got the short straw. Notice they're not removing him from his house seat.
#14
In fact, isn't there some nasty bitch who is running? Without looking it up, I seem to remember some nasty dame getting interviewed, and she was quite the jerk.
But, really, who cares? It's California. Let that place rot AND fall into the ocean.
#18
Porter and Steyer are both full on batshit crazy. Villaraigosa, maybe not as crazy as they are, is languishing at the back of the pack. But watch for Matt Mahan, current mayor of San Jose. I heard him being interviewed on KFI last week and he sounded fairly reasonable...for a Democrat. It's fun to watch Swalwell having trouble but don't get cocky, kids. This is still a horse race.
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#19
Young woman was expecting a big payday. with allegations of sexual harassment. When Swallwell didn't pony up, it became allegations of rape.
[NY Post] Hungarian right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat Sunday after suffering a “painful” election result that ended the Trump administration ally’s 16-year grip on Budapest.
With 60% of the vote counted by afternoon, Orbán’s governing Fidesz party saw only 38% of ballots cast in its favor, compared to 52% for challenger Peter Magyar’s Tisza’s group.
’Thank you, Hungary!’’ Magyar, 45, posted on X as thousands of his supporters celebrated in Budapest.
Orbán, who received the backing of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, said he called Magyar to concede the race once it was evident his party had lost.
“I congratulated the victorious party,” Orbán told his supporters. “We are going to serve the Hungarian nation and our homeland from opposition as well.’’
Orbán’s loss serves as a major blow to the right-wing, populist movement as it brings an end to the tenure of the European Union’s longest-serving leader and key western ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The election drummed up more than 77% voter turnout, a record number in any race in Hungary’s post-Communist history, according to its National Election office.
Magyar, who faced an uphill battle against Orbán, ran on a pro-European, anti-Russian platform.
Orbán has faced repeated criticisms for his cozying up to Putin, with his administration repeatedly accused of acting on Russia’s behalf within the European Union.
When casting his vote, Magyar told reporters that the election was “a choice between East or West, propaganda or honest public discourse, corruption or clean public life.”
Magyar hailed the victory as a new day for the country while thanking citizens for the massive turnout.
It was a stunning blow for Orbán — a close ally of both U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — who quickly conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result. U.S. Vice President JD Vance had made a visit to Hungary just days earlier, meant to help push Orbán over the finish line.
Election victor Péter Magyar, a former Orbán loyalist who campaigned against corruption and on everyday issues like health care and public transport, has pledged to rebuild Hungary’s relationships with the European Union and NATO — ties that frayed under Orbán. European leaders quickly congratulated Magyar.
His victory was expected to transform political dynamics within the EU, where Orbán had upended the bloc by frequently vetoing key decisions, prompting concerns he sought to break it up from the inside.
#6
Magyar is a 45 year old attorney who describes himself as a "conservative liberal."
Conservativeliberalism emerged in late 18th-century France and the United Kingdom, when the moderate bourgeoisie supported the monarchy within the liberal camp. Wiki
Any label using the term "liberal" should be cause for concern. I doubt much good will come from this change.
#9
It was - mostly - the economy, stupid. Orbanism, has led to blatant mismanagement by his cronies, corruption, authoritarian control of the media, the justice system and just about anything else. Hungarians knew that they would only get rid of all this with a Tisza supermajority in parliament, because Orban had most of his stuff written into the constitution.
I know this first hand. Years ago we had a project in Hungary. We were lucky enough that the Hungarian government screwed it up before we had invested much money (ever changing Byzantine regulations, open corruption, incompetent managers forced upon us). We quit before it got ugly and only lost about 150,000 Euros in the process.
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Twitter Hungary --- the twitter kids said Orban ran the economy into the ground. They said no one was able to find work in the last decade. Said his govt sucked for jobs and the economy.
#17
Coupla points:
(1) Magyar was part of Orban's group until about 4-5 years ago, falling out over corruption accusations.
(2) Orban has been in for 16 years. Nobody should be in for that long. Continuity is one thing, this was arteriosclorosis.
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[JTN] The new memos declassified by Tulsi Gabbard were not available to the public during the 2019 impeachment trial.
The U.S. intelligence watchdog developed derogatory evidence about the CIA analyst who prompted the 2019 Ukraine-focused impeachment against Donald Trump, including that he submitted false information in his whistleblower complaint, offered hearsay to support his allegations and had the "potential for bias," according to newly declassified memos that were kept from Americans during the failed bid by Democrats to remove the president from office six years ago.
The documents declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the request of Just the News provide a starkly different portrait of the alleged whistleblower whose name and face were never shown to the public and whose lawyerly written letter accusing Trump of hijacking Ukraine policy for political gain was heralded by Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings.
Investigators for the Intelligence Community Inspector General documented several concerns about the Trump accuser's political motives, noting he admitted he was a "registered Democrat" who had worked closely with Joe Biden on Ukraine issues and who disliked some of the conservative figures in the president's orbit, the memos show.
The investigators also elicited an apology from the Trump accuser for misleading the probe and were acutely aware his allegations were based solely on second- and third-hand accounts about what Trump was alleged to have said and done.
“I do not have direct knowledge of private comments or communications by the President,” the alleged whistleblower, who claimed Trump improperly tried to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Hunter Biden, admitted in his initial August 2019 intake form.
That stunning line on the limitations of the whistleblower's knowledge was not included in the nine-page letter then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., released in late summer 2019 that touched off a months-long political maelstrom and led to Trump's impeachment by a Democrat-led House and his eventual acquittal in the Senate.
You can read the documents here:
Defense lawyers for Trump as well as some members of Congress who served as impeachment managers told Just the News they were deeply concerned the derogatory evidence about Trump's accuser was kept classified by then-Inspector General Michael Atkinson and Schiff, preventing it from being used to defend the president or conduct impartial proceedings in the House and Senate.
"Our adversarial system of justice requires the government to turn all exculpatory evidence over to the accused. That’s especially true when lawmakers seek to remove a duly elected president through impeachment and a Senate trial," said famed Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, one of Trump's defense lawyers in the case.
"The evidence about the bias and credibility of the whistleblower who started the scandal should have been front and center in the 2019 impeachment, but it was hidden by bureaucrats and that was a disservice to justice and to the American people," Dershowitz said.
Mark Meadows, who as a North Carolina congressman served as an impeachment manager defending Trump before becoming his White House chief of staff, said GOP lawmakers during the impeachment had serious concerns about the alleged whistleblower and were "questioning his credibility and truthfulness.
"The exaggerated pushback and concern from Chairman Adam Schiff made many Republicans members think that there was much more of a coordinated propaganda effort than seeking the truth in any potential wrongdoing," Meadows said. "Democrats leaked everything from the secure deposition room except the fact that they were coordinating with a 'so called' whistleblower who had no first-hand knowledge of the subject."
WHISTLEBLOWER MENTIONED BILL BARR, KASH PATEL AND DEVIN NUNES, FELT THREATENED BY 'RIGHT-WING BLOGGERS'
The memos also disclose numerous other details about the whistleblower and the intelligence community's assessment of his claims that weren't available to the public, including that the CIA analyst:
Appeared interested in thwarting then-Attorney General Bill Barr from probing Hunter Biden, even though Barr wasn't a member of the intelligence community covered by the complaint;
Disliked Republicans around Trump, including former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and current FBI Director Kash Patel. The documents show the alleged whistleblower even went so far as to make a “request for Nunes not to view the disclosure" as a member of Congress even though he was a member of the "Gang of Eight" leadership entitled to see such intelligence;
Impugned then-top Trump National Security Council staffer Michael Ellis, now the deputy CIA director, as "slippery and untrustworthy" during a voluntary interview;
Claimed he was a victim of an intimidation campaign carried out by "right-wing bloggers"; and
Worked on his whistleblower complaint with a witness whose name was redacted and who told investigators he was connected to Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who was fired in 2019 for his role in leading the now-discredited Russia collusion probe.
Such spontaneous statements during the early intelligence community's review of the whistleblower complaint led the inspector general's agents to raise red flags about the complaining CIA officer's possible political bias.
While Atkinson kept the memos secret, he did grant a closed-door classified interview to lawmakers during the leadup to the House impeachment proceedings. The House Intelligence Committee is expected to release the transcript of that interview as early as this week.
Nunes, who was still in Congress during the impeachment and now serves as the chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, told Just the News the impeachment process was a "shocking and shameful chapter in our history" and the new memos "further demonstrate the highly orchestrated way the fake whistleblower manufactured and deployed his complaint.
"It was clearly a staged attack by anti-Trump malcontents in the intelligence bureaucracy who believed that they, not the American people, should determine who is the U.S. president," Nunes said. "The Democrats and the media promoted this hoax as a desperate Plan B after their original pretext for impeaching Trump - Russian collusion - finally collapsed following Special Counsel Mueller's inept testimony to Congress."
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE AND POORLY EXECUTED SPY TRADECRAFT
Even supporters of the alleged whisteblower had concerns, the memos show. The official identified only as “Witness 2” disclosed that even though he came to vouch for and support the whistleblower, he had his own concerns about the allegations and would not have made such allegations based on what he knew.
"Witness 2 made it clear that [Redacted] would not have taken independent action on the information [Redacted] read in the transcript for two reasons: first that [Redacted] routinely deals with issues on a daily basis that are contrary to [Redacted] personal beliefs; and second that [Redacted] did not have the level of granular insight of details related to the Ukraine that Complainant had,” the memo said. “Witness 2 could not connect the same dots that Complainant did into the impact of what was said during the telephone call.”
#6
Maybe we shouldn't protect whistle blowers as much as we do. After all, if the guy makes accusations that lead to an impeachment trial in the Senate, shouldn't the president have a right to cross-examine the witness?
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#7
And yet we still have Adam Schiff going around claiming that he proved that Trump committed a crime. If a guy like Schiff lies during a Congressional hearing, isn't that like any other citizen lying to Congress? Didn't Steve Bannon go to jail for that? Too bad he didn't get to share a cell with Schiff.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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