[NY Post] Gooder and harder, Bawston
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu advocated a soft-on-crime agenda by pushing to abolish the gang registry and arguing that criminal behavior — such as theft — should not be prosecuted.
Prior to being elected mayor, Wu filled out the "2021 Boston Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire" from Progressive Massachusetts, a 501c4 nonprofit organization that tracks and ranks how progressive elected officials are.
According to its website, the group "intends to transform Massachusetts into a bold laboratory for progressive state initiatives."
In the document, Wu outlined her most progressive commitments, including her support for noncitizens voting in Boston’s local elections.
From time to time, non-citizens have been allowed to vote in local elections. Degenerate times, by definition, but it’s not a new idea.
The mayor was asked, "Do you support shuttering the Boston Police gang database?"
She answered, "Yes."
Then, Wu was asked whether she supported a do-not-prosecute list enacted by the former Suffolk County district attorney, Rachael Rollins.
Ms Rollins was one of the Soros DAs. Last year she resigned in disgrace as US attorney for the district of Massachussets after being credibly accused of interfering in a local electionand then lying under oath about it.
DA Rollins enacted the policy memo identifying more than a dozen charges she said should be declined for prosecution.
Those crimes included shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, breaking and entering with property damage, wanton and malicious destruction of property, threats, minor in possession of alcohol, marijuana possession, possession with intent to distribute, non-marijuana drug possession.
The DA was later brought into the Biden administration, before resigning after an ethics probe found that Rollins committed "egregious" ethical violations and "abuse of power."
"Do you support the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office’s do-not-prosecute list and expanded approach to dealing with such low-level offenses? YES/ NO?" Progressive Mass asked.
"Yes," Wu responded.
Wu also promised to advocate for reallocating some of the police’s budget towards other city priorities as mayor.
The mayor said she believes law enforcement should be "demilitariz[ed]."
Wu said police should not have the ability to use tear gas, rubber bullets, and attack dogs.
The Progressive Mass questionnaire then asked, "Do you believe that affiliation or sympathies with white supremacist organizations among officers is a problem with BPD? YES/ NO If so, what measures would you take as mayor to combat that issue?"
Wu responded, "Yes. I have advocated for terminating any [Boston Police Department] employees who were involved with the January 6th Capitol insurrection."
She also wanted to publicize personnel files with the public relating to "use-of-force," which opponents say can potentially put officers in danger.
"[W]e must ensure that contract language enables the sharing of data with the public on officers’ use-of-force and misconduct and allows disciplinary records to be made publicly accessible, in accordance with privacy laws," she said.
Wu’s office didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Her views on police notwithstanding, in the past, critics said she used "Nixonian tactics" after her administration admitted to creating a list of her most vocal critics and providing it to local authorities, according to a July 2023 report.
The report raised concerns about whether Wu and her administration are attempting to silence or intimidate her critics, many of whom have protested outside of her home.
When she was first elected, Wu opened entire offices focused on "Food Justice, Black Male Advancement, LGBTQ+ Advancement, and Worker Empowerment" to create a more "equitable city for generations to come."
However, critics have accused Wu of not being as inclusive of White people, resulting in numerous complaints to the state’s attorney general.
In December, the Democratic mayor came under fire for sending out invitations for a holiday party intended only for non-White city council members.
"Honorable members: On behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu, I cordially invite you and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party," the email, which was mistakenly sent to everyone, said.
Fifteen minutes after the email was sent out, Wu’s aide, Denise DosSantos, apologized and clarified that the invitation was only meant for minority city councilors.
However, she did not apologize for planning a party that excluded White city leaders.
"I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow," DosSantos wrote. "I did send that to everyone by accident and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused."
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell decided not to investigate the Boston mayor’s "electeds of color" holiday party after discrimination complaints were filed.
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Let's have two cities...they can do whatever they want in theirs...in ours, commit three felonies earn an automatic death penalty. Jails will have no weights. Prisoners who want to eat will have to work to grow their own food. Illegals will be immediately deported or if charged with crimes, executed. Which city will you want to live in?
[Gateway] President Trump was back in court on Wednesday morning in Alvin Bragg’s ’hush money’ show trial in New York City.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ’hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ’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.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed.
Judge Merchan is allowing the jurors to choose ONE of the three predicate crimes. Jurors do NOT have to unanimously agree on which of the three predicate crimes Trump committed.
Of course, this will make it easier to convict Trump.
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As Jeffery Clark stated, "Judge Merchan needs to acquaint himself with Ramos v. Louisiana".
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"Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime."
~ Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe, bragged that he could prove criminal conduct on anyone, even the innocent.
#3
The judge also allowed the prosecution to allege facts, e.g., that Trump committed an election violation, without evidence in their summation.
In NY, the defense does not get to rebut the prosecution's summary, this may sway several in the jury.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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Delay, delay, delay, and fück with Trump. Centuries of common law and precedent do not matter in the least right now. Who cares if any verdict gets tossed later (if necessary)?
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All the jurors get to go home for Friday and the weekend! Prosecutors, too. MSM pundits may have to shift into hyperdrive.
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05/30/2024 18:09 Comments ||
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As in the George Floyd trial, jurors were known and local. Since they were not sequestered, does anyone think they were not under a wide range of overt and covert pressure? The entire farce will undermine public confidence in the judicial system further. As proof, this just out form the Bidet Campaign:
""Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain," Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said,..."Despite a jury finding Donald Trump guilty today, there is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: At the ballot box," the Biden campaign wrote in a fundraising text to supporters. "If you have been waiting for the perfect time to make your first donation to Joe Biden's reelection campaign, we're here to tell you today is the day."
#17
The most important thing is , your orange man is now fuck..
Ronald Trump cannot be president.
Conservative Americans are cowards , so now go fk yourselves
Remember my prophecies?
…About civil war … balkanizing the cities, the states.. the country?
When the North America color revolution goes hot, there will be a lot of localized genocides. If you are in the minority …better move out .
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[Breitbart] Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is calling for a federal investigation into Justice Juan Merchan, arguing he deprived former President Donald Trump of First Amendment rights in the Manhattan business records trial.
Vance, who is reportedly in contention to be Trump’s running mate, penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, calling for a probe into Merchan due to potential violations of sections 241 and 242 of Title 18.
"These statutes would seem to have quite a lot to say about the conduct of Juan Merchan, the New York trial judge and Democratic political donor who has set up a kangaroo court for Donald Trump in Manhattan," he wrote.
The Department of Justice notes that Section 242 "makes it a crime for someone acting under color of law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States."
"It is not necessary that the offense be motivated by racial bias or by any other animus," it adds.
[PJMedia] Donald Trump was found guilty today of 34 counts of falsifying bookkeeping records.
There was already little doubt when this trial began on April 15, 2024, with jury selection that this collection of Manhattanites would find Donald Trump guilty. Manhattan voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.
As the trial dragged on for weeks, keeping the 2024 GOP candidate on the sidelines, it became crystal clear that Judge Juan Merchan was the prosecution's plus-one to this party.
By all means, go through the stories my PJ Media colleagues and I have written about this case in detail and consider that this case should never have been brought, but I think the seven-man, five-woman jury verdict comes down to ten main things that were the first things I thought of as closing arguments wrapped up.
Slapping Trump with a gag order.
Hiding the underlying crime from the defense until it was included in jury instructions.
Prosecutors putting Michael Cohen on the stand, knowing he would lie.
The judge shutting down Cohen's former lawyer on the stand when he testified that Cohen had lied.
Allowing prosecutors to introduce, indeed testify, in closing arguments, that Cohen committed campaign finance violations, though the judge said they couldn't.
Cohen's plea bargain with the feds on campaign elections violations. Cohen took the plea bargain and copped to unrelated campaign violations to get less time in prison for personal tax and bank fraud convictions.
Failing to put CFO Allen Weisselberg on the stand, the one guy who knew about Trump's involvement in the bookkeeping of payments. He was kept in prison, not given immunity, and not allowed to testify.
Merchan limiting the top expert in campaign elections law Brad Smith's testimony so much that he couldn't explain why he'd previously ruled that Cohen's payments to Stormy Daniels were not campaign donations. He would have been allowed to give definitions of words. Merchan limited the testimony so his understanding of campaign law wouldn't be countermanded by an expert. He said it would be "confusing" to jurors.
The switcheroo by the judge allowing prosecutor Josh Steinglass to testify about elections law during closing arguments.
Allowing Stormy Daniels to testify in a bookkeeping case to give her gratuitous, X-rated, scripted rendition of sex with Trump back in 2006 in her renewed extortion of him before the 2016 election.
Giving jurors an a la carte menu of "crimes" that didn't have to be committed but just imagined by Trump. Juror instructions said they could find their own, nonunanimous, main crime, a tax crime, or state or federal campaign finance violation to attach to the 34 indictments to elevate them to felonies. The bookkeeping charges must be unanimous. Apparently, this was not considered confusing to jurors.
After watching closing arguments in the courtroom, Georgetown Law professor and defense attorney Jonathan Turley said, "It's not that I've never seen anything like this, I haven't even read anything like this. What I saw in that courtroom was really otherworldly. I've really attempted to give the judge the benefit of the doubt on many occasions, but what I saw [during closing arguments] was, frankly, outrageous.”
"At one point, the prosecutor actually said that Michael Cohen committed a federal election violation upon the orders of Donald Trump," Turley gasped.
"Now, Merchan has given an instruction that the jury is not supposed to attribute Cohen's plea deal [as guilt] towards Trump. The defense objected and Merchan just overruled him and allowed the prosecutor to repeatedly state that federal elections violations by Trump are a fact and that there's not any dispute of that," the shocked attorney added.
"And Merchan just sat there. He was as useful as a ficus plant in that courtroom. I kept looking, waiting on him for any sign that the judge was even listening to some of these arguments," he plaintively explained. "I can't imagine a jury member going into deliberations and not assuming that this is an established fact that federal elections law violations have occurred in this case because [the judge] has allowed prosecutors to say it dozens of times."
This, of course, makes Merchan's ruling on limiting the federal elections expert testimony all the more pernicious.
Turley said the judge also allowed prosecutor Josh Steinglass to "testify" that former Trump aide "Hope Hicks burst into tears because she knew that she had destroyed any defense by Donald Trump. Really? How do you know that?"
Related: Spoiler Alert: Prosecutors' Tortuous Trump Case Is 'Confusing' to Nearly Everyone
At one point during the closing argument, the prosecutor testified that "catch and kill" — killing embarrassing stories before they see the light of day — were uniquely done in this case and that they'd never been done before. "That's not in the record," Turley said.
"Some of the most outrageous hoaxes were killed and perpetrated [in the same campaign] by the Hillary Clinton campaign with an enabling media," Turley fumed. "In fact," he noted, "many of the reporters listening helped the Hillary Clinton campaign do that. And that was what was so otherworldly today."
Turley's shocking examples of unethical behavior in the courtroom characterize the entire trial.
You can see what the Trump defense team was up against.
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Until the judge allowed the prosecutor to state facts not in evidence and then gave a biased instruction to the jury, I thought this would end in a mistrial.
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I always wanted to retire to some 3rd world backwater and go bamboo. Now I can do so and never get off the couch.
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Lemme' see. 12 Jurors...say $3 mil tax free each, no strings (sure). Cheaper than a national ad buy, right?
They are all known, and I suspect they and their families shall be monitored for a l..o..n..g time for unaccounted-for spending.
Now we wait for The Patriot Front (FEEBS), etc. to begin their fancy dance.
When you've lost CNN, you really are finished.
[CNN] For the second time in less than a week, President Joe Biden falsely claimed Tuesday that the inflation rate was 9% when he began his presidency.
Biden was criticized by many Republicans, including former president and current presidential rival Donald Trump, for telling CNN in an interview last Wednesday: "No president’s had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation. It was 9% percent when I came to office, 9%."
Biden repeated the claim about the inflation rate, albeit in slightly vaguer form, in a Tuesday interview with Yahoo Finance. This time, he said: "I think inflation has gone slightly up. It was at 9% when I came in, and it’s now down around 3%."
Facts First: Biden’s claim that the inflation rate was 9% when he became president is not close to true. The year-over-year inflation rate in January 2021, the month of his inauguration, was about 1.4%. The Biden-era inflation rate did peak at about 9.1% — but that peak occurred in June 2022, after Biden had been president for more than 16 months. The March 2024 inflation rate, the most recent available rate at the time Biden made these comments, was about 3.5%, up from about 3.2% the month prior.
In other words, Biden’s claims make it sound like inflation is much lower today than it was when he was inaugurated — but it is actually higher, though there has been a steep decline since the June 2022 peak. (That peak followed Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which sparked global increases in energy and food prices.) And while Biden’s claims make it sound like the end of the Trump presidency was plagued by high inflation, inflation was unusually low during Trump’s last months in the White House amid the economic slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
[Federalist] President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign sent "special guests" to stump for the incumbent on Tuesday outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump has been defending himself from Democrat lawfare. Just days prior, Politico reported that Biden will comment from the White House on the impending verdict in the show trial once it’s delivered. As if Biden’s previous decisions to taunt Trump for being detained in court and fundraise off the lawfare campaign weren’t enough evidence, Team Biden’s last-minute press calls confirm the inherently political nature of the lawfare spectacle.
The campaign enlisted anti-Trump actor Robert De Niro and former Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone to act as surrogates for the president outside the courtroom where Trump’s defense is making closing arguments. Biden’s reelection campaign sent out a press release hyping the event.
"You all are already here," Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said when asked why the campaign chose to host a political presser outside the courthouse where a lawfare trial is underway. "It’s easy to talk about the choice in this election when the entire news media is camped out here day in and day out."
The press has been present for every day of the trial since it began in April. Biden’s campaign, however, made its first appearance Tuesday, the same day closing arguments are held and the same week the jury will begin deliberations.
If you are missing some of the lines, the 'Conspiracy Nuts and their Hobbiton Theories' ole Bobby here is not just a bit of a bedroom degenerate himself, but 'allegedly' had a special room in his restaurant for 'certified members', pimps and pedos, to dine together and flesh trade in a secure environment.
That's the joke; that an old deranged has-been with impulse control problems and a taste for young children is actually the perfect face for Team Brandon.
[Daily Caller] Blexit activist Madeline Brame shredded President Joe Biden’s "black this, black that" rhetoric Wednesday on Fox News, warning it won’t "play" well for the president come this November.
Brame appeared on "Jesse Watters Primetime" to discuss Biden’s recent speech at Morehouse College and her appearance at Trump’s Bronx rally last week. Following a clip played back of Biden’s speech addressing HBCU graduates, Fox host Jesse Watters asked Brame whether Biden’s speech tactics, regarding the alleged attacks on black voters, sink in with the Democratic key voting bloc.
"Just sitting here listening to that, I feel like vomiting," Brame stated. "For the simple fact that — it’s so insulting and so racist. For every other word to come out of his mouth, black this, black that, black this, black that. Like the only reason why we made these so-called accomplishments is because of the color of our skin. Has nothing to do with our intellect, has nothing to do with the merits of nothing, it’s only because we’re black that these things are happening. He is so insulting."
"He’s saying that the reason you are being chosen to fill out his administration is because of the color of your skin," Watters stated.
Bram continued to call out how "poor minority" communities may still stand by Biden, however, the "Black Exit" activist called out the state of the economy under Biden’s policies currently.
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But, but, but this is YOUR democratic party Ms. Brame. Fully sanctioned by the gov't, it has been your democratic party for decades. I believe the popular term is DEI. Reality doth knock ?
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The Washington Post unearthed this quote from Joe Biden in 1975:
"I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.’ I don’t buy that."
One of MANY Racist comments JB made in the 1970's +.
It's only racist in the minds of today's entitled generation as it doesn't conform to the 'All White People are Bad and All Black People are Repressed' mindset they've been taught.
The phrase 'All Lives Matter' is also considered racist under the same.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Federalist] President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign sent "special guests" to stump for the incumbent on Tuesday outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump has been defending himself from Democrat lawfare. Just days prior, Politico reported that Biden will comment from the White House on the impending verdict in the show trial once it’s delivered. As if Biden’s previous decisions to taunt Trump for being detained in court and fundraise off the lawfare campaign weren’t enough evidence, Team Biden’s last-minute press calls confirm the inherently political nature of the lawfare spectacle.
