[Gateway] The attorneys representing the corrupt DA in New York, Alvin Bragg, in their case against President Trump, have made a serious error in their case. President Trump’s attorneys must move to dismiss.
DA Bragg’s case is in serious trouble. The gang behind the prosecution of President Trump made a serious error that should lead President Trump’s team to move to dismiss.
Prosecutors in New York have revealed what the other crime is that Donald Trump was allegedly trying to conceal when he was falsifying business records and they claim it was to unlawfully promote his candidacy. The fatal error is that the NY Statute they cite only applies to elections within the State of New York and not Federal Elections!
Trump was running for the federal office of President of the United States and not a State Office and therefore the premise of what the prosecution is trying to prove as the second crime used to get around the statute of limitations issue and to elevate this business records case to a felony must fail!
Prosecutors also cannot use a federal law as the second crime and additionally, the FEC, Federal Election Commission, declined on two occasions to prosecute the claim against Trump that the alleged hush money payment was in fact a federal violation.
In this case, Bragg and Colangelo, in an exercise of their legal analysis of the law maintain that Trump, Cohen, and Pecker conspired to get Trump elected to President of the United States. This is the basis for the elevation of charges.
This is enough to end the case but that’s not all.
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Archipelago Gulag documents a case where a prominent Soviet Chemistry scientist got 10 years hard labor for disclosing an important chemical formula H2O to foreign spies.
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Could NY still prosecute the misdemeanor if the felony charges were dismissed?
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IIUC the misdemeanor charge is past the statute of limitations, having occurred in 2016; that's why they made it a felony charge, to get 'round that pesky statute thing.
[Gateway] The Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments on Trump’s presidential immunity claim in Jack Smith’s January 6 case in DC.
The case made its way to the Supreme Court after the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Trump was not immune from prosecution.
Trump’s lawyers previously argued that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged ’crimes’ committed while he served as US President.
John Sauer, a Missouri-based attorney for Trump, gave an opening statement on Thursday and argued that Jack Smith’s indictment uses vague statutes to criminalize "core authority" of the presidency.
Sauer argued that immunity protects past presidents such as George W. Bush and Barack Obama from being prosecuted for crimes they committed while in federal office.
[BEA] Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2024, according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2023, real GDP increased 3.4 percent. [This is an initial estimate. There will be adjustments. The next adjustment will be at the end of May.]
Personal saving was $755.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $815.5 billion in the fourth quarter. The personal saving rate; personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income; was 3.6 percent in the first quarter, compared with 4.0 percent in the fourth quarter. [Unfortunately CPI growth isn't coming down quickly so this is unlikely to lead to a decrease in the Fed Fund rate in the near term]
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My son (Chef) works at a local rehab facility and does menus,food ordering ETC for 120 clients.
He said a case of tomatoes went from $27 to $60 and Onions went from $20 to $50....someone is out there laughing at all us.
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Yes #2. Ted Cruz was to have said that the reason DC always goes for taxes is because they think all Americans earn over $200,000 thousand a year.
A side note; last year refunds were much less so business was particularly slow. I spoke to a CPA yesterday and asked if refunds were paltry this year. Her response was yes. She said companies were not withholding enough without telling employee's. Perhaps but refunds are again small if you get a refund at all. I myself got nice refunds for the first time in years. Federal was very fast but state was very slow.
One last finding. Business activity in Penna, Maryland and West Virginia states have all been slow. Seems Virginia has been good (everyone says because of government spending for agency's).
Prior to COVID people lived pay check to pay check. Now paycheck doesn't make it. Even food stamps have been cut back majorly in Maryland.
[Federalist] Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed a trove of documents Monday that appear to reveal a coordinated effort within the Biden administration to target Donald Trump with political prosecution after he left office.
Special Counsel Jack Smith and other federal prosecutors in President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted Trump in June 2023 for allegedly mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home. The indictment followed an unprecedented raid on a former president’s home the prior summer.
President Biden also retained classified documents after leaving the vice presidency. Yet he was not charged because prosecutors say they believed he would "present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
Here are the three most shocking revelations in the lawfare case against Trump thanks to the newly unsealed documents, in part as pointed out by independent reporter Julie Kelly on X.
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It certainly seems to reveal compelling proof of a conspiracy within the government to deny a Presidential candidate to the American people through deceit, obfuscation and lawfare by the current administration.
Nixon was removed because he was making arms limitation agreements with the Soviets and opening to China.
It was for the same reason that President Kennedy was assassinated by the military/security complex.
The growing suspicion about Kennedy’s assassination meant that the military/security complex could not risk a second violent assassination, so Nixon was politically assassinated.
The same strategy was applied to Trump.
When Trump said he intended to normalize relations with Russia, he presented himself as the same threat to the military-security complex as Kennedy and Nixon.
That is what Russiagate was about, and what documentsgate, Jan 6 Insurrection, and two failed impeachments are all about.
When Russiagate and the impeachments failed, they decided to steal the election.
When Trump’s support survived all of this, they decided on the indictments.
In the least, the indictments will keep Trump off the campaign circuit and use up his resources in legal fees.
It is the determination and ability of the military/security complex to protect its budget and power that makes peace impossible and wars our way of life...
Watch Tucker Carlson discuss this below (with key quotes via @CollinRugg):
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
~ President Eisenhower's farewell address, 17 Jan 1961.
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I have said this for years. I would always say it was a war between Nixon and the Post(the post being a tool). I agree with two spooks we had here on this site, "our government is capable of anything". My information regarding the Kennedy's was limited but could easily be true. I remember in DC the Jewish people I met truly disliked the "peanut farmer" Carter.
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Whatever Nixon did, he was a Boy Scout compared to the likes of JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton, Baraq Obama and Joe Biden. Might as well include John Brennan and Christopher Wray in that bunch. All those Democrat politicians had the intel community watching their backs instead of stabbing them in the back like they did Nixon, otherwise they would have gone down even harder than Nixon. No scruples will ever be found among them.
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...I've always wondered how much of the Dem hatred for Nixon came from the fact that after 1960, he wasn't supposed to come back - he had been defeated by the demigod JFK, who put them back into their rightful place in the White House (20 years straight from FDR to Truman's last term may eventually turn out to be far, far worse than anything else that's happened to the Republic, but I digress.) and should have retired to his law office in California. But instead, he not only came back again, he beat the anointed Hubert Humphrey.
The Democrats assumed that the Presidency was rightfully and permanently theirs before I was born, and I think every defeat or sidetrack drives them just a little more insane.
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Roger Stone's book asserts that the people behind the assasination of JFK were involved in intentionally setting up Nixon so that Nixon couldn't get any closer to understanding what really happened to JFK (LBJ, the CIA, and the mob).
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James Rosen article is a terrific introduction to details long forgotton and subsequent facts ignored by the media oligarchy that wants to narravtive to remain unchanged. Books like "Silent Coup" and "Secret Agenda" tell a fascinating tale of government in opposition to the elected President. But the real, amazing backstory, is the core point of the break-in itself. That the target location was NOT the office of DNC Chairman O'Brien, but an anteroom where a telephone stand held an address book in a locked drawer of major DNC contributors and certain preferences that loosened the purse strings. That target was defined by WH Counsel John Dean, and it is rumored that he had a personal interest in securing that book beyond politics. His flipping is linked in part to that personal connection I believe.
Given my mothers career in DC as a Republican Congressional Committee staffer and later lobbyist, we had deep family roots to many of the players in the Nixon Administration. The most compelling insight to all of Watergate from those connections for me was a comment made by one of those players that the irony of Watergate was that Nixon, a man of substantial political talent but enormously isolated personally, had no actual foreknowledge or involvement in the break-in plan itself. Rather, he took on the post-event cover-story debacle that ended his Presidency, to protect John Mitchell, whose friendship he greatly valued.
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Dale, you eructate the most embarrassing made up bullshit and expect me to be embarrassed by your opinion.
All wrong, boy..
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in DC the Jewish people I met truly disliked the "peanut farmer" Carter.
Former President Carter was so open about his hatred of Israel for refusing to follow his advice to bare their collective necks to Palestinian murder that he drove away first his Jewish Democrat voters and donors, then his Jewish-American friends, and finally the Jewish-American gentleman who ran the Carter Center for him. It was so bad by the end of his first term that he decided it would be a waste of effort to run again.
[Red State] The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of former President Donald Trump on felony charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Jack Smith sent his advocate, Michael Drebeen, a veteran of over 100 Supreme Court appearances and Robert Mueller's unethical investigation of President Trump, into a proverbial Cuisinart of hostile questions. If the questions and statements of the justices are to be taken at face value, Trump's trial will not take place before November's election and possibly not at all.
Trump argues that any actions he took before January 20, 2021, were covered by presidential immunity. Basically, Trump said that if a president were constantly looking over his shoulder, fearing post-presidential prosecution, the office would cease to function. I happen to think that is true. Smith argued that despite the Justice Department's long-standing policy of not prosecuting ex-presidents, Trump poses such a unique threat to the republic that it is necessary in this case.
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Smith argued that despite the Justice Department's long-standing policy of not prosecuting ex-presidents, Trump poses such a unique threat to the republic that it is necessary in this case.
The only threat Trump poses is to criminal Democrats and their grip on power.
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Unique, eh?
Hard cases, make bad law.
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[FOX] President Biden made the sign of the cross, a gesture Catholics often make before and after prayer, while listening to pro-abortion comments by a fellow Democrat in Florida.
The president's actions came Tuesday as Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, the state's former Democratic gubernatorial nominee, blasted an upcoming law restricting abortion to within six weeks of gestation. Biden was heavily criticized in response to the move, which several Catholic groups and commentators described as sacrilegious given the Catholic Church's strict teaching condemning abortion.
"And then we come back here to the state of Florida where [Gov.] Ron DeSantis felt like he needed to run for president and so 15 weeks wasn’t good enough. We had to go to six weeks," Fried said at the event alongside Biden.
At the moment Fried said "15 weeks wasn’t good enough," Biden made the sign of the cross, appearing to mock Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' efforts to limit abortion.
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The apostle Paul warned both the Corinthians and the Galatians against "anothr Jesus," a false one. Joe appears to have a very different Jesus from the real one indeed.
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Actually the old geezer was making sure he had his testicles, spectacles, wallet and watch.
Must have heard there were democrats about and making sure they weren't stolen.
[Washington Examiner] The Biden administration is tightening the screws on "forever chemicals" used in the production of a wide range of consumer goods, such as nonstick cookware, camping gear, and fast-food packaging — a push that industry groups argue is overly restrictive and will drive up costs.
The rules are part of a yearslong Environmental Protection Agency-led push to crack down on air and water pollution from perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, or PFAS, which are nearly impossible to break down naturally and are linked to health troubles such as liver and kidney disease, immune problems, and certain cancers.
The agency has proposed or finalized several rules on PFAS: limiting levels in public drinking water, setting new reporting requirements for companies, and allowing the EPA to monitor and fine polluters for improper disposal of the toxins. Other rules are expected to be finalized this summer.
While consumers may not see an immediate impact on store shelves as a result of the EPA’s regulations, which so far deal with the handling and disposal of PFAS toxins rather than dictating their use, they have also given companies a new financial incentive to move away from using PFAS in a bid to avoid public pressure, as well as costly remediation fees.
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Let me guess. PFAs interfere with the estrogen and benzodiazapenes in the water supply.
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‘forever chemicals' means they're not very reactive chemically.
I was wondering about this the other day. We don't leave buckets of hydrogen fluoride sitting out because the dog might knock one over and make a mess, but no one gets upset about the gigatons of highly unreactive silicon dioxide lying out in the open on our beaches.
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[Federalist] Seneca in the first century CE: "...unnatural progeny we destroy; we drown even children who at birth are weakly and abnormal."
Similarly, in ancient Greece, abortion was encouraged to limit the number of children in families, as was infanticide for babies born with deformities. The Spartan society highly valued marriages that would strengthen the genetic excellence of the population, and therefore partners were selected based on traits such as physical fitness. The government would even intervene and arrange marriages or force divorces if the couples were judged unfit for each other and thereby incapable of producing strong offspring.
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The entire process of natural selection (AKA selective breeding) across every species on the planet,(with the modern exception of woke demokrat women) is based on behaviors, appearance, displays by males of the species that demonstrate some aspect of their superiority for breeding and generational success.
Humans are no exception, we simply dismiss the idea that somehow females no longer respond to such displays. See today's Kunstler article for an amusing summation of this in current context!
Didn't lose a tire.
German maintenance?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A heart-stopping video caught the dramatic moment a Lufthansa Airlines Boeing 747 violently bounced off the runway at LAX before aborting the landing.
On Tuesday, the 747-8i, Boeing's largest 'Jumbo Jet,' was attempting to land at Los Angeles Airport, but the plane struck the runway hard and bounced twice, forcing the pilot to abort.
The frightening moment was documented in a livestream by Airline Videos Live, a group of airplane enthusiasts 'dedicated to bringing high-quality video' of commercial aviation 'to viewers worldwide.'
In the video, Lufthansa Flight 456, which originated in Frankfurt, Germany, could be seen sweeping down toward the runway with its landing gear extended.
Everything appeared to be going smoothly until the plane's back wheels touched down, at which point a cloud of white smoke burst from the wheels.
Then the plane abruptly jerked upward, its wheels hovering over the ground for a few yards.
The plane lurched downward again, this time both the front and back wheels making contact with the runway.
But as soon as the wheels touched down, the plane, which seats 400 passengers and crew, bounced upward.
After the second botched landing, the pilot decided to abort and the video showed the plane ascending into the sky.
While the plane bounced along the runway, Kevin Ray, the website's owner and chief commentator, shouted: 'Holy Moly!'
'That is the roughest landing I think we've ever caught on our broadcast,' said Ray, later adding that they could 'smell' the burnt rubber from the wheels.
Lufthansa Flight 456 proceeded to circle the airport and landed without an issue a short time later.
As of right now, it is unclear whether this incident was the result of some malfunction with the 9-year-old Boeing plane or if it was caused by something else.
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Looked like a pretty fair weather day in the video for a problem making the landing.
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There's an old story about a B-52 that makes an extremely rough landing, and once they're on the runway nobody says a thing - except for the co-pilot who, as he runs the landing checklist, dryly asks, "Did we land or were we shot down?"
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
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[GWP] A Louisiana judge has sentenced a man to physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl.
[Federalist] Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed a trove of documents Monday that appear to reveal a coordinated effort within the Biden administration to target Donald Trump with political prosecution after he left office.
[FOX] President Biden made the sign of the cross, a gesture Catholics often make before and after prayer, while listening to pro-abortion comments by a fellow Democrat in Florida.
