Democrats Defy Court Order

Contempt results in a $10,000 penalty — PER DAY!

By Joe Fried CPA Sep 25, 2025 @ Joe Fried CPA Election Central 

Democrats are defying Georgia law and a standing court order.

Like Nancy Pelosi, who refused to seat Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks on the January 6th committee, Fulton County Democrats are refusing to seat two Republicans on the Fulton County Elections Board. This lawless action is in direct violation of a Fulton election ordinance:

Two members shall be appointed by the governing authority of Fulton County from nominations made by the chairperson of the county executive committee of the political party whose candidates received the second largest number of such votes [14-33].

Under this legal standard, the Republican Party is entitled to nominate two members to serve on the Board. The two candidates, nominated by the GOP several months ago, are Julie Adams and Jason Frazier. They have yet to be seated.

This issue has been adjudicated in a courtroom, and the Democrats were found guilty of violating election law. On August 3, Superior Court Judge David Emerson ruled that Fulton County is required to seat the two Republican nominees. Because they refused, Judge Emerson ruled (August 27) that the Fulton County Board of Commissioners was in contempt of court, and was required to pay $10,000 per day until the two Republicans are seated. In the words of Judge Emerson, this matter is clear-cut:

I didn’t see anywhere in that legislation that the commission was given veto power over the nominees. Is it in there, did I miss it?

A few days later the Judge temporarily stayed the penalty because Democrats claim they will file an appeal. If they do, that appeal will fail. The absurd rationalization of the Democrats

Fulton County Democrats have justified their lawbreaking with this argument: Adams and Frazier are “election deniers.” Democrats are upset with nominee Julie Adams because she did not vote to certify the 2020 election when she previously was on the Board. In the case of Jason Frazier, his sin was challenging (successfully) many ineligible voter registrations. There are two problems with the Democrat argument:

Being a so-called election denier, even if true, is totally irrelevant to the law. The GOP has a right to have its nominees seated.

Adams and Frazier were, in fact, not election deniers. Indeed, their criticisms were understated. In my opinion, the 2020 election should not have been certified, and the Fulton County administration should have been investigated for fraud.

An analysis of the facts shows that the Democrat obstructionists are simply “truth deniers.” 

Joe Biden did not win the 2020 Georgia election

1. To this day, ultra blue Fulton Co. has provided zero support for 17,852 of its 2020 election ballots. Perhaps it can’t. Prominent Berkeley statistician Philip B. Stark examined Fulton Co. election records in connection with his testimony in a federal lawsuit. According to his sworn declaration (p. 105 of 209), “...of the 527,925 cast vote records: 17,852 image files are missing.” Keep in mind that Biden won (supposedly) by less than 11,800 votes.

2. Between the 2016 and 2020 elections, Georgia experienced the sharpest decline in absentee ballot rejection rates of any state in the country. If the 2016 rejection rate had been applied to the 2020 absentee ballot rate, there would have been 78,000 fewer votes (mostly Democrat votes). Again, Biden’s “victory” margin was less than 11,800.

3. Now consider rejection rates at the county level. Fulton Co. is the largest and most Democrat county in the state. For some very strange reason, its rejection rate was only 1/7th as high as the rest of Georgia. As an experienced CPA and auditor, I performed a statistical analysis of the probability of Fulton Co. being so much lower than the state as a whole, so much lower than other large counties with similar per capita earnings, and so much lower than other counties with similar demographics. No matter how I prepared the analysis, the statistical probability was less than ONE IN ONE BILLION.

4. About 3 years after the election we learned why the Fulton Co. ballot rejection rate was lower than that of the rest of the state: Signatures were never checked. In April, 2024, Mark Wingate, a member of the 2020 Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, made the following statement under oath:

I asked (Fulton Co. election personnel), ‘What did we do for signature verification?’ And the comment I got back frankly floored me, ‘We didn’t do any.’

5. Wingate also identified another major problem: 

“I and other Board members had requested that we obtain the chain of custody documentation from the department and none of that was ever delivered.” The lack of chain of custody might explain how 17,852 ballots magically appeared out of nowhere.

6. Other elements of this illegal election have been identified by VoterGA, an experienced nonprofit watchdog organization staffed with qualified data analysts. Some of those elements (just for Fulton County) are 380,458 missing original in-person ballot images and 512,743 missing SHA files needed to authenticate each ballot (and required by Georgia law). None of those allegations has been refuted.

7. Perhaps the biggest cause for concern is the unyielding refusal of Fulton Co. to permit access to the ballots. In December 2020, 6 witnesses independently testified that many of the absentee ballots appeared to be fake: The ballots were supposedly mailed but had none of the folding creases required in order for the ballots to fit into envelopes. Also, they were on different paper and/or they had suspicious ink that appeared to be toner. As a result, the head of VoterGA, Garland Favorito, filed a lawsuit to obtain ballot access. After nearly 5 years of litigation, the ballots are no longer under court seal and Favorito has a right to inspect the ballots via a standard open records request. Without explanation, however, Fulton Co. refuses to give that access. 

Conclusion

Democrats on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners claim that they can’t comply with a court order to seat nominated Republicans because those Republicans are “election deniers.” That begs the question: What is an “election denier? A good answer was provided by Bridget Thorne, a surviving Republican member on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. She said this to her Democrat colleagues (video at 13:10):

What is an election denier? Election denier is anyone who wants integrity in our elections. By state law, we need to reconcile that the number of people voted equals the number of ballots cast. We do not obey that law.

The Fate Of The U.S. If The Left Got Control Of The Supreme Court

July 09, 2025/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

Currently at the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservatives hold a 6-3 majority. While there are exceptions, most of the politically sensitive cases break along the 6-3 ideological lines. Recent prominent examples of cases breaking in that way include Trump v. CASA (limiting the ability of district judges to issue nationwide injunctions against executive actions); U.S. v. Skrmetti (upholding Tennessee statute banning transgender surgeries on minors); and Loper Bright v. Raimondo (ending the rule that courts should “defer” to administrative agencies as to interpretation of their regulations). In these and numerous other cases, the three liberal justices (Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson) would have reached the opposite result.

But the 6-3 conservative majority is very much a result of happenstance. Donald Trump won the 2016 election by a hair, and then got three Supreme Court appointments in his first term. Had Hillary Clinton won, she would have appointed three liberals. Barack Obama’s appointment of Merrick Garland got sunk by some deft maneuvering by Mitch McConnell. Liberal David Souter, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990, retired in 2009 (and has since died), while conservative Clarence Thomas, appointed by the same president in 1991, continues to serve.

With a few different breaks, the Court could easily have a 6-3, or even 7-2, liberal majority. Do you ever wonder what our law might look like if that had occurred?

You don’t have to look far to find out. In Europe and Israel, the political left has found ways to control the judiciary, and in particular the highest courts, no matter which political parties win the elections. And here in the U.S., the barrage of litigation against Trump administration initiatives has given a coterie of Obama- and Biden-appointed district court judges the opportunity to show their view of how the law ought to work.

In Israel and various European countries, left-wing judges have somehow arrogated to themselves powers to overrule most any decision of the political branches that they don’t like. At Gatestone Institute on July 8, Drieu Godefredi has a roundup. Godefredi calls what is going on alternately “judicial imperialism” and “judicial tyranny.” Excerpt:

From Israel to the United States, via Europe, the judicial coup d'état has become permanent. In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging.

Consider the case of Israel. Although Israel has had conservative governments for most of the last several decades (Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister for almost 18 years out of the 30 years since 1996), the Israeli Supreme Court is firmly in the hands of the left. Rather than being named by the political branches as in the U.S., the Israeli Supreme Court’s members come from a Judicial Selection Committee, the majority of whose members are selected either by the Supreme Court itself or by the Israel Bar Association. Lacking a written Constitution like we have in the U.S., the Israel Supreme Court has decided that it can declare actions of the political branches invalid because they are “unreasonable.” Godefredi:

In the 1980s and 1990s, . . . the Court took on the power to assess the "reasonableness" of government decisions, thus giving itself a political veto over the elected government's choices. . . . There is no decision of the Israeli government and parliament that cannot be overturned by unelected judges.

The court has gone as far as to disallow appointment of cabinet officers on the grounds of “unreasonableness.”

Or consider the case of France. While the Biden administration got tied up in knots trying to prosecute its main political adversary (Trump) on some phony charge or other, the French judiciary has been more efficient. Godefredi:

Leading in all the presidential polls, Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party, has been sentenced to a five-year ban from holding public office with provisional execution. . . .

Le Pen’s alleged wrong was “assigning assistants paid by the European Parliament to French national tasks.”

Here’s another example cited by Godefredi:

In 2024, the Constitutional Council censured [struck down] several provisions of the Immigration Act, adopted under political pressure to tighten the conditions for entry and residence in France.

And in summary:

There is effectively no longer a single "right-wing" measure that can be adopted in any field by Parliament or the government without being struck down by the Constitutional Council or the courts.

Other examples cited by Godefredi include several from the European Court of Human Rights compelling European states to accept immigrants from Africa despite statutes to the contrary.

Well, the Europeans and the Israelis have nothing on some of their American counterparts. Consider the latest from one Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts. It seems that one of the many provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, that became law upon signature of President Trump on July 4, would prohibit the federal government from providing further funding for Planned Parenthood. On July 7, Planned Parenthood was promptly in court seeking an injunction against the end of its funding. Note that this termination of funding was not a result of some unilateral Trump Executive Order, but rather part of a duly enacted statute. Under what possible theory could a court order that Congress could not do that?

Here is a write-up from National Review today. Excerpt:

The case went to Judge Indira Talwani, a Barack Obama appointee. Before even waiting to hear the Justice Department’s defense of a duly enacted federal law, she issued a “temporary restraining order” (TRO) ordering that the federal government, starting immediately and continuing the next two weeks, “shall take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed in the customary manner and timeframes to Planned Parenthood” and affiliates. Planned Parenthood is already asking the court to extend the order further before giving the federal government its day in court. . . . 

Judge Talwani did not issue a legal opinion explaining why she was overturning an act of Congress. Her order made none of the findings required under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for a TRO. Nor is this a proper TRO. As we have previously observed, “a TRO is supposed to restrain one side of a case temporarily, so that nothing changes until the court can issue a final order changing things, which then can be appealed. 

But [the district judge] tried to force the government to pay money it can’t get back.” By ordering that moneys be irrevocably withdrawn from the Treasury without an act of Congress — indeed, in direct contravention of an act prohibiting them — she is flatly contradicting the Constitution’s allocation of powers.

So we now have District Judges who think that they can order the President to spend taxpayer funds that Congress has specifically directed cannot be spent. I would expect this one to get overturned promptly on appeal. But that’s only because of our current Supreme Court. Is there any doubt that a Supreme Court with a majority of Ketanji Brown Jacksons would uphold Judge Talwani’s order?

Here Are Some of the People Who Owe Special Counsel Robert Hur an Apology

Matt Vespa | May 17, 2025  

 

Special Counsel Robert Hur was raked over the coals after he concluded his investigation into President Joe Biden. The then-vice president under Barack Obama had left classified materials in numerous locations, the most egregious of which were the piles in his garage at his home in Delaware. ...... To Read More....

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Gov. Newsom’s $750M Gift to Hollywood Donors

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

Ben Affleck recently complained that California “came to take this industry for granted a little bit.”

By that the movie star meant that the state wasn't funding it enough, but that's not for lack of California officials trying.

California has a $68 billion deficit, and Gov. Newsom is proposing $375 million in budget cuts for the California State University system, $68 million in cuts for wildfire prevention (even as LA is recovering from the worst fires in history) and doubling Hollywood’s tax credits to $750 million

Hollywood, which already benefits from $350 million in breaks, will get $750 million in tax credits even as money is being cut from education, public safety and even wildfire prevention.

The entertainment industry would be able to recoup up to 35% of their spending, up from the current 20%, and the subsidies would cover everything from sitcoms to reality shows.

The California Production Coalition, whose members include the umbrella trade group for Disney, Amazon, Netflix, Sony, Universal and WBs, has a list of demands that include lifting the $100 million cap on expenses, and, even more controversially, “above the line” costs of salaries for movie stars, directors and other talent which can run into the tens of millions of dollars.

Should California taxpayers really be covering Tom Cruise’s salary? Hollywood thinks so. And the powerful Hollywood donors to California Democrats means that they usually get their way.

When Gov. Gavin Newsom faced a recall after a corrupt pandemic lockdown system that kept churches and small businesses closed, but allowed movie and TV productions to do whatever they wanted, Hollywood donors showed up to throw millions at Newsom. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings kicked in $3 million, Universal, Paramount and top celebrities also stepped up.

A ‘virtual’ event chaired by Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, raised over $1 million to keep Newsom in office. FOX, Sony and other executives wrote checks for thousands of dollars.

Now Gov. Newsom is paying up.

Last year, Disney’s ‘Paradise 2’, a series about political corruption, fittingly received over $12 million, ‘Untitled WB Film’ got $20 million, ‘Untitled Disney+ Project’ picked up $14 million, ‘Suits LA’ got $12 million to shoot in LA, ‘LA Nights’ got $19 million to also shoot in LA, Apple’s ‘Bad Monkey 2’ got $20 million and ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’ got $1.6 million.

Gov. Newsom and California Democrats claim that these massive giveaways to huge studios are vitally necessary to keep the film industry in Los Angeles or it’ll move on to Georgia. That must be why Newsom also exempted Hollywood from pandemic restrictions. But it doesn’t explain why he shut down virtually everything except those same Hollywood productions.

California Democrats have gone after virtually every major industry in the state, starving agriculture industries of water through environmental restrictions, dismantling trucking with a ban on freelance workers, taxing and banning oil and gas, and shoving out defense industries, all the while raising business taxes through the roof and sending companies fleeing to Texas.

Yet when it comes to Hollywood, Gov. Newsom and his legislative supermajority claim that keeping this particular industry in California is so vital that no amount of subsidies is too great. State Democrats are willing to slash education spending just to keep movies in California.

And yet Hollywood’s actual impact on California is limited.

Despite false industry claims, Hollywood tax credits are a consistent net loss for the states that offer them. States don’t offer tax credits because they have any meaningful impact, but because the film industry is glamorous, its lobbyists keep calling and celebrities keep writing checks.

Even the vastly inflated Hollywood estimates of jobs created and money spent is in the thousands (unless you also count their absurd numbers of ‘background performers’ or extras) compared to 130,000 truck drivers, whom California Democrats have been chasing out of the state, and over 4 million small businesses of which a third were shuttered by pandemic restrictions.

Gov. Newsom and California Democrats didn’t even blink at killing 7,500 small businesses during the pandemic, which employed far more people than the Hollywood productions do. If they really cared about jobs, they’d be providing massive tax breaks for some of those small businesses instead of writing $20 million checks to Disney and Netflix to “create jobs”.

Perversely, Hollywood lobbies keep demanding more subsidies because of the supposed impact that the pandemic had on their productions that they still haven’t “recovered” from even five years later. But of all the businesses in the state, Hollywood studios had the fewest restrictions on their behavior. That’s why small cafes had to close and watch while Hollywood crews set up craft services in their parking lots.

Hollywood had so much influence that when LA slapped a lockdown on everyone, and asked productions to avoid stirring up bad feelings by restricting filming to the same hours as other businesses, industry anger forced cringing officials to withdraw their request and only asked them “to voluntarily limit and/or avoid activities likely to invite a negative community response”.

Small businesses in LA did not get requests to “voluntarily” do anything. They had their power and other utilities cut off if they did not comply. The general public was not issued voluntary requests to wear masks or stay out of parks. Instead, California Democrat officials chained off entire areas, blocked park benches and set out to criminalize any lockdown dissent.

Except for Hollywood.

Gov. Newsom and California officials declared that “workers supporting the film, television and commercial production industry” were “essential for the state’s critical infrastructure.” It did not clarify which part of California’s “critical infrastructure” the movies and bad sitcoms made up.

The double standard was obscenely corrupt then and it’s corrupt now.

5 years after receiving unprecedented exemptions, Gov. Newsom and California Democrats are providing unprecedented subsidies to Hollywood because of their supposed pandemic suffering.

“Hollywood workers have endured a difficult last few years, starting with the pandemic,” the LA Times claimed in defending Newsom’s $750 million in subsidies.

What about the rest of the state’s workers and the millions of jobs that were lost there? And many of those, unlike “background performers”, were actual good lifelong jobs.

Hollywood productions don’t even create stable jobs because of their erratic nature. They’re even less stable (and often more abusive) than the Uber and Lyft.jobs that California Democrats had declared war on and have tried to regulate out of existence. But they are heavily unionized.

And the top players are major funders of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrat majority.

Gov. Newsom is not proposing to double tax credits for Hollywood because of the economic benefits to the state, but the economic benefits to his future presidential campaign. Democratic presidential campaigns live and die by the money they gain from three industries: Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. That was why Biden and Kamala had so many Hollywood fundraisers. Now Gov. Newsom is bribing Hollywood with $750 million in taxpayer money in the hopes that they’ll pay at least 10% of that forward to his 2028 presidential campaign.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

 

Crooked Cory Won’t Shut Up

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour congressional floor rant is being hailed as a major achievement, but nobody has ever questioned Booker’s ability to talk endlessly. It’s his greatest talent.
That and making other people’s money disappear.

The 25 hours of rambling summed up everything wrong with Booker as a politician and a man. Booker and his media allies tried to bill it as a filibuster, but it wasn’t because the senator from New Jersey wasn’t trying to fight an actual piece of legislation, just calling attention to himself.

Booker claimed that he was blocking the usual business of the Senate, but the only thing he was slowing down was the nomination of various officials, including Harmeet Dhillon for Assistant Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker as the representative to NATO, and Dean Sauer for the Solicitor General. In his 25 hours and 4 minutes, Booker did not actually have much to say about Sauer, Dhillon or Whitaker (who won his confirmation by 52-45 despite Booker’s ‘nay’ vote).

Cory Booker made a point of trying to break the record of Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of the Civil Rights Act. Except that was an actual filibuster of actual legislation. Booker pretended that just running out the clock by talking for an hour longer than Thurmond was in and of itself an accomplishment.

Why did Booker actually ramble for 25 hours in the Senate? To run for president.

As stunts go, this was the most obvious one yet. Booker’s next Senate election is in 2026, but he has a campaign page up which claims that “he cannot stay quiet and complacent while Donald Trump and Elon Musk shatter constitutional checks and balances” and urges, “Stand with Cory by making a donation today.” But his obvious long-term goal is 2028.

There’s a problem with Booker’s presidential aspirations. And it’s not just that every time he speaks, he reminds everyone of an unsuccessful Obama.

It’s his corrupt track record.

While Booker was boring the Senate, one of the staffers for the militant gun control politician was being arrested by the U.S. Capitol Police for carrying a gun without a license. The last time Booker ran for president, he proposed a federal gun licensing program for all gun owners that would expire and need to be renewed every five years. Presumably his staffers are exempt.

Like Obama, you’re expected to believe in Booker as a transformative politician, but even Obama knew better than to massively defraud his donors before running for president.

In 2010, Cory Booker, then mayor of Newark, went on Oprah with Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook boss wrote a $100 million check to fix Newark’s schools. The money famously disappeared, including some $20 million spent on consultants, some who were being paid $1,000 a day, and grades actually declined. But millions were spent on polling and focus groups.

“MZ’s money is not going in to classrooms,” a Booker aide admitted in an email that was only released after a lawsuit by the ACLU.

But what happened next was even more blatantly corrupt.

After burning through Zuckerberg’s $100 million, Cory Booker turned to Oprah and Dot Com donors to raise millions for Waywire, a company that was supposed to be a “progressive” version of YouTube. Waywire employed Booker’s Senate campaign social media consultant and gave a board seat to the 15-year-old son of CNN boss Jeff Zucker.

As Freedom Center Investigates reported, Waywire failed miserably and Booker sold his stock to the parent company of FOX News, and donated shares of Yandex, Russia’s top search engine, linked to Putin. (In his 25-hour rant and previously, Booker had accused Trump of ties to Russia.) Waywire ended up with a Ukrainian owner and no longer exists. Neither do Booker’s donors.

Booker had burned through Silicon Valley cash through such blatant schemes that his presidential campaign failed to launch. The big money just was not there.

In the 2020 race, Booker didn’t qualify for the debate and was left begging for money before dropping out. “It’s working,” he told the media about his campaign “it’s not translating to people choosing me in the polls.” That is as good a ‘Bookerism’ as any other.

But somehow neither of these two grifts represented Sen. Cory Booker at his very worst.

That would be the Newark Water Group.

During his fake filibuster, Sen. Cory Booker bragged to the media that he had gotten through it by “curbing his water intake”. Sadly, that was not the case at the nonprofit tasked with managing the Newark water authority where he appointed his political allies who stole millions “through kickbacks and outright embezzlement, bogus contracts, risky investments and excessive pay”.

Money went to Booker’s law firm which was still paying him and contractors contributed to his political campaign. The agency’s executive director, who went to prison after taking nearly a million in kickbacks, told the FBI that their job was to raise campaign money for Booker.

Booker was sued by the reconstructed agency, but his lawyers argued that he’s immune from lawsuits because he was doing his work as a “public servant”.

“The consequence of a failure to uphold these immunities would dissuade an even wider swath of individuals from seeking to hold public office. This would impoverish our democracy,” Booker’s attorneys argued.

This little speech about why not holding a wealthy senator who wrecked a water agency that a minority community depended on accountable is “vital for democracy” did not make its way into Cory’s 25-hour speech.

Sen. Cory Booker claimed that his 25-hour talk was about holding President Trump accountable for violating democratic norms, but his idea of democratic norms is personal immunity for his conduct.

In his last financial disclosure, Booker revealed assets of around $1 million, but reporters know to take his disclosures with a grain of salt. When he first ran for Senate, Booker did not reveal his Waywire shares on his disclosure forms and only admitted it when the media found out about them.

Booker told the media that his campaign had “met requirements for disclosure and transparency and we’ve gone above and beyond what most of the—all of the candidates in this race have submitted to in terms of disclosure.” By that he meant that his campaign handed the papers to reporters in a hotel room, didn’t let them make copies, and then demanded them back. Typical behavior for a politician who has gone above and beyond and has nothing to hide.

Crooked Cory will talk for 25 hours about Trump’s money, he won’t talk for even 1 minute about where his money comes from. But Oprah knows. Mark Zuckerberg knows. And the people of Newark know

And Linda Watkins Brashear knows. The former director of the Newark Water Group got out of federal prison last year told the FBI that contractors were expected to buy $500 tickets to Booker’s campaign and his allies.

Funny how in 25 hours and 5 years, Booker never found the time to mention it.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Stacey Abrams: Still Crooked After All These Years

By Susan Daniels Mar 04, 2025 @ Susan's Newsletter

Georgia Republicans now want to investigate the shady Stacey Abrams, who ran twice for governor of the state. What took so long?

According to Capitol Bear News Service a special Georgia Senate committee wants to look into a settlement in January between groups involving Abrams and the Georgia Ethics Commission.

“I think we ought to get to the bottom of these allegations,” Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, said Feb. 28, explaining why he had introduced Senate Resolution 292 the day before.

“The New Georgia Project and a separate fundraising arm, the New Georgia Action Fund, agreed to pay $300,000 for failing to disclose $4.2 million in contributions and $3.2 million in spending during the 2018 election cycle on behalf of Abrams’ unsuccessful bid for governor.

“It was the largest fine ever assessed by the Ethics Commission.”

From an AP story: “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin that $2 billion was improperly given to a coalition of groups trying to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Abrams worked with one of the groups until the end of last year.”

I tried to tip everyone off about Abrams with a story I posted in American Thinker in August 2020:

When Stacey Abrams was running for Georgia governor, she had an impressive list of social changes she wanted to make. People paying their bills didn’t make the cut.

Abrams was $228,000 in debt during her 2017 campaign for Georgia governor, including $50,000 to I.R.S. Despite that, she managed to loan her campaign $50,000. She also owed $76,000 in credit card debt and $96,000 for Yale Law School.

Abrams claimed that family obligations and a misunderstanding of how credit cards worked as the reason for her financial mess. This from a woman who is a tax attorney who wanted to be the vice president of the United States.

Abrams claims the concept of handling money seemed to escape her. She wrote that when she was at Spelman College, she got her first credit cards but was unaware that they would be “yoked to something called a credit score.” She also learned that if you don’t pay your rent, you get evicted, the way she was in 1994 from the Oaktree Apartments in Decatur, GA just like she and her sister, Andrea, did.

In a continuing effort to blame others for her failings, Abrams claimed some of her financial problems stemmed from when she helped her parents in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi. She is one of six children, including a sister, Leslie Abrams Gardner, who was appointed to a federal judgeship by Barack Obama. How did her parents’ debt become only hers to carry and how was it still around twelve years later in 2017, especially when she was able to loan her campaign $50,000?

Abrams, a tax lawyer, who graduated from Yale in 1999, with $96,000 in student loan debt, still had repaid none of it almost twenty years later when she ran for governor. She even got jammed up by the I.R.S. in 2010 when she declared her parents as dependents on her tax filing.

She justified this in an interview:

“Abrams, 44, has talked publicly about her struggles with mounting credit card debt dating to when she was a student at Spelman College. And she said she "stretched every penny I had" to help her parents after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005.

“She cited those expenses in her decision to work out a payment plan for the $54,000 she owes the IRS. She’s also said a previous federal income tax lien of nearly $30,000 was filed erroneously in 2010 when she was trying to claim her parents as dependents as they faced mounting medical issues.

"While delaying tax payments wasn't my smartest move, it allowed me to take care of the parents who'd sacrificed so much for me and my siblings..."

She neglected to mention that when she was hired out of law school in 1999 by a law firm in Atlanta, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, that paid her $95,000 a year, but Abrams she still wasn’t paying her bills.

On Abrams’ 2018 Financial Disclosure Statement filed for her run for Georgia governor, Section X shows she listed receipts of $909,006.89 in money received from twenty different companies.

Since there was nothing listed in Section X on her 2015 filing, it was curious what the listings were two years later. An email received from the GA Gov’t Transparency & Campaign Commission said: “Section X deals with payments by the state [sic] of Georgia to an entity that is controlled by (or substantially owned by) a candidate.”

Another email explained that the money listed on the X Section of her statement was received from the Department of Community Affairs and given to the Small Business Credit Cooperative Inc. (SBBCI) and the Trade Credit Guaranty Corporation (TCGC). It also said: “There were no payments directly paid to Stacey Abrams at any time.” Word play at its finest.

Both SBBCI and TCGC received money from the state to distribute by a company called NOWaccount Network Corporation to companies seeking loans. Abrams was identified as an officer for the NOWaccount Network.

That organization loans money to approved entities. The twenty companies listed on Abrams’ Financial Disclosure received almost a million dollars in 2016 from NOWaccount.

Stacey Abrams helped incorporate NOWaccount in 2010 and received a salary of $80,000 as senior vice president and $60,000 a year through 2015, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

But she was also an officer in both the SSBCI and TCGC from 2016 to 2018. In other words, she controlled the money NOWaccount received, helped decide who got the money and how much they would get. Of the twenty companies who got money via Abrams, eight companies were dissolved between 2016 and 2018.

A request for a list of companies that did not repay their loans was ignored. The SBBCI was a one-time program that terminated in September 2017.

Few elections have cost more than the one Abrams ran against Brian Kemp. The cost of Abrams’ race for governor exceeded $100 million and was financed by out-of-state money from mega-donors like George Soros and Tom Steyer. As of April 2020, Abrams was still under investigation for ethics violation pertaining to the campaign money she received. Despite losing by 55,000 votes, she still insists that she won, in the mode of Hillary Clinton.

She started paying IRS $1,000 a month toward her $50,000 debt in 2017 but magically all her debt disappeared by May 2019. Did she use her campaign money to pay off all $228,000?

Despite her financial problems, Abrams was able to buy a townhouse in Atlanta in 2004 for $246,300 and a house in Stone Mountain in 2019 for $370,000.

What’s interesting is that in 2019 she was slapped with her seventh tax lien against her non-profit, Third Sector Development, since 2014. Between then and 2016 the Georgia Labor Dept. issued $13,000 in tax liens for unpaid employment contributions. In a Daily Caller story: “Abrams has blamed third-party-clerical errors for all the issues.”

Also from the 02/13/19 story: “Nonprofit work has paid Abrams handsomely over the years. Third Sector Development and Voter Sector Institute -- two groups founded by the Democrat (Abrams) -- have paid her nearly half a million dollars over the course of three years. Both organizations raked in $12.5 million in donation between 2013 and 2016. However, she has remained quiet on the sources of the donations.”

Although Abrams considered herself a contender for Biden’s VP, no one else did. Biden insiders talked to the New York Post about her:

“No one takes Stacey seriously. And her public campaigning for the job seems more like a hostage negotiation than an actual attempt to get the job,” a Biden insider told The Post. “Biden is an old school guy and will always be. Picking Stacey would be like picking [Sarah] Palin. He doesn’t need to throw a Hail Mary. He wants a good governing partner.

“Internally, her star has fallen with the onset of the coronavirus as concerns grow about her preparedness.

“Stacey isn’t ready on day one. Even she knows that and it’s why she’s engaging in this dance. She might get perfunctorily better, but she’s not a serious pick for him. And her campaign is viewed as much as promotion for her book as it is for being chosen as Biden’s VP,” the insider continued, referring to Abrams’ forthcoming book “Our Time Is Now.”

So it seems that Joe Biden could have done worse. Though perhaps not by much.

 

Susan Daniels is a private investigator and the author of The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama: A True Story which is available on Amazon.com.

Politics like we have never seen.  Recommend Susan’s Newsletter to your friends.

 

 

Democrats lost by overly orchestrating anti-Trump efforts

Nancy Pelosi got blamed for top-down “orchestration,” but the Cabal was broader than that 

By Ken Reid 

The primary reasons voters elected Donald Trump over Kamala Harris and chose a Republican Congress were Joe Biden and the Democrats’ miserable handling of the economy, immigration and foreign policy – and their embrace of far-left “woke” polices, like sex-change operations for prisoners and other “transgender rights.”

However, the Democrat “strategy” of hitting Trump with multiple indictments, tagging him and his supporters as “existential threats to democracy,” and scaring women over abortion rights after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision may also have backfired, because these efforts were really designed to deflect attention from the harmful impacts of Biden’s bad policies and actions.

Topping it off, when he was pushed off the ticket for Vice President Kamala Harris in July, many voters may have smelled a rat. In essence, all of this was masterminded by a few political chieftains, notably former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and probably the Obamas, Clintons and their “strategists.”

Indeed, on MSNBC November 9, former Harris spokesperson and one-time Bernie Sanders operative Symone Sanders-Townsend (no relation to the senator), mouthed off against Pelosi, saying she    “orchestrated the very public demise of the president. And thank God for Joe Biden, that he came out and, yes, endorsed his VP. Pelosi is known for being “calculated,” she went on to say, but “where is her calculator now?”

The key words here are “orchestration” and “calculating.” One could say “None dare call it conspiracy,” or resurrect then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s 1998 phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” that “has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.” 

Ms. Clinton was denounced for calling it a “conspiracy.” In reality, a group of conservative activists and publications did continue an “opposition research” campaign against President Bill Clinton from the day he was elected in 1992, to persuade Congress and courts to investigate him, impeach him and undermine his presidency.

It didn’t really work. Like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton was impeached, but he resurrected himself, while Hillary went on to become a US Senator from New York and Secretary of State – and came close to defeating Trump for president in 2016.

The vast-left wing orchestration against Trump, however, was much more intricate, extensive and orchestrated than what conservatives used to tarnish Clinton. For example:

• Advancing the phony “Russiagate” scandal, at the highest levels of government
• Supporting and glorifying the “mostly peaceful” “Resistance” against the Trump presidency
• Instigating the 2019 House impeachment
• Demanding school and business lockdowns during the Covid pandemic, to hurt the economy and President Trump
• Supporting and capitalizing on the George Floyd riots
• Perpetuating “January 6” investigations, hearings, indictments and media coverage
• Promoting fear and hysteria following the Dobbs decision and various state limitations on abortion
• Pushing challengers out of the 2020 primaries to anoint Joe Biden (South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn’s “masterstroke”)
• Preventing a competitive 2024 primary against Biden
• Holding a Biden-Trump debate after primaries had ended, to see how President Biden would perform – and then forcing him off the ticket because he bombed
• Coronating Kamala Harris after Biden was ousted

Many are convinced that all these schemes were orchestrated by the Cabal of Pelosi, Schumer, the Obamas, the Clintons, and their strategists. Perhaps they wanted Biden to be the 2020 nominee, instead of independent-minded people like Senators Amy Klobuchar or Elizabeth Warren, or outsiders like Pete Buttigieg or Michael Bloomberg, because they knew they could manipulate Biden more easily.

However, Joe Biden was never a leader in the US Senate; he was a follower. He does little thinking for himself, but makes decisions based on the advice of bureaucrats, political aides and special interests. He largely approved all the big-spending legislation and regulatory initiatives the Democrats and his Obama-holdover aides wanted when they regained control of Congress after 2020. And he opened the nation’s borders to salve the bleeding hearts of his policy wonks.

“Joe Biden is nothing more than a Trojan horse for the radical socialists,” former Vice President Mike Pence warned in 2020. In the end, that radicalism doomed the Democrats in 2024.

In anointing Biden “The Nominee” during the 2020 primaries, octogenarians Clyburn and Pelosi looked over Biden’s eroding cognitive abilities. When he inevitably became a liability to the Democratic cause, they orchestrated his departure from the ticket for the younger Harris. They also engaged in incessant “lawfare,” Trump indictments and January-6 investigations.

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested the Democrats should have focused “on one or two” charges against Trump, not four, and the indictments “will backfire on the Left.”  But The Cabal apparently wanted to extend the Trump-tarnishing so that there would be no trial before the GOP nominating process, thereby giving Republicans little opportunity to nominate someone else.

Prolonging the 1/6 congressional investigation into the 2022 elections was an effort to tarnish not just Trump, but his supporters. Biden’s unforgivable September 2022 speech in Philadelphia, when he attacked “MAGA Republicans” for being disloyal to America, was part and parcel of this effort

The media covered up the Cabal’s intrigues. Anyone who watches CNN or MSNBC has seen how Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Pelosi, Clyburn and other leading Democrats are treated with kid gloves. The media hated Trump for calling them “fake news” and colluded with the Democrats nearly every step of the way.

It’s unlikely that Symone Sanders-Townsend will come clean on all of this, though our nation would benefit greatly from the disinfecting sunshine she could provide. Regardless, it seems highly unlikely that the Democrats can change their stripes, because their base and big donors have gone Loony-Left.

The Cabal probably thought throwing all those indictments and civil penalties at Trump would make him crack and cop a plea with the prosecutors. But Trump had the money and backbone to slug it out. He also had excellent lawyers, who mucked up the lawfare wheels. Essentially, he ran the clock out on the Democrats.

There’s a lesson here about being “overzealous” in politics. Jerome Lawrence coauthored the 1955 play (and 1960 film) “Inherit the Wind,” which examined extremism in “the Scopes monkey trial,” as a metaphor for the McCarthy investigations. Lawrence wrote: “Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save – so that nothing is left but emptiness?”

With Trump wining a near landslide despite the criminal cases – and taking the Congress – it seems all the Democrat orchestrations left them nothing but emptiness.

Ken Reid has been a journalist covering Congress and the federal health agencies since 1986. He served in local elected office in Loudoun County, VA (2006 to 2017), has been involved in Trump campaigns in Virginia since 2016, and has written for the Federalist and American Thinker.

The Conclusion

By Rich Kozlovich 

To say I will be glad when this election is over is an understatement, as even a newsie like me can only stand so much.  And while I've said the story is coming to a conclusion, I don't really believe that.   What I believe is that if Trump is elected the left is going to unleash their BLM, Antifa, and other dogs of war, who they been funding for years now, with rioting in every major city in America.  All of which they've turned into crime ridden filthy sewers.  All predicated on "equity", a given formula for disaster at every level.  

American Thinker is my favorite go to news site, and here are some of the articles that support all I've said.  The picture is from Dan Mitchell's article, Politician Humor, which I'm not posting.  However, if you go to the site and scroll down you'll come to a piece about a politician given a choice between going to heaven or hell.  Click that and watch.  It's worth the time, and fits in with the picture well.  

Understand this.  The left has no boundaries, they will resort to anything that will get them the power they so cravenly desire, and nothing is too vile for them to embrace in that pursuit. 

Democrats are committing the final sin: weaponizing people - A major battle is brewing in a coming collision of two unstoppable forces. One side is Marxist leftist progressivism and our administrative deep state (both movements roughly 100 years old in America). The second side is Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. This battle will be triggered the day after the November 5th election and may happen no matter which candidate wins for reasons I’ll describe below.

Unfortunately, to the Democrat’s final and shameful adoption of evil, they have managed to weaponize their followers into human ammunition. While BLM and Antifa rioted during the George Floyd era, that was merely a practice run. This time is different. The leftists and administrative state understand that Trump is a true existential threat to their continued power and likely to their organizational existence, of which he plans to start a brick-by-brick dismantling. The distinction I’m making using the term “weaponize” is one of political violence versus regular political actions.................

An enduring echo of our moral compass: The Judeo-Christian legacy in modern American governance -  In the architecture of American public life, the pillars of Judeo-Christian values are not merely decorative; they are the very foundation that gives it strength, character, and resilience. These values, originating from ancient texts yet still resonant today, have sculpted our national character, our laws, and our aspirations. They are the silent architects of our societal norms, influencing our public policy with a subtlety and depth that continues to inspire, challenge, and sometimes provoke..............

The Real Purpose of Fake Liberals -The following is not intended to criticize anyone truly liberal or who keeps an open mind. It is aimed at those who pretend to be liberal but are in fact allies of the Left, which makes them Marxists. Quotation marks on the word “liberal” separate the meaning of the word from its contrary practice.  “Liberal” reporters used to be fond of pointing out that the death of John F. Kennedy marked the end of this nation’s “age of innocence.”  ..............In reality, fake liberals are stalwart illiberals who don’t actually care what democracy is, as long as it can be used to advance a Marxist agenda. If the process is in fact undemocratic, what of it? If the Constitution needs to be ignored or trashed, what’s the problem? “Progress” must not be restricted.  Progress toward what?.......I’ll be blunt: The woke among us have exposed themselves to a class of elites whose sense of justice is like that of wolves..........

 

It’s All About Control: The Elite Plan for the Great Food Reset-  Besides ‘degrowth’ and ‘net zero,’ one other dangerous buzz phrase being bandied about by proponents of the Great Reset is “nature-positive food systems.”  The stated goal of moving to new food systems is to reduce nitrogen emissions, livestock production, and meat consumption.  This is to be achieved by consuming plant-based products, lab-grown foods, and insects (as a source of protein).  The moot question, however, is whether such a change is at all necessary?

The U.N., the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other NGOs would have us believe so.  These institutions are controlled by the global elite, who aim to create monopolistic markets for themselves and enslave people, turning them first into captive consumers without choice, and eventually, without free will.  So, the U.N. and its co-conspirators have manufactured a food crisis, and by linking it to their other fabrication — an exaggerated climate crisis — they are using it to reset the world’s food system................

 Is It Bad Enough Yet?-  Podcaster and radio host Dan Bongino frequently asks his listeners, “Is it bad enough yet?” In other words, has the level of socio-economic and political punishment being dished out to you reached a point where you’ve had enough? What else do Kamala Harris and her party have to do to convince you that they hold you in utter contempt? This question is especially pertinent when addressed to Christians and Jews. In her memoir, Harris wrote of praying before difficult decisions, “Before bed, I would say a small prayer: ‘God, please help me do the right thing.’” Given her actions on subsequent occasions one wonders if she was being truthful in her memoir or, if I may be so bold perhaps God has been ignoring her...........(Kamala was raised as a Marxist)_ ...........In 2016 California AG Harris prosecuted whistleblower David Daleiden, who exposed Planned Parenthood's (PP) role in selling organs and body tissues from aborted children. She ordered California DOJ agents to raid Daleiden’s home and seize files and equipment he used to make his undercover videos. Charges against Daleiden include recording the PP executives without their permission...................

 The Case of the Disappearing Ballots - Mail-in ballots are on the docket in several ongoing election fraud cases in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. The lawsuits ask for transparency with regard to contracts with the United States Postal Service (USPS) to transport alleged completed mail-in ballots. The lawsuits hope to get to the bottom of questions about the legitimacy of the ballots, where the ballots are going, and what is being done with them. These cases may settle questions around whether fraudulent ballots are being used in our elections to stuff the ballot box, among other things.

In October 2020, thousands of mail-in ballots were allegedly transported across state lines from Bethpage N.Y. to PA. Evidence shows that ballots were loaded on to a truck driven by USPS subcontractor Jesse Morgan. Morgan delivered them to Lancaster, PA and the ballots allegedly disappeared. Morgan has publicly spoken about what he witnessed and has also provided a signed affidavit about the incident............

My conclusion?  Many years ago my mother who was an ardent FDR Democrat once said how upset she was over those who thought Nixon would have been a great President after he was defeated via voter fraud by Kennedy, and said she wished he was elected so they could see how rotten he is, but the rest of us would also have to suffer.  Well, my mom was right, Nixon was a disaster, but this is far worse.  

 

We're in for a difficult time if Trump is elected, but that will be fixed.  As for Harris being elected, I've often channeled my mom's thoughts regarding Nixon when I read the idiotic these nitwit RINO's, media dunderheads, and stupid celebrities say promoting Kamala Harris. 

"America is at a crossroads, that much is clear.  One path wants this nation to be great again.  The other has a globalist vision in which individuals are insignificant beyond their membership in a minority group.  That Kamala Harris has any supporters is a sad commentary on the current state of our citizenry’s moral authority. Hers reeks of the communist ideology she has long embraced."  

If Harris is elected it will be far worse then anything Nixon did, as it will be the end of America as we know it.

Tyranny National Convention, AKA, the Democrat National Convention

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

 

On the Democrat Side:

Kamala Harris received ZERO votes in the primary. Communist Minnesota Governor Tim Walz received ZERO votes in the primary. It doesn’t bother many Democrats that Joe Biden, who received 14+ MILLION primary votes, was tossed out in a coup. Yet, Harris has the audacity to call her quest a “people-powered campaign.” 

That there are so many Americans who would accept the coup should be a high-level warning to all Patriots. In an ABC News interview, while still an official presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said: 

“I think it was a coronation, it’s not democracy. Nobody voted. Who chose Kamala? It wasn’t voters. She went in four week from being the worst liability for Democratic Party to the second coming of Christ without giving one interview, without showing up for a debate, without a single policy that anyone thinks isn’t ridiculous. It’s not democracy.”

 The same people who forced Biden to leave the race, applauded when he spoke at midnight (east coast) on the DNC’s first night. Talk about chutzpah, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held up a “We Love Joe” sign. Pelosi and other Democrat leadership politically knifed Biden in the back and then gave him a speaking slot to shout his own political eulogy when half the country had gone to sleep.

On the Independent and Republican Side:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced on August 23 in Arizona that he was suspending his presidential campaign and endorsing Donald Trump for president. RFK would keep his name on ballots in NON-swing states. However, in all swing states where having his name on the ballot could hurt Donald Trump, he would be removing his name. Then a few hours later, RFK appeared at the Trump Arizona rally.

RFK’s timing of this announcement was even very important. Usually there’s a bounce following a convention, but RFK’s announcement followed by his appearance at the Trump rally depleted the communist Harris and Walz momentum.

Also, RFK’s endorsement should lead the way for other endorsements. Some that might be equally unexpected.

On the Independent Side:

The Michigan Bureau of Elections disqualified Cornel West along with his running mate from appearing on the general election ballot due to a notary technical violation of state law. In Arizona, a group of prominent Republican lawyers is trying to help West stay on the general election ballot.

 During Michelle Obama’s lie-filled speech at the DNC convention, the former First Lady insulted our intelligence by saying: 

“We don’t cheat others to get ahead. We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”

Green Party candidate Jill Stein posted on X/Twitter: 

“Stop the gaslighting. Right now Democrats are trying to sue us off multiple state ballots, hiring spies and infiltrators to sabotage us, and even withholding public funds we qualified for months ago. Democrats ABSOLUTELY cheat and change the rules to maintain their grip on power.”

Oh, but Democrats are going to save democracy.

Cardinal Cupich, Archdiocese of Chicago:

The Democrat National Committee convention had a Planned Parenthood van parked curbside for free on-the-spot abortions and vasectomies! During the Marxist convention, whenever a speaker mentioned abortion, the crowd went wild with standing ovations. 

How could Cardinal Cupich, the Archdiocese of Chicago, bless the DNC convention? 

Republican activist Jack M. Guerrero, who has run for public office, posted on his Facebook page:

“Absolutely disgraceful! Repugnant. Shame on Cardinal Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago for blessing the opening night of the Democratic Party Convention, on the same evening the Party celebrated its culture of death, replete with standing ovations for abortion.  Cupich never once invoked our Lord and savior Jesus Christ during his prayer, and even hid his pectoral cross. As a fellow Catholic, I will pray for his soul and redemption.” 

To share your thoughts with Cardinal Cupich: Email: rfedek@archchicago.org (admin secretary Fr. Robert Fedek) Phone: 312-534-8204 Write: PO Box 1979, Chicago, IL 60690

This Verdict is a Disgrace, and They Will Rue the Day

By Rich Kozlovich

We already know Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts in this fraudulent election interference trial.   And exactly what crime did he commit for which the jury found him guilty.  No one really knows!

 Johnathan Turley, hardly a conservative, noted:

"I obviously disagree with this verdict as do many others"..... "eventually" either at the state or federal level"...."However, this was the worst expectation for a trial in Manhattan. I am saddened by the result more for the New York legal system than the former president. I had hoped that the jurors might redeem the integrity of a system that has been used for political purposes.".............

"I think, as I said before, that this case was legally unfounded. When they were reading those guilty verdicts, the one thing that we didn't know is really what he was found guilty of. Because if you remember, the judge allowed the jury to find guilt on any one of the three secondary crimes," ......'That meant the jury didn't have to determine exactly what crime was committed."'................"We weren't told whether the jury found any one of those crimes, whether they found all three of those crimes. I'm not too sure we will know that. That's one of the many issues that I think presents reversible problems in this case,"

A trial where the 'underlying crimes' were never stated until the prosecutors closing comments to the jury, in violation of federal law.   In this article  “They Will Rue the Day”: Megyn Kelly Says Country “Disgraced” With Trump Guilty Verdict saying:

 “It wasn’t until closing arguments yesterday when the prosecution got up second, because under New York law, unlike in most places, the defense has to go first and the prosecution goes second,” Kelly said. “And after the defense attorney had already sat down, that’s when we finally learned what the underlying crime was.”

 “He [prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass] got up there and while he cast a wide net, still saying it could have been a tax violation, it could have been falsification of other records like double falsifications, but really they’re hanging their hats on the violation of FECA [Federal Election Campaign Act],” she added. “That’s what the prosecution drove home. That’s the principal basis for this entire case. He [Bragg] didn’t want us to know because that’s a federal statute.”

 “He [prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass] got up there and while he cast a wide net, still saying it could have been a tax violation, it could have been falsification of other records like double falsifications, but really they’re hanging their hats on the violation of FECA [Federal Election Campaign Act],” she added. “That’s what the prosecution drove home. That’s the principal basis for this entire case. He [Bragg] didn’t want us to know because that’s a federal statute.”

Make no mistake, this will come back to haunt them, as this will have long term consequences, and is being termed a ‘Dark Day for America’:

” Republican officials are expressing outrage after a New York jury found former U.S. President Donald Trump guilty in his business records trial, accusing the Biden administration of using “lawfare seen in third world countries” while warning that if political opponents can target a former president, “they can do it to anyone.”

Judge Pirro called the court a “kangaroo court” saying: 

The verdict was the product of something from a third-world country..........“But now we’ve got one of the most famous individuals in the world, the former president of the United States, who can be taken down by a George Soros-funded prosecutor on a crime that doesn’t exist, where not one person put his finger anywhere near that bookkeeping, and now they are going to return a verdict and say, ‘Oh, he is guilty, he is definitely guilty.’ This is a jury pool made out of 85%-90% of the people are anti-Trump, pro-anybody, anti-Trump — the jury pool,”...........

This corrupt trial, corrupt prosecutor, corrupt judge, and a jury with a corrupt verdict have now created an open season on candidates.  Picture the following:

“The rural DA will impanel a grand jury in the 80% red county. The grand jury will indict Joe or Hunter or both Bidens on conspiracy to commit bribery charges. Like the New York case (against Trump), it will be mostly smoke and mirrors surrounding very unsavory activity.” “I do think it has opened the door, now, to at least entertaining that possibility,” said former Deputy Attorney General Tom Dupree. “You look at … crusading DAs of a conservative bent wanting to make a name for themselves."

Have no doubt, many in the GOP believe in playing hard ball, and they will have to retaliate, but in order to do that, they must win, and this verdict just gave the House, the Senate, and the White House to the GOP.   The GOP’s online donation platform overwhelmed, and Trump's supporters are fired up!

• J.D. Vance: Trump Guilty Verdict ‘Isn’t Justice, It’s Election Interference
• Top Senate Republicans, Including Some Potential VP Picks, Weigh In on Trump's 'Guilty' Verdict
• Jordan: Verdict Is ‘Travesty of Justice’
• DeSantis: Trump Verdict Represents ‘Political Agenda of Kangaroo Court
• Cruz: Juan Merchan ‘Has Diminished the Credibility of Every Judge in America’

It also seems clear this has created a backlash in the public's mind, and this will guarantee a Trump Victory in November, even  Actor Michael Rapaport Predicts Trump will win after this travesty.  Of course he's not among the usual Hollywood and media talking heads.  The kangaroos are dancing, nitwits like Maddow wants to thank the jury, because now the left can claim Trump is a convicted felon, the Biden campaign cheers for convicting opponent, Hollywood cries with tears of joy, and all the Anti-Trump Activists Celebrate. Why?  Because this corrupt trial turning America into a Banana Republic?

“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.” Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons.

And just like the Nazi's convicted at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, "who were just obeying orders",  Alvin Bragg was just doing his job.   

• Those who accused Trump of being a dictator and trying to undermine our country's laws now have weaponized our judicial system to take out an opponent they weren't confident could be beat in the polls. The Democrats have started a dangerous war, and the losers are the people of this country. Election interference must not be tolerated. Trump will not give up so easily. We are witnessing another historic moment in our nation's history. The next months could change everything. ............... 
• Trump Attorney Hints at Possibility of Suing Alvin Bragg for “Malicious Prosecution”

But,"it ain't over till it's over", and the real verdict will be made by America on November fifth, and then the fire works will really start. 

• Is Merchan The Most Corrupt Judge in American History? 
  
• My Gazette: Deep State Corruption at the FBI and the DOJ
• It's Past Time to Disarm the FBI, ATF, and the Rest of the Deep State 
• Violence, Lies, and Deceit: The Patterns of Leftist Corruption Repeats Forever
• Manhattan Lawfare Cartoon Roundup

"We Pledge Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor".

By Rich Kozlovich 

On May 27, 2024 Pete McArdle posted an article that needs to be read by everyone entitled,  They Did It to Trump, and They Can Do It to You, saying:

Let’s face it: most of us inhabit a dream world, a place where fairness, dignity, honor, and love for your fellow man reign.  Most of all, we wish for a safe world. We need to feel at least marginally safe to stay sane. But imagine suddenly realizing that there are dark forces aligned against you and lurking everywhere, ready and willing to take you down for the tiniest offense, real or imagined, against the state.  In other words, imagine you’re Donald Trump.

Let’s say you’ve been successful in life.  You’re wealthy, famous, beloved by members of both political parties, and blessed with a beautiful wife and five children.  You decide to run for high office. And that’s when the nightmare begins.

He goes on the show how powerful people slandered and lied about Trump, and criticized every word Trump uttered.  They made claims of sexual deviancy, treason, and corruption, and the media ran with it 24/7. 

What did the Republicans do?  They played the role of the Three Mystic Monkeys.  They heard nothing, saw nothing, and said nothing in their lack of defense of Trump, or in any attack against Hillary, "a frumpy, shrill harridan whose main claim to fame is simply staying married to her philandering, Epstein-bro husband, and whose laugh could shatter glass, knowingly concocts and funds the fiction of your traitorous Russian connections."

He goes on to show what can only be qualified as a RICO conspiracy, with the FBI and the FISA courts allowing these deep state traitors to spy on Trump in every aspect of his life without following the traditional rules of law.  Two impeachments based on lies and the second one blatantly illegal since he was no longer in office, but merely to attempt to further dishonor and smear him in the eyes of the American public.   The author goes on to say:

And as your own supine party continues letting you twist in the wind, the state and their lapdog media continue to hound you...............Half-wits, sluts, and porn stars looking for attention, and no doubt funded by your enemies, come up with half-remembered tales of debauchery at your hands to belittle you.  They are applauded.............You promise to build a wall on our southern border, and then every level of government, including speakers of the House ostensibly belonging to your own party, steps in to prevent you.

In spite of what can only be defined as a very successful term the left never quits and never sleeps, and in their quest to destroy Trump they're destroying the rule of law in America, and those responsible for the enforcement of the nations laws, with includes the judiciary, have become thoroughly corrupted, and simply ignore those who have or are commuting crimes, while working to destroy those who are innocent of crimes simply because they support Trump. 

The question that should be asked, and needs answering is this:  Why does he bother?  He has all the money he can spend, and he's built a huge commercial empire to leave to his heirs, so what's left?    Trump and I are the same age, so we're both running out of time, but make no mistake, at this point in my life I wouldn't want to be in this kind of a mess, but at some point one has to believe we've left something behind that was meaningful, and it's clear Trump's desire is to save the nation from a party with policies that will destroy America. 

Immensely destructive policies involving immigration, energy production, taxes, spending, regulations, and abandoning American sovereignty to international organizations alone are enough to destroy the American character, the American culture, the American economy, and destroy the Constitution. 

 The signers of the Declaration of Independence stated: 

……with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

I don't think anyone doubts (sorry, any sane person) Donald Trump believes the nation under the control of Democrats will die a vile death, and he’s putting his life, his fortune, and his honor on the line in order to prevent that from happening.  Otherwise, what do he and his family have to gain for suffering all that abuse?