tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074533470050631432024-03-28T23:29:37.860-04:00Coatesville DemsJames Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-59361655241169291742024-03-25T21:10:00.000-04:002024-03-25T21:10:19.775-04:00This milquetoast WAP version of the sorry saga of the once proud Republican Party comes close to reality. THE REALITY THAT CRIMINAL DEFENDANT TRUMP’S POLITICAL PARTY WILL LOSE IN THE COMING DEMOCRATIC PARTY TSUNAMI LANDSLIDE ELECTION.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The subtitle is closer to reality:</span></span></p>
<p style="color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The surreal string of turnabouts capped another chaotic day of Trump’s 2024 run, with almost no resemblance to the conventional activities of campaigning”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">“</span>NEW YORK — Within the span of an hour, one court <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/25/trump-bond-reduced-new-york-fraud-case/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2"><span style="color: #3356c7;">rescued</span></a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Donald Trump</span></a> from potential financial ruin, while another <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/25/trump-hush-money-trial-date/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2"><span style="color: #3356c7;">set a trial </span></a>to start in the height of the campaign season.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The presumptive Republican nominee rolled with the rapid twists<b> </b>Monday with his usual defiance and bluster — in split seconds attacking one set of judges and praising another, ignoring reporters then suddenly pivoting to address them, brushing off heckles and welcoming cheers from onlookers along the streets.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The surreal string of turnabouts capped another chaotic day of Trump’s 2024 campaign,<b> </b>with almost no resemblance to the conventional activities of campaigning. Trump last held a rally on March 16 as his campaign <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/15/rnc-backtrack-cuts/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5"><span style="color: #3356c7;">juggled an overhaul</span></a><b> </b>of<b> </b>the Republican National Committee and has not announced where or when the next one will happen. He spent the weekend golfing in South Florida, then dropped into New York for a contentious court hearing and broad-sweeping news conference that most major networks carried live.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The unusual schedule highlighted Trump’s gambit to maximize the publicity surrounding his four separate criminal proceedings, using them to cast himself as a victim of a political persecution of a kind with his supporters who rioted at the formal certification of his last electoral defeat. That strategy helped Trump consolidate support in the Republican primary, but its effectiveness is less clear in the general-election rematch with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8"><span style="color: #3356c7;">President Biden</span></a> now underway. And as much as Trump’s team is choosing to take this approach, they are also coping with the uncharted realities of overlapping, evolving court calendars, serious criminal charges,<b> </b>and a daunting cash crunch.”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">The Washington Post </p>
<p style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/25/trump-new-york-court-campaign-trials/"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trump reels from competing court decisions as trials disrupt campaign</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The surreal string of turnabouts capped another chaotic day of Trump’s 2024 run, with almost no resemblance to the conventional activities of campaigning</span></p>
<p style="color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/isaac-arnsdorf/?itid=ai_top_arnsdorfi"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isaac Arnsdorf<span style="color: #3356c7; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">March 25, 2024 at 6:19 p.m. EDT</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);">“</span>A day after a NY criminal judge ruled that Stormy Daniels is a key witness that can testify for the prosecution against Trump, she previewed her EXPLOSIVE trial testimony that she took Trump’s hush money ONLY because she feared that if she refused, TRUMP WOULD MAKE HER DISAPPEAR. Michael Popok explains how Stormy’s testimony fits in with Michael Cohen’s and how a CRIMINAL CONVICTION is likely:”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="351" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rLAojBkkZ4M" width="423" youtube-src-id="rLAojBkkZ4M"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“After a hearing today, Judge Juan Merchan scheduled the New York election interference (hush money) trial to begin on April 30th. Merchan did not hold back in his dismissove responses to Trump attorney Todd Blanche's claims.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cL_PaQ-CZbI" width="424" youtube-src-id="cL_PaQ-CZbI"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-21657915076856540422024-03-25T00:23:00.002-04:002024-03-25T00:23:28.711-04:00“Death toll in concert hall attack rises to 137” Security in Russia is focused on protecting Putin. Russian military exists to protect Putin. The Russian people don’t matter. Think about that when Trump says he will be dictator like his mentor Putin.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/moscow-russia-shooting-03-24-24#h_f3c7b3879c6fbad86c2dc98bba978e9c"><span style="font-size: large;">Death toll in concert hall attack rises to 137 — including 3 children, Russian Investigative Committee says</span></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From CNN's Darya Tarasova </p><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“When Vladimir Putin finally spoke about the worst terrorist attack to hit Russia in 20 years, he swept over the glaring failure of his security state to prevent the assault, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/23/russia-concert-shooting-attack-isis/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2"><span style="color: #3356c7;">which left at least 133 dead</span></a>,<b> </b>despite a clear warning from the United States on March 7 that a strike on a concert hall could be imminent…</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But the gruesome videos of the attackers with automatic weapons coldly murdering innocent concertgoers and setting ablaze one of the Russian capital’s most popular entertainment venues smashed through<b> </b>Putin’s efforts to present Russia as strong, united and resilient…</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Despite Putin’s rhetoric seeking to implicate Ukraine, analysts, former U.S. security officials and members of the Russian elite said the assault underscored the vulnerabilities of Putin’s wartime regime, which were also evident when <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/24/yevgeny-prighozin-russia/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Yevgeniy Prigozhin</span></a> led his <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/24/wagner-group-future-prigozhin-death/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Wagner mercenaries</span></a> in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/24/russia-wagner-prigozhin-insurrection-explained/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10"><span style="color: #3356c7;">brief mutiny</span></a> aiming to oust top defense officials in June.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The regime shows its weakness in such critical situations, just as it did during the mutiny by Prigozhin,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. Though Prigozhin abandoned the uprising, the damage was clear. Then, as during this weekend’s events, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/25/putin-prigozhin-rebellion-kremlin-disarray/?itid=lk_inline_manual_13"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Putin did not appear for hours</span></a> before finally addressing the emergency. “In difficult moments, Putin always disappears,” Kolesnikov said.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just three days before the Crocus City assault, Putin dismissed the U.S. warning about a potential imminent terrorist attack as “open blackmail” and as “an attempt to frighten and destabilize our society.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But with his authoritarian grip on power and virtually no one willing to challenge him, the Russian leader is unlikely to face any criticism or consequences for failing to take the warning more seriously…</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Russian academic with close ties to senior Moscow diplomats offered a similar assessment of Russia’s failure to prevent Friday night’s attack. “It’s clear that we will search for Ukrainian fingerprints and possibly those of Western security services,” the academic said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because Putin’s regime often retaliates against critics. “But probably any investigation will find failures by our security services.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Russia’s security services have poured enormous resources into monitoring the movements of opponents of the Putin regime, using facial recognition technology to track and question those who participated in the recent <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/17/russia-presidential-election-putin-protest/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30"><span style="color: #3356c7;">protest against Putin’s election</span></a> or who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/02/alexei-navalny-russia-democracy/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30"><span style="color: #3356c7;">laid flowers</span></a> in honor of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/16/alexei-navalny-dead-russian-opposition/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Alexei Navalny</span></a>, the opposition leader who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/16/alexei-navalny-dies-russia-putin/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30"><span style="color: #3356c7;">died in prison</span></a> last month.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But providing adequate security for citizens against threats emanating from known terrorist groups appears to have slipped down the list of priorities, analysts said, despite the country consistently facing terrorist attacks over the years, including two claimed or attributed to the Islamic State in 2019…</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Everywhere there is the feeling we are living in a police state which is closely watching every citizen,” Kolesnikov said. “People now are often stopped and checked at the entrance to the metro system. At airports, security has become much tougher. … There really is a question how this could happen at all.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Others said Russian security failures were not an exception, but the norm.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Unless it’s a really high-profile public event like the Olympics or where Putin is involved … Russia’s guard on serious security is always down,” said one former senior U.S. intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “You really need to have an elaborate system focused on these kind of threats, and they have been focused elsewhere…”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The former U.S. officials said the potential terrorist threat emanating from Central Asia had become a blind spot of the Putin regime while it focused on pursuing <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/17/russia-putin-opposition-deaths/?itid=lk_inline_manual_45"><span style="color: #3356c7;">political enemies</span></a> in Russia and on threats resulting from <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-russia/?itid=lk_inline_manual_45"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Putin’s invasion of Ukraine</span></a>, including <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/13/ukraine-russia-war-drone-strikes-oil-facilities/?itid=lk_inline_manual_45"><span style="color: #3356c7;">drone strikes</span></a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/15/belgorod-presidential-election-putin-russia/?itid=lk_inline_manual_45"><span style="color: #3356c7;">cross-border attacks</span></a>.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“They have not prioritized the threat from ISIS that includes many Central Asians,” said Douglas London, a former senior CIA officer who has specialized in counterterrorism and Central Asia and serves as an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. “Thousands of Central Asians joined the Islamic State, and many returned from Syria and Iraq after the loss of the caliphate. A lot of them rose to very senior positions and had come from either the army, the police or the intelligence services of a number of Central Asian states.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Central Asian element of ISIS had always targeted Russia,” London added. “I don’t think there is shock and surprise in Russian intelligence that<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> there was an issue. It just simply wasn’t sufficiently high on their agenda.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20.4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20.4px;">The Washington Post</p><p style="font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 19.9px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/24/vladimir-putin-terror-attack-russia/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Terrorist attack in Russia exposes vulnerabilities of Putin’s regime</span></b></a></span></p><p style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/catherine-belton/?itid=ai_top_beltonc">Catherine Belton</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/by-robyn-dixon/?itid=ai_top_dixonr">Robyn Dixon</a></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">March 24, 2024 at 7:18 a.m. EDT</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20.4px;"><br /></p></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-34469094961969762852024-03-22T12:01:00.001-04:002024-03-24T23:15:29.455-04:00TRUMP DOORMAN, DINO SAJUDIN WILL TESTIFY in Stormy Daniels/hush money business record fraud criminal jury trial. That TRUE OR NOT TRUMP paid to kill SAJUDIN’S TRUMP LOVE BABY STORY.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyznEYQHn73xgZ-eAFCCmBAHje59cefhfkofw-pNJbm4nt1lCETwOJcEgWaPm4X4465J3VPlQ-nZhe9TNZf_B1FkWkw_hXpfPtfh4NTUFRpjqfMbLbNKbmj69HTj8-oHhhqkG0Hxqd0p8Wd8B383wLa7ixNKbzdM2HrH3RkhZ6dCm8GPHLjEIOVnHGdBM/s1164/Image%203-22-24%20at%2011.56%E2%80%AFAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="804" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyznEYQHn73xgZ-eAFCCmBAHje59cefhfkofw-pNJbm4nt1lCETwOJcEgWaPm4X4465J3VPlQ-nZhe9TNZf_B1FkWkw_hXpfPtfh4NTUFRpjqfMbLbNKbmj69HTj8-oHhhqkG0Hxqd0p8Wd8B383wLa7ixNKbzdM2HrH3RkhZ6dCm8GPHLjEIOVnHGdBM/s320/Image%203-22-24%20at%2011.56%E2%80%AFAM.jpeg" width="221" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Did Trump have an out of wedlock child he wanted to hide from the voters in 2016? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"By new court order, the NY criminal jury in the Stormy Daniels/hush money business record fraud is going to hear evidence that whether the story was true or not, Trump paid off a doorman in one of his buildings Dino Sajudin $30k to “kill” the story about the baby.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Michael Popok explains why Dino, a former playboy playmate AND Stormy Daniels (along with Michael cohen) will all be testifying at the criminal trial against Trump. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The real question is who’s going to testify FOR Trump and his defense?"</span></p><p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="412" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EfgbihPSB14" width="496" youtube-src-id="EfgbihPSB14"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-22571097905781913322024-03-20T01:53:00.000-04:002024-03-20T01:53:37.660-04:00“Trump has just told our foreign enemies in court filings that he is FINANCIALLY VULNERABLE and compromised and that our NATIONAL SECURITY and foreign policy is For Sale.” Looks like PAUL MANAFORT WILL BROKER the RUSSIAN part.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“He's told the world that he has a potential security risk. That he is a president for sale.”</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We have a white house for sale. We have a president for sale. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A presidential </span><span style="font-size: medium;">candidate for sale who has told the world that he is in such dire financial shape that the entire financial Services community in America and globally has turned their </span><span style="font-size: large;">back on him.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You know what that sounds like to our enemies? You know what that sounds like to foreign agents around the world? That's a target. That is somebody that we can turn. That is somebody that needs money and will do anything in desperation including sacrificing on the altar of his desperation American foreign policy and American Security."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="379" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XiHiNieqIf4" width="456" youtube-src-id="XiHiNieqIf4"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Manafort worked for Trump in 2016 before being ousted and later <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/manafort-jury-suggests-it-cannot-come-to-a-consensus-on-a-single-count/2018/08/21/a2478ac0-a559-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5"><span style="color: #3356c7;">convicted of tax and bank fraud felonies</span></a> as part of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into RUSSIAN interference in the 2016 elections. He served time in prison before receiving a pardon in the final days of Trump’s time in office…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The hiring of Manafort would be likely to revive discussion of RUSSIAN’S involvement in the 2016 elections, which Mueller concluded was “sweeping and systemic.” Mueller also found that Manafort shared internal Trump campaign polling data with a longtime associate who the FBI assessed had ties to RUSSIAN intelligence.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A bipartisan Senate committee that investigated RUSSIAN interference in the 2016 elections concluded that Manafort’s receptivity to RUSSIAN outreach <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_10"><span style="color: #3356c7;">was a “grave counterintelligence threat”</span></a> that had made the 2016 campaign susceptible to ‘malign RUSSIAN influence.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Manafort was found guilty of hiding millions he made lobbying on behalf of pro-RUSSIAN Ukrainian politicians in overseas bank accounts, then falsifying his finances to get loans when his patrons lost power. He was originally sentenced to about four years in prison but was released early to home confinement due to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16"><span style="color: #3356c7;">coronavirus</span></a> before he was pardoned by Trump.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During the 2016 campaign, Manafort also allegedly<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-manaforts-2016-meeting-with-a-russian-employee-at-new-york-cigar-club-goes-to-the-heart-of-muellers-probe/2019/02/12/655f84dc-2d67-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_18"><span style="color: #3356c7;"> shared Trump campaign polling data </span></a>with Konstantin Kilimnik, a RUSSIAN who the U.S. government said had ties to RUSSIAN intelligence. The special counsel accused Manafort of lying to the FBI about his interactions with Kilimnik, even after Manafort had said he would cooperate and provide truthful information.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manafort also allegedly worked with Kilimnik to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-ukraine-russia/2020/08/19/342b2b6c-e230-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_21"><span style="color: #3356c7;">spread RUSSIAN disinformation </span></a>that it was actually Ukraine that interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a <a href="https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf"><span style="color: #3356c7;">report issued in 2020</span></a>, the Senate bipartisan committee that investigated RUSSIAN interference found that “Manafort’s presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for RUSSIAN intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before joining Trump’s orbit, he owned multiple properties in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., drove luxurious cars and spent millions on fancy clothes and rugs. But Mueller found that he had “no meaningful income” when he agreed to work for Trump for no salary in 2016 and instead intended to find ways to monetize his newly prominent role in the presidential campaign, including with former clients in Ukraine.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Manafort has since written a book called “Political Prisoner” and defended Trump, attacking the Justice Department and other Trump critics.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Washington Post</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/18/trump-manafort-2024-campaign/"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump may enlist Paul Manafort, who was criticized for RUSSIAN ties</span></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">The former campaign manager was pardoned by Trump for bank and tax fraud convictions and accusations he hid millions he made consulting for pro-RUSSIAN Ukrainian politicians</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/josh-dawsey/?itid=ai_top_dawseyj2">Josh Dawsey<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Updated March 18, 2024 at 12:24 p.m. EDT<span style="color: #cacaca;">|</span>Published March 18, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EDT</p><div><br /></div>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-54203489772761781932024-03-19T17:22:00.004-04:002024-03-19T17:22:54.540-04:0063 TOTAL JOURNALISTS KILLED IN 20 YEAR VIETNAM WAR - 90 JOURNALISTS & MEDIA KILLED IN 5 MONTHS OF ISRAEL’S WAR ON PALESTINIANS<p style="text-align: center;">IT'S OBVIOUS THE ISRAELI ARMY IS TARGETING JOURNALISTS</p><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The press freedom organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders"><span style="color: #274ec0;">Reporters Without Borders</span></a> tallied </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">63 JOURNALISTS WHO DIED OVER A 20 YEAR PERIOD ENDING IN 1975 WHILE COVERING THE VIETNAM WAR with the caveat that media workers were not typically counted at the time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;">FROM:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_and_missing_in_the_Vietnam_War"><span style="font-size: large;">List of journalists killed and missing in the Vietnam War</span></a></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“NINETY JOURNALISTS AND OTHER MEDIA WORKERS IN GAZA HAVE BEEN KILLED IN JUST OVER FIVE MONTHS, according to the <a href="https://cpj.org/2024/03/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/#:~:text=As%20of%20March%2012%2C%202024,and%201%2C200%20deaths%20in%20Israel."><span style="color: #3356c7;">Committee to Protect Journalists</span></a> — the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/israel-gaza-war-journalists-killed-cpj/?itid=lk_inline_manual_13"><span style="color: #3356c7;">deadliest period</span></a> for the profession since the group began collecting data in 1992.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM:</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/19/gaza-journalists-killed-israel-al-jazeera-footage/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists</span></b></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/louisa-loveluck/?itid=ai_top_loveluckl0-v">Louisa Loveluck</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/imogen-piper/?itid=ai_top_piperi">Imogen Piper</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sarah-cahlan/?itid=ai_top_cahlans">Sarah Cahlan</a>, Hajar Harb and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/hazem-balousha-/?itid=ai_top_baloushah">Hazem Balousha</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">March 19, 2024 at 10:27 a.m. EDT</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The Committee to Protect Journalists has accused the Israeli military of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza amid the highest death toll of media workers in any recent conflict."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;"><span style="font-size: large;">FROM:</span></p><p style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Guardian</span></p><p style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/israel-idf-accused-targeting-journalists-gaza"><span style="font-size: large;">Israeli military accused of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza</span></a></span></p><p style="color: #b80004; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chris McGreal</span></span></p><p style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thu 21 Dec 2023 13.47 EST</span></p><div class="metadata singleline" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-top: -0.75em; max-width: 100%;"></div></div><div><br /></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-64247355807170286832024-03-19T11:23:00.001-04:002024-03-19T11:24:51.319-04:00CANNON an INCOMPETENT TRUMP SYCOPHANT who got stuck with the trial of THE ONLY U.S. PRESIDENT TO STEAL TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS WITH NUCLEAR CODES & INFORMATION DAMAGING TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE SOURCES. THEN HIDE THEM IN HIS RESIDENCE, FOR POSSIBLE ESPIONAGE USE.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Judge Cannon is neck deep in encouraging espionage. She needs to extricate herself.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Trump’s Florida case is the first of its kind: a former president <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/09/trump-charges-classified-documents/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14&itid=lk_inline_manual_28"><span style="color: #3356c7;">charged with dozens of counts</span></a> of violating national security laws by allegedly stashing classified documents at his home after he left the White House, and then obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></p><p style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/18/trump-judge-cannon-jury-instructions-pra/"><span style="font-size: large;">Cannon tells lawyers to weigh if Trump conduct can’t be reviewed by courts</span></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In classified documents case, legal arguments over jury instructions seem to take precedence over numerous other pretrial issues</span></p><p style="color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/devlin-barrett/?itid=ai_top_barrettd"><span style="font-size: medium;">Devlin Barrett</span></a></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">March 18, 2024 at 9:07 p.m. EDT</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="409" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/owyugA5ebBw" width="492" youtube-src-id="owyugA5ebBw"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“CORRUPT Judge Cannon SETS A TRAP in New Order</span></span><p></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Judge Aileen Cannon appears to be setting a trap for Special Counsel Jack Smith by asking him to “accept as correct” unlawful hypotheticals and submit proposed jury instructions in the Trump criminal case based on a completely erroneous framework.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="color: #535353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-6084484114956157842024-03-19T08:13:00.000-04:002024-03-19T08:13:01.424-04:00“Supreme Court Makes MAJOR ERROR in Ruling.” POSSIBLY REVERSING MARBURY VS MADISON AND NULLIFYING THE SUPREME COURT AS A BRANCH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">"<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">On a special Legal AF interview hot take, podcast co founder Michael Popok interviews former federal judge</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">J. Michael Luttig and they debate whether the Supreme Court just turned the constitution and the role of federal courts and the Supreme Court on its head and gave Congress alone the power to keep insurrectionists off the ballot, neutering the Supreme’s own power.”</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></a></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Marbury v. Madison</span></b></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Marbury v. Madison</i></b>, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803), was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_court_decisions_in_the_United_States">landmark decision</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a> that established the principle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review_in_the_United_States">judicial review</a>, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes they find to violate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States">Constitution of the United States</a>. Decided in 1803, <i>Marbury</i> is regarded as the single most important decision in American constitutional law.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>[1][2]</sup></span> It established that the U.S. Constitution is actual law, not just a statement of political principles and ideals. It also helped define the boundary between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers_under_the_United_States_Constitution">constitutionally separate</a> executive and judicial branches of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States">federal government</a>.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Michael Popok,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“John Marshal must be spinning in his grave. It would be the equivalent of John Marshal and Marbury versus Madison instead of saying that the United States Supreme Court is going to be the final arbiter of whether something is constitutional or not. Instead saying we need to go back to Congress for Congress to tell the court how to interpret the Constitution.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The one thing that we know, not withstanding the Supreme Court’s decision a couple of days ago, is that only the Supreme Court of the United States of America can determine who is disqualifiable under the 14th Amendment. This opinion put that in the hands of the Congress of the United States. So as you were saying in that specific a way that has Chief Justice John Marshal rolling over in his grave.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="394" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZHqeimq5XI" width="474" youtube-src-id="aZHqeimq5XI"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-44073201822619576502024-03-18T17:16:00.001-04:002024-03-18T17:16:41.624-04:00Trump has made the leap from stochastic terrorism to criminally violent extremist terrorist. <p><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump's death threat to Cassidy Hutchinson. And “Bloodbath” if he is not elected. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">"Former Prosecutor and Legal AF host Karen Friedman Agnifilo reports on Trump’s escalating rhetoric over the weekend, as well as his new attacks on witnesses"</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; 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color: #0f0f0f; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Former prosecutor <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/@GlennKirschner2" spellcheck="false" style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; cursor: pointer; display: inline; margin-right: -0.1em; overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); overflow: hidden; padding-right: 0.1em; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: pre; word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">Glenn Kirschner</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); white-space: pre;">:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="style-scope ytd-channel-name" id="container" style="background: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; display: var(--ytd-channel-name-container-display,inline-block); font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></div></span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(19, 19, 19); color: #131313; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Donald Trump is on pretrial release in four felony cases. Donald Trump used inflammatory rhetoric to inspire and incite an attack on the US Capitol on January 6 to try to retain power. Now, Trump has ratcheted up his violent rhetoric, promising a "bloodbath" if he is not reelected.
In the criminal justice system, the law provides that if someone on pretrial release poses a danger to even a single person in the community, they should be revoked on release and detained pending trial.
Will prosecutors, the courts and the institutions of government receive Trump's latest violent rhetoric - signaling to his supporters that he expects them to respond with violence if he loses - with a shrug? Or will they protect the American people by applying the law as it is intended to be applied and detain him pending trial?</span></span><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">”</span></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="346" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5qtD5lOxsxs" width="416" youtube-src-id="5qtD5lOxsxs"></iframe></div><br /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;"><div class="apple-rich-link" data-url="https://youtu.be/5qtD5lOxsxs?si=F9GuhkwARjNAfyjS" draggable="true" role="link" style="-webkit-user-drag: element; -webkit-user-select: all; display: inline-block;"></div></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); caret-color: rgb(19, 19, 19); white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); caret-color: rgb(19, 19, 19); color: #131313; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-65046876436089545862024-03-17T17:08:00.000-04:002024-03-17T17:08:37.383-04:00RUDY GIULIANI is UNAVAILABLE for Republican National Committee CZAR OF ELECTION INTEGRITY so TRUMP APPOINTED CHRISTINA BOBB. If you’re a Republican running for office FOGGETABOUT SUPPORT FROM THE RNC!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="347" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/byTdJSWU8vs" width="418" youtube-src-id="byTdJSWU8vs"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">In a Fox guarding hen house moment, Trump has appointed his disgraced attorney Christina Bobb of all people to be the Republican National Committee Czar of election integrity. Michael Popok explains just who Ms Bobb is and how she lied to the FBI at Mar a Lago about the classified documents Trump stole; and promoted election lies about the Arizona vote for Biden in 2020, as just some of her qualifications for the job."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><p style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>TRUMP’S ELECTION IS HIS STAY OUT OF JAIL CARD.</b></span></p><p style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>RNC FUNDS WILL GO TO PAY TRUMP’S LEGAL FEES.</b></span></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jkutOLNx1Pw" width="320" youtube-src-id="jkutOLNx1Pw"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In case you’re not pay attention, DONALD J TRUMP HAS TOTAL AND COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. </span></p><p> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"A Donald Trump-inspired purge in favor of his loyalists at the Republican National Committee has begun. “It's like they've turned the RNC into the new family business:"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="361" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z4ZN7XNyYvc" width="435" youtube-src-id="Z4ZN7XNyYvc"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Donald Trump’s new leadership team at the Republican National Committee started the process of ousting scores of staffers on Monday night, clearing out its ranks as they prepare to bring the committee under the wing of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Trump 2024</span></a> presidential campaign, sources familiar with the matter said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The RNC is expected to cull about 60 people across the political, data and communications departments. At least five members of the senior staff will be let go and some third-party contracts may also be cancelled. One source familiar with the situation described it as an “absolute bloodbath”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In ousting large swathes of the RNC, the new chair, Michael Whatley, and the new co-chair, Lara Trump – the former president’s daughter-in-law – moved to reorganize the Republican party’s central committee to fall squarely behind the Trump campaign just days after they were formally elected."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #a30003; font-family: "Bodoni 72"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #a30003; font-family: "Bodoni 72"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Guardian</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 24px;"><b></b><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/new-rnc-leadership-trump-loyals-purge-staff"><b><span style="font-size: large;">‘Absolute bloodbath’ at RNC as new leadership loyal to Trump purges staff</span></b></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump move to reorganize the RNC, with an expected cull of 60 staff</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hugo-lowell"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hugo Lowell</span></a></span></p><p style="color: #5d5d5d; 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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><b>If there’s a next time for Trump there will be no men of conscience in his administration holding back an authoritarian Trump. </b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The New York federal judge who presided over writer E. Jean Carroll's two defamation trials against Trump used<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-damages-trial-begins-e-jean-carroll-defamation-case-former-presi-rcna133677"><span style="color: #3356c7;"> anonymous juries</span></a>, noting the former president's often inflammatory rhetoric about the justice system and the threats from his supporters that sometimes follow.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"For purposes of this order, it matters not whether Mr. Trump incited violence in either a legal or a factual sense. The point is whether jurors will perceive themselves to be at risk," U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the defamation trials, wrote in a ruling last year. He also cited "the strong likelihood of unwanted media attention to the jurors, influence attempts, and/or harassment or worse by supporters of Mr. Trump [and/or by Mr. Trump himself].”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">NBC NEWS</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-restricts-access-jurors-identities-trump-hush-money-trial-rcna142348"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Judge restricts access to jurors’ identities in Trump hush money trial</span></b></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;">Judge Juan Merchan said in a protective order that their names and addresses will be available only to Trump and lawyers involved in the case.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By Adam Reiss, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/author/tom-winter-ncpn3106">Tom Winter</a>, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/author/lisa-rubin-ncpn1134441">Lisa Rubin</a> and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/author/dareh-gregorian-ncpn925686">Dareh Gregorian</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">March 7, 2024, 6:36 PM EST</p></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: Helvetica;">In addition to minority communities and those on the political left, far-right and white supremacist extremism threatens violence against Republicans as well.</span></span></div><div>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Analysis of rising domestic far-right terrorism typically focuses on the threat it poses to minority communities, the political left, and liberal democracy. Not much attention has been given to the danger it poses to the broader American right and institutions typically cherished by conservatives. In this three-part series, CFR research fellow Jacob Ware assesses the violent far-right and white supremacist</i> <i>terrorist threat to these entities, including the Republican Party, the United States military, and American law enforcement."</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cfr.org/blog/violent-far-right-terrorist-threat-republican-party-and-american-conservatism" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b>The Violent Far-Right Terrorist Threat to the Republican Party and American Conservatism</b></a> </span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-280347284883251302024-03-09T00:38:00.005-05:002024-03-09T00:46:55.215-05:00Republicans want to defund police. Heard that before. Ah yes, former Coatesville PA Police Chief Matthews. His & Richard Legree's alleged intention was making drug business good again. An unintended consequence was arson fires raging all over our city.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;">For their next trick, House Republicans have decided to </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/07/defund-police-heres-what-that-really-means/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: #3356c7;">defund the police</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;">. Democrats should call them on it, and anyone who cares about law enforcement should be outraged.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/republicans.appropriations.house.gov/files/First%20FY24%20Package%20-%20Consolidated%20Appropriations%20Act%2C%202024.pdf"><span style="color: #3356c7;">spending package</span></a> pushed through the House on Wednesday by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) cuts the FBI’s operating budget by 6 percent, siphoning much-needed resources away from the nation’s premier police agency. And the measure cuts funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) — which, among other roles, is instrumental in battling gun violence and terrorism — by 7 percent.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So much for all of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-gop-the-law-and-order-party-not-so-much/2018/12/10/b646336e-fcc0-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5"><span style="color: #3356c7;">the GOP’s “back the blue” hot air.</span></a> Republicans are determined to reduce the federal government’s ability to fight crime and make our communities safer."</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/07/house-republicans-spending-cuts-police/"><span style="font-size: large;">Opinion House Republicans want to defund the police</span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/eugene-robinson/?itid=ai_top_robinsoneh"><span style="font-size: medium;">Eugene Robinson<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">March 7, 2024 at 5:59 p.m. EST</span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxx5W9dMLLpMRTsW2UWF4uQN1AwihyQC8C7nD-GYiV19b5l8sh6z-p2wVFj2P7weZft1w-9nZToPf1SXjXKbqGFq-oBG3YmlrVKamPQnw7EG45R1UBwNwJ32UcjrW86E4kbnPopshjpokCMR3ZCkJyUoBfM6HwDgC3s5Kp0NDQxl0kE4yI64WJny4npM4/s5712/IMG_0239.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxx5W9dMLLpMRTsW2UWF4uQN1AwihyQC8C7nD-GYiV19b5l8sh6z-p2wVFj2P7weZft1w-9nZToPf1SXjXKbqGFq-oBG3YmlrVKamPQnw7EG45R1UBwNwJ32UcjrW86E4kbnPopshjpokCMR3ZCkJyUoBfM6HwDgC3s5Kp0NDQxl0kE4yI64WJny4npM4/w159-h213/IMG_0239.jpeg" width="159" /></a></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1e74ad; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Like most Coatesville residents I slept downstairs with a fire extinguisher nearby. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While the fires raged in Coatesville 4 Coatesville residents including myself went to Bob Casey’s office in Philadelphia pleading with his Philadelphia office manager to bring Senator Casey to Coatesville. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was like pulling teeth. He didn’t think Coatesville burning was important. Maybe he hadn’t read the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/29coatesville.html"><span style="color: #1e74ad;">New York Times</span></a> articles about the Coatesville Arsons. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">SEE:</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>But Bob Casey came through for us in Coatesville. Below</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">***</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Below is a portion of the resignation letter of former Coatesville Assistant City Manager Tarron Richardson. He refers to the Walker Administration:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">“Continued association with the cesspool of corruption and misconduct created by the majority of council and its political appointments may subsequently jeopardize my future professional, personal, and political endeavors. Such inappropriate behavior has caused a mass exodus of city personnel, many who carried with them substantial institutional knowledge of the organization."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I believe Coatesville City Council thought the FBI would discover evidence linking Harry Walker to at least some embezzlement and bribery at city hall. But Harry Walker worked partly from home. The FBI failed to get a warrant for Walker’s apartment. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">After </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">whistleblower</span><span style="line-height: 19.5px;"> former Director of Finance Stacy Bjorhus was fired she allegedly left boxes of files at city hall that had allegedly had incriminating evidence concerning several workers at city hall but not </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">necessarily</span><span style="line-height: 19.5px;"> evidence that linked Walker directly with a crime. The boxes of files were allegedly destroyed. Incidentally Ms. Bjorhus never signed a non-disclosure document.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;">I believe that embezzlement and bribery were rampant during Harry Gordon Walker IIIs stay in Coatesville. But I believe the City of Coatesville should not bring up any charges of alleged bribery and embezzlement at the City of Coatesville finance office in defending itself in </span><a href="http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2014/02/harry-gordon-walker-iii-is-suing-city.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;">Harry Gordon Walker III's lawsuit</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;">. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I think is a non-starter anyway because it might incriminate others still employed at Coatesville City Hall.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe Walker bribed and embezzled money as Coatesville City Manager and maybe he didn't but that's not why everyone but Chester County's drug dealers wanted to get rid of him.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: cambria;"><span style="font-size: medium;">======================================</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Richard Legree had a dream of being the Chief of Police of the City of Coatesville. Everyone that knew him well knew his dream.</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I believe Harry Walker helped Richard Legree realize his dream, in part. I believe that under Harry Gordon Walker III’s leadership of the city, Richard Legree could have virtual control of Coatesville's police department.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I believe the result was the "drug business was good again" in Coatesville.</span></span></b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Monday, February 17, 2014</span></b></p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2014/02/under-former-city-manager-harry-walkers.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Under former city manager Harry Walker’s watch COATESVILLE BURNED.</span></a></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">***</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>But Bob Casey came through for us in Coatesville.</b> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Earlier Bill Washington & me spoke to Governor Rendell at a campaign event filling him in on the corruption of Coatesville City Manager Walker. Mayor Rendell’s assistant sent me his fax number to the machine IN HIS OFFICE. At the time I was working with then USA in the Eastern District PA Courthouse Tom Hogan. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As Coatesville burned Governor Rendell woke Harry Walker from his hangover on Sunday morning telling him “You will declare a state of emergency and I will send the Pennsylvania Fire Marshal to Coatesville, he already knew Walker’s background. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><h2 class="date-header" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h2></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-15347736190326399602024-03-03T17:49:00.000-05:002024-03-03T17:49:01.199-05:00Michael Cohen to Elon Musk: Donald Trump, “Is going to bring you to Mar-a-Largo. He's going to put you in the ballroom. And he's going to hang you by your neck like Mohamed bin Salmon did to his relatives until you sign over your fortune.<blockquote><p><br /> <b style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">I TRANSCRIBED A PORTION OF THE VIDEO BEGINNING AT 40:00. ENDING AT 1:08:41</b></p><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></div></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica;">“Mea Culpa welcomes another mighty Meidas Touch team member, Michael Popok, host of Legal AF. He is the Executive Managing Partner of the New York City Office of the firm Zumpano Patricios & Popok. His national litigation, white collar and trial practice is based in New York and South Florida. Michael has over 30 years of experience as an accomplished trial attorney strategist. Most recently serving as a Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel of a Wall Street global financial services firm, responsible for all of its litigation, trial, arbitration, investigatory, and employment matters. We are here to get his hot take on all of Trump's legal troubles.”</span> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1n86jaLVyKg" width="457" youtube-src-id="1n86jaLVyKg"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><br /></p><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><b><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Michael Cohen's message to Elon Musk:</span></b></p></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">“I’ll tell you why Elon is stupid. And if you’re listing to this, I’m going to tell you why you are really stupid. What do you think that Donald is going to do on day one if in fact he becomes president again? God forbid a million times. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Donald Trump is a copycat. He's going to do to you and to Zuckerberg and to all of the other mega-mega-billionaires like Jeff Bezos. He's going to have Seal Team Six grab you like Mohamed bin Salmon did to members of the Royal Family, his relatives. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He's going to bring you to Mar-a-Largo. He's going to put you in the ballroom. And he's going to hang you by your neck like Mohamed bin Salmon did to his relatives until you sign over your fortune. Because that's all that Donald Trump gives a shit about, is the money. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">(Trump to Musk) Fuck you, you think you're worth over $300 Billion. You stole the money from America.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">And by the way the bulk of his money was obtained by these EV Rebates on every one of his cars. His cars happen to be defective. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">You're the one that he's going to fucking string up. Because you have what he desires. And that's insane wealth. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He will take it from you. Make no bones about it. I know this guy better than anybody. I know what he's thinking. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Not only does he want to become president to avoid all of the litigation and incarnation but he's doing it because he's going to take your money and the Zuckerberg money and the Bezos money and the Walmart family's money. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He's going to take everybody's money. Because nobody needs $300 billion in his mind except for him. And nobody should have it. And he will become hands down the richest man in the world. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Michael Popok:</span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He certainly could use the Department of Justice to use anti-trust laws to go after these major companies and try to break them up. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">When people vote. This might sound obvious but I'll say it anyway. When people vote for an administration and it's policy decisions you get it all.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">So people that are still on the fence... about who to vote for, go look at the think tanks that have been established for Donald Trump and what their plans are. And they're in writing.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">***</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">HERE:</span></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY5_miOVXBYYpwKYGO4QQpVR9DRYrjpxy_nzCS6PZM9eHNku5dMZq2lZST36nQz29xkuDe5lMwKADOR_fSf1oQVY8CA6lJMz5pLjRpSF9TuBYzPrws8ZVYFbc4CiIW_o9RZplGR6x2ijhHP8DT7mblVWJzTwVSq-eJLcjJ1H5vfa7t1gTIeafRkixeZHc/s5100/IMG_0219.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5100" data-original-width="3745" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY5_miOVXBYYpwKYGO4QQpVR9DRYrjpxy_nzCS6PZM9eHNku5dMZq2lZST36nQz29xkuDe5lMwKADOR_fSf1oQVY8CA6lJMz5pLjRpSF9TuBYzPrws8ZVYFbc4CiIW_o9RZplGR6x2ijhHP8DT7mblVWJzTwVSq-eJLcjJ1H5vfa7t1gTIeafRkixeZHc/w89-h121/IMG_0219.jpeg" width="89" /></a></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/project-2025-publishes-comprehensive-policy-guide-mandate-leadership-the-conservative-promise"><span style="font-size: large;">Project 2025 Publishes Comprehensive Policy <br />Guide, ‘Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.’</span></a></span><p></p><div><br /></div></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">About immigration. About deportation. About using and nationalizing and turning the military, that's never supposed to be used on U.S. soil against Americans and against migrants with rights and constitutional rights in trying to set up internment camps for deportations. That's on migrants side.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Then if you don't like that you're going to hate what he does by who he puts in charge of the Securities and Exchange Commission that's been the bane of his existence since Truth Social and before. He'll put a lackey there but he'll use it in ways as you're suggesting Micheal and weaponize it going after the people who are not totally in his camp and or because he's jealous of them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">So you use the Justice Department to file anti-trust lawsuits, to break, 'You know what I think that Tesla's got too much of the EV market for cars. I think we need to break that up and promote competition.' CRUSH. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><b>Michael Cohen</b>,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">"You're being nice to him Mike because you're doing it in a way that is potentially legal, despite the fact that you're using the DOJ to strong arm people. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">I say differently. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">I say when he tells you he wants to re-right the Constitution on day one. When he tells you he wants to... </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He wants to do away with the judiciary. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He wants to do away with the legislative branch.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">And confer all power upon the executive branch, meaning to himself. Making him the monarch, the dictator, the furor, the supreme leader whatever you want to call him. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He just goes ahead and has his SEAL Team Six, because everyone's signing loyalty pledges to him. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He will then incarcerate Supreme Court judges. He will turn around and incarcerate politicians. He will incarcerate members of the media. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">He will then turn around and have them bring these billionaires to him and do exactly what Mohamed ben Salmon did. Hung these motherfuckers up by their necks until they went ahead and they signed over their wealth. And Trump will do the same thing. It worked for Mohamed ben Salmon it will work for me. That's how Donald's thinking. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><b>Michael Popok</b>:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">The scary part to prove your point Michael is the guardrails of democracy and the legal and criminal justice system through the Supreme Court barely held when Donald Trump didn't have the opportunity in advance to rewrite the laws and put all of his lackeys into every position of power this last January 6th. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">If he gets back in and gets people and lawyers that swear fealty to him in every key position and has a chance to put one or two more Supreme Court justices on. And does all the rewrites that you're talking about, then I'm not sure that democracy will hold."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Micheal Cohen:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">"There will be no Supreme Court judges. There will not be. It'll be his judges.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><b>Michael Popok</b>, "Marshal Law, 4 years of Marshal law."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Micheal Cohen, "More than 4 years because he's already said, till 2028 'I'm not leaving. The advertisements for Trump 2032, 36, 40, and then it goes all the way on, forever. It's not me saying it. That's him saying it. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Can I say another thing that proves my point. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Trump hates NATO. And why does he hate NATO? Because Putin hates NATO. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Now Mike you said recently that Trump violated international law and the NATO Charter when he gave Putin permission to attack our allies. How can we hold him for making those kind of threats? Especially because he's not the president. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><b>Michael Popok</b>, "Well there is ways to do it. He can be prosecuted for treason. He can be prosecuted for other violations and we have one president at one time. And it was against the law and the constitution for anyone else to create a shadow government that runs parallel to the real one or tries to conduct foreign policy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">The problem is, back to the top of the show is we have Merritt Garland whoin every opportunity either a day late or a dollar short in terms of starting the prosecutions. Deciding to appoint special counsel, special prosecutor when he didn't have to. And he should have started his own investigation earlier against Trump. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Putting in the wrong people as special prosecutors like David Weiss a former Trumper. He's trying to show off, like I can put a former Trumper in and everything will come out great. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">That's not what we want from the Department of Justice and from Merritt Garland. Who in order to do that some district attorney who gets his approval and gets the nod from Merritt Garland has to prosecute Donald Trump for illegally conducting foreign policy and or committing treason. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">For him to stand up at a rally in order to raise money and say to our allies that if you don't pay up, I'm going to tell Russia to have their way with you and they should attack you. And violate article 5 of the NATO Alliance which the only time that Biden said in a clip right after that. The only time Article 5 which means an attack on one is an attack on all of the NATO Alliance has ever been invoked is America after 9/11. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">And of course Donald Trump has no historical view. He barely understands that there are three branches of government. One of the commentaries has always been that Donald Trump always has been and will be a terrible student and has no interest in being president. They said ‘stop giving him the presidential briefing book because he showed absolutely no interest in it. They stopped giving him briefings because he never paid attention. Because, I don’t know what he was like when you were working for him, but he seems to have the attention span of a fruit fly.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;">I <span style="caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">believe</span> I transcribed the video correctly but any mistakes will be readily apparent when viewing the video. James Pitcherella</span></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO HERE:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Cohen and Popok TEAM UP to Deliver NIGHTMARE Legal News to Trump and GOP | Mea Culpa</b></p><div><b><br /></b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="416" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1n86jaLVyKg" width="500" youtube-src-id="1n86jaLVyKg"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-7897761991795942032024-03-01T22:03:00.002-05:002024-03-01T22:08:45.466-05:00“Conservative counter-revolution has begun?” IT’S THE NAZI COUNTER-REVOLUTION. AND THAT HAS NOT JUST BEGUN. Nazis were once stains on the fabric of the Republican Party. Nazis are now woven into the Republican Party.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "STIX Two Math";">"Christopher Rufo, a critic of DEI initiatives who is a trustee at New College of Florida, which </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/10/new-college-diversity-officer-fired/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11" style="background-color: white; font-family: "STIX Two Math";"><span style="color: #3356c7;">fired its top diversity officer</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "STIX Two Math";"> last year. Rufo </span><a href="https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1763637067840626807?s=20" style="background-color: white; font-family: "STIX Two Math";"><span style="color: #3356c7;">wrote</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "STIX Two Math";"> on social media Friday, “The conservative counter-revolution has begun.”</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "STIX Two Math"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "STIX Two Math"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"There has already been a 'brain drain’ from the public universities in the state, Nunn said. 'This is just going to make that reality worse. It’s going to be harder and harder for the university to fulfill what used to be its mission of providing a proper education for the entire breadth of the citizens of Florida. And it appears that they’re sending the message that they’re not interested in that anymore.”</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "STIX Two Math"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Washington Post</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/03/01/university-of-florida-dei-cuts/"><span style="font-size: large;">University of Florida eliminates DEI staff to comply with state law</span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The state flagship school announced the cuts Friday, but said it is ‘unwavering in our commitment to universal human dignity’</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/susan-svrluga/?itid=ai_top_svrlugas">Susan Svrluga</a></span></p>
<p style="color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">March 1, 2024 at 6:18 p.m. EST</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“About two dozen neo-Nazis marched through downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday in an event the group billed as a celebration to “the great white South,” according to flyers the group’s leader Christopher Alan Pohlhaus posted to the social media app Telegram.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pohlhaus, who uses the moniker “The Hammer” in white power spaces online, heads the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe and led the group in antisemitic and racist chants as they marched through downtown Nashville. Dressed in matching red shirts, black pants and black face coverings to conceal their identities, members of the Blood Tribe and associated neo-Nazi groups brandished black-and-white swastika flags, paraded through crowded streets in the afternoon, and then listened to Pohlhaus and another speaker talk about Tennessee historical figures and migrants using antisemitic dog whistles outside the state Capitol, according to video Pohlhaus posted to Telegram</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">.”</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/02/22/neo-nazis-rally-nashville-great-white-south"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Neo-Nazis Rally in Nashville for the ‘Great White South’</span></b><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.3px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 22, 2024</span></b></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13.2px 40px; text-indent: -40px;">Sir — Jared Taylor missed the mark completely in his article on Elian Gonzalez in the June issue. One would think that since the liberal Washington Establishment was going against one of its usual constituencies (the Cuban community), Mr. Taylor would realize that racial consciousness had little if anything to do with what is happening. By narrowly focusing on what is at most a side issue, he fails to see the big picture. </p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13.2px 40px; text-indent: -40px;">The globalists in Washington don't give a hoot about Elian, and are probably delighted that conservatives like Mr. Taylor focus on the race issue. They are playing this out to further their globalist ambitions. In order to keep moving incrementally towards a global government, they must continue to appease comrade Fidel. To allow Elian Gonzalez to stay here would be a slap in the face to the old bearded one. Their globalist ambitions are so strong they are willing to risk alienating one of their strongest voting blocks. </p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13.2px 40px; text-indent: -40px;">Mr. Taylor also fails to realize the dangers in letting Reno and company get away with the enormous abuse of federal power their early-morning raid represents. Just because it was a Cuban household the feds smashed their way into does not make it any more acceptable to true constitutionalists. </p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Pat Sellers, Coatesville, Pa."</i></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13.2px 40px; text-align: center; text-indent: -40px;">Vol 11, No. 7 July <a href="http://www.amren.com/ar/2000/index.html"><span style="color: #754202; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">2000</span></a></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Date of Birth: 1951</b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1e74ad; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b>Groups: </b><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-renaissance"><span style="color: #1e74ad;"><b>American Renaissance</b></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1e74ad; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b>Ideology: </b> <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/white-nationalist"><span style="color: #1e74ad;">White Nationalist</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>"In his personal bearing and tone, Jared Taylor projects himself as a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist — a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old. He is the founder of the New Century Foundation and edits its American Renaissance magazine, which, despite its pseudo-academic polish, regularly publishes proponents of eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists. Taylor also hosts a conference every other year where racist intellectuals rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists.</i></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i>In His Own Words</i></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>'Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears."</i></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">— <i>American Renaissance</i>, 2005</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #2b97ff; font-family: Verdana; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/jared-taylor"><b>More At Southern Poverty Law Center - Extremist Files - Jared Taylor</b><span style="color: #2b97ff; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">MORE AT:</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Saturday, June 27, 2015</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2015/06/will-chester-county-resident-pat.html">Will Chester County resident Pat Sellers to try another run for the PA 6th Congressional District? Maybe with CCC $?</a></span></p></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-42280098131529797992024-02-27T17:15:00.000-05:002024-02-27T17:15:34.868-05:00“I don’t see the kind of excitement that was there during the first time that Obama ran. What is see is despair. What I see is lack of hope.” Obama created excitement & hope among voter. It didn’t just happen. I was there in Coatesville, PA in 2008.<p> </p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-size: medium;">Activists push back against voter apathy in key battleground Michigan.</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-size: medium;">"I don't see the kind of excitement that was there during the first time that Obama ran."</span></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Chester County Democratic Committee members in Coatesville witnessed the best operated political campaign we ever had. </span></b></p><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; 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-webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="">"Yes We Can" by Stephanie Phillips:</yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="395" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m9wp4VOHOuQ" width="475" youtube-src-id="m9wp4VOHOuQ"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">On Election Day November 2008 I called Coatesville PD to Coatesville’s 1st Ward where an intoxicated man working for State Rep. Tim Hennessey was passing out Republican palm cards. He was assaulting people lined up to vote. </span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">In Pennsylvania only PA State Constables are permitted to make</span></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PA State Constable Kenny Hopton was at Coatesville’s Ward 4.2. I told him what was happening at the other end of town at Coatesville’s 1st Ward at the West End Firehouse. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He called Coatesville Police and told them to follow what I would tell them and handed his phone to me. I told the officer about Hennessey’s employee assaulting voters. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I got to the West End just as an officer pulled up. Keith Gargus a local Democratic volunteer waved him off. <br />
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An Obama staffer talked down Hennessey’s unruly campaign worker. He was cordial to voters the rest of the day. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Chester County Democratic Committee members in Coatesville witnessed the best operated political campaign we ever had. </span></b></p>
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<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); color: #eaeaea; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-shadow: 0.0px -0.0px 2.0px rgba(254, 254, 254, 0.0039);"></span><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Abandoning Obama’s OFA left Trump alone on a superhighway to voters. Fake populist Donald Trump accelerated around the gridlocked RNC & DNC.</b> </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2021/01/obamas-organizing-for-america-ofa-was.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA) was the pinnacle of Democratic campaign operations in 2008. Politico’s article is fodder for grifter campaign manager heads I win, tails you lose, I get paid either way doublespeak</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><br /></p><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div></yt-formatted-string></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-32655749884516100142024-02-22T11:53:00.000-05:002024-02-22T11:53:49.802-05:00Russia’s war on Ukraine is part of a broader war with NATO and the United States. I know 2 submariners. The Cold War was a hot war underwater. There is talk of Russia attacking satellites. Long before satellites undersea cable moved critical information.<p><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">The first Soviet nuclear submarines were designed to promote the mission. They sacrificed crew members to radiation to complete their mission. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Cold War was a deadly game in the depths of the oceans. More than 20 collisions between American and Soviet submarines are only the tip of the iceberg as far as these secret operations are concerned. The underwater interface was perhaps the most merciless frontier between East and West."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4qlb5jVX6cI" width="421" youtube-src-id="4qlb5jVX6cI"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="color: #151515; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><b><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">All major cities in the United States can be burned by Russian submarines off the coasts of the USA with less than 10 minutes notice. U.S. submarines would burn China & Russia. </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p style="color: #151515; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><b><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: medium;">Nuclear war is suicidal. Submarines alone could set the Northern Hemisphere of Earth on fire.</span></b></p><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">SEE:</span></b></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhAxwug66taLQO6u8akd4g7bnfF9V1cyaQFl1_oCK2AVsQuTrm2d6PU9KLYwSbb8onFjByd7ENj8ExpOwocqiOTFIvJK8OF3jrPsboDcuHa4AU3n7FH4eDdW1vlDH2mdhUFwNAcnYqxyQhzkzjxhapdu_S0ENEsXqanHX8ZZeUTue5TINGaL7ylRUkC8/s774/Pasted%20Graphic.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhAxwug66taLQO6u8akd4g7bnfF9V1cyaQFl1_oCK2AVsQuTrm2d6PU9KLYwSbb8onFjByd7ENj8ExpOwocqiOTFIvJK8OF3jrPsboDcuHa4AU3n7FH4eDdW1vlDH2mdhUFwNAcnYqxyQhzkzjxhapdu_S0ENEsXqanHX8ZZeUTue5TINGaL7ylRUkC8/s320/Pasted%20Graphic.png" width="208" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A SATELLITE DESTROYER WEAPON HAS A FATAIL FLAW. THE DEBRIS WOULD DESTROY ANY OTHER SATELLITE. SELECTIVE DESTRUCTION OF </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Experts say this kind of weapon could have the potential to wipe out mega constellations of small satellites, like SpaceX’s Starlink, which has been successfully used by Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This would almost certainly be “a last-ditch weapon” for Russia, the US official and other sources said — because it would do the same damage to whatever Russian satellites were also in the area.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">CNN</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/16/politics/russia-nuclear-space-weapon-intelligence/index.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Exclusive: Russia attempting to develop nuclear space weapon to destroy satellites with massive energy wave, sources familiar with intel say</span></a></b></span></p><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none;">HOWEVER, A WELL TARGETED SIMULTANEOUS </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration: none;">UNDERSEA CABLE ATTACK COULD CRIPPLE AN ENEMY COUNTRIES INTERNET, FINANCIAL AND MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS.</span></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Russian Threat To Undersea Cables & Pipelines Explained</span></b></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@HISuttonCovertShores">H I Sutton</a>:</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="341" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2H_tFKT9EXU" width="410" youtube-src-id="2H_tFKT9EXU"></iframe></span></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">"It is in this context that Moscow's subs have <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/russian-submarines-north-sea-irish-sea-pacific-ocean-ben-wallace-uk-defense-1795357"><span style="color: #3356c7;">been moving along "strange routes,"</span></a> deviating from the trajectories Western defense officials have come to expect, British defense minister Ben Wallace noted during a trip to Washington, D.C. in mid-April. He said the U.K. had been tracking the paths of Russian undersea vessels in the North Atlantic, Irish Sea and North Sea "that they normally wouldn't do."</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">Russian nuclear-powered submarines have also been spotted "off the coast of the United States and into the Mediterranean and elsewhere along European periphery," Michael Petersen, director of the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/russian-submarines-us-east-coast-cold-war-comparisons-1786907"><span style="color: #3356c7;">previously told <i>Newsweek</i></span></a>.</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><b>Asymmetric Warfare and Undersea Cables</b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">But Russian submarines are not just a strategic nuclear deterrent. A new submarine war is emerging, experts say, bringing maritime security concerns into the world of "seabed warfare."</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">The head of the U.K.'s armed forces, Sir Tony Radakin, suggested at the beginning of the year that Moscow could "put at risk and potentially exploit the world's real information system, which is undersea cables that go all around the world". Speaking to<i> The Times</i> of London in January, he said there had been a "phenomenal increase in Russian submarine and underwater activity" and Russia has "grown the capability to put at threat those undersea cables and potentially exploit those undersea cables."</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">But this emerging tactic is one rooted in changes in Russian military thinking in the early part of the 21st century. "There was an understanding that you simply can't compete on terms of scale with the West, and so the Russians developed an idea of integrated warfare," reinvented from Soviet days, U.K. politician and <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russian-military"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Russian military</span></a> strategy expert Bob Seely told <i>Newsweek</i>."</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">Russia looked towards asymmetrical warfare and at nurturing new capabilities where Moscow could undercut Western military dominance, which could mean targeting internet cables and pipelines, Seely added. Areas in the North Sea, including oil extraction operations, appear to be increasingly monitored by Russian submarines, Paul van Hooft, a senior strategic analyst at the Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS), told <i>Newsweek</i>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">Seabed warfare of this type is an area in which Russia has "invested considerable amounts," Childs said, focusing on technology such as special-mission submarines. It is also an area "in which it is dawning on NATO governments that they need to invest more in countering such threats," Childs said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">"This is something definitely that we've been slow to appreciate," Grove agreed. The modern world runs on these underwater cables, which are out of sight but of huge importance, he said. With a growing anxiety around undersea fibre optic connections and energy pipelines after last year's Nord Stream explosion, experts say decision-makers have finally appreciated the threat is a real and present one, and are "giving considerable assets to this."</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">In February, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced the creation of a Critical Undersea Infrastructure Coordination Cell, spurred on by the Nord Stream explosion and the "vulnerability of undersea energy pipelines and communication cables."</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">"In response, NATO allies have significantly increased their military presence around key infrastructure, including with ships and patrol aircraft," the alliance said in a press release.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">In response to a <i>Newsweek </i>request for comment, NATO pointed to remarks made by Stoltenberg earlier in May, when he said that for the alliance, "protecting critical undersea infrastructure is essential to our security and defense because it is key to protecting the security and prosperity of our societies."</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">"This is an enormous amount of infrastructure, meaning that of course, we cannot protect every meter of this infrastructure at every time," Stoltenberg said in a separate event in March 2023. "But what we do is that we have stepped up what we do when it comes to exchanging intelligence, information, more closely monitoring the infrastructure, then we have increased our presence with more military capabilities."</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">"It is clear that this kind of asymmetric Russian underwater activities are taking on an increasingly prominent role in maritime strategic visions," Kabanenko said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">The underwater battle, with its submarines, increasing use of uncrewed underwater technology, and asymmetric warfare, should absolutely be a concern for NATO, experts say. Overall, NATO navies are "collectively significantly stronger than Russia's" but anti-submarine warfare, in all of its forms, is a "challenging business," Childs said."</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">MORE AT:</p><p style="color: #830041; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 22.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Newsweek</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 22.2px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/nato-russia-submarines-nuclear-deterrent-ukraine-arctic-pacific-fleet-kola-peninsula-baltic-1798368"><b><span style="font-size: large;">NATO Has a Russian Submarine Problem</span></b></a></span></p><p style="color: #3356c7; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/authors/ellie-cook"><b>Ellie Cook</b><span style="color: #3356c7;"><b></b></span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px; min-height: 17px;"><b></b><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><b>Published May 13, 2023 at 5:00 AM EDT</b></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><b>Updated May 13, 2023 at 4:09 PM EDTSecurity & Defense Reporter</b></p></div><div><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Russia closing in on Europe’s undersea infrastructure, internet cables fall victim to hybrid warfare</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="357" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qyBnwPKCmE0" width="429" youtube-src-id="qyBnwPKCmE0"></iframe></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Recent statements by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev regarding Russia's potential to destroy undersea internet cables have raised serious concerns among global security experts. As tensions escalate between Russia and Ukraine, the threat of sabotaging critical infrastructure highlights the vulnerability of undersea cables and the catastrophic consequences such an attack could have on global connectivity. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Seabed warfare involves the strategic manipulation and control of underwater infrastructure, which plays a crucial role in areas such as energy supply, communication networks, military operations, and sensor systems. By asserting dominance in the underwater domain, a nation can safeguard its interests and gain a tactical advantage over adversaries.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Energy Infrastructure:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Russia's seabed warfare capabilities extend to energy infrastructure, including oil and gas pipelines and power cables. The Nord Stream project, connecting Russia and Europe, falls within this category. By securing and maintaining such infrastructure, Russia ensures the uninterrupted flow of energy resources and strengthens its energy security. Conversely, attacking or sabotaging these systems can disrupt energy supplies to targeted regions, undermining their stability.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Internet Cables:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Internet cables laid across the ocean floor have become indispensable for global communication networks. Russia recognizes the vulnerability of these cables and has been actively involved in developing capabilities to monitor, defend, or potentially disrupt them if necessary. Targeting internet cables could have severe consequences, impacting global communications, financial systems, and even national security.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Military Communications:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Russian Navy's seabed warfare capabilities extend to military communications infrastructure. This includes covertly laying and maintaining cables that are not publicly disclosed on maps. By securing its own communication networks while potentially targeting those of adversaries, Russia enhances its ability to control and coordinate military operations, gaining a critical advantage in times of conflict.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sensor Networks:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sensor networks play a crucial role in detecting and tracking enemy submarines or surface ships. Russia's seabed warfare capabilities involve deploying and maintaining these sensor networks, enabling them to effectively monitor their territorial waters and potentially compromise the surveillance capabilities of rival nations. By controlling these networks, Russia can limit the effectiveness of adversary submarine operations and gain a tactical edge.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wrecks and Sunken Assets:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition to active infrastructure, Russia's seabed warfare capabilities extend to wrecks of warships and aircraft, which can hold valuable intelligence or pose a threat if recovered and exploited by adversaries. By securing these sunken assets, Russia safeguards its technological advantages and maintains a strategic hold on historical artifacts that may have diplomatic or propaganda value.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p>
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</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Russia's seabed warfare capabilities are not limited to defensive actions alone. They encompass a range of offensive applications, such as deploying underwater infrastructure, monitoring and repairing existing assets, delousing or removing enemy-planted devices, and engaging in acts of sabotage to disrupt adversary infrastructure. This comprehensive approach allows Russia to both protect its interests and potentially inflict significant damage on its adversaries."</span></p><div><br /></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-56066015029159486002024-02-16T09:38:00.000-05:002024-02-16T09:38:24.037-05:00FANI WILLIS OPENS HER WHOOP ASS CAN! Men of wealth listen carefully to women like Fani Willis. While their mothers did their European tour Black women became their mothers. It’s going to be the legal equivalent of the Battle of Agincourt live on YouTube<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;">Trump and his co-defendants want the judge to disqualify Willis’ team from the case – or throw out the charges – because of a possible conflict-of-interest. TRUMP MADE A HUGE MISTAKE!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Judge McAffee has a YouTube channel.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump’s other criminal & civil trials aren’t broadcast live. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>It’s going to be the legal equivalent of the Battle of Agincourt live on YouTube</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“She began by declaring that defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant had lied in court filings when she suggested that Willis had slept with special prosecutor Nathan Wade after their first meeting. She fumed that her privacy had been invaded. She reminded Merchant that, “You think I’m on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020.” And she held up paperwork filed by defense lawyers in a display of disgust. For no small amount of time, it seemed that judge Scott McAfee was a mere bystander in his courtroom…</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> She sat in the hot seat like it was her throne and she was ready to slice off some heads.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Bodoni 72"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b>The Washington Post</b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/15/fani-willis-fulton-county-hearing-trump/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and </span><span style="font-size: medium;">laser-focused</span></b></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perspective by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/robin-givhan/?itid=ai_top_givhanrd">Robin Givhan</a></span></p>
<p style="color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">February 15, 2024 at 9:06 p.m. EST</span></p><div><br /></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-43565431017768887482024-02-13T20:12:00.001-05:002024-02-13T23:41:17.146-05:00Putin's Dog could make Hitler look like a decent man. "Trump's 'Knock on the Door"<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Defendant Trump or as I call him Putin's Dog has in place a gargantuan mass deportation plan for his dictatorship. Trump is planning a police state on the scale of Stalin & Hitler, with facial recognition. </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="335" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NiD-uGNEg6g" width="403" youtube-src-id="NiD-uGNEg6g"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Confrontations over immigration and border security are moving to the center of the struggle between the two parties, both in Washington, D.C., and beyond. And yet the most explosive immigration clash of all may still lie ahead...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump has repeatedly promised that, if reelected, he will pursue “the Largest Domestic Deportation Operation in History,” <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111818563406841830"><span style="color: #3356c7;">as he put it last month on social media</span></a>. Inherently, such an effort would be politically explosive. That’s because any mass-deportation program would naturally focus on the largely minority areas of big Democratic-leaning cities where many undocumented immigrants have settled, such as Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, New York, and Phoenix.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What this means is that the communities that are heavily Hispanic or Black, those marginalized communities are going to be living in absolute fear of a knock on the door, whether or not they are themselves undocumented,” David Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told me. “What he’s describing is a terrifying police state, the pretext of which is immigration.”</span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;">Jason Houser, a former chief of staff at ICE under Biden, told me. Removing 500,000 to 1 million migrants a year could require as many as 100,000–150,000 deputized enforcement officers, Houser believes. Staffing the internment camps and constant flights that Miller is contemplating could require 50,000 more people, Houser said. “If you want to deport a million a year—and I’m a Navy officer—you are talking a mobilization the size of a military deployment,” Houser told me...</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In fact, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-liberal-america-reelection-law-enforcement/676136/"><span style="color: #3356c7;">as I’ve written</span></a>, a mass-deportation program staffed partially with red-state National Guard forces is only one of several ideas that Trump has embraced for introducing federal forces into blue jurisdictions over the objections of their local leaders. He’s also talked about sending federal personnel into blue cities to round up homeless people (and place them in camps as well) or just to fight crime. Invoking the Insurrection Act might be the necessary predicate for those initiatives as well.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These plans could produce scenes in American communities unmatched in our history. Leopold, to take one scenario raised by Miller in his interview, asks what would happen if the Republican governor of Virginia, at Trump’s request, sends National Guard troops into Maryland, but the Democratic governor of that state orders his National Guard to block their entry? Similarly, in a huge deportation sweep through a residential neighborhood in Los Angeles or Chicago, it’s easy to imagine frightened migrant families taking refuge in a church and a Democratic mayor ordering local police to surround the building. Would federal agents and National Guard troops sent by Trump try to push past the local police by force?</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For all the tumult that the many disputes over immigration are now generating, these possibilities could prove far more disruptive, incendiary, and even violent.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What we would expect to see in a second Trump presidency is governance by force,” Deana El-Mallawany, a counsel and the director of impact programs at Protect Democracy, a bipartisan group focused on threats to democracy, told me. “This is his retribution agenda. He is looking at ways to aggrandize and consolidate power within the presidency to do these extreme things, and going after marginalized groups first, like migrants and the homeless, is the way to expand that power, normalize it, and then wield it more broadly against everybody in our democracy.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3356c7;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ronald-brownstein/"><i>Ronald Brownstein</i></a></span><i> is a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior political analyst for CNN</i></span></p></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Bodoni 72"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/trumps-immigration-plan-is-even-more-aggressive-now/677385/"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trump’s ‘Knock on the Door’</span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The former president and his aides are formulating plans to deport millions of migrants.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>By </b><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ronald-brownstein/"><b>Ronald Brownstein</b></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 8, 2024</span></b></p></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">On a personal matter I'm in the middle of cataract surgery and haven't been able to read a book. The book I've read pieces of is this one:</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOp0ArUwW7CMyDNW8pfcKNfU_kCl4TbjfkkgjUac8I1MyCOcJO4O6TUqaCx2rodsmwXRVg_VXjiiPDv5VSzdM7XKu7sTTIcOsNrneR6rVw-Gkb9llbPcGnZm1jEoIICFMVGD20gPOgLGt4vwI3BVEwaoCSvotLQ7UJ6up-0ChspyrrTBwG7ezbvFMv6zI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4603" data-original-width="3152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOp0ArUwW7CMyDNW8pfcKNfU_kCl4TbjfkkgjUac8I1MyCOcJO4O6TUqaCx2rodsmwXRVg_VXjiiPDv5VSzdM7XKu7sTTIcOsNrneR6rVw-Gkb9llbPcGnZm1jEoIICFMVGD20gPOgLGt4vwI3BVEwaoCSvotLQ7UJ6up-0ChspyrrTBwG7ezbvFMv6zI" width="164" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It's an outline on the specifics of the Trump dictatorship. It's available as a used book. </span><p></p><p data-reader-unique-id="108" style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Project 2025</span></b></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><b>Project 2025</b> is a plan to reshape the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch_of_the_U.S._federal_government"><span style="color: #3356c7;">executive branch of the U.S. federal government</span></a> in the event of a Republican victory in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_U.S._presidential_election"><span style="color: #3356c7;">2024 U.S. presidential election</span></a>.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>[2][3]</sup></span> Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C."><span style="color: #3356c7;">Washington, D.C.</span></a>, to replace existing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_civil_service"><span style="color: #3356c7;">federal civil service</span></a> workers it characterizes as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States"><span style="color: #3356c7;">deep state</span></a>", to further the objectives of the next Republican president.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>[4]</sup></span> Although participants in the project cannot promote a specific presidential candidate, many have close ties to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Donald Trump</span></a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_2024_presidential_campaign"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Trump 2024 presidential campaign</span></a>.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>[5]</sup></span> The plan would perform a swift takeover of the entire executive branch under a maximalist version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory"><span style="color: #3356c7;">unitary executive theory</span></a> — a theory proposing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States"><span style="color: #3356c7;">president of the United States</span></a> has absolute power over the executive branch — upon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_inauguration"><span style="color: #3356c7;">inauguration</span></a>.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>[6]</sup></span></p><div data-reader-unique-id="127" style="max-width: 100%;"><div data-reader-unique-id="128" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 21px; max-width: 100%;"><p></p></div><p data-reader-unique-id="108" style="max-width: 100%;">"Notable authors of the project's <i data-reader-unique-id="109" style="max-width: 100%;">Mandate for Leadership</i> include many officials and advisors from the Trump administration, including Jonathan Berry; <a data-reader-unique-id="110" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Ben Carson">Ben Carson</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="111" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cuccinelli" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Ken Cuccinelli">Ken Cuccinelli</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="112" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Dearborn" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Rick Dearborn">Rick Dearborn</a>; Thomas Gilman; Mandy Gunasekara; <a data-reader-unique-id="113" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Hamilton_(lawyer)" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Gene Hamilton (lawyer)">Gene Hamilton</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="114" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Miller" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Christopher C. Miller">Christopher Miller</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="115" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_McNamee" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Bernard McNamee">Bernard McNamee</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="116" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Moore_(writer)" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Stephen Moore (writer)">Stephen Moore</a>; Mora Namdar; <a data-reader-unique-id="117" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Navarro" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Peter Navarro">Peter Navarro</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="118" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Perry_Pendley" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="William Perry Pendley">William Perry Pendley</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="119" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Furchtgott-Roth" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Diana Furchtgott-Roth">Diana Furchtgott-Roth</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="120" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiron_Skinner" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Kiron Skinner">Kiron Skinner</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="121" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Severino" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Roger Severino">Roger Severino</a>; <a data-reader-unique-id="122" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Hans von Spakovsky">Hans von Spakovsky</a>; Brooks Tucker; <a data-reader-unique-id="123" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Russell Vought">Russell Vought</a>; and <a data-reader-unique-id="124" href="safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winfree" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Winfree">Paul Winfree</a>.<sup data-reader-unique-id="125" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1; max-width: 100%;"><span class="converted-anchor" data-reader-unique-id="126" style="max-width: 100%;">[18]</span></sup></p><div><sup data-reader-unique-id="125" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1; max-width: 100%;"><span class="converted-anchor" data-reader-unique-id="126" style="max-width: 100%;"><br /></span></sup></div></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-74408813816670637352024-02-12T12:10:00.000-05:002024-02-12T12:10:24.861-05:00It’s clear to me that AG Merritt Garland does not understand DEMOCRACY IS UNDER THREAT FROM ANTI-DEMOCRACY MAGADONIAN/REPUBLICANS. TRUMP WILL BE DICTATOR OF THE UNITED STATES FROM DAY ONE OF HIS PRESIDENCY.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> "<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">ROGUE GOP Prosecutor Commits MAJOR VIOLATION to help Trump</b></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Attorney General Merrick Garland misapplied the Special Counsel laws and never should have released the Hur Report including the gratuitous attacks on President Biden. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains how Garland should have at least edited out the offending portions of the report but now has to be prepared to testify to the MAGA house along with Hur about the report that should have never been."</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="401" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6BxcaDaaayk" width="482" youtube-src-id="6BxcaDaaayk"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-41091829777713222242024-02-10T16:35:00.001-05:002024-02-11T20:29:50.715-05:00Baby Boomers elected Trump. I was born during World War II. My Uncles fought in WWII. I found the blackout curtains in our attic. I never considered voting for “Nazis are very fine people” Trump.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;">“The anti-Obama tea party movement in 2009 and 2010 claimed to be built around opposition to the president’s budget policies, but it was really a backlash by white boomers and other </span><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-demographic-blowback-that-elected-donald-trump/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: #3356c7;">older white Americans</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;"> against the rise of a more diverse and progressive society. By 2015, Gallup found that 44 percent of boomers identified as conservative, and only 21 percent as liberal.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The racial backlash grew and helped elect Trump president in 2016. The only age group that supported Trump that year were <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/"><span style="color: #3356c7;">voters over 50</span></a>. The oldest boomers turned 70 in 2016, and that year Trump had his biggest win among voters 65 and older. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As president, Trump surrounded himself with other white boomers who had turned hard right: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/13/william-barr-roger-stone-trump/"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Roger Stone </span></a>(born in 1952); Steve Bannon (born in 1953); and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/06/27/qanon-michael-flynn-digital-soldiers/"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Michael Flynn</span></a> (born in 1958), among many others. Despite Trump’s psychopathic and criminal behavior, despite the January 6 insurrection, two impeachments, and four criminal indictments, boomer voters have generally stuck with him.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know that my parents’ generation, those who fought fascism overseas in World War II, would be ashamed that so many members of their children’s cohort are now willing to give in to fascism at home.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So many right-wing boomers today claim they want a return to the America we grew up in. If that’s true, they should remember that our parents and teachers also warned us about what the Nazis wrought in Europe just before we were born.”</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #073a6c; font-family: "Bodoni 72"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>The</b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #073a6c; font-family: "Bodoni 72"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Intercept</b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #073a6c; font-family: "Bodoni 72"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 22.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><b></b><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/05/trump-baby-boomer-generation/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump and His Boomer Base</span></b></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My generation has not aged well.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/staff/jimrisen/"><span style="font-size: medium;">James Risen<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">February 5 2024, 6:00 a.m. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">One Christmas in my </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">grandmom's kitchen my Aunt Martha, Aunt Angie, Uncle Fred and Uncle Lou sat at the table. I said, "Thanks for what you did."</span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;">Uncle Lou said, "What do you mean."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;">"If you didn't fight in the war we'd be speaking German now."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;">My Uncle Fred couldn't handle that. He went upstairs to his room.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">Uncle Lou who fought in the "Battle of the Bulge" said Freddy had it real hard.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">My Uncle Fred landed on Omaha Beach with the first wave as a combat engineer. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">He took off his boots for the first time 3 months later. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi12y4M_Z34F4eHkGBWjOpJb7QMgtIF41_Gei7zSdA9e-N7VbJI8gIdqFYNRrCmTDuVblM-FSjqypunTVVdxSV4ESQgvH_gPjhn98u_R8z3ShvXlO7GNErPkDN2c88adBDPOcOrrhCjrbxtwa2rATErw9YoPfVVJ1B5o97Rm5EuAQhniAc90JTE250Njuk" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi12y4M_Z34F4eHkGBWjOpJb7QMgtIF41_Gei7zSdA9e-N7VbJI8gIdqFYNRrCmTDuVblM-FSjqypunTVVdxSV4ESQgvH_gPjhn98u_R8z3ShvXlO7GNErPkDN2c88adBDPOcOrrhCjrbxtwa2rATErw9YoPfVVJ1B5o97Rm5EuAQhniAc90JTE250Njuk" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uncle Fred is 2nd from right. </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">When my son and me watched "Saving Private Ryan" in a movie theater Jeff said, "Dad nobody's talking." as the lights came on at the end.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; display: var(--ytd-channel-name-text-container-display,block); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-channel-name complex-string" ellipsis-truncate-styling="" ellipsis-truncate="" has-link-only_="" id="text" link-inherit-color="" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: var(--ytd-channel-name-text-line-clamp,inherit); display: var(--ytd-channel-name-text-complex-display); flex-direction: row; line-height: var(--ytd-channel-name-text-line-height); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: pre; word-break: break-word;" title="Ankur Naidu"><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/@ankurnaidu" spellcheck="false" style="color: #0f0f0f; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin-right: -0.1em; overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); overflow: hidden; padding-right: 0.1em; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">Ankur Naidu</a></yt-formatted-string></div></div></ytd-channel-name></div></ytd-video-owner-renderer></div></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(19, 19, 19); color: #131313; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"A Bangalore torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "Bangalore mine", "banger" or simply "Bangalore" as well as a pole charge:"</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(19, 19, 19); color: #131313; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(19, 19, 19); color: #131313; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="324" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xajP6M4TXNs" width="389" youtube-src-id="xajP6M4TXNs"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;">Later my son Jeff & daughter Julia would see Uncle Fred removing dead skin from the mold infection on his foot with <span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">maggots. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);">I knew 2 Higgens Boat drivers. One who brought the first wave into Omaha Beach. As soon as the door came down everyone was killed except him. He turned around to go back for more troops.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;">Most of my male teachers in high school were World War II veterans. One was a pilot on a B-17.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;">There is a series on Apple TV<span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"> right now. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><br /></span></span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: repeat; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-size: medium;">Masters of the Air — Official Trailer | Apple TV+</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="306" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lA-1JCRguZ0" width="368" youtube-src-id="lA-1JCRguZ0"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As a boy I found blackout curtains in our attic. I asked my mom </span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b>what are they. I could see fear on her face. She didn't reply. </b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Lukens Steel Company made Coatesville PA a military target. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">During the 1940s and 1950s, cities such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit"><span style="color: #0000e9;">Detroit</span></a> would practise blackout air raid drills. During this time, the city's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defense"><span style="color: #0000e9;">Civil Defense</span></a> workers would immediately activate the neighborhood <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_siren"><span style="color: #0000e9;">air raid siren</span></a> and families would be required to do the following in order:</p><ol>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Shut off all appliances, such as stoves, ovens, furnaces.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Shut off valves for water and natural gas or propane, as well as disconnect electricity.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Close <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(fabric)"><span style="color: #0000e9;">blackout curtains</span></a> (plain black curtains that would block light from coming in or going out). This step was changed after the atomic age began: where white curtains were used to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-flash_white"><span style="color: #0000e9;">reflect the thermal flash</span></a> of the bomb, black curtains were used in World War II to prevent any airborne enemies from seeing light from windows.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Get to a public shelter, a fallout or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_shelter"><span style="color: #0000e9;">bomb shelter</span></a>, or the household <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basement"><span style="color: #0000e9;">basement</span></a>, and stay there until the local police or block warden dismissed the blackout.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8.9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>[14][15</sup></span></li>
</ol><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">FROM:</p><p style="font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 28.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(wartime)">Blackout (wartime)</a></span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 28.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Gotta add more people I know who fought in World War II:</p><p style="font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There was an Englishman who woke up in the North Atlantic when his Corvette was torpedoed by a U-Boat.</p><p style="font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One Art School teacher Bill Falker was a cook on an <span style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-kerning: none;">LST who carried Marines to the Pacific Beaches. </span></p><p style="font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Another Art School teacher A.I. Watts was a CRAF North Atlantic bomber pilot. He looked exactly like a movie RAF officer. Just flying a 4 engine bomber at low altitude over the North Atlantic was dangerous without people shooting at you.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="371" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eyzxu26-Wqk" width="446" youtube-src-id="eyzxu26-Wqk"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">My boss at Jaslow Dental Lab, Ed Jaslow was a U.S. Navy signalman on Merchant Marine ships making the North Atlantic crossing. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I can’t remember his name but I went to his funeral at St. Cecilia Cemetery. He was a WWII Marine who landed on the Pacific Beaches. There were two Marines one holding the flag and a bugler who played the sweetest taps I ever heard. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="336" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q1fXW-dU1Cc" width="404" youtube-src-id="Q1fXW-dU1Cc"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There’s more I’ve forgotten or didn’t realize they were veterans. </span></p>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-5831111596716720632024-02-11T18:29:00.001-05:002024-02-11T18:32:22.204-05:00The Guardian article is a confusing mashup of the rule of law. JUDGE CANNON IS AN INEXPERIENCED & NEARLY CRIMINALLY INCOMPETENT JUDGE WHO WOULD PUT WITNESSES IN DANGER OF BEING KILLED TO HELP TRUMP. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN! <p>The Guardian</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/trump-mar-a-lago-case-witness-threats-sealed-exhibit" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Athelas;">Trump gets access to sealed documents on witness threats in Mar-a-Lago case</span></a></span></p><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" style="position: relative !important;"><blockquote style="border-left-style: none; font-family: Helvetica; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;" type="cite"><div class="system exported" id="article" role="article" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="page" style="max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 class="subhead" style="color: rgba(27, 27, 27, 0.65); font-weight: normal; hyphens: manual; line-height: 1.27275em; margin-top: -0.35em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Prosecutors allegedly turn over exhibit on threats made against potential witness to Trump’s lawyers after judge ordered them to</span></h2><div class="metadata singleline" style="font-size: 1.2em; hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-top: -0.7em; max-width: 100%;"><a class="byline" data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hugo-lowell" rel="author" style="color: #416ed2; display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;">Hugo Lowell</a></div></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(112, 112, 112); color: #707070; font-family: GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;">Sun 11 Feb 2024 13.19 EST</span> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">FOR A CLEAR VIEW OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENED SEE:</span></p><p style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">“CORRUPT Judge Cannon Accidentally TRAPS HERSELF with Ruling</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas and Talking Feds host Harry Litman discuss Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest moves which have finally placed her in the crosshairs of getting reversed on appeal by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="367" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/12BVmQZZ7AA" width="441" youtube-src-id="12BVmQZZ7AA"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-66142601733559273132024-02-10T12:58:00.000-05:002024-02-10T12:58:20.010-05:00WILL CORPORATE PRESS CHANGE THEIR BOTH SIDES NEUTRAL REPORTING WHEN TRUMP IS CONVICTED? “Trump is creating the conditions for an explosion of political violence — even if he’s not a dictator yet and even if he doesn’t have authority over Seal Team 6.”<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d1013; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: medium;"><b>FROM THE WASHINGTON POST:</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d1013; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 20px;">"It’s also up to everyone else to consider Mr. Biden’s flaws, not in the abstract, but relative to those of his opponent.” Is the WAP AFRAID TRUMP'S BROWNSHIRTS WILL BLOW UP THE WAP BUILDING IF TRUMP IS SAID IN A DEROGATORY MANNER?</span></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/09/biden-hur-report-memory-classified-age/" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 24.2px;"><b>Opinion The special counsel says the president is old. Nothing new about that.</b></a></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-posts-view/?itid=ai_top_editorial-board">Editorial Board</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>FROM CNN:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3356c7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"If more Republicans were willing to speak out against Trump, to forcefully acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, that his phony claims that legal cases against him are politically motivated are lies, then more Republican voters might be persuaded. But few are willing to do so, so Trump’s false, self-serving version of reality has taken hold with an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-think-2020-election-illegitimate/index.html"><span style="color: #273ebb;">astonishingly large segment</span></a> of the country, dominating the Republican Party.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #094fd1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.vox.com/23899688/2024-election-republican-primary-death-threats-trump">Beyond Washington</a></span>, death threats, swatting assaults and the prospect of violence are silencing moderate, reality-based Republicans across the country, persuading local officials to keep quiet or step out of politics altogether in the face of death threats and harassment.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During Trump’s presidency, <a href="https://mailtrack.io/link/ea4b12b4375c879e95e73de84746653b9e442a43?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Fthreats-attacks-members-congress-2022-10-28%2F&userId=3243276&signature=0721c6f37767cb78"><span style="color: #273ebb;">threats of violence</span></a> against members of Congress skyrocketed. And now that the election is approaching and stakes for the former president are rising, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/politics/threats-us-public-officials-democracy-invs/index.html"><span style="color: #273ebb;">threats of violence</span></a> again are surging.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In just the past few days, police have arrested a man who <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4388905-florida-man-threats-eric-swalwell/"><span style="color: #273ebb;">threatened to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and his children</span></a>. Swalwell, a Democrat, has been a fierce Trump critic. Bomb threats have shut down multiple state capitols. Police recently rushed to the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/politics/judge-chutkan-trump-case-swatting/index.html"><span style="color: #273ebb;">home of Judge Tanya Chutkan</span></a>, who presides over the subversion case against Trump, in a swatting attack. And after Trump lambasted <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4382309-maine-secretary-of-state-says-shes-received-threats-trump-ballot/"><span style="color: #273ebb;">Maine’s secretary of state</span></a> and Colorado’s Supreme Court for declaring him unqualified to be on their ballot, his backers launched a barrage of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/25/politics/colorado-supreme-court-threats-fbi-trump-ruling/index.html#:~:text=Listen-,FBI%20says%20it's%20investigating%20after%20reports%20of%20violent,Colorado%20judges%20in%20Trump%20case&text=The%20FBI%20is%20working%20with,the%20state's%202024%20presidential%20ballot."><span style="color: #273ebb;">death threats against them</span></a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As he leaves the door open to political violence, Trump recently sent an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/us/politics/jan-6-trump-biden.html"><span style="color: #273ebb;">email to supporters</span></a> falsely accusing Biden of a most egregious crime. Biden, he said, ordered special counsel Jack Smith to, “try, convict, and sentence Donald Trump to jail before the November 2024 election.” That’s the product of Trump’s dangerous, self-serving imagination.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump is creating the conditions for an explosion of political violence — even if he’s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/politics/trump-2024-fox-town-hall/index.html"><span style="color: #273ebb;">not a dictator yet</span></a> and even if he doesn’t have authority over Seal Team 6.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #f6000b; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 19.6px;"><b>CNN</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #094fd1; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 19.6px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/opinions/trump-2024-election-threat-violence-ghitis/index.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Opinion: The fear of physical harm that keeps even Trump’s supporters in line</span></b></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Updated 8:28 AM EST, Thu January 11, 2024</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>When Trump is a convicted felon and his chances of winning the election diminished will the Washington Post, New York Times and Republican officials lose their fear of Trump?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"Frantic Trump makes devastating admission in private </span></b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Palm Beach State Attorney David Aronberg reports on Trump privately admitting he expects to be convicted."</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T8QCnTM9FoU" width="481" youtube-src-id="T8QCnTM9FoU"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"Courtroom drama plan</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We're told</b> Trump plans to attend his trials in person most days, as has been his recent practice for recent <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/10/02/donald-trump-fraud-trial-new-york-court"><span style="color: #3356c7;">court proceedings</span></a>. That by itself would mean a massive change in the rhythms of a presidential campaign: Nominees typically spend their days trying to sway voters, not jurors.</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He'll rail against the judge, the charges and the timing. Part of this would be true anger, according to people who talk to him. But a big part of the courtroom theatrics would be political.</span></span></li>
</ul><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Trump feels certain</b> the more voters think this is a political pile-on, the better he'll do. So look for Trump to continue to groan, moan and bemoan — then hit the TV cameras parked outside.</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One ally explained that by spending so much time in court, Trump is making a virtue of necessity. "You can't be defensive or never talk about it, because that just makes you look guilty," the ally said. "Your only option is to play it up."</span></span></li>
</ul><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What we're hearing: </b>Trump's team feels certain that the indictments helped him own the GOP primary field. Each new set of charges brought a surge in donations, and a bump in polls.</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump advisers say he was energized by the fight: When he first launched his campaign, he didn't have a battle cry like "build that wall" in 2016. Now, he has a theory of the case: Defeat the corrupt establishment — the "deep state," as he puts it.</span></span></li>
</ul><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reality check:</b> Despite Trump's bluster, there's real trepidation among his advisers about what a conviction would mean. The Trump team comforts itself that independent-minded voters won't like the idea of a Democratic administration prosecuting the Republican nominee.</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A source close to Trump's team said: "When things shift to the general-election dynamic, with razor-thin margins, and you're trying to convince people who are unhappy with President Biden but are deeply skeptical of Trump personally — a conviction doesn't help persuade those people."</span></span></li>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In private, Trump lashes out at the prosecutors — raging that, once again, the system is rigged against him. And his team has tried every possible legal maneuver to delay the trials. "If he really thought it was a good thing, he wouldn't be so unhinged," the source said.</span></span></li>
</ul><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The risk</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Polls show voters,</b> especially swing voters, will view Trump differently if he's convicted by a jury of his peers.</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In seven swing states that will make up the most consequential fall battlegrounds, a <a href="https://pro-assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2024/01/2401055_Bloomberg_2024-Election-Tracking-Wave-4_Crosstabs_All-States-compressed-1.pdf"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll</span></a> out this week found <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-31/trump-guilty-verdict-loses-half-of-key-state-voters-in-election-2024"><span style="color: #3356c7;">more than half</span></a> of registered voters would be unwilling to vote for Trump if he were convicted of a crime (53%) or sentenced to prison (55%).</span></span></li>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/07/us/elections/times-siena-battlegrounds-registered-voters.html"><span style="color: #3356c7;">poll of six swing states</span></a> by The New York Times and Siena College in October found 6% of voters would switch their votes to Biden if Trump were convicted and sentenced — "enough, potentially, to decide the election," The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/politics/trump-biden-times-siena-poll.html"><span style="color: #3356c7;">reported</span></a>.</span></span></li>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But Trump's hold on the GOP could prove impregnable even to conviction. A national <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-newsyougov-poll-most-voters-say-convicting-trump-of-a-serious-crime-would-be-a-fair-outcome-100022394.html"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Yahoo News/YouGov poll</span></a> out Thursday found that 72% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters think any conviction would be "an unfair outcome meant to damage [Trump] politically."</span></span></li>
</ul><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The other side: </b>This is <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/01/04/biden-capitol-riot-trump-2024"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Biden's big bet</span></a>: The belief inside the White House is that many voters <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/voters-age-biden-trump-crime-poll"><span style="color: #3356c7;">won't vote for a convict</span></a> — especially if the case is about the storming of the U.S. Capitol and attacks on cops."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">AXOIS</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/trump-conviction-trial-jan-6-court"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Behind the Curtain: Trump's conviction scenario</span></b></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Column / Behind the Curtain</p><p style="color: #262628; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/authors/mikeallen">Mike Allen<br />
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</a><a href="https://www.axios.com/authors/jim"><span style="color: #262628; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Jim VandeHei</span></a></span></p><p style="color: #525255; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Feb 2, 2024 -</p><p style="color: #525255; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #525255; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #525255; font-family: Helvetica;">FOR THOSE <span style="caret-color: rgb(82, 82, 85);">INTERESTED</span> IN RULE OF LAW:</span></b></p><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">“Prosecutors RACE to Deliver FATAL BLOW to Trump</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the Legal AF podcast, National defense attorney Michael Popok and former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo debate what happens next with the setting of the DC election inference criminal case and the NY business record fraud criminal case against Trump and whether either happen before Election Day now that the DC Court of Appeals has ruled against Trump finding no immunity from criminal prosecution.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IUM7xruamrI" width="499" youtube-src-id="IUM7xruamrI"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-81459902549991178912024-02-09T17:27:00.002-05:002024-02-09T17:27:49.210-05:00Cheap “first person view” killer drones are destroying tanks & artillery. "The chilling fact is that these silent killers can be bought and used by almost any combatant, anywhere on Earth. It is, as the generals agree, a new day in warfare.”<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica;">The best weapons today, agree the Russian and Ukrainian generals, might be small, cheap systems such as “'first-person view,' or FPV drones that fly into targets like tiny suicide bombers and can be almost impossible to stop. The chilling fact is that these silent killers can be bought and used by almost any combatant, anywhere on Earth. It is, as the generals agree, a new day in warfare.”</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Athelas;">“</span><b style="font-family: Athelas;"><i>One possible (longshot) alternative:</i></b><span style="font-family: Athelas;"> “There is a way for Joe Biden to rush aid to Ukraine without Congressional approval,” </span><a href="https://twitter.com/shustry/status/1754879999981584637" style="font-family: Athelas;"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Simon Shuster</span></a><span style="font-family: Athelas;"> of </span><i style="font-family: Athelas;">Time</i><span style="font-family: Athelas;"> explained on social media Tuesday. “He can grant emergency licenses and share blueprints for Ukraine to produce NATO weapons for itself. Zelenskyy has been asking him for that at least since September.” Read more from Shuster’s recent report, “Inside Ukraine’s Plan to Arm Itself,”</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>SEE BELOW </p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">U.S. Defense News</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Ukrainian Drones are Ready to Destroy 500 Russian tanks and 600 Combat Vehicles in Kupyansk</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="413" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QS6u7qLE3QA" width="497" youtube-src-id="QS6u7qLE3QA"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">“</span><span style="font-size: medium;">The commentaries were flagged to me by Kevin Ryan, a retired Army brigadier general who served as U.S. defense attaché in Moscow and then taught at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. He translated the articles and circulated them this week among Russia specialists. Zaluzhny made similar comments about the importance of drones in an interview published in November in <a href="https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/11/01/the-commander-in-chief-of-ukraines-armed-forces-on-how-to-win-the-war"><span style="color: #3356c7;">the Economist</span></a>, but the Russian analysis is new and startling.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“These two adversaries see many of the same lessons,” Ryan writes in an email summarizing the commentaries. The generals recognize that in the Ukraine battlespace, “no concentration of troops, large or small, can escape the ever-present reconnaissance by unmanned aerial systems and satellites,” he notes.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The tactical revolution underway in Ukraine underlines why a congressional failure to approve continued U.S. military support for Kyiv would be so devastating. As Russia gains increasing mastery of digital warfare, Zaluzhny worries that Ukraine is hobbled by “exhaustion of our partners’ stocks of missiles and ammunition” and “the difficulty of our allies in determining the priorities of support.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Baluyevsky’s comments read like a wake-up call to his fellow Russian officers. He argues that the so-called special military operation in Ukraine has been “an unprecedented test of literally all components of military affairs and military construction.” His analysis came in the foreword for an anthology of essays about the war, which was then summarized in Army Standard by Russian journalist Sergey Valchenko.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Baluyevsky echoes many Western commentators who have argued that defense has trumped offense in Ukraine. “Air defense has won an unexpected triumph over military aviation,” which has “lost the ability to operate en masse over enemy territory” and even must fly “with caution over its own territory.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The tank “has become one of the main casualties of the combat experience of the last two years,” he explains, since it was “an easily detected and easily hit target” and “turned out to be very vulnerable to mines.” Similarly, “the impossibility of concentrating troops … forces us to conduct combat operations with small units and separate combat vehicles.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Baluyevsky has some scathing comments about the performance of Russian weapons. “The qualitative superiority of NATO artillery is evident,” he contends. Ukraine “has revealed a significant lag in Russian artillery and missile systems and requires their priority radical rearmament in the next few years.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The winners in this war are drones. “Unmanned aircraft have rapidly and unconditionally conquered the airspace,” Baluyevsky argues. Zaluzhny agrees that “unmanned systems, along with other new types of weapons, are almost the only tool for getting out of” the stalemate of trench warfare.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Zaluzhny bemoans Russia’s manpower advantage and Ukraine’s “inability … to improve the state of staffing of the Defense Forces without the use of unpopular measures,” such as a nationwide draft. His disagreement with President Volodymyr Zelensky about the need for such an all-out mobilization is one reason for recent tension between the two men — and Zelensky’s reported readiness to sack his commander.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ukraine, as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/05/ukraine-kyiv-russia-war-united-states-support/?itid=lk_inline_manual_24"><span style="color: #3356c7;">I wrote after visiting Kyiv in October</span></a>, is exhausted by war and slowly bleeding out. Zaluzhny implicitly recognizes this war fatigue in arguing for increased use of unmanned systems to “reduce the level of losses … reduce the degree of participation of traditional means of destruction … [and] limited involvement of heavy equipment.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The lesson for the United States, beyond the simple but urgent need to continue military assistance for Ukraine, is to focus that support on the high-tech weapons that matter. The weapons that have generated endless debate, such as tanks and F-16 fighters, are less important than drones, antiaircraft systems and electronic-warfare jammers.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The best weapons today, agree the Russian and Ukrainian generals, might be small, cheap systems such as “first-person view,” or FPV drones that fly into targets like tiny suicide bombers and can be almost impossible to stop. The chilling fact is that these silent killers can be bought and used by almost any combatant, anywhere on Earth. It is, as the generals agree, a new day in warfare.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>See the small sea drone Ukraine says packs 500 pounds of explosives</b></p></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="394" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PzT60XF5YOY" width="474" youtube-src-id="PzT60XF5YOY"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b><i>After attending a Pentagon briefing for lawmakers on Monday,</i></b> Michigan Democratic Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSlotkin/status/1754701759824461871"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Elissa Slotkin</span></a> explained that a lack of continued U.S. support would leave Russia “able to strike Ukraine’s cities with ballistic missiles, destroying its economy, damaging critical infrastructure like energy plants, and raising worldwide food prices as Ukraine is unable to export grain that feeds millions around the globe.” </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>“Russia could break through the current front lines and capture more territory,</i></b> subjecting more of Ukraine’s people to the same horrific crimes that took place at the start of the war,” she said. “Ukrainian refugees, fleeing bombardment and the cruelty of Russian forces, would leave in massive numbers, creating new strains for our European allies,” she continued. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>“The irony is that there is a bipartisan agreement, negotiated in the Senate, that would send help to Ukraine, as well as Taiwan & Israel, & secure our own border,”</i></b> Slotkin wrote on social media. “I hope the Senate considers it & I hope Speaker Johnson changes course & brings it to the House floor for a vote. If not, historians may remember this as the moment when America gave up on defending democracy. When our political polarization got so bad that we abandoned the principles our grandparents fought for..</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b><i>One possible (longshot) alternative:</i></b> “There is a way for Joe Biden to rush aid to Ukraine without Congressional approval,” <a href="https://twitter.com/shustry/status/1754879999981584637"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Simon Shuster</span></a> of <i>Time</i> explained on social media Tuesday. “He can grant emergency licenses and share blueprints for Ukraine to produce NATO weapons for itself. Zelenskyy has been asking him for that at least since September.” Read more from Shuster’s recent report, “Inside Ukraine’s Plan to Arm Itself,” <a href="https://time.com/6588222/zelensky-kamyshin-inside-ukraines-plan-to-arm-itself/"><span style="color: #3356c7;">here</span></a>. </span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>New this week: Other allies like Germany and South Korea are stepping up to support its defense against Russia.</i></b> “German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall stated on February 5 that it plans to send tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells, dozens of Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 25 Leopard 1A5 tanks, and an unspecified number of Skynex air defense systems to Ukraine in 2024,” the <a href="https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-6-2024"><span style="color: #3356c7;">Institute for the Study of War</span></a> wrote Tuesday evening. And “South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) stated on February 6 that it plans to sign a contract with ammunition producer Poongsan in 2024 to mass produce 155mm shells that have an extended range of 60 kilometers,” according to ISW.”</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MORE AT:</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/02/russia-may-be-trying-build-10000-attack-drones-year-use-ukraine/394015/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Russia may be trying to build 10,000 attack drones a year for use in Ukraine</span></b></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A purported cache of stolen Iranian documents also suggests Moscow is paying a lot more than expected.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.defenseone.com/voices/sam-skove/25034/?oref=d1-post-author?oref=rf-post-author">Sam Skove</a></span> February 7, 2024</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 17px;"><br /></p></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-41785436738108177882024-02-08T11:42:00.000-05:002024-02-08T11:42:25.005-05:00TRUMP IS NOT ATTENDING. HE KNOWS EXTREMIST PRESSURE ON THE SUPREME COURT MAY BACKFIRE. In PURELY POLITICAL TERMS will the NOT DEMOCRATS ON THE SUPREME COURT RULE AS REPUBLICAN PARTY MEMBERS or will they rule as MAGADONIAN PARTY MEMBERS?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="437" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wNNHCYz8BKU" width="525" youtube-src-id="wNNHCYz8BKU"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">“Will Trump Attend?</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No. Donald Trump has decided to stay home and not attend the Supreme Court arguments. According to Trump's former Senior Advisor, John Bolton, Trump chickened out by avoiding the arguments. Bolton said in a <a href="https://x.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1755247976019107897?s=20"><span style="color: #3356c7;">tweet</span></a> that Trump knows he is badly outnumbered by those who respect the rule of the law. Trump's approach in this case is different from his approach in the January 6th criminal prosecution he is facing. There, Trump decided to attend oral argument in front of the D.C. Circuit even though is presence was not required. Trump went on to lose that appeal despite his attendance. Now, he is changing course, avoiding the Supreme Court and possibly sitting in front of some of the justices he once appointed while President. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What Issues Will Be Argued?</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Supreme Court will be tasked with deciding two key issues in the appeal:</span></p><ol>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First, whether a Presidential candidate falls within the confines of the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause</span></span></li>
<li style="color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If so, whether the courts or Congress are the proper avenue to remove a presidential candidate from the ballot.</span></span></li>
</ol><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because this case is on appeal, the Supreme Court will not consider whether Trump engaged in insurrection as that is a factual issue already decided by the trial court. The only issues on appeal are legal in nature and focus on the text and interpretation of the 14th Amendment.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">When Will We Get A Decision?</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Supreme Court will issue a decision before the conclusion of this term, which ends in June 2024. While we may get a decision quicker as this case is one of significant public importance, it is likely that the Court will wait until the summer to issue its decision. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>MT</b><span style="color: #ec5c07;"><b>N</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-chickens-out-ahead-of-scotus-appeal-everything-you-need-to-know-about-tomorrows-arguments"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Trump Chickens Out Ahead Of SCOTUS Appeal: Everything You Need To Know About Tomorrow's Arguments</span></b></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.65); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oral arguments will begin tomorrow morning and Trump will not be in attendance</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.meidastouch.com/author/aaron-parnas">Aaron Parnas</a></span> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Feb 7, 2024”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-60386689127819331292024-02-05T11:54:00.002-05:002024-02-05T11:54:56.361-05:00TRUMP’S VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE. There is a SIXTH CRIME FAMILY IN NEW YORK, THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION. “Five Families refer to five Italian American Mafia crime families that operate in New York City." - wikipedia.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas;">“February 15 is turning out to be a big red letter day for Trump and his criminal cases against him in NY and Georgia. Michael Popok of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas;">Legal AF breaks down the key day when the New York judge locks in the criminal business record fraud case date while the Georgia judge considers at a hearing whether to dismiss the Georgia indictment because of the prosecutors personal relationships.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="398" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/axQsuXuxsIg" width="479" youtube-src-id="axQsuXuxsIg"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: Athelas; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607453347005063143.post-73764999988440025612024-02-05T07:05:00.000-05:002024-02-05T07:05:32.365-05:00THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DESCENDING INTO MADNESS. <p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica;">The COMPLETE Insanity of MAGA is NOW Revealed with LATEST Move</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.051);">“</span>On the Legal AF podcast, national trial attorney Michael Popok and former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo debate how “coocoo for cocopuffs” MAGA has become to attack Taylor Swift and her legion of voter-followers, as Pentagon psy-op assets and propagandists for Biden.”</span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="396" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a91_n5D2TlY" width="476" youtube-src-id="a91_n5D2TlY"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">IF TRUMP WINS POPULAR PRESSURE MIGHT FORCE JAPAN TO REMOVE IT’S EMBASSIES FROM THE UNITED STATES. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Even the Embassy of Japan has<a href="https://twitter.com/JapanEmbDC/status/1753455158460133508"><span style="color: #3356c7;"> issued a statement</span></a> regrading her travel plans, taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, to confirm she will be able to make the trip.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Embassy of Japan in the United States is aware of recent media reports concerning the steps Taylor Swift will need to take to travel from Tokyo after her concert on 10 February to Las Vegas in time to watch the Kansas City Chiefs play in Super Bowl LVIII,” the statement began.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Despite the 12-hour flight and 17-hour time difference, the Embassy can confidently ‘Speak Now’ to say if she departs Tokyo in the evening after her concert, she should comfortably arrive in Las Vegas before the Super Bowl begins.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The statement continued: “We know that many people in Japan are excited to experience Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, so we wanted to confirm that anyone concerned can be ‘Fearless’ in knowing that this talented performer can wow Japanese audiences and still make it to Las Vegas to support the Chiefs when they take the field for the Super Bowl wearing ‘Red.’”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Aol.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.aol.com/taylor-swift-fans-stress-over-163255667.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Japan Embassy confirms Taylor Swift can make it to the Super Bowl on time</span></b></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">February 5, 2024 at 12:32 AM</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #151515; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 25px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div><div><br /></div>James Pitcherellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14239270205876141965noreply@blogger.com0