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WASHINGTON, D.C. — With many Americans up in arms over the unprecedented raid of former President Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago by the FBI, Attorney General Garland released a statement to assure everyone the raid was completely justified. Eyewitnesses noted he looked unusually fetching in an elegant Dolce & Gabbana evening gown and a Dior sun hat. "We wouldn't raid Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate or Melania's wardrobe unless it was absolutely, 100% necessary," said Garland. "I resent any accusation that this raid was influenced by partisan politics or my insatiable desire to wear pretty designer dresses." The Attorney General then did a...

The Collier County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man they say started a fire on a bench and inside several cars. Deputies arrested 54-year-old Craig Lumb on Sunday for setting the fires. According to deputies, they responded to a report of someone lighting cars on fire along Long Shore Way East. Deputies say when they arrived, they found a bench on fire with Lumb and another man standing nearby. Deputies suspected Lumb was responsible and detained him while they put out the fire on the bench. While extinguishing that fire, deputies say they noticed smoke inside a nearby car. The...

A photo of a Thrall police officer posing with Kyle Rittenhouse that was posted to the department’s official Facebook account has begun circulating on social media, sparking outrage. The photograph, posted on Thursday, shows Rittenhouse grinning next to an unnamed Thrall officer in front of a vehicle. “Make those stops, you never know who you might meet,” the post reads. “Today it was Kyle Rittenhouse, welcome to Texas.” About six hours later, the post was edited by the Central Texas police department after intense backlash. The edited post read: “I must have missed something, I believe that this young man...

In the murk of the #MeToo movement, Disney, the largest entertainment producer in the world, seemed to come out relatively unscathed. In the years since, the company has fallen over itself to be more inclusive of diversity and women, taking its woke crusade so far that viewers are hard-pressed to find a new film or franchise that doesn't have a face-smacking social justice message. But its squeaky-clean image was soiled this week with the admission by maverick heiress Abigail Disney that not only did the company know about Harvey Weinstein's prolific sexual abuse, it did nothing about it and may...

President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that all the documents seized by FBI agents during the raid on his house Monday were declassified. “Number one, it was all declassified,” Trump wrote in a statement released to reporters. “Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything.” The former president said the documents were secure and the FBI could have asked for any documents that they wanted but accused them of choosing a more political route. “They could have had it anytime they wanted and that includes LONG ago,” he wrote. “ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed extending the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by at least five to 10 years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate change era. A draft bill obtained by The Associated Press said the plan would allow the plant to continue operating beyond a scheduled closing by 2025. The draft proposal also includes a possible loan for operator Pacific Gas & Electric for up to $1.4 billion. The proposal was confirmed by Newsom spokesman Anthony York. The bill says impacts of climate change are occurring...

The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus & Political Action Committee on Wednesday announced it won't be endorsing a candidate for Minnesota Governor in the 2022 general election. The caucus invariably supports a broad spectrum of Republicans who oppose any gun restrictions, but in a statement, caucus chairman Bryan Strawser said GOP candidate Scott Jensen "betrayed" his 2016 endorsement for the Minnesota Senate by co-sponsoring gun control measures after he was elected. “Voters will have to decide whether or not to trust Dr. Jensen with their Second Amendment rights, ” Strawser said. In 2018 Jensen, fellow Republican Paul Anderson, and two Democratic...

Best Buy has cut store jobs across the U.S. in an attempt to cut costs, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The consumer technology retailer, known for selling products like televisions and gaming consoles, cut hundreds of store jobs over the past week in an attempt to lower costs during a period where retailers are noticing a shift in the way consumers are spending, The Journal reported on Friday. Best Buy didn’t respond to request for comment from Barron’s The report comes not long after Best Buy BBY –0.40% (ticker: BBY) offered downbeat financial guidance for its...

A. Sorry, but what the government is saying about seeking and executing this warrant doesn't cut it.1. The FBI was at President Trump's home in June and had access to all the boxes.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 12, 2022B. Wouldn't the FBI had known there was "classified" information at that time -- either before they arrived at the home or during their search? The most sensitive national security documents are supposed to be tracked by the relevant agency or department.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 12, 2022C. Did they look in June? If so, didn't they see the documents?...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from the Biden administration to block off the area. The move by Arizona comes without explicit permission on federal land, with state contractors starting to move in 60-foot-long (18.3-meter-long) shipping containers and stacking two of the 9-foot-tall (2.7-meter-tall) containers on top of each other early Friday. They plan to complete the job within days, and the containers will be...

The Wisconsin Assembly Republican leader who hired a former state Supreme Court justice to investigate the 2020 election fired him Friday, after the former justice and former President Donald Trump backed the lawmaker’s opponent. Speaker Robin Vos firing of Michael Gableman ends a 14-month probe that began with Vos voicing full confidence in Gableman’s abilities. Vos, in a statement first provided to The Associated Press on Friday, said Gableman’s reports “clearly showed concerns and problems with the 2020 election.”

Search warrant shows Trump under investigation for potential obstruction of justice, Espionage Act violations, Politico reported

As the Kiev regime forces continue to get routed by Russian and DPR/LPR forces, and Ukraine continues to lose even more of its territory, the question on everyone’s mind is: how will the Ukrainians get rid of Zelensky?Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky will have only two options in the end – facing a court martial or going back to his acting career, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed, in an email interview published Friday.Medvedev, who is now the deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council, previously called Zelensky “an unshaved fellow wearing a green shirt” and compared him to Adolf Hitler...

A warrant shows the FBI took 11 sets of classified documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week, US media report. On Thursday, the Justice Department asked a court to unseal the search warrant, a move considered rare amid an ongoing investigation. This has not yet formally taken place. Mr Trump earlier said he welcomed the documents being made public.

Rep. Tom Emmer has warned that thousands of proposed new IRS agents could easily be “weaponized against conservatives.” The Minnesota congressman appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning to discuss the recent FBI raid of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, saying “everyone should be concerned” about the weaponization of the Justice Department, which oversees the FBI. “Republican, Democrat, other — everyone in this country should be concerned when the Department of Justice has been weaponized against American citizens, and in this case by the Biden administration against their political opponents,” he said. Emmer added that the same dynamic could play...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford found himself in a squishy situation on Friday when a bee entered his mouth and got down his throat. Ford was taking questions from reporters in Dundalk, Ont., about the provincewide health-care staff shortage and the possibility of privatization when the bee flew into his mouth. "Holy Christ, I just swallowed a bee," he said, coughing violently. Members of the audience could be heard expressing their concern for Ford.

Let us take a trip back to 1996 this time, a time when when almost 1000 FBI files of top governmental officials, many of them Republicans ended up in the hands of the Clintons. Again, I do not remember the FBI raiding the Clintons estate after they left the White House. Again I off this disclaimer, Archive.org is not on the list of sites that require excerpts. Everything you find is fair game. So here is the full article, and any links take you follow will take you to another archived wayback file, none take you to the New York...

Video at link. Some fired up members of the committee. Watch until the very end or skip to it... Lots of "No one is above the law" directed at the AG. References all the way back to the baseball shooting, Hillary, etc. Let's hope they get their chance.

President Biden’s senior adviser, Anita Dunn, has revealed a vast investment fortune worth up to $48 million — as well as a series of conflicts of interest. Mandatory ethics disclosure forms made public this week shed light on Dunn’s finances after the longtime Democratic operative left the White House last year following a prior short stint — in what was widely seen as a way to avoid making the reports. Dunn and her husband, attorney Bob Bauer, hold between $16.8 million and $48.2 million in investments, according to papers released by the US Office of Government Ethics. The couple’s sprawling...