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* Trump, 76, was indicted on fraud charges last night by a Manhattan grand jury * He will travel to New York to be arraigned on Tuesday afternoon * Attorney Joe Tacopina says he won't be handcuffs - but may be perp-walked ************************************************************* After recovering from the 'initial shock' of a grand jury indictment against him, President Trump is now raging about the judge who is expected to preside over the case. Trump, 76, will be arraigned in Manhattan at 2.15pm on Tuesday on an array of business fraud charges relating to 2016 hush money payments to porn star Stormy...

I see that pretty much everyone disagreed with my characterization of Alejandro Mayorkas as dumb in yesterday’s Briefing. I’m sticking with it. The guy looks lost every time he’s on camera. And I don’t think there is some grand plan by the people who run Biden’s pudding brains. I think the flailing they’re doing due to their incompetence is destroying the country.SPEAKING OF DESTROYING THE COUNTRY… A totally super serious and impartial grand jury took the Democrats’ pathetic daddy issues to a new low and indicted Donald Trump yesterday. Kevin wrote about it for us and asked if this would...

Data at the link. Latest is January 2023. This is residential gas prices in Alabama.

AUSTIN, Tex. — A grand jury indicted Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts on Friday, charging that he abused his power last year when he tried to pressure the district attorney here, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to cut off state financing to her office. The indictment left Mr. Perry, a Republican, the first Texas governor in nearly 100 years to face criminal charges and presented a major roadblock to his presidential ambitions at the very time that he had been showing signs of making a comeback. Grand jurors in Travis County charged Mr. Perry with abusing...

“Show me the man, and I will show you the crime" Lavrentiy Beria. “In Amerikka, everyone has the right to a trial to prove his innocence” Nancy Pelosi The following explanatory paragraph about who Baria was was written in 2018; it was already outdated then, but its status as “no longer operative” was only made clear yesterday: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” was Beria’s infamous boast. He served as deputy premier from 1941 until Stalin’s death in 1953, supervising the expansion of the gulags and other secret detention facilities for political prisoners. He became part...

​Russia said Wednesday it will no longer give the United States advance notice of its missile tests — a month after suspending its participation in the most recent nuclear arms agreement between the two countries. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters that Russia will halt the information exchange after suspending “implementation” of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty​ (START)​. “There will be no notifications at all,” Rybakov said, according to Russian news agencies.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Seven people were shot overnight at Prive Restaurant in Hickory Hill. According to the Memphis Police Department (MPD), officers were called to 6980 Winchester Rd., Prive, for a shooting just after 11:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Two men were found suffering from gunshot wounds, police said. One was pronounced dead at the scene and one was taken to Regional One in critical condition but later was pronounced dead, according to police. Police said five additional people, four men and one woman, arrived at area hospitals in private cars. According to police, the victims that went to hospital's ages...

‘Party of 3,000 Deaths’ Accuses Republicans of Being Okay With Murder2% of counties populated by Democrats were responsible for 56% of the country’s murders By Daniel Greenfield A little bit of background. 3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered. That’s an additional 2,244 black people killed. 3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020. BLM and pro-crime policies that unleashed a massive crime wave made a difference of 3,000 deaths plus. America’s murder capitals are Dem territories. Without them, America would be safer than safe.A...

Ok, just a thought. What would be the fallout if Biden decided to pardon Trump? From reading several liberal rags today I can detect a bit of unease on the left at this indictment of Trump. There are so many possibilities ahead if this is actually allowed to play out. Local prosecutors and DA's around the country will fill the courts with charges against former Presidents.

It’s never happened before because we’ve never been this crooked before.We, not him. This isn’t really about Trump, it’s about the betrayal of the American system and our most basic assumptions of justice.Not since the Alien and Sedition Acts has criminal prosecution been used as a tool of political vengeance and governmental oppression.But here we are.Last night, in the run-up to spring break, Easter and Passover, word leaked that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, had secured a grand jury indictment against Donald Trump, thereby commencing the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former president of the United States.The base charge...

Georgia’s GOP-run legislature rejected a bill backed by Gov. Brian Kemp that could have allowed illegal migrants to get taxpayer grants for private schools.

President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that Russia, which has already decided to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, could if necessary put intercontinental nuclear missiles there too. In an annual address to lawmakers and government officials, Lukashenko said Moscow's plans to station nuclear arms on the territory of its close ally would help protect Belarus, which he said was under threat from the West. (snip) "I am not trying to intimidate or blackmail anyone. I want to safeguard the Belarusian state and ensure peace for the Belarusian people," Lukashenko said. Although Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that...

Former President Donald Trump made it business as usual after being “shocked” by his indictment Thursday — heading out for dinner with his supportive wife and posting angry messages through the night. The somber-looking 45th commander-in-chief was spotted arriving for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with a smiling Melania, 52, by his side in an eye-catching red dress. Pics shared by club members appeared to show guests standing to applaud the Trumps as they entered hours after the unprecedented confirmation that he was to be the first former president to face criminal charges. Other images showed the couple...

Former President Donald Trump will not be put in handcuffs when he turns himself in next week, his attorney confirmed to The Post on Friday. Lawyer Joe Tacopina confirmed the news in a text while also giving a round of interviews promising that Trump is now “ready to fight” — with “zero” chance he’ll buckle and seek a plea deal. “The president will not be put in handcuffs,” the attorney also told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” — while not ruling out a perp walk or a mugshot. “I’m sure they’ll try to get every ounce of publicity he can...

Kari Lake issued a statement in response to the indictment of President Donald J. Trump on Thursday, calling it “a dark moment in the history of our nation” and slamming the radical leftwing tactics used to destroy the President.The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that the Manhattan Grand Jury voted to indict President Trump on Thursday over thoroughly disproven allegations of having an affair with and paying “hush money” to Stormy Daniels.They just indicted President Trump. Unfortunately for them, this will only make him. stronger. I didn’t think I could possibly support him more, but this political Witch Hunt only strengthens...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was ridiculed on Twitter Thursday over her reaction to the indictment of former President Donald Trump — as she appeared to butcher a key principle of criminal law. “The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law,” Pelosi (D-Calif.), 83, wrote in her post. “No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence,” she added. “Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.” Her failure to recognize that Trump is granted the presumption of innocence, one of the most...

I’ve always been a big fan of Jason Whitlock.From way back in the day when he’d be debating Steven A. Smith (is that a made-up name to sound like Naismith?) and Whitlock would always have the common sense side of the argument compared to Smith’s far out takes.And I’ve become even more of a fan as I’ve seen him dive into politics and quickly discern who is real and who is bad news.This is an epic interview with Tucker where I believe Whitlock is speaking for thousands or even millions of Americans right now….Trending: BREAKING: Insurrection Happening RIGHT NOW At...

Russia said on Friday that a ceasefire in Ukraine would not enable it to achieve the goals of its "special military operation" at the moment. The Kremlin was reacting after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko - Russia's closest ally - called for an immediate ceasefire, without preconditions, and for both Moscow and Kyiv to start negotiations on a lasting peace settlement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Russia had noted Lukashenko's comments and that President Vladimir Putin would discuss it with him next week. But he said Russia's goals in Ukraine could not be achieved at the moment through a halt...

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on charges related to a payment made to a porn starThe indictment of former President Donald Trump reportedly handed down by a Manhattan grand jury is sealed, so we don’t know the precise legal charges against the former president. However, based on leaks to the media from sources within the district attorney’s office, we can draw some reasoned conclusions. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has cobbled together a novel, if not bizarre, legal theory of intertwining offenses. It is doubtful that his case can withstand judicial scrutiny, assuming the judge who presides over...

Seven sorority sisters have sued the University of Wyoming for admitting a transgender woman into their house over claims she voyeuristically peeped at them while visibly aroused. The women, who were not named in the lawsuit, have sued the school, as well as their transgender sorority sister Artemis Langford, 21, who joined their chapter in September 2022. Langford, who is 6'2" and weighs 260lbs, will be moving into the Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) house alongside 50 other women. Although the 21-year-old currently lives outside of the home, the girls say she is often in their sorority house watching them and...