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Former FBI Director James Comey praised the unprecedented indictment of former President Trump by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday, by tweeting, "It's been a good day." Trump was indicted after Manhattan District Attorney Alivn Bragg had been investigating Trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Comey, who was fired by Trump in 2017 and one of the central figures involved in the Russia collusion case against Trump and the Steele dossier, echoed comments made by other Trump opponents on Twitter.

A California police union executive director allegedly ran a drug ring from her home and used her office computer and UPS account to order and distribute opioids and other drugs, federal officials charge. Joanne Marian Segovia, who has worked for the San Jose Police Officers Association since 2003, was charged on Wednesday with attempting to unlawfully import a synthetic opioid called Valeryl fentanyl. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison if convicted, authorities said. Police union president Sean Pritchard was shocked by the charges, telling NBC Bay Area, “She’s been the grandma of the POA.” “This...

American Banana RepublicThe indictment of Donald Trump is a tipping point for free government.News of the indictment against former President Donald Trump came yesterday afternoon like a shot heard ‘round the world—but this one heralds the triumph of tyranny rather than liberty. A grand jury empaneled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted Trump on charges that, while under seal, are likely related to payments Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels prior to Trump running for president.The irony is not lost on us that Bragg’s entire modus ooerperandi as DA is decidedly against enforcing the criminal...

Leftists are scheduled to hold a rally in Boston on Friday to celebrate the indictment of former President Donald Trump. A so-called “Not Above the Law” event is planned for the Massachusetts State House at Beacon Hill around noon, NBC Boston 10 reported. Those celebrating the indictment will be waving signs that say “Not Above the Law” amongst other slogans.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley warned Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that New York judges, especially at the Appellate level, will not like his case against Trump. He said: “This indictment, if it is reportedly following the theory that we’ve been talking about, is political. It’s a raw political prosecution. The indictment may come out with a crime that none of us have heard of. “But for many months, this bootstrapping theory has been put out there, this idea that you could take a misdemeanor under New York law that has expired, that has a two year statute...

It's too late now to respect Donald Trump's privacy. So let's be honest about what is happening. Not everyone will agree with my opinions. The final judge is God. But we must try to make sense of this madness, if we are to rise above it. I believe POTUS 45 is being persecuted for being a Red-Blooded American Male and for being successful and having money to spend. The "justice system" is really an injustice system. Yet again. This is happening right across The West. Following the thinking of St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther King Junior, I believe...

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says the indictment of Donald Trump is the “worst case of prosecutorial abuse I have ever seen.” And he’s not the only one calling out this raw exercise of political power over the rule of law. Thursday night, Trump’s attorney echoed that sentiment, declaring, “today the rule of law in the United States of America died.” Trump was charged in a sealed indictment handed up on Thursday that is believed to concern a non-disclosure agreement signed by porn actress Stormy Daniels, which the legacy media calls “hush money.” Daniels was paid $130,000 by Trump’s...

There are many fierce, hungry tigers living near your home and they are stalking your children. How best to protect your young ones: declaw the tigers, or equip your home with strong defenses so they cannot enter, and if they do they will be stopped dead? This is the essential question tragically raised once again in the bloody wake of the Tennessee Christian elementary school massacre. Anti-gun media talking heads, Democrat legislators, government officials, teachers’ Union chieftain Randi Weingarten, and Democrat gun-haters in general as usual are claiming the only way to stop these horrific attacks is declaw the tigers...

The concern comes on the heels of several media reports China meddled in Canada's last two elections; Justin Trudeau has tasked former governor general David Johnston with deciding whether there should be a public inquiry into the possible foreign interference. Ontario MPP Vincent Ke resigned his seat in the Progressive Conservative caucus and is now sitting as an independent after he was accused of having ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He has denied the claims. Meanwhile, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, the city's first mayor of Chinese descent, denounced what he called "insinuations" made in a Globe and Mail report...

A former pastor at the school where Nashville shooter Audrey Hale killed six people on Monday claimed she was being couseled by Chad Scruggs, the father of one of the victims, only to later say he had been mistaken. Jim Bachmann said in an interview with Inside Edition that Hale appeared to be searching for Scruggs, the current pastor at the Covenant School, in surveillance footage the police released. However, when approached by The Post on Wednesday, Bachmann said he had since realized he was wrong. “I understand that they were not counseling, actually,” Bachmann said. “I think there’s just...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Reps. Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene and others have pushed back against the former president's indictment, calling it a political "witch hunt." ************************************************************* WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s most fervent Capitol Hill allies erupted in fury Thursday night as news of his indictment rocked the country. They rushed to his defense and blasted New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the GOP presidential front-runner as a political witch hunt designed to influence the 2024 election. “Outrageous,” tweeted Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who is using his roles as chairman of the Judiciary and Weaponization of the...

Jared Kushner, former White House senior advisor and former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, said Friday the “unprecedented” indictment by the grand jury in New York shows the “fear that the Democrats” have of him in the next election. “I think that that shows obviously the fear that the Democrats have of Trump and the political strength that he has,” Kushner said at the FII Institute’s Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida. “As an American, it’s very troubling to me to see the Leader of the Opposition party be indicted.” Kushner made these comments at the beginning of his speech about...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough declared Friday on his show “Morning Joe” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is using attacking “Jewish international bankers” as they did in Germany in 1933. On a potential indictment of former President Donald Trump, DeSantis tweeted, “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American. The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent. Florida will not assist in an extradition request...

Don’t criticize leftist billionaire George Soros’ agenda to overhaul the criminal justice system or you’re an anti-Semite! At least, that’s the ridiculous pejorative that MSNBC host Joe Scarbough hurled at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). Scarborough railed at DeSantis’ tweet signaling that he would not be cooperating with “Soros-backed” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the extradition of former President Donald Trump following his vendetta to indict him on dubious legal grounds. Scarborough, apparently ignorant of the fact that Soros himself made his agenda to elect leftist prosecutors across the country widely known, set up a strawman argument by arbitrarily...

Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic state lawmakers unveiled the most significant land-use reform in decades last week. The sweeping new efforts to address Colorado’s housing crisis are focused on increasing residential density in the state’s cities and towns. “This is how we will make more housing options for every Colorado budget in every community, drive down costs that are pricing Coloradans out of our homes and out of our neighborhoods,” Polis said. The Common Sense Institute found Colorado had a housing shortage of 225,000 units in 2021, and the affordability of purchasing a home was the lowest in 33 years....

A transgender legislator from Minnesota who was only elected three months ago has been named the state's 'Woman of the Year' honoree by USA Today. Leigh Finke, a former academic, journalist and author, was voted into her heavily left-leaning district in the Twin Cities metro area last November with 81 percent of the ballot. She was honored alongside several other people - including former First Lady Michelle Obama and the United States women's soccer team. Transgender assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine was one last year. Finke is the first transgender legislator to be elected in the state, which is...

Reserves for Social Security’s largest trust fund are on track to run out as soon as 2033, a board of trustees of the program’s accounts said in a report on Friday. The estimate is one year sooner than previously projected for the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund, which pays out Social Security benefits to retirees, in the trustees’ report from last year. If the reserves are depleted, the report projected income for the account would only cover 77 percent of scheduled benefits. By contrast, the board estimated the program’s smaller Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund would not become...

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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...