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Conservatives need to defend Gaetz from discredited allegations to prevent this pattern from repeating.Before marrying in 2021, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., was known to be a braggadocious libertine. No conservative wants to defend such behavior, and so many on the Right are remaining silent as Gaetz is accused of also engaging in criminal conduct, paying prostitutes, and having sex with a minor. The claims against Gaetz are but another information operation, however, mirroring the ones that previously targeted Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh. And this pattern will continue unabated unless Americans unflinchingly condemn the tactic — no matter the...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has been nominated as the next attorney general, triggering all the right people in Washington. He was the subject of an ethics investigation, which has ended since he left Congress. That doesn’t mean what’s already compiled isn’t going to leak. House Speaker Mike Johnson asked for this report to be quashed. There was zero chance of that happening, as this report was likely to make its way to the media in numerous ways. For starters, a hacker is said to have obtained the damning report (via NYT): An unidentified hacker has gained access to a...

Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump’s attorneys should seek a writ of mandamus to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg from drawing the case out. Bragg signed a legal filing opposing a motion by Trump’s attorneys to dismiss the case, instead urging New York Judge Juan Merchan to postpone sentencing until 2029, after Trump would leave office. Dershowitz accused Bragg of trying to “freeze” the case for his political gain. “You can’t unfreeze a case any more than you can unfreeze… a live human, human being. What’s the purpose of freezing the case? It’s so obvious...

Is the attorney general nomination for Matt Gaetz in trouble? On the Republican Senate side, the man reportedly needs work to clinch 50 votes. The former Republican congressman is a lightning rod for controversy, with a reportedly damning ethics report looming overhead. House Republican leadership is trying to quash it, but we know it will leak, especially since a hacker supposedly obtained a copy this week. Trump may have just pulled the most 4D chess move of his political career. https://t.co/Rbo0Egp8zR— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 19, 2024The New York Times reported that even President-elect Donald J. Trump concedes that Gaetz might...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday rejected the idea that voters delivered an Election Day mandate to Donald Trump and the Republicans, arguing that the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the House means that nothing will get done in Washington without Democratic support. “Despite the claims of some of my Republican colleagues, who have spent a lot of time over the last two weeks talking about some big, massive mandate — I’m looking for it,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol.

President-elect Donald Trump is personally making moves to shore up support for one of his more controversial Cabinet nominations: former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Trump is reportedly calling Republican senators to discuss Gaetz and ask for their support. At least three Senate Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Susan Collins (R-ME), have publicly expressed concern about the nomination and have not said if they would confirm him. With the Senate likely having a three-seat Republican majority, Trump would need them on board. “[Trump] clearly wants Matt Gaetz,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who received a call...

Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan slammed Boston’s Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu for her announcement that the city would resist cooperation with the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations. In a blunt interview with Greg Kelly, he dismantled Wu’s rationale and warned of the potential legal consequences for her administration. “Well, she’s not very smart, I’ll give her that because I just said… President Trump’s going to prioritize public safety threats,” Homan said.

Ukraine has fired British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time, just hours after Putin's nuclear war warning. Parts of a missile were found in the village of Marine, Kursk, on Wednesday

Sitting before members of Congress on Capitol Hill Tuesday, retired Border Patrol agent J.J. Carrell told the lawmakers that the “United States federal government is the world’s largest child sex trafficking organization in modern history.” Carrell served in the Border Patrol for 24 years, retiring as a deputy patrol agent in charge of the San Diego Sector before going on to author a book on the border crisis and film two documentaries on the topic. “I state with complete certainty that [President Joe] Biden, [Vice President Kamala] Harris, and [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas intentionally, strategically and purposely weaponized illegal...

Two weeks into Donald Trump retaking the White House, and the meltdowns from the left continues to come in fast and furious. Every day, it's something – and someone – new. One day, it's a homeless looking Kathy Griffin housing an entire Key Lime Pie and crying into the camera on TikTok. The next, a CNN panel is erupting into chaos. You have woke sports media members crying and leaving for Bluesky. Lefty, purple-haired chicks with nose rings are banning sex and calling it 4B, as if that's gonna help. Things are backwards right now, that even Morning Joe –...

Out-of-state ballots that the U.S. Postal Service delivered to the Cascade County elections office in Great Falls, Mont., are seen on Nov. 7, 2024 .... ...Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Tom Toller announced that election results were updated on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 5 p.m. on the county's website, with the next update scheduled for Friday, Nov. 22, at 6 p.m.. ...The county provided an estimated count of unprocessed ballots, noting that the figures are subject to change as ballots undergo signature verification and eligibility checks. The current estimate includes 1,934 vote-by-mail ballots, 1,736 provisional ballots, 562 CVR...

VERNON, Conn. (WTNH) — A Vernon mother who was found in New York has been charged with four counts of risk of injury to a child after police said she left four children alone without food or clothing in a “deplorable” apartment, and didn’t plan to come back.

— Less than two weeks after the California Air Resources Board voted on controversial updates to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard program, a Republican State Senator is pushing to roll them back. State Senator Brian Jones on Tuesday announced he'll introduce a bill to repeal the updates, stating the legislation is needed because of the likelihood those new standards coupled with other state policies will likely raise gas prices.

President-elect Trump’s transition team is ratcheting up the pressure on Republican senators to embrace his controversial nominees to head the Justice Department, Health and Human Services, the Pentagon and other key agencies, arguing Trump needs his handpicked team in place as quickly as possible to bring change to Washington. Republican senators say Vice President-elect Vance is heading the effort to shore up wavering GOP senators who were caught off guard last week by Trump’s most controversial picks, such as former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (11/20/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Spirit of Power) Acts 8:5-135 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. 6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city. 9 But there was a certain man,...

The U.S. embassy in Ukraine cited “specific information of a potential significant air attack” on Wednesday morning, ordering its citizens in the country to shelter in place, as tensions between America and the Russian Federation rise ever higher. The American embassy compound in western Kyiv was closed on Wednesday morning, with a convoy of diplomatic vehicles apparently evacuating the buildings. A message posted by the embassy staff stated it had received “specific information of a potential significant air attack” that was thought to be planned for Wednesday. The closure was out of an “abundance of caution”, they said, but nevertheless...

Departure of His Army from Atlanta-One Column Seventy Miles South on the 14th. From the Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. 18. From private advices, both by letter and telegraph, we learn that SHERMAN is advancing from Atlanta toward Savannah River in two columns. The first set out, one account says, the 7th, another the 9th inst., (probably the last date,) on the road to Macon. On the 13th or 14th inst., it was seventy miles in advance, driving everything before it, and destroying everything behind that could aid the enemy, and intending to pursue this policy to the end. The other column,...

The Democratic Party, in its infinite wisdom—or perhaps simply its knack for unaccountable government spending—has managed to turn the Justice Department into a highly effective money laundering operation for its favorite interest groups. This is not some new caper, by the way; it's a practice perfected under the Obama-Biden regime, and it has reached grotesque proportions since Biden's triumphant (or rather, cognitively uncertain) return to the Oval Office. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the capable stewardship of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, needs to tackle this glaring example of unchecked executive abuse. To put it plainly, these "settlements"...

Hundreds of women in the UK are planning to take on one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies over alleged links between talc and cancer. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021, Cassandra Wardle is one of the women launching a group action against the biggest seller of talcum powder, Johnson & Johnson (J&J). Cassandra, who stumbled on a Facebook article linking cancer and talc following her diagnosis, said it was used on her as a baby and she continued to use it "for 20 years or more". "You mimic your mum who used it," she said. "Baby powder was supposed...

Jay Leno Gets Swollen Eye After Falling Down 60-Foot Hill Comedian Jay Leno says his eye is swollen after he fell down a 60 foot hill. Face swollen an bruised purple. VIDEO AT LINK...............