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President Biden has dropped months of resistance and agreed to grant Secret Service protection to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the move at the regular White House press briefing Monday after Trump was grazed with a bullet at a Saturday rally. “In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr,” Mayorkas said. Hours earlier, former President Donald Trump demanded that Kennedy receive Secret Service protection, calling it the...

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, Sunday evening calling Democrats, who are already conceding to a second Donald Trump presidential term, fascists. The outspoken Democratic representative shared an article from Axios that notes a senior House Democrat said, "we've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency." Ocasio-Cortez called for anyone who "feels this way" to retire to make room for those who will fight for the election. "If you're a 'senior Democrat' that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism,"...

Stick a fork in Joe Biden. He's done. After the recent turmoil his party went through after the debate, which significantly damaged his candidacy and prompted calls for him to drop out, Democratic strategists who spoke with NBC News on Sunday say that now the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump most certainly was the true end of his hopes of getting reelected. "We're so beyond f---ed," lamented a longtime Democratic insider, emphasizing that the image of Trump thrusting his fist in the air, blood dramatically smeared across his face, will be an unforgettable image between now and Election Day....

Just two hours after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Chinese retailers began selling T-shirts capturing the moment. The swift production was made possible by digital printing technology, leading to thousands of orders from China and the US.Within hours of Donald Trump shooting, T-shirts put on sale in China Just over two hours after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania, Chinese online retailers swiftly began selling souvenir T-shirts. These T-shirts featured photos capturing the moments just after Trump escaped the attempt on his life, according to a report by the Times of India...

After any such event as the one we witnessed on Saturday, in which a lunatic attempted to take the life of a former president of the United States, there are going to be questions. A lot of those questions will be aimed at the Secret Service - and at the Biden administration. The primary question will be this: "Who screwed up?" And the answers, at least, the answers that the general public sees, are bound to be interesting as the investigation proceeds. But there are some things we know now.When Trump does events in New York, the NYPD ensures that...

There's going to be an investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. There are already big questions about how a shooter was able to get up on a roof within reach of the president, when all the roofs should have been checked out and secured. Trump was shot in the ear, rally attendee Corey Comperatore was killed after he bravely shielded his wife and daughter from the bullets, and two others were critically injured. (Happily, those two people are now reportedly in stable condition.) We reported how people were warning about the "guy on the roof" before...

Late Saturday, the FBI identified the shooter – the attempted assassin – of President Donald Trump as Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks was also allegedly the one who shot and killed a man who attended Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania and critically injured two others.According to Newsweek:CBS News reported that Crooks had a rifle and had fired on the former President from a position a couple of hundred feet away from the venue in Butler, [PA] citing anonymous law enforcement sources. The shooter was identified through his DNA, as he was not carrying any identification at the time, the FBI said.Crooks, 20...

An eyewitness at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania claims he saw a man with a rifle on a rooftop. He said he warned authorities but was ignored. "We couldn't see [Trump], but we could hear him. So we walked up probably five to seven minutes from Trump speaking—I'm estimating here, I've no idea. But we noticed the guy crawling, bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, fifty feet away from us. So we're standing there, you know, we're pointing, we're pointing at that guy crawling up the roof." "He had a gun, right?" a BBC reporter asked him....

A man with a rifle could be seen on a rooftop minutes before shots were fired at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania, a witness has told the BBC. Greg, the witness, said the man was armed with a rifle and had crawled on top of a building just outside the event in Butler County on Friday evening. ... "We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50ft away from us," he said. "He had a rifle, we could clearly see a rifle. "We're pointing at him, the police are down there running around on...

interview with a guy outside the security perimeter who claims he saw the Trump shooter before he fired

A senior Hezbollah commander was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. He was one of the highest-ranking officials in the terror group to be killed in nine months of fighting along the border. The terror group responded by firing at least 100 rockets at northern Israel on Wednesday afternoon. Hezbollah confirmed the death of Muhammad Nimah Nasser, also known as Abu Nimah, from the south Lebanon town of Haddatha, following reports of the strike. Nasser was killed in a strike in the coastal city of Tyre. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said “an enemy drone targeted...

The populist prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, was in life-threatening condition Wednesday after being shot in an "attempted assassination," his office said. Fico’s Facebook page said in an update: “He was shot multiple times and is in a life-threatening state.” It said that he was being taken to a hospital in the city of Banská Bystrica rather than in the capital, Bratislava, because "it would take too long considering the urgency of the matter." The country’s president confirmed the attack shortly after the news broke. “Utterly shocked by today’s brutal and reckless attack on #Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico,...

When we think about Trump Derangement Syndrome, what likely first comes to our minds are the totally mental antics of the Trump-obsessed left: we see the ugly liberal fatties screaming in the street while wearing vagina hats; we might think of Rob Reiner, the Hollywood has-been who seems to hourly post on X about how “fascist” Trump is “literally” Hitler; or we uncomfortably remember (while trying to forget) the time that E. Jean Carroll told Anderson Cooper that “some” people think “rape is sexy” in the wake of accusing President Trump (a man behind the show of which she was...

his Wednesday marks 60 years since America’s youngest President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 46 by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was shot while riding in a car with his wife First Lady Jackie Onassis and Texas Governor John Connally during a tour of the state. Two days later, local nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963.

Jumpin’ ju-ju bones, this is either a coincidence… or… yikes!... The potential assassin who was stopped by RFK Jr security has been identified. His name is Adrian Paul Aispuro (44). {link} Keep in mind the incident happened on Thursday Sept 14, and the potential assassin had a U.S. Marshals badge. One day earlier, Sept 13th, Mexican Cartel Leader El Chapo’s wife was released from federal prison. “We can confirm Emma Coronel Aispuro released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) today, September 13, 2023.” {link} INTO THE RABBIT HOLE – Now, I’m not saying they are related,...

Longtime readers of my work on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy know that I point to the evidence establishing the fraudulent autopsy that was conducted on JFK’s body to convict the U.S. military establishment of criminal complicity in the assassination itself. That’s because there is no innocent explanation for a fraudulent autopsy. Once one concludes that the autopsy that the military conducted on JFK’s body was fraudulent, one has automatically concluded that the military establishment was criminally complicit in the assassination itself. There is no way around that. The evidence of autopsy fraud is set forth in my...

“Craig Robertson, come out with your hands up! This is the FBI.” That’s what residents of a quaint, suburban neighborhood pushed up against Provo Canyon near the BYU campus say they woke up to in the early morning hours Wednesday. “It sounded like it was coming from inside my house,” said one neighbor, who asked not to be identified. What followed was a barrage of gunshots. Moments later, authorities carried the overweight, elderly man out of his house, placed him on the sidewalk and tried, unsuccessfully, to render first aid, according to the witness. Several neighbors said his body remained...

As with any news coming out of Russia, there’s almost no telling what is true and what is not. What we do know for certain is that a former Naval officer and sub commander who Ukraine had accused of war crimes was killed this week while running through a park in Russia.A Russian naval captain who appeared on a Ukrainian blacklist of suspected war criminals was ambushed and executed by an assassin on his morning run.Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was shot four times in the back and chest with a Makarov pistol around 6 a.m. Monday in a park in the...

The story of that whole Wagner group insurrection a couple of weeks ago certainly disappeared from the headlines pretty quickly, didn’t it? The few updates we were given by the Kremlin and Russian state television kept changing. One of the biggest questions was where Yevgeny Prigozhin wound up. We were first told that he had been pardoned and was going to be staying in Belarus. But then we were told he had returned to Russia. We next heard he’d never actually gone to Belarus, but he’d had a meeting with Putin to sort things out. The one thing we do...

As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has pursued enemies abroad, his intelligence operatives now appear prepared to cross a line that they previously avoided: trying to kill a valuable informant for the U.S. government on American soil. The clandestine operation, seeking to eliminate a C.I.A. informant in Miami who had been a high-ranking Russian intelligence official more than a decade earlier, represented a brazen expansion of Mr. Putin’s campaign of targeted assassinations. It also signaled a dangerous low point even between intelligence services that have long had a strained history. “The red lines are long gone for Putin,” said...