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A former Los Angeles deputy mayor pleaded guilty to reporting an anti-Israel bomb threat on city hall last year.Brian K. Williams, 61, who was employed as the deputy mayor of public safety in October 2024, was charged with one felony count of making an explosives threat. He was hand-picked for the role by woke Mayor Karen Bass in February 2023 and given significant public safety responsibility, including oversight of the city's fire and police departments. Williams sent a text message to Bass and other high-ranking city officials on October 3, 2024, that he just received a call from someone who...

Los Angeles’ deputy mayor for public safety has pleaded guilty to calling in a fake, anti-Israel bomb threat to himself in October. Brian Williams, who was charged by federal prosecutors Thursday, faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Mayor Karen Bass announced in December that Williams had been put on administrative leave, meaning he likely has been collecting his $245,143 combined salary and benefits without any official duties. As deputy mayor for public safety, Williams would have overseen the city’s fire and police response during the devastating January wildfires. The Department of Justice reports that during an online government...

The controversy related to his recollections of his time covering the Iraq War. In January 2023, Williams told NBC viewers he had been traveling with four U.S. Army helicopters forced to land to avoid enemy fire and then trapped by a sandstorm.That much was true, but over the next dozen years, Williams made it seem like he was closer to the action than he actually was, that the helicopter in which he was riding was shot down. Eyewitnesses, however, said other helicopters were hit and that Williams' helicopter arrived at the scene an hour later.In a timeline of statements from...

Here we go again… NBC anchor Brian Williams said he has close contacts in the Pentagon and they got him a piece of the fuselage of the chopper shot down in the Bin Laden raid in Abbottabad. Williams says he has one piece and Barack Obama has the other. Via Sooper Mexican: “I have something that fits that perfectly. I have friends among the Special Operations folks in the Pentagon. And I have a piece of the fuselage of the chopper that didn’t make it in Abbottabad. It’s one of the toughest things to get. And the president has a...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ deputy mayor — whose purview included oversight of the city’s fire department — was placed on administrative leave last month after the FBI raided his home in connection to an alleged bomb threat he made against city hall. The Los Angeles Police Department said at the time that Deputy Mayor Brian Williams was likely the “source of the threat,” but the feds later took the lead on the investigation due to Williams’ close connections with the LAPD. Among his duties were overseeing the city’s police department, fire department, the Port of Los Angeles Police, the...

FBI agents on Tuesday raided the home of Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Brian Williams in connection with a bomb threat he allegedly made against City Hall earlier this year, a spokesperson for Mayor Karen Bass said. The mayor's office was notified of the search, according to a statement released Wednesday afternoon by Bass's spokesperson Zach Seidl. Williams "was immediately placed on administrative leave," the statement said. "The Mayor takes this matter very seriously. When the threat was reported, LAPD investigated and determined there was no immediate danger. Following additional investigation, LAPD referred this matter to the FBI for further investigation."...

Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams on Wednesday said the Democratic Party was dead and blamed Vice President Kamala Harris' loss in the 2024 presidential election to minority pandering and elitism. "It's insulting when members of the working class, which the Democratic Party has lost entirely in our lifetimes, to insist the economy is doing great," Williams said during an interview with NBC "Late Night" host Seth Meyers. "A 12-pack of Bounty is $40; rich folks don't feel that. Poor folks already switched to Sparkle during the Covid lockdown. I think telling them that the NASDAQ is gangbusters is further...

VIDEOHave you wondered what Brian Williams is doing lately after first being tossed off the anchor seat at NBC Nightly News in disgrace for lying about his own "bravery" followed by years in the MSNBC wilderness going full TDS before finally being put out to pasture? Well, apparently he is now shilling shamelessly for cable movies. In this case you can see Blowhard Brian shilling for the horrible' Netflix remake of "All Quiet On the Western Front." There are many many ways in which this remake is horrible but let me just present the ABSURD ending in which with just...

'Star Wars' character Obi-Wan Kenobi only became more powerful after he was defeated. So if Rep. Liz Cheney is ousted from her leadership role by House Republicans, could she actually become a bigger foil for the party's Trump loyalists backing 'the big lie'? We discuss that with Cornell Belcher and Michael Steele.

Well, we mentioned that his announcement today follows reports that he had objected to some of Fox News's recent political coverage.

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Longtime NBC News broadcaster Brian Williams issued a strange warning Thursday as he retired from his 11 p.m. MSNBC show. (snip) "Grown men and women who swore an oath to our Constitution, elected by their constituents, possessing the kinds of college degrees I could only dream of, have decided to join the mob and become something they are not while hoping we somehow forget who they were. They’ve decided to burn it all down with us inside. That should scare you to no end as much as it scares an aging volunteer fireman."

MSNBC host Brian Williams delivered a somber sign off during his final show for the network, stating that his biggest worry is “for my country.” “After 28 years of peacock logos on much of what I own, it is my choice now to jump without a net into the great unknown. As I do for the first time in my 62 years, my biggest worry is for my country,” Williams said during his 11 p.m. show, “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams.” “The truth is I'm not a liberal or a conservative. I'm an institutionalist. I believe in this place...

VIDEOStolen Valor Serial Fabulist Brian Williams signed off forever from his MSNBC exile. Of course in all the tributes to himself was nary a reference as to why he was leaving a low rated late night MSNBC show rather than from his NBC News anchor gig. Also interesting was that in all the personal tributes to Williams, notably missing was Lester Holt who owes Brian his current NBC Nightly News anchor slot due to Williams being forced to vacate it thanks to his serial lying. Also note that Brian signed off by taking an ominous shot at the MAGA "deplorables"...

Longtime NBC News broadcaster Brian Williams issued a strange warning Thursday as he retired from his 11 p.m. MSNBC show. "The reality is though, I will wake up tomorrow in the America of the year 2021, a nation unrecognizable to those who came before us and fought to protect it, which is what you must do now," Williams said. "They’ve decided to burn it all down with us inside. That should scare you to no end as much as it scares an aging volunteer fireman." Transcript and video at link.

Brian Williams, dismissed as "NBC Nightly News" anchor in 2015 for serial embellishment and lying, has decided to walk away from his MSNBC show "The 11th Hour." CNN's Brian Stelter, from a competing network, previewed the last show: "There's no word on what the Thursday finale will entail, but here's hoping for a sendoff befitting his position." Williams should be sent off with a lump of coal. Stelter wasn't quite as bad as one of his favorite Sunday-show guests, journalism professor and former Baltimore Sun reporter David Zurawik. "I have separation anxiety about Brian Williams leaving at 11:00 because it...

These words come with more news about the passing of General Wayne Downing, one of America’s finest. This rare man was highly respected by the best of the best. I had the honor of talking several times with General Downing in Iraq earlier this year. He was still leading the way, providing his seasoned analysis on the air with NBC’s Brian Williams. At the time, I wrote of meeting General Downing in a dispatch entitled “Ernie is Dead”:

VIDEOSerial liar Brian Williams, who was forced out of his cushy NBC News anchor gig in 2015 for lying in order to make himself look like some sort of war hero, has just announced that he is leaving NBC at the end of the year. After losing his anchor gig, Williams went into exile to join the Moonbats at MSNBC for his own "11th Hour" show where he fully embraced the leftist Howler ethos, especially about the Trump-Russia Collusion HOAX, set there by the likes of Keith Olbermann and Joy Reid as you can see in a few of these...

Anchorman Brian Williams, a 28-year veteran of NBC News and MSNBC, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company at the end of this year. “This is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another,” Williams said in a statement. “There are many things I want to do, and I’ll pop up again somewhere.” For the past 5 years, Williams has anchored “The 11th Hour,” an end-of-the-day newscast and political talk program. CNN Business reported in August that his contract was expiring in the next six months and that he wanted to move off the late-night hour. His...

VIDEOSo why has Joe Biden PLUNGED so rapidly that he is now challenging Jimmy Carter for the lowest poll numbers in history? Well, Brian Williams completely ignores Biden's obvious incompetence and blames his poll plunge on "really crappy reporting." Of course, what Williams means by "really crappy reporting" is that the news media in unable to keep sad reality, such as the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, from seeping into their reports at times. What Brian wants is the media to lie as much as he does so as to protect Sleepy Joe from the consequences of his incompetence.As for "really crappy...