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Elie Mystal, a legal analyst for MSNBC and justice correspondent for The Nation, said Friday on “All In” that all the highest standards should be applied during the legal proceedings of former President Donald Trump and his co-conspirators because they will “most likely” be convicted. Anchor Chris Hayes said, “It is actually important that this is being done. I do think that we all share this thing of wanting it to be at the most rigorous level of due process. This should be all the dotted I and crossed T’s. I think so far, if you look at Fani Willis...

Michael Cohen, who served as former President Trump’s personal attorney, called. the former president an “idiot” for not paying his alleged co-conspirators’ legal bills in the Georgia election case. Cohen questioned Monday why Trump would not pay the legal bills for his other codefendants who were indicted in Fulton County, Ga. — such as attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis. “Donald’s an idiot,” Cohen told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.” “Let me just be very clear when it comes to paying money, he is truly an idiot. He has not learned yet that … three people you don’t want...

Throughout 2020 the Black Lives Matter terrorist group was linked to conservatively 91% of the riots that resulted in the most expensive property damage in US insurance historyThere were zero Trump rallies that turned violent during this same time period.Then on January 6, after one million Trump supporters rallied with President Trump at the Ellipse outside the White House, some 900 individuals went inside the US Capitol. Over 400 have since been arrested even those who were waved into the US Capitol by the police standing at the exits.Since January the Deep State and Democrats will not release videotapes to...

This morning, Senator Josh Hawley became the first Senator to publicly commit to objecting to Joe Biden’s slate of electors on Jan. 6, when Congress votes to certify the 2020 presidential election. In a statement, Hawley said he cannot certify the electoral results because some states like Pennsylvania “failed to follow their own state laws.” Later in the day, Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote in a tweet that the word on Capitol Hill is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may strike a deal to change the rules in how congressional members can object to...

Congress is looking to help struggling local newspapers, TV and radio stations qualify for federal coronavirus aid, according to people familiar with the matter. The coming coronavirus legislation expected to be introduced in the House as soon as this week will include a provision to expand newspapers’ and broadcasters’ eligibility for forgivable small business loans, the people said. Meanwhile, Sens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.) and Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) are working to find ways to move the proposal forward in the Republican-controlled Senate. “The Covid-19 crisis has shown us how essential local news and information is to us,” Ms. Cantwell...

Republicans seeking to protect President Trump from impeachment failed Monday to formally rebuke House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff over what they claim was the California Democrat’s “false retelling" of Trump’s now-infamous phone call with Ukraine’s head of state. The Democrat-controlled chamber voted 218-185 to table a censure resolution introduced by Arizona Republican Andy Biggs that chided Schiff for giving an “egregious" account of Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky instead of “quoting directly” from a transcript memo released by the White House. The party-line vote effectively killed Biggs’ resolution. It had no chance of passing — but...

Mass media perpetuates mass murder, critics claim, first by calling it “shooting” which is a sport, instead of “murder” which is a crime, deceptively framing the problem and displacing the blame. Then media promotes these crimes incessantly, sometimes for weeks, because they’re used to attract “viewers,” a euphemism for money. “If it bleeds it leads,” is the reprehensible unethical mantra and behavior. By providing “the oxygen of publicity,” as Margaret Thatcher called it, media encourages copycats, which the murderers themselves tell us they seek. Doesn’t that imply at least some measure of complicity or guilt? Psychiatrists and law enforcement beg...

This is great news, but I still wonder what took the FBI so long. "FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Questions," by Mary Jacoby for IPT News, January 29 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut off contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) amid mounting concern about the Muslim advocacy group's roots in a Hamas-support network, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned. The decision to end contacts with CAIR was made quietly last summer as federal prosecutors prepared for a second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF),...

Federal prosecutors have named CAIR and two other Islamic organizations, the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust, as "unindicted co-conspirators" in a criminal conspiracy to support Hamas, a designated terrorist group.In a filing last week, prosecutors described CAIR as a present or past member of "the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations." They listed ISNA and NAIT as "entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood." Josh Gerstein of The New York Sun reports that spokesmen for CAIR did not respond to requests for comment.This development occurred in connection with...

WASHINGTON, May 31 - As she prepares to run for re-election next year, and perhaps make a presidential run in 2008, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is counting on the counsel of a tight-knit group of advisers who possess a set of qualities that she may prize above all others: discipline and loyalty. Leaks? Public skirmishes? None of this tends to happen in Hillaryland, as Mrs. Clinton's advisers call the inner circle, mostly because the people who have gained entry into this exclusive club have shown strict devotion to her through the years, including her darkest days in public life. In...

Two years ago last weekend, a determined state legislator met with a group of scientists to talk about an idea eavesdroppers might have thought was far-fetched. Over dinner at the trendy Esquire Grill in Sacramento, the group discussed putting together a coalition of patient advocates and scientists to sponsor a state bond initiative that would provide money for stem cell research. President Bush had signed a bill a year earlier limiting the embryonic stem cell work scientists could pursue with federal dollars, and some conservatives in Congress wanted to criminalize the research. The group at the dinner in Sacramento wanted...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:39 p.m. EDTBin Laden Mimics MoveOn.org? If remarks attributed to Osama bin Laden yesterday sounded familiar, there may be a reason. At least one political wag has noticed that certain rhetorical flourishes in the terrorist's tirade bore an eerie resemblance to the political attacks launched by the Democratic propagandameisters at MoveOn.org. Notes OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto, the latest bin Laden outburst "shows a command of Democratic talking points - Halliburton is evil; the president is a 'liar' who commands a 'gang'," etc. The only thing bin Laden seems to have missed is Ted Kennedy's...

On the same day that Osama Bin Laden released a statement claiming American is in Iraq to make money for Halliburton, John Kerry has a new web ad at Salon.com claiming the invasion of Iraq was only about Halliburton: “For the 1st time in history a corporation was allowed to invade a nation. No wonder the UN wasn’t involved. It’s time to UNSEAT George W. Bush. Click here to contribute. Paid for by John Kerry for President, Inc.” Here's what bin Laden said: "We must take into consideration that this war brings billions of dollars in profit to the major...