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President Donald Trump reportedly told Erika Kirk Wednesday to "sue" the critics who have defamed her since her husband's assassination last year. Erika Kirk took over her late-husband Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA foundation as CEO and chair after he was fatally shot at a rally in Utah last September, but critics have heavily attacked the widow on social media since the shooting. Trump made the suggestion during a speech at the White House Easter lunch, when he spotted her at a table. "Hello, darling! Wow. There’s a good table. I like that table," Trump said, according to the Daily...

ADAMS COUNTY, Ohio -- The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff's deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home. "We did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of speech! Right on! Right on!" the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted outside the courthouse after the Wednesday evening verdict. He later posted the clip to social media. The case tested the limits of parody and the license artists can take in social commentary directed at public figures. The deputies, collectively, sought...

High-end athleisure brand Alo could face legal trouble after Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk’s private purchase history was allegedly leaked and used to smear her. A TikTok content creator recorded a now-viral video this week claiming he received an email from "someone who works at Alo" who looked up Kirk’s account and found that she spent over $1,000 the day after her husband was assassinated. The TikTok creator, who displayed the receipt online, mocked Kirk over the timing of the "shopping spree." The influencer – @markosbits on TikTok – insisted the leaked receipt would "completely ruin Erika Kirk’s entire...

The nation's largest labor group that represents thousands of farmworkers said on Tuesday it will not take part in any Cesar Chavez Day activities after allegations against the civil rights activist and union co-founder recently surfaced.

Allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and abuse of young women or girls have emerged against iconic late labor organizer Cesar Chavez, and the ​union he co-founded will not take part in annual celebrations of him, ‌according to statements on Tuesday. The Cesar Chavez Foundation, which preserves memorials including his California gravesite, said the alleged "inappropriate sexual behavior" occurred while Chavez was president of the United Farm Workers Union, which he co-founded ​in 1962. The union said there were allegations that Chavez "behaved in ways that are ​incompatible with our organization’s values" while adding that it had no direct ⁠reports or...

A day after the farmworkers union Cesar Chavez co-founded announced it was distancing itself from him after allegations surfaced, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta broke her silence on her past sexual encounters with him that resulted in secret children.

In the wake of sexual abuse allegations against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, groups began pushing to rename some of the dozens of California sites and events named for the labor leader. San Francisco’s Cesar Chavez Day Parade has been renamed to the Dolores Huerta Parade and Festival, and it will be held on April 11, organizers told the Chronicle. San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, said she “will support community efforts to remove Cesar Chavez’s name from any District 9 institutions.” Her district includes Cesar Chavez Street, Cesar Chavez Elementary School and is the site of...

Stimulated by little more than idle talk and unsubstantiated gos- sip, FBI surveillance of Chavez under the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter contin- ued over ten years, occupying the attention of dozens of FBlagents in California, a half-dozen other states, and even Mexico. When all related materials are added in—including parallel and cooperative investigations with other intelligence agencies—the FBI dossier on) “ Chavez runs to over 1,500 pages, with new documents being disi closed regularly. Outlining J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign to uncover communist infiltration and control the farmworker movement, the file emerges as...

A white youth who was falsely accused of committing a hate crime against his black classmate has been awarded $3.2 million after a Texas jury determined the incident was a hoax fabricated by the classmate’s money-grubbing mother and her race-hustling attorney. The scam unfolded in 2021, when Summer Smith — the mother of then-middle school student SeMarion Humphrey — and her lawyer, Kim T. Cole, accused Humphrey’s white classmate, Asher Vann, and his friends of shooting Humphrey with BB guns and forcing him to drink urine during a sleepover at Vann’s house in Plano, Texas, the Washington Free Beacon reported....

Remember when Summer Smith alleged in 2021 that her son was "tortured" by white middle schoolers who shot him with a BB gun and made him drink urine? Well, a Judge just ruled that the entire thing was a HOAX. The media and leftist organizations slandered young boys for this FAKE "racially-motivated hate crime." Summers must now pay one of the boys $3.2 MILLION in damages for LYING about him.

Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) suggested the federal prosecutor behind the Somali fraud convictions in the state should be fired, accusing him of “defamation” for providing an estimate of the total amount defrauded from Medicaid programs. “You saw a U.S. attorney stand up, which … would have been let go by any other administration, speculating about things with no factual information,” Walz said Tuesday. “That’s defamation … and that’s coming from the attorney. We are under assault like no other time in our state’s history because of a petty, vile administration that doesn’t care about the well-being of Minnesotans.” Walz...

President Trump lodged an eye-watering $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC on Monday, accusing the British broadcaster of defaming him through a deceptive edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the White House Ellipse. The lawsuit took aim at a 2024 documentary by the BBC, which spliced different sections of Trump’s comments before his supporters ransacked the Capitol to make it appear as though he explicitly encouraged the riot. “I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,” Trump grumbled to reporters earlier in the day, Monday. “They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to...

Democrat lawmakers circulated a photo of President Donald Trump released from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate with several women’s faces redacted to suggest possible wrongdoing on the part of Trump—only for the unredacted version to show that Trump standing with adult women who were models at an event.

For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. President Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.” He called another “CROOKED” on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action. But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of, records show. In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring...

Jasmine Crockett: "Violence doesn’t come from Democrats. It’s MAGA. The assassination attempts with Donald Trump were Trump supporters. It’s only MAGA that does this."

Epstein fever appears to have mercifully broken at Politico. Yes, although as recently as this past summer when Politico went full frenzy by publishing SIX Jeffrey Epstein stories in a 24 hour period in the apparent belief that the Epstein files would provide salvation from the Trumpocalypse, brutal reality appears to have set in.It isn't that they are any less hostile to Trump but even Trump-hating analyst Ankush Khardori recently admitted the sad truth that the release of those files is unlikely to unlikely to harm Trump.As a result, Politico has been forced to do something very unusual when it...

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Sunday declined to retract her claim that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin received money from deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Crockett made the false suggestion on the House floor Nov. 18, but the contributions in question were from a different Jeffrey Epstein. On MS NOW’s (formerly MSNBC) “The Weekend,” host Jacqueline Alemany offered Crockett a chance to correct herself, but the congresswoman declined to retract her accusation. WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK................... Cartelville Text “You made a little bit of news last week when you mistakenly accused Lee Zeldin and other Republicans— ” Alemany...

The left-wing smear machine fired up again last week, this time to go after Riley Gaines for her outspoken defense of women’s sports and criticism of transgenderism. But all the critics succeeded in proving is that the woke mob no longer has the cultural influence it once did, and that sensationalist headlines can’t hide an utter lack of substance in bad-faith personal attacks. As a quick refresher, Riley Gaines was the University of Kentucky swimmer who became a national story after she tied with the University of Pennsylvania’s Lia Thomas in the 200-yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA swimming championships....

The Epstein files were the latest Never Trump plot to take down Trump. It failed. When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized to CNN, went on The View, blamed Trump for supposed death threats, was hailed by the Washington Post and welcomed to join the Democrats by Rep. Jamie Raskin, many in MAGA compared her to Rep. Liz Cheney. The original Never Trump is long since dead, its leading lights indistinguishable from Democrats, hammered home by Bill Kristol’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, but a new Never Trump 2.0 has formed, once again made up of Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene...

Lee Zeldin responds after Rep. Jasmine Crockett falsely links him to Jeffrey Epstein. Zeldin breaks down the mix-up, the fake “donation,” and why the claims collapsed instantly. Pat presses on political spin, media framing, and what really happened.