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The BBC will apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary, the Telegraph can disclose. Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, will write to the culture, media and sport committee on Monday to express regret for the way the speech, made on the day of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot, was spliced together. The apology will heap further pressure on Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, to quit over an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower that alleged widespread bias within the corporation. The Telegraph has previously disclosed that both Mr Davie and Mr...

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is trying to get some of the charges dropped against former President Donald Trump and others indicted in the Georgia election interference case reinstated. In March, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dropped six of the charges in the indictment against Trump and others saying the charges were too vague. In her filing Tuesday, Willis said, “The indictment included an abundance of context and factual allegations about the solicitations at issue, including when the requests were made, to whom the requests were made, and the manner in which the requests were...

Oh look, it's Big Tech being evil again! According to research from NewsBusters, Google is burying conservative news on search results ahead of the 2024 election. When using the search term "donald trump presidential race 2024," researchers had to scroll through 23 pages of results before they come to a U.S.-based right-leaning news source, a single Fox News video six results down on the 23rd page. According to one study, only 3.9% of users even visit page two of Google results, which suggests almost zero people bother to go to page 23. When using the search term "kamala harris presidential...

During a dinner date with an undercover reporter for the O'Keefe Media Group, MSNBC producer Basel Hamdan asserted that "MSNBC is doing all they can to help Harris get elected. Her message of the day is the network's message of the day. Our anchors and Democrat politicians are in total agreement about everything." Candidate for the US Senate Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) praised MSNBC's efforts, but said "it's not enough. Republicans are still free to promote their misinformation on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Google and others. The CEOs of these social media outlets need to take stronger measures to...

Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri addressed a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) hand over internal communications with special counsel Jack Smith regarding his latest superseding indictment of the former president. Schmitt criticized Smith’s indictment in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump as well as the DOJ’s renewed interest in the “Russian election interference bogeyman” as evidence of political weaponization, according to the letter.... ... the DOJ is blatantly ignoring norms and for the first time in our nation’s history prosecuting its political opponents—not only while votes are...

Hackers reportedly had access to former President Donald Trump’s campaign systems through mid-September, and evidence suggests the breach may still be ongoing.... ... journalist Judd Legum detailed in his Popular Information newsletter on Tuesday that he received a further set of documents from an anonymous source named “Robert,” which he said included internal campaign files. While some of these documents held potential news value, one newly surfaced document, dated September 15, indicates the hack is both more recent and extensive than initially thought. The new document is a letter from the campaign and addressed to the New York Times...A source...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is bashing former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), attacking them in American media outlets and touring an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania Sunday — reportedly arriving there at the taxpayers’ expense on an Air Force jet. The New Yorker has an exhaustive piece on Zelensky penned by Joshua Yaffa, stating that the Ukrainian leader “speaks with the urgency of a leader who knows that he may be facing his last best chance for substantial foreign assistance” as President Biden’s presidential term is coming to an end. The Q&A in the piece...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office sent a cease and desist letter to a resident over allegedly posting "election misinformation" online.Robbin N. Liddell, chief of Nessel's Criminal Trials Division, sent the letter to a Ross Township resident on July 24, informing the recipient that they were "in violation of Michigan election law," The Midwesterner reported Tuesday.Liddell wrote that the individual had "spread misleading or false election information regarding polling locations in Ross Township through on-line sites" and violated a state law that "prohibits and criminalizes this conduct."[snip]The resident who received the letter told The Midwesterner that the online information cited...

*searches Donald Trump* *only gets news about Kamala Harris” (see 4 second video in link below) https://x.com/NoemiKhachian/status/1817974361040748782

Newly unsealed court filings on Monday in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case reveal emails exchanged between officials from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Biden White House, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding former President Donald Trump’s presidential records. The newly unsealed filings also disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) referred to its investigation into President Trump’s presidential records under the code name “[Redacted] Plasmic Echo.” A key exhibit included with a motion to compel filed in January was an FBI case file labeled “[Redacted] PLASMIC ECHO; Mishandling of Classified or National Defense Information.” This...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday handed over transcripts of an interview with President Biden's ghost writer Mark Zwonitzer, whom the president gave classified documents, but refused to release audio of ex-special counsel Robert Hur's Biden interview. While the DOJ has handed over transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden that led him to conclude the president is 'elderly' and 'well-meaning' but has a 'poor memory,' Republicans are unsatisfied. They insist they need audio of the interview too. They subpoenaed transcripts, notes, audio and video files largely related to Hur's interview - giving Attorney General Merrick Garland until Monday at...

Former Vice President Mike Pence blasted former President Trump on Monday for embracing the position that abortion policy should be determined by states and avoiding taking a stance on whether the federal government should enforce a national ban at a certain cutoff point. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Pence — who was Trump’s running mate in 2016 and 2020 —said Trump’s newly announced position on abortion was a “slap in the face” to opponents of abortion rights who voted for their ticket. “President Trump’s retreat on the Right to Life is a slap in the face to the...

Google has been putting its thumb on the scale to help Democratic candidates win the presidency in the last four election cycles, during which it censored Republicans, according to a right-leaning media watchdog. The Media Research Center published a report alleging 41 instances of “election interference” by the search engine since 2008. The MRC published a report accusing Google of having “utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates … while targeting their opponents for censorship.” The report comes weeks after AllSides conducted an analysis which found that news aggregator Google News skewed even more...

Google has "interfered" with major elections in the United States 41 times over the last 16 years, according to a new study from the Media Research Center. "MRC researchers have found 41 times where Google interfered in elections over the last 16 years, and its impact has surged dramatically, making it evermore harmful to democracy. In every case, Google harmed the candidates – regardless of party – who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice," MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and editor Gabriela Pariseau wrote in a summary of their findings. "From the mouths of Google executives, the...

The Georgia State Senate Special Committee on Investigations Wednesday morning heard testimony from Trump RICO co-defendant Michael Roman’s attorney, Ashleigh Merchant. In a previous court filing, Michael Roman revealed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “financially benefited” from a romantic relationship with top Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade. Merchant testified on her conversations with Nathan Wade’s former law partner and divorce attorney Terrence Bradley. Merchant testified that Fani Willis indeed visited the Biden White House and met with Kamala Harris prior to the Trump RICO indictment. According to publicly available records, Fani Willis visited the White House and met with Kamala...

Florida federal prosecutors want to ask potential jurors in Donald Trump's classified documents case if they believe the 2020 election was "stolen" and if they hold opinions about how the FBI executed a highly publicized search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort... Prosecutors also want to ask potential jurors how much media coverage they have seen or read about the case, if they have any opinions about Trump's public statements about the case or about special counsel Jack Smith, and if they believe the prosecution is "unfair" or if any of the defendants are "being treated unfairly by the court system."...

Do you remember the Brad Pitt movie, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”? The title character suffered from a unique condition in which he was born an old man and then kept getting younger and younger until he died as a newborn baby. Today, we are witnessing the equally curious transformation of a politician from a once reliable Republican conservative to a radical Democrat who seems intent on killing her own presidential political career in the crib. I am talking, of course, about Nikki Haley. [snip] Now, for the last two months, since shortly before the Iowa caucuses, we have...

Former Attorney General William Barr has not been kind to Donald Trump since he left his post at the Justice Department. He opposed the former president’s actions after the 2020 election and has said that Trump's returning to the White House would be a chaotic “horror show.” He’s also called for the former president to be replaced as the leader of the Republican Party, warning he would burn the house down if he remains as the face of the GOP. But a lot can change in a year or two. According to Axios' Mike Allen, with Joe Biden and Trump...

This weekend, Senate Democrats (joined by a few Republicans, including most Republican leadership) forced through a “security supplemental” that spends close to $100 billion, most of it on Ukraine. It was the culmination of months of secretive negotiations on border security. Those negotiations produced a border security product unacceptable to most Republicans, so then Republicans voted it down, and then an hour later we were debating a security supplemental with border security stripped out. The quick pivot, refusal to negotiate another round on border security, and immediate shift to blame Trump confirmed one thing: Republican leadership wasn’t serious about border...

Last Tuesday the radical left Washington DC Appeals Court ruled that President Trump is not immune from prosecution for his speech crimes while serving as US President. The ruling was in regards to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s charges against the former president. Trump argued that the speaking out against election vulnerabilities and violations. On Sunday morning RINO Georgia Governor Brian Kemp told the ABC audience that Trump should get immunity for his speech following the 2020 election. Kemp added that, “No one is above the law.” Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp pushed back on former Pres. Trump's position that he...