The U.S. Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security are aware of the potential threats in the wake of a possible arrest of the former president.
U.S. Secret Service, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals, the ATF, the New York Police Department, the New York State Police, the New York Boroughs Courts Police, the U.S. Postal Inspectors and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will be on high alert.
The U.S. Secret Service has round the clock protection for the former president. They are meeting with the NYPD and State Police.
Cesar Sayoc sent pipe bombs to American lawmakers, journalists and celebrities. Several of the victims were prominent critics of Washed Up 45. He also sent a pipe bomb to billionaire George Soros. His son and security intercepted the package.
Soros, a frequent target of the far right is once again in their sights. Soros has been described as "the perfect code word" for conspiracy theories that unite antisemitism and Islamophobia. One prominent Soros-related conspiracy theory is that he is behind the European migrant crisis or importing migrants to European countries.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is likely going to indict Washed Up 45 for the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. The former president and his allies are claiming its the fault of Soros.
Alvin Bragg now has state and federal protection.
Soros is likely under federal protection thanks to the noise.
White nationalists and others on the political fringes have long cast Soros as the supposed leader of a globalist Jewish plot to undermine white Christian civilization. Now Washed Up 45, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and other political leaders have brought the vilification of Soros into the mainstream.
For many on the far right, Soros is “like the Jew behind the curtain, from their perspective, not just in the U.S., but all over the world. He’s the number one enemy of folks on the radical right,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks U.S. hate groups. “The demonization of sorts has been going for a while, but it has really hit sort of a fever pitch in the last three to four years.”
So thus, the impeding indictment and arrest of the 45th President of the United States could lead to violent protests.
Already, U.S. intelligence agencies see a spike in threats against judges, prosecutors, celebrities and the media.
George Soros being one of those celebrities who is the boogeyman of the far-right. He along with Stormy Daniels, the adult entertainer/activist, Manhattan prosecutor Alvin L. Bragg, former Washed Up 45 lawyer Michael Cohen and likely CNN are increasing their security and may have federal protection.
The Russian propagandist who accused then senator Joe Biden of sexual assault in the 1990s is back.
What gets me is how the fuck did she wait for over 30 years to drive an allegation against the 2020 Democratic nominee when she had 2008 when Biden ran for president, became the running mate for then senator Barack Obama, when he was running mate to former president Obama in 2012 and failed to file a report with the U.S. Capitol Police?
Reade claimed she filed a police report with the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police but detectives deemed it inactive. She worked for RT, a Russian state sponsored news network. She is not a foreign policy adviser but she has an opinion on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and NATO.
Tara Reade aka the perjury lady is baiting the most insufferable lawmaker from Georgia to investigate President Joe Biden and her debunked allegation.
In the wake of the 45th President of the United States being possibly indicted for hush money payments being paid to Stormy Daniels. He tried to cover up an allegation by making former lawyer Michael Cohen pay Daniels the money to stay quiet.
Cohen went to federal time out for fraud and failure to cooperate. He once said he would take a bullet for the former president. Not any more.
Cohen could be the person who could being criminal charges against Washed Up 45.
Reade, a supporter of Vladimir Putin is an online troll desperately seeking attention.
Reade has called upon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to investigate her allegations. If they do, will she appear under oath to make her allegations and risk being called out for her lies about her past. Will she be willing to face the people who accused her of deception and fraud.
Tara, Thank you for bravely speaking out about such a horrible sexual assault you endured by your boss, then Senator Joe Biden, as a young staffer. It’s time to take a stand against the two-tiered injustice system. @RepMattGaetz and I would like to invite you to come to… https://t.co/bUJWcAFXbE
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 20, 2023
Will the state of California hold her accountable for lying under oath?
Reade was a staff assistant at an undisclosed time. She worked in the mail room at Biden's then senate office. She claimed he inappropriately touched her. She claimed that staff wanted her to serve drinks because she had legs. She then changed her story to claim that she delivered a gym bag to Biden and then he pushed her aside and digitally penetrated her. She said he tried to kiss her and said she is nothing to her.
She claimed she filed a complaint but can't find it. She made a baseless claim that her complaint is at the University of Delaware and Biden is intimidating her.
Biden denies the allegations.
The Russian delegation to the United Nations has been warning for months that American weapons sent to Ukraine will be diverted by criminals and terrorists. So there was nothing unusual about the Russian Federation’s December 8 note to the Security Council requesting a meeting the next morning to discuss “weapons diversion.”
More surprising was the person Russia proposed to brief the Security Council on this apparent threat: A former junior Senate staffer named Tara Reade.
Reade, who had worked briefly for Joe Biden in the 1990s, has no evident expertise on the topic of weapons trafficking. But she had been in the news for another reason: In 2020, she accused Biden of having sexually assaulted her almost three decades earlier, an allegation he denied.
India, which currently holds the Security Council’s rotating chair, rejected Russia’s request, questioning Reade's "relevance and appropriateness" as an expert in global security, according to a person familiar with the deliberations.
Reade has been on her platforms trying to bring foreign expertise to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has hosted convicted spy Maria Butina and numerous Russian affiliated operatives.
Reade is practically a foreign agent who works on behalf of the Russian Federation.
Her allegations were a well timed decision sponsored by leftists hoping to force Biden to concede and allow Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to win. Sanders knew the Russians were pushing Biden allegations through social media to help him win.
Reade has faded into the abyss since. But now with Republicans in charge of Congress, they are willing to jeopardize their credibility and cause a distraction.
By putting Reade on, they not only advance Russia but also show they are politicizing sexual abuse. Even if Reade is proven a liar, the people who support her will continue to divert attention from her to Biden.
Tara Reade needs to sit her ugly sea cow ass down. Having that insufferable lawmaker, a known white nationalist and conspiracy theorist investigate her claims is all you need to know about Tara Reade and her motives.
Montgomery County Sheriffs respond to a shooting after a carjacking.
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
With theft of Kia and Hyundai vehicles on the rise, many motorists are resorting to defending themselves and their rides. Some are using deadly force.
In Dayton, Ohio, my hometown, a man shot another man after an attempted car jacking at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. The Montgomery County Sheriffs Office said a man has life threatening injuries after they got a call from a man claiming he had shot him.
He was resting in his vehicle when allegedly three men tried to break into his vehicle.
Upon waking up, he felt his life was in danger, he grabbed his firearm and shot one of the carjackers.
“I was sitting in my car and I was asleep,” the caller told dispatchers. “I had almost three guys with guns run up on me and try to bust my window. So, my first instinct was I grabbed my gun and I shot. I hit one of them I think. I don’t know where they are.”
The three men fled the scene.
Moments later, a person checked themself into Miami Valley Hospital with a gunshot wound, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said. However, the location of the gunshot wound could not be released due to HIPPA policies.
The spokesperson did confirm that the person suffered life-threatening injuries following the encounter.
The suspects in this case were not released at the time of questioning because the investigation is still currently active.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office led the investigation into the shooting.
Below are two other incidents in Chicago and St. Louis.
A concealed carry in Chicago shot two teens after they attempted to carjack him. The driver was shot in the head, a front seat passenger was shot in the shoulder and a backseat passenger was injured after the driver crashed into a building. The motorist who shot them was not injured. Chicago Police are still determining whether the motorist faces charges.
A concealed carry in St. Louis shot a man after he tried to carjack him at a Gulf gas station. The suspect was killed. The St. Louis Police are investigating the incident.
What happens when a Black person shoots a white person?
They obviously go to jail and are judged by the junk food media agitators for having some fault in their life. It is common that the far right wants Black America to condemn the actions of one Black extremist, one Black criminal or one Black politician.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanics and Asians shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left. Of course, extremists often promote disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white.
The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox and they force it into national news.
Republicans solutions are more guns, blame others for America's social ills and defect from accepting reality.
With Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives, the only thing they'll offer to every mass shooting is "thoughts and prayers", "our hearts going out to", "the good guy with a gun", and their most common phrase "now it's not the time to politicize these tragedies."
Use the hashtag #ignorethenoise whenever you deal with folks who embrace this.
The ban of semiautomatic rifles and bump stock assortments has always been a a problem.
Republicans refuse to support the ban of these type of weapons.
Every community in the United States will eventually have a legacy. A legacy of tragedy. Gun violence, monkeypox and COVID-19 will affect your town, your family and your life. So I don't want to hear that bullshit about how gun reform is taking away your rights to own firearms.
I don't want to hear that protesting against police killing people of color is hate on cops in general. I don't want to hear talk about the coronavirus being a myth.
When you hear folks say "gun rights," what they really mean is that its white privilege. This good guy with a gun nonsense has to end. The cops didn't do nothing when children were shot inside a school. A security guard was shot dead trying to protect shoppers. A cop accidentally shot his own. The good guy who tried to stop a bad guy is outgunned and a part of the rule #3.
Remember #3 means: The "good guy with a gun" better be prepared to die if they want to stop a shooter.
I don't want to hear folks say masks and vaccine mandates impede their freedoms. It prevents a deadly outbreak from spreading. If you want to die from the coronavirus, that's on you. We lost over 1 million people from the coronavirus.
I don't want to hear the shit about guns saving lives. Cause a bullet does not have eyes and it's always likely gonna hit a target. These folks seem to not get it. These incidents are a tragic part of American history. Thoughts and prayers and your heart going out to the victims is not enough. It quite frankly is an insult. I am also tired of scapegoating Black on Black crime, Chicago, Baltimore and Democratic mayors for the nation's obsession to be numb to gun violence. You pretty much enable this nonsense by deflecting.
President Joe Biden is trying to curb gun violence. However, he has no support from Republicans. Most Democrats and America are for gun control measures. However one Democrat and one independent who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate refuse to change the filibuster rules and its holding us back.
The National Rifle Association is always pushing against it. They will not relinquish from the narrative that guns are not saving lives. The Republicans aided by a fickle junk food media are openly encouraging anarchy and disruption in a desperate attempt for the Republicans to win back Congress and the White House. These agitators are calling for Biden to curb crime but will not help him. They want more guns on the street. It makes no sense.
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The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES.
Bargain basement Nintendo knock off is too hard for TV.
NBC News warns of a cheap Super Nintendo knockoff that has content not suitable for children. Matter of fact, it has X-rated, racist and possible child porn on certain playable games.
First things first, why is it called a Super NES knock off when it has 8-bit NES rom hacks instead of the 16-bit SNES hacks?
Second, why is we so desperate for the cheap shit?
Parents have to look closely at the kinds of toys they are getting their kids these days. Some parents bought the Super Mini SN-02 thinking it was the Super Nintendo. They look exactly the same. It has very similar packaging, and when it is taken out of the box, it looks just like the original game console. When it’s turned on, at first, it looks like the games kids played back in the ’90s with a Mario-looking race game and a Mike Tyson-looking boxing match. Plus, a $50 console sounds a lot better to a parent’s wallet than $150.
Erik Howard and his fiancée went to Coronado Center on Sunday to finish up their shopping. “We figured this would be great for not only myself and my fiancé but also for our children as well,” said Erik Howard.
Trash version of Super Mario Bros. 2. This game called Blackman 2 where it puts Mario and Luigi as Black stereotypes.
Howard says one of the games was called “Blackman 2” sort of a knock-off of “Super Mario Brothers 2”. “The enemies that were in the game were depicted as Ku Klux Klan members. In the background instead of where trees would normally be, there was burning crosses. And as I played the game further, there was a little vine where you could climb up to, and on top of that vine was a hanging Black man,” said Howard.
Howard says he paid $60 for the console. When he purchased it, he had no idea it was a knock off. “It looks perfectly similar just a smaller version because technology, they grow down in size nowadays,” said Howard.
He also says the packaging didn’t have any type of disclaimer warning potential buyers of the content of the game. So he hopes his mistake will serve as a warning and protect other families this holiday season. “This is something that should not be in any household, whatsoever, let alone in the hands of children,” said Howard.
He also says the packaging didn’t have any type of disclaimer warning potential buyers of the content of the game. So he hopes his mistake will serve as a warning and protect other families this holiday season. “This is something that should not be in any household, whatsoever, let alone in the hands of children,” said Howard.
The U.S. Department of Justice and Homeland Security are on high alert for possible violent protests. The U.S. Secret Service, FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals, U.S. Postal Inspectors, Port Authority of New York/New Jersey and New York Police Department are prepared for any threats to state officials, federal officials, witnesses and the former president.
I am seeing social media becomong a cesspool of online trolls and the "do as I say but not what I do" crowd furious over the possible indictment of the 45th President of the United States.
Will they be protesting or inciting mob violence if Washed Up 45 is arrested on Tuesday?
Bet you money that these fools will be sitting back watching his supporters cause potential violence.
Terrence K. Williams
If they Arrest President Trump then all hell will break loose. We the people will rise up, we will protest and will stand with President Trump.
I’m hearing Joe Biden will try to force social media companies to censor people in support of Trump. No President or in Biden’s case,… https://t.co/G9wN4JgMAj
How many Feds/Fed assets are in place to turn protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 19, 2023
.@SpeakerMcCarthy proves again that through his leadership @HouseGOP will not tolerate the Democrat’s weaponization of government and political persecution in the taxpayer’s dime.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 18, 2023
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Speaker
Alvin Bragg is abusing his office to target President Trump while he’s reduced a majority of felonies, including violent crimes, to misdemeanors. He has different rules for political opponents.
Republicans stopped the radical DC crime law, and we will investigate any use of… https://t.co/5yYIo8SUOC
See you on my show on Fox tonight at 9p where I’m going to hammer this. 👇🏻 Protest is your God-Given RIGHT. But please, do not get baited. The left WORSHIPS violence, and uses it as a strategic tool. They are salivating over the idea of baiting you into violence so they can lock… https://t.co/9xi6OmGk6y
“No show has sounding the alarm as loudly as this show about the pending destruction of the rule of law” 🚨🚨@dbongino GOES OFF on the reports that President Trump might be arrested next week pic.twitter.com/5YtFOweivO
— Unfiltered with Dan Bongino (@UnfilteredOnFox) March 19, 2023
Mark Levin
It’s official: the Democrats have turned the American government into a third world, repressive, corrupt operation to serve their political purposes.https://t.co/QhtVkrhIrX
The corrupt New York City DA's star witnesses against Trump.
1) A porn star who's already lost this exact case in court.
2) Michael Cohen ... On December 12, 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to… https://t.co/M0AuIC0lGo
Make no mistake about it - the corrupt DA in NYC is feeling the political heat because of the pressure put on him today by millions of patriots making their voices heard on social media. Trump won today bigly with zero protests. We also learned who is truly trying to save this… https://t.co/AOSCi0013r
It won't end with Trump. These radical Dems will keep weaponizing the law to target their political opponents until there's no one left who can actually stand up to their tyranny. They want to fundamentally transform America and we can not let them win!!! https://t.co/66wjp7VSe9
Republicans believe that Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg is politically motivated and believe that the hush money payments to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels were not crimes. They think that Michael Cohen, Washed Up 45's former lawyer and fixer testified against the former president. He provided documents and written statements stating that the former president approved of the payments during the 2016 presidential election.
Republicans are cap.
They seriously believe this is a witch hunt. Cohen had spent four years in federal time out shielding Washed Up 45, Elliot Broidy and Sean "Softball" Hannity.
Condemnations of the potential charges from McCarthy and other Republicans came after Washed Up 45 posted on Truth Social early on Saturday that “illegal leaks” indicate he will be arrested on Tuesday.
Bragg appears to be close to deciding on whether to file charges against the former president after having invited the former president to testify before the grand jury he has convened this past week. Washed Up 45’s attorney has said the former president would not accept the invitation.
Cohen has said he paid Daniels at the former president’s direction. Washed Up 45 has acknowledged that he reimbursed Cohen for the payment but said it was unrelated to his campaign finances.
Top allies have joined McCarthy in denouncing the probe as politically motivated and siding with the former president, who has insisted he has not done anything wrong.
Lance Reddick passed away from an unknown illness.
Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” “Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, has died. He was 60.
Reddick died “suddenly” Friday morning, his publicist Mia Hansen said in a statement, attributing his death to natural causes. No further details were provided.
Wendell Pierce, Reddick’s co-star on “The Wire” paid tribute on Twitter. “A man of great strength and grace,” he wrote. “As talented a musician as he was an actor. The epitome of class.” “John Wick — Chapter Four” director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves said they were dedicating the upcoming film to Reddick and were “deeply saddened and heartbroken at the loss.”
Reddick was often put in a suit or a crisp uniform during his career, playing tall, taciturn and elegant men of distinction. He was best known for his role as straight-laced Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO series “The Wire,” where his character was agonizingly trapped in the messy politics of the Baltimore police department.
“The Wire” creator David Simon praised Reddick on Twitter: “Consummate professional, devoted collaborator, lovely and gentle man, loyal friend. Could go on, but no, I can’t go on. This is gutting. And way, way, way too soon.
“I’m an artist at heart. I feel that I’m very good at what I do. When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a Black man and I wasn’t pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed,” Reddick told the Los Angeles Times in 2009.
Reddick also starred on the Fox series “Fringe” as a special agent Phillip Broyles, the smartly-dressed Matthew Abaddon on “Lost” and played the multi-skilled Continental Hotel concierge Charon in Lionsgate’s “John Wick” movies, including the fourth in the series that releases later this month.
“The world of Wick would not be what it is without Lance Reddick and the unparalleled depth he brought to Charon’s humanity and unflappable charisma. Lance leaves behind an indelible legacy and hugely impressive body of work, but we will remember him as our lovely, joyful friend and Concierge,” Lionsgate said in a statement.
Lance's wife Stephanie post a heartfelt message thanking his fans for the sympathies.
Reddick earned a SAG Award nomination in 2021 as part of the ensemble for Regina King’s film “One Night in Miami.” He played recurring roles on “Intelligence” and “American Horror Story” and was on the show “Bosch” for its seven-year run.
It was on season four of “Oz,” playing a doomed undercover officer sent to prison who becomes an addict, that Reddick had a career breakthrough.
“I was never interested in television. I always saw it as a means to an end. Like so many actors, I was only interested in doing theater and film. But ‘Oz’ changed television. It was the beginning of HBO’s reign on quality, edgy, artistic stuff. Stuff that harkens back to great cinema of the ’60s and ’70s,” he told The Associated Press in 2011.
“When the opportunity for ‘Oz’ came up, I jumped. And when I read the pilot for ‘The Wire,’ as a guy that never wanted to be on television, I realized I had to be on this show.”
Reddick attended the prestigious Eastman School of Music, where he studied classical composition, and he played piano. His first album, the jazzy “Contemplations and Remembrances,” came out in 2011.
He had a recurring role as Jeffrey Tetazoo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the CBS series “Intelligence.” On “American Horror Story: Coven,” he portrayed Papa Legba, the go-between between humanity and the spirit world.
Reddick is survived by his wife, Stephanie Reddick, and children, Yvonne Nicole Reddick and Christopher Reddick.
His death was first reported by celebrity website TMZ.com.
His upcoming projects include 20th Century’s remake of “White Men Can’t Jump” and “Shirley,” Netflix’s biopic of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. He was also slated to appear in the “John Wick” spinoff “Ballerina,” as well as “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.”
The Baltimore-born-and-raised Reddick was a Yale University drama school graduate who enjoyed some success after school by landing guest or recurring roles “CSI: Miami” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” He also appeared in several movies, including “I Dreamed of Africa,” “The Siege” and “Great Expectations.”
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Minnesota became the first U.S. state to offer free breakfast and lunches to millions of school children. I guess the far right will call "free meals" another definition of "woke."
Gov. Tim Walz is a hero and an amazing human being. He did something that Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Missouri, Utah, Idaho, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi never could do.... Save babies.
While these states are passing draconian abortion laws, ban drag shows and children dressing in women (or men) clothing, banning CRT, making official open carry laws and suing the Biden Administration's student loan forgiveness, Minnesota does something that feeds children, saves money and control food waste.
Democratic governor Tim Walz done more for America than any Republican governor.
Walz's signed the bill into law on Friday after a modified version was approved by the Minnesota House on Thursday.
"As a former teacher, I know that providing free breakfast and lunch for our students is one of the best investments we can make to lower costs, support Minnesota’s working families, and care for our young learners and the future of our state," Walz said in a statement Friday. "This bill puts us one step closer to making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up, and I am grateful to all of the legislators and advocates for making it happen."
The bill had been debated in recent weeks, with senators approving the bill earlier this week, then sending it back to the House.
Democrats lauded the bill for ensuring that all students will have access to meals across Minnesota, while Republicans have criticized the initiative as an expensive measure that fixes a problem that doesn't need fixing and the state would begin picking up the tab for people who can already afford to pay for their own meals. During arguments over the bill, one GOP lawmaker faced scrutiny for comments saying he never met a hungry person.
On Truth Social, the former president made the claim that the Manhattan prosecutor will indict him amd he will be arrest for a criminal felony.
Did you know that Facebook and YouTube reinstated his official accounts?
Since he is running for president again, the social media companies are once again gambling with a dangerous figure who has impact on millions. His rhetoric has caused so much harm to others. It is widely expected that his latest outrage will definitely inspire another riot.
Washed Up 45 made the declaration on Truth Social at 7:26. a.m., in a post written in all capital letters that ended by saying, “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”
It broke the internet and now assures that he is facing criminal charges.
Manhattan prosecutor Alvin L. Bragg, Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels might want to increase their security.
Bragg, have signaled that his office is nearing a likely indictment of Washed Up 45, there was no immediate indication as to why the former president appeared confident that he would be arrested Tuesday. People with knowledge of the matter have said that at least one more witness is expected to testify in front of the grand jury, which could slightly delay any indictment.
Three people close to Washed Up 45 said that the former president’s team had no specific knowledge about when an indictment might come or when an arrest could be anticipated. One of those people, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said that the former president's advisers’ best guess was that it could happen around Tuesday, and that they had relayed that to him, but that they also had made clear to one another that they didn’t know a specific time frame.
Washed Up 45 who faced his first criminal investigation in the late 1970s, has been deeply anxious about the prospect of being arrested, which is expected to include being fingerprinted, one of the people close to him said. When the Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, was arrested in 2021, Washed Up 45 watched in horror as television coverage showed Weisselberg flanked by officers in the courthouse and said he couldn’t believe what was being done to him.
The call for protests echoed Washed Up 45 call to his supporters, in the waning days of his presidency, to join him for a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, the day President Biden’s win was to be certified by a congressional approval of the electoral college votes. At that rally, at the Ellipse near the White House, Washed Up 45 then told supporters to march to the Capitol, where the certification was taking place.
President Trump has announced that the Democrats plan to arrest him on Tuesday. Here is his statement:
"Our nation is now third world and dying. The American dream is dead! The radical left anarchists have stolen our presidential election, and with it, the heart of our country.… https://t.co/aj0WG9swwIpic.twitter.com/uhoEA7Z8ax
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: In one of his most completely unhinged screeds of all time, Trump announces he WILL BE ARRESTED & CHARGED IN NEW YORK ON TUESDAY, while ranting about “OPEN BOARDERS” & calling for protests to “TAKE OUR NATION BACK”. A narcissistic meltdown of epic proportions. pic.twitter.com/NRlCJo89v9
Washed Up 45 post urging his supporters to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” carried unmistakable echoes of the incendiary messages he posted online in the weeks before the attack on the Capitol. In the most notorious of those messages, he announced on Twitter that he would hold a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. “Be there,” he told his millions of followers, “will be wild.”
Investigators later determined that far-right extremist groups as well as ordinary Washed Up 45 supporters read that tweet — posted on Dec. 19, 2020 — as a clear-cut invitation and almost immediately sprang into action, acquiring protective gear, setting up encrypted communications channels and, in one case, preparing heavily armed “quick reaction forces” to be staged outside of Washington for the event.
Leaders of groups like the Proud Boys and the Three Percenter militia movement also started to whip up their members with bellicose language as their private messaging channels were increasingly filled with plans to rush to the former president’s aid.
Douchebag Dan Bongino is telling followers to fight.
New York officials have been discussing security arrangements in and around the Manhattan Criminal Court in case of an indictment of the former president, according to people with knowledge of the planning, which was first reported by NBC News. He is expected to be charged in connection with hush-money payments his former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to an adult-film actress who claimed to have had an affair with the former president.
Early Saturday morning, there was little evidence yet that the former president’s new demand for protests had been embraced by extremist groups.
But Ali Alexander, a prominent organizer of “Stop the Steal” rallies after the 2020 election, reposted a message on his Telegram channel on Saturday suggesting that he supported mass protest to protect Washed Up 45.
“Previously, I had said if Trump was arrested or under the threat of a perp walk, 100,000 patriots should shut down all routes to Mar-a-Lago,” Alexander wrote. “Now I’m retired. I’ll pray for him though!”
Lacking the platform provided by the White House or the machinery of a large political campaign, it is unclear how many people Washed Up 45 is able to reach, let alone mobilize, using his Truth Social website.
And it remained unclear if he would repeat his call for action or increase the stakes with more aggressive language. But his political allies made plain this week that they were preparing for a political war on Bragg.
Some of former president’s supporters responded of their own accord with violence after FBI agents, acting on a search warrant, descended on Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, in August and carted away boxes of documents in an investigation into the former president’s handling of classified material.
Days after the search, an armed Ohio man who had posted online about his outrage over what happened at Mar-a-Lago tried to breach the FBI's field office outside Cincinnati. He was later killed in a standoff with local officers.
The unexpected Saturday morning salvo from the former president provided a preview of the kind of chaos that Bragg is likely to face if he does move forward with an indictment in the near future.
The district attorney, a former federal prosecutor and deputy New York attorney general, has some history prosecuting low-level public officials. But he is unaccustomed to dealing with a figure as erratic and pugilistic as the former president, and it is unclear how his office will deal with future outbursts from the former president.
Hunter Biden suing the computer repair guy who gave his personal laptop to Republicans.
The blind computer repair guy now is facing a lawsuit by the president's son. Hunter Biden is planning on suing the Delaware computer repair store that obtained his laptop.
He is aiming at Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Sean "Softball" Hannity and Tucker Carlson.
Attorneys representing Hunter Biden filed his answer and counterclaims alleging invasion of privacy in response to a defamation lawsuit brought by the Delaware-based computer repairman who they say triggered the infamous laptop controversy in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
The step represents a major escalation in the younger Biden's increasingly aggressive legal posture toward some of his most vocal critics and those who allegedly trafficked his personal information.
The suit, filed in a Delaware federal court, targets John Paul Mac Isaac, a computer repairman who in April 2019 purportedly obtained and later disseminated data from a laptop allegedly belonging to the president's son. The counterclaim is in response to a defamation lawsuit filed by Mac Isaac against Hunter Biden and others in October 2019, which is ongoing.
"[Hunter] Biden had more than a reasonable expectation of privacy that any data that he created or maintained ... would not be accessed, copied, disseminated, or posted on the Internet for others to use against him or his family or for the public to view," according to the countersuit.
Attorneys for Hunter Biden challenged Mac Isaac's claim that the laptop and an external hard drive became his property when Hunter Biden failed to retrieve them within 90 days of leaving them at the repairman's Wilmington, Delaware, shop for servicing, citing the fine print of a repair order allegedly signed by Hunter Biden at the time.
"Contrary to Mac Isaac's Repair Authorization form, Delaware law provides that tangible personal property is deemed abandoned" when the rightful owner has failed to "assert or declare property rights to the property for a period of 1 year," lawyers for Biden wrote in legal documents.
The counterclaim adds that "other obligations must then also be satisfied before obtaining lawful title, such as the court sending notice to the owner and the petitioner posting notice in five or more public places, and advertising the petition in a newspaper."
Hunter Biden is seeking a jury trial and unspecified "compensatory damages" from Mac Isaac. A lawyer for Mac Isaac did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Blind repairman claims Biden left his laptop. He gave it to Rudy Giuliani.
Friday's counterclaim is the latest turn in an increasingly offensive legal tack from the younger Biden, who until recently had largely avoided public confrontations about his business dealings.
In recent months, a revamped legal team led by well-known criminal defense attorney Abbe Lowell has penned a flurry of cease-and-desist letters on Hunter Biden's behalf, and has threatened litigation against some of his most vocal critics, including Mac Isaac.
After 90 days, according to Mac Isaac and his attorney, the abandoned laptop became Mac Isaac's property, pursuant to the work order agreement Hunter Biden allegedly signed when he first visited Mac Isaac's shop.
Mac Isaac subsequently turned the laptop and external hard drive over to the FBI in December 2019, and later sought to share information from the devices with then-President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who made the contents of the devices available to other Trump allies and some news outlets in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election.
ABC News has not reviewed nor verified the contents of the laptop or hard drive.
The computer repairman emerged as a central figure in the drama surrounding Hunter Biden's laptop in the waning days of the 2020 presidential campaign, when images, emails, and text messages allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden emerged in public and galvanized the national conversation as voters took to the polls.
According to accounts given by Mac Isaac and his attorney, on April 12, 2019, Hunter Biden arrived at Mac Isaac's computer repair shop with three damaged devices and asked if the data could be recovered. Days later, Mac Isaac said, he asked Hunter Biden to return to the shop to retrieve the devices and pay an $85 service fee. Mac Isaac has said he never heard back from Hunter Biden, and the invoice was never paid.
In addition to providing copies to the FBI and Giuliani, Mac Isaac sought to distribute copies of the contents of the laptop and hard drive to several allies of the former president, including Republican lawmakers, and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, he said.
The countersuit draws heavily from Mac Isaac's own writings and public commentary regarding his intentions in sharing the data, accusing the repairman of being motivated by his preference of Donald Trump over Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Rudy Giuliani is under federal watch for his ties to a Russian backed Ukrainian prosecutor.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden wrote that "Mac Isaac intended and knew, or clearly should have known, that people to whom he provided the data that he believed to belong to Mr. Biden would use it against then-candidate Joseph Biden and to assist then-President Trump."
In a separate letter addressed to the federal judge overseeing the case, attorneys for Hunter Biden wrote Friday that they intend to seek a deposition from Mac Isaac "as soon as feasible," and that they intend to compel depositions from several other Trump associates, including Giuliani, Steve Bannon, and others.
The new legal offensive comes as congressional scrutiny of President Biden's family ramps up and federal prosecutors press forward in their yearslong probe of Hunter Biden's tax affairs and overseas business endeavors.
Hunter Biden has repeatedly said he is cooperating with federal investigators and remains "100% certain" that he will be cleared of any wrongdoing. President Biden has said he and his son never discussed his foreign business dealings, and there are no indications that the federal investigation involves the president in any way. The White House has repeatedly sought to distance the president from the Justice Department probe.
U.S. Justice Department and Homeland Security agencies FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspectors are on heightened alert. The NYPD, Manhattan District Attorney office, the Fulton County Georgia prosecutor's office are increasing security.
The possibility of Washed Up 45 being indicated and criminally charged will certainly drive the far right nuts. It is apparent that the likelihood of the former president being charged in some form.
Either for campaign finance fraud for the hush money payment to adult entertainer and activist Stormy Daniels or election fraud and intimidation, Washed Up 45 is facing heat.
He also is under federal watch for the classified and top secret documents being found at Mar-a-Lago. He refused to cooperate with the National Archives and they got a lawful court order to search and recover. Washed Up 45 claimed his home was raided and it was a partisan witch hunt. He tried to get an inexperienced federal judge to order an audit of the top secret documents. She issued a special master for it. It turns out that the special master needed a valid reason and he couldn't provide it. The federal government appealed and the order for a special master was stopped. They ended up finding more and now Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating the ordeal.
Washed Up 45could be indicted in the coming weeks and appear in a Manhattan courtroom in an investigation examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with him, four law enforcement officials said Friday.
There has been no public announcement of any timeframe for the grand jury’s secret work, including any potential vote on whether to indict the ex-president.
The possibility of an indictment has Manhattan prosecutor in danger.
The law enforcement officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said authorities are just preparing in case of an indictment. They described the conversations as preliminary and are considering security, planning and the practicalities of a potential court appearance by a former president.
Washed Up 45’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told The Associated Press that if the former president is indicted, “we will follow the normal procedures.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office had no comment. A message was left for court administrators.
The grand jury has been hearing from witnesses including former Washed Up 45 lawyer Michael Cohen, who says he orchestrated payments in 2016 to two women to silence them about sexual encounters they said they had with the former president a decade earlier.
The former president denies the encounters occurred, says he did nothing wrong and has cast the investigation as a “witch hunt” by a Democratic prosecutor bent on sabotaging the Republican’s 2024 presidential campaign.
“Democrats have investigated and attacked President Trump since before he was elected — and they’ve failed every time,” campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement Thursday about the inquiry.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has apparently been examining whether any state laws were broken in connection with the payments or the payments or the way Washed Up 45’s company compensated Cohen for his work to keep the women’s allegations quiet.
Daniels and at least two former Washed Up 45 aides — onetime political adviser Kellyanne Conway and former spokesperson Hope Hicks — are among witnesses who have met with prosecutors in recent weeks.
Cohen has said that at the former president’s direction, he arranged payments totaling $280,000 to porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. According to Cohen, the payouts were to buy their silence about the former president, who was then in the thick of his first presidential campaign.
Cohen and federal prosecutors said the company paid him $420,000 to reimburse him for the $130,000 payment to Daniels and to cover bonuses and other supposed expenses. The company classified those payments internally as legal expenses.
The $150,000 payment to McDougal was made by the then-publisher of the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer, which kept her story from coming to light.
Federal prosecutors agreed not to prosecute the Enquirer’s corporate parent in exchange for its cooperation in a campaign finance investigation that led to charges against Cohen in 2018. Prosecutors said the payments to Daniels and McDougal amounted to impermissible, unrecorded gifts to the former president’s election effort.
Cohen pleaded guilty, served prison time and was disbarred. Federal prosecutors never charged Washed Up 45 with any crime.
The POLITICO has decided to get into the hotly contested runoff for Chicago mayor.
Lori Lightfoot, the incumbent mayor of America's third largest city was defeated in a non partisan primary. As expected, a Democrat will win the run off but which one?
Chicago will have a mayor. It is between two Democrats. One who supports taking on crime in the city and one who wants to reform the police with initiatives that make it easier to take on crime.
See they both want to take on crime, but Chicagoans wants results.
The Bernie Bros. are back in the business of slandering Democrats as Blue MAGA. And it appears that Brandon Johnson is taking the same "loser" playbook that cost Nina Turner, India B. Walton, Jessica Cisneros and David Esrati.
When you're down in the polls, you decide to fight dirty.
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are locked in a tight race.
The run off clearly favors Vallas who is running a Democrat but acting like a Republican.
They have called him a "wolf's in sheep's clothing" and a phony Democrat.
Johnson is banking on Vallas' criticisms of Democrats and Chicago leaders to motivate voters in April.
The comments came during a lull in Vallas’ political life, two years after losing the 2019 mayoral race and before he geared up for another bid. But they now could affect his future as he looks to run the nation’s third-largest city, where Obama remains a revered figure. And Biden’s potential endorsement in the race, along with other big-name Democrats, could end up tipping the balance.
Vallas is known for off-hand remarks. While doing the radio show, he described Democratic Illinois Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth as rubber-stamp votes for Biden, according to the Facebook Live video archives reviewed by POLITICO.
Vallas’ appearance on Morning Answer was not unusual. He has regularly aligned himself with conservative-leaning outlets and organizations, and his endorsement by the Fraternal Order of Police helped shore up his crime-fighting bona fides. Vallas also spoke at a fundraiser for Awake Illinois, a far-right organization that trafficks in transphobic and homophobic rhetoric.
The Hyde Park neighborhood, which is home to the Obamas, is the site for the Obama Presidential Center.
“Hyde Park was probably one area of the city that didn’t need a half-billion dollar investment,” Vallas said later in the show. As the program played audio of Barack Obama saying his family is working with people who care about Chicago as much as they do, Vallas is heard whispering: “that’s why they’re living in Martha’s Vineyard.”
“They are partying in Martha’s Vineyard with no masks,” he added later, a reference to pictures that had previously surfaced from the former president’s 60th birthday party where guests were seen dancing and maskless.
Obama and Biden weren’t the only Democrats to come in for criticism. When Moore claimed that Durbin and Duckworth were in lockstep with Biden, Vallas again agreed.
“Always, always ‘yes’ votes,” he said.
Vallas’ campaign dismissed the comments as simply entertaining banter. “Paul is a policy wonk, not a talk-radio host, and any commentary referenced as critical was made in jest, as often occurs on morning talk shows. Paul looks forward to working with all Democratic leaders of our state to make Chicago a safer city for families and businesses to thrive once again,” the campaign said in a statement to POLITICO.
“Paul Vallas is a lifelong Democrat, who has deep respect for his party’s current and former leaders and has worked alongside many of them over the years in advancing the values of the Democratic party,” the statement continued.
The White House declined to comment, as did a representative for Obama.
Voters will decide on who can run Chicago.
Vallas’ media appearances have been campaign fodder for opponents before. Other clips appeared in the first round of the mayor’s race and were featured in TV ads by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. And the episodes from Morning Answer were quickly turned into fodder by Johnson’s team.
“Paul Vallas is a Republican because Democrats don’t go on conservative talk radio shows and insult Joe Biden, Barack and Michelle Obama, Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth,” Johnson spokesperson Bill Neidhardt said in response to an inquiry from POLITICO.
Vallas has said given the city having a rise in crime, Johnson's "defund the police" rhetoric will turn voters off.
With Johnson having the backing of Daniel Marans, the controversial Huffpost writer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) backing Johnson, its going to be a big defeat for him.
On the positive note: Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) backed Johnson.
The Bernie Bros. and leftists are dangerous to Democrats. They will undermine Democrats at every turn with these ridiculous purity tests. White leftists are not allies to Black voters.
Trust me, Black voters support decreasing crime in Chicago. Vallas is likely going to be Chicago's next mayor.