Yeah, he may have defeated her in 2016, but guess what?
He lost in 2020 to a former vice president who everyone thought was expected to lose.
On top of that, she never said the election was stolen or caused her supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol. She said to respect the results and hope the best for the future president.
Now every time she responds to a controversy from the former president, the far right reacts like the typical animals they are.
Republicans are obsessed with Hillary Clinton. If they continue to use her as a scapegoat, they will lose in 2024. It proves the point that the party is fixated on conspiracy theories and endless political theater.
As the former president is facing 37 federal charges for the failure to return classified documents, Republicans return to beat on a dead horse.
Clinton left the White House as the secretary of state under President Barack Obama in 2012. The Republicans keep bringing Benghazi and her emails back into the matter. They are literally trying to justify why a former president kept classified documents in the open and literally took them without permission. When the National Archives asked for them back, he hid them, tried to destroy evidence and shown several of them to people who had no access to them.
Republicans appearing on GOP Sundays were scrambling to defend Washed Up 45.
When they try to defend the indefensible, they run to Hillary Clinton. They even use Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden and George Soros.
Washed Up 45's backers are citing the Justice Department’s decision in 2016 not to bring charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in that year’s presidential race, over her handling of classified information. His supporters also are invoking a separate classified documents investigation concerning President Joe Biden to allege a two-tier system of justice that is punishing the former president, the undisputed early front-runner for the GOP’s 2024 White House nomination, for conduct that Democrats have engaged in.
“Is there a different standard for a Democratic secretary of state versus a former Republican president?” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Washed Up 45 primary rival. “I think there needs to be one standard of justice in this country.”
But those arguments overlook abundant factual and legal differences — chiefly relating to intent, state of mind and deliberate acts of obstruction — that limit the value of any such comparisons.
In August, I will do the Sean Hannity Word Vomit. I will once again detail this far right annoyance and his obsession with her and Hunter Biden. I will address the Fox scandals and how his show has become so stale, it is losing to MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Alex Wagner.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr tells Fox that Washed Up 45's failure to return classified documents is his own undoing. He can't defend the actions of the former president.
Barr, appearing on Fox News Sunday, said he was “shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, frankly.”
“The government's agenda was to get those, protect those documents and get them out. And I think it was perfectly appropriate to do that. It was the right thing to do,” Barr said.
“We have to wait and see what the defense says and what proves to be true,” Barr noted, but he added that “if even half of it is true, then he's toast.”
The former attorney general explained that there is a difference between a president's personal documents, such as notes from a meeting, and sensitive documents prepared by government officials for the president.
Washed Up 45 has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence and called the allegation election interference as he seeks a second term in the White House.
Barr, once one of Washed Up 45’s closest allies, earlier this month called the former president unfit to serve as president in 2024 and said “It is a horror show when he is left to his own devices.”
Interstate 95, a major north-south freeway that travels from Houlton, Maine at the U.S-Canadian border to Miami carries a majority of American travelers on the East Coast.
It is the longest north-south highway. It passes through or goes near 20 major cities.
Philadelphia is the halfway point between Washington, DC and New York. It carries up to 125,00 million travelers a day.
A semi truck fire has collapse the deck of Interstate 95 north of downtown. It will impact millions of motorists. On top of that, it goes to show Americans that culture wars are really not the biggest issue in the country. Bud Light and Rainbow flags aren't getting people to work or their destinations. The impact of a freeway is the lifeblood of American commerce and our economy.
Multiple lanes of Interstate 95 northbound in Philadelphia have collapsed after a tanker truck fire erupted underneath an overpass.
The fire broke out around 6 a.m. underneath I-95 near the Cottman Avenue exit in the Tacony section of the city.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and the U.S. Representatives from Pennsylvania and New Jersey are aware.
Investigators theorize a fuel tanker is the source of the fire that destabilized and brought down an entire portion of the northbound lanes, according to sources.
The southbound side of the interstate has also been compromised due to the blaze.
Flames could be seen shooting up from the roadway Sunday morning. Thick black smoke filled the sky and traffic was stopped in that area.
Residents in the area of the collapse can follow updates from PennDOT on their website.
Domestic terrorist died in federal time out. Just a week ago, Robert Hanssen, the country's most notorious spy who traded secrets to the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation passed away in Florence, Colorado at their Supermax.
Now Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber has passed away at the medical facility lockup in Butner, North Carolina. The domestic terrorist was 81. He was stationed at Florence, Colorado before his health got worse. They shipped his ass to the medical facility in North Carolina. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday.
Kaczynski spent 20 years on the lamb. He was captured in 1996.
This man was monster. Unfortunately, the junk food media gave him a story.
He was a child prodigy. He graduated from college at a young age and wanted to become a mathematics instructor. Down the line, he was rejected by women because he harbored creepy behavior. He was interested in men at some point and even considered becoming a woman. He said he thought about killing his psychologist because he talked him out of it.
After failing to win over staff at the University of California in Berkeley, he decided to take on a reclusive life in Montana.
He lived his life in a log cabin in remote Lincoln, Montana. He lived in a run down shack with no running water, no electricity and no working phone.
Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski placed or mailed 16 bombs that killed three people and injured two dozen others, according to authorities.
In 1995, before he was identified as the Unabomber, he demanded newspapers publish a long manuscript he had written, saying the killings would continue otherwise. Both the New York Times and Washington Post published the 35,000-word manifesto later that year at the recommendation of the U.S. Attorney General and the director of the FBI.
If it hadn't been for the suspicions of his brother and sister-in-law, Kaczynski might never have been caught. Kaczynski's sister-in-law, Linda Patrik, was one of the first to identify Kaczynski as the Unabomber after reading the Unabomber's writing.
In an interview with "20/20 on ID Presents: Homicide" in 2016, Patrik recalled the first time she suspected Kaczynski was responsible for the serial bombings.
Kaczynski went on trial in Sacramento, California, where the key issue was not his guilt but his sanity and whether he would be spared the death penalty. He pleaded guilty to murder in exchange for life in prison without parole in 1998.
Kaczynski, who had attended Harvard at 16-years-old and earned a Ph.D. in math at the University of Michigan, had also threatened to blow up airliners, according to the FBI.
The prosecution of Kaczynski was supervised by the now Attorney General Merrick Garland when he was a senior Justice Department official. Garland also supervised the Oklahoma City Bombing investigation before he was Attorney General.
He grew up in Chicago, where his first bomb exploded, taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where two devices were left, and had lived in Salt Lake City, which was also a target, authorities said.
The name Unabomber was inspired by the case name UNABOM, which is derived from the UNiversity and Airline BOMbing targets, according to the FBI.
Feds assert that classified documents were found in a bathroom at Mar a Lago.
It was worse than we thought. I mean it was clearly obstruction of justice.
Photos released from the lengthy indictment against the former president show that he and several staffers deliberately left classified documents out in the open. He shown folks who had no access top secret material.
Special Council Jack Smith did not take any questions during his brief press conference.
He suggested that Americans read the indictment and understand that the U.S. government without a reasonable doubt had no choice but to file a criminal indictment against Washed Up 45 and several associates.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
He must report to the U.S. District Court in Miami to surrender. He also will face federal judge Alieen Cannon, the controversial Washed Up 45 appointed judge who issued a special master to oversee the classified documents.
His rants and Republicans rallying around him will not do him nor the party any good.
The so called "law and order" party is quite outraged over this. But when you look into how the government determined the extent of how serious the charges are, Republicans may have to reconsider.
Washed Up 45's federal indictment is a scathing, 44-page read that opens with the assertion that, in his post-presidency, he flagrantly violated the very national security laws that he used to propel himself to the White House in 2016.
The former president faces up to 100 years in prison for allegedly putting the nation’s safety at risk by keeping hundreds of classified records, spilling secrets to boast of his immense power as a former commander-in-chief, and orchestrating a campaign to block the feds from getting them back.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with the nine members of the Supreme Court.
The states of Ohio, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina will have revive their congressional district maps before the 2024 election. The Supreme Court sided with civil rights groups who claimed the state of Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by drawing a gerrymandered map favoring Republicans and eliminating a district that favored Black voters.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh joined the liberal wing in protecting voting rights.
Majority: Chief Justice John Roberts, Kentaji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh.
Dissent: Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett.
The decision was keenly anticipated for its potential effect on control of the closely divided U.S. House of Representatives. Because of the ruling, new maps are likely in Alabama and Louisiana that could allow Democratic-leaning Black voters to elect their preferred candidates in two more congressional districts.
The outcome was unexpected in that the court had allowed the challenged Alabama map to be used for the 2022 elections, and in arguments last October the justices appeared willing to make it harder to challenge redistricting plans as racially discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The chief justice himself suggested last year that he was open to changes in the way courts weigh discrimination claims under the part of the law known as section 2. But on Thursday, Roberts wrote that the court was declining “to recast our section 2 case law as Alabama requests.”
Roberts also was part of conservative high-court majorities in earlier cases that made it harder for racial minorities to use the Voting Rights Act in ideologically divided rulings in 2013 and 2021.
The other four conservative justices dissented Thursday. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the decision forces “Alabama to intentionally redraw its longstanding congressional districts so that black voters can control a number of seats roughly proportional to the black share of the State’s population. Section 2 demands no such thing, and, if it did, the Constitution would not permit it.”
The Biden administration sided with the Black voters in Alabama.
Attorney General Merrick Garland applauded the ruling: “Today’s decision rejects efforts to further erode fundamental voting rights protections, and preserves the principle that in the United States, all eligible voters must be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote free from discrimination based on their race.”
Evan Milligan, a Black voter and the lead plaintiff in the case, said the ruling was a victory for democracy and people of color.
“We are grateful that the Supreme Court upheld what we knew to be true: that everyone deserves to have their vote matter and their voice heard. Today is a win for democracy and freedom not just in Alabama but across the United States,” Milligan said.
Current map invalid.
Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl said in a statement that state lawmakers would comply with the ruling. “Regardless of our disagreement with the Court’s decision, we are confident the Alabama Legislature will redraw district lines that ensure the people of Alabama are represented by members who share their beliefs, while following the requirements of applicable law,” Wahl said.
But Steve Marshall, the state’s Republican attorney general, said he expects to continue defending the challenged map in federal court, including at a full trial. “Although the majority’s decision is disappointing, this case is not over,” Marshall said in a statement.
Deuel Ross, a civil rights lawyer who argued the case at the Supreme Court, said the justices have validated the lower court’s view in this case. A full trial “doesn’t seem a good use of Alabama’s time, resources or the money of the people to continue to litigate their case.”
The case stems from challenges to Alabama’s seven-district congressional map, which included one district in which Black voters form a large enough majority that they have the power to elect their preferred candidate. The challengers said that one district is not enough, pointing out that overall, Alabama’s population is more than 25% Black.
A three-judge court, with two appointees of former President Donald Trump, had little trouble concluding that the plan likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the votes of Black Alabamians. That “likely” violation was the standard under which the preliminary injunction was issued by the three-judge panel, which ordered a new map drawn.
But the state quickly appealed to the Supreme Court, where five conservative justices prevented the lower-court ruling from going forward. At the same time, the court decided to hear the Alabama case.
Louisiana’s congressional map had separately been identified as probably discriminatory by a lower court. That map, too, remained in effect last year and now will have to be redrawn.
The National Redistricting Foundation said in a statement that its pending lawsuits over congressional districts in Georgia and Texas also could be affected.
Separately, the Supreme Court in the fall will hear South Carolina’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that found Republican lawmakers stripped Black voters from a district to make it safer for a Republican candidate. That case also could lead to a redrawn map in South Carolina, where six U.S. House members are Republicans and one is a Democrat.
Partisan politics also underlies the Alabama case. Republicans who dominate elective office in Alabama have been resistant to creating a second district with a Democratic-leaning Black majority, or close to one, that could send another Democrat to Congress.
The judges found that Alabama concentrated Black voters in one district, while spreading them out among the others to make it much more difficult to elect more than one candidate of their choice.
Alabama’s Black population is large enough and geographically compact enough to create a second district, the judges found.
Denying discrimination, Alabama argued that the lower court ruling would have forced it to sort voters by race and insisted it was taking a “race neutral” approach to redistricting.
At arguments in October, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson scoffed at the idea that race could not be part of the equation. Jackson, the court’s first Black woman, said that constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War and the Voting Rights Act a century later were intended to do the same thing, make Black Americans “equal to white citizens.”
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Associated Press writer Kim Chandler contributed to this report from Montgomery, Alabama.
Today, I looked on Twitter as well as Truth Social and saw the cesspool of far right noise.
Republican lawmakers react to the indictment of Washed Up 45. The former president has a seven count indictment. The grand jury handed up the indictment under seal on June 8, 2023. Its seven charges against the former president include willfully retaining national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act; making false statements; obstruction of justice; and conspiracy.
Under the Presidential Records Act, presidential documents must be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) by the end of a president's term. In May 2021, NARA became aware of missing documents from the Washed Up 45 Administration and began an effort to retrieve documents incorrectly taken to the former president's residence at Mar-a-Lago.
After negotiations with the former president's team, NARA retrieved 15 boxes of documents in January 2022. NARA discovered that the boxes contained classified material, and notified the Justice Department, leading to the FBI investigation into Washed Up 45's handling of government documents beginning in April 2022. In May 2022, the FBI issued a subpoena for any remaining documents in the former president's possession, and the former president certified that he was returning all the remaining documents on June 3, 2022. The FBI obtained evidence that Washed Up 45 had not fulfilled the subpoena and still possessed additional documents, and documents may have moved after the subpoena was issued. This led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, in which the FBI recovered over 13,000 government documents, 325 of which were classified. The FBI investigation was taken over by the Smith special counsel investigation in November 2022.
The arraignment was scheduled for June 13.
If the people in power can jail their political opponents at will, we don’t have a republic
Biden is attacking his most likely 2024 opponent. He’s using the justice system to preemptively steal the 2024 election. This is what’s happening, plain and simple.
On the day members of Congress learn from an FBI document linking then VP Joe Biden to receiving $5 MILLION from Burisma in a pay-for-play scheme, Biden’s DOJ announces another phony indictment of the leading candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination, Biden’s likely opponent,… pic.twitter.com/PyP6f1kL7y
We're living in a 3rd world Banana Republic and the only way to stop what the corrupt Biden DOJ is doing is to put @realDonaldTrump back in the White House!!! https://t.co/60Fd8Dyn6h
Every "Republican" running for President should suspend their campaign and go to Miami as a show of support. If you don't, you are part of the problem. Either we have an opposition party or we don't. GO to Miami Tuesday, and show solidarty or we will mark you as part of the…
“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders?
In normal times the media would be demanding transparency about the unprecedented indictment of a former President and would be highlighting the political timing of DOJ’s actions. These aren’t normal times.
Indicting Donald Trump is the culmination of what Merrick Garland has been pushing for since he became Attorney General.
The weaponization of our Department of Justice against enemies of the Biden admin. will do enormous damage to the rule of law & have a lasting impact. https://t.co/CxJGyc63yj
Many congressional Republicans responded to the indictment by asserting that the former president was being targeted by a "weaponized" or politicized Justice Department. These Republican reactions echoed their similar reactions to the former president's first indictment, in New York state court. Washed Up 45himself made such claims both before and after his federal indictment. His stupid allies who rallied around the ex-president after the indictment included the House Republican leadership (Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik), as well as Senator J. D. Vance. However, most members of the Senate Republican leadership team, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip John Thune, stayed silent on the indictment.
Among critics of the former president within the Republican Party, former U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger, wrote: "Today, Justice is being served. Nobody is above the law. The former President will get a fair trial. The former President will be held accountable."
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Former president Donald J. Trump is charged by the federal government for his mishandling of classified documents and his failure to obligate to a federal court order.
The 45th President of the United States has once again found himself in serious trouble for ignoring the orders of the National Archives and Records Administration when it ordered him to return documents he failed to classify. He allegedly shown these documents to people who had no top level intelligence.
As he is running for president again to starve off the incoming indictments, Trump is expected to turn himself in and be read his rights. The Republicans are back on conspiracy theories and whataboutism when it comes to crimes.
Expect President Joe Biden, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as well as former secretary of state/former first lady Hillary Clinton to be mentioned by the far right (and especially Sean "Softball" Hannity).
Republicans are outraged that Special Council Jack Smith has a seven count indictment against the former president. After the FBI search of his Mar a Lago estate in August, we knew this could be something that would be big.
After all, Trump himself signed off laws making it a top level federal crime for mishandling classified documents.
A federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump in Florida heard from at least one additional witness Wednesday amid signs that the Justice Department was moving toward a possible indictment over the former president’s mishandling of classified documents.
In the last week, his lawyers have met with Justice Department officials to argue against an indictment; Trump has issued social media posts in which he suggested he anticipated that he might be charged; and a former top aide appeared before a grand jury in Miami — an indication, legal experts said, that prosecutors had settled on Florida rather than Washington as an appropriate venue for charges.
In addition, several media reports Wednesday evening said prosecutors had recently issued the Trump legal team a target letter, which is often but not always a precursor to criminal charges. The Justice Department defines a target as someone whom prosecutors have substantial evidence linking to a crime.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Trump got Jack'd.
“I think the signal is increasingly that the charges against the former president will be in Florida,” said Brandon Van Grack, a former Justice Department prosecutor and a key lawyer on an earlier special counsel team that investigated ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
Lawyers for Trump did not return calls seeking comment. The Associated Press has not independently confirmed the existence of a target letter. A Trump spokesman would not confirm or deny receiving a letter and a Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
Earlier in the day, Taylor Budowich, who had served as a spokesman for Trump after his presidency and now runs a pro-Trump super PAC, testified before the grand jury. He confirmed his appearance on Twitter, writing, “Today, in what can only be described as a bogus and deeply troubling effort to use the power of government to ‘get’ Trump, I fulfilled a legal obligation to testify in front a federal grand jury and I answered every question honestly.”
A variety of witnesses, including lawyers for Trump, close aides to the former president and officials with the Trump Organization, have appeared over the past year before the grand jury in Washington as part of a Justice Department special counsel investigation into Trump over the retention of hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and potential obstruction of the government’s efforts to reclaim the records.
But the existence of a separate grand jury in Florida adds a wrinkle to an investigation that has been largely shrouded in mystery and has been thought to be in its end stages. It suggests that prosecutors may be moving toward bringing criminal charges in Florida, where the documents were taken after Trump left the White House and where multiple acts of alleged obstruction have occurred, instead of in Washington.
Though the bulk of the investigative work has been done in Washington, prosecutors could simply read key testimony to the Florida grand jury or have a summary witness summarize all the key evidence, Van Grack said.
Trump’s lawyers met at the Justice Department on Monday with officials including special counsel Jack Smith, part of an effort by the legal team to raise concerns about what they say is prosecutorial misconduct and to try to argue against a potential indictment. After that meeting, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform in capital letters: “How can DOJ possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong,” when no other presidents have been charged.
He also called into a radio show, where he confirmed the meeting with his lawyers and said: “Well, I can just say this: They did go in and they saw ’em and they said very unfair. No other president has ever been charged with anything like this.’”
On Wednesday, he issued a new social media post saying, “No one has told me I’m being indicted, and I shouldn’t be because I’ve done NOTHING wrong, but I have assumed for years that I am a Target of the WEAPONIZED DOJ & FBI.”
The investigation has focused not only on the possession of classified documents, including at the top-secret level, but also on the refusal of Trump to return the records when asked, and on possible obstruction.
The FBI last year issued a subpoena for classified records at the property, and after coming to suspect that Trump and his representatives had not returned all the documents, returned with a search warrant and recovered an additional 100 with classification markings.
Beyond the Mar-a-Lago investigation, another probe in Washington also conducted by Smith centers on efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
Comedians were shocked to see him at the U.S. Capitol attacking cops and breaking in.
They knew he had political support for Washed Up 45 but didn't expect him to believe the bullshit about the election being stolen and being driven with rage to attack democracy.
Jay Johnston, a comedian and voice actor was finally indicted for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He is best known for being the voice of Bob Belcher's nemesis Jimmy Pesto on Bob's Burgers. He was fired out the cannon as the character, banned from Fox and his other projects were terminated as well.
Folks were wondering why it took so long!
Johnston faces charges of felony obstruction of officers during civil disorder, as well as several misdemeanor offenses, according to court documents.
Johnston was one of hundreds of Jan. 6 participants identified by online sleuths who have not been arrested. A Long Island, New York, funeral home owner was also arrested Wednesday.
Court documents say Johnston entered the upper west tunnel of the Capitol, where some of the most violent attacks of the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, took place, and "assisted at least three other rioters by pouring water on the rioters' faces." He then used a stolen Capitol Police shield as rioters battled with police, the documents say.
An attorney representing Johnston contacted the FBI's National Threat Operations Center on March 8, 2021, according to the FBI. Three of Johnston's current or former associates told the FBI that Jan. 6 photos depicted Johnston, and one of the associates provided a message in which Johnston acknowledged being at the Capitol on Jan. 6, it said.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the Capitol attack, and hundreds more arrests are in the works.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Johnston faces 1 year to 10 years if convicted.
The far right and some Democrats hates "free speech". Fatima Mousa Mohammed criticizes Israeli influence in American politics and they immediately call her anti-semitic.
The Republicans and some Democrats have this notion that criticism of the state of Israel is equal to antisemitism. They seriously call for boycotts and censorship of those who dare speak against the inhumane crimes done by the Israeli government.
Saying "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is apparently inappropriate to say. Worthless media personality Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN because he criticized Israel.
Making criticism of Israel as a Muslim is hate speech says the Republicans and Democrats who harbor Islamophobia and bigotry. Or maybe it's the contributions from America Israel Public Affairs Committee to stifle criticism of Israel.
Being a celebrity who criticize Israel and you're expecting Fox and companies to attack you. Taking a picture with a critic who is against Israeli interest is also guilt by association.
We see several lawmakers in Washington who are embolden by this. The AIPAC and several groups with ties to Israel are trying to stifle speech when it comes to addressing war crimes, desplacement, bigotry, neo fascism and warmongering done by the Israeli government.
The so called "freedom of speech" crowd would infuriate Muslims by drawing the Prophet Mohammed knowing it is blasphemy to depict the spiritual imam as any formation.
They run around literally saying "radical Islam" when it comes to a domestic terrorism attack done by a Muslim. They get offended when they are called to task on right wing domestic terrorism or white supremacist terrorism.
Please take note, @NYSHumanRights, that this video was hidden by @CUNYLaw and @CUNY until FOILed by us and equally demanded by the bigots who perpetrated and support its evil (and illegal) sentiments.
They believe Muslim countries are harboring terrorist. They don't want Islamic states.
But when it comes to Israel, a secular independent country, they want a Jewish state.
Fatima Mousa Mohammed speaks her mind and some far right group called Stop Anti-Semitism is calling for her law degree to be revoked and the CUNY chancellor to step down.
Fatima's commencement was called “hate speech” because she criticized Israel and the spread of hate across the world. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), an Islamophobe and conservative Democrat is calling for a federal civil rights probe of antisemitism of CUNY.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called Mohammed “crazed by hatred for Israel as a Jewish State” and said her speech was “anti-Israel derangement syndrome at work.”
Torres, a gay Black lawmaker who vows to torment Rep. George Santos (R-NY), a gay con artist who was elected as a lawmaker clearly is getting money from AIPAC. He does not see the rights and freedoms of Palestinians necessary. He is a do nothing lawmaker.
Gottheimer is a wolf in sheep's clothing Democrat. Like Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), this lawmaker Gottheimer will cozy up with far right Republicans. He will oppose President Joe Biden's agenda and side with bigots attacking Muslim lawmakers Andre Carson (D-IN), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
The group StopAntisemitism — which monitors Jew hatred on college campuses — said the second consecutive year of anti-Jewish bile at the law school was the last straw for the CUNY boss.
There is no anti-Jewish bile. It is criticism of Israel and its literal war crimes and destruction of the Palestinians.
Fatima has a right to speak her mind like everyone else. Injustice is not anti-semitic.
With Benjamin Netanyahu back in power, the country is close to a civil war due to his government's push to stop its Supreme Court from ruling fairly.
Pat Robertson, the white nationalist televangelist died.
Another far right bigot bites the dust. But his legacy lives on through his son and his media empire. The founder of Christian Broadcasting Network and the former host of the far right infomercial The 700 Club has died at the age of 93.
Pat Robertson has died. The family confirmed his passing.
Marion Gordon Robertson, the son of a Dixiecrat senator Absalom Willis Robertson lived his life hating on Blacks, immigrants, gays and Democrats.
His dad was a proud white nationalist who stood against civil rights. He was one of 20 Democrats in the South that became Republican shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed.
Robertson's televangelist and propaganda sparked the Reagan Revolution. He was very instrumental in the culture wars which America is currently dealing with.
Republicans saw Robertson and his 700 Club as a venue to push their ass backwards policies.
Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.
Robertson’s death Thursday was announced by his broadcasting network. No cause was given.
Robertson’s enterprises also included Regent University, an evangelical Christian school in Virginia Beach; the American Center for Law and Justice, which defends the First Amendment rights of religious people; and Operation Blessing, an international humanitarian organization.
For more than a half-century, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms, known for his “700 Club” television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment, blaming natural disasters on everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.
The money poured in as he solicited donations, his influence soared, and he brought a huge following with him when he moved directly into politics by seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 1988.
Robertson pioneered the now-common strategy of courting Iowa’s network of evangelical Christian churches, and finished in second place in the Iowa caucuses, ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush.
His masterstroke was insisting that three million followers across the U.S. sign petitions before he would decide to run, Robertson biographer Jeffrey K. Hadden said. The tactic gave him an army.
″He asked people to pledge that they’d work for him, pray for him and give him money,” Hadden, a University of Virginia sociologist, told The Associated Press in 1988. ″Political historians may view it as one of the most ingenious things a candidate ever did.″
As long as the candidate was a Republican who supported his views, Robertson backed. Washed Up 45 was a true sinner and Robertson loved him.
Robertson later endorsed Bush, who won the presidency. Pursuit of Iowa’s evangelicals is now a ritual for Republican hopefuls, including those currently seeking the White House in 2024.
Robertson started the Christian Coalition in Chesapeake in 1989, saying it would further his campaign’s ideals. The coalition became a major political force in the 1990s, mobilizing conservative voters through grass-roots activities.
By the time of his resignation as the coalition’s president in 2001 — Robertson said he wanted to concentrate on ministerial work — his impact on both religion and politics in the U.S. was “enormous,” according to John C. Green, an emeritus political science professor at The University of Akron.
Many followed the path Robertson cut in religious broadcasting, Green told the AP in 2021. In American politics, Robertson helped “cement the alliance between conservative Christians and the Republican Party.”
By the time of his resignation as the coalition’s president in 2001 — Robertson said he wanted to concentrate on ministerial work — his impact on both religion and politics in the U.S. was “enormous,” according to John C. Green, an emeritus political science professor at The University of Akron.
Many followed the path Robertson cut in religious broadcasting, Green told the AP in 2021. In American politics, Robertson helped “cement the alliance between conservative Christians and the Republican Party.”
After graduating from Washington and Lee University, he served as assistant adjutant of the 1st Marine Division in Korea.
He received a law degree from Yale University Law School, but failed the bar exam and chose not to pursue a law career.
Robertson met his wife, Adelia “Dede” Elmer, at Yale in 1952. He was a Southern Baptist, she was a Catholic, earning a master’s in nursing. Eighteen months later, they ran off to be married by a justice of the peace, knowing neither family would approve.
Robertson was interested in politics until he found religion, Dede Robertson told the AP in 1987. He stunned her by pouring out their liquor, tearing a nude print off the wall and declaring he had found the Lord.
They moved into a commune in New York City’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood because Robertson said God told him to sell all his possessions and minister to the poor. She was tempted to return home to Ohio, “but I realized that was not what the Lord would have me do ... I had promised to stay, so I did,” she told the AP.
Robertson received a master’s in divinity from New York Theological Seminary in 1959, then drove south with his family to buy a bankrupt UHF television station in Portsmouth, Va. He said he had just $70 in his pocket, but soon found investors, and CBN went on the air on Oct. 1, 1961. Established as a tax-exempt religious nonprofit, CBN brought in hundreds of millions, disclosing $321 million in “ministry support” in 2022 alone.
One of Robertson’s innovations was to use the secular talk-show format on the network’s flagship show, the “700 Club,” which grew out of a telethon when Robertson asked 700 viewers for monthly $10 contributions. It was more suited to television than traditional revival meetings or church services, and gained a huge audience.
“Here’s a well-educated person having sophisticated conversations with a wide variety of guests on a wide variety of topics,” said Green, the University of Akron political science professor. “It was with a religious inflection to be sure. But it was an approach that took up everyday concerns.”
His guests eventually included several U.S. presidents — Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Washed Up 45.
At times, his on-air pronouncements drew criticism.
He claimed that the terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001 were caused by God, angered by the federal courts, pornography, abortion rights and church-state separation. Talking again about 9-11 on his TV show a year later, Robertson described Islam as a violent religion that wants to “dominate” and “destroy,” prompting President George W. Bush to distance himself and say Islam is a peaceful and respectful religion.
He called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2005. Later that year, he warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town not to be surprised if disaster struck them because they voted out school board members who favored teaching “intelligent design” over evolution. And in 1998, he said Orlando, Florida, should beware of hurricanes after allowing the annual Gay Days event.
In 2014, he angered Kenyans when he warned that towels in Kenya could transmit AIDS. CBN issued a correction, saying Robertson “misspoke about the possibility of getting AIDS through towels.”
Now he can be buried next to his late wife Dede. They both can rot with the dirt.
Robertson also could be unpredictable: In 2010, he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions. Two years later, he said on the “700 Club” that marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs had failed.
Robertson condemned Democrats caught up in sex scandals, saying for example that President Bill Clinton turned the White House into a playpen for sexual freedom. But he helped solidify evangelical support for Washed Up 45, dismissing the candidate’s sexually predatory comments about women as an attempt “to look like he’s macho.”
After Washed Up 45 took office, Robertson interviewed the president at the White House. And CBN welcomed his advisers, such as Kellyanne Conway, as guests.
But after Washed Up 45 lost to Joe Biden in 2020, Robertson said the former president was living in an “alternate reality” and should “move on,” news outlets reported.
Robertson’s son, Gordon, succeeded him in December 2007 as chief executive of CBN, which is now based in Virginia Beach. Robertson remained chairman of the network and continued to appear on the “700 Club.”
Robertson stepped down as host of the show after half a century in 2021, with his son Gordon taking over the weekday show.
Robertson also was founder and chairman of International Family Entertainment Inc., parent of The Family Channel basic cable TV network. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought IFE in 1997.
Regent University, where classes began in Virginia Beach in 1978, now has more than 30,000 alumni, CBN said in a statement.
Robertson wrote 15 books, including “The Turning Tide” and “The New World Order.”
His wife Dede, who was a founding board member of CBN, died last year at the age of 94. The couple had four children, 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren, CBN said in a statement.
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Former Associated Press reporters Don Schanche and Pam Ramsey contributed to this story.
Gonna be hard to back a guy who couldn't stand up to Washed Up 45.
Washed Up 45 has already turned on Mike Pence and the latest 2024 contender, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie who announced his second run for president. He launched his bid in New Hampshire.
Christie wasted no time going after the former president while launching his presidential campaign on Tuesday, calling the former president and current Republican primary front-runner a “lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog” and arguing that he’s the only one who can stop him.
A onetime federal prosecutor, Christie was among the crowded field of 2016 Republican presidential candidates steamrolled by the former reality TV star. Now that Washed Up 45 is running for the White House a third time, this year’s crop of rivals have no choice but to criticize him relentlessly, or risk political history repeating itself, Christie says.
Kicking off his campaign with a town hall at Saint Anselm College, Christie suggested that other top Republicans have been afraid to challenge Washed Up 45 or even mention his name much while campaigning — but made it clear he had no such qualms.
“A lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog is not a leader,” Christie said, adding, “The person I am talking about, who is obsessed with the mirror, who never admits a mistake, who never admits a fault, who always finds someone else and something else to blame for whatever goes wrong — but finds every reason to take credit for anything that goes right — is Donald Trump.”
Christie enters a growing primary field that already includes the former president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. Former Vice President Mike Pence will be formally launching his own campaign in Iowa on Wednesday.
Mere weeks after dropping out of the 2016 race, Christie became the first sitting governor and former rival to endorse the controversial figure. He went on to become a close off-and-on adviser before finally breaking with the former president over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.
During his time as governor, Christie established a reputation as a fighter with a knack for creating viral moments of confrontation. But he faces an uphill battle to the nomination in a party that remains closely aligned with the former president, despite Washed Up 45’s reelection loss in 2020 and Republicans’ poorer-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterm elections.
Christie is aiming at Washed Up 45 and President Joe Biden for their age, their policies and he is touting his accomplishments as a Republican governor in a Democratic state.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), the former Democrat who flipped to become a Republican endorsed the former president.
Washed Up 45 already took aim at his weight by making a doctored video of Christie speaking while holding a food platter.
lol CNN just reminded everyone of when Chris Christie murdered Marco Rubio during a debate pic.twitter.com/OPzpGnLoxK
Anti-Washed Up 45 Republicans are particularly eager to see Christie spar with the former president on a debate stage. But that happen only if Washed Up 45 agrees to participate in primary debates and Christie meets the stringent fundraising criteria set by the Republican National Committee for participation.
JP Marzullo, a former state representative and former vice chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, previously backed the former president but is now supporting Christie.
“I think he’ll actually unite some of the voters, and he’ll get to independents,” Marzullo said of the former governor, adding, “I think it’s time for a change.”
Christie began criticizing the former president by name mere moments into his half-hour speech Tuesday, saying the former president had “made us smaller by dividing us even further and pitting us one against the other.”
Republicans still blame Christie for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential election loss
He also said President Joe Biden “is doing the same thing, just on the other side.” Christie noted that he’d known Biden for decades and that he was a nice guy, but said that the president is “out of his depth” because “he’s not the guy he used to be,” referencing the 80-year-old Biden’s advanced age.
But Christie’s chief target was the former president.
“There’s a big argument in our country right now about whether character matters, and we have leaders who have shown us over and over again that not only are they devoid of character, they don’t care.” Christie said. “We can’t dismiss the question of character anymore, everybody. If we do, we get what we deserve, and we will have to own it.”
Christie advisers are planning a nontraditional, nationally focused campaign based on earned media attention, instead of focusing on specific states. Their candidate said staying aggressive against Washed Up 45 was key and scoffed Tuesday at what he said were his failed promises, including a pledge to wall off the entire southern U.S. border and have Mexico pay for it.
“The reason I’m going after Trump is twofold,” Christie said. “One, he deserves it. And two, it’s the way to win.”
Christie will test the appetite among Republican voters for someone who has expressed support for many of the former president's policies but has criticized the former president’s conduct. The former governor has urged the party to move on or risk future losses.
Other Republicans with similar views, including former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, have opted against their own campaigns, expressing concerns that having more candidates in the race will only benefit Washed Up 45.
Christie was at one point seen as one of the Republican Party’s brightest political stars as the popular Republican governor of a Democratic state. But despite persistent urging from top donors and party officials, he declined to run for president in 2012. By the time he announced in 2016, his reputation had been tarnished by the “Bridgegate” scandal in which aides were accused of wreaking traffic havoc in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in an apparent effort to punish the city’s mayor for failing to endorse his reelection bid.
The former governor has known the former president for nearly 20 years but their relationship has been complicated. Christie was on the shortlist to serve as his vice president, oversaw Washed Up 45’s early White House transition efforts, said he was offered — and turned down — multiple Cabinet positions, and helped the former president prepare for each of his general election debates in 2016 and 2020.
But Christie also clashed with the former president at times and has described the former president’s refusal to accept his 2020 election loss to Biden as a breaking point.
Christie opting to start his 2024 bid at a New Hampshire town hall recalled his first run at the White House, when he focused on the state, holding dozens of New Hampshire town hall events only to finish sixth in its primary. He dropped out of that race shortly afterward.
After his speech Tuesday, Christie took extended questions from the audience — a common occurrence in early voting states that DeSantis was hesitant to do when launching his campaign. Christie also talked openly about his underwhelming 2016 performance, despite concentrating so heavily on New Hampshire.
“I lost,” Christie laughed. “You people did that to me in 2016.”
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