Chuck Woolery Passed Away!

Longtime game show host and media personality Chuck Woolery died.

Former American game show host and MAGAland agitator Chuck Woolery has passed away at the age of 83. 

Ironic, the same Woolery who mocked President Joe Biden and his age has died.

Too bad he won't live to see President Donald J. Trump fuck up the country again.

As a kid, I used to watch Love Connection. It was a game show where a single person uses an audience poll to pick their romantic partner. Chuck Woolery was best known for this.

He was the first host of Wheel of Fortune before Pat Sajak and Ryan Seacrest.

Mark Young, a far right podcaster told TMZ that Chuck had felt ill and lied down and never woke up. He may have passed away of natural causes.

He had long-running tenures hosting several game shows. Woolery was the original host of the original daytime Wheel of Fortune (1975–1981), the original incarnation of Love Connection (1983–1994), Scrabble (1984–1990, and during a brief revival in 1993), Greed on Fox from 1999 to 2000, and Lingo on Game Show Network from 2002 to 2007. Woolery's musical career includes several advertising jingles, a top-40 pop hit with the psychedelic pop duo The Avant-Garde, and a number of country music releases.

Charles Herbert Woolery was born in Ashland, Kentucky on March 16, 1941.

He leaves behind a wife and four children.

After high school, Woolery served two years in the U.S. Navy, aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). In 1963, Woolery worked as a wine consultant for Wasserstrom Wine and Import Company in Columbus, Ohio.

As an actor, Woolery appeared with Stephen Boyd, Rosey Grier, and Cheryl Ladd in the mid-1970s film The Treasure of Jamaica Reef. He appeared as himself in the 1989 film Cold Feet that starred Keith Carradine and Rip Torn.

Woolery performed as Mr. Dingle on the children's television series New Zoo Revue in the early 1970s. During that time, he made his first game show appearance on an episode of Tattletales in 1974, alongside then-wife Jo Ann Pflug. Starting as a singer, Woolery appeared on an episode of Your Hit Parade. On January 6, 1975, he began hosting Wheel of Fortune at the suggestion of creator Merv Griffin, who had seen Woolery sing on The Tonight Show. Woolery hosted the show for six years. In 1981, he was involved in a salary dispute with the program's producers; he said in a 2007 interview that he demanded a raise from $65,000 a year to about $500,000 a year because the program was drawing a 44 share at the time, and other hosts (such as Richard Dawson and Bob Barker) were making that much. Griffin offered Woolery $400,000 a year, and NBC offered to pay the additional $100,000, but after Griffin threatened to move the program to CBS, NBC withdrew the offer. Woolery's contract was not renewed and his final episode aired on December 25, 1981. Pat Sajak replaced him.

Woolery hosted Love Connection (1983–1994), The Big Spin (1985), Scrabble (1984–1990, 1993), Home & Family (1996–1998, co-host), The Dating Game (1997–1999), Greed (1999–2000), TV Land Ultimate Fan Search (1999–2000) and Lingo (2002–2007). In addition, he was the subject of a short-lived reality television, Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned (originally titled Chuck Woolery: Behind the Lingo) in 2003. He also hosted his own talk show, The Chuck Woolery Show, which lasted for only a few months in 1991. He hosted The Price Is Right Live! at Harrah's Entertainment casinos, and appeared in the live stage show "$250,000 Game Show Spectacular" at the Westgate Las Vegas until April 2008.

On April 21, 2023, it was announced that Woolery would be featured in an upcoming four-episode documentary by ABC News titled The Game Show Show, covering the history of game shows in America over the last eight decades. The four-part documentary premiered on May 10, 2023. Woolery later hosted '80s Quiz Show, a game show based on trends and norms of the 1980's, which streamed on Fox Nation on June 7, 2024.

So GNX!

And K. Dot said he doesn't care what your opinions are. His album GNX is a masterpiece.

The latest from Kendrick Lamar.

Winners and losers of 2024.

On Friday at 12:01pm, Kendrick Lamar released a surprise album. His album has the hip-hop community talking. It is aims at not only rival Drake but numerous others.

This album was released on PGLang and Interscope Records.

The album was 42 minutes long, twelve tracks and a few hidden features artists.

It was pure K. DOT.

The album opens with the track "wacced out murals"; its title explicitly refers to a September 2024 incident where an unidentified perpetrator vandalized a mural of Lamar in Compton with a pro-Drake message. Lamar addresses the controversy surrounding his selection as headliner for the Super Bowl LIX halftime show in New Orleans and criticizes Snoop Dogg for his lack of reaction to Drake's song "Taylor Made Freestyle", which uses AI-generated vocals of him and Tupac Shakur. "tv off" features "clipped strings" that "dissolve into Viking-berserker horns" halfway through; Lamar repeatedly screams Mustard's name on the chorus. On "heart pt. 6", he recounts his history with TDE and the supergroup Black Hippy, acknowledging that an album from the group never released as he became focused on other endeavors. 

Ben Sisaro of The New York Times noted that it is an "implicit rejoinder" to Drake's diss track of the same name, which in itself was taken from Lamar's "The Heart" song series. "gloria" features Lamar presenting a "complicated relationship" that is gradually revealed to be about his writing ability; ABC News compared it to "I Used to Love H.E.R." by Common and "I Gave You Power" by Nas.

Lil Wayne, who was mentioned on the album reacted. The rapper was allegedly angered by the NFL and Apple Music choosing K. Dot over him. The rapper felt disrespected by Apple Music and Roc Nation who are the official NFL sponsors of the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Wayne who recently launched his Wheezyana Tour reunited with Juvenile, Turk and the B.G. for a Hot Boy reunion. 

Kendrick's disses on Wheezy and Drizzy makes it clear he is tired of the pop rap.

U.S. Big Mad Over Netanyahu Being A Wanted Man!

Benjamin Netanyahu is a pain in the ass. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald J. Trump are still siding with this fool.

The Biden Administration and incoming Trump administration are fuming.

Winners and losers of 2024.

On Thursday, the International Criminal Court officially issued arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The controversial figure will be arrested if he dares travel to 124 ICC Member Nations.

The U.S. which is a non bidding member that could arrest Netanyahu but it won't. 

President Joe Biden had all the opportunity to stop aiding Israel. He ignored the warning signs and cost him his reelection. It cost Vice President Kamala Harris her election. Biden took the Democrats with him. They still are digging in as well as the Republicans.

President-elect Donald J. Trump will continue on the support of Israel despite his "promise" to bring peace. The Arab American voters he won in Michigan and Wisconsin felt betrayed thanks to his appointments of pro Israeli lawmakers in his cabinet.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) secured another term. He will continue to push for a censorship law that equates any criticism of Zionism to antisemitism. It would punish companies, universities and prohibit government contracts to those who boycott Israel. 

It is a test of free speech.

Crime pays.

Y'all voted for this.

ICC pre-trial judges issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for charges of using starvation as a method of warfare as well as the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts.

The court found that there were reasonable grounds that the Israeli siege of Gaza “created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population”.

With a few exceptions, U.S. politicians from both major parties expressed outrage at the court’s decision, with many questioning the court’s legitimacy.

So when they issued arrest warrants for Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin, Biden and Congress praised it and pushed for expelling the Russians from all events globally. 

Russia has been banned from the Olympics, Eurovision, the World Cup, Miss Universe, G20 and every global event. American, British, French and Canadian companies left Russia for good. 

As of February 2024, 124 states are members of the Court. Other states that have not become parties to the Rome Statute include India, Indonesia, and China. On May 6, 2002, the United States, having previously signed the Rome Statute formally withdrew its signature and indicated that it did not intend to ratify the agreement.

United States policy concerning the ICC has varied widely. The Clinton administration signed the Rome Statute in 2000, but did not submit it for Senate ratification. The George W. Bush administration, the U.S. administration at the time of the ICC's founding, stated that it would not join the ICC. The Obama administration subsequently re-established a working relationship with the Court as an observer.

Jussie Smollett Had His Convictions Overturned!

Jussie Smollett will be on Trump's radar.

Washed up entertainer gets his convictions overturned. It won't stop the state from issuing another one.

Winners and losers of 2024.

Jussie Smollett, who became one of president-elect Donald J. Trump's numerous enemies is back. The former and soon to be president is going to find a way to put Smollett in federal time out. That old man is planning on revenge.

Y'all voted for this.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges of staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying to Chicago police, saying he should not have been charged a second time after reaching a deal with prosecutors.

The ruling, which did not address Smollett’s continued claims of innocence, was the latest twist in a yearslong saga. Smollett, who is Black and gay, made headlines around the world after he told police in January 2019 that two men assaulted him in his downtown Chicago neighborhood, spouting slurs, tossing a noose around his neck, and yelling that he was in “MAGA country,” an apparent reference to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” presidential campaign slogan. The report prompted a massive search for suspects by Chicago police before investigators announced that they believed the attack was a hoax.

The state’s highest court found that a special prosecutor should not have been allowed to intervene after Smollett reached a deal with the Cook County state’s attorney in which charges against him were dropped in exchange for him forfeiting his $10,000 bond and performing community service. The deal prompted outrage in part because it did not include any condition that Smollett apologize or admit he staged the attack.

“We are aware that this case has generated significant public interest and that many people were dissatisfied with the resolution of the original case and believed it to be unjust,” Justice Elizabeth Rochford wrote in the court’s 5-0 opinion. “Nevertheless, what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be a holding from this court that the state was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied.”

Smollett was on the television drama “Empire,” which filmed in Chicago, and prosecutors alleged he staged the attack because he was unhappy with the studio’s response to hate mail he received. Testimony at trial indicated he paid $3,500 to two men whom he knew from “Empire” to carry it out. Smollett testified that “there was no hoax” and that he was the victim of a hate crime.

Smollett declined to comment Thursday through a publicist. His attorney, Nenye Uche, said Smollett was happy and relieved but also disappointed to have been “dragged through an unfair process.”

“Even though this is over now and Jussie just absolutely wants to move his life forward, people should start asking questions. How did this happen? Why should this even happen? What can we do to make sure this doesn’t happen again?” Uche said at a news conference in Chicago.

The special prosecutor, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, said he disagreed with the court’s ruling while noting that it “has nothing to do with Mr. Smollett’s innocence.”

“The Illinois Supreme Court did not find any error with the overwhelming evidence presented at trial that Mr. Smollett orchestrated a fake hate crime and reported it to the Chicago Police Department as a real hate crime, or the jury’s unanimous verdict that Mr. Smollett was guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct,” Webb said.

After Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office dropped the initial 16 counts of disorderly conduct, the backlash was swift, with then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel calling it “a whitewash of justice.” Webb was appointed special prosecutor and a grand jury restored charges, leading to Smollett’s 2021 conviction on five counts of disorderly conduct.

Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail — six of which he served before he was freed pending appeal — and was ordered to pay about $130,000 in restitution. Chicago officials are pursuing reimbursement for that amount in police overtime through a civil case.

Foxx told The Associated Press that she was not surprised that the high court found her handling of the case “proper — if unpopular, proper.” She criticized Webb’s ensuing “legal machinations,” which she said ignored the tenet of prosecutorial discretion and landed the issue in the “same position we were in in March 2019.”

“What they were doing in going to the court to re-prosecute someone because you didn’t like the outcome would have set a horrendous precedent, in which anyone could come in and undermine the work of a prosecutor’s office,” said Foxx, who did not seek a third term this year.

Eileen O’Neill Burke, the incoming Cook County state’s attorney, declined to comment.

Smollett, a child actor who appeared in 1992 movie “The Mighty Ducks,” has credited his role as a singer on the hip-hop drama “Empire” for turbocharging his career. This year, he starred in the movie “The Lost Holliday” with Vivica A. Fox.

Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis and Justice Joy Cunningham took no part in Thursday’s decision.

Closed Gaetz!

The Gaetz nomination went up in smoke.

Benny Johnson, the notorious troll on the far right is fuming. He is saying that the Republican Party is sabotaging Donald J. Trump again. 

And I am for it.

I hope Trump fails again. 

Winners and Losers of 2024.

Matt Gaetz, the controversial former U.S. Representative from Florida who is totally insufferable announced his withdrawal from the U.S. Attorney General nomination.

The Senate was not with it.

Republicans said they didn't have the votes. Even with a slim majority come January, Gaetz would not see a confirmation hearing or a vote.

Trump said Thursday he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department, turning to a longtime ally after his first choice, Gaetz, withdrew his name from consideration amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations.

Bondi has been an outspoken defender of Trump. She was one of his lawyers during his first impeachment trial, when he was accused — but not convicted — of abusing his power as he tried to condition U.S. military assistance to Ukraine on that country investigating then-former Vice President Joe Biden. And she was among a group of Republicans who showed up to support Trump at his New York hush money criminal trial that ended in May with a conviction on 34 felony counts.

“For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore,” Trump said in a social media post. “Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again.”

Trump said Thursday he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department, turning to a longtime ally after his first choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name from consideration amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations.

Mind you they elected Trump who is a sexual predator.

Bondi has been an outspoken defender of Trump. She was one of his lawyers during his first impeachment trial, when he was accused — but not convicted — of abusing his power as he tried to condition U.S. military assistance to Ukraine on that country investigating then-former Vice President Joe Biden. And she was among a group of Republicans who showed up to support Trump at his New York hush money criminal trial that ended in May with a conviction on 34 felony counts.

“For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore,” Trump said in a social media post. “Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again.”

Gaetz stepped aside amid continued fallout over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on his ability to be confirmed as the nation’s chief federal law enforcement officer. Gaetz’s vehemently denied the allegations, but his nomination stunned many career lawyers inside the Justice Department. Gaetz, who passed the bar but barely worked as a lawyer, had very little relevant experience for the job. Bondi comes with years of legal work under her belt and that other trait Trump prizes above all: loyalty.

The hasty withdrawal by Gaetz and quick pivot to Bondi were the latest examples of Trump’s tumultuous decision-making as he rushes out nominations — some of questionable character and credentials — at a breakneck pace without the government vetting that is typical of presidential transitions. It’s an omen that despite running his most organized campaign for the White House this year, his return to the Oval Office might feature the same sort of drama that permeated his first term.

Who is sucking on Trump tonight? Pam Bondi is now the pick for U.S, Attorney General.

Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that the transition team had backups in mind for his controversial nominees should they fail to get confirmed.

Still, even in Trump’s world, things moved fast. Trump had been seeking to capitalize on his decisive election win to force Senate Republicans to accept provocative selections like Gaetz. The decision could heighten scrutiny on other controversial Trump nominees, including Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth, who faces sexual assault allegations that he denies.

“While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” Gaetz said in a statement one day after meeting with senators in an effort to win their support.

“There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1,” he added.

Trump, in a social media post, said: “I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be Attorney General. He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the Administration, for which he has much respect. Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!”

Bondi is a well-known figure in Trump’s circle, and has been a chair at the America First Policy Institute, a think tank set up by former Trump administration staffers. She’s been a vocal critic of the criminal cases against Trump. In one recent radio appearance, she called Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and other prosecutors who have charged Trump “horrible” people she said were trying to make names for themselves by “going after Donald Trump and weaponizing our legal system.”

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted in a social media post that Bondi “will be confirmed quickly,” calling her selection a “grand slam, touchdown, hole in one, ace, hat trick, slam dunk, Olympic gold medal pick.”

If confirmed by the Republican-led Senate, Bondi would instantly become one of the most closely watched members of Trump’s Cabinet given the Republican’s threat to pursue retribution against perceived adversaries and concern among Democrats that he will look to bend the Justice Department to his will. A recent Supreme Court opinion not only conferred broad immunity on former presidents but also affirmed a president’s exclusive authority over the Justice Department’s investigative functions.

As president, he demanded investigations into political opponents like Hillary Clinton and sought to use the law enforcement powers of the Justice Department to advance his own interests, including in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Bondi would inherit a Justice Department expected to pivot sharply on civil rights, corporate enforcement and the prosecutions of hundreds of Trump supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — defendants whom Trump has pledged to pardon.

It’s unlikely that Bondi would be confirmed in time to overlap with Smith, who brought two federal indictments against Trump that are both expected to wind down before the incoming president takes office. Special counsels are expected to produce reports on their work that historically are made public, but it remains unclear when such a document might be released.

Bondi was accused by a Massachusetts attorney of bribery over a $25,000 campaign contribution she received from Trump in 2013. Bondi asked for the donation near the same time that her office was being asked about a New York investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University. In 2017, that complaint was found to have lacked enough evidence to move forward.

In 2013, while serving as Florida attorney general, she publicly apologized for asking that the execution of a man convicted of murder be delayed because it conflicted with a campaign fundraiser. She said she was wrong and sorry for requesting that then-Gov. Rick Scott push back the execution of Marshall Lee Gore by three weeks.

While Gaetz sought to lock down Senate support this week, concern over the sex trafficking allegations showed no signs of abating.

In recent days, an attorney for two women said his clients told House Ethics Committee investigators that Gaetz paid them for sex on multiple occasions beginning in 2017, when Gaetz was a Florida congressman. One of the women testified she saw Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old at a party in Florida in 2017, according to the attorney, Joel Leppard.

Gaetz’s political future is uncertain. In a social media post, pointed at the incoming vice president, Gaetz wrote: “I look forward to continuing the fight to save our country. Just maybe from a different post.”

Put That Fool In The Iron College!

Either they arrest him or someone is gonna kill him. Benjamin Netanyahu is a curse on the world. He and Donald J. Trump will destroy the world to stay out of the iron college.

It's official.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defense minister Yoav Gallant and Israeli president Issac Herzog are criminally indicted for the genocide and endless crimes in the Middle East.

Of course, President Joe Biden, president-elect Donald J. Trump and members of Congress will react to it and threaten sanctions on the International Criminal Court. But that is empty talk because the world court still has some say in how things work.

Netanyahu as expected will call it an attack on Jews. He will call it an attack on the sovereignty and flat out reject calls to ceasefire. 

This was never about bring them home. The settlers are dead.

They along with 50,000 Palestinians, 10,000 Lebanese and 7,000 Israeli insurgents are dead because of Netanyahu. And of course, Biden let it happen and it cost Vice President Kamala Harris the election.

The ICC head Karim A.A. Khan is upping his security after he got credible threats on his life by the Israelis. He was supposed to fly to Gaza and Lebanon but scrapped plans after it was revealed Israel was planning on sabotaging his plane.

Netanyahu, his former defense minister Gallant and Hamas officials were indicted with war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israel respectively. They wanted to be fair by saying Hamas did it too. Hamas has no military nor it has the capability for large mass destruction.

Netanyahu condemned the arrest warrant against him, saying Israel “rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions.” In a statement released by his office, he said: “There is nothing more just than the war that Israel has been waging in Gaza.”

The decision turns Netanyahu and the others into internationally wanted suspects and is likely to further isolate them and complicate efforts to negotiate a cease-fire to end the fighting. But its practical implications could be limited since Israel and its major ally, the United States, are not members of the court and two of the Hamas officials were killed in the conflict.

Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israel respectively.

Netanyahu condemned the arrest warrant against him, saying Israel “rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions.” In a statement released by his office, he said: “There is nothing more just than the war that Israel has been waging in Gaza.”

The decision turns Netanyahu and the others into internationally wanted suspects and is likely to further isolate them and complicate efforts to negotiate a cease-fire to end the fighting. But its practical implications could be limited since Israel and its major ally, the United States, are not members of the court and two of the Hamas officials were killed in the conflict.

The three-judge panel issued a unanimous decision to issue warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.

“The Chamber considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity,” the decision said.

The court also issued a warrant for Mohammed Deif, one of the leaders of Hamas, over the October 2023 attacks that triggered Israel’s offensive in Gaza. The ICC chief prosecutor withdrew his request for warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, after they were both killed in the conflict.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said in September that it had submitted two legal briefs challenging the ICC’s jurisdiction and arguing that the court did not provide Israel the opportunity to investigate the allegations itself before requesting the warrants.

“No other democracy with an independent and respected legal system like that which exists in Israel has been treated in this prejudicial manner by the Prosecutor,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein wrote on X. He said Israel remained “steadfast in its commitment to the rule of law and justice” and would continue to protect its citizens against militancy.

The ICC is a court of last resort that only prosecutes cases when domestic law enforcement authorities cannot or will not investigate. Israel is not a member state of the court. The country has struggled to investigate itself in the past, rights groups say.

Despite the warrants, none of the suspects is likely to face judges in The Hague anytime soon. The court itself has no police to enforce warrants, instead relying on cooperation from its member states.

Even so, the threat of arrest could make it difficult for Netanyahu and Gallant to travel abroad, although Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is wanted on an ICC warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, recently showed he could still visit an ally when he traveled to Mongolia, one of the court’s member states, and was not arrested.

Member countries are required to detain suspects if a warrant has been issued if they set foot on their soil, but the court lacks a mechanism to enforce its warrants.

Khan sought warrants in May, accusing Netanyahu and Gallant of crimes including murder, intentionally attacking civilians, and persecution.

In a statement at the time, Khan alleged that Israel “has intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival” by closing border crossings into the territory and restricting essential supplies including food and medicine.

At the same time, he accused three Hamas leaders — Sinwar, Deif and Haniyeh — of crimes linked to the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and abducting another 250. The three leaders are accused of crimes including murder, extermination, taking hostages, rape and torture.

“The Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Deif, born in 1965, the highest commander of the military wing of Hamas (known as the al-Qassam Brigades) at the time of the alleged conduct, is responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder; extermination; torture; and rape and other form of sexual violence; as well as the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture; taking hostages; outrages upon personal dignity; and rape and other forms of sexual violence,” a statement says.

Haniyeh was assassinated in what was believed to be an Israeli strike in Iran in July. Israel also claims to have killed Deif, but Hamas hasn’t confirmed his death. Sinwar, who was promoted to succeed Haniyeh as Hamas’ leader, was killed in a chance front-line encounter with Israeli troops in October.

Human rights groups have applauded the decision, which came more than six months after Khan made his initial request.

“The ICC arrest warrants against senior Israeli leaders and a Hamas official break through the perception that certain individuals are beyond the reach of the law,” the associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch, Balkees Jarrah, said in a statement.

Israel’s opposition leaders fiercely criticized the ICC’s move. Benny Gantz, a retired general and political rival to Netanyahu, condemned the decision, saying it showed “moral blindness” and was a “shameful stain of historic proportion that will never be forgotten.”

Yair Lapid, another opposition leader, called it a “prize for terror.”

Yuval Shany, an international law expert at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, said travel for Netanyahu and Gallant to member states of the court could be complicated, including to countries that are close allies of Israel, like France or Britain.

As members, they are obliged to carry out court decisions, including arrest warrants, although the court has no formal way to enforce its decisions, Shany said — as Putin’s Mongolia trip showed.

The case at the ICC is separate from another legal battle Israel is waging at the top U.N. court, the International Court of Justice, in which South Africa accuses Israel of genocide, an allegation Israeli leaders staunchly deny. Lawyers for Israel argued in court that the war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and that it was Hamas militants who were guilty of genocide.

In the wake of the Oct. 7 attack, Israel launched a retaliatory offensive into Gaza that has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who don’t say how many were fighters. It has displaced 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people from their homes and caused heavy destruction across the besieged territory.

Hamas is still holding around 100 settlers, about a third of whom are believed to be dead. Most of the rest were released in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel during a ceasefire last November.

Israel must be stopped. We cannot allow the U.S. to aid this apartheid any further. Thanks to the voters, we put Trump back in. He will continue the status quo and in turn instigate conflict globally.

The U.S. is already on the down slide thanks to Trump and Biden. They are old senile bigots. Yeah, Biden has ignored the voters who put him in office. He thought he could save the soul of the nation. But alas, he carried on the policies that lead us into more chaos. Trump's return only assures that our nation will lose more credibility and we could be ignored when the world carries on.

Now Dems Want To Do Something About Israel!

Independent senator Bernie Sanders is trying to save the Democrats from destruction. He launched the first efforts to end aid to Israel.

I applaud Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Peter Welch (D-VT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus King (I-ME), Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) for blocking all aid to Israel.

They don't have votes to stop Republicans, Democrats, President Joe Biden and future president Donald J. Trump from implicating arms sales.

I also applaud Sen. George Helmy (D-NJ) for at least voting to block one of the provisions in the package.

Sens. Joe Manchin (I-WV), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), John Fetterman (D-PA), Bob Casey (D-PA), Laphonza Butler (D-CA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mark Warner (D-VA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jon Tester (D-MT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Tom Carper (D-DE), Chris Coons (D-DE), Patty Murray (D-WA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suck the cock of Israel.

The senate failed to block military aid to Israel. The 31 Democrats and two independents backed the apartheid over progressive concern about the party's devastating loss.  The 49 Republicans fully support Israel. 

Do not believe the bullshit from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). He is a white nationalist.

The Senate voted 18 to 79 to defeat S.J. Res. 111, which would have blocked the sale of 120-millimeter tank rounds.

It also voted 18 to 79 against a resolution to block the sale of 120 mm high-explosive mortar rounds and again by the same split to defeat a proposal to block the sale of kits to transform “dumb” bombs into precision-guided weapons. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), vice president-elect did not vote, two others weren't available.

Sanders emphasized the resolutions were aimed at “offensive weapons that have been used to devastating effects against the civilians of Gaza and Lebanon.” He argued the restrictions would not affect Israel’s ability to defend itself from attacks, but colleagues who opposed his proposals disputed that claim.

Sanders said under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Control Act, the United States cannot provide weapons to countries that violate internally recognized human rights or block U.S. humanitarian aid, which he accused Israel of doing.

“According to the United Nations, much of the international community, and every humanitarian organization on the ground in Gaze, Israel is clearly in violation of these laws,” Sanders said on the floor. “Under these circumstances, it is illegal for the U.S. government to provide Israel with more offensive weapons.”   

Israel launched a war in Gaza against Hamas, which is the governing authority of Gaza. It did so after Hamas attacked Israel and killed more than 1,200 people, most of them civilians.

Sanders cited the deaths of more than 50,000 people in Gaza, a number compiled by the Palestinian Health Ministry, an agency in the Hamas-run government, and the destruction of most of Gaza’s infrastructure.

“The United States cannot be complicit to these atrocities,” Sanders declared.

Sanders has claimed that the destruction in Gaza is worse than what was inflicted on Dresden, Germany, a city that was firebombed, during World War II.

J-Street, a center-left pro-Israel organization, supported Sanders’s proposals, breaking with many other Jewish and Israel-supporting groups.

“This debate and vote signify another step toward a relationship in which the US can hold Israel accountable for its actions and its use of the weapons we provide in the same way we enforce US laws for all other recipients of US security assistance,” said Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street.

Sanders received strong pushback from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin (D-MD).

Sanders, Schumer and Cardin are Jewish. 

Schumer's influence on the Democratic senate had lead to its losses.

Schumer said he was strongly opposed to Sanders’s proposals, asserting that Israel needs weapons to defend against its enemies. He said providing such munitions to Israel has been a “cornerstone” of American policy for decades.

“Israel is surrounded by enemies dedicated to its annihilation from Hamas to Hezbollah to the Houthis to most threateningly of all, Iran. These threats have been for a long time and will persist for many years into the future,” Schumer warned.

This is the type of bullshit that makes you question why Schumer is a member of the Senate. If he cares so much about a foreign country like Israel, why don't he just quit, move there and join the Knesset.

Cardin also voiced his strong opposition to Sanders’s proposals. He said that if implemented they would affect arms shipments years into the future. He warned the restrictions could have the unintended consequence of hamstringing Israel against unknown future adversaries.

Cardin is leaving. But AIPAC funded Sen-elect Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) will carry on the pro Israeli bullshit.

“These tank munitions have a deliver date three years from now. They are replenishments. This is so Israel has the capacity to defend itself against future threats that we know are in the region, that are real,” he argued.

And he said the restriction on high-explosive mortars might put Israel in a situation where “they can’t defend themselves against future threats.”

Cardin said restrictions on sales of kits for guide bombs would likely lead to more civilian casualties.

Without precision guidance, he warned that bombs have “a much higher likelihood of missing the target.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a leading Republican voice on foreign policy who has visited Israel — by his own recollection — seven or eight times since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israeli settlements, argued that Hamas continues to pose an existential threat to Israel.

“Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing more Jews than any time since the holocaust. What were they up to? Their pledge to destroy the Jewish state — they’re religious Nazis,” he declared.

Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, disputed the claims of Democratic senators who warned that limiting arms sales would put Israel’s security at risk.

“Contrary to opponents’ claims regarding today’s vote, US support for Israel’s security was never at risk,” he said. “All of the Senators who voted for a resolution of disapproval today have supported tens of billions of dollars in security assistance to Israel throughout their careers.

“No Senators are calling for anything approaching an arms embargo and all of them endorse continued support for Iron Dome and other defensive systems,” he added.

Who cares about Israel's security?

Americans should care about their own security.

$100 Million For Botham Jean's Family!

Allison and Bertrum Jean with Ben Crump after the federal court awarded the estate of Botham Jean $100 million from Amber Guyger.

When Amber Guyger gets out of the iron college, she will have no property or any earned income from book deals, future employment or investments in her possible children. She will have to move in with her parents for the foreseeable future.

The city of Dallas and the state of Texas will take all the earnings from Guyger to compensate the family of Botham Jean.

Guyger must pay $98.65 million in punitive damages.

A federal jury awarded $98,650,000 in damages to the family and estate of Botham Jean, who was killed by the former Dallas police officer in his apartment in 2018.

After about three hours of deliberation, jurors found that Guyger used excessive force in shooting and killing Jean, a 26-year-old accountant and Guyger’s upstairs neighbor, when Guyger said she mistakenly went into his apartment and mistook him for an intruder.

The jury also found that Guyger was acting in her capacity as an officer when she shot Jean and violated his constitutional rights by unreasonably using deadly force.

My son did nothing wrong. Amber Guyger and the Dallas Police tried to make him the criminal.

The jury awarded $10.25 million to Jean’s estate for his pain, loss of life and earnings, $14.2 million each to his mother and father for their past and future loss and mental anguish and $60 million in punitive damages against Guyger.

Jean’s mother Allison Jean said despite her sadness, the verdict symbolizes that the jury recognized her son’s value in the world.

“They had to put it in monetary terms,” Allison Jean told reporters. “I cannot feel it in monetary terms because I know how precious he was to me. But it sends a signal to the world that his life mattered.”

Bertrum Jean, Botham Jean’s father, said justice was served.

“We will miss our Bo dearly,” he said. “I can’t stand the thought of him not being around. But his memories, the wonderful things he did in this life, this gives me joy. And (to) know that he was loved by so many, this gives me joy.”

Over the course of the 3-day trial, the jury heard testimony from Bothum Jean’s family and experts to help bolster the plaintiffs’ case that Guyger was unreasonable in her use of force.

She might as well stay in the iron college. Once out, Amber Guyger will have nothing of hers left. Maybe some of her clothes and shoes, but everything else is gone.

Guyger was convicted of murder in 2019 and is currently serving her 10-year sentence at a state prison in Gatesville. She has no attorney in the case and waived her right to be present at trial.

Plaintiffs attorney Daryl Washington called it an “insult” for Guyger to choose not to be present. Attorneys did not explain how Guyger would be able to pay the damages while she’s in prison with no assets, but Washington and the Jean family said it’s not about money, but accountability.

“We want to make sure when Amber Guyger is released from prison that Amber Guyger is not going to have a life,” Washington said. “She's not going to have a normal life, she's not going to be able to capitalize on any fame that she may have gotten from this case.”

Guyger said “I thought it was my apartment” 19 times during the 911 call — but what she didn’t say was that Botham Jean had a gun or was charging at her, Washington told jurors. He said Guyger changed her story after she got an attorney. She testified at the criminal trial that Botham Jean charged at her when she entered his apartment, and she ordered him to put his hands up before shooting.

Guyger and another Dallas police officer testified that the Dallas Police Department’s general orders state that officers are always on the job, which attorneys said showed that Guyger was acting in her professional capacity when she shot Botham Jean. And according to testimony from crime scene expert Michael Maloney, Botham Jean likely did not pose a threat to Guyger in the way she described — based on the scene and his autopsy, Jean was likely getting up from his couch when he was shot.

“Botham did nothing that would’ve justified Amber’s use of force,” Washington told jurors.

Gotham's life mattered.

The city of Dallas was initially included as a defendant in the lawsuit. The Jean family accused DPD of showing a pattern of excessive force among its police officers and failing to adequately train Guyger on the use of force.

But the city was ultimately dismissed from the lawsuit after U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn ruled the plaintiffs failed to sufficiently prove their claims against the city and DPD. The Jean family and their attorneys said the city still should have been liable for the actions of its officers.

Botham Jean was a Harding University graduate born in St. Lucia. He worked as an accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and his pastor Sammie Berry testified that Jean had hopes of becoming a partner at the firm.

Botham Jean’s family remembered him as dedicated to his faith, full of joy and love for others. Allison Jean said they’ll continue his legacy through a foundation in his name established after his death.

“He came to Dallas, a city which he loved, but Dallas was unkind to him,” Allison Jean said. “And so what I would like to leave with you is, find out from your city how valuable each and every one of you is, because they need to demonstrate that value by the laws that they have, how they treat their people.”

This Birthday Ain't Happy!

Democrats blame Biden for ignoring the warning signs. Harris as vice president will fulfill her duties and move forward.

President Joe Biden turns 82 years old today.

The one term president will retire from politics once 12:01pm hits on Jan. 20, 2025.

He will be regarded as a man who was willing to sacrifice everything. 

Biden will be ranked between 20 - 35 in the middle. He will leave the White House with a job approval of 46% approval. He will be vilified by Democrats and Republicans.

He will at least be regarded by some as the first president to have woman as vice president. He ended up costing the first African American woman the election.

The Democrats blame Biden for Vice President Kamala Harris' shocking loss.

Donald J. Trump emerges from political obscurity to become the president again.

His legacy will continue with failure and chaos.

Harris will hopefully return to the public sector someday as a vocal opposition to Trump and J.D. Vance.

Trump is ranked in the bottom tier of presidents. He has an opportunity to redeem himself but it is highly unlikely.

The Democrats will have to regroup. Because there are no viable contenders for 2028's presidential bid. There are no viable ideas right now.

Democrats can't get it right. I mean being moderate is cool and all but it's time to stop pandering to Republicans and white supremacy. If you want more John Fetterman and Joe Manchin-like lawmakers, the Democrats will never break from losing.

Biden allowed Israel to destroy the Democrats. When the base told Biden that funding the war was going to hurt him and Harris, he ignored them.

When the base asked Harris and Tim Walz to have more Arab representation, they ignored them.

When Trump used identity politics to define Harris, she brushed it off thinking white voters were just going to ignore him. She thought wrong.

Biden could have beaten Trump but he would have been endured with Hunter Biden, Tara Reade and endless talk about his age.

As you see, Tara Reade, Hunter Biden and Biden's age are not mentioned too much by Republicans.

Biden will leave Trump a stable economy, global unrest, political division and fierce opposition from Democrats.

The oldest serving president will leave for another older president.

Tom Homan: Haitians, You Ain't Staying In Springfield, Ohio Any Longer!

The Trump border czar threatens violent removal of immigrants.

Y'all voted for this.

I anticipate economic collapse with Donald J. Trump. I anticipate violent unrest with Trump. I anticipate he will be impeached again. 

I anticipate the Republican trifecta will not last long.

The 21st Century Grover Cleveland. 

Immigrants who came to the U.S. seeking asylum will not find the Trump administration friendly towards them. I am guessing those from the Global South and Eastern Front will be denied while those who come from the West, Israel and Russia will not suffer.

Deporting immigrants will result in an economic collapse. Companies that have workers who have legal status will lose them. White people will find that hiring migrant help difficult. Migrants often pick crops, fix roofs, repair homes, fix food, clean homes and other work. 

Who is going to do it when they're gone.

The Trump Administration will try to militarize local and federal agencies to round out immigrants. They will racially profile people who aren't speaking English.

These idiots will assume Puerto Ricans are immigrants. Puerto Rico is a self autonomous U.S. territory. Those living in the territory are U.S. citizens.

They will be labeled as immigrants too.

American Samoa, another U.S. territory has residents who are U.S. nationals.

They will face hell trying to enter the U.S. as well.

The border czar is using white supremacist rhetoric. He warned that a federal program allowing people who fled dangerous countries to live and work legally in the U.S. on a temporary basis can “end tomorrow,” at which point the enrollees would be subject to deportation.

Asked about a population of roughly 15,000 Haitian immigrants in the Temporary Protected Status program who live in Springfield, Ohio, on talk radio Friday, Tom Homan emphasized that the Department of Homeland Security can end the program at the secretary’s discretion.

As border czar, Homan said he will report directly to Trump and is responsible for creating policies to “secure the border” and developing an operational plan for mass deportations. Homan oversaw Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first administration.

Trump himself said during the campaign he’d revoke the Temporary Protected Status program for Haitians in Springfield and “bring them back to their country,” part of a broader mass deportation effort. He has chosen immigration hard liners to key jobs, including Vice President J.D. Vance, deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Both Trump and Vance shined a national spotlight on Springfield during the campaign, pushing false rumors that Haitian immigrants in the small city were stealing and eating locals’ pets. The rumormongering became a lead-in for broader criticism of how the Haitian population surged in town, putting stress on social services and schools. The rhetoric was followed by a series of bomb threats to schools, hospitals, and government buildings in the county, which local officials attributed to Trump’s high profile commentary. State officials said the threats came from outside the country.

Trump won Clark County (which includes Springfield) with 64% of the vote, a four-point gain over his past two runs.

Congress and President George H.W. Bush created the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990 to admit natives of countries hit by natural disasters or that fall into civil unrest or violence. The countries are granted the protected designation on 6- to 18-month intervals that can be renewed. As of March, about 864,000 people are enrolled from 16 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen, according to the Congressional Research Service.

About 200,000 come from Haiti, which gained protected status after a earthquake in 2010 killed thousands and ravaged the poor country’s infrastructure. The status was renewed under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Trump sought to revoke Haiti’s status during his first term, but the effort was caught up in court before he lost his reelection campaign.

Homan also warned cities and their mayors that will not act on immigrants that they "better not cross that line."

Yeah.

Is he threatening violence?

Anyway, the results of white grievance and misinformation. The white people who backed Trump in high numbers. They gave him the White House despite his cognitive decline, his sexual predatory behavior, his endless hypocrisy, the fact is the first convicted felon to serve and it appears we will not learn our lesson.

Serving Hot!

Elderly hothead tossed coffee on couple who wore Free Palestine clothes.

A viral video of an elderly woman throwing hot coffee on a couple wearing pro Palestinian attire has been arrested. The junk food media refused to show her face but social media ain't.

Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, was at a Panera in Downers Grove, a Chicago suburb, around noon on Saturday when she saw a man wearing a sweatshirt that said "Palestine" on it, the DuPage County State’s Attorney's Office said. She allegedly confronted him and started yelling expletives, prosecutors said.

When a woman who was with the man started taking video of the confrontation, Szustakiewicz allegedly tried to hit the phone out of the woman's hand, prosecutors said.

Szustakiewicz, a Darien resident, was taken into custody the next day and is accused of committing "a hate crime by reason of perceived national origin," prosecutors said.

He had to restrain himself from hurting this woman after she threw coffee on him and his wife.

"This type of behavior is not and will never be tolerated in our community," Downers Grove Chief of Police Michael DeVries said in a statement.

Downers Grove is about 23 miles west of Chicago.

Every member of society, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or any other individual characteristic, deserves to be treated with respect and civility," DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin added.

Szustakiewicz made her first court appearance on Monday on two counts of hate crime and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, authorities said.

These racists always want to portray Arabs and Muslims as savage animals. This cartoon shows white people and their depection of Arabs.

She is next due in court on Dec. 16.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Israel and Trump.

Y'all voted for this.

Zionism is a threat to the world. Christian and Jewish supremacy is a threat right now. In the U.S., Trump's victory has activated Republicans to push for Christian nationalism. In Israel, this conflict has sparked discussions about how the world allowed the "Jewish state" to carry on without punishment for so long.

It also awaken young voters. They don't see Muslims or Arab people as terrorists or threats to the world. They see white men as a threat to the world. They saw the Democrats were offering status quo and rejected it. They want to punish the Democrats by electing Republicans to prove to the country that our government will fail if we allow Trump in,

We elected a convicted felon who is a sexual predator back into the White House and he is already breaking his oath of office. 

I am not young anymore but I was opposed to Israel since 2012. 

Behind Gaetz!

Y'all elected a sexual predator. Why you're upset he picks a sexual predator to be his U.S. Attorney General?

President-elect Donald J. Trump will get Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) through the system one way or another. If the American voters can elect a man convicted of 34 felonies, found a liable sexual offender, twice impeached and is regarded as a decline in U.S. influence, his appointments should not matter. They're just about the same.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is an admitted sexual predator, adulterer, former drug addict and conspiracy theorist. 

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. He is a sexual predator, conspiracy theorist and a racist. He called Islam a cancer and called Black youth committing crimes a threat to America. 

Matt Gaetz has slept with underage children, paid for prostitutes, got horrible plastic surgery and said racist things. He openly supported Trump, rallied against President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Hunter Biden.

Gaetz ran on the Tara Reade allegations to damage Biden. He and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to have Reade testify from Russia. The woman fled the U.S. to embrace convicted spy Maria Butina. Reade has hinted asking for Trump to pardon her even though she has no criminal indictments so far.

Gaetz has no shame in what he does.

Y'all upset over his past transgressions. Well you should have voted for Harris.

Y'all voted for this.

Trump slept with prostitutes, groped women, sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, slept with Stormy Daniels and then paid her and Karen McDougal to stay silent about the affairs he had on incoming first lady Melania Trump.

Trump has lied so much, the junk food media now believes his bullshit. He is grossly incompetent.

Trump has slept with Laura Loomer, Alina Habba and other women while campaigning.

Trump and Matt Gaetz are one in the same. 

Trump will get his Attorney General.

The Pennsylvania race for U.S. Senator enters a recount. I previously said David McCormick defeated Bob Casey, but the state had issued a recount. The results should be in by the end of the week.

The Senate is in Republican control and the concerns are growing. Democrats will not back him. Republicans can lose two or three senators. Trump and J.D. Vance, Ohio senator and Vice President-elect has confidence he will get through.

Gaetz and Trump attorney Todd Blanche are moving full speed ahead on trying to fill out the Justice Department, according to sources familiar with the planning. If confirmed, Blanche would serve in the powerful No. 2 position at the Justice Department, overseeing all U.S. attorney’s offices throughout the country.

“President Trump and his team are focused on and confident in the confirmation of AG-designee Gaetz,” a person familiar with Trump’s thinking told NBC News.

Trump announced he was choosing Gaetz for the attorney general role on Wednesday, writing in a post on Truth Social, “Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System. Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.”

When the president-elect initially publicized his pick, many Republicans — except for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) who got a heads-up from Trump — were in complete shock.

In his few terms in the House, Gaetz has often been embroiled in controversy.

He was investigated by the Justice Department in a case involving the alleged sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl, though the former congressman, who resigned his post shortly after he was picked for attorney general, has always denied the allegations and has never been criminally charged.

On Thursday, though, a lawyer for the 17-year-old girl wrote in a post on X, saying, “She was a high school student and there were witnesses” when the alleged incident occurred.

The attorney, John Clune, also called for the release of a House Ethics Committee report detailing the committee’s investigation into Gaetz, which has been ongoing for several years.

Republicans who oppose Gaetz now could still ultimately vote to confirm him when the time comes, especially if pressure from Trump mounts.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and incoming Majority Leader John Thune (R-SC) said that they will not allow a recess appointment. 

Shortly after he was projected to win the presidential election, Trump wrote a post on Truth Social urging Republicans running to be the next Senate majority leader to allow him to use recess appointments to confirm a Cabinet quickly.

This style of nomination would bypass the normal appointment process, leaving the Senate entirely out of the equation, by allowing Trump to appoint members of his Cabinet while both chambers of Congress are in periods of recess that last days or weeks.

The House and Senate currently gavel in for pro forma sessions while in recess to prevent the president from taking such steps to appoint Cabinet members.

Since the Truth Social post, Trump has not asked for any specific Cabinet pick, including Gaetz, to be confirmed via recess appointment.

“If the obstructionists are the other party, and you have the votes to confirm somebody, then I think you could make an ethical decision to provide that opportunity, that constitutional opportunity,” Cramer said. “On the other hand, if the opposition is preventing you from doing it with your own party, I think it runs a couple of risks. You could do it, but you’d have a very weak Cabinet secretary.”