After DOGE accessed the Treasury Department’s payment data when Homeland Security Officers had to be called to remove resisting bureaucrats from the premises, they discovered a far-left slush fund called USAID. Soon after, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly halted the operation.
Now, the operation, the forensic investigation of government budget by DOGE, can continue after the DOJ agrees to a proposed order that would allow only two Musk-approved, but Treasury Department employed people to have access to the data, but only in read-only mode. These two special employees are Tom Krause and Marko Elaz.
DOJ agrees to proposed order to limit DOGE’s access to Treasury data – ABC News Source Link Excerpt:
In a filing late Wednesday evening, lawyers with the Justice Department agreed to a proposed order that would largely prohibit the Treasury Department from sharing sensitive financial data with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The agreement allows two individuals associated with Musk but employed by the Treasury Department – called special government employees – to have “read only” access to the sensitive data.
Once approved by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is overseeing the case, the agreement will stay in place until Feb. 24 when both sides return to court to argue about a long-term preliminary injunction.
The two special government employees allowed to continue seeing Treasury Department data are Tom Krause and Marko Elez, according to the filing. Krause is the former chief executive of Cloud Software Group, a Silicon Valley tech company. Marko Elez is a 25-year-old engineer who used to work for Musk’s X and SpaceX.
Representative Al Green (D-TX) has filed his third set of impeachment articles against Donald Trump. This time, he filed the articles in response to his call for the Palestinians to be moved to a new land permanently. He called the reasons “dastardly deeds.”
He said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. and injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America. I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the president has begun. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.”
Rep. Al Green is filing new impeachment articles against Trump– www.politico.com Source Link Excerpt:
Rep. Al Green said Wednesday he was introducing impeachment articles against Donald Trump after the president said the U.S. would “take over” Gaza.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. and injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America,” Green said in a floor speech Wednesday morning. “I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the president has begun. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.”
The Texas Democrat launched multiple longshot impeachment bids during Trump’s first term using procedural maneuvers meant to circumvent House leadership and bypass committees. Similar to his last efforts, there’s not much appetite among Democrats to impeach Trump as of yet.
Asked Wednesday about Green’s measure, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), the No. 3 House Democrat, said it wasn’t a focus for the caucus.
Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General of Florida, has been confirmed as the next Attorney General by a vote of 54-46, with one Democrat, John Fetterman, joining the republicans to confirm her. Since she was appointed, she has already moved to create a “Weaponization Working Group” to investigate the lawfare prosecutions of President Trump and other DNC-CCP opponents.
Bondi also immediately halted funding to all Sanctuary cities, cities run by the party of sedition, the DNC-CCP, that openly defy Federal laws regarding illegal immigration. She also issued a warning to prosecutors that “Targeting of Catholics, Parents, and Pro-Life Americans must stop.”
Senate Confirms Bondi As The Next U.S. Attorney General– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
The Senate has confirmed Pamela Bondi as the next United States attorney general.
The Senate confirmed Bondi in a vote of 54 to 46 Tuesday night, with all Republicans and one Democrat voting in favor of confirmation. The former Florida attorney general earned a reputation for fighting opioid “pill mills,” human trafficking, and organized crime. Trump said when he tapped Bondi for the role of United States attorney general that “she is smart and tough” and “will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime.”
“Congratulations to our wonderful and very talented United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who gets sworn in today amid tremendous support, and the respect of ALL,” President Donald Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social. “I know Pam well, it was an honor to appoint her, and my prediction is that she will go down as one of the best and most consequential Attorney Generals in the history of our Country.”
Bondi will likely play an instrumental role in Trump’s reform of federal law enforcement. If Congress confirms Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel, the duo will be tasked with de-weaponizing an apparatus that, for far too long, has targeted conservatives — from Trump, to non-violent Jan. 6 protestors, to a whistleblower who exposed child transgender mutilations.
Bondi’s office will also face issues like enforcing immigration law, executing antitrust laws against Big Tech, and ensuring equal treatment of citizens by federal agencies.
Our new Attorney General: “My overriding objective will be to return the Dept of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously prosecuting criminals. I will do everything in my power to MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!”
AG Pam Bondi Establishes “Weaponization Working Group” To Investigate Politicized Justice– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to establish the “Weaponization Working Group,” which will review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of “politicized justice.”
The “Weaponization Working Group” will review politically motivated investigations including Special Counsel Jack Smith, NY DA Alvin Bragg, NY AG Leticia James, and the prosecution of J6ers.
The working group’s first reviews will include prosecutions against Trump led by:
-Former Special Counsel Jack Smith; who was after President Donald Trump in the 2020 election case and the classified documents case – both were dismissed.
-Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who pursued the Hush Money case
– And New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the civil fraud case against Trump and his family resulting in a historic and unheard of $454 Million bond being issued
AG Pam Bondi Halts Funding to Sanctuary Cities– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Independent: Hours after she was sworn in, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Justice Department to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities. Among several directives issued Wednesday, Bondi charged the DOJ with identifying and evaluating funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to undocumented immigrants. She also tasked the department with investigating instances of sanctuary jurisdictions obstructing law enforcement and “directing they be prosecuted, when necessary.” Several offices within the Justice Department provided $1.56 billion in grants to sanctuary cities in 2023 (Independent).
New York Post: The memo orders an immediate 60-day pause on distribution of funds — with a report on further steps due to Bondi’s desk within 45 days. Bondi’s order also says the DOJ “shall not enter into any new contract, grant, or other agreement to provide Federal funding to non-governmental organizations that support or provide services, either directly or indirectly (e.g., through sub-contracting or other arrangements), to removable or illegal aliens” (New York Post).
Attorney General Pam Bondi: “Targeting of Catholics, Parents and Pro-Life Americans Must Stop”– www.lifenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Bondi was confirmed in a 54-46 vote with support from all 53 Senate Republicans and a lone Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA. The swing-state senator has recently made headlines for breaking with his party on multiple issues, including border security.
All other members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted against Bondi.
Attorney General Bondi will head the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) has uncovered a major, decades-long insurrectionist slush fund disguised as humanitarian aid from the U.S. The intention of the fund appears to be to fund insurrectionists at home and abroad, from funding far-left illegal political content marketers to George Soros’ seditionist Attorney Generals, the billions of dollars flowing out of that fund appears overwhelmingly to be nothing but a slush fund and money laundering operation for the DNC-CCP.
The pushback from the insurrectionist left is coming through courts, who are unconstitutionally blocking efforts by DOGE to uncover the rot and purge the system of the insurrectionists within it, and Democrat operatives both in elected office and in their illegal content marketing companies who are issuing death threats to DOGE employees and “Nazi” accusations against the Trump administration, rhetoric designed to trigger their sleeper cells to violently attack the republic. A full report on USAID will be included in the next issue (February 14, 2025) of MIA Mid-Monthly. Go here for an updated link report.
List of USAID’s Outrageous Grants – PJ Media– pjmedia.com Source Link Excerpt:
Read some examples below from Mast’s list of other preposterous expenditures of our hard-earned cash, and keep in mind how many Americans were struggling to pay bills or suffering from natural disasters under the Biden-Harris administration:
$1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
$14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.
$20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador through the State Department.
$47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.
$32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.
$55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the State Department.
$3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.
$7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.
$80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia through the State Department.
$3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.
$16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.
$10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.
$8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.
$1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.
$70,884 to create a U.S.-Irish musical to promote DEI in Ireland through the State Department.
$39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department.
$2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities through USAID [this is especially silly since most Vietnamese are too dirt-poor for any car; I’ve seen that in person].
$425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.
It’s all a total grift. No more than 12 cents of every USAID dollar actually reaches the intended target. It seems pretty clear that the agency is little more than a money-laundering operation and, as such, it’s praiseworthy and long overdue that the Trump administration aims to shut it down.
Clinton Appointed Judge BLOCKS DOGE From Reviewing Financial Transactions– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Updated: The far left activist judge has blocked DOGE
BREAKING: A Federal Judge just limited DOGE’s access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system records.
Now I wonder what’s in those records that you would restrict another government agency from viewing….
DOGE: 81yo Judge Kollar-Kotelly is the same judge that sentenced 75yo pro-life protester Paula Harlow to two years in prison. Now she’s blocking Trump’s administration from making changes to the Treasury Department’s payment system. DOGE is blocked completely and Treasury… pic.twitter.com/mMHOEwuxWv
USAID helped fund the ‘Soros prosecutors’– www.americanthinker.com Source Link Excerpt:
If Elon Musk—who has been an advocate for free speech and small government—has an evil twin, that evil twin is George Soros. Soros, as conservatives know, has spent his billions funding organizations dedicated to leftist causes. One of the causes with the greatest impact has been funding “Soros prosecutors”—hard-left lawyers who refuse to prosecute criminals but enthusiastically prosecuted Trump and other conservatives. It now appears that some large amounts of the money the Soros organizations used to get these prosecutors in office came from USAID.
The story begins with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a grant-giving organization. Here’s a short version of what Discover the Networks (“DtN”) says about these two related organizations.
The set-up is that the Tides Foundation and the related (although legally distinct) Tide Center are two sides of a public charity that operates as a clearinghouse between wealthy leftists and hard-left institutions. By donating to Tides, the donors aren’t seen as having a direct connection with radical groups. Leftist non-profits can also get money from Tide and then funnel it to their affiliated for-profit organizations. The whole thing was set up as a scam and a cover.
Per DtN, these are just a few of the leftist causes Tides funds:
Among the crusades to which Tides contributes are: radical environmentalism; the “exclusion of humans from public and private wildlands”; the anti-war movement; anti-free trade campaigns; the banning of firearms ownership; abolition of the death penalty; access to government-funded abortion-on-demand; and radical gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender advocacy. The Foundation is also a member organization of the International Human Rights Funders Group, a network of more than six-dozen grantmakers dedicated to financing leftwing groups and causes.
Defunding USAID Is About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
The most common argument you’ll hear from those defending the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is that the grant dollars in question are just a fraction of the federal budget — less than one percent! Even if the Trump administration eliminated USAID altogether it wouldn’t put much of a dent in the deficit or help control the national debt, is the argument. Everyone from the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC to Jim Geraghty at National Review are repeating this line.
But trimming the federal budget and reducing the deficit aren’t really the point of this exercise. The point is to expose USAID for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become, and to shut it down. In the six decades since it was established, USAID has gone from fighting poverty, spreading American ideals, and undercutting Soviet propaganda, to becoming a woke propaganda operation of its own that actively undermines the pillars of western civilization. It’s gone from exporting democracy to exporting deviancy, and now we can all see it.
President Trump this week tasked Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with a review of the agency’s grants and expenditures, which has already shone a much-needed light on where tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are going. My colleague Tristan Justice detailed a handful of some of the most insane projects USAID funds, including “$70,000 for a ‘DEI musical’ in Ireland, $47,000 for a ‘transgender opera’ in Colombia, $32,000 for a ‘transgender comic book’ in Peru, and $1.5 million for an LGBT jobs program in Serbia.” Other projects were to fund electric vehicles in Vietnam, infrastructure in Egypt, meals for Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, and internet censorship in the United Kingdom.
Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for ‘Politico’ Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There – redstate.com
Things are about to get much worse, though, so buckle up. According to recently revealed records, left-leaning news outlet Politico received over thirty-four million dollars from USAID and other government agencies. That money went to pay for “subscriptions” for various bureaucratic officials, including “pro” subscriptions that add up to over $10,000 a pop.
The Politico scandal is worse than you think.
It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.
It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.
Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.
A breakdown of some of the expenditures shows USAID paid $443,998 for just 37 subscriptions to Politico for FDA officials. Another outlay for “subscriptions” cost $862,025.
Politico has never disclosed those payments even as they’ve written pieces covering USAID, posing as unbiased arbiters of truth. That represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of the press. The United States government was funneling money to a left-wing news outlet that has repeatedly done the bidding of the Democratic Party. As an example, you may remember Politico as the same news site that laundered the infamous letter from “51 intelligence officials” saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
In other words, it sure looks like the Biden administration was paying a news outlet to do its bidding. Are we supposed to believe it’s just a coincidence that Politico was routinely the go-to for Democratic Party politicians and officials to launder their propaganda?
REVEALED: Politico Received Huge Amounts of Taxpayer Money From USAID — Awarded Over $8 Million in Hundreds of Grants | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com Source Link Excerpt:
Politico / Screenshot Via Facebook
Now it is starting to make sense.
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of Americans, Politico was receiving huge amounts of taxpayer money from USAID.
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk seek to gut the corrupt agency and stop the disbursement of billions of dollars around the world, many people have pointed out some of the most ludicrous “grants” handed out by USAID.
Among the lucky recipients is Politico, a prominent digital news company covering U.S. and global politics.
Politico is a for-profit venture. In 2021, it was bought by Axel Springer for a staggering $1 billion.
Nevertheless, the company has received over $8 million dollars from USAID across hundreds of grants.
Watch: How USAID Spread Fake News with Your Tax Dollars– www.louderwithcrowder.com Source Link Excerpt:
The left continues to lose over the USAID spending scandal, as it’s been revealed that your tax dollars have been financing the disinformation that the fake news media has been feeding the masses. Today’s show breaks it down.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed yesterday that “more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime will no longer be happening.”
White House cancels millions in Politico subscriptions amid Musk-led budget cuts– www.euronews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Announcing millions of dollars of cuts to online subscriptions, the Trump administration’s press secretary repeated misleading statements used to justify the dismantling of the US government’s international aid and development agency.
The White House has said it is cancelling millions of dollars in subscriptions to online news outlet Politico, part of a sweeping programme of cuts that has seen tech entrepreneur Elon Musk given the opportunity to gut government payrolls and budgets — and even to effectively shut down entire US agencies.
The announcement came from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who told a press conference on Wednesday that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had spent $8m ($7.72m) on subscriptions to the outlet’s Politico Pro output, and that the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) intended to cancel them.
USAID Funneled Tax Dollars to WEF, Bill Gates, George Soros– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
As President Donald Trump’s administration continues to expose alarming levels of deep state corruption in the federal government, details are beginning to emerge to reveal who has been benefiting from this unprecedented misuse of American taxpayer money.
Trump has tasked the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to investigate and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse from federal agencies.
These investigations have exposed shocking abuses, particularly at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
As Slay News has reported, DOGE has uncovered evidence showing that USAID has been wasting billions of dollars in taxpayer money on fraudulent foreign schemes.
Even more disturbingly, USAID has been using U.S. tax dollars against the American people by funding leftist corporate media propaganda efforts and even the bioweapons research that developed the COVID-19 virus in China.
Reddit Bans Liberal Community After Death Threats Pour In Against DOGE Workers– dailycaller.com Source Link Excerpt:
Reddit temporarily banned a page over threats directed at staff of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Elon Musk accused users of breaking the law, according to multiple posts online.
Users on multiple pages were engaging in “threats and doxing,” prompting the site to issue 72-hour bans against some of them, including “r/WhitePeopleTwitter,” a Reddit Safety post said. They noted that the pages violated Reddit Rules and described the shutdowns as a “cooling-off period.”
Users on the popular social media app were sharing posts with threatening language directed at members of the DOGE Team, according to screenshots from Reddit Lies.
“Time to hunt,” one user posted, the images showed, while another apparently wrote “lets drag their necks up by a large coil up rope.”
“They have broken the law” Musk wrote, quote-tweeting the post showing the screenshots.
Raving Dem Lawmakers Protest Elon Musk, DOGE; ‘Shut Down the Senate, We are at War’– legalinsurrection.com Source Link Excerpt:
The last straw for Democratic lawmakers came when Elon Musk’s team of 18 to 25-year-old geniuses pulled back the curtain and exposed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as little more than a global charity for progressive causes. In a collective frenzy, what looked like the majority of House Democrats along with several senators, converged outside of the Treasury Department building to let their voices be heard. Why, it almost sounded as if they were calling for an insurrection.
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver bellowed into the microphone, “We will not take this! We will fight back! And godd*** it, shut down the Senate! We are at war!”
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley directed her ire toward her Republican colleagues. With California Rep. Maxine Waters grinning at her side, she yelled, “Pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!”
She referred to Musk as a “Nazi nepo baby.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley calls for violence: “I want to say to our Republican colleagues — pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!” pic.twitter.com/YpUzB8EVt0
Trump Rocks Bill Gates as USAID Shakeup Squeezes Out His Foundation– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Pour one out for poor Bill Gates.
Gates, the Microsoft gazillionaire who has officially taken the leap from “global philanthropist” to “supranational, self-appointed health and climate official,” has been seen using his money and influence on the world stage to peddle ideas like geoengineering to “dim” the sun and cool the planet or push lab-made meat upon us, ostensibly to solve the same problem.
In the latest of his weird Bond villain ideas, Gates’ charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, approved a grant to research turning mosquitoes into “flying vaccinators,” a move which, in no way, sounds like something out of the first ten chapters of a Michael Crichton novel, before things go wrong.
Clearly, this is a man who needs access to avenues to distribute money and global reach to export these grand schemes — two things, just coincidentally, that USAID, the government agency currently in the process of being shuttered by the Trump administration, provides his charity.
USAID: A Cancer That Is One Of The Core Epicenters Of Evil In The U.S. Government Is Being Ripped To Shreds– lidblog.com Source Link Excerpt:
Trump told reporters on Sunday: “USAID has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and we’re getting them out and then we’ll make a decision.”
I totally agree with Trump on this point.
Virtually everyone at USAID needs to be removed from their positions.
Fortunately, things are moving in that direction. USAID employees were told to stay home on Monday, and hundreds of staffers were locked out of the computer systems…
Stay at home and don’t bother to come into the office. That was the message to staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Monday who were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters.
The advice came via a notice distributed to the career bureaucrats, AP reports, after Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency down.
According to AP, USAID staffers said they “also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight.”
USAID Whistleblower Says He Was Forced to Attend DEI Boot Camp– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
A USAID whistleblower says he learned the hard way what happens to employees of the agency who report corruption.
Former USAID director Mark Moyar told Fox News’ Jesse Watters he was fired from his job at the agency when he reported one of his subordinates for criminal conflict of interest.
Moyar explained that shortly after he spoke up, he was accused of publishing classified information, which was used to justify firing him. He’s been in court for three years trying to get the agency to “turn over the facts.”
EXCLUSIVE: USAID whistleblower, Mark Moyar, reveals what happened when he raised concerns that the agency was a corrupt money pit. He found out the hard way that reporting corruption gets you in a lot of trouble… pic.twitter.com/I1BINBd0qp
Vast Majority of Donations From USAID Workers Went to Democrats– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
Employees from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have donated almost entirely to Democrats.
USAID staff made $406,790 in political contributions in the 2024 election cycle, according to data collected on OpenSecrets. While $241,079, more than half of the total, went to Kamala Harris for president, only $999, which is a quarter of a percent, went to Donald Trump. 97% overall, a bit over $377,000, went to Democrats, but only $12,704 went to Republicans.
Political donations of USAID employees over $200 to PACs and candidates were tracked by Open Secrets with data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The numbers above show the rampant political bias at the agency.
UN Chief Panics as Trump Cuts Funding for Globalist Causes– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres is panicking over fears about President Donald Trump’s efforts to prevent American tax dollars from being used to fund foreign organizations advancing a globalist agenda.
In a letter distributed to UN staff, Guterres warns that Trump’s America First policies will create a “difficult challenge” for the unelected international body.
In the letter, Guterres wrote:
“I assure you that we are working closely with colleagues throughout the United Nations system to understand and mitigate the extent of its impact on our operations.
“Now, more than ever, the work of the United Nations is crucial.
“As we face this difficult challenge, your dedication and support will help us to overcome and move forward.
“Together, we will ensure that our Organization continues to serve people in need around the world with unwavering commitment.”
President Donald Trump saw his 2024 election victory certified by the U.S. Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris having to preside over the whole affair. She said of the process that “It’s a peaceful transition of power. It’s a good day.” The President won the election 312 electoral votes to 226, 77 million votes to 75 million votes.
Harris calls it a ‘good day’ for democracy as she oversees peaceful certification of Trump’s victory – wnyt.com Source Link Excerpt:
After less than a half hour, she formally announced that Trump had won the election. She smiled tightly as Republicans applauded.
“The chair declares this joint session dissolved,” Harris said. “Thank you.”
The process was vastly different than four years ago, when Trump’s supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were certifying his defeat to Joe Biden. This time, everyone honored the results of the election.
US President Joe Biden has said that his administration will work with the FBI to probe the hoax threats made to lawmakers and Donald Trump’s cabinet picks over the week.
The targetted people also fell victim to “swatting” which is a false report made to police to induce chaos and fear by drawing a potentially heavy, armed response by officers at someone’s home.
What happened?
Thanksgiving turned awry for at least six lawmakers after they received bomb threats as they were celebrating with their families.
Rep. Seth Magaziner, a House Democrat from Rhode Island, said on Friday he was targeted by a bomb threat at home, a day after six Democratic lawmakers from Connecticut reported similar threats. These included Reps. Joe Courtney, Jim Himes, John Larson and Jahana Hayes.
Law enforcement in each case found no evidence of explosive devices, the lawmakers said. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice to become US defence secretary, and Lee Zeldin, Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, were among nominees targeted with bomb threats and swatting attempts.
Lawfare Assassin Judge Juan Merchan is blinking once again, following up his original delay of the Trump sentencing until after the inauguration with a new order that delays the sentencing indefinitely while Trump appeals the conviction.
This appears to many legal experts to be the definition of a punt, with a hope that the bad ruling will be vacated, and all eyes will stop looking at the criminality of the case, criminality committed by the Judge and the Prosecutor.
Judge allows Trump to seek dismissal of hush-money case and delays sentence indefinitely – live | Trump administration– www.theguardian.com Source Link Excerpt:
Donald Trump has been granted permission by a New York judge on Friday to seek dismissal of his hush money criminal case.
The permission follows his presidential victory on November 5 and multiple sentencing delays surrounding the case of which he was found guilty earlier this year.
With New York judge Juan Merchan indefinitely postponing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case, attorneys on both sides are debating over its future.
Victoria Bekiempis reports for the Guardian:
Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday asked Merchan to throw out the case, contending that dismissal was necessary “in order to facilitate the orderly transition of executive power”.
Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead attorney and choice for deputy US attorney general, and Emil Bove, the president-elect’s pick for principal associate deputy attorney general, complained that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s team “appears to not yet be ready to dismiss this politically motivated and fatally flawed case, which is what is mandated by the law and will happen as justice takes its course”…
Prosecutors disagreed that Trump’s case should be dismissed simply because appeals wouldn’t be decided before his inauguration. While they respected the presidency and understood the logistical issues, “no current law establishes that a president’s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution, and that is based on unofficial conduct from which the defendant is also not immune.”
It appears the new Senate will be structured like Russia once was, when a President Medvedev held the politically stronger office over Prime Minister Putin, but Medvedev relied on Putin for his power, so Putin was still the King. So it is with Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who will be replaced by his handpicked successor, John Thune (R-SD).
McConnell will be holding onto significant power by becoming the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chair and the Chair of the Senate Rules committee, giving him tremendous power. Given that Thune won mostly due to McConnell’s stooges voting for him, Thune is essentially the Medvedev of the next Senate.
McConnell to step down as U.S. Senate GOP leader but take over two key chairmanships • West Virginia Watch Source Link Excerpt:
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced Thursday he’ll become chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the Rules Committee when the new Congress convenes in January.
“America’s national security interests face the gravest array of threats since the Second World War,” McConnell wrote in the announcement. “At this critical moment, a new Senate Republican majority has a responsibility to secure the future of U.S. leadership and primacy.”
Maine Sen. Susan Collins currently holds the top Republican slot on the Defense Subcommittee, which drafts the Pentagon’s annual spending bill, worth $825 billion.
Collins is expected to become chairwoman of the full Appropriations Committee next year and McConnell said in the statement he looks forward to working with her “to accomplish our shared goal.”
It wasn’t immediately clear Thursday if Collins would become chairwoman of one of the Appropriations Committee’s other 11 subcommittees.
Current Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., not only leads the full panel but is also chairwoman of the Energy-Water Subcommittee, for example.
After Matt Gaetz announced he was removing his name from consideration for Attorney General nomination, President Trump quickly announced his replacement, Pam Bondi, and many are suggesting that was the intention from the start. Did Trump open with the less palatable Gaetz to make it easier to get the more effective Bondi confirmed? After all, Pam Bondi was the former Attorney General for Florida, and she built a reputation as being a highly effective prosecutor.
Trump said of the selection, “I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States. Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals, and made the streets safe for Florida Families. Then, as Florida’s first female Attorney General, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country.”
Was Trump Doing His 4-D Chess Thing With His Attorney General Picks? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com Source Link Excerpt:
Trump wasn’t caught off-guard by Gaetz’s withdrawal, naming the nominee to replace him just hours later, which Matt covered:
Hours after Matt Gaetz took his name out of consideration for Attorney General, President Trump announced his new pick for the position.
“I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States,” Trump announced in a post on Truth Social. “Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals, and made the streets safe for Florida Families. Then, as Florida’s first female Attorney General, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country.”
Pam Bondi is an absolutely brilliant choice for attorney general. Her experience as Florida’s AG makes her highly qualified to take over the Department of Justice and get rid of the Merrick Garland Swamp rot that is infesting it. She’s very no-nonsense and knows how to throw a legal punch. The open borders people are already dyspeptic. My Townhall colleague Sarah Arnold laid out why Bondi has the lefties melting down here. This is from her post:
MSNBC is melting down over Pam Bondi as Attorney General:
“We should all fear [her] because she’s competent.”
Sarah has some more choice video in the article, including a clip of Bondi taking a shot at Dem beta male Mark Cuban.
Given Pam Bondi’s close personal and professional relationship with Donald Trump, why wasn’t she his first choice? Since we’re having fun with the 4-D chess idea, we have to wonder if the plan always was to eventually have her be the nominee. Perhaps nominating Gaetz first was merely a way to get the Dems so worked up that they’d be more amenable to Bondi once he bowed out.
That’s how this game works, isn’t it?
Again, this is just a lot of spitballin’ here. Like I said at the top, we’re just having some quick fun.
“But Kruiser,” some of you are saying, “why would Gaetz resign from Congress if that was the plan?”
I hear that there will be an open Senate seat in Florida once Trump’s next Secretary of State is confirmed.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
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The officer that killed Jan 6 Protestor Ashli Babbit has a checkered past that includes numerous weapons violations and other disciplinary infractions. Captain Michael Leroy Byrd’s checkered past came to light after a congressional investigation led by the GOP discovered his history in Capitol Police Department records.
Capitol Police Officer who Shot Ashli Babbitt had Long Disciplinary Record › American Greatness– amgreatness.com Source Link Excerpt:
A congressional investigation found that the Capitol Police officer who carried out the only killing on January 6th, 2021 had a long history of disciplinary actions against him due to negligence and other shortcomings.
According to Just The News, the probe into Captain Michael Leroy Byrd’s record by the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee revealed that, among other things, the disgraced officer failed a shotgun qualification test, failed an FBI background check during an attempted weapon purchase, faced a 33-day suspension for losing his weapon on the job, and had been referred to state prosecutors in Maryland for firing his weapon at a stolen car that was fleeing his neighborhood.
The findings were summarized in a letter sent to Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger by the committee’s chairman, Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.). Congressman Loudermilk expressed his opposition to the decision to promote Byrd, who was a lieutenant at the time of the peaceful protests on January 6th, to the rank of captain following his actions.
“This Subcommittee is dedicated to ensuring USCP has autonomy from political pressures so it can make operational and personnel decisions,” said Loudermilk in the letter. “However, based on the information obtained by the Subcommittee regarding USCP’s handling of Captain Byrd following January 6, 2021, and his significant disciplinary history, I have concerns about USCP’s decision to promote him to the rank of Captain.”
Perhaps the most infamous pre-J6 incident in Byrd’s career since he came to public light was when he left his service weapon, loaded and unattended, in a public bathroom on Capitol Hill in 2019. For this, he was given a 33-day suspension. Shortly after the events of January 6th, Byrd failed a background check while attempting to purchase a shotgun; when he tried to receive a department-issued shotgun instead, he failed the training.
In 2004, Byrd fired his weapon repeatedly at a stolen vehicle as it was being driven out of the neighborhood in which he lived. And in 2015, a complaint was filed against Byrd for “conduct unbecoming an officer” after an off-duty Byrd confronted a fellow officer while the officer in question was working at a high school football game; the officer who filed the complaint said that the language used by Byrd, who is black, had racial overtones against the officer he harassed.
On January 6th, Byrd shot and killed Ashi Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran, despite Babbitt being unarmed. Video taken of the shooting shows Byrd aiming his firearm at multiple protesters, who were on the other side of a barricade, before choosing to fire at Babbitt; he did so without issuing any kind of warning, verbal or otherwise, and despite being completely unprovoked. While the mainstream media and Democrats have described Byrd as a hero, Republicans have denounced his hasty decision to use lethal force when none of the other officers resorted to such actions that day, and have demanded a proper investigation into his conduct.
