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January 3, 2024
News

Jan 6 Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Donald Trump Dismissed by Federal Judge.

A federal judge has dismissed three of the five civil counts against former President Donald Trump and two others in connection with the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, including a claim of wrongful death.

The lawsuit against Trump was initiated by Sandra Garza, Sicknick’s girlfriend, who sought damages for wrongful death, conspiracy to violate civil rights, and negligence under D.C’s anti-riot law. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote that Garza could not claim damages associated under the Wrongful Death Act because she was not legally Sicknick’s spouse or domestic partner.

“Garza does not allege that she and Officer Sicknick filed the requisite ‘declaration of domestic partnership’ under District of Columbia law. Nor does she claim that they formed a domestic partnership under the law of any other jurisdiction,” wrote Mehta. “Her contention that a ‘domestic partnership’ was established simply by Officer Sicknick having identified Garza as his ‘domestic partner’ in his will finds no basis in the plain text of the statute. Garza therefore cannot recover the damages she personally seeks under the Act,” the judge continued.

While this is an obvious legal victory for Trump, the former president still faces two of the civil counts in the suit, as well as a number of other legal challenges in the coming weeks. Sicknick did not die on Jan 6, as first claimed by the media, but rather later from a stroke.

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A federal judge has dismissed three of the five civil counts against former President Donald Trump and two others in connection with the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, including a claim of wrongful death. show more
noah bookbinder joe biden
January 3, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Election 2024

A Biden Appointee, Recently SCRUBBED From a Govt Website, is Behind Efforts to Boot Trump off The Ballot.

Joe Biden’s government continues to deny its involvement in attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in a number of U.S. states, with the leading proponent of the endeavor – Noah Bookbinder – recently quietly removed from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website which previously featured him prominently as a Biden-Mayorkas appointee.

Bookbinder is the president and CEO of the left-wing lawfare organization known as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The National Pulse can reveal that until just days ago, in late 2023, he appeared on the DHS website as a member of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s ‘Advisory Council’. No rationale has been given for Bookbinder’s recent removal. The National Pulse has reached out to DHS for comment.

For at least four months, Bookbinder was serving as a political appointee under President Joe Biden while CREW funded and provided legal counsel to the petitioners. In fact, when State District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled against CREW – finding the Office of the President did not fall under the purview of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment – Bookbinder was quoted promising the decision would be appealed, indicating he was playing a direct and active role in the lawsuit.

“We always knew this case would end up before the Colorado Supreme Court, and have been preparing for that from the beginning,” Bookbinder said in a press release at the time. “We are planning to build on the trial judge’s incredibly important ruling that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection, and we are ready to take this case as far as necessary to ensure that Donald Trump is removed from the ballot.”

That was on November 21st, 2023 – while Bookbinder was still listed as an active appointee in the Biden government. The Colorado Supreme Court ultimately overturned Judge Wallace’s ruling and removed Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot.

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Joe Biden's government continues to deny its involvement in attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in a number of U.S. states, with the leading proponent of the endeavor – Noah Bookbinder – recently quietly removed from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website which previously featured him prominently as a Biden-Mayorkas appointee. show more

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January 3, 2024
Crime

Prosecutors Want 6-Month Sentence for ‘Unique’ Ray Epps.

Federal prosecutors are recommending a mere six-month prison sentence for controversial Jan 6 defendant Ray Epps. Set to be sentenced next week, Epps submitted a guilty plea for a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor charge in September, despite having claimed to have “orchestrated” the violence in 2021.

Prosecutors filed a sentencing memo on Tuesday arguing that Epps should receive just six-months for his attempts to provoke the storming of the Capitol building. Other Jan 6th prisoners have suffered years in jail, including solitary confinement, already. Some are facing decades in prison.

Epps was widely suspected of being an agent provocateur working on behalf of the authorities, but prosecutors denied this, stating: “Other than his four years in the Marines, Epps has never been a federal agent.”

Prosecutors also say Epps attributed the rioting to undercover Antifa members in the sentencing memo.

Last year, Epps launched a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that the network and its former host, Tucker Carlson, presented him as a key instigator of Jan 6, damaging his reputation and livelihood.

Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steve Sund, however, has said Carlson was not “crazy” to question to question Epps’s role on Jan 6, adding that it also “raises concern for me”.

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Federal prosecutors are recommending a mere six-month prison sentence for controversial Jan 6 defendant Ray Epps. Set to be sentenced next week, Epps submitted a guilty plea for a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor charge in September, despite having claimed to have "orchestrated" the violence in 2021. show more
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January 3, 2024
Jack Montgomery
NatSec
UK

14 Children Arrested in UK for ‘Right Wing Terrorism’.

London’s Metropolitan Police have asserted that “right-wing terrorism” is “increasingly significant in younger people’s ideology,” with counter-terror boss Dominic Murphy saying the force arrested 14 minors for “extreme right-wing terrorism views” in the year from June 2022 to June 2023.

“One of the things that’s startling over the last year or two is the volume of younger people involved in terrorism,” Murphy said.

“Just recently we’ve arrested a 17-year-old boy in south London [on suspicion of] posting material supporting Hamas online, but that 17-year-old boy was one of a high number of young teenagers that are now coming into our casework,” he continued.

“It’s uncomfortable having to consider the risk, harm and threat posed by such young people to the public in London. On average 27 children have been arrested per year since July 2020 — that’s more than double our 20-year average of children being arrested.”

Having mentioned Hamas, however, Murphy was quick to emphasize the supposed right-wing threat, stressing that “of the 25 children arrested in the 12 months to June this year, 14 had extreme right-wing terrorism views compared to nine for Islamist.”

However, the number of successfully executed right-wing terror attacks in the United Kingdom is far smaller than the number of successfully executed Islamist terror attacks — despite Muslims making up a much smaller share of Britain’s population than white people — and the police commander had to concede Islamism remains the country’s leading terror threat.

A leaked review from 2022 suggests the British authorities have been obsessed with right-wing extremism in recent years, pouring disproportionate resources into looking for potential suspects while “ignoring” the much greater risk from radical Muslims. “

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London's Metropolitan Police have asserted that "right-wing terrorism" is "increasingly significant in younger people’s ideology," with counter-terror boss Dominic Murphy saying the force arrested 14 minors for "extreme right-wing terrorism views" in the year from June 2022 to June 2023. show more
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January 3, 2024
Health
NatSec
Science

More Evidence Emerges for COVID Lab-Leak Theory.

A leaked document coauthored by American and Chinese scientists offers new evidence supporting the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins. The document details a 2018 grant proposal titled Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and EcoHealth Alliance, an American organization. The proposal suggested engineering high-risk coronaviruses by synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the very feature that made SARS-CoV-2 the most significant pandemic event in a century.

The project, initially planned for a high-containment BSL-3 lab, would be transferred to a BSL-2 lab at WIV with less stringent safety precautions, explained Peter Daszak, CEO of EcoHealth. Daszak’s involvement with Antony Fauci, the Wuhan Lab, and Chinese Communist scientists was first exposed by The National Pulse in 2021.

According to investigative journalist Emily Kopp from U.S. Right to Know, the scientists planned to study more lethal viruses after completing the coronavirus research.

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the intended funder for Project DEFUSE, was not informed of WIV’s involvement. This was allegedly done to skirt national security concerns tied to high-level biosecurity work in China. Kopp also revealed plans to use less regulated SARS-related coronavirus research as a foundation to study more deadly viruses like Ebola, Marburg, Hendra and Nipah. Despite being rejected for funding by DARPA, Daszak has likely completed some of the proposed work with different funding sources. His organization, EcoHealth Alliance, received at least $8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) between 2014 and 2021.

Daszak has publicly denied the lab-leak theory. However, documents leaked from Project DEFUSE contradict his denial, showing evidence of high-risk coronavirus research. Daszak’s organization is under federal investigation following claims of double-billing U.S. taxpayers for dangerous coronavirus research in China.

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A leaked document coauthored by American and Chinese scientists offers new evidence supporting the lab-leak theory of COVID-19's origins. The document details a 2018 grant proposal titled Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and EcoHealth Alliance, an American organization. The proposal suggested engineering high-risk coronaviruses by synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the very feature that made SARS-CoV-2 the most significant pandemic event in a century. show more
January 3, 2024
Election 2024
Politics

Nikki Haley Campaign Hauls Whopping $24M in Q4 2023.

In a sign of financial momentum, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign reported raising $24 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, more than doubling the $11 million it raised in the third quarter.

The Haley campaign used the announcement to highlight its supposed grassroots support, noting that it received contributions from 180,000 donors across all three campaign committees in the past three months, including 83,900 new contributors. Furthermore, the campaign said that $16.25 million of the fourth quarter sum came through digital and mail grassroots efforts. With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching on January 15, the Haley campaign revealed it now has $14.5 million cash on hand to spend.

Haley currently leads her nearest competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in the New Hampshire primary, and is making a play to overtake him in the Iowa caucus vote. Both candidates trail far behind leading GOP candidate and former president Donald Trump, who polls suggest has the support of over 50 percent of voters in the Hawkeye State.

The exponential growth in Haley’s fundraising is surely impressive, but it still pales compared to the fundraising efforts of Donald Trump. While the Trump campaign has not yet released its fourth quarter fundraising numbers, it raised a staggering $45.5 million during the third quarter of 2023, and finished September 2023 with $37.5 million in its coffers.

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In a sign of financial momentum, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's presidential campaign reported raising $24 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, more than doubling the $11 million it raised in the third quarter. show more
January 3, 2024
Economy

U.S. Debt Passes $34,000,000,000,000… That’s 34 TRILLION Dollars.

For the first time in history, U.S. debt has surpassed $34 trillion. The latest Treasury Daily Statement, reflecting financial records as of December 29th, 2023, puts the precise amount of total U.S. debt at $34,001,493,655,565.48.

The surge in debt has been consistent over the last 15 years, with significant jumps over the past several years: $1 trillion in the last three months, $2 trillion in the last six, $4 trillion in the last two years, and $11 trillion in the previous four. This exponential increase in debt has become a ruling factor in U.S. fiscal policy, raising questions about the nation’s financial stability.

In the third quarter, the budget deficit saw a substantial increase of $622 billion. Experts have begun to speculate on the amount of debt that will be accrued if the U.S. enters an official recession.

Despite the grim outlook, the Biden regime currently has no specified plan to counter the potential repercussions of the ever-increasing debt burden.

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For the first time in history, U.S. debt has surpassed $34 trillion. The latest Treasury Daily Statement, reflecting financial records as of December 29th, 2023, puts the precise amount of total U.S. debt at $34,001,493,655,565.48. show more
January 3, 2024
Media
Science

Associated Press Takes Donation From Foreign Group Training Journos to be Climate Change Activists.

The Associated Press (AP) received a donation of $300,000 from the KR Foundation, a Danish nonprofit with a manifesto for rapid fossil fuels phase-out, according to the charity’s 2022 annual report. This gift was quietly added to AP’s current philanthropic supporters list in February 2023, despite the newswire’s self-proclamation of maintaining the “highest practicable degree of transparency” about its benefactors.

Part of the KR Foundation’s plan involves spurring media organizations to promote its climate change agenda significantly, seeking to transform journalists into “community activists on climate change.”. Consequently, the grant extended to the AP until December 2024 is earmarked for the Global Scholars Network, the newswire’s international platform. Despite AP’s assertion to uphold editorial autonomy from its donor community, its climate reportage often mirrors the Foundation’s principles. Examples include recent articles advocating the phasing-out of fossil fuels and questions on the brink of a climate breakdown.

Other beneficiaries of the KR Foundation include organizations engaged in coordinated efforts to expedite the stoppage of fossil fuels use. The foundation grants include financial aids to legal student groups urging law firms to retreat from fossil fuel representation, and to media training programs designed to create climate change activists. Notably, the KR Foundation donated over $488,000 to Children’s Radio Foundation in 2018 to mold radio journalists in Africa into climate change activists.

The AP, which claims readership of four billion people each day, committed to a sweeping climate journalism initiative in 2022, financially backed by organizations such as the Hewlett Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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The Associated Press (AP) received a donation of $300,000 from the KR Foundation, a Danish nonprofit with a manifesto for rapid fossil fuels phase-out, according to the charity’s 2022 annual report. This gift was quietly added to AP's current philanthropic supporters list in February 2023, despite the newswire’s self-proclamation of maintaining the "highest practicable degree of transparency" about its benefactors. show more
January 3, 2024
World

Chinese Spy Balloons Spotted Over Taiwan Ahead of Critical Elections.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has reported that four Chinese spy balloons were detected floating over the island nation this week. The first was identified Monday, with three more spotted flying over the island on Tuesday. Chinese spy balloons have previously been detected flying near Taiwan, but this is the first time officials have reported such balloons crossing directly over the island nation.

According to ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Sun Li-fang, the balloons appeared to be the kind designed to collect atmospheric data. “As for whether they have other purposes,” he said, the government “is closely monitoring and controlling the situation, taking appropriate measures, and summarizing their flight paths for judgment and analysis.”

A similar balloon was found floating over the U.S. in January last year and was eventually shot down. Despite Beijing’s claims that it was merely a weather balloon that had drifted off course, an analysis of the debris by U.S. government agencies found that the balloon carried specialized equipment used to collect photos and videos, as well as other kinds of data.

The appearance of the Chinese balloons over Taiwan comes as the country is preparing for a three-way presidential election on January 13, in which both opposition candidates have expressed a desire to take a more friendly approach to China than the current ruling Party.

The appearance of the Chinese spy balloons over Taiwan comes barely a week after former U.S. Navy Seal Erik Prince predicted that China will invade Taiwan during the spring of this year.

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Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has reported that four Chinese spy balloons were detected floating over the island nation this week. The first was identified Monday, with three more spotted flying over the island on Tuesday. Chinese spy balloons have previously been detected flying near Taiwan, but this is the first time officials have reported such balloons crossing directly over the island nation. show more
January 3, 2024
Immigration
NatSec
News

Biden Weakens Vetting Process for Chinese Illegals.

In April 2023, the Biden government significantly streamlined the vetting process for Chinese illegal immigrants, according to an internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The email, directed at approximately 500 Border Patrol agents, reduces the number of interview questions from around 40 to just five for Chinese migrants apprehended after crossing the U.S. border without authorization. This change came amidst Border Patrol agents being inundated with near-record numbers of illegal crossings.

“This policy change has accelerated the time it takes to process Chinese illegal immigrants — this doesn’t make America safer,” J.J. Carrell, a retired CBP deputy patrol agent in charge, told the Daily Caller. “The final result is that dangerous Chinese illegal immigrants will still be released into the U.S.” In response to this policy change, human smuggling operations have swiftly adapted to these new guidelines, coaching Chinese immigrants on how to respond to the reduced list of questions.

The obtained email also indicates that Chinese illegal immigrants who successfully answer the five “basic questions” may be allowed entry into the U.S. interior and given an immigration court date. Despite this, the Department of Homeland Security’s Special Interest Alien (SIA) list, used to assess potential national security risks, does not include immigrants from China. In November 2023, the backlog of U.S. immigration court cases reached over three million — an all-time high — and Border Patrol encounters with Chinese illegal immigrants have surged by over 1,000% between 2022 and 2023, according to government records.

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In April 2023, the Biden government significantly streamlined the vetting process for Chinese illegal immigrants, according to an internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The email, directed at approximately 500 Border Patrol agents, reduces the number of interview questions from around 40 to just five for Chinese migrants apprehended after crossing the U.S. border without authorization. This change came amidst Border Patrol agents being inundated with near-record numbers of illegal crossings. show more