Since the relaunch of The National Pulse one year ago this month, we have set out to create a populist-nationalist-leaning news website dedicated to our core principles: truth, patriotism, editorial independence, and a user-friendly experience. All of those reasons are why we are the only news site we know of that takes no external cash, no political backhanders, and no corporate checks. As you’ll often hear me saying, “We are 100 percent reader-funded.”
And with that in mind, we’re also 100 percent reader-focused. Don’t believe me? Just ask any of The National Pulse team via their social media channels how often I scream at them about making your end-user experience an informative, quick, and pleasant one (hint: it’s every day).
That’s also why we’re now deploying something you guys have been asking me for for months. No, it’s not a fix to the bug-riddled app (though we are working on that, too—believe me!).
It’s a user-focused comments section on the site, so The National Pulse members can log in and have their say in real time underneath every article. Of course, this is not a “new” development in the grand scheme of things. Plenty of websites have comments sections. But ours is reserved for our paying members and will foster a community now reaching 13,000 subscribers.
It’s a comments section not just for the sake of it but also to further ideas and philosophies and share news tips and best practices. Best of all, it’s not that janky Discord app (phew!).
Thank you to everyone who helped support us in our first year. I’m delighted you’re all on board. We’re fixing the app in real-time as we speak, so that will be up soon, too. Then, we move on to the next developments for the site. Should I share some teasers now? Nah, I’ll let you find out as we deploy over the next few months. It gives us all something to look forward to!
show less
Since the relaunch of The National Pulse one year ago this month, we have set out to create a populist-nationalist-leaning news website dedicated to our core principles: truth, patriotism, editorial independence, and a user-friendly experience. All of those reasons are why we are the only news site we know of that takes no external cash, no political backhanders, and no corporate checks. As you'll often hear me saying, "We are 100 percent reader-funded."show more
Evidence is mounting that the media flag hoaxes against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito are about undermining the top court’s independence and undercutting its conservative members in order to convict Donald Trump. Democratic lawmakers and leftist lawyers have been pushing for Justice Alito to be prevented from ruling on cases related to January 6 and presidential immunity, and calling for an “ethics code” that would empower Democratic lawmakers to pursue spurious impeachment proceedings against conservative justices.
Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and a former law professor, has declared that “if and when [the Democratic Party] win back the House, the Senate, and the White House, we will look at the Supreme Court and figure out what can be done about that extremely corrupted and contaminated body.”
He has found allies in Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who approvingly quotes his call to action, concurring: “Yes, we will, brother. Yes, we will.”
Specifically, Raskin proposes increasing the number of Supreme Court justices to 13, which would likely see the current conservative majority overturned. The number of justices presidents can appoint is limited to two—meaning a re-elected President Trump could not make any more—and their terms are limited to 18 years.
Raskin: “if and when we win back the House and the Senate and the White House we will look at the Supreme Court and figure out what can be done about that extremely corrupted and contaminated body.” Yes we will, brother. Yes we will.https://t.co/tqrffjtEnl
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) May 24, 2024
NOT ABOUT ‘ETHICS.’
A proposed “code of ethics” for the Supreme Court, pushed by Raskin and his allies, is more insidious. While demanding justices be held to ethical standards seems innocuous, in practice, it would empower Democrat lawmakers to influence the court despite its constitutional status as a branch of government co-equal with Congress.
The Alito Flag hoax has involved partisan media members framing old news about the Alito family flying an upside-down U.S. flag and an Appeal to Heaven flag – branded “real sick stuff” by MSNBChost Chris Hayes – as an ethics issue, indicating the justice is a January 6 sympathizer or outright insurrectionist.
In fact, the corporate media has known for years that Alito’s wife raised the upside-down flag over a neighborhood dispute. The Appeal to Heaven flag is a patriotic symbol flown from American naval vessels by America’s first President, George Washington.
Nevertheless, leftist lawyers such as Laurence Tribe are demanding the flag incidents, dating from 2021 and 2023 but elevated by the press now for political purposes, be used to forcibly recuse Alito from ruling on Trump’s presidential immunity, as Joe Biden’s Justice Department is attempting to imprison him.
The “regulation” of the Supreme Court through an ethics code imposed by the legislature would make it much easier for politically motivated “ethics” issues to be used to influence rulings in this way.
CJ Roberts could get the full Court to vote 7-2 or 6-3 to hand down a one-line per curiam affirmance of the DC Circuit’s 3-0 Feb 6 decision upholding Judge Chutkan’s immunity ruling, even if the affirmance is 4-4 with Alito forcibly treated as recusing as required by 28 USC 455.
Evidence is mounting that the media flag hoaxes against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito are about undermining the top court's independence and undercutting its conservative members in order to convict Donald Trump. Democratic lawmakers and leftist lawyers have been pushing for Justice Alito to be prevented from ruling on cases related to January 6 and presidential immunity, and calling for an "ethics code" that would empower Democratic lawmakers to pursue spurious impeachment proceedings against conservative justices.
show more
Biden spokesman Andrew Bates released a lengthy comment to POLITICO discussing whether or not his boss would agree to a drug test before a debate against President Trump this summer.
The statement, however, contained no actual information pertaining to the potential test, nor answered any questions related to it.
“It’s telling that Republican officials are unable to stop announcing how intimidated they remain by [the] President’s State of the Union performance. But after losing every public and private negotiation with President Biden — and after seeing him succeed where they failed across the board, ranging from actually rebuilding America’s infrastructure to actually reducing violent crime to actually outcompeting China — it tracks that those same Republican officials mistake confidence for a drug.”
So neither an outright denial, nor a response as to whether or not Biden would submit to a doping test. Telling…
show less
Biden spokesman Andrew Bates released a lengthy comment to POLITICO discussing whether or not his boss would agree to a drug test before a debate against President Trump this summer.
show more
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has suggested that President Trump pick one of three establishment Republican choices for his Vice Presidential running mate. The paper’s “Editorial Board” suggested on Monday morning:
[Nikki] Haley ought to be in the VP mix given her strong primary performance. She outlasted everyone but Mr. Trump and did well in debates. She has foreign policy experience and was a two-term Governor of South Carolina. She’d provide a notable contrast in competence and charisma to Vice President Kamala Harris.
…
Who else could unite the party by reassuring Haley voters? A strong and logical choice would be Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who has shown he can win and govern in a swing state. He’s smart, likable and a conservative who is impossible for the left to portray as crazy. He’d signal that Mr. Trump realizes he can’t win with MAGA alone. The Trump campaign is boasting that it will target Virginia this year, and if that’s more than spin Mr. Youngkin can help.
…
Another outside-the-Beltway choice would be Gov. Kim Reynolds, who has cut taxes and taken political risks to pass universal school choice in Iowa. She hasn’t withstood the rigors of national scrutiny, which is always a risk, especially on foreign policy. And Mr. Trump may not forgive her for endorsing Ron DeSantis in the Iowa caucuses.
Of course, all three picks are terrible. Haley is an unreformed war-hawk Democrat at heart who has failed to stand with Trump during his persecution by the Biden regime, and who has taken money from the same people funding his multiple prosecutions.
Youngkin is a milquetoast RINO whose primary political consultant is Jeff Roe, the man behind the disastrous DeSantis run. Speaking of which, Kim Reynolds was DeSantis’s de facto running mate, who not only said some of the nastiest things about Trump during the primary (then played the victim) but is also arguably involved in one of the most wanton corruption exercises on the political right in some years. For some reason, no one discusses these things.
show less
Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal has suggested that President Trump pick one of three establishment Republican choices for his Vice Presidential running mate. The paper's "Editorial Board" suggested on Monday morning:
show more
Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
Neoconservative commentator Ben Shapiro has praised the murderous, anti-British terrorist Menachem Begin — who eventually became the sixth Prime Minister of Israel — while slamming Joe Biden for suspending certain arms shipments to the Jewish state. Shapiro’s comments came while describing an exchange between then-Senator Biden and Begin from 1982.
“In June 1982, Joe Biden was on the foreign relations committee… he got into a clash with the Prime Minister of Israel at the time, Menachem Begin. At the time, Israel was going into Lebanon in order to attempt to extirpate terrorism that was coming from southern Lebanon,” Shapiro explained.
“Joe Biden was very angry at Menachem Begin,” Shapiro notes before offering a brief biography of Begin. Begin’s “entire family was effectively murdered in the Holocaust, and then he ended up moving to Israel and becoming an underground fighter against the British in an attempt to establish the state of Israel.”
But the “underground fighter” was an overt terrorist. During the Second World War, Begin left the British Army in Palestine and eventually became the leader of the Irgun, a Zionist terrorist group, in 1943.
BEGIN’S CAMPAIGN OF TERROR.
Begin was inspired by another terrorist group — the Irish Republican Army — and the Irgun waged a bloody campaign against the British. In February 1944, it declared a revolt, which began with the bombing of the offices of the Immigration Department in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. Then it bombed the Income Tax Offices in those three cities, followed by a number of attacks against police stations, killing six British policemen.
In 1946, Begin ordered the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of British Mandatory Palestine. Nearly 100 people were killed and over 40 injured, including Britons, Jews, and Arabs. It remains the single bloodiest act of terrorism against the British in history, killing more people than the 7/7 bus attacks and the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing combined.
One of the most despicable acts committed by Begin’s Irgun was in July 1947, when the terrorist group kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice. The two were executed by hanging in an Eucalyptus grove, their bodies boobytrapped.
Shapiro and other Israel advocates are quick to condemn the terrorism perpetrated by Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups, and rightly so. But Shapiro’s comments serve as a stark reminder that modern Israel is also a nation founded using terror tactics that murdered soldiers and civilians.
— The Ben Shapiro Show (@BenShapiroShow) May 9, 2024
show less
Neoconservative commentator Ben Shapiro has praised the murderous, anti-British terrorist Menachem Begin — who eventually became the sixth Prime Minister of Israel — while slamming Joe Biden for suspending certain arms shipments to the Jewish state. Shapiro's comments came while describing an exchange between then-Senator Biden and Begin from 1982.
show more
The fifth day of testimony in former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan-based hush money trial has ended. Democrat-aligned Judge Juan Merchan kicked off the day by fining Trump $1,000 for each of his nine alleged violations of the court’s gag order. The gag order was ostensibly imposed to prevent the former President from communicating with the public about endemic corruption in the Alvin Bragg and Joe Biden-led case.
Prosecutors continued questioning Michael Cohen‘s banker, Gary Farro. The banker began his testimony before the court adjourned last Friday.
Following Farro, District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s prosecution team moved on to their next witness, Keith Davidson. A Beverly Hills lawyer and frequent Democrat donor, Davidson formerly represented Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in their attempts to strong-arm Trump out of cash. The entertainment lawyer has faced numerous legal sanctions for his unsavory activities.
FARRO PART 2.
Prosecutor Rebecca Mangold kicked off the second day of banker Gary Farro’s testimony. The banker testified that he opened a home equity line of credit for disgraced attorney Michael Cohen for $130,000. It is this amount that Cohen then allegedly paid Stormy Daniels. The email communications between Cohen and Farro presented by the prosecution were from the former’s personal TrumpOrg.com account, and not one affiliated with Trump‘s presidential campaign.
Further undermining Bragg‘s accusations that Cohen‘s activities were in the service of aiding Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Farro testified that he saw no indication that the consulting business accounts he helped establish were connected to any political candidate. “There would be additional scrutiny,” he said, if the bank had any indication that the accounts were for political activities.
To set up entertainment lawyer Keith Davidson’s testimony, Mongold showed the jury a wire transfer for $130,000 from Cohen to a trust controlled by Davidson. The transfer occurred just after Cohen had secured the line of credit from Farro. She then asked the banker why an attorney might pay a fellow lawyer a retainer in a real estate transaction. Farro replied, “There could be a number of things.”
FARRO SINKS COHEN.
During Farro’s cross-examination by Trump‘s defense team, the banker acknowledged that Cohen‘s rushed requests were not at all unusual. “90 percent of the time, it was an urgent matter,” Farro said of his dealings with the disgraced attorney. The banker confirmed that he’d never done business with former President Trump.
In one of the most damning moments for Bragg’s case in the trial so far, Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche drew the jurors‘ attention to Michael Cohen’s bank filings in which Cohen had asserted he was NOT acting as an agent on behalf of anyone else. This acknowledgment directly contradicts the prosecution’s claim that Cohen was directed to make the payments to Daniels and McDougal by Trump.
Addressing the matter, Farro told Blanche: “If the client told me it was a shell corporation, it would not have been opened. It would give me pause, very frankly.”
JUDGE DENIES BIDEN DOJ COLANGELO’S MOTION.
In a surprise moment, Democrat-alignedJudgeJuanMerchan denied a request by former Biden Department of Justice attorney Matthew Colangelo — now a member of District Attorney Bragg’s office — to introduce statements by Trump regarding Cohen and Daniels. Colangelo argued that the statement would demonstrate consciousness of guilt. He also ruled against the prosecution‘s request to introduce texts from Stormy Daniels’s publicist as evidence.
However, Merchan did decide to allow the prosecution to introduce statements that refute claims that Cohen and Daniels have benefited financially from attacking Trump.
BETTER CALL KEITH?
The day in court concluded with the start of testimony by the ethically dubious Hollywood entertainment lawyer Keith Davidson. It is from Davidson that the term “catch and kill” may have first originated, though it appears it was popularized in the American press by Australian journalist Lachlan Cartwright. The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief, Raheem Kassam, has a deep dive into Davidson’s sordid history that can be read here.
“At that time, my practice was heavily involved with media cases,” Davidson told prosecutors regarding his legal work between 2015 and 2017. He went on to acknowledge he was granted immunity for his testimony before the grand jury but was in court today under subpoena.
Davidson acknowledged that he was a friend of Dylan Howard — the former chief content officer at the National Enquirer‘s parent company, American Media, Inc. (AMI). However, the entertainment lawyer claimed that it was not his standard practice to sell stories to tabloid media outlets.
This appears to contradict a 2018 story that describes Davidson as “the attorney to hire if you are seeking to monetize a celebritysex tape or compromising information about public figures like Trump, Charlie Sheen, Tiger Woods, and Kanye West. Davidson specializes in extracting payments in exchange for the quashing of incriminating videos and/or details about sexual indiscretions, STDs, and all manner of regrettable behavior.”
BEST DEAL FOR HIS CLIENT.
Regarding the Karen McDougal story about Donald Trump, Davidson admitted that he had played the National Enquirer and ABC News off of each other. “At the time, as is often the case with negotiations, I was trying to play two entities off of each other,” he said, adding his intent was to “create a sense of urgency, if you will.”
Davidson stated that McDougal “did not want to tell her story” but instead wanted to “rejuvenate her career, to make money.” This comment by Davidson seemingly adds credence to the defense team’s claims that McDougal and Daniels were simply engaging in a shakedown. The entertainment attorney also acknowledged receiving 45 percent of the money paid to McDougal by AMI as payment.
DAVIDSON NAMES TRUMP WITHOUT PROOF.
In another damaging moment for Bragg‘s case, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass attempted to get Davidson to confirm that Trump was Cohen‘s client. The entertainment lawyer obliged, saying that is what he believed. However, Davidson added — unfortunately for Bragg — that at no point was Trump actually named as a party to the deal he made with Cohen.
The remainder of Davidson’s testimony relied on the same degree of innuendo. While he could point to existing texts between himself and Cohen, the attorney could not provide the prosecution with any definitive proof tying former President DonaldTrump or his 2016 presidential campaign to the payment negotiations.
Overall, the day in court continued along the path that The National Puluse suggested the prosecution was taking last Friday. It appears that despite the District Attorney’s office’s witnesses at times undermining its case, each is meant to bolster Cohen‘s credibility as having been the middleman between Donald Trump and AMI. Whether the prosecution can demonstrate this beyond a reasonable doubt remains yet to be seen — and honestly, it is unlikely.
show less
The fifth day of testimony in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan-based hush money trial has ended. Democrat-aligned Judge Juan Merchan kicked off the day by fining Trump $1,000 for each of his nine alleged violations of the court's gag order. The gag order was ostensibly imposed to prevent the former President from communicating with the public about endemic corruption in the Alvin Bragg and Joe Biden-led case.
show more
The prosecutors behind the ‘hush money’ lawfare trial against former President Donald Trump are emphasizing an obscure term — “catch and kill” — in an attempt to sway the jury and portray Michael Cohen‘s payments to Stormy Daniels as some grand conspiratorial scheme orchestrated by Trump himself.
The corporate media continues to parrot the phrase as if it were some well-known tactic deployed by Trump and his allies to cover something up. That’s entirely the point of the repetition, especially in front of the jury. “Catch and kill” — sounds bad. Catch? Fine. Kill? Sounds illegal. It’s not, of course. But there are two sides to the “catch and kill” industry that emanates out of Hollywood and features several regular, unsavory characters who have made their names and fortunes off the practice, often at the expense of celebrity figures.
LEXICON.
Its first Wikipedia entry was only in 2018, when the original page appears to have been created to malign Donald Trump and farcically connect him with Harvey Weinstein. Part of the reason why a fair jury has been so impossible in New York is the long-standing tainting of the jury pool via internet artifacts like these, alongside the ongoing hoaxes peddled by the corporate media.
The term has almost no internet search history.
“Catch and kill” appears to have been introduced into the political lexicon by Trump opponents just as the 45th President was first taking office. The Wall Street Journal was the first major publication to mention it in 2016, followed almost immediately by the Washington Post. For two unrelated newspapers to repeat such a phrase in close succession suggests they were fed the line. Murdoch’s WSJuses anonymized sources under the euphemism “people familiar with the matter” a journalistically bizarre seven times in their 2016 story.
BETTER CALL… KEITH?
One regular character in the saga is Keith M. Davidson, a Beverly Hills lawyer and frequent Democrat donor. At the time, Davidson was representing Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in their attempts to strong-arm Trump out of cash. Davidson has represented a number of unsavory characters in the same vein – portrayed by the Hollywood Smoking Gun blog as a Saul Goodman-style grifter who has been on the receiving end of numerous complaints from clients and critics alike, suggesting immoral behavior bordering on the unlawful.
The Smoking Gun noted of Davidson in a massive 2018 story that he is “the attorney to hire if you are seeking to monetize a celebrity sex tape or compromising information about public figures like Trump, Charlie Sheen, Tiger Woods, and Kanye West. Davidson specializes in extracting payments in exchange for the quashing of incriminating videos and/or details about sexual indiscretions, STDs, and all manner of regrettable behavior.”
In other words, “catch and kill” shakedowns appear to be the modus operandi, finding its way into the political press after representatives for Daniels and McDougal briefed D.C. and New York reporters.
“The Smoking Gun has revealed that the attorney–who has practiced since 2000–has also apparently engaged in the kind of activities that result in severe disciplinary sanctions, such as directing clients to lie, splitting legal fees with non-lawyers, defying a judicial injunction, and practicing law while under suspension.”
The Los Angeles Times had similar reporting in 2018, noting: “Most Beverly Hills lawyers are seldom accused of extortion. For Keith M. Davidson, however, it’s not so rare: He is fighting three civil suits by television personalities alleging extortion. Davidson is the attorney who negotiated payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal during the 2016 presidential race to keep them quiet about their alleged affairs with Donald Trump. Both wound up firing Davidson and hiring new lawyers to get their nondisclosure deals voided.”
A fairly scornful start to another story which shed some light on the Hollywood shakedown industry. The Times went on:
In 2012, Davidson was caught up in an FBI sting operation for trying to get Hulk Hogan to pay a client $300,000 for a secretly taped video of the wrestling star having sex, law enforcement records show. Davidson met Hogan in a Florida hotel room — unaware it was wired with recording devices monitored by FBI agents in an adjacent room.
As soon as Hogan’s lawyer, David Houston, handed Davidson the first installment, a phony check for $150,000, FBI agents stormed in and detained him, according to the law enforcement records.
“I was amazed that there was a lawyer actually making a living doing this,” Houston said.
…
Davidson’s law license was suspended for three months in 2010 after he admitted to professional misconduct — failing to keep a client informed of important matters in a medical malpractice case and not showing up for a court hearing, among other things.
“Catch and kill,” in fact, was not a phrase used by AMI, the National Enquirer, or “star” prosecution witness David Pecker, according to his own testimony on Thursday.
Instead, it’s a little-known Hollywood industry term further popularized by journalist Ronan Farrow’s 2019 book of the same name, which details his efforts to cover the allegations of sexual abuse and rape against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
“The first time you heard the phrase was from a prosecutor, correct?” asked Trump attorney Emil Bove.
“That’s right,” Pecker responded.
Pecker also mentioned he believed Michael Cohen was acting in a personal capacity — not on behalf of the Trump campaign — and implied that Trump was personally unaware of Cohen’s activities.
In other words – much like most of the hoaxes peddled against President Trump – almost all of it has happened without his involvement, knowledge, or even awareness of the fringe figures in his life attempting to make a quick buck off his name.
Ed Kozak, Will Upton, and Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
show less
The prosecutors behind the 'hush money' lawfare trial against former President Donald Trump are emphasizing an obscure term — "catch and kill" — in an attempt to sway the jury and portray Michael Cohen's payments to Stormy Daniels as some grand conspiratorial scheme orchestrated by Trump himself.
show more
The ‘hot’ March jobsreport released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is not as positive as the Bidengovernment and corporate media are billing. It actually shows that in the past 12 months, the U.S. economy has seen the number of full-time jobs decline by 1.3 million while adding 1.09 million part-time positions.
March’s total non-farm payroll employment rose, with 303,000 jobs added to the economy last month. However, the monthly change in full-time employment decreased by 6,000, while part-time employment added 691,000 jobs.
GOVERNMENT AND PART-TIME JOBS.
One of the areas that did see full-time job growth was public sector employment. March saw an increase of 71,000 government jobs — outpacing the prior 12-month average of 54,000. Other sectors that added jobs last month — most known for their reliance on part-time employment — were the construction industry (39,000), leisure and hospitality (49,000), and retail (+18,000). The healthcare industry also saw significant growth, with 72,000 jobs added. However, again, this growth appears to be in areas of the industry reliant on part-time workers, including outpatient care (28,000), hospitals (27,000), and residential care facilities (18,000).
‘THEY’RE CRAPPY JOBS’.
The trend of adding part-time employment while losing full-time jobs has been ongoing for over a year now. This is likely what underpins voter anxiety about the U.S. economy. The National Pulse has previously reported that most jobs gained since President Joe Biden took office have been fueled by migrant labor.
On Wednesday, former Biden White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, acknowledged the disconnect between the Biden government’s claims regarding the U.S. economy and how American voters feel about it. “I understand that people say, hey, I’m glad you have all these good things going on in the economy, I’m glad that there are jobs,” Klain said in an interview with MSNBC, adding: “But people want to see that their own personal pocketbook is better off.”
A similar sentiment was expressed by former Obama White House advisor Van Jones in January regarding the job ‘growth’ in the Black community. “People keep telling me, ‘You’ve got great employment numbers in the Black community, and aren’t you happy?’ I’m like, yeah, but they’re crappy jobs,” Jones said. Unemployment among Black Americans rose in March a whole percentage point to 6.4 percent — a near two-year high.
New month, same story: we're losing full-time jobs and only adding part-time work: pic.twitter.com/09MLTkdxlU
The 'hot' March jobs report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is not as positive as the Bidengovernment and corporate media are billing. It actually shows that in the past 12 months, the U.S. economy has seen the number of full-time jobs decline by 1.3 million while adding 1.09 million part-time positions.
show more
The impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is set to move to the U.S. Senate next month for the trial phase when members of the chamber will decide whether to acquit or remove the Biden government official. This week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced he would transmit the articles of impeachment to the upper legislative chamber on April 10, setting the stage for Mayorkas’s trial to begin when the Senate returns from its Easter break. In response, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Senators will be sworn in and the trial will begin on April 11.
HOW SENATE TRIALS WORK.
Senate Democrats, who control the chamber’s majority, are unlikely to break rank and provide the votes to reach the two-thirds threshold needed to convict and remove President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary. They may, however, be unable to dismiss the charges outright. If Sen. Schumer is unable to dispense with the charges against Mayorkas quickly, he will likely use his discretionary powers to avoid holding a full trial, which could drag out for weeks.
Under Rule XI, for example, the House impeachment managers — who act as prosecutors — would present their case to an appointed committee of Senators from both parties rather than the full Senate itself. After concluding their investigation of the evidence and charges, the committee members would produce a transcript of their hearings and make a recommendation to the full Senate.
This trial-by-committee process has only been used four times since its inception in 1934. Once in 1986 for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne; twice in 1989 for judges Alcee Hastings and Walter Nixon, Jr.; and in 2010 for U.S. District Court Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. All four impeachment trials resulted in removal from office.
Whether the Senate chooses to hold a full trial or use a Rule XI committee is unlikely to have much impact on the final outcome of the Mayorkas impeachment. Sen. Schumer has made it clear he believes the House articles of impeachment are a “sham” and argued on Thursday that “House Republicans failed to present any evidence of anything resembling an impeachable offense.”
FOREGONE CONCLUSION?
Schumer’s efforts to expedite the Senate trial are likely to be aided by some Senate Republicans who view the impeachment as a futile distraction. “It’ll be dead on arrival when it comes over,” Sen. James Lankford said after the House voted to impeach Mayorkas in February. He added that regardless of whether Mayorkas is removed from office, the Biden government’s lack of border enforcement would remain unchanged. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) called the articles the “dumbest exercise and use of time.”
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT), on the other hand, have been meeting with the Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, to head off any attempt by Senate Democrats to merely hold a majority vote to dismiss the charges against Mayorkas. In late February, the two conservative Republicans urgedoutgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to clarify the Republican leadership position and ensure a full trial is held. Several days later, the Republican leader backed holding a full trial, telling the press it “would be the best way to go forward.”
Even if McConnell and Republican Senate leadership whip members against a vote to dismiss the charges, it is unlikely they could prevent the Senate Democrats from holding an expedited trial by establishing a Rule XI committee. And with conviction and removal requiring an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Senate, it is even more unlikely that the divided Senate Republicans can mount an effort to push their Democrat colleagues into a vote to oust Secretary Mayorkas.
show less
The impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is set to move to the U.S. Senate next month for the trial phase when members of the chamber will decide whether to acquit or remove the Biden government official. This week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced he would transmit the articles of impeachment to the upper legislative chamber on April 10, setting the stage for Mayorkas’s trial to begin when the Senate returns from its Easter break. In response, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Senators will be sworn in and the trial will begin on April 11.
show more
Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
It’s extraordinary to think that even against this backdrop, a supposed officer of the government charged with securing the nation’s border and literally doing the opposite on purpose is unlikely to be impeached by the U
It’s extraordinary to think that even against this backdrop, a supposed officer of the government charged with securing the nation’s border and literally doing the opposite on purpose is unlikely to be impeached by the U show more
Joe Biden’s White House strategist and communications chief Anita Dunn has praised the bloodbath hoax progenitors ‘MeidasTouch’ describing them as the “front lines” of the fight against President Donald J. Trump and his re-election efforts. Earlier this week, The National Pulse announced a full investigative focus on the shady ‘MeidasTouch Network,’ which began as a Democrat PAC funded by E. Jean Carroll and Nikki Haley backer Reid Hoffman. You can support our work by joining, here.
“We need to be creative and move fast to contrast the President’s optimistic agenda for the future with the extreme agenda of Republican officials who want to take us back in time,” Dunn said in a comment to the Semafor website. “Aaron, Ron, and many others are on the front lines of making sure the American people know the truth of what is at stake,” she added.
Aaron is Aaron Rupar, a long-time hoaxster posing as a journalist on social media. Rupar’s work has been parodied in Urban Dictionary and has even been leveraged by the Chinese Communist Party to undermine U.S. law enforcement. This didn’t stop him being lauded by Joe Biden’s White House. Rupar and Ron Filipowski were even invited to a special preview of the State of the Union address, where they hobnobbed with Dunn alongside Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.
Filipowski is the “Editor in Chief” of the MeidasTouch Network, founded by the brothers Ben, Brett, and Jordy. He’s also a “low-profile criminal defense attorney” who spends much of his time tweeting hoaxes like his colleague, the anonymized “Acyn” on X/Twitter. Acyn was the original progenitor of the bloodbath hoax, which even left-wingers admitted was a fraud on the American public.
Rupar admitted to Semafor that Acyn called Trump’s Ohio speech “kind of boring” and singled out the bloodbath line as a means by which to peddle content.
“The problem that he ran into with the ‘bloodbath’ thing was that he gave all of these networks a very easy headline and frame,” Rupar said.
MeidasTouch, Filipowski admits, is an out-and-out extension of the Biden campaign operation.
“The Meidas guys, as a team, said: We are going to do this to Trump,” Filipkowski said. “We are going to hit every gaffe, every mispronunciation, every slurred word, every mispronounced name, every time he mixes up a name. We’re going to clip that and we’re going to put it out and we’re going to put it in montages. No one else was doing that. Before last August, you can’t find a mainstream media story about Trump mispronouncing and slurring words. They weren’t out there.”
MeidasTouch staffers have used the word “bloodbath” several times in their reporting. However, simply pointing to their hypocrisy will scarcely do the job of exposing such a group. That’s why The National Pulse is committed to investigating the founders, their staff, and their Epstein-linked operation. Click here to join us.
show less
Joe Biden's White House strategist and communications chief Anita Dunn has praised the bloodbath hoax progenitors 'MeidasTouch' describing them as the "front lines" of the fight against President Donald J. Trump and his re-election efforts. Earlier this week, The National Pulse announced a full investigative focus on the shady 'MeidasTouch Network,' which began as a Democrat PAC funded by E. Jean Carroll and Nikki Haley backer Reid Hoffman. You can support our work by joining, here.show more
Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
FacebookTwitterWhatsappTruthTelegramGettrCopy Link
Real News Fan? Show It!
Many people are shocked to learn that because of active censorship, we currently have to spend more time making sure you can even see The National Pulse, than on producing the news itself. Which sucks. Because we do this for the truth, and for you.
But the regime doesn’t want you being informed. That’s why they want us to go away. And that will happen if more people don’t sign up to support our work. It’s basic supply and demand. So demand you get to read The National Pulse, unrestricted. Sign up, today.
We don’t sell ads, and refuse corporate or political cash. It all comes down to you, the reader. I hope you can help.
