Failed Libertarian Party presidential candidate Dr. Michael Rectenwald admitted he consumed an edible before delivering a speech attacking Donald Trump. Following Trump’s appeal to convention attendees to back him and defeat Joe Biden and the radical left together, Rectenwald joined fellow candidates on stage and claimed the America First leader perpetrated “egregious offenses against our freedom.”
“How high are you?” heckled a member of the audience, with many convention attendees having been won over by Trump’s pledge to commute the sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht if reelected.
“Not high enough! Hey, I’m living liberty today!” Rectenwald replied, later confirming to the press he had taken a cannabis edible before his speech.
“This was not some sort of a major political scandal, okay. I wasn’t found in bed with Stormy Daniels,” he joked, lamely.
Reporters noted Rectenwald performed poorly on stage alongside rival candidates Mike Ter Maat and Chase Oliver.
Oliver, a former Democrat who supports Drag Queen Story Hour, gender transitions for children, and open borders, ultimately won the nomination.
Trump told convention attendees they should nominate or at least vote for him, saying it was “time to be winners.”
“Maybe you don’t want to win,” he told some attendees who howled at his proposal. “If you want to lose… keep getting your three percent every four years,” he added.
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Failed Libertarian Party presidential candidate Dr. Michael Rectenwald admitted he consumed an edible before delivering a speech attacking Donald Trump. Following Trump's appeal to convention attendees to back him and defeat Joe Biden and the radical left together, Rectenwald joined fellow candidates on stage and claimed the America First leader perpetrated "egregious offenses against our freedom."
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Donald Trump reached out to the Libertarian Party conference at the weekend, urging them to lend him their votes to stop Joe Biden, Marxism, and communism, saying: “It’s time to be winners.” The former president won over many at the conference with a pledge to commute the sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. After the conference, the party leadership may have driven more Libertarian voters into Trump’s arms by selecting former Barack Obama and John Kerry supporter Chase Oliver as their nominee instead.
A review of Oliver’s social media history shows he holds several extreme left-wing views.
IMMIGRATION.
Oliver supports fully open borders or “free immigration.”
“Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders,” he declared in 2021, reiterating in 2023 that “If you support free markets, you should support freeimmigration.”
Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.
Despite Libertarians’ traditional stance against big central government, Oliver supports the federal government imposing abortion “until the point of viability” in all 50 states.
“Viability” is a slippery standard, generally set at 24 to 26 or occasionally 28 weeks, although premature babies have survived as early as 21 weeks and a day.
DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME.
As an LGBTQ activist, Oliver has posted frequently about attending Pride and drag events. “I actually went to a ‘drag queen storytime’ event in Rome GA, [Marjorie Taylor Greene’s] district in NW Georgia,” he posted in 2022. “You know what I saw? Nothing controversial[.] A person in a big brightly colored costume reading a book about how people are special and unique and that’s a good thing,” he suggested.
“I went to a Pride event featuring a Drag Queen Storytime [a]nd there was no ‘grooming’ or sexualization. Just happy kids hearing a story about rainbows,” he claimed in another post.
He has also compared drag queens to Barney the Dinosaur and the Sesame Street Muppets, arguing they are “basically no different.”
TRANSITIONING KIDS.
Oliver does not believe children should be protected from social or medical gender transitions, saying he opposes taking “decisions away from parents, doctors, and patients.”
He has regularly claimed minors are never or at least seldom subject to transgender mutilation surgeries, which he terms “gender-affirming care,” but he is not opposed to them, saying: “At the end of the day, keep the state out.”
Oliver identifies as a “cisgender” gay man and Christian, claiming God “designed” him to be homosexual.
I trust the parents of trans/non binary people and their doctors more than I trust the state and it's bureaucracy.
Listen to actual parents and kids and doctors, not those who seek to use the power of the state to have their will be done.
Oliver is against “banning trans girls” — i.e., biological males — from competing against girls in school sports, calling this “big government.”
“It’s a shame and will harm the small number of trans athletes,” he complains.
Oliver has also claimed a “gender non-binary” child was “beaten to death in the girl’s bathroom” during an argument on X (formerly Twitter), telling his interlocutor, “maybe get your facts straight before commenting” on the case.
He was referring to Nex Benedict, who was not killed in the restroom fight nor from injuries resulting from it.
VAX MANDATES.
Despite being “vaccinated and boosted,” Oliver says state vaccine mandates are “wrong.” He supports corporate vaccine mandates, however, arguing bosses should have the right to fire unvaccinated workers and deny service to unvaccinated customers.
He has also advocated for at least some state support for corporate vaccine mandates, arguing governors should not be “giving unemployment benefits to people who decided to quit rather than abide by private businesses… requesting workers be vaccinated or tested regularly.”
CHINA FIRST.
Like many Libertarian ideologues, Oliver opposes protecting American workers from unfair competition with sweatshop economies, including explicitly anti-Libertarian states such as Communist China.
“[A] a tariff is a tax on all consumers and raises prices that we all pay,” he insisted in one pro-China rant, branding Trump — a billionaire business tycoon — a “failed businessman” and “economically illiterate.”
He believes all tariffs on imports should be removed, even from countries that impose their own tariffs against America.
WAR CRIMINAL TRUMP?
At the Libertarian convention, a highly agitated Oliver told National Pulse reporter Will Upton that Trump is a “war criminal” who engages in “authoritarian rhetoric.”
In fact, Trump is the first U.S. President since the 1970s not to lead the country into any new wars. He has also argued consistently for de-escalation and a peace deal to end the Ukraine war, while Oliver has argued for allowing American citizens to travel to Ukraine to join the conflict “unfettered” while permitting unlimited Ukrainian, Iranian, Yemeni, and even Russian asylum immigration to the U.S.
Libertarian Presidential candidate Chase Oliver goes on a rant calling Donald Trump a war criminal for defeating ISIS. pic.twitter.com/oI1a3HYNQz
Donald Trump reached out to the Libertarian Party conference at the weekend, urging them to lend him their votes to stop Joe Biden, Marxism, and communism, saying: "It's time to be winners." The former president won over many at the conference with a pledge to commute the sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. After the conference, the party leadership may have driven more Libertarian voters into Trump's arms by selecting former Barack Obama and John Kerry supporter Chase Oliver as their nominee instead.
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Democrat strategists are having a “full-blown freakout” in the words of the globalist-left-leaning paper POLITICO, which claimed on Tuesday morning that strategists are now openly panicking about Joe Biden’s re-election hopes.
“This isn’t, ‘Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.’ It’s ‘Oh my God, the democracy might end,’” one source hyperventilated to POLITICO’s Playbook newsletter authors.
“There’s still a path to win this, but they don’t look like a campaign that’s embarking on that path right now,” said Democratic strategist Pete Giangreco.
“If the frame of this race is, ‘What was better, the 3.5 years under Biden or four years under Trump,’ we lose that every day of the week and twice on Sunday,” he added.
POLITICO says it has interviewed over a dozen party leaders and strategists, revealing that “concern has metastasized in recent days as Trump jaunted to some of the country’s most liberal territories, including New Jersey and New York, to woo Hispanic and Black voters as he boasted, improbably, that he would win in those areas.”
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Democrat strategists are having a "full-blown freakout" in the words of the globalist-left-leaning paper POLITICO, which claimed on Tuesday morning that strategists are now openly panicking about Joe Biden's re-election hopes.
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Donald Trump sharply criticized far-left protests occurring on U.S. college campuses, characterizing them as a “radical revolution” and pledging to deport foreign students involved if he is re-elected. “One thing I do is [with] any student that protests — I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students,” Trump is alleged to have said during a May 14 donor roundtable in New York.
The former president told donors that subversive activities on college campuses “have to be stopped now,” according to TheWashington Post.
One donor expressed concern that radical professors and protesters involved in the campus crisis might eventually hold positions of power in the U.S. government. “Well, if you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if you get me reelected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,” Trump pledged.
BIDEN.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt attributed the protests to the Joe Biden regime. “Joe Biden has sided with radical leftist Democrats like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and empowered antisemitic protesters destroying our college campuses and threatening to undermine our democracy,” Leavitt said.
“President Trump will side with Jewish Americans and American citizens, period, and he will not tolerate terrorist sympathizers on our college campuses.”
Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack that killed approximately 1,200 Israelis, Trump vowed to deport “resident aliens” participating in “pro-jihadist” protests.
“If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihadists, then we don’t want you in our country, and you’re not going to be getting into our country,” Trump declared. “I will cancel the student visas of Hamas sympathizers on college campuses and all resident aliens who join in pro-Jihadist protests. Come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” he added.
Trump has expressed some criticism of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, however, and said the conflict in Gaza should be resolved swiftly.
Biden is suffering as a result of attempting to play both sides of the issue, with Democrats, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, suggesting they will punish him at the ballot box for not criticizing Israel enough.
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Donald Trump sharply criticized far-left protests occurring on U.S. college campuses, characterizing them as a "radical revolution" and pledging to deport foreign students involved if he is re-elected. "One thing I do is [with] any student that protests — I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students," Trump is alleged to have said during a May 14 donor roundtable in New York.
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Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has told voters to reconsider their support for Joe Biden in the upcoming 2024 presidential election, declaring, “You are an enabler, President Biden!” at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan – a key swing state with a large, traditionally Democrat-voting Muslim population.
Biden said “what’s happening [in Gaza] is not genocide” at a Jewish American Heritage Month event on May 20.
“[W]e aren’t going to forget in November, are we?” Tlaib told her Michigan audience. “The International Court of Justice just ruled that the Israeli government must stop its invasion of Rafah. But, President Biden says what’s happening in Gaza is not a genocide. Where’s your red line, President Biden?” she demanded.
Gaza has become an intractable issue for Biden, who has historically claimed to be a Zionist and is aware that Israel has broad support over Hamas among many donors and ordinary voters. However, among Muslims and many younger voters, who were key support bases for the 81-year-old in 2020, anti-Israel sentiment is common.
He has attempted to placate each faction by saying there are fine people on both sides, but with limited success. His support among younger voters has plummeted, and Muslim voters are increasingly saying they will not vote for him even if Donald Trump is also supportive of Israel.
“You’re really asking me whether I’m going to take a [travel] ban or a genocide? I’ll take a ban.” said Palestinian-American comic Amer Zahr in April.
Earlier today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was a “surprise guest” at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan.
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has told voters to reconsider their support for Joe Biden in the upcoming 2024 presidential election, declaring, "You are an enabler, President Biden!" at the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan – a key swing state with a large, traditionally Democrat-voting Muslim population.
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Former pop music and television star Holly Valance is hosting a mammoth fundraiser for Donald Trump alongside Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle in London, England, on June 12. Valance is well-known to the British public for her role on Neighbours, an Australian soap opera also popular in Britain. She gained international fame for her 2002 album Footprints, and especially for her single Kiss Kiss.
“She’s glamorous. She doesn’t fit into the pigeonhole. She doesn’t fit into the woke agenda of Hollywood, and people don’t expect that,” a Valance admirer in Trump’s camp told the British press.
“It’s a Holly party, so you can guarantee it’s going to be enormous fun,” said Nigel Farage, the former Brexit Party leader and Trump ally.
Farage introduced Valance and her husband, billionaire property developer Nick Candy, to Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
“She kept quiet for many, many years,” Farage said of Valance’s conservative views, saying he had often warned her that “once you go public, there’s no way back.”
Valance, who describes Trump as “charming, polite, very quick-witted,” and “a great listener,” said in February that “Everyone starts as a leftie, and then wakes up and realizes all the ideas are crap.”
“It was a funny sliding doors moment because I didn’t think anything I said was particularly edgy or profound or revolutionary,” she said of her comments “coming out” as conservative.
“But maybe it was a good moment for someone in the entertainment industry to buck the trend of only contributing their latest project pitch or their pronouns.”
Tickets for the London fundraiser cost up to $100,000 (£78,500) for a couple.
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Former pop music and television star Holly Valance is hosting a mammoth fundraiser for Donald Trump alongside Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle in London, England, on June 12. Valance is well-known to the British public for her role on Neighbours, an Australian soap opera also popular in Britain. She gained international fame for her 2002 album Footprints, and especially for her single Kiss Kiss.
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Joe Biden’s team is strategizing on how to exploit potential guilty verdicts in Donald Trump’s lawfare trials. The 46th President plans to “initially address [a guilty] verdict in a White House setting — not a campaign one,” in the hope that politicizing his office will “show his statement isn’t political,” according to POLITICO.
The paper’s sources say Biden’s team will argue that a conviction shows Trump will demonstrate “the extremes to which the former president would go to win again.” Biden’s social media team is considering leveraging the line of attack further by branding the former president “Convicted Felon Donald Trump.” However, martyring Trump in this way may backfire, with many voters already believing the prosecutions are politically motivated.
Joe Biden’s Justice Department leads two, while the other two are led by Democratic District Attorneys, one, Georgia’s Fani Willis, mired in conflict scandals, and another, Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg, assisted by a former senior Justice Department official – whose decision to transfer to a comparatively low-level DA’s office is seen as suspect, and possibly evidence Biden’s Justice Department has directly assisted the prosecution.
Biden will get his first chance to brand Trump a felon when a verdict is delivered in Bragg’s lawfare case, with closing arguments set for Tuesday. Star witnesses Stormy Daniels, a retired sex worker, and Michael Cohen, a disbarred perjuror, imploded on the stand, but with Manhattan being heavily Democratic and the Democrat-linked judge, Juan Merchan, having stopped Trump’s lawyers from calling a key witness, an initial conviction is possible, even if it is likely to be overturned on appeal post-election.
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Joe Biden’s team is strategizing on how to exploit potential guilty verdicts in Donald Trump’s lawfare trials. The 46th President plans to "initially address [a guilty] verdict in a White House setting — not a campaign one," in the hope that politicizing his office will "show his statement isn’t political," according to POLITICO.
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The Libertarian Party has nominated former Democrat and gay activist Chase Oliver as its presidential candidate. This decision has spurred significant debate within the party, with supporters arguing Oliver aligns more with far-left progressive Democrats than Libertarians. He has boasted of attending Drag Queen Storytime events with children, and supports transitioning children, allowing biological males to compete against women in sports, and open borders. Oliver also supports empowering businesses to fire unvaccinated workers and limit service to unvaccinated customers.
The nomination has alienated a significant segment of the Libertarian base. “This is a psyop to discredit real libertarian ideals and morals,” wrote one supporter on social media, emphasizing that Libertarians traditionally prioritize shrinking government and lowering taxes. Oliver’s nomination has led to predictions that Libertarians may shift their support to former President Donald Trump and other candidates.
Trump became the first serious presidential candidate to attend a Libertarian Party conference in many years this past weekend, extending “a hand of friendship to ask for your partnership to defeat communism, defeat Marxism, and defeat Crooked Joe Biden, who is destroying our country.”
He urged them to nominate or at least vote for him in November, saying: “You have a lot of common sense; it’s time to be winners.”
Some conference attendees failed to meet the moment, heckling the America First leader. The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam, in attendance, observed him to remain unruffled.
“Maybe you don’t want to win,” Trump told his audience’s rowdier members. “If you want to lose… keep getting your three percent every four years,” he added bluntly.
He won over a large section of the audience by pledging to commute the sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to time served on day one of a second term, however, earning sustained cheers and chants of ‘Free Ross!’
Trump attended the Libertarian Party conference this weekend, the first top presidential candidate to do so in many years. He reached out “a hand of friendship” to “defeat communism” together.
The Libertarian Party has nominated former Democrat and gay activist Chase Oliver as its presidential candidate. This decision has spurred significant debate within the party, with supporters arguing Oliver aligns more with far-left progressive Democrats than Libertarians. He has boasted of attending Drag Queen Storytime events with children, and supports transitioning children, allowing biological males to compete against women in sports, and open borders. Oliver also supports empowering businesses to fire unvaccinated workers and limit service to unvaccinated customers.
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Donald Trump took aim at the “radical left pro-crime policies” that have reduced his hometown of New York City to a shell of its former self at a diverse and well-attended rally in the Bronx.
“Throughout my life, I’ve seen New York through good times and bad,” Trump said, recalling boom times, market crashes, terrorist attacks, and more.
“But I’ve never seen it quite like this. We have filthy encampments of drugged-out homeless people… We have lunatics killing innocent bystanders by pushing them onto the railroad tracks for sport… Our subways are squalid and unsafe, the ceiling tiles are falling down, and they look worse than a Third World country,” Trump lamented.
“The medians of our highways are crumbling; our sidewalks are littered with garbage: bottles and trash, but worst of all, the discarded needles from people that so desperately are in need of help,” he continued.
“And we have mobs of migrants fighting our police officers and giving America the middle finger,” he added.
“But we are not going to let this continue… Together, we are going to Make New York City Great Again, and simultaneously, we are going to Make America Great Again,” he vowed, earning sustained chants of “USA! USA!” and “We love Trump!”
Pledging to support law enforcement and be tough on crime, Trump urged rally attendees to remember that “black, Hispanic, [and] Asian people need this protection and safety more than anyone else.”
Stances like this have seen the former president earn the support of thousands of predominantly Hispanic-owned bodegas, which have suffered as a result of criminal-friendly policies, such as cashless bail, that Trump has heavily criticized.
The former president was already within ten points of Joe Biden in the Empire State, traditionally a Democratic stronghold, in November.
“Throughout my life, I’ve seen New York through good times and bad…through crime waves…through terrorist attacks, but I’ve never seen it quite like this!” – President Donald Trump
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) May 23, 2024
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Donald Trump took aim at the "radical left pro-crime policies" that have reduced his hometown of New York City to a shell of its former self at a diverse and well-attended rally in the Bronx.
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The corporate media has expressed alarm at the level of support for Donald Trump at a rally in the Democratic stronghold of the Bronx, New York City. They were particularly worried about the “more diverse crowd” that turned out to see him.
“[M]any Black and Hispanic voters [were] sporting bright red ‘Make America Great Again’ hats and other Trump-themed apparel ordinarily scarce in deep-blue New York City,” notesTheNew York Times.
The NYT expressed irritation that rally attendees “did not appear to object to [Trump’s] broad assertion, which has no evidence, that those coming across the border were mentally ill criminals mounting an invasion of the United States.”
The newspaper observed that the “approving reception for such anti-immigrant messaging was particularly striking in New York, a sanctuary city.” The crowd chanted, “Build the Wall” and “Send them back!”
Polls indicate that 84 percent of New Yorkers regard the border crisis as a serious issue. Sixty-four percent blame Joe Biden for it.
Even CNN is admitting President Trump's rally in the Bronx was a massive success:
"Certainly a bigger crowd than I think Democrats would like to see, particularly given this is one of the bluest counties in the entire country!" 🔥 pic.twitter.com/XScfuQmnVa
CNN also seemed shocked at Trump’s appeal in the Bronx. It noted there was “certainly a bigger crowd than I think Democrats would like to see, particularly given this is one of the bluest counties in the entire country!”
Trump himself was unsure how well he would be received. “I woke up, I said, ‘I wonder, will it be hostile or will it be friendly?’” he said. “[I]t was beyond friendly. It was a love fest.”
“I think it’s great, I think it’s dope,” said one black attendee of Trump’s decision to campaign in the Bronx. “[T]his is the first time a President has actually came to the hood… the hood hood. So, I respect that,” he added.
Black and Hispanic attendees had harsh words for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose congressional district includes parts of the Bronx. She had claimed Trump was not welcome in the neighborhood.
“I don’t think she should be here in the Bronx,” said one black woman, adding that Ocasio-Cortez had “done nothing for the Bronx.”
“From what I know this is the first time a President has actually came to the hood”
A Bronx resident applauds Trump for coming to the Bronx stating that he knows previous Presidents have come, but they’ve never come to the “hood hood” like Trump has pic.twitter.com/MerbMm8epn
The corporate media has expressed alarm at the level of support for Donald Trump at a rally in the Democratic stronghold of the Bronx, New York City. They were particularly worried about the "more diverse crowd" that turned out to see him.
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