TIME Magazine writer Eric Cortellessa acknowledged that the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent JoeBiden rejected the same interview request accepted by former President DonaldTrump. As the lengthy interview came to a close, Cortellessa suggested a series of rapid-fire questions to which Trump agreed — but not before he asked if the TIME writer thought that Biden would be able to do the same.
“All right. Do you think you could do this interview with Biden?” the former Republican President asked. Cortellessa responded, “You know, he didn’t say yes. So I’m grateful that you’re giving me the opportunity.” Trump expressed his doubts that Biden would ever accept the interview offer, telling Cortellessa: “He will never say yes, cause he’s off. He’s off, way off.”
The admission by Cortellessa that Biden had declined an interview with the magazine comes as the corporatemedia wavers in running cover for the Democrat leader’s declining mental faculties. The Biden White House has taken great pains to ensure the 81-year-old only engages in carefully scripted interviews, often requiring reporters to submit questions beforehand. Most recently, the White House heavily promoted Biden’s interview with radio host Howard Stern, in which the one-time shock jock gushed over the Democrat President for a little over an hour and offered only softball questions.
Unlike Biden, whose communications team will abruptly end interviews when the 81-year-old Democrat begins to stray off message, Trump offered to extend the interview with TIME — eventually doing a follow-up interview over the phone.
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TIME Magazine writer Eric Cortellessa acknowledged that the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent JoeBiden rejected the same interview request accepted by former President DonaldTrump. As the lengthy interview came to a close, Cortellessa suggested a series of rapid-fire questions to which Trump agreed — but not before he asked if the TIME writer thought that Biden would be able to do the same.
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr recently explained to CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins that the media too often takes the alleged comments of former President DonaldTrump too literally. During an interview last week, Collins pressed Barr on allegations made by former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin that Trump had called for a White House staffer to be executed for leaking to the media.
“I remember him being very mad about that,” Barr recalled to Collins. He continued, noting that the former President was angry but not being serious: “I actually don’t remember him saying ‘executing’ but I wouldn’t dispute it, you know… The president would lose his temper and say things like that. I doubt he would’ve actually carried it out.”
Barr explained to Collins that Trump‘s offhanded remarks were made in an effort to blow off steam or as a bit of gallows humor. He said the media and critics often take Trump “too literally.” He reiterated, dismissing the ginned-up concerns of the corporatemedia: “Having worked for him and seen him in action, I don’t think he would actually go and kill political rivals and things like that.”
Earlier this month, Trump‘s former Attorney General said he’d support his one-time boss in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Barr argued that the choice for him boils down to a “duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country.” He said, “a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide, in my opinion.”
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr recently explained to CNN's Kaitlan Collins that the media too often takes the alleged comments of former President DonaldTrump too literally. During an interview last week, Collins pressed Barr on allegations made by former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin that Trump had called for a White House staffer to be executed for leaking to the media.
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Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld told the New Yorker Radio Hour that the “extreme left” and political correctness are killing comedy, with too many outside committees and other groups weighing in on comic scripts.
“Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they need it so badly,” Seinfeld said. He argued, however, that the public is not getting the comedy they need.
“It used to be you would go home at the end of the day. Most people would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on.’ ‘Oh, M*A*S*H is on.’ ‘Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on.’ ‘All in the Family is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it? Where is it?” Seinfeld demanded.
“This is the result of the extreme Left, PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people. Now they’re going to see stand-up comics because we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we’re off-track, we know instantly, and we adjust to it instantly. But when you write a script, and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups, ‘Here’s our thought about this joke,’ well, that’s the end of your comedy,” he explained.
Seinfeld, whose eponymous sit-com was among the highest-rated shows of all time, has said his upcoming Unfrosted movie will feature a “very funny January 6 parody.”
He also featured in the final season of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, with a storyline based around leftist talking points against Georgia election integrity laws.
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Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld told the New Yorker Radio Hour that the "extreme left" and political correctness are killing comedy, with too many outside committees and other groups weighing in on comic scripts.
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Lachlan Cartwright appears to have confessed to being one of the most critical sources for the “catch and kill” claims against President Donald J. Trump, as well as the initial ‘hush money’ story published in the Wall Street Journal just days before the 2016 presidential election. During his time as executive editor with the National Enquirer, Cartwright claims he was intimately involved in the tabloid publication’s work to protect certain individuals from negative press and to direct scathing stories at others.
In a lengthy essay for The New York Times, the former tabloid editor describes these efforts in great detail, shedding more light on the origins of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former President Trump. Additionally, Cartwright admits he promoted the narrative that the tabloid acted under the direction of Trump.
Even more troubling is his admission that his decision to serve as a confidential source was primarily motivated by a need to retain his U.S. work visa and rehabilitate his byline after working for the Enquirer. An Australian national, Cartwright went on to serve as an editor at large for the far-left Daily Beast website and is currently a special correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter.
ALL FOR A WORK VISA.
In his essay, Cartwright readily admits that after leaving the Enquirer, he worked as a source—with no compensation—for several national news publications as a means of integrating himself back into corporatejournalist circles. He says this was prompted after he already technically left his role with the tabloid in July 2017, but remained listed as an employee as part of his severance agreement. This allowed him to retain his U.S. work visa as an Australian national.
According to Cartwright, in October 2017, his attorney received a letter from the National Enquirer‘s then-parent company, American Media, Inc. (AMI), which threatened a termination of employment per the severance agreement. This, the letter noted, would result in him losing his work visa and subsequent deportation from the U.S. The letter suggested they believed he was behind several leaks to national media outlets regarding the Enquirer’s involvement in purchasing and burying stories on behalf of several notable public figures.
Now, several years after the letter, Cartwright admits AMI’s suspicions were correct. He also suggests his work as a confidential source on AMI likely contributed to his gaining employment with the far-left Daily Beast.
ORIGIN OF “CATCH AND KILL”?
Cartwright claims he first heard the term “catch and kill” from an unnamed colleague. The phrase was used in conjunction with a $30,000 payout by AMI to Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin. According to the doorman, Trump had fathered a love child in an affair. However, Cartwright says the tabloid’s investigation into the matter found Sajudin to be unreliable, noting the man’s claims were unfounded. Despite Cartwright and his colleagues concluding that Sajudin’s story was likely untrue, he says AMI CEO David Pecker authorized a $30,000 payment to the doorman anyway.
“I stressed to him the importance of the term ‘catch and kill’…
– Lachlan Cartwright
Cartwright says the second occasion he heard the term “catch and kill” was in relation to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal’s alleged affair with Trump. At the time, McDougal was being represented by Hollywood entertainment lawyer Keith Davidson.
The confirmed connection with Keith Davidson raises questions about the “catch and kill” term’s origins. During his testimony in the hush money trial, David Pecker insisted “catch and kill” was not a term used by AMI or the National Enquirer. However, as The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, reported last week, the phrase has a history of being used in connection with Hollywood, and disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
SOURCE FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
“Catch and kill” made its first appearance in connection to former President Donald Trump in a November 4, 2016, story in the Wall Street Journal detailing the alleged payments and nondisclosure agreement between AMI and Karen McDougal. Cartwright admits to being the newspaper‘s source and using the term “catch and kill’ when speaking with reporter Lukas Alpert.
The WSJ story from 2016.
According to Cartwright, Alpert had never heard the phrase prior to his use of it.
“I stressed to him the importance of the term ‘catch and kill‘ and told him that if the Journal included it, it would give me some breathing room,” Cartwright wrote, recalling their conversation. In addition, Cartwright says he broke into the safe where the Sajudin nondisclosure agreement was kept and supplied details from the document, including names of individuals involved, to the Wall Street Journal.
THE TRUMP NON-CONNECTION.
The most glaring omission from Cartwright’s recollection of events is that he can never definitively connect former President Trump to any of AMI’s actions prior to the 2016 election. He either assumes a connection or makes innuendo to one, but the former editor for the Daily Beast is careful never to claim Trump actually directed any of his or David Pecker’s actions. In fact, Cartwright strangely only mentions MichaelCohen, Trump’s then-personal attorney, in passing — despite the District Attorney’s office insisting that Cohen was heavily involved with Pecker, AMI, and the National Enquirer‘s senior staff in executing the “catch and kill” operations.
Cartwright admits that he also spoke to the New York Times after the paper broke the Harvey Weinstein story and detailed the National Enquirer‘s handling of the McDougal allegations. Regarding his conversations with the newspaper, Cartwright admits he “stressed that the real story was the Enquirer’s work on behalf of Trump.” He has yet to provide any evidence of this claim.
The Australian national’s essay for the New York Times could have serious implications for Bragg’s prosecution of Trump.
Cartwright appears to be not only an originator of the “catch and kill” phrase now being bandied about by the District Attorney‘s office but also the source for the idea that the tabloid worked on behalf of the Trump campaign. The fact that Cartwright admits to opening an AMI safe and leaking documents and other materials to competing news outlets calls into question not only his ethics but also his credibility.
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Lachlan Cartwright appears to have confessed to being one of the most critical sources for the "catch and kill" claims against President Donald J. Trump, as well as the initial 'hush money' story published in the Wall Street Journal just days before the 2016 presidential election. During his time as executive editor with the National Enquirer, Cartwright claims he was intimately involved in the tabloid publication's work to protect certain individuals from negative press and to direct scathing stories at others.
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Gateway Pundit, a well-known right-wing news website, has declared that its parent company, TGP Communications, is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida. This comes in response to what the site’s founder, Jim Hoft, describes as a series of “lawfare attacks” allegedly initiated by “the radical left.” Hoft detailed the issue in a post on Wednesday.
“TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet,” Hoft wrote.
‘This is not an admission of fault or culpability. This is a common tool for reorganization and to consolidate litigation when attacks are coming from all sides. It allows TGP to consolidate this lawfare in one court for ultimate resolution,” he continued.
“Despite the radical left’s efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today.”
The company currently faces multiple lawsuits, many of which stem from the information published by Gateway Pundit regarding the 2020 electoral process. Dominion Voting Systems, a controversial firm that played a key role in vote tabulation during the 2020 presidential elections, has leveled defamation charges against the organization.
Two ex-election workers from Georgia have also initiated lawsuits against Gateway Pundit. Posts from the media outlet suggested these workers were involved in election fraud, an accusation the workers firmly deny.
Gateway Pundit, a well-known right-wing news website, has declared that its parent company, TGP Communications, is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida. This comes in response to what the site's founder, Jim Hoft, describes as a series of "lawfare attacks" allegedly initiated by "the radical left." Hoft detailed the issue in a post on Wednesday.
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
A cabal of lawyers, legal analysts for the corporate media, and former Deep State officials is colluding on private Zoom calls every Friday to decide how to cover the various lawfare cases against Donald Trump. The existence of the off-the-record meetings was revealed by POLITICO, which described the participants as “united by their dislike of Trump.”
Norman Eisen, a CNN analyst who served as a special counsel and ambassador under Barack Obama, hosts the group. Eisen recently argued Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” prosecution of Trump is an “election interference” case.
Only some of his cabal’s regular participants were named:
Bill Kristol, a pro-war neoconservative who has pushed Chris Christie to endorse Joe Biden for President;
George Conway, a Never Trumper who persuaded E. Jean Carroll to sue the former president. He also co-founded the Lincoln Project alongside John Weaver, alleged to have groomed and harassed multiple young men, including at least one minor;
Andrew Weissmann, an MSNBC analyst who assisted Robert Mueller’s bogus Trump-Russia investigation as a federal prosecutor;
Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who hosts an MSNBC podcast alongside Weissmann;
Jeffrey Toobin, a cable news legal analyst previously suspended by The New Yorker for exposing his genitals to a colleague on a Zoom call;
Harry Litman, a Los Angeles Times columnist who served as a U.S. Attorney under Barack Obama;
Barbara McQuade, an MSNBC contractor who also served as a U.S. Attorney under Barack Obama;
Joyce White Vance, another MSNBC contractor who served as a U.S. Attorney under Barack Obama;
The cabal has occasionally invited special guests to speak with them, including lawyers involved in lawfare efforts against Trump.
One was Roberta Kaplan, who spoke to the group for approximately 30 minutes about her efforts to sue Trump on behalf of E. Jean Carroll. The elderly advice columnist claims the former president raped her in the changing rooms of a busy department store in the 1990s.
The group also hosted J. Michael Luttig, who helped lead the failed campaign to bar Trump from running for the presidency again under the 14th Amendment. POLITICO notes the interaction with Luttig “spread dubious analysis,” with call participants arguing the 14th Amendment efforts had merit despite the fact they “never really had a chance.”
POLITICO notes the group also has strong misgivings about DA Bragg’s highly novel case against Trump in Manhattan. They discuss “whether it should have been brought in the first place” regularly.
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A cabal of lawyers, legal analysts for the corporate media, and former Deep State officials is colluding on private Zoom calls every Friday to decide how to cover the various lawfare cases against Donald Trump. The existence of the off-the-record meetings was revealed by POLITICO, which described the participants as "united by their dislike of Trump."
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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) says the right-leaning news network Newsmax cut an entire segment of his interview with them yesterday evening. The Utah Republican claims the unaired segment of his interview focused on his criticism of the Ukraine foreign aid supplemental funding bill.
“Newsmax cut an entire segment of my interview last night,” Sen. Lee posted on X (formerly Twitter) late this afternoon. The conservative lawmaker continued: “No mention of Ukraine—even though part of the interview focused specifically on the supplemental.”
“I’ve never had this happen with any news network, not like this,” he added.
Sen. Lee specifically called out Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy over the cut segment, with the Senator asking him “what happened?”
The Utah Senator has been a strong critic of sending additional military and foreign aid to Ukraine, especially as its defense against Russia’s invasions appears to be faltering. On Saturday, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans in the House passed a series of supplemental funding bills that provide for tens of billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The legislation also includes a provision that would force the Chinese-owned company ByteDance to divest itself from TikTok.
A spokesman for Lee also told The National Pulse: “On Tuesday, Senator Lee appeared on ‘Eric Bolling The Balance’ on Newsmax to discuss various political issues of the day. For some reason, Newsmax aired everything but Senator Lee’s condemnation of the disastrous foreign aid bill that abandons America’s borders while throwing 60 billion dollars into the Ukraine proxy war. It is unclear who at Newsmax made the decision, but we know that it was not Mr. Bolling.”
The National Pulse previously reported that Newsmax received a $50 million investment from the Qatari royal family.
Newsmax cut an entire segment of my interview last night. No mention of Ukraine—even though part of the interview focused specifically on the supplemental.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) says the right-leaning news network Newsmax cut an entire segment of his interview with them yesterday evening. The Utah Republican claims the unaired segment of his interview focused on his criticism of the Ukraine foreign aid supplemental funding bill.
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Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has described his firing by the left-wing network as a “blessing,” boasting that, while he was “disappointed when they canceled my show,” he can now “say whatever I want in a way a lot of folks who have employers can’t.” Hasan departed the network in January.
The British-born Muslim made the comments in a lengthy puff piece for New York magazine, which implied MSNBC fired him for embarrassing an Israeli government spokesman in an interview. In fact, Hasan had come under heavy criticism for his social media output after the October 7 terror raid on Israel, which primarily targeted civilians.
Among other things, Hasan shared a pro-terrorism post blaming the attack on the “utter desperation of gazapalestinians [sic],” who saw “no options for their future but the launch of a suicidal war.”
‘BOUGHT PRIVILEGE’.
The article offered several insights into Hasan’s life, with the far-left journalist admitting his Indian immigrant parents “bought privilege” for him in England, where he attended prestigious schools and universities.
It revealed he had a “reputation as a loudmouth” at school, and “would go outside during the national anthem.” He claimed he was “not some anti-British person,” however, and that the stunt was motivated by “issue[s] with the royal family.”
Any similar issues with the Qatari royal family, which wields absolute power and hosts many of the senior leaders of Hamas, did not stop him from taking up work with Al Jazeera later in life — an episode upon which the New York article barely touched.
MULLAH MEHDI.
Another missing episode in the story of Hasan’s life, which New York charted from age five, recounting his teenage ambition to “become the first Asian prime minister of the UK” and his journalistic rise, was his long flirtation with Islamist extremism.
His promotion to politics editor of TheNew Statesman and entrée into BBC commentary was noted, but not the controversial sermons he gave around the same age, describing “non-Muslims” as “cattle” who “live their lives as animals.” He also preached that unbelievers are “people of no intelligence” or morality.
These sermons were public knowledge when MSNBC chose to hire Hasan.
Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has described his firing by the left-wing network as a "blessing," boasting that, while he was "disappointed when they canceled my show," he can now "say whatever I want in a way a lot of folks who have employers can’t." Hasan departed the network in January.
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A study by the Media Research Center (MRC) revealed that Facebook has allegedly interfered in U.S. elections at least 39 times since 2008, while Google has reportedly done so 41 times over the past 16 years. Despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s professed commitment to free speech, Facebook’s actions seemingly belie this stance.
“Like Google, Facebook has an extensive history of interfering in U.S. elections. But it’s not completely fair to compare the two companies. I believe some part of Mark Zuckerberg believes in free speech. Google management clearly does not,” Brent Bozell, founder and president of the MRC, said in a recent interview. He continued: “But regardless of what Mr. Zuckerberg believes, his company’s policies and practices have resulted in a great deal of censorship that always seems to target the same side of the political spectrum, and it needs to stop.”
Researchers Dan Schneider and Gabriela Pariseau conducted the MRC’s study, demonstrating what they consider a complex interplay between Zuckerberg’s public support of free speech and the alleged censorship practices within Facebook. Examples offered include censorship of 2024 presidential candidates, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a reported shutdown of political advertising a week before the 2020 election. The researchers also cite instances wherein conservative perspectives were alleged to be blacklisted or suppressed in the platform’s Trending News section.
Schneider and Pariseau believe that Zuckerberg’s repeated public endorsements of free speech contrast with Facebook’s subsequent actions, particularly after so-called ‘civil rights’ audits, which they suggest led to more stringent censorship practices.
The National Pulse has previously reported on the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and its activities to undermine U.S. elections by using private grants awarded to state election officials. In April of this year, Wisconsin voters barred groups like CTCL from funding election workers.
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A study by the Media Research Center (MRC) revealed that Facebook has allegedly interfered in U.S. elections at least 39 times since 2008, while Google has reportedly done so 41 times over the past 16 years. Despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s professed commitment to free speech, Facebook's actions seemingly belie this stance.
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Citizen journalist and anti-grooming gangs campaigner Tommy Robinson has been cleared of charges he refused to obey a lawful police dispersal order. A day prior to Tuesday’s decision, he clashed with Victoria Bird, a corporate journalist for Comcast-owned Sky News, who proved ill-informed about the case.
Outside court, Bird had sneered at Robinson, saying, “most journalists don’t have criminal convictions.” Robinson responded that he had never been tried by a jury, and Bird responded that he was “about to be,” forcing him to correct her.
“No, I’m not,” he told her. “If you knew your facts, there’s no jury waiting in there.”
Scrambling to recover, the corporate journalist insisted he was being tried by a judge “due to the severity of the alleged offense.” Robinson asked what his alleged offense was, and it quickly became apparent Bird did not know. She had to look up the case on her phone, reading aloud that he was “charged with refusing to leave an anti-Semitism protest in London… failing to comply a Section 35 direction [sic] excluding a person from an area.”
Robinson, who asked Bird if she would “wait out here to apologize when it gets proven that this was all unlawful,” was cleared on Tuesday. A judge ruled he had “no case to answer.” The police did not have a lawful order to remove him, which they admitted under questioning.
However, Robinson said the judge “threatened” him for “intimidating” Sky News.
WATCH:
Wowwwwww.
Watch @TRobinsonNewEra make an absolute mug out of this Sky News “reporter” who had no idea what she was even reporting on.
Robinson was covering the March Against Anti-Semitism in London in November 2023 when Metropolitan Police officers approached him. The officers said his “presence in the area was likely to cause harassment, alarm, and distress to others.” He refused the order to leave, arguing it was contrary to his rights. Officers pepper sprayed and arrested him.
His bail conditions ahead of the current hearing included a near-total ban on being present in London. Police arrested him a second time for breaking these by celebrating his daughter’s birthday with her inside the capital.
Robinson reports it was Campaign Against Antisemitism chief executive Gideon Falter who had the Metropolitan Police remove him. This month, Falter complained bitterly when officers from the force threatened to arrest him for being near a pro-Palestinian protest. He was told his “openly Jewish” appearance could trigger a “reaction.”
Entire case dismissed!
The arrest was unlawful, the bail conditions were unlawful, everything that happened from start to finish was unlawful from the @metpoliceuk
Citizen journalist and anti-grooming gangs campaigner Tommy Robinson has been cleared of charges he refused to obey a lawful police dispersal order. A day prior to Tuesday's decision, he clashed with Victoria Bird, a corporate journalist for Comcast-owned Sky News, who proved ill-informed about the case.
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