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January 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
News
Politics

LISTEN: Hot Mic Catches Journos Joking About Trump Being Assassinated – ‘Like JFK! Take a Convertible!’

Microphones caught journalists waiting for Donald Trump to arrive at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington D.C. joking about the former president being assassinated on Tuesday.

Trump is attending the D.C. Court of Appeals to hear the opening oral arguments in his appeal against Jack Smith’s efforts to prosecute him over January 6th, and journalists gathered outside the courthouse in substantial numbers ahead of his arrival.

Two of them could be heard in live feeds joking about having a “good shot” at the America First leader when he arrived, particularly if he showed up driving a convertible like the one the late President John F. Kennedy was riding in when he was shot in the head in 1963:

First Journalist: You know what the worst part is? Even if he has his window open and he’s hanging out of it, he will be on the other side of the street.

Second Journalist: I mean, if he’s driving, we’ve got a good shot!

First Journalist: Yeah, if he’s driving with the front window open?

Second Journalist: Yeah, or if it’s a convertible?

First Journalist: Yeah. I wasn’t thinking about that.

Second Journalist: Yeah. Like if he just pulls up–

First Journalist: Like JFK?

Second Journalist: (laughs)

First Journalist: Maybe someone, just like they told JFK. You know what you should do? You should take a convertible! It’s so nice out!

Trump’s hearing is being overseen by a panel of two Joe Biden-appointed judges and one George H. W. Bush-appointed judge.

His lawyers argue the Smith prosecution amounts to double jeopardy, as Trump was already tried and acquitted over January 6th by the U.S. Senate, and that Smith is also violating the principle of presidential immunity for official acts.

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Microphones caught journalists waiting for Donald Trump to arrive at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington D.C. joking about the former president being assassinated on Tuesday. show more
January 8, 2024
Media

WATCH: Even Mike Pence Says Jan 6 Was Not ‘An Insurrection.’

“Do you think Donald Trump engaged in insurrection?” Jake Tapper asked former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday, eliciting a slap back from the man consistently name-checked by the left as being on the receiving end of “hang Mike Pence” chants back in 2021.

“I have never called what happened on January 6 an insurrection. And it is noteworthy that, even in the federal case in Washington, D.C., the president hasn’t been charged with insurrection,” Pence replied, adding: “And while I said that the president’s words were reckless, and I believe that history and the American people will hold him ultimately to account for his role in that day, I think these efforts to take the decision away from the American people are really antithetical to the very democracy that the President Biden and many Democrats talk about wanting to defend.”

“Removing the former president or any other candidate from the choice of the American people, I don’t believe is in the interest of the country.”

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“Do you think Donald Trump engaged in insurrection?” Jake Tapper asked former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday, eliciting a slap back from the man consistently name-checked by the left as being on the receiving end of "hang Mike Pence" chants back in 2021. show more
January 8, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
Politics

Bloomberg: Elections Are a Threat to Democracy.

With over 40 elections set for the United States, United Kingdom, and a host of other nations in 2024, U.S. corporate media giant Bloomberg is questioning whether inviting regular citizens to vote for representative governments really serves “democracy”.

In an article by Tobin Harshaw, a Bloomberg opinion editor who previously edited the opinion section at for The New York Times, readers are warned that ‘2024 Is the Year of Elections and That’s a Threat to Democracy’.

Harshaw notes: “41% of the world’s population is having major elections this year. Yay democracy! Right? Not really.” He argues that because people may exercise their democratic right to vote for “extremist populist parties – mostly right-wing,” that elections are not good for democracy.

Weighing the “chances everything turns out alright – somebody other than Trump wins the U.S. presidency; the UK regains its senses [and reverses Brexit]; China is dissuaded from invading its ‘rogue province’; the Middle East finds peace; and dictatorships fall left and right,” the Bloomberg editor cites writers John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge as estimating that the “liberal world” has a ten percent chance of prevailing.

“EEK! ” writes Harshaw, who is almost 60 years old, adding: “Big Yikes!”

This year could see Donald Trump become President-elect again, national conservative and populist parties greatly increase their presence in the European Parliament of the European Union, and discontent over mass migration grow the Flemish nationalist presence in the Belgian legislature to the point that the country breaks up.

2024 will also see elections held in Russia – but not Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky has suspended them – and Taiwan, where victory for the Democratic Progressive Party could increase the chances of a Chinese invasion.

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With over 40 elections set for the United States, United Kingdom, and a host of other nations in 2024, U.S. corporate media giant Bloomberg is questioning whether inviting regular citizens to vote for representative governments really serves "democracy". show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
By the end of the year, pretty much everything that doesn’t guarantee functioning majorities for globalist politicians will be labelled “a threat to democracy,” as I explained this morning: A large majority of Americans now call Biden’s border situation not just a “crisis” but actually an “invasion,” per new @Rasmussen_Poll numbers
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By the end of the year, pretty much everything that doesn’t guarantee functioning majorities for globalist politicians will be labelled “a threat to democracy,” as I explained this morning: A large majority of Americans now call Biden’s border situation not just a “crisis” but actually an “invasion,” per new @Rasmussen_Poll numbers show more
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January 8, 2024
Media

Mehdi Hasan, Who Called Non-Muslims ‘Animals’, Out at MSNBC.

MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan has announced his departure from the network. The announcement was made during the final episode of his axed show on Sunday.

It was initially stated that despite his show’s cancelation, Hasan would remain as an analyst and fill-in host at MSNBC. However, Hasan’s airtime was noticeably reduced in the months following the October 7th terror raid on Israel by Hamas.

In the wake of those attacks, Hasan has amplified Hamas propaganda on social media, sharing posts speaking of the “utter desperation of [G]aza [P]alestinians, with many seeing no options for their future but the launch of a suicidal war,” and complaining “the scale of Israeli war crimes in Gaza is likely to exceed anything we have seen before.”

Before moving to the U.S., where he is a naturalized citizen, the British-born Muslim worked for many British broadcasters and leftist new organizations. He also served as an anchor for the Qatari state, which hosts Hamas leaders, on its Al Jazeera network.

Hasan is infamous in Britain for leaked sermons, brought to a wide audience by National Pulse editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam, in which he denounced non-Muslims as “cattle” who “live their lives as animals”.

The recordings were widely known when MSNBC chose to hire him.

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MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan has announced his departure from the network. The announcement was made during the final episode of his axed show on Sunday. show more
January 3, 2024
Media
Science

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

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

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

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

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

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The Associated Press (AP) received a donation of $300,000 from the KR Foundation, a Danish nonprofit with a manifesto for rapid fossil fuels phase-out, according to the charity’s 2022 annual report. This gift was quietly added to AP's current philanthropic supporters list in February 2023, despite the newswire’s self-proclamation of maintaining the "highest practicable degree of transparency" about its benefactors. show more
December 23, 2023
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Immigration
Media
Podcast

WATCH: Kassam Explains The Democrat Insurrection, Border Crisis, the ‘Arrogance of Modernity’, and Predicts Mass Protests.

During a marathon appearance on War Room with Stephen K. Bannon this week, The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam hit on three topics which are likely to dominate national media through the New Year.

According to Kassam: the Democrats are dusting off their 2020 playbook in order to kick Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot; our national elites are propelled by arrogance – believing they’re smarter than those who came before them; and the unchecked border crisis will result in mass street protests against the Biden regime.

The Real 2020 Insurrection.

In late summer 2020, Kassam and Bill McGinley put together analysis of a strategy put forward by Democrat election-lawyer Marc Elias as well as Soros advisor Rosa Brooks. Their plans established a predicate for stealing the 2020 presidential election. The groups anticipated that Donald Trump would appear the overwhelming victor during initial election returns, but explained that the weeks-long counting of mail-in ballots would eventually put Joe Biden over the top.

As Kassam notes, various leftist groups like Act Blue provided material support for the actual insurrection – Antifa’s siege of the White House complex in late May and early June, as well as the routine Black Lives Matter violence in the run up to the 2020 election.

The Arrogance of Modernity.

Reflecting on the humility and wisdom of those who attended the town hall at the Cowboy Church in Casa Grande, Arizona on Wednesday night, Kassam noted our national political elites couldn’t appear more different. Instead of humility and a reverence for those who came before them, Kassam argues Democrats and the left believe they must prove they’re smarter than past generations.

“The people who were in the Cowboy Church in Casa Grande last night do not fancy themselves as smarter than this nation’s founders… the people who occupy the halls of power… start from a position that because several centuries have passed, therefore they must be smarter than the people who founded this nation,” Kassam said.

The Forthcoming Street Protests.

Finally, in an ominous prediction, Kassam told Bannon the continued unchecked flow of illegal immigrants into the United States under President Joe Biden’s watch will likely result in civil unrest. Referring to Americans, like those who attended the Cowboy Church town hall, Kassam said: “You feel in these peoples’ demeanor… they’re angry. And you feel that something will absolutely give way here, because these people I just don’t think are going to sit around and take it anymore.”

He noted the mass demonstrations which broke out in Germany against mass immigration when then-Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed 1.7 million migrants into her country. Kassam said the per-capita number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. had already surpassed the name which led to tens-of-thousands protesting in Germany.

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During a marathon appearance on War Room with Stephen K. Bannon this week, The National Pulse's editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam hit on three topics which are likely to dominate national media through the New Year. show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
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December 21, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media
World

WATCH: Poland’s New Globalist Govt Shuts Down Public TV & Radio, Fires Execs for Being Conservative.

Poland’s freshly installed globalist government is moving swiftly to consolidate its power, firing the leadership of the country’s public radio and television stations and shutting them down. Members of the recently deposed Law and Justice party (PiS) attempted to stage a sit-in at the television station’s headquarters to protest the fascistic move, but the demonstration was broken up by armed police.

Donald Tusk, who abandoned his post as Prime Minister of Poland for a much better-paid position as President of the European Council shortly before his party was routed from office by PiS in 2015, returned to the Polish premiership at the head of a ragtag coalition of left-liberal parties earlier this month, despite PiS placing first. His “reforms” of public broadcasters Polskie Radio and TVP are ostensibly aimed at turning Poland’s public broadcasters into platforms for “reliable information” – but there is little dispute his chief aim is to purge the airwaves of conservatives appointed during PiS’s terms in office from 2015 to this year.

President Andrzej Duda, who is aligned with PiS, said the manner in which Tusk’s government has seized control of state media is a “gross violation of the constitution,” amounting to a form of “anarchy [intended] to circumvent the law”.

Protests against Tusk’s actions are ongoing, with there being some debate as to whether or not his moves against Polskie Radio and TVP, authorized by a simple resolution of the legislature, were lawful.

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Poland's freshly installed globalist government is moving swiftly to consolidate its power, firing the leadership of the country's public radio and television stations and shutting them down. Members of the recently deposed Law and Justice party (PiS) attempted to stage a sit-in at the television station's headquarters to protest the fascistic move, but the demonstration was broken up by armed police. show more
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December 20, 2023
Media

NeoCon NeverTrumper Says Lawfare and Ballot Bans Will Ensure His Re-Election.

NeverTrump Mediaite columnist Isaac Schorr is fuming about the latest Colorado ballot ban against former President Donald Trump, admitting such measures improve Trump’s chances of ending up back in the Oval Office.

“You incorrigible idiots,” he starts his latest op-ed for Mediate, “You’re so sure that you were put on this Earth to save the country from Donald Trump that you’re willing to gamble it all to have the chance. And you’re going to lose.”

“The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to try to kick Trump off the ballot on Tuesday was the decadent, spurious, irresponsible, inevitable, and logical conclusion to the longstanding practices of the Resistance, which for six years has been the former president’s greatest asset.”

“Trump couldn’t just be a vain, self-serving charlatan willing to seize upon every advantage available to him. He had to be a Russian asset since the 1980s and/or blackmailed fetishist with a secret video ready to drop at any moment.”

Schorr, clearly agitated by the behavior of his fellow NeverTrumpers, goes on to assail his fellow travelers on their border policies, as well as their refusal to investigate the origins of COVID-19, being too distracted because Trump said “China Virus.”

“How many man-hours were devoted to searching for the pee tape? What were the cable news splits on coverage of the substantive issues at the border versus Trump’s comments about it? Were Jonathan Chait or Kamala Harris ever held responsible for their reckless conspiracy theorizing?” asks Schorr, before going on to explain how the indictments and ballot rigging will only help Trump across the country.

“A colorable case that he is being unjustly persecuted, combined with Biden’s dismal performance in office, will in all likelihood be enough to return Trump to the White House,” he concludes.

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NeverTrump Mediaite columnist Isaac Schorr is fuming about the latest Colorado ballot ban against former President Donald Trump, admitting such measures improve Trump's chances of ending up back in the Oval Office. show more
December 19, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media

MSNBC Fears SCOTUS Ruling Could Throw Out Charges Against Trump.

The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether or not charges related to obstructing official proceedings can be applied to Donald Trump and other January 6th defendants. MSNBC fears the court could wipe away a swathe of charges against the former president and others if it decides they cannot.

Special prosecutor Jack Smith’s charges against Trump over Jan 6 include “conspiracy to defraud the United States”, “conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding”, “obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding,” and “conspiracy against rights”.

The second and third of these relate to the counting and certification of the Electoral College vote. However, the laws against obstructing official proceedings were originally passed in response to the Enron scandal, which saw Wall Street executives doctor and destroy documents to disrupt a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation.

One federal judge in a Jan 6 case, Carl Nichols, ruled the white-collar crime law does not apply to the sort of disruption seen on Jan 6, because it did not involve “some action with respect to a document, record, or other object in order to corruptly obstruct, impede or influence an official proceeding.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed Nichols’s ruling, but the Supreme Court is now set to weigh in, with MSNBC noting that an “adverse” ruling could “cut Jack Smith’s election case in half”.

“The court should not interfere with these prosecutions and should allow federal prosecutors, including Smith, the chance to hold those responsible for the events of Jan. 6 accountable for their actions,” complained MSNBC.

The network admitted, however, that “the federal obstruction statute may not have originally been envisioned as a tool to punish a president who allegedly sought to illegally maintain power”.

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The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether or not charges related to obstructing official proceedings can be applied to Donald Trump and other January 6th defendants. MSNBC fears the court could wipe away a swathe of charges against the former president and others if it decides they cannot. show more
December 18, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media
News

NYT Columnist Says Trump Support Less Excusable Than Slavery.

The New York Times‘s so-called “conservative” columnist David French has claimed in a new opinion editorial that supporting Donald Trump is worse than supporting slavery. French’s bizarre op-ed essentially argues that slavers did not know any better, while MAGA supporters should, oddly comparing the forced ownership of human beings to supporting America First policies.

The article, entitled ‘Behold, MAGA Man‘, was published on Sunday in the paper still owned by the descendants of slave owners. In addition to its murky moral history in America, the New York Times previously hyped Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

French himself is a neoconservative who still defends the Iraq War, supports gay marriage, and is regularly vaccinated and boosted. He wrote on Sunday: “One of the persistent debates in American life centers on how strictly we should judge the sins of our national past… Were those people who owned slaves or broke faith with Native Americans or passed the Chinese Exclusion Act merely products of their time? MAGA Men and MAGA Women will not have that excuse. They know there is a different way.”

Characterizing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a “MAGA Man”, French accused the “post-9/11 American hero” of devolving into a cipher for Trump. He also strongly implied he supports the $148 million judgment against Giuliani in the case of two election workers accused of ballot fiddling.

“A MAGA Man such as Giuliani supplements his lies with rage,” French claimed. “To watch him pushing Trump’s election lies was to watch a man become unglued with anger.”

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The New York Times's so-called "conservative" columnist David French has claimed in a new opinion editorial that supporting Donald Trump is worse than supporting slavery. French's bizarre op-ed essentially argues that slavers did not know any better, while MAGA supporters should, oddly comparing the forced ownership of human beings to supporting America First policies. show more

Editor’s Notes

Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.

RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
It doesn’t matter how long I’ve done this job, I’m always stunned by the brass tacks of these outlets – themselves replete with historical sympathies towards slavery and fascism
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It doesn’t matter how long I’ve done this job, I’m always stunned by the brass tacks of these outlets – themselves replete with historical sympathies towards slavery and fascism show more
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