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March 22, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

Judge Engoron Gives ‘Independent Monitor’ Greater Control Over Trump Org.

The Trump Organization will now face increased scrutiny from former federal judge Barbara S. Jones following a court order on Thursday related to alleged bank fraud committed by former President Donald Trump. Jones has been monitoring the Trump family’s New York real estate empire for over a year. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron instituted the enhanced monitorship when he ordered the former President to pay the shocking sum of $464 million in February after finding him culpable for alleged civil fraud.

Since November 2022, the Trump Organization has been mandated to inform Jones of any capital shifts of more than $5 million or substantial business engagement. Judge Engoron’s new order permits Jones to take additional measures to ensure the Trump Organization doesn’t involve itself in suspect business practices. Jones now has the authority to review the company’s “day-to-day operations,” accounting records, and internal communications. Additionally, Jones may hire outside resources as needed, with the cost being borne by the Trump Organization. Engoron described the new order as “a productive and enhanced monitorship.”

In February of this year, Judge Engoron ruled that Trump reportedly inflated the value of his assets in a bid to make additional financial benefits available to his company through loans and insurance policies. The left-wing judge made several determinations regarding Trump’s property holdings, which have drawn vocal criticism from legal and real estate experts. The most egregious was his ruling that the former President’s private Palm Beach, Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, was worth only $18 million.

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The Trump Organization will now face increased scrutiny from former federal judge Barbara S. Jones following a court order on Thursday related to alleged bank fraud committed by former President Donald Trump. Jones has been monitoring the Trump family’s New York real estate empire for over a year. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron instituted the enhanced monitorship when he ordered the former President to pay the shocking sum of $464 million in February after finding him culpable for alleged civil fraud. show more
March 22, 2024
Corruption
Politics

GOP Probes DOJ Attorneys On Hunter Biden Crimes.

The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has filed a lawsuit in federal court to compel testimony from two Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) Tax Division attorneys, Mark Daly and Jack Morgan. House Republicans argue the testimony from the DOJ officials is integral to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings.

Daly and Morgan are believed to have intimate knowledge regarding the decision to grant favorable terms in the prosecution of the President’s son for alleged tax crimes. The 59-page filing asks a federal judge to enforce congressional subpoenas previously issued for their testimony.

Concerns regarding the sweat-heart deal between Hunter Biden and the DOJ were brought to light by the House Ways and Means Committee late last year. Testimony from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler alleged the DOJ ignored the severity of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes out of a sense of political favoritism.

The business dealings of Hunter Biden have come under increasing scrutiny as the House Republican impeachment inquiry moves forward. President Biden’s son is accused of hiding income to avoid paying federal taxes and hiding illicit earnings from corrupt business dealings. Additionally, House Republicans allege Hunter Biden used his access to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to secure lucrative business contracts.

House Republicans, moving to the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, expected to begin increasing their focus on the Biden family’s business enterprises and allegations they traded off of Joe Biden’s name and political access.

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The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has filed a lawsuit in federal court to compel testimony from two Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) Tax Division attorneys, Mark Daly and Jack Morgan. House Republicans argue the testimony from the DOJ officials is integral to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings. show more
March 22, 2024
William Upton
Immigration
Politics

WATCH: Drone Footage Exposes 2000+ Illegal Migrant Tent City in America.

Officials in New York City have been keeping a massive tent shelter for illegals in Brooklyn shielded from the public. However, new details emerged regarding the facility, which is believed to house upwards of 2,000 illegal immigrants. Drone footage taken by citizen journalists has revealed the shocking extent of the tent facility.

The sprawling tent complex is located at Floyd Bennett Field, situated in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Corporate media coverage of the facility has been relatively scant. Only a handful of outlets provided detailed or consistent reports on how many illegal immigrants at the location.

Floyd Bennett Field began as a civilian-use airfield before being turned into a naval air facility. After the U.S. Navy closed its operations at the airfield, it was transferred to the National Park Service and added to the Gateway National Recreation Area’s Jamaica Bay Unit. The New York Police Department (NYPD) maintains a helicopter landing pad and facility on the property.

Since the start of the southern border crisis under President Joe Biden, New York City has seen an estimated influx of an estimated 175,0000 illegal immigrants. The massive number of illegals has placed tremendous strain on the city’s budget and sent rents skyrocketing as demand for housing has increased. It is unclear if any of the facility’s residents are scheduled for deportation.

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Officials in New York City have been keeping a massive tent shelter for illegals in Brooklyn shielded from the public. However, new details emerged regarding the facility, which is believed to house upwards of 2,000 illegal immigrants. Drone footage taken by citizen journalists has revealed the shocking extent of the tent facility. show more
March 22, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics
TECH

KASSAM: ‘Here’s What Could Kill The TikTok Bill in the Senate. Even for Me.’

Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes a House bill forcing Chinese Communist Party-controlled ByteDance to divest from TikTok could be tighter, warning against Senate changes broadening its scope.

Kassam, who has previously debunked some of the myths around the TikTok bill targeting the likes of Elon Musk’s X, warned that there are some issues with “loose language” in the bill in comments to Puck News.

“Folks are rightfully concerned that these bills contain loose language that could be used to target other platforms or individuals,” he said.

“It’s unnecessarily muddying the waters on what could otherwise be a clean hit against the Chinese Communist Party and its propaganda interests, just because Biden and the [Department of Justice] said so,” he added.

Kassam expressed concern that “[i]f the Senate bill is any worse or broader than the House bill, there will be even wider-spread disquiet.”

The National Pulse chief does not agree with objections to the House bill raised by the likes of Senator Rand Paul — bankrolled by ByteDance investor Jeffrey Yass — that the CCP has no control over TikTok or that it amounts to nothing more significant than “a few dance videos.”

Concerns around provisions in the bill targeting companies “indirectly” held by a foreign adversary state may have more substance to them, however, with some fearing they could be used to target platforms such as Rumble and Telegram that have been less keen to censor conservatives than Silicon Valley.

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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes a House bill forcing Chinese Communist Party-controlled ByteDance to divest from TikTok could be tighter, warning against Senate changes broadening its scope. show more
March 21, 2024
News
TECH
UK

AI Could Take Over 80% of Repetitive Civil Servant Jobs.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could assume responsibility for over 80 percent of repetitive civil servant tasks in the UK, according to a study by The Alan Turing Institute. This adoption of AI automation could affect well over 100 million operations, ranging from passport processing to voter registration, and has significant implications for time-saving and efficiency.

The study examined the approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions conducted by the British government annually across 57 departments and 400 services. The researchers examined half of these services involving decision-making and information exchange between an official and a citizen. They found that the most time-intensive tasks possess the greatest potential for time-saving if automated.

The researchers concluded that AI could potentially carry out an estimated 84 percent of 143 million “complex but repetitive transactions.”

“AI has enormous potential to help governments become more responsive, efficient, and fair,” said Dr Jonathan Bright, the artificial intelligence expert at The Alan Turing Institute. “Even if AI could save one minute per transaction, that would be the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of hours of labour saved each year,” he said.

Automating predictable environments such as machine operation could save the UK government an estimated £24 billion ($30.6 billion) per year, further facilitating the path to a smaller state and improved delivery of services. In the U.S., local governments have begun experimenting with incorporating AI into their daily workflow.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) could assume responsibility for over 80 percent of repetitive civil servant tasks in the UK, according to a study by The Alan Turing Institute. This adoption of AI automation could affect well over 100 million operations, ranging from passport processing to voter registration, and has significant implications for time-saving and efficiency. show more
March 21, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
Media
News
TECH

REVEALED: MeidasTouch Host Linked to Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith.

Karen Friedman Agnifilo, of the MeidasTouch network behind the “bloodbath” hoax, worked for five years with Jack Smith, the special prosecutor attempting to convict Donald Trump over January 6 and the alleged mishandling of classified documents, The National Pulse can reveal.

Agnifilo, who hosts a MeidasTouch podcast alongside network founder Ben Meiselas, was approached by the press when Smith was appointed to go after Trump by Joe Biden’s Justice Department. When asked for comment on her time working with him as an assistant district attorney in New York, she said: “He was someone you could rely on. Some people are always too busy, or always too important, or smarter than anybody else. He was humble, helpful, smart. He wasn’t a gunslinger. But he wasn’t afraid to go.”

“Some people just can’t pull the trigger. They get really scared. Jack wasn’t,” she added.

Agnifilo has used her MeidasTouch platform to push for her old friend to take a more aggressive line on Trump, whom she denigrates as the “orange Bully-in-Chief.”

She praised Smith for asking a judge to gag the former president. “It’s about time someone is finally trying to put an end to this dangerous rhetoric,” she said. “And, if [Trump] violates this order he should be put in jail,” she added.

Agnifilo is also a CNN contributor and hosts a show called “LegalAF” for the MeidasTouch network, which has been supported by E. Jean Carroll and Nikki Haley funder Reid Hoffman.

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Karen Friedman Agnifilo, of the MeidasTouch network behind the “bloodbath” hoax, worked for five years with Jack Smith, the special prosecutor attempting to convict Donald Trump over January 6 and the alleged mishandling of classified documents, The National Pulse can reveal. show more
trump
March 21, 2024
News

DATA: Trump Surging With Women and Minorities. Here’s Why…

Former President Donald Trump has said that polling shows “numbers we’ve never seen” in terms of support from women and minority voters.

In an interview with Breitbart News, Trump credited this surge to concerns about “Safety and security,” which “more than anything else” are driving voters to the Trump camp as voters “don’t feel safe” with “lunatic” Joe Biden in office.

“They don’t feel safe with this lunatic,” Trump said. “He’s a terrible president. He’s the worst president in history. He’s the most incompetent and most corrupt president we’ve ever had,” Trump continued. “He’s willing to weaponize the Justice Department to go after his opponent. Nobody ever thought that was ever going to be happening in our country. It happens in a lot of countries in the third world, banana republics. But nobody ever thought they’d see that. But above all, I believe they want security.”

Public polls show a significant shift in support among women and black and Hispanic voters. New York Times polling indicates even support between Trump and Biden among women voters, with Trump effectively bridging the 11-point advantage Biden had in the 2020 election.

With Hispanic voters, Trump’s position is looking even stronger. The Economist recently highlighted Biden’s diminishing support in the Hispanic community, with current polling suggesting Trump is set for further gains. For Black voters, Trump’s support has grown significantly from eight percent of the black vote in 2016 to current polling projecting a 17 percent preference for Trump over Biden.

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Former President Donald Trump has said that polling shows “numbers we’ve never seen” in terms of support from women and minority voters. show more
March 21, 2024
Breaking
Lawfare

Letitia James Moves to Seize Trump’s Westchester Golf Course.

New York Attorney General Letitia James initiated legal action in Westchester County, NY, targeting properties belonging to former President Donald Trump, including his Seven Springs golf course and private estate. This move follows a court ruling in which New York Judge Arthur Engoron declared Trump guilty of civil fraud and passed an order demanding he pay $464 million in disgorgement and interest.

Dismissing Trump’s assertion of an inability to secure a bond for this substantial amount, James signaled her readiness to seize the past president’s assets as an alternative method of payment. A representative for James on Wednesday submitted a legal filing, urging the court to reject what was termed Trump’s “extraordinary request” to appeal without posting the full amount ordered, an amount Trump deemed “practically impossible” to offer.

State attorneys formally lodged the judgments in the Westchester County clerk’s office on March 6th, CNN reported, noting that this action, the first required step to recover property, may be followed by additional moves such as imposing liens on assets or initiating foreclosure on properties among other court-sanctioned actions.

The judgment, which outlines Trump’s options as compliance, persuading an appeals court to allow the posting of a reduced sum, or a postponement until after an appeal, has also been filed in New York City, where Trump owns notable properties including Trump Tower.

Chris Kise, Trump’s attorney, criticized the AG’s legal action as blatant misuse of power, suggesting it was born of the political vendetta against Trump and contradicted New York law, risking lasting damage to the business community and the rule of law.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James initiated legal action in Westchester County, NY, targeting properties belonging to former President Donald Trump, including his Seven Springs golf course and private estate. This move follows a court ruling in which New York Judge Arthur Engoron declared Trump guilty of civil fraud and passed an order demanding he pay $464 million in disgorgement and interest. show more
March 21, 2024
Immigration

Migrant TikToker Teaches Illegals to Squat In American Homes.

A video circulating on the social media platform TikTok depicts a migrant advising other migrants on how to use progressive squatting laws to steal unoccupied homes in the U.S.

Venezuelan national Leonel Moreno, a TikToker with a 500,000-strong online following, says in the video, “I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.” Moreno states that his friends have “already taken about seven homes.” He claims migrants must “invade” unoccupied homes to avoid living on the streets.

Concerns about the erosion of private property rights provoked by far-left progressive squatting laws are intensifying. Some see the Moreno video as a testament to the fact that these laws are being manipulated, jeopardizing landlords’ rights.

Just this week, a New York City homeowner was arrested for altering the locks on her own house that was occupied by illegal squatters. In New York, if squatters occupy a property for at least 30 days they are entitled to “squatters rights.”

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A video circulating on the social media platform TikTok depicts a migrant advising other migrants on how to use progressive squatting laws to steal unoccupied homes in the U.S. show more
March 21, 2024
Ed Kozak
Media
NatSec

Analyst Says TikTok Ban Would Loosen Hollywood’s Grip on America’s Youth.

Banning TikTok would be a “gut punch” to Hollywood’s advertising capabilities, according to insiders.

The “engagement and awareness for movies and celebrities is unmatched on TikTok,” said Wedbush Securities tech analyst Daniel Ives in an interview with Variety. A TikTok ban “would be removing the hearts and lungs of social engagement across Hollywood and would be a gut punch in our view,” he said.

Studios have increasingly turned to the app to promote their films. The distributor Neon has “shifted a lot of our investment and our advertising dollars” to TikTok, said Christian Parkes, the studio’s chief marketing officer. “We’ve been able to manufacture followings far quicker there than on other platforms. TikTok is ground zero right now.”

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In the coming weeks, the U.S. Senate will vote on a bipartisan bill requiring China’s ByteDance to divest from TikTok within six months or see the app banned in the U.S. The bill passed in the House by a vote of 365 t0 352. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-CA) suggested this week that the bill may require amendments before it can be passed in the Senate.

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Banning TikTok would be a "gut punch" to Hollywood's advertising capabilities, according to insiders. show more