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July 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
NatSec

Russians Sentence WSJ Journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 Years for Espionage.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been sentenced to 16 years in prison by a court in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The New Jersey-born reporter, whose parents are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, is accused of “collecting secret information” about a tank factory “under instructions from the CIA.” Still, little evidence of wrongdoing has been presented in public.

Gershkovich, the U.S. government, and the WSJ all deny the charges against him, with many suspecting he is a pawn in efforts by Russia to secure a prisoner swap. Joe Biden previously exchanged Brittney Griner, a U.S. basketball player the Russians arrested on a drug smuggling charge in 2022, for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms manufacturer and trader known as the ‘Merchant of Death.’

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin suggested that “an agreement can be reached” for a similar swap with Gershkovich.

“Evan’s wrongful detention has been an outrage since his unjust arrest 477 days ago, and it must end now,” commented Wall Street Journal publisher publisher Dow Jones. “Even as Russia orchestrates its shameful sham trial, we continue to do everything we can to push for Evan’s immediate release and to state unequivocally: Evan was doing his job as a journalist, and journalism is not a crime. Bring him home now.”

In May, former President Donald J. Trump pledged to secure Gershkovich’s release “almost immediately after the Election” while he is still President-elect.

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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been sentenced to 16 years in prison by a court in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The New Jersey-born reporter, whose parents are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, is accused of "collecting secret information" about a tank factory "under instructions from the CIA." Still, little evidence of wrongdoing has been presented in public. show more
Orban
July 19, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Immigration
World

Orban Offers Simple Solution to Illegal Immigration Crisis: ‘Don’t Let Them In.’

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered a simple solution to the illegal immigration crisis at a European summit on Thursday, arguing governments should simply stop letting illegal immigrants in.

Orbán’s remarks came at the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. Reporters asked him, “What more can Europe do to tackle migration?”

In response, the Hungarian leader said plainly: “Don’t let them in.”

Along with his newfound role trying to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Orbán is known as one of the staunchest opponents of mass migration in Europe.

In June, he commented that Germany no longer resembled the country it once was due to mass migration changing the fabric of society.

“It’s a colorful, transformed, multicultural world in which the migrants coming in are no longer guests of the country,” he said. “This is now their country too, and it’s increasingly becoming theirs.”

TRUMP.

Elsewhere, Orbán stated that a Donald Trump victory in the U.S. would be “the best news for everybody,” praising the former president as a man of peace.

Trump met with Orbán last week at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, with the Hungarian leader revealing afterward that the former president would be looking to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine immediately after his election.

Hungary currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, with its presidency borrowing a turn of phrase from President Trump with the slogan “Make Europe Great Again.”

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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered a simple solution to the illegal immigration crisis at a European summit on Thursday, arguing governments should simply stop letting illegal immigrants in. show more
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July 19, 2024
William Upton
NatSec
News

Whistleblower: Most of Trump’s Security Detail At Rally Was Inexperienced DHS Personnel, NOT Secret Service.

Government whistleblowers have informed U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) that former President Donald J. Trump‘s security detail at his July 13 rally, where a would-be assassin made an attempt on his life, was mostly comprised of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel and not United States Secret Service (USSS). In the days following the attempted assassination, the USSS has attempted to blame local police for the lapse in security.

“[W]histleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not, in fact, USSS agents but instead drawn from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),” the Missouri Senator wrote in a letter Friday to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Sen. Hawley continued: “This is especially concerning given that HSI agents were unfamiliar with standard protocols typically used at these types of events, according to the allegations.”

The National Pulse reported earlier this week that local and state law enforcement in Pennsylvania have slammed USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle‘s narrative that the security lapses were the fault of local police. In fact, the Butler, Pennsylvania, police department claims that the USSS relegated them to directing traffic, and they had no direct role in securing areas outside the USSS security perimeter.

On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced he had issued a subpoena for Cheatle to testify before his committee after he learned that DHS officials had directed her not to speak with the committee.

The revelations that most of the security detail was comprised of HSI staff is especially concerning given the admission by federal officials that they have been aware for some time of an Iranian-backed plot to assassinate former President Trump as a reprisal for the 2020 drone strike that killed Iranian military leader and terrorist Qasem Soleimani.

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Government whistleblowers have informed U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) that former President Donald J. Trump's security detail at his July 13 rally, where a would-be assassin made an attempt on his life, was mostly comprised of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel and not United States Secret Service (USSS). In the days following the attempted assassination, the USSS has attempted to blame local police for the lapse in security. show more
July 19, 2024
William Upton
Media

Joy Reid Emerges As Lead BlueAnon Conspiracy Theorist on Attempted Trump Assassination.

Joy Reid, a far-left mainstay at MSNBC, has emerged as one of the leading BlueAnon conspiracy theorists regarding the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. In a video posted on social media, Reid—under the auspices of ‘just asking questions’—posits Trump may have been struck by glass and not a bullet.

The far-left political commentator has long been seen as a liability for MSNBC, given her penchant for racially charged language and spreading false information. However, Reid‘s newest rant may be a bridge too far, even for the Democrat-aligned news network.

“We still don’t know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet, whether he was hit by glass fragments, whether he was hit by shrapnel—we don’t have those details,” Reid states in her video, going on to falsely claim that the public has no details from Trump’s attending physician at the Butler, Pennsylvania area hospital where he was treated.

“We know almost nothing,” the MSNBC host states before plunging deeper into her bizarre conspiracy theory: “Why don’t we know that much? We know that three people were shot, and one person was unfortunately killed at the rally. We don’t know where they were sitting or standing relative to him.”

Reid continues to spin her conspiracy theory, making unfounded claims about why Trump was held in place on the stage—ignoring Secret Service protocol that requires the evacuation route be secured prior to moving a protectee. She even acknowledges that Trump was only “allowed” to stand after his security detail determined the shooter was down.

“What is the actual injury to Donald Trump‘s ear that’s under that bandage,” she asks, implying the former president may be covering something up. In an effort to further cast doubt on what millions of Americans have now seen with their own eyes, Reid declares: “It’s weird, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of curiosity about it… it’s just a strange thing that I’ve noticed.”

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Joy Reid, a far-left mainstay at MSNBC, has emerged as one of the leading BlueAnon conspiracy theorists regarding the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. In a video posted on social media, Reid—under the auspices of 'just asking questions'—posits Trump may have been struck by glass and not a bullet. show more
July 19, 2024
William Upton
Culture
Immigration
Media

Wanting to Be Buried Alongside Your Ancestors & Loved Ones Is White Nationalism: MSNBC.

In a new low, MSNBC and Netflix news personality Alex Wagner is accusing Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) of dropping an “Easter egg of white nationalism” during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Wagner lamented that Vance’s speech “was not the same red meat, sort of blood and soil nationalism that you might hear in, I don’t know, other parallel universe Republican conventions,” suggesting she intended to smear the candidate regardless of what he said.

“I do think there were some sort of Easter eggs of white nationalism in the speech,” Wagner argued—kicking off what can only be described as an unhinged rant. She continued: “One of the things that stuck out to me was when he started talking about what America is, he said that ‘America is not just an idea, it is a group of people with a shared history and a common future.'”

She claimed that Vance‘s reference to the “plot in eastern Kentucky, where his seven or six generations of his family are buried” was a white nationalist dog whistle.

RANTING ABOUT A BURIAL PLOT.

“And I sort of understand the idea of sharing the burial plot, but it also is, it reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit, and indeed the history that should be determinative in the story of the Vance family, is the history of the eastern Kentucky Vances and not the Vances from San Diego, which is where his wife is from and where her Indian parents are from,” Wagner said.

She continued: “And I just think the construction of, of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background.”

The line that Wagner found so troubling in Vance‘s speech was a recollection of a heartfelt conversation with his wife: “Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky.”

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In a new low, MSNBC and Netflix news personality Alex Wagner is accusing Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) of dropping an "Easter egg of white nationalism" during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Wagner lamented that Vance's speech "was not the same red meat, sort of blood and soil nationalism that you might hear in, I don’t know, other parallel universe Republican conventions," suggesting she intended to smear the candidate regardless of what he said. show more
July 19, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
News
UK

Local Government Uncovers Over 6,500 Lost Votes from Election Day.

England’s Wandsworth Council has discovered a significant error in the election results for the Putney constituency (electoral district), revealing that 6,558 votes were initially missed on election day, amounting to approximately 15 percent of the original turnout. Despite the error, the outcome of the election remains unchanged, confirming Labour‘s Fleur Anderson as the MP for Putney, a position she has held since 2019.

Due to the reissue of results, candidates across parties saw their vote counts increase by 13 to 17 percent.

The Conservative Party has raised concerns about the competence of the election team, particularly since the parliamentary election count was overseen by a new Labour administration. Wandsworth Council had been controlled by the Conservatives from 1978 to 2022.

Peter Graham, a Tory councilor (councilman), voiced strong concerns over the handling of the situation, stating, “It’s extremely concerning that the Council knew the official declaration was wrong, failed to tell anyone, and then concealed a correction on its website.”

The incident has sparked broader concerns about other constituencies where narrow majorities could potentially have been affected by errors. Several races in Britain’s July 4 snap election were decided by thin margins.

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England's Wandsworth Council has discovered a significant error in the election results for the Putney constituency (electoral district), revealing that 6,558 votes were initially missed on election day, amounting to approximately 15 percent of the original turnout. Despite the error, the outcome of the election remains unchanged, confirming Labour's Fleur Anderson as the MP for Putney, a position she has held since 2019. show more
July 18, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Media

Joe Scarborough Demands Biden Advisors Intervene & End Campaign: ‘Not Going To End Well.’

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is calling on those closest to Joe Biden to “do the right thing” and push the 81-year-old Democrat out of the 2024 presidential race. A close ally of Biden, Scarborough has until now defended the octogenarian career politician’s decision to push forward with his re-election bid despite plummeting support and concerns about his cognitive decline.

“You know, it’s really incumbent on people that are around Joe Biden to step up at this point and help the President. And help the man they love. And do the right thing,” Scarborough said during Thursday morning’s episode of Morning Joe. “This is not going to end well if it continues to drag out.”

The Congressman turned left-wing news host stopped short of directly telling Biden he needed to leave the race. Instead, Scarborough suggested that Biden’s re-election bid has been hampered by aides who exist in a “bubble” and are not telling the incumbent the truth about his failing campaign.

“The anger that I hear is not at Joe Biden. The anger I hear are at the people [sic] who are keeping him in a bubble,” Scarborough said. The MSNBC host added: “That’s not just the anger from inside Congress. That is anger from inside the political, his own political camp, and it is widespread.”

As recently as March, the talk show host was insisting, “This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.”

Monday’s episode of Morning Joe was pulled amidst fears from MSNBC executives that Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski —or their regular guests—could say something “inappropriate” about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

When they returned, the seething couple threatened to quit the network if they are benched in the same way again.

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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is calling on those closest to Joe Biden to "do the right thing" and push the 81-year-old Democrat out of the 2024 presidential race. A close ally of Biden, Scarborough has until now defended the octogenarian career politician's decision to push forward with his re-election bid despite plummeting support and concerns about his cognitive decline. show more
July 18, 2024
William Upton
Immigration

Biden Border Gap Becomes Hot Spot for Illegals Entering the U.S.

A gap in the U.S. border wall near Otay Mountain, California, has become a focal point for illegal immigrants still surging into the United States despite Joe Biden‘s alleged border crackdown. The unprotected stretch of the U.S. border sits about a mile and a half from the Otay Mesa port of entry. It was slated to be walled off by former President Donald J. Trump as he left office. However, the Biden government suspended construction on the border wall in early 2021.

“It has a very significant impact on operations because it’s an open area where migrants can walk right into the United States unimpeded, and when there’s an influx of migrants, they just use that instead of climbing the fence and just walk in that open area,” said National Border Patrol Council in San Diego president Manuel Bayon in a recent interview.

Bayon continued: “It was almost completed. You’re looking at possibly approximately two football fields. It’s just an open gap. It’s a beacon that here you’re allowed to cross into the United States.”

Agents describe the long stretch with no barrier to entry as “frustrating.”

Under mounting public pressure, the Biden government announced a quasi-crackdown on illegal immigration in early June. Despite the White House’s claims that the Biden executive order aimed to end the border crisis, it actually will allow approximately 1.5 million illegal immigrants to cross the U.S. border annually.

The National Pulse reported earlier this year that an internal memo from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) advises San Diego sector agents to release single adult migrants from over 100 countries, with only six designated high-risk nations receiving proper scrutiny.

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A gap in the U.S. border wall near Otay Mountain, California, has become a focal point for illegal immigrants still surging into the United States despite Joe Biden's alleged border crackdown. The unprotected stretch of the U.S. border sits about a mile and a half from the Otay Mesa port of entry. It was slated to be walled off by former President Donald J. Trump as he left office. However, the Biden government suspended construction on the border wall in early 2021. show more
July 18, 2024
William Upton
NatSec
News

House Oversight Subpoenas Secret Service Director After DHS Says She May Not Testify.

The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Representative James Comer (R-KY), says it has issued a subpoena for testimony from United States Secret Service (USSS) Director Kimberly Cheatle. Cheatle was initially slated to appear before the House committee next week. However, Joe Biden‘s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is believed to have intervened on behalf of the USSS Director, throwing her testimony into question.

Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in Bulter, Pennsylvania, on Saturday—which resulted in the death of rallygoer Corey Comperatore—the House Oversight Committee asked that Cheatle voluntarily appear for a hearing to answer for the apparent lapse in security. Initially, it appeared she had agreed.

“On the day of the deadly attack, the Committee sent a written request for your voluntary attendance at a public hearing on July 22, 2024. The Committee next wrote to you on July 15, 2024, requesting specific information in anticipation of your testimony at the July 22 public hearing,” Chairman Comer writes. He adds: “Initially, the Secret Service committed to your attendance.”

“Subsequently, however, DHS officials appear to have intervened, and your attendance is now in question. In addition, since DHS’s intervention, there have been no meaningful updates or information shared with the Committee,” the House Oversight letter announcing the subpoena continues.

Comer’s letter concludes: “The lack of transparency and failure to cooperate with the Committee on this pressing matter by both the DHS and Secret Service further calls into question your ability to lead the Secret Service and necessitates the attached subpoena compelling your appearance before the Oversight Committee.”

The National Pulse previously reported that Cheatle has refused to resign following the deadly attempted assassination against Trump.

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The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Representative James Comer (R-KY), says it has issued a subpoena for testimony from United States Secret Service (USSS) Director Kimberly Cheatle. Cheatle was initially slated to appear before the House committee next week. However, Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is believed to have intervened on behalf of the USSS Director, throwing her testimony into question. show more
July 18, 2024
William Upton
Media
NatSec

Wife of WaPo Columnist Who Accused Trump of Being a Russian Asset Has Been Charged as a Foreign Agent.

Sue Mi Terry, a former senior official with the White House National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, has been arrested and charged with acting as an agent of the South Korean government. According to federal prosecutors, Terry has been indicted for failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Federal prosecutors allege the woman clandestinely promoted South Korean interests in the U.S. government in exchange for luxury handbags from Louis Vuitton and other high-end items. Terry is the wife of Washington Post columnist Max Boot—a prominent neoconservative and critic of former President Donald J. Trump.

In 2019, Boot published a column listing 18 reasons why he believed that Trump could be a Russian foreign asset. Among the reasons, the Washington Post columnist repeated the widely disproved Russia collusion hoax. Additionally, Boot insinuated that those around Trump may have been influenced by the Russians, including through business ties and gifts.

South Korean intelligence agents plied Boot’s wife, Sue Mi Terry, with luxury gifts in exchange for handing over information pertinent to the Asian nation’s interests and providing introductions to key U.S. officials. According to prosecutors, she received a  $2,950 Bottega Veneta handbag, a $3,450 Louis Vuitton handbag, a $2,845 Dolce & Gabbana coat, and multiple trips to top-tier restaurants. In addition, her policy program focusing on South Korean affairs received over $37,000 in funding from South Korean intelligence operations.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicates Terry began serving the interests of the South Korean government in 2013—just after she left Barack Obama‘s White House. Consequently, this means that Boot made false accusations against Trump while his wife was allegedly working as a foreign agent against the interests of the United States.

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Sue Mi Terry, a former senior official with the White House National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, has been arrested and charged with acting as an agent of the South Korean government. According to federal prosecutors, Terry has been indicted for failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). show more