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January 26, 2024
William Upton
Data
News

DATA: Potential D.C. Jurors Say ‘Trump Must Be Stopped At All Costs’ Suggesting Fair Trial Is Impossible.

A new poll suggests it will be nearly impossible for former President Donald Trump to receive a fair trial, free of partisan bias, in Washington, D.C. The survey, conducted from January 1st through the 8th by Triton Polling and Research, indicates there is likely a high level of political bias among the potential jury pool — especially towards individuals accused of participating in the January 6th, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Triton polled 422 “jury eligible” residents in the nation’s capital, with 27.5 percent of those surveyed saying those who participated in the January 6th protest are “insurrectionists.” An additional 13 percent said protestors were “criminals,” while 14.9 percent said they were “domestic terrorists,” and 11.6 percent called the participants “traitors.”

Three-quarters of those polled said they “strongly” agree that former President Donald Trump is to blame for the riot at the Capitol, with an additional 14.4 percent saying they “somewhat agree.” When asked if “anyone who participated in the events at the Capitol on January 6 should serve prison time,” 51.4 percent strongly agreed they should, and 17.4 percent somewhat agreed.

The poll also revealed that nearly 70 percent of the potential jury pool believes “Donald Trump and his supporters should be stopped at all costs.” Over 80 percent of those surveyed said they’d be willing to serve on the jury that could hear Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6th prosecution of Trump. Among the potential jurors, 78.6 percent said they had a “very unfavorable” view of the former President, while just 12 percent said the same of Joe Biden.

Former President Trump is facing federal charges in Washington, D.C. alleging he attempted to obstruct an official proceeding of the U.S. government on January 6th, 2021. The trial, set to begin in early March, will likely be delayed as the courts mull a motion by Trump arguing his actions were protected by “presidential immunity.” A previous motion by Trump’s attorneys to move the trial to West Virginia was denied.

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A new poll suggests it will be nearly impossible for former President Donald Trump to receive a fair trial, free of partisan bias, in Washington, D.C. The survey, conducted from January 1st through the 8th by Triton Polling and Research, indicates there is likely a high level of political bias among the potential jury pool — especially towards individuals accused of participating in the January 6th, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. show more
January 26, 2024
Culture
News
Politics
TECH

Florida Moves to Ban Under-16s from Social Media.

Republican lawmakers in the Florida House of Representatives advanced legislation aimed at protecting minors from harmful content on social media. House Bill 1 requires a ban on social media platforms for users under 16. It also mandates age verification services by a third party.

State Rep. Fiona McFarland, a Republican cosponsor of the bill, compared social media to “a digital fentanyl.” The legislation would allow parents to sue social media companies that do not remove their child’s account.

Florida Republicans say the legislation is part of an effort to reduce bullying, depression, and suicide linked to social media use. The bill allows exemptions for websites primarily used for emails, texts, and streaming services. However, it has drawn criticism for its vague language and potential infringements on First Amendment rights.

Lawmakers have not specified which social media platforms might be impacted. If it becomes law, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube could be exposed to potential legal liabilities. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, believes its social media platforms fall outside the scope of House Bill 1. Before passage, language was added to the legislation limiting its applicability to social media apps that feature “addictive, harmful, or deceptive design features.”

The Florida State Senate will take up the legislation next. If adopted, it will be sent to Republican Governor Ron DeSantis to sign into law.

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Republican lawmakers in the Florida House of Representatives advanced legislation aimed at protecting minors from harmful content on social media. House Bill 1 requires a ban on social media platforms for users under 16. It also mandates age verification services by a third party. show more
January 26, 2024
Corruption
Education

Top Colleges Will Pay Over $105 MILLION After Anti-Working Class ‘Price-Fixing’.

Five of America’s most elite universities will pay over $104.5 million to settle claims they conspired to limit students’ financial aid.

The universities — Brown, Columbia, Duke, Emory, and Yale — were five of 17 institutions subject to a 2022 class-action lawsuit brought by eight former students claiming they were part of a “price-fixing cartel” that used a shared methodology to calculate financial need in a way that intentionally reduced aid for students from working- and middle-class families.

To settle the case, Columbia and Duke agreed to pay $24 million each, Yale and Emory will pay $18.5 million each, and Brown will pay $19.5 million — although the schools deny the charges against them. The University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, and Rice University already settled the suit. The remaining nine institutions involved in the lawsuit are Georgetown, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, MIT, and the University of Notre Dame.

The 17 colleges and universities named in the suit were part of the 568 Presidents Group, an association of elite institutions that collaborated on aid formulas. The plaintiffs’ attorneys estimate that roughly 200,000 students were affected by the ‘price-fixing’ practices over two decades.

America’s top universities have faced increasing criticism of late for their exorbitant costs, their role in indoctrinating students with radical left-wing beliefs, and their widespread tolerance of anti-semitism on campus. Last year, former President Donald Trump called for the establishment of an “American Academy” that would award free online degrees as an alternative to these institutions. “We spend more money on higher education than any other country, and yet, they’re turning our students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many, many different dimensions… We can’t let this happen,” Trump noted.
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Five of America’s most elite universities will pay over $104.5 million to settle claims they conspired to limit students’ financial aid. show more
January 25, 2024
Media

NeverTrumper David French Admits: ‘I Was Completely, Embarrassingly Wrong… I Missed The Extent of Republican Anger’.

‘Never Trump conservative’ turned New York Times columnist David French has admitted to being not “just wrong” but “completely, embarrassingly wrong” about Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.

While making clear that he is not coming around to the notion of putting America First, French explains in a new New York Times column that just before Trump burst onto the political scene, “The winds were shifting. I could sense it, but I didn’t fully understand it. Not until Trump made it all plain.”

French, who has now spent the best part of a decade bemoaning the 45th President, now acknowledges the “bond” between Donald Trump and most Republican voters and concludes:

“I don’t regret my arguments against Trump. I’d make them again, and I will continue making them. I do ask myself how I missed the sheer extent of Republican anger. And I’m deeply, deeply grieved by the thought that I did anything in my life before Trump to contribute to that unrighteous rage.”

Read the whole piece here.

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‘Never Trump conservative’ turned New York Times columnist David French has admitted to being not “just wrong” but “completely, embarrassingly wrong” about Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. show more

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January 25, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Politics

Ken Paxton’s Texas Judge Has a Dog Called ‘Joe Biden’.

Travis County Judge Jan Soifer, who on Thursday denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton‘s motion to halt his deposition in the ongoing whistleblower case against his office, is a far-left, partisan Democrat who even has a dog named “Joey Biden.”

Social media posts and FTC data reviewed by The National Pulse raise worrying questions about Soifer’s ability to be an impartial judge in the Republican Attorney General’s case. Her Facebook page features a profile picture of herself with Democrat President Joe Biden. The 81-year-old Biden also appears to be the namesake for the judge’s pet dog, “Joey Biden.”

In a now-deleted post on the anniversary of the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot earlier this month, Soifer encouraged her followers to back Biden’s re-election effort.

“In November 2024, democracy is on the ballot — and we must all vote for democracy and against autocracy,” she wrote, linking back to a January 6, 2021 entry stating: “What is happening on the streets of Washington, D.C., especially outside the U.S. Capitol, with the President’s urging, is no less than a lawless, violent insurrection.”

Soifer’s partisanship extends beyond social media posts, however. From May 2013 through September 2015, she served as the chairwoman of the Travis County Democrat Party. In that role, she claims to have “raised over a million dollars and ran a very successful coordinated campaign for the 2014 election.”

FEC data also reveals Soifer contributed $10,285.40 to Joe Biden’s re-election efforts and Democrat-aligned groups like the pro-LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign over the last year. Since 2016, when Soifer was first elected to the bench in Travis County, she has donated nearly $250,000 to Democrat candidates and organizations.

The Texas Supreme Court authorized the resumption of the whistleblower case after the State Senate acquitted Paxton on all 16 impeachment charges brought by the Texas House of Representatives in September of last year.

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Travis County Judge Jan Soifer, who on Thursday denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's motion to halt his deposition in the ongoing whistleblower case against his office, is a far-left, partisan Democrat who even has a dog named "Joey Biden." show more
January 25, 2024
Immigration
News

DACA Recipient Arrested on Human Smuggling Charges.

A Mexican national in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arrested on human smuggling charges, according to a social media post by a U.S. Border Patrol official. Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector, said the suspect was returned to his home country following apprehension. El Centro Sector covers 70 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California’s Imperial Valley.

The DACA policy, introduced by former President Barack Obama in 2012, was declared illegal by a federal judge in September. The judge, however, issued no directive to cease the program. Serving roughly 830,000 individuals, the DACA program grants certain privileges to non-citizens as long as the recipient maintains lawful conduct.

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data indicates that nearly 380,000 illegal immigrants were encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border within the first two months of fiscal year 2024, beginning on October 1, 2023. This follows 2,045,838 encounters in fiscal year 2023, 2,206,436 in fiscal year 2022, and 1,659,206 in fiscal year 2021. Former President Donald Trump has called the border crisis — ignored and arguably facilitated by the Biden government — an “invasion.”

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden government, permitting Border Patrol officers to remove concertina wire installed along Texas’s border with Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbott erected the fencing in response to the Biden administration’s lack of border security enforcement.

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A Mexican national in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arrested on human smuggling charges, according to a social media post by a U.S. Border Patrol official. Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector, said the suspect was returned to his home country following apprehension. El Centro Sector covers 70 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California’s Imperial Valley. show more
January 25, 2024
News

City of Seattle Hands $10 MILLION to ANTIFA, BLM Rioters.

The city of Seattle announced on Wednesday a $10 million settlement with a group of 50 BLM and Antifa rioters. The rioters sued the city and the Seattle Police Department (SPD) for injuries they claimed were a result of police actions during the 2020 riots following the death of career criminal George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis.

The personal injury law firm Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore represented the claimants. “Among the 50 Peaceful Protesters represented by Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore was Aubreanna Inda, who was standing still peacefully when a blast ball was launched directly at her chest, striking her and causing her to go into cardiac arrest,” the law firm said in a statement celebrating the settlement.

However, Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore’s description of Ms. Inda contradicts the available facts. According to AntifaWatch, an online database that tracks Antifa extremists and other left-wing domestic terrorists, Ms. Inda “placed herself as a meat shield between other rioters and police.” Ms. Inda was then “hit in the chest by non-lethal ammo when police were forced to use crowd control measures because rioters were throwing rocks and shining lasers in cop[s’] eyes.” Ms. Inda also claims she “participated in every Seattle riot up to the point she was shot.” She was arrested “in 2020 for unlawful weapon, obstructing an officer and failure to disperse.”

The lead plaintiff’s attorney, Karen Koehler, said the protesters “were engaged in a First Amendment speech and activity against the very police brutality which they were met with.” The facts do not support this description, however. In addition to assaults on police officers, rioters in Seattle caused millions of dollars in property damage when they took over portions of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, declaring it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

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The city of Seattle announced on Wednesday a $10 million settlement with a group of 50 BLM and Antifa rioters. The rioters sued the city and the Seattle Police Department (SPD) for injuries they claimed were a result of police actions during the 2020 riots following the death of career criminal George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis. show more
January 25, 2024
Religion

‘None’ Becomes Largest Single Religious Group in the U.S.

Religiously unaffiliated individuals, also referred to as “nones,” now account for 28 percent of U.S. adults — making up the largest single ‘religious’ group according to a new study by Pew Research. “Nones” include atheists, agnostics, and those who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.” Comparatively, 23 percent of U.S. adults identify as Catholics and 24 percent as evangelical Protestants. In 2007, only 16 percent of Americans identified as “nones.”

The study, titled “Religious ‘Nones’ in America: Who They Are and What They Believe,” revealed that “nones” do not represent a homogeneous group, with several claiming belief in God or a higher power without regular attendance at religious services. Lead Researcher at Pew, Gregory Smith, points out that while many “nones” believe religion has some merit, they also contend it can be harmful. Interestingly, they tend to view science with higher favor but deny its ability to explain everything.

A majority of “nones” do not view religion positively. Overall, 43 percent say religion does more harm than good in society and 41 percent say religion does equal amounts of good and harm. Only 14 percent of “nones” view religion as a positive social force.

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Religiously unaffiliated individuals, also referred to as "nones," now account for 28 percent of U.S. adults — making up the largest single 'religious' group according to a new study by Pew Research. "Nones" include atheists, agnostics, and those who describe their religion as "nothing in particular." Comparatively, 23 percent of U.S. adults identify as Catholics and 24 percent as evangelical Protestants. In 2007, only 16 percent of Americans identified as "nones." show more
January 25, 2024
William Upton
War

Now Ukraine is Demanding America’s A-10 Warthogs.

Ukraine is demanding the United States government send an array of anti-infantry attack aircraft, including the legendary A-10 Warthog, to bolster its war effort against Russia. Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who mounted the defense of Kiev, claims deployment of anti-infantry and anti-tank aircraft like the A-10 attack jet could create new opportunities to break through Russian defense lines. He’s also asking the U.S. to send AH-64 Apache, AH-1 Super Cobra, and UH-60 Black Hawk attack helicopters.

“I would talk about A-10s as an option if they’ll be given to us … this is not a new machine, but a reliable one that has proven itself in many wars, and which has a wide array of weapons for destroying land targets to help the infantry,” Syrskyi told Reuters in a recent interview. The Ukrainian military leader implied his country is continuing to mount counter-offensives against Russian positions, though it appears these are only minor engagements.

The Counter-Offensive That Never Was.

Despite significant Western military aid, Ukraine’s attempt last year to launch a major counter-offensive against Russian positions failed, as predicted in early 2023 by The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.

By the late Fall of 2023, Ukrainian forces had only managed to advance about 10 miles after several months of intense fighting. Last November, General Valery Zaluzhny, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, concluded there would “most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.”

Zelensky Wants More U.S. Aid.

Last month, President Zelensky told members of the U.S. Senate that he may soon be forced to enact military conscription for men over 40. Responding to Zelensky’s request for additional financial and military aid, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued Ukraine should sue for peace instead.

“What’s in America’s best interest is to accept Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians, and we need to bring this war to a close,” Vance said, before adding: “But when I think about the great human tragedy here, hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans innocent have been killed in this conflict… The thing that’s in our interest and in theirs is to stop the killing.”

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Ukraine is demanding the United States government send an array of anti-infantry attack aircraft, including the legendary A-10 Warthog, to bolster its war effort against Russia. Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who mounted the defense of Kiev, claims deployment of anti-infantry and anti-tank aircraft like the A-10 attack jet could create new opportunities to break through Russian defense lines. He’s also asking the U.S. to send AH-64 Apache, AH-1 Super Cobra, and UH-60 Black Hawk attack helicopters. show more
January 25, 2024
Breaking
News
Politics

Trump White House’s Peter Navarro Gets 4 Months In Jail From Leftist Judge.

Peter Navarro, a former adviser to the Donald Trump White House, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for ignoring a congressional subpoena related to the January 6 select committee’s investigation. Judge Amit Mehta handed down the sentence for the two counts of contempt of Congress on which Navarro was convicted in September last year.

The news is the latest in a long list of banana republic-style convictions and persecutions by the Biden regime, which is widely believed to be acting on the instruction of former President Barack Obama. The prosecution of opposing party politicians is almost unheard of in the Western world, though the Biden government has also given its blessing to the new Polish regime to act in the same fashion.

Judge Mehta has not yet determined if Navarro will be incarcerated while he appeals his sentence.

Before his conviction, Navarro’s legal team argued that federal prosecutors could not conclusively show that he willfully refused to comply with the congressional subpoena. As with the September trial, Navarro again argued he believed he was covered by executive privilege and was not required to comply with the Congressional subpoena.

“When I received that congressional subpoena… I had an honest belief that the privilege had been invoked,” Navarro told the judge before his sentence was handed down earlier today.

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Peter Navarro, a former adviser to the Donald Trump White House, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for ignoring a congressional subpoena related to the January 6 select committee’s investigation. Judge Amit Mehta handed down the sentence for the two counts of contempt of Congress on which Navarro was convicted in September last year. show more