In her first speech since her National Rally (RN) party won the European Parliament elections in France, populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to strip Islamist dual nationals of their French citizenship and deport them.
“Bi-nationals connected to Islamist ideology must be stripped of their nationality and expelled. The French who adopt the ideology of the enemy must be brought before justice and punished. The laws exist; they just need to be applied,” Le Pen vowed.
“Radical mosques will be shut down, hate preachers expelled,” she continued. “[A]ssociations connected with Salafism and the Muslim Brotherhood will be dissolved. With me, be assured that the rights of women, today challenged by the Islamist obscurantism, will be granted to all the women of France. With me, the security will not go against liberty, in any case, not against the liberty of honest people.”
President Emmanuel Macron called a snap national election after National Rally placed first in the European elections, securing 31.4 percent of the vote against 14.6 percent for Macron’s Renaissance party.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes Macron is gambling RN lacks the resources to fight another election campaign on such short notice. For a majority in the National Assembly, RN need to secure 289 seats—a significant increase from their current 88.
Macron’s stunt may be backfiring. RN is projected to win the election even if it fails to secure an outright majority. Meanwhile, a coalition of far-left parties is projected to beat Renaissance into third place.
However, the French right is also experiencing difficulties. The establishment-right Republicans and populist Reconquest are both imploding after failed attempts to establish an electoral pact with Le Pen.
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In her first speech since her National Rally (RN) party won the European Parliament elections in France, populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to strip Islamist dual nationals of their French citizenship and deport them.
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A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reveals a significant shift in federal arrest numbers for noncitizens over a 20-year span. In 2018, non-U.S. citizens represented 64 percent of federal arrests, a notable rise from 1998, when they accounted for just 37 percent and U.S. citizens comprised 63 percent.
Despite noncitizens making up approximately seven percent of the U.S. population, according to 2017 Census Bureau data, the BJS report highlights that they were responsible for 15 percent of all federal arrests and an equal percentage of non-immigration crime prosecutions in U.S. district courts in 2018.
A notable increase was seen in the five judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Federal arrests in these regions nearly doubled from 33 percent in 1998 to 65 percent in 2018. The report indicates that almost 95 percent of this increase pertains to immigration offenses.
The data further reveals that Mexican nationals constituted about 40 percent of these noncitizen arrests, with Central Americans making up another 20 percent. Comparatively, U.S. citizens accounted for 36 percent of all federal offense arrests in 2018.
From 1998 to 2018, the percentage of federal arrests involving Mexican citizens increased from 28 percent to 40 percent, and arrests involving Central Americans surged from 1 percent to 20 percent. Meanwhile, U.S. citizen federal arrests saw a decrease from 63 percent to 36 percent.
The report also identifies the most common offenses leading to prosecutions of non-U.S. citizens in 2018. These include illegal reentry (72 percent), drug-related offenses (13 percent), fraud (4.5 percent), alien smuggling (4 percent), and visa misuse (2 percent). In contrast, U.S. citizens were most frequently prosecuted for drug offenses (38 percent), weapons charges (21 percent), fraud (12 percent), public order crimes (12 percent), and alien smuggling (6 percent).
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A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reveals a significant shift in federal arrest numbers for noncitizens over a 20-year span. In 2018, non-U.S. citizens represented 64 percent of federal arrests, a notable rise from 1998, when they accounted for just 37 percent and U.S. citizens comprised 63 percent.
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL)’s Central Florida Tourism Oversight District appointees approved an agreement Wednesday, resolving a two-year dispute involving Walt Disney World and its governing district. This conflict began two years ago when Disney publicly opposed a state law dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”
The tourism board unanimously approved a 15-year development agreement with the district that included a commitment to infrastructure improvements. In exchange, Disney is agreeing to commit up to $17 billion to investments in its Disney World amusement park over the next two decades.
The agreement follows a March truce, during which both parties ceased litigation in state court and focused instead on negotiating a new development agreement and comprehensive plan by next year. Previously controlled by Disney backers, the district provides essential services like firefighting and mosquito control.
Board member Brian Aungst stated the agreement ensures a cooperative framework for Disney and the district. “This is the day we all have been looking forward to,” Aungst remarked Wednesday. He expressed confidence in reaching a favorable resolution.
Under the agreement, Disney must donate up to 100 acres of its property for district-controlled infrastructure projects, allocate at least half of its construction projects to Florida-based companies, and invest at least $10 million in affordable housing for central Florida. Disney would gain approval to construct a fifth major theme park and two minor parks, potentially increasing its hotel room count and retail and restaurant space.
Unresolved is an appeal in a federal lawsuit Disney filed against DeSantis and his appointees. Post-settlement, Disney requested a pause to negotiate the development agreement. Disney has until next week to decide whether to proceed with the case.
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL)'s Central Florida Tourism Oversight District appointees approved an agreement Wednesday, resolving a two-year dispute involving Walt Disney World and its governing district. This conflict began two years ago when Disney publicly opposed a state law dubbed "Don’t Say Gay."
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering a partial ban on masks in the New York City subway system. The Democrat admits anti-Semitic protesters and criminals are using them to conceal their identities during illegal activities. This follows recent legislative actions in North Carolina, where lawmakers passed a ban on masks in public places, with exceptions for medical reasons. The North Carolina measure increases penalties for individuals wearing masks while committing crimes.
During a news conference, Hochul claimed she would “not tolerate individuals using masks to evade responsibility for criminal or threatening behavior.” She did not provide specific details about the prospective ban but said there would be exceptions for health, cultural, and religious reasons—meaning Muslims wearing face veils would be exempt.
The concept of banning masks in public is not new in New York. The state enacted a mask ban in the 1800s amidst violent protests, suspended in 2020 by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is backing Hochul’s proposed ban. Adams previously advocated for shopkeepers to require customers to remove masks upon entering their stores, to make thieves and other criminals easier to identify.
“Cowards hide their faces. Dr. [Martin Luther] King did not hide his face,” Adams said.
On Monday, masked protesters chanted anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler slogans on the New York subway. It is unclear whether those involved would be impacted by a subway mask ban, however, as the Palestinian keffiyehs and Islamic veils they wore would likely fall under the “cutural” and “religious” exceptions Hochul referenced.
“Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist.”
Pro-Palestine demonstrators in New York took their “Day of Rage for Gaza” protests to the Manhattan subway as they rallied around the city on June 10 pic.twitter.com/YFArZajSF6
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering a partial ban on masks in the New York City subway system. The Democrat admits anti-Semitic protesters and criminals are using them to conceal their identities during illegal activities. This follows recent legislative actions in North Carolina, where lawmakers passed a ban on masks in public places, with exceptions for medical reasons. The North Carolina measure increases penalties for individuals wearing masks while committing crimes.
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The neoliberal oligarchy hopes to reap profits from the aftermath of the Ukraine war by reconstructing with Middle Eastern, sub-Saharan, and South Asian migrant labor, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
“They’ve created two major problems,” Kassam explained. “One being Ukraine and the war… the other being mass migration… So they find a solution to both of those problems: the idea of mass importation of people from South Asia, from the Arab world, and from sub-Saharan Africa into Ukraine.”
Kassam noted that Western politicians and corporations are already “divvying up” the reconstruction process despite the fact that “the war hasn’t ended, and they keep telling us that the end of the war isn’t in sight.”
“At the same time, you’ve got all these big, corporate, multinational American companies going out there and saying we want a piece of this, we want a piece of that,” he continued.
The corporations will not be going to “old boys” in Alabama or Arkansas for workers, he believes, but will resort to “cheap migrant labor,” who will be rewarded for their efforts with European citizenship. Kassam has previously predicted Ukraine will become the “first African nation in Europe.”
The National Pulse chief believes there has been a firm shift on Ukraine at Mar-a-Lago, however, with Donald Trump telling Republicans on Capitol Hill the Ukrainians are “never going to be there for us” and arguing “we should pay our own troops more” instead of funding Volodymyr Zelensky’s military.
The war in Ukraine will end with the country being flooded by migrant workers so multinationals can reap profits from its reconstruction, predicts @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/0s2JwYTLbD
The neoliberal oligarchy hopes to reap profits from the aftermath of the Ukraine war by reconstructing with Middle Eastern, sub-Saharan, and South Asian migrant labor, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
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Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani’s former lawyer, Robert Costello. The lawsuit accused the defendants of manipulating data on Hunter’s “laptop from hell.” Jurors recently convicted Hunter of three felony counts for lying about his drug abuse when purchasing a firearm in 2018, with prosecutors using evidence from the laptop to support their case.
Abbe Lowell, representing Hunter Biden, filed a stipulation for dismissal “without prejudice” on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The stipulation requires each party to bear its attorneys’ fees, costs, and other expenses. Attorneys for all involved parties have accepted the dismissal agreement.
Hunter abandoned the laptop at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac initially turned the laptop’s hard drive over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and made a copy, which was later provided to Costello. Giuliani subsequently supplied the data to the media.
The Democrats and their allies worked hard to suppress the laptop, with social media platforms censoring the story and 51 members of the “intelligence community” publishing a letter claiming it appeared to be disinformation. The signatories to the letter have refused to retract these claims despite the fact they have proven false.
Initially filed in September of the previous year, Hunter Biden’s lawsuit sought more than $75,000 in damages in addition to attorneys’ fees and other penalties. The case alleged that Giuliani and Costello had violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking and manipulating data from the laptop, amounting to an invasion of Hunter Biden’s digital privacy.
Joe Sibley, Giuliani’s attorney, asserted that the dismissal vindicates his client, Costello, and media outlets that previously faced criticism for reporting on the laptop’s contents in 2020.
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Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's former lawyer, Robert Costello. The lawsuit accused the defendants of manipulating data on Hunter's "laptop from hell." Jurors recently convicted Hunter of three felony counts for lying about his drug abuse when purchasing a firearm in 2018, with prosecutors using evidence from the laptop to support their case.
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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has found the transcript of Joe Biden ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer‘s interview with federal investigators is so heavily redacted that it is almost incomprehensible. Speaking to Stephen K. Bannon on War Room, Kassam told viewers there is “a redaction on every single page” of the document.
“I want to show the camera what we’re dealing with here,” Kassam said, showing an “average page from the released transcript” almost completely blacked out.
“It’s way more than a third that’s redacted here,” Kassam said, estimating 60 to 65 percent of the transcript was obscured.
Following a lawsuit by the Oversight Project, Joe Biden’s Justice Department was ordered to release a transcript of Zwonitzer’s interview. The interview informed the Hur Report on Biden’s mishandling of classified information.
However, some revealing information slipped through the censorship process. The National Pulse found that the ghostwriter had admitted to deleting numerous audio records of interviews with Biden after learning he was being investigated.
“The outside observer is going to look at this and say ‘Mark Zwonitzer, President Biden‘s friend, ghostwriter, collaborator learned of the special counsel’s investigation, saw this happening and then deleted all these audio recordings,’” an investigator said to Zwonitzer.
“I’m not going to say how much of the percentage it was of my motivation,” Zwonitzer replied.
Special counsel Robert Hur weighed charging Zwonitzer with obstruction of justice but ultimately decided neither he nor Biden should be prosecuted.
Key transcripts the Biden government was forced to release on judge’s orders are so heavily redacted almost no useful information remains, shows @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/Cb0AgQ9F7s
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has found the transcript of Joe Biden ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer's interview with federal investigators is so heavily redacted that it is almost incomprehensible. Speaking to Stephen K. Bannon on War Room, Kassam told viewers there is "a redaction on every single page" of the document.
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The ethical lapses in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘s office go far beyond the impropriety of appointing her lover, Nathan Wade, as a special prosecutor on her RICO case against former President Donald J. Trump. New questions of legal ethics violations have arisen in another of Willis’s high-profile prosecutions, with the attempted jailing of defense attorney Brian Steel, who is representing rapper Young Thug.
Earlier this week, Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville held Steel in contempt of court after the defense attorney revealed he was made aware that the judge had held an ex parte meeting with prosecutors in Willis‘s office and one of their star witnesses. Citing the meeting, Steel moved for a mistrial in Willis’s prosecution of the Grammy Award-winning rapper and 27 others for gang-related crimes.
Instead of granting the motion, Glanville demanded that Steel break attorney-client privilege and reveal who disclosed the ex parte meeting to him. Steel refused, resulting in the contempt order.
WHAT IS WONG WITH FULTON COUNTY?
Ex parte—a legal term meaning decisions are made without all parties present—meetings, like the one involving Glanville and prosecutors, are often considered improper in a trial setting. Ethical rules typically bar an attorney from meeting with a judge or witness without legal representatives from the other party being also present.
Complicating matters, Judge Glanville on Wednesday ordered prosecutors from Willis‘s office, along with witness Kenneth Copeland and his Kayla Bumpus, to appear at a June 25 hearing to determine whether they should also be held in contempt. The judge indicated he believes one of these three parties disclosed the ex parte meeting to Steel.
Even before the most recent ethical controversy, Willis‘s prosecution of Young Thug was mired in accusations of sloppiness, which caused extensive delays in the case. The degree of impropriety by the District Attorney’s office and Judge Glanville echoes the ethical breaches that have plagued Willis’s RICO prosecution of former President Trump.
FANI’S TRUMP TROUBLES.
In March, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered that either Willis or special prosecutor Nathan Wade would have to resign from the Trump production. The order came after extensiveevidence was presented showing that Willis and Wade had engaged in a romanticrelationship prior to the latter’s appointment as a special prosecutor on the case. Wade subsequently resigned from the District Attorney’s office.
Despite initially denying the accusations of impropriety due to her relationship with Wade, Willis eventually acknowledged that he was her lover—though both have disputed the timeline as to when they became involved. With Wade’s resignation, Willis has been allowed to remain as the prosecutor in the RICO case.
However, attorneys representing former President Trump and several of his co-defendants have appealed McAfee’s ruling. Last week, the Georgia Court of Appeals put Willis’s prosecution of Trump on hold until after the 2024 presidential election as they weigh whether the District Attorney should be disqualified from the case.
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NEW: Rapper Young Thug’s lawyer *arrested* after finding out about a secret meeting that the judge allegedly had with prosecutors and a star witness.
Fulton County is a mess.
Lawyer Brian Steel confronted Judge Ural Glanville about an alleged secret meeting.
The ethical lapses in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's office go far beyond the impropriety of appointing her lover, Nathan Wade, as a special prosecutor on her RICO case against former President Donald J. Trump. New questions of legal ethics violations have arisen in another of Willis's high-profile prosecutions, with the attempted jailing of defense attorney Brian Steel, who is representing rapper Young Thug.
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Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade—who carried on a workplace romance with his boss, District Attorney Fani Willis—shockingly got up in the midst of a live CNNinterview after being “signaled” by his attorney. The interruption occurred as anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed Wade for specifics regarding his affair with Willis.
“To… to say that, okay, these… these exact dates are… are… are at issue, and these exact dates are…” Wade said while nervously swaying and glancing about. As he began to trail off, the former Fulton County special prosecutor abruptly told Collins, while turning his attention to an individual off-camera, “I’m getting, I’m getting signaled here.”
At this point, Wade removes his microphone and steps away from Collins to consult with an individual who appears to be his attorney. The CNN cameras continue to roll while Wade and his associate huddle in a corner of the room—the content of their discussion, however, is inaudible.
After nearly half a minute, Wade returned to the interview set with Collins, asking: “Everything okay?” The CNN anchor pressed again as to when Wade’s relationship with Willis began; this time, however, the former special prosecutor delivered a deflective answer stating: “I believe the public has, through the testimony and other interviews, the public has a clear snapshot that this is just a distraction.”
Wade dismissed the matter of his relationship with Willis as being “irrelevant” to the District Attorney’s RICO prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump and over a dozen other individuals for allegedly interfering in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. In March, Judge Scott McAfee forced Wade to resign from the prosecution due to the “appearance of impropriety” regarding his relationship with Willis.
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“I’m getting signaled here”
Nathan Wade abruptly steps away from his CNN interview when asked about the timing of his affair with #FaniWillis
He’s alleged to have lied in court about when it ended, and his recent interviews have been inconsistent
Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade—who carried on a workplace romance with his boss, District Attorney Fani Willis—shockingly got up in the midst of a live CNN interview after being "signaled" by his attorney. The interruption occurred as anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed Wade for specifics regarding his affair with Willis.
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House Republican leadership can use a little-known congressional mechanism to render the contempt of Congress charges against former Trump advisors Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro moot. SpeakerMike Jonnson (R-LA) can use the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declaring that the Democrat-run January 6 Committee was improperly constituted and thus had no subpoena authority.
This argument was first advanced by Bannon’s lawyer, David Schoen, and expanded on by Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz in an appearance on Tim Pool this week.
“I believe the only way Steve Bannon does not go to jail is if there is a vote at an entity called the BLAG—the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group,” Gaetz said, adding: “It is made up of the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, the Majority Whip, the Minority Leader, and the Minority Whip. So the Republicans hold a three-two in this.”
“Bannon is going to petition for an en banc review of this determination to revoke his bail. When he does, I believe the BLAG should—and will—take a three to two vote for the House to seek to leave to file an amicus brief with the en banc court that the January 6 Committee was illegitimate,” the Flordia Republican added.
IMPROPERLY CONSTITUTED.
The BLAG is a non-legislative committee within Congress that directs the actions of the House Office of General Counsel.
House Republican leadership can use the BLAG to direct the General Counsel to file a brief with the appeals court stating that the House believes the January 6 Committee was improperly constituted by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, among others, contends the January 6 Committee was constituted in violation of Section 2(a) of its authorizing resolution. The provision in question states: “Appointment of Members—The Speaker shall appoint 13 Members to the Select Committee, 5 of whom shall be appointed after consultation with the minority leader.” However, Pelosi rejected the slate of committee members proposed by then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), with the committee ultimately only being comprised of nine members instead of the 13 required in its authorizing resolution.
An amicus brief laying out this argument from the House Office of General Counsel would be difficult for the federal appeals judges to ignore. Still, the move isn’t guaranteed to work—as the appeals court can ignore or disagree with the House counsel’s determination.
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I believe the only way Steve Bannon does not go to jail is if there is a vote taken by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) — to tell the court that it is the official view of the House of Representatives that the J6 committee was illegitimate!
House Republican leadership can use a little-known congressional mechanism to render the contempt of Congress charges against former Trump advisors Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro moot. Speaker Mike Jonnson (R-LA) can use the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declaring that the Democrat-run January 6 Committee was improperly constituted and thus had no subpoena authority.
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