Elon Musk, the tech billionaire owner of Tesla and X, formerly Twitter, has slammed Donald Trump’s sham conviction in Manhattan, describing Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the former president as politically motivated.
Musk offered his assessment of the trial in response to an X user who had observed that the “first felony conviction of a former U.S. President wasn’t for the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, illegal CIA coups, drone striking weddings, or spying on American,” but for of a supposedly misclassified payment in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement.
“Indeed, great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system,” Musk wrote.
“If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate,” he added.
Indeed, great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system.
If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate. https://t.co/zrHCyIZazh
Bragg’s team was infested with staffers with a history of endorsing calls for Trump to be impeached and banned from office on social media.
His prosecution team also included Matthew Colangelo, who had previously been a senior official at the Justice Department. Many regard his transfer from the Justice Department to a mere district attorney’s office as suspect and evidence that the Joe Biden regime directly orchestrated the Manhattan prosecution.
Judge Juan Merchan also had strong familial links to Democratic politicians, with his daughter Loren taking many of them on as clients at her Authentic Campaigns firm. She also shared mocked-up images of Trump behind bars on social media.
Trump and his lawyers argued that Merchan was conflicted and should have recused himself, but he refused and imposed a gag order preventing Trump from publicly discussing the Merchan family’s Democrat connections.
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Elon Musk, the tech billionaire owner of Tesla and X, formerly Twitter, has slammed Donald Trump's sham conviction in Manhattan, describing Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of the former president as politically motivated.
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Italy, led by the notionally populist Giorgia Meloni, and Greece, led by a center-right government that emphasizes border control, will start taking migrants directly from Latin America to ease the strain of illegal immigration on Joe Biden.
Migrants hoping to come to the United States will be processed at four immigration centers in Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. Some will fly to the U.S. after processing, but others will be settled in Italy or Greece instead. Socialist-led Spain and Canada have already signed up to the scheme.
The plan could prove extremely unpopular in Italy, where Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ran as an anti-mass migration populist. Illegal immigration has only worsened since she was elected, as she has focused on currying favor with Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky while largely abandoning her immigration pledges.
Italy and Greece have borne the brunt of the European Union’s migrant crisis for years. The bloc recently imposed a migration pact on all member states, requiring them to either accept a share of the migrants in Italy and Greece or make “solidarity contributions” to assist the two countries.
Poland and especially Hungary, which opposed the pro-migration and weak border enforcement policies that caused the migrant crisis, were against the pact. Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán compared its imposition to being “legally raped.”
News that Italy and Greece will be taking Latin American migrants as a favor to Biden, despite claiming they cannot cope with the migrants they already have, will likely cause further tension within the EU.
CBS News has exclusively learned that the Biden administration is planning to refer some migrants in Latin America for resettlement in Greece and Italy, as part of an effort to discourage migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.@Camiloreports has the story:… pic.twitter.com/Srrq0ipxh9
Italy, led by the notionally populist Giorgia Meloni, and Greece, led by a center-right government that emphasizes border control, will start taking migrants directly from Latin America to ease the strain of illegal immigration on Joe Biden.
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Former President Donald J. Trump announced a substantial fundraising haul of nearly $35 million on Friday, less than 24 hours after the guilty verdict against him in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s hush money case. A New Yorkjury found Trump guilty on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records after a weeks-long trial.
The guilty verdict appears to have galvanized Trump’s supporters instead of demoralizing them as the Biden government likely hoped. The volume of traffic to the campaign‘s donation page caused it to crash temporarily late on Thursday. Meanwhile, Friday morning, the campaign announced it had raised $34.8 million in small-dollar donations, nearly doubling its previous single-day record on the WinRed platform.
“From just minutes after the sham trial verdict was announced, our digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with support,” said Trump campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles in a joint statement. “Despite temporary delays online because of the amount of traffic, President Trump raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors.”
The Trump campaign highlighted that 29.7 percent of the donors were first-time contributors to the WinRed platform. “President Trump and our campaign are immensely grateful for this outpouring of support from patriots across our country. President Trump is fighting to save our nation, and November 5 is the day Americans will deliver the real verdict,” they added.
Former President Trump’s latest fundraising haul follows an announcement that his campaign — along with the Republican National Committee and affiliated SuperPACs — raised $76 million in April. Last week, the Trump campaign pulled in an additional $25 million during a fundraiser in Houston, Texas.
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Former President Donald J. Trump announced a substantial fundraising haul of nearly $35 million on Friday, less than 24 hours after the guilty verdict against him in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case. A New Yorkjury found Trump guilty on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records after a weeks-long trial.
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NATO has initiated its largest military exercises since the Cold War, involving around 90,000 military personnel from its 32 member states. This operation, Steadfast Defender 2024, focuses on readiness for a war with Russia, which is currently engaged in a conflict with Ukraine.
The scale of the Steadfast Defender exercises harks back to the Reforger exercises of 1988, which saw 188,000 NATO troops mobilize as the Soviet Union began to crumble. Steadfast Defender involves 50 warships, including aircraft carriers and destroyers, and 1,100 combat vehicles, including 150 tanks and 400 armored personnel carriers (APCs).
General Carsten Breuer, Germany’s defense chief, believes NATO must expect a potential threat from Russia within five to eight years. “For me as military, five to eight years means I have to be ready in five years,” Breuer stated.
Steadfast Defender focuses training on vulnerable regions, particularly the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as well as Poland and new NATO member Sweden. In Lithuania, NATO troops conducted operations near the Belarusian border, a strategic area given Belarus’ alliance with Russia and its proximity to the militarized Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russia regards the exercises as a “threat.”
“Near the Russian border, NATO’s reconnaissance activities are increasing, the intensity of operational combat training of the alliance’s troops is growing, during which scenarios for conducting combat operations against the Russian Federation, including the launch of nuclear strikes on our territory, are being worked out,” concurs General Vladimir Kulishov, of Russia‘s Federal Security Service (FSB).
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NATO has initiated its largest military exercises since the Cold War, involving around 90,000 military personnel from its 32 member states. This operation, Steadfast Defender 2024, focuses on readiness for a war with Russia, which is currently engaged in a conflict with Ukraine.
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Another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper went down over Yemen on Wednesday, video footage and images circulating on social media suggest. It is the sixth U.S. MQ-9 Reaper to have been captured by Yemen’s Ansarallah movement and Armed Forces, also known as the Houthis.
It is not confirmed whether the $30 million drone was shot down or if it crashed. Video shows the downed drone seemingly in near-perfect condition. The fourth and fifth MQ-9 Reaper drones were reported downed on the 17th and 21st of May.
Since January, Washington and London have been conducting airstrikes against the Houthis in response to strikes against Red Sea shipping in support of Gaza.
The Joe Biden-led operation has failed to deter the Houthis, however, and U.S. and European Union (EU) maritime task forces have struggled to prevent attacks on ships. These have strained both the Israeli economy and global shipping.
On Wednesday, six ships were targeted in three different seas. They included three ships in the Red Sea, two U.S. ships in the Arabian Sea, and one oil tanker in the Mediterranean. The Houthis have also expanded their missile and drone attacks to the Indian Ocean.
The Houthis have declared that they will continue their operations until the conflict in Gaza ends and adequate aid reaches the Palestinians. Yemeni officials have expressed that the famine in Gaza is a pressing humanitarian crisis warranting global concern and action. “We are working day and night to develop and expand our operations to lift this injustice and stop these crimes against the people of Gaza,” they warned.
In January, Biden openly admitted that his war was not working but vowed to continue it anyway.
“Well when you say ‘[are the strikes] working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes,” he told reporters.
BREAKING | The downing of yet another US MQ-9 drone by the Yemeni Armed Forces in Marib. pic.twitter.com/oNGQlzr3OS
Another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper went down over Yemen on Wednesday, video footage and images circulating on social media suggest. It is the sixth U.S. MQ-9 Reaper to have been captured by Yemen’s Ansarallah movement and Armed Forces, also known as the Houthis.
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A Pakistani migrant in New York was arrested after he allegedly jumped a curb and attempted to mow down a group of students and rabbis outside a Jewish school in Brooklyn. Asghar Ali, 58, reportedly slammed on his brakes before turning his car around and accelerating toward the group outside the Mesivta Nachlas Yakov School in Canarsie, according to Fox 5.
Witnesses alleged that the driver was yelling antisemitic slurs. He also yelled, “I’m going to kill all the Jews.” Police say Mr. Ali was driving a white Ford sedan on Glenwood Road before turning east on 55th Street, where he allegedly drove towards the pedestrians on Wednesday.
Mr. Ali reportedly attempted to flee the scene but was apprehended by community members and police. No one was injured in the attack, police said. A police report stated that five victims were allegedly targeted, including three 18-year-old men, a 41-year-old man, and a 44-year-old man.
Mr. Ali, a Pakistani immigrant who drives a cab, reportedly has a history of mental illness and four prior arrests. Simon Gifter, a freelance journalist at the police station during Ali’s detainment, stated that he heard the suspect ranting inside the facility. “I was outside and I heard him screaming non-stop like a maniac,” Gifter told ABC7.
Jewish community leader Leon Goldenberg told local news that Jewish organizations in the city feared such attacks in the wake of Israel’s ongoing military action in Gaza.”There is a real fear in the community that this is just one incident and that something more tragic will happen. Much more tragic,” he said.
Muslim migrants across the West have committed violent crimes in the name of opposing Israeli actions in Gaza. In April, an Afghan migrant in the UK stabbed a 70-year-old to death in the name of Gaza.
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A Pakistani migrant in New York was arrested after he allegedly jumped a curb and attempted to mow down a group of students and rabbis outside a Jewish school in Brooklyn. Asghar Ali, 58, reportedly slammed on his brakes before turning his car around and accelerating toward the group outside the Mesivta Nachlas Yakov School in Canarsie, according to Fox 5.
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An illegalalien mother and another illegal immigrant man are facing serious charges after allegations of sexual assault involving a minor. Authorities have charged Elia Antonio, a 33-year-old illegal alien, with trafficking her 12-year-old daughter, failing to protect a child, and two counts of misdemeanor bail jumping. Antonio’s arrest follows disturbing allegations leveled by Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin prosecutors.
Juan Carlos Rocha Mejia, a 31-year-old illegalalien from Nicaragua, has also been taken into custody. He faces charges of first-degree sexual assault, child enticement, strangulation, and false imprisonment. Mejia crossed the United States-Mexico border in October 2021 and was released into the U.S. interior by the Biden government.
The investigation revealed that Rocha Mejia, identified as Antonio’s boyfriend by the victim, allegedly paid over $250 to be alone with Antonio’s daughter. According to the young girl’s statement to police, she was directed by Antonio to get into a van before being taken to Rocha Mejia’s residence. It is reported that Antonio instructed her to move to the backseat before she exited the vehicle, and Rocha Mejia assumed control of the van.
The alleged series of events continued with Rocha Mejia driving to Oakfield, where he climbed into the backseat and purportedly sexually assaulted the girl. The victim managed to escape and ultimately reached a nearby residence, where she contacted law enforcement to report the incident.
Both Antonio and Rocha Mejia are currently held in local custody with $1 million cash bail each. Their preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 7.
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An illegalalien mother and another illegal immigrant man are facing serious charges after allegations of sexual assault involving a minor. Authorities have charged Elia Antonio, a 33-year-old illegal alien, with trafficking her 12-year-old daughter, failing to protect a child, and two counts of misdemeanor bail jumping. Antonio's arrest follows disturbing allegations leveled by Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin prosecutors.
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In Grand Rapids, Michigan, Brandon Ortiz-Vite, a previously deported illegalalien from Mexico, will stand trial for the alleged execution-style murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia. Ortiz-Vite, also 25, faces multiple charges, including felony murder, open murder, carjacking, carrying a concealed weapon, and felony possession of a firearm.
A judge confirmed on Wednesday that sufficient evidence exists to proceed with the trial. According to the prosecution, Ortiz-Vite and Garcia were in a relationship at the time of her death. Prosecutors allege that on March 22, Ortiz-Vite made Garcia pull over while they were in her car on U.S. Highway 131. He then allegedly shot her four times — twice in the head, once in the arm, and once in the hand.
Garcia’s body was found on the side of the highway. On March 24, Ortiz-Vite called authorities to turn himself in, reportedly admitting to the crime. “I am calling because I want to turn myself in [for] a murder I committed two nights ago,” Ortiz-Vite allegedly said to dispatchers. “I know what I did was wrong and I will do the time, I just don’t want to die inside.”
Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that Ortiz-Vite had been deported to Mexico in 2020. In addition to the current charges, Ortiz-Vite had a bench warrant issued in 2020 for failing to appear in court on drunk driving and driving with a suspended license charges. His criminal record includes incidents from 2017 and 2018 as well.
Ortiz-Vite remains in the Kent County Correctional Facility without bail and is facing a possible life sentence without parole. The trial date has not yet been set.
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In Grand Rapids, Michigan, Brandon Ortiz-Vite, a previously deported illegalalien from Mexico, will stand trial for the alleged execution-style murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia. Ortiz-Vite, also 25, faces multiple charges, including felony murder, open murder, carjacking, carrying a concealed weapon, and felony possession of a firearm.
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North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley (R) has issued a stark warning regarding illegalimmigration flows through the northern U.S. border, asserting that the situation, which intensified under the Biden government, is likely to worsen. Wrigley delivered his testimony on Wednesday at a field hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
The hearing, titled “The Biden Border Crisis: North Dakota Perspectives,” addressed how illegal crossings at the northern border are impacting residents and communities in North Dakota. Only Republican lawmakers were present.
North Dakota hosts 18 land ports of entry along its 310-mile stretch of the U.S.’s 5,525-mile northern border, with only three ports operating 24 hours a day. “The situation has deteriorated significantly in recent years, and the current situation is untenable with millions of illegal entrants streaming across America’s southwest border,” Wrigley stated. “North Dakota is already experiencing negative law enforcement impacts due to the Biden Administration’s refusal to shut down the border, but my concern is that the worst is yet to come, both in terms of street crimes and national security.”
Wrigley reported that there were 4,444 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2023, a significant rise compared to 2,127 in fiscal year 2022 and 548 in fiscal year 2021. He also emphasized that preliminary data suggests the upward trend will continue into fiscal year 2024. These encounters include apprehensions of illegal border crossers, individuals deemed inadmissible by U.S. border security, and expulsions.
Wrigley noted a stark difference in drug prices at the U.S. borders, highlighting that fentanyl and synthetic opioids are available for as little as 25 cents per pill at the Southwest border, whereas in North Dakota, a single pill can fetch between $60 and $80, making it a significant draw for drug traffickers.
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North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley (R) has issued a stark warning regarding illegalimmigration flows through the northern U.S. border, asserting that the situation, which intensified under the Biden government, is likely to worsen. Wrigley delivered his testimony on Wednesday at a field hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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The twelve-person jury seated for former President Donald J. Trump‘s Manhattan-based hush money trial has handed down a verdict of guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
With the guilty verdict, the former President could face upwards of 130 years in prison. However, it is more likely that Judge Merchan will order Trump placed on probation or house arrest — though even then the sentence could be suspended pending appeal. The sentencing hearing has been set for July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention.
DUBIOUS PROSECUTION.
Over the last month, jurors heard from a whose-who of seedy New York media and political scene personalities, including David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media, Inc. (AMI) and publisher of the National Enquirer; pornographic actress and adult entertainer StormyDaniels; seedy Hollywood entertainment lawyer Keith Davidson; and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen, who was deemed “perverse” and a “serial perjurer” by a federal judge. Other witnesses included several figures in the Trump Organization and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
Bragg’s entire case was built on legally dubious grounds, as each of the 34 felony counts for falsifying business records is typically charged as a misdemeanor in New York and has a two-year statute of limitations. However, the Manhattan DA alleged that the creation of the false records was done in the act of committing another crime — though prosecutors never clarified what that crime was. They’ve alluded to a Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign finance violation, a vague accusation of “interference in the 2016 election,” and a federal tax crime. Both infractions are federal offenses and were not pursued by Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) nor the (FEC).
BIDEN GOVERNMENT LAWFARE.
From the start, it was clear that the prosecution of former President Trump was part of a broader lawfare campaign by the Biden government to interfere in the 2024 presidential election. Matthew Colangelo, a former attorney with the Biden DOJ, left his lucrative career to instead work as an assistant prosecutor under Bragg, specifically for the Trump case. The National Pulse reported that while serving as a federal attorney, Colangelo engaged in a series of politically biased lawfare campaigns against conservative groups and Republican lawmakers dating back to 2011.
Joe Biden has publicly cheered on Bragg’s prosecution — adding further credence to accusations that the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent’s White House is orchestrating the lawfare campaign against Trump.
Concerns over Judge Merchan’s motivations and bias culminated with a report by The National Pulse exposing that Loren Merchan’s client, Congressman Daniel Goldman (D-NY), had prepped the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen, for his cross-examination.
A CRIME AGAINST JUSTICE.
Meanwhile, Cohen admitted on the witness stand to stealing upwards of $60,000 from the Trump Organization. Additionally, he was unable to corroborate his story regarding a phone call between himself and former President Trump, where he claimed he confirmed the hush money payment had been made to Stormy Daniels. The disgraced lawyer may also have committed perjury again while on the stand.
Cohen’s credibility as a witness was so lacking that even Judge Merchan acknowledged in his jury instructions that if a juror found Cohen to have lied on the stand, they were to disregard his entire testimony.
Despite Bragg‘s dubious case, Cohen‘s disastrous testimony, and Davidson and Daniels all but admitting they conspired to extort former President Trump, the jury took just 10 hours to reach their verdict.
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The twelve-person jury seated for former President Donald J. Trump's Manhattan-based hush money trial has handed down a verdict of guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
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