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April 6, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

Now Tish James is Going After the Firm Backing Trump’s $175M Bond.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is now questioning the financial status and regulatory compliance of the insurer that posted former President Donald Trump’s $175 million bond stemming from her civil fraud prosecution against him. In a court filing on Thursday, James challenged the “sufficiency of the surety” provided by Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) after a paperwork error resulted in Trump’s bond being temporarily rejected by a New York court the day before.

According to the filing, the New York Attorney General wants KSIC to provide documentation proving their certification to operate in the state. James is asking a state appeals court to order KSIC to produce a “certificate of qualification” within ten days with proof that the company can pay the bond if Trump’s appeals are unsuccessful.

The move by James comes after the initial bond filing on Wednesday was rejected due to missing documents — including a current financial statement from KSIC and the name of his attorney-in-fact. Attorneys for former President Trump resubmitted the corrected paperwork early Thursday.

However, the financial statement has drawn additional scrutiny as it only lists the assets for KSIC and not a related company, Knight Insurance Company LTD. New York insurance law limits the amount an insurer can underwrite on  a single bond to 10 percent of its total “capital and surplus.” KSIC and Knight Insurance Company LTD together meet the capital requirement, but the filing doesn’t clarify if the latter is also underwriting the bond.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is now questioning the financial status and regulatory compliance of the insurer that posted former President Donald Trump's $175 million bond stemming from her civil fraud prosecution against him. In a court filing on Thursday, James challenged the "sufficiency of the surety" provided by Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) after a paperwork error resulted in Trump's bond being temporarily rejected by a New York court the day before. show more
April 6, 2024
Crime
Immigration
World

Somali Refugee Strangles Pregnant Girlfriend in Alleged Honor Killing.

Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim, a 22-year-old Somali refugee, has been charged with murder in connection to the death of his seven-months-pregnant Swedish girlfriend, Saga Forsgren Elneborg. Ibrahim is accused of killing 20-year-old Saga Forsgren Elneborg in her Örebro home. The prosecution alleges that Ibrahim strangled Elneborg to death in an alleged honor killing.

Prosecutor Elizabeth Anderson stated that Ibrahim committed the murder in an “honor context,” aiming to maintain or reclaim his family’s honor by killing Elneborg, who was carrying his child. Anderson also noted that there’s no evidence proving that Ibrahim informed his family of his relationship with Elneborg or her pregnancy.

Text messages between the couple suggest Ibrahim feared telling his family about Elneborg’s pregnancy. The messages also indicate that Ibrahim wanted Elneborg to have an abortion. The tension escalated till Elneborg’s death. Ibrahim allegedly used a lamp cord to strangle her.

Ibrahim denies the charges and insists upon his love for his late girlfriend. Ibrahim’s story on the tragedy will further unravel when he faces his murder trial scheduled for next Wednesday.

Sweden, like many European nations, has struggled to integrate migrants from Islamic countries like Somalia. The country is home to several notorious “no-go zones,” and crimes committed by migrants are frequent.

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Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim, a 22-year-old Somali refugee, has been charged with murder in connection to the death of his seven-months-pregnant Swedish girlfriend, Saga Forsgren Elneborg. Ibrahim is accused of killing 20-year-old Saga Forsgren Elneborg in her Örebro home. The prosecution alleges that Ibrahim strangled Elneborg to death in an alleged honor killing. show more
April 6, 2024
Wake Up Right
News

It’s Just a Phase: Study Finds Most Gender-Confused Kids Grow Out of It.

Most children who express gender confusion will grow out of it by the time they’re adults, according to a long-term study.

The details: Researchers in the Netherlands tracked over 2,700 children, beginning at age 11, and followed them through their mid-twenties.

  • Every three years, the children were asked to respond to the statement ‘I wish to be of the opposite sex’ and rank it as: Not True, Sometimes True, or Very True.

The results: The study found that 11 percent of children expressed ‘gender non-contentedness’ to varying degrees. But by age 25, just 4 percent said they were discontent with their gender.

  • The researchers found: “Gender non-contentedness, while being relatively common during early adolescence, in general decreases with age and appears to be associated with a poorer self-concept and mental health throughout development.”

Big picture: This data flies in the face of the transgender movement running amok in the United States today, which advocates for “gender-affirming care” that includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even genital mutilation.

  • In the United States, gender dysphoria has soared in every state since 2018 — except South Dakota.

The numbers: In the U.S., 1.6 million people ages 13 and above identify as transgender. Children under 18 make up roughly 1 in 5 new gender dysphoria diagnoses.

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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Most children who express gender confusion will grow out of it by the time they're adults, according to a long-term study. show more
April 6, 2024
News

Historian Blasts Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal as ‘Greatest Humiliation Since Saigon.’

Historian Victor Davis Hanson has described Joe Biden‘s botched Afghanistan withdrawal as the United States’ “greatest humiliation since Saigon” — when North Vietnamese troops captured the South Vietnamese capital as U.S. forces fled.

Hanson’s comments came during an interview with Nigel Farage on UK news channel GBNews. Hanson pointed to the withdrawal as the moment Americans — and world leaders — started to view Biden as weak.

“Prior to August 2021, he was polling around 53-54 percent approval. That immediately went down to 42 percent,” Hanson noted. “The American people saw it as a disaster. We had just spent $400 million at Bagram with the biggest airbase in Central Asia, which would give us all sorts of options with Iran, China or Russia,” he continued.

“We could have watched the Taliban and the way they were behaving and we fled in the greatest humiliation since Saigon. We left our allies hanging without notice. We left thousands of American contractors, tens of thousands of sympathetic Afghans who were murdered or are sought out.”

Hanson also suggested that Biden’s display of weakness in Afghanistan influenced Vladimir Putin‘s decision to invade Ukraine.

“We left all this hardware that’s now appearing all over the world,” Hanson said. “Also terrorist contracts. Our enemies thought, ‘if they’re going to do that, they’re not going to do anything to us,'” he continued. “Almost immediately, Putin had mass troops on the border. We heard Biden say that if he goes in it’s a minor offensive, there will be no consequences.”

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Historian Victor Davis Hanson has described Joe Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal as the United States' "greatest humiliation since Saigon" — when North Vietnamese troops captured the South Vietnamese capital as U.S. forces fled. show more
April 6, 2024
Immigration

Chicago’s Mayor Wants Biden To Grant Work Permits For Half-A-Million Illegals.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing President Joe Biden to authorize work permits for the nearly half-million illegal immigrants currently residing in Illinois. According to Johnson, Chicago alone can accommodate several hundred thousand more immigrants.

“We need the president to extend the same economic opportunities long term for our undocumented brothers and sisters, so they can build a better life here in the city of Chicago or wherever else they decide to live,” Johnson said during a recent meeting with business leaders. The Chicago mayor argued that the state’s illegal immigrant population should benefit from the same economic opportunities accessible to legal residents.

On Thursday, Johnson — backed by other Democrat mayors, including those from Denver, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco – submitted a formal request for the work permit increase to the Biden White House. “I remain standing in my belief that a more inclusive and equitable future for all residents is truly possible, whether they arrived here yesterday or have been here for an extended period of time,” he wrote.

Johnson’s request comes as part of a broader effort by Democrat mayors to urge the Biden government to expedite work permit issuances for the new wave of illegal immigrants and to extend current permits, which are set to expire in late April. They contend that without additional permits, their municipalities will be overwhelmed by their growing population of illegal immigrants who are currently unable to seek legal work. In response to a joint appeal from more than forty mayors in February, the Biden government has increased the extension time from 180 to 540 days for specific categories of illegal immigrants.

Despite widespread local disapproval surrounding the illegal immigrant influx, Johnson remains staunch in his advocacy for the immigrant community, even as thousands continue to inhabit city shelters.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing President Joe Biden to authorize work permits for the nearly half-million illegal immigrants currently residing in Illinois. According to Johnson, Chicago alone can accommodate several hundred thousand more immigrants. show more
April 5, 2024
Politics
War
World

Trump Warns Israel is ‘Losing the PR War,’ Urges End to Gaza Conflict.

Former President Donald Trump said Israel must quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza as he warned the Jewish state is “losing the PR war.”

“Get it over with and let’s get back to peace and stop killing people. And that’s a very simple statement,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. “They have to get it done. Get it over with and get it over with fast because we have to — you have to get back to normalcy and peace.”

Trump specifically called out Israel for releasing video footage of its military actions against the Palestinians. “They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that,” he said. “That’s why they’re losing the PR war. They, Israel is absolutely losing the PR war.”“They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down. And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings, or people in those buildings, and they don’t like it,” Trump continued. “They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”

Once supported staunchly in its conflict against Hamas by both Trump and Joe Biden, Israel has seen its support across the world dwindle as humanitarian concerns in Gaza grow. Trump earlier warned that Israel must “finish up” the conflict amidst waning support.

Support for the Jewish state has declined even more since then, following a seemingly intentional attack against foreign aid workers in Gaza this week. The attack marked a major turning point for Israel’s relationships with Western powers, as calls in the U.S. and the UK to stop sending arms to Israel are increasingly gaining support.

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Former President Donald Trump said Israel must quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza as he warned the Jewish state is "losing the PR war." show more
April 5, 2024
Lawfare
Politics

FBI Orchestrated Jan 6 Riots ‘to Entrap MAGA Americans,’ Explains Congress’ Homeland Security Chief.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee’s border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter.

According to Higgins, the protestors were incited to violence by “ghost buses” filled with FBI agent provocateurs. He added that when the House of Representatives finishes with the process of releasing the security tapes from that day, the federal prosecution of the January 6 rioters will fall apart.

“The whole thing was a nefarious agenda to entrap MAGA Americans,” the Congressman said. He added: “The original seeds of riotous or illegal or occupation behavior amongst these groups were planted by the FBI-embedded agents in those groups.”

While there has been no conclusive evidence that the FBI instigated the January 6 riot, several law enforcement officials have admitted that federal agents were among the crowd on that day. The National Pulse reported in August of last year that former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund had told Tucker Carlson in an unaired Fox News interview that “there was a fair amount of law enforcement” in the January 6 crowd. Sund said in the days after the riot, he discovered that the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd.

In May of last year, an FBI whistleblower told the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that the bureau withheld further CCTV footage from the riot over fears of outing “undercover” agents present in the crowd. In January 2022, FBI Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn refused to deny the FBI’s involvement in the January 6 violence.

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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee's border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter. show more
April 5, 2024
Ed Kozak
Crime
Lawfare

DOJ Admits Ashley Biden’s Diary – Which Claims Familial Molestation – Is Real.

The Justice Department has asked a New York district judge to send Aimee Harris, the woman who stole Ashley Biden‘s diary, to prison for four to 10 months.

Prosecutors initially sought a sentence of six months of home confinement and three years of supervised release for Aimee Harris. However, prosecutors now argue that Harris’s multiple requests to move her hearing date amount to an effort to “improperly delay” her sentencing and are seeking a stiffer sentence.

According to the Department of Justice, the stolen diary was part of a haul that included tax records, private family photographs, and a personal cellphone. All of the items were found in the same Florida home where Ashley Biden once resided.

The legal document, filed by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, emphasizes the defendant’s disregard for court proceedings and her unwillingness to work within the legal framework. Harris allegedly made false statements to earn unwarranted breaks, refused court appearances, and neglected to provide required information to the court.

After acquiring the diary and other belongings, Harris enlisted Robert Kurlander’s aid to orchestrate a sale. The materials eventually found their way to conservative media outlet Project Veritas in the lead-up to the 2020 election, earning the duo $40,000.

The contents of the diary did not go public, but parts of it were eventually disseminated online, including disturbing revelations about Biden taking showers with her father. “Was I molested? I think so — I can’t remember specifics but I do remember trauma. Hyper-sexualized @ a young age . . . I remember being somewhat sexualized with Caroline; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/my dad (probably not appropriate),” Biden wrote.

Harris’s sentencing hearing is set for April 9 and prosecutors have warned against further avoidance, threatening an enhancement for obstruction of justice.

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The Justice Department has asked a New York district judge to send Aimee Harris, the woman who stole Ashley Biden's diary, to prison for four to 10 months. show more
April 5, 2024
Corruption
Crime

Georgia Lovers Fani Willis And Nathan Wade Face New Accusations of Impropriety.

Fulton County’s District Attorney, Fani Willis, is facing renewed legal scrutiny for allegedly recording a confidential phone conversation without the other party’s consent. Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for former President Donald Trump‘s co-defendant Harrison Floyd, claims Willis unlawfully taped a phone call with one of his Maryland-based associates — violating the state’s two-party consent law.

“She did reach out to us, one of my colleagues in Maryland, and was rude, abrupt with him on the phone, and he was dealing with the Maryland case, and I was dealing with the Georgia case, and she ended up recording him,” Kachouroff said in an interview on Tuesday with legal analyst Phil Holloway. Maryland state law requires that any recording of a conversation receive consent from both parties involved. Violations of the law could result in up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine.

Willis appears to have survived an attempt earlier this year to disqualify her from the RICO prosecution she brought against former President Donald Trump and 14 other co-defendants. Attorneys for the defendants accused the District Attorney of impropriety by having a sexual relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade prior to her appointing him to the case. Wade has subsequently stepped down from the prosecution after Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee determined that either he or Willis would need to remove themselves from the case.

Wade, meanwhile, finds himself facing a contempt of court charge after his estranged wife, Jocelyn Wade, claimed the former special prosecutor had not contributed financially towards their children and her emergency medical expenses.

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Fulton County's District Attorney, Fani Willis, is facing renewed legal scrutiny for allegedly recording a confidential phone conversation without the other party's consent. Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for former President Donald Trump's co-defendant Harrison Floyd, claims Willis unlawfully taped a phone call with one of his Maryland-based associates — violating the state's two-party consent law. show more
April 5, 2024
William Upton
Immigration

Biden, Zuckerberg Allies Use Baltimore Bridge Collapse to Demand MORE Cheap Illegal Labor.

As Joe Biden visits the Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage in Baltimore, Maryland, the President’s allies — including progressive lawmakers and corporate special interest groups — are using the immigrant deaths to renew a push for the mass legalization of illegal immigrants working low-wage jobs. The bridge collapsed after being struck by a shipping vessel on March 26 — with six immigrant workers killed in the disaster.

Proponents of mass amnesty for illegals contend that illegal aliens who have worked and paid taxes in the U.S. for decades are entitled to the legitimacy of a work permit. Organizations such as the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC) and FWD.us — a progressive advocacy group co-founded by Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan — are spearheading the effort.

Critics argue this press for immigration legislation unfairly utilizes the tragic bridge disaster as leverage and neglects American citizens. Chris Chmielenski, the president of the Immigration Accountability Project, told Breitbart that the corporate media is “choosing — whether consciously or not — to ignore the fact that these immigrant workers are being exploited at the expense of American workers who are willing to take these jobs.”

Since President Biden took office, more than 13.7 million illegal immigrants have entered the U.S., displacing native-born workers. The National Pulse previously reported that almost all of the jobs gained by the U.S. economy since the start of Biden’s term have been fueled by migrant labor. This led the Biden government and its progressive allies to quietly push executive actions to work around the immigration limits set by Congress in 1990.

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As Joe Biden visits the Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage in Baltimore, Maryland, the President's allies — including progressive lawmakers and corporate special interest groups — are using the immigrant deaths to renew a push for the mass legalization of illegal immigrants working low-wage jobs. The bridge collapsed after being struck by a shipping vessel on March 26 — with six immigrant workers killed in the disaster. show more

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