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June 8, 2024
Politics

VA GOP Urges Trump to Back Bob Good.

A group of Republican leaders in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District is urging former President Donald J. Trump to change his endorsement in the contentious congressional race. Trump is backing state Senator John McGuire over incumbent Republican Bob Good, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.

The group is led by Rick Buchanan, chair of the 5th District Republican Congressional Committee, and comprises about 24 other local Republican leaders.

Buchanan and the other Republicans stated in the letter, “We hope President Trump reconsiders his ill-advised endorsement and stands with the Grassroots America First supporters of Congressman Bob Good.”

In February, The National Pulse reported that Good attempted to crash an event for McGuire supporters held at a pro-Trump store in Virginia. Video of the Republican Congressman shows him in a heated exchange with the store’s owner, Karen Angulo. After several minutes of back-and-forth, Good eventually leaves the venue.

Earlier this week, McGuire rallied with Marjorie Taylor-Greene in Louisa, Virginia, where fewer than 50 people showed up. On Friday night, over 300 showed up for a rally with Bob Good, Steve Bannon, and Dave Brat at Powhatan courthouse.

 

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A group of Republican leaders in Virginia's 5th Congressional District is urging former President Donald J. Trump to change his endorsement in the contentious congressional race. Trump is backing state Senator John McGuire over incumbent Republican Bob Good, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. show more
June 7, 2024
Politics

Will Joe Biden Pardon His Son Hunter?

Joe Biden stated in an interview Thursday that he will accept the verdict in his son Hunter Biden‘s criminal trial and will not invoke his presidential power to pardon him if convicted. Biden made these remarks during an interview with ABC News in Normandy, France, where the 81-year-old Democrat participated in a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

When questioned whether he would rule out a pardon for his son, who faces three federal gun-related charges in Delaware, Biden responded affirmatively, “Yes.” He also confirmed that he would accept the outcome of the jury trial, a historic first for a sitting president’s offspring.

The White House had previously stated Biden would not apply his pardon power to Hunter Biden. “I’ve been very clear; the president is not going to pardon his son,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in December. Hunter Biden is also set to stand trial on federal tax charges in September.

“As the President, I don’t and won’t comment on pending federal cases, but as a Dad, I have boundless love for my son, confidence in him, and respect for his strength,” Biden said when the trial began on Monday. “Our family has been through a lot, and Jill and I will continue to be there for Hunter with our love and support.”

In the same interview, President Biden criticized former President Donald J. Trump for refusing to accept a biased New York jury’s decision that found him guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records. Biden accused Trump of attempting to “undermine” the rule of law. “He got a fair trial. The jury spoke,” Biden stated, despite the prosecution’s dubious legal theory and the case being overseen by a corrupt, Democrat–aligned judge.

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Joe Biden stated in an interview Thursday that he will accept the verdict in his son Hunter Biden's criminal trial and will not invoke his presidential power to pardon him if convicted. Biden made these remarks during an interview with ABC News in Normandy, France, where the 81-year-old Democrat participated in a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. show more
June 6, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
Politics
World

Slovak PM Says Soros Encouraged The Assassination Attempt On Him.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived multiple gunshot wounds on May 15, has issued his first public address since the assassination attempt. In a 14-minute video posted on Wednesday, just before a moratorium on electioneering ahead of the European elections, the populist leader said he felt “no hatred towards the stranger who shot me,” saying he was “only a messenger of evil and political hatred, which the politically unsuccessful and frustrated opposition developed in Slovakia to unmanageable proportions.”

Fico, an ally of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, is opposed to mass migration and the Western proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. He accused globalist opposition politicians, “foreign-funded political non-governmental organizations,” and corporate media outlets “co-owned by the financial structure of George Soros” of encouraging his attempted assassination by fomenting a poisonous political atmosphere.

“I fundamentally disagree with the single-correct-opinion policy that some major Western democracies are aggressively promoting today,” Fico said. He argued the EU and NATO have “literally sanctified the concept of the single correct opinion” on Ukraine, “namely that the war in Ukraine must continue at any cost in order to weaken the Russian Federation.”

Anyone who disagrees, he complained, is “immediately labeled as a Russian agent.”

Fico recalled charting an independent path for Slovakia during previous terms in office, for example, by refusing to assist the Bill Clinton-led NATO bombing of Serbia and withdrawing Slovak soldiers from Iraq. Now, he argued, “the right to a different opinion has ceased to exist in the EU.”

Michal Šimečka, chairman of the Progressive Slovakia opposition party, has already complained about Fico’s speech, saying he should have promoted social reconciliation. Another opposition leader said Fico, by calling out the globalists who facilitated his shooting, is the one promoting political division.

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived multiple gunshot wounds on May 15, has issued his first public address since the assassination attempt. In a 14-minute video posted on Wednesday, just before a moratorium on electioneering ahead of the European elections, the populist leader said he felt "no hatred towards the stranger who shot me," saying he was "only a messenger of evil and political hatred, which the politically unsuccessful and frustrated opposition developed in Slovakia to unmanageable proportions." show more
June 6, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
Politics
World

Populist Politician Stabbed in Same City Where Afghan Killed Cop at Anti-Islam Rally.

Heinrich Koch, a 62-year-old local council candidate for Alternative for Germany (AfD), was stabbed on Tuesday night after confronting a young man who was pulling down political posters in Mannheim. Last Friday, an Afghan migrant attacked a Mannheim anti-Islamization rally organized by the Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa (BpE). Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger and a police officer named as Rouven L. were among the people stabbed by the Afghan, with the officer later dying.

AfD state chairman Markus Frohnmaier said he was “shocked and dismayed” by Koch’s stabbing. National spokesman Tino Chrupalla said the populist party’s “members and representatives are the most frequent victims of political violence” in Germany, but this would not stop them. Koch was reportedly wounded in the stomach and ear and is currently hospitalized.

He captured the incident on video, and the footage is circulating on social media, with some sources describing the attacker as ANTIFA. However, as of the time of publication, this is unconfirmed, and he remains at large.

The AfD is one of several anti-mass migration parties in Western Europe that is expected to make a significant breakthrough in the European Parliament elections later this month. Recent polls have the party either tying or leading the governing Social Democrats, with a significant advantage over its coalition partners, the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats.

The AfD’s increasing support increasingly perturbs the German political establishment. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has suggested the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution could ban the populist party as a right-wing extremist organization. The notionally center-right Christian Democrats, formerly led by Angela Merkel, have also been working on legislation to outlaw the party.

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Heinrich Koch, a 62-year-old local council candidate for Alternative for Germany (AfD), was stabbed on Tuesday night after confronting a young man who was pulling down political posters in Mannheim. Last Friday, an Afghan migrant attacked a Mannheim anti-Islamization rally organized by the Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa (BpE). Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger and a police officer named as Rouven L. were among the people stabbed by the Afghan, with the officer later dying. show more
June 5, 2024
Politics

KEEP IT CLASSY! Hunter Biden’s Wife Hurls Abuse at Ex Trump Aide.

During a break in Hunter Biden‘s federal gun trial on Tuesday, his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, engaged in a heated verbal altercation with Garrett Ziegler, the founder of not-for-profit Marco Polo and a former aide in the Trump administration. Witnesses reported that Cohen Biden confronted Ziegler, pointing her finger at him and shouting, “You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of [expletive],” before walking away.

Ziegler was part of an effort by Trump campaign allies to publicize the content found on Hunter Biden’s laptop during the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election. The laptop contained a trove of emails, files, and photos that ranged from extensive documentation of Hunter Biden’s drug abuse to how the Biden family conducted its foreign business dealings. Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against Ziegler and Marco Polo last year, alleging they broke state and federal by attempting to launch a searchable database of nearly 130,000 emails extracted from the laptop.

The former Trump administration aide responded to the incident by laughing but did not engage further. In a statement to NBC News, Ziegler clarified, “For the record, I’m not a Nazi; I’m a believer in the U.S. Constitution. I haven’t said one thing to them.”

Following the encounter, Marco Polo issued a statement on the social media platform X, criticizing Cohen Biden’s actions and suggesting that she exhibited the same level of impulse control as her husband, Hunter Biden. “To the family bringing decency back, anyone who is perceived as opposition is a Nazi,” the organization posted. “Truly contemptible liars & scoundrels. We don’t respond in kind in the back of a courtroom, because we’re gentlemen who do not berate women.”

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During a break in Hunter Biden's federal gun trial on Tuesday, his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, engaged in a heated verbal altercation with Garrett Ziegler, the founder of not-for-profit Marco Polo and a former aide in the Trump administration. Witnesses reported that Cohen Biden confronted Ziegler, pointing her finger at him and shouting, “You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of [expletive],” before walking away. show more
June 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
Politics

More Senators Pledge to Block Dem Appointments Over Anti-Trump Lawfare.

Senator Josh Hawley and Senator Ron Johnson have joined eight other Senate Republicans in signing a pledge, organized by Senator Mike Lee, to block legislation not essential to American security in response to Donald Trump’s sham conviction in Manhattan.

“The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways,” the pledge states. “As a Senate Republican conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White in its project to tear this country apart. To that end, we will not 1) allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare; 2) vote to confirm this administration’s political and judicial appointees; and 3) allow expedited consideration and passage of Democrat legislation or authorities that are not directly relevant to the safety of the American people.”

While the Democrats and Democrat-aligned Independents under Chuck Schumer enjoy a 51-49 majority in the Senate, it takes 60 votes to close debates in the upper chamber, empowering the Republicans to filibuster most legislation.

Whether Senate Republicans beyond those signed up to Sen. Lee’s pledge will use their power to block the Democrats in Congress remains to be seen. However, even Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime enemy of Trump, has expressed anger at the former president’s conviction. “These charges never should have been brought in the first place,” he wrote, predicting “the conviction to be overturned on appeal.”

The Manhattan case, brought by Democrat District Alvin Bragg and overseen by a judge who donated to Joe Biden and the Stop Republicans group, has drawn criticism across the political spectrum. CNN Senior Legal Analyst Eli Honig branded it an “ill-conceived, unjustified mess” that “contorted the law.”

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Senator Josh Hawley and Senator Ron Johnson have joined eight other Senate Republicans in signing a pledge, organized by Senator Mike Lee, to block legislation not essential to American security in response to Donald Trump's sham conviction in Manhattan. show more
June 4, 2024
William Upton
Politics

Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Could Soon Be in Congress.

Christine Pelosi, daughter of Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), is believed to be angling to replace her mother in Congress when the powerful 84-year-old California Democrat decides to retire. The maneuvering is complicating efforts by California State Senator Scott Wiener, a far-left progressive, to position himself to succeed the former Democrat House Speaker as well.

A fight between Weiner, 54, and Christine Pelosi, 58, to succeed the latter’s mother would likely pit national Democrats against the California Democratic Party, where Weiner has built a robust base of support. The younger Pelosi, meanwhile, is a long-time party operative and has deep ties to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), where she has served as the Vice Chairman for Campaigns and Elections.

Weiner has been building a shadow campaign for several years in anticipation of Nancy Pelosi‘s retirement. In 2023, the progressive state senator announced he had amassed a $1 million war chest to fund his congressional run. The 84-year-old Pelosi’s decision to run for another term in office derailed Weiner’s plans.

Both Weiner and Pelosi aren’t without their problems. While popular among the LGBTQ community and progressive activists, Weiner’s anti-police and pro-drug legalization positions have alienated more moderate Democrats. Christine Pelosi, meanwhile, came under fire in 2020 for a tweet declaring, “Rand Paul’s neighbor was right.” In 2017, Senator Paul (R-KY) was violently attacked by his neighbor. In a twist of irony, her father, Paul Pelosi, was attacked shortly after her tweet.

Should the Pelosi family decide to keep the Congressional seat in the family, Christine Pelosi will likely find a wealth of allies thanks to her mother’s tremendous influence and power.

“It’s very difficult for anybody to challenge the name Pelosi,” former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said in a recent interview regarding the potential succession fight. He added: “Nancy Pelosi is basically the foremost Democrat in this state.”

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Christine Pelosi, daughter of Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), is believed to be angling to replace her mother in Congress when the powerful 84-year-old California Democrat decides to retire. The maneuvering is complicating efforts by California State Senator Scott Wiener, a far-left progressive, to position himself to succeed the former Democrat House Speaker as well. show more
June 3, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
Politics
World

Mexico Elects Far-Left Claudia Sheinbaum as First Female, First ‘Jewish’ President.

Claudia Sheinbaum has won the Mexican presidential elections. A member of current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist Moreno party, Obrador will be both the first woman and the first Jewish person to become President of Mexico. Sheinbaum, a climate “scientist,” has strongly emphasized her sex, telling supporters, “For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, I will become the first woman president of Mexico. We have achieved a plural, diverse, and democratic Mexico.” Conversely, she has downplayed her Jewish heritage, saying, “Of course I know where I come from, but my parents were atheists,” and insisting she “never belonged to the Jewish community.”

Her Ashkenazi paternal and Sephardic maternal grandparents migrated to Mexico from Lithuania and Bulgaria, respectively.

The Mexican presidency is an important matter for the U.S., with the flood of illegal aliens and fentanyl across the southern border having reached unprecedented heights with Obrador in the Mexican presidential palace and Joe Biden in the White House.

President Obrador, known as AMLO, has shown little enthusiasm for tackling the crises. “We do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl” in Mexico, he said in 2023, telling Americans the drug is “their problem.”

The same year, Obrador said the “flow of migrants” will continue unless the U.S. meets a series of Mexican demands, including an end to the trade embargo against communist Cuba, the lifting of sanctions against communist Venezuela, the legalization of millions of Mexican illegals, and tens of billions of dollars in payouts to Latin America.

Sheinbaum has said she will continue Obrador’s foreign policy with “pride” and “will always tell [the U.S.] it’s better to build bridges rather than walls.”

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Claudia Sheinbaum has won the Mexican presidential elections. A member of current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador's leftist Moreno party, Obrador will be both the first woman and the first Jewish person to become President of Mexico. Sheinbaum, a climate "scientist," has strongly emphasized her sex, telling supporters, “For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, I will become the first woman president of Mexico. We have achieved a plural, diverse, and democratic Mexico." Conversely, she has downplayed her Jewish heritage, saying, “Of course I know where I come from, but my parents were atheists,” and insisting she “never belonged to the Jewish community.” show more
May 31, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare
Politics

Sen. Mike Lee Declares War on Senate Democrats After Trump Verdict.

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is leading a coalition of Republican Senators who say they are “no longer cooperating with any Democrat legislative priorities or nominations” following Thursday’s guilty verdict against former President Donald J. Trump in his Manhattan-based hush money trial. The Utah Republican, in an open letter signed by seven of his colleagues, invited “all concerned Senators to join our stand.”

“The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways,” Sen. Lee wrote before adding: “As a Senate Republican conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart.”  Lee’s letter is joined by Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rick Scott (R-FL), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).

In a statement exclusive to The National Pulse, Sen. Lee said: “This is a time for choosing. Are Republicans—or any elected officials of any party—going to sit idly by and watch as America’s judicial system is reduced to the legitimacy of a banana republic, or are we going to do something?”

The group of Senate Republicans is pledging to block all non-security-related funding for the Biden government, as well as any appropriations bill that could fund Biden’s partisan lawfare against former President Trump. Additionally, Lee’s coalition says they will vote against confirmation for any future Biden judicial nominees or political appointees and prevent the expedited passage of any non-security legislation in the Senate.

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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is leading a coalition of Republican Senators who say they are "no longer cooperating with any Democrat legislative priorities or nominations" following Thursday's guilty verdict against former President Donald J. Trump in his Manhattan-based hush money trial. The Utah Republican, in an open letter signed by seven of his colleagues, invited "all concerned Senators to join our stand." show more
May 31, 2024
William Upton
Politics

Rep. Jim Jordan Demands Anti-Trump NY Prosecutors Appear Before Weaponization Committee.

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government (Weaponziation Committee), is demanding that Manthann District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Senior Counsel to the District Attorney Matthew Colangelo appear before Congress on June 13. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Weaponization Committee said the two Democrat attorneys are being asked to “testify about the unprecedented political prosecution of President Trump.”

The committee announcement comes on the heels of a New York jury finding former President Donald J. Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan-based hush money trial brought by Bragg. Democrat-aligned Judge Juan Merchan presided over the case and appeared to purposefully bias the jury in favor of the Manhattan DA and his prosecutors.

In addition to Bragg, Chairman Jordan has requested that Matthew Colangelo — who served as a senior official in the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) prior to joining Bragg’s office — testify as well. The National Pulse has reported extensively on Colangelo and his nearly two-decade history of lawfare against conservative organizations and Republican lawmakers. Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill suspect Colangelo of being a go-between used by the Biden government to coordinate with Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump.

The committee is also set to hear from former Federal Election Commissioner Bradley Smith. Democrat-aligned Judge Juan Merchan essentially barred Smith from testifying in the hush money trial. Smith was set to testify that the payments made to disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen were not in violation of federal campaign finance law. The charges brought by Bragg were predicated on an alleged federal campaign finance violation for which Trump was never changed nor convicted.

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Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government (Weaponziation Committee), is demanding that Manthann District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Senior Counsel to the District Attorney Matthew Colangelo appear before Congress on June 13. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Weaponization Committee said the two Democrat attorneys are being asked to "testify about the unprecedented political prosecution of President Trump." show more