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January 8, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Politics

Pelosi Saw 65% Return on Stock Portfolio In 2023, Outperforming S&P By 92%.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi well-outperformed the market in terms of her personal investments in 2023. The 83-year- old Democrat from San Francisco realized a 65 percent return on her stock portfolio – the S&P 500 meanwhile only saw a 24 percent overall return in 2023. Pelosi’s market success last year is even more remarkable as in 2022 her portfolio actually took a hit of nearly 20 percent.

Pelosi’s financial disclosures indicate that the questionable use of ‘stock options’ was the primary driver of her portfolio’s turn-around. When using stock options, an investor has the right to buy-or-sell a stock at an agreed upon price at a set date. The two types of options used by investors are ‘puts’ and ‘calls’. A ‘put’ is when an investor essentially makes a bet a given stock’s price will fall. A ‘call’ is when they bet the price will rise.

Options Trading Or Insider Trading?

Stock options are most frequently used by major investment firms and professional traders who can dedicate a great deal of time and resources to find arbitrage opportunities where a ‘put’ or ‘call’ could drastically increase the return for them and their investors. However, the use of options also comes with a great deal of risk, as placing the wrong bet could be financially devastating to the investor or firm.

The increased use of stock options by Members of Congress is especially concerning as most are reasonably assumed to be fairly casual investors without a full time staff dedicated to discovering potential arbitrage opportunities. In 2022 options trading generated about $30 million in returns for Members of Congress, but those returns over quintupled in 2023 to $160 million.

Congressional watchdog groups say the increase in options trading is concerning. Jeff Hauser, founder and director of the Revolving Door Project, told the New York Post in a recent interview: “It’s a sign of quasi-insider trading that’s corrupt and should be banned – it’s either an addiction to risk or a sign of corruption.”

Image Credit: Gage Skidmore

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi well-outperformed the market in terms of her personal investments in 2023. The 83-year- old Democrat from San Francisco realized a 65 percent return on her stock portfolio – the S&P 500 meanwhile only saw a 24 percent overall return in 2023. Pelosi's market success last year is even more remarkable as in 2022 her portfolio actually took a hit of nearly 20 percent. show more
January 8, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Trump Demands Sec Def Lloyd Austin ‘Fired’ After Going ‘Missing for One Week.’

Former President Donald Trump has called for U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin to be “fired immediately for improper professional conduct and dereliction of duty.” Austin was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the first day of 2024, following severe pain from an unexplained elective procedure. For days, Biden and the White House were not informed that Austin had been hospitalized, with even Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks unaware of her superior’s status when she began assuming some of his duties on Jan 2nd.

“[Austin] has been missing for one week, and nobody, including his boss, Crooked Joe Biden, had a clue as to where he was, or might be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“He has performed poorly, and should have been dismissed long ago, along with ‘General’ Mark Milley, for many reasons, but in particular the catastrophic surrender in Afghanistan, perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our Country,” he added.

While the public remains in the dark about the nature of Secretary Austin’s condition, Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder now claims he has resumed his professional duties from hospital. Austin is also said to have communicated with President Joe Biden and other senior officials, including Deputy Secretary Hicks and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown, Jr.

No specific discharge date has been provided for Secretary Austin, with Ryder citing privacy reasons for withholding additional information about the exact nature and progress of his condition.

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Former President Donald Trump has called for U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin to be "fired immediately for improper professional conduct and dereliction of duty." Austin was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the first day of 2024, following severe pain from an unexplained elective procedure. For days, Biden and the White House were not informed that Austin had been hospitalized, with even Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks unaware of her superior's status when she began assuming some of his duties on Jan 2nd. show more
January 6, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
Crime
Politics

Top Nikki Haley, E Jean Carroll, & Fusion GPS Backer Was Epstein Island Visitor.

Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman, who has been funding Nikki Haley’s run for the GOP nomination, has been outed as a visitor to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James – better known as ‘Pedo Island’.

The Democrat mega-donor and LinkedIn founder was reported to be considering funding Ron DeSantis, purely to try and thwart Donald Trump’s nomination, nine months ago. He ultimately decided to back Haley, gifting a quarter-million dollars to the pro-Haley SFA Fund Inc.

The super PAC had been asked if it would accept the money, given Hoffman’s status as an active Biden supporter, prior to the donation, and it confirmed it would.

Hoffman has now been outed for visiting Epstein’s island in 2014 – long after Epstein’s conviction for procuring a girl below age 18 for prostitution – and even arranged to stay at the Manhattan townhouse where the financier abused many of his victims.

Hoffman admitted to The Wall Street Journal that “by lending my association, I helped [Epstein’s] reputation, and thus delayed justice for his survivors”. He claimed his last interaction with the convicted sex offender was in 2015.

Haley is coming under pressure to return Hoffman’s money on social media from users including Congressman Lance Gooden.

Hoffman is also known for having secretly bankrolled E. Jean Carroll’s civil case alleging that Trump raped her in 1995 or 1996.

Carroll initially claimed she had been receiving no outside funding, but was not sanctioned by Bill Clinton-appointed judge Lewis Kaplan when the truth came out. Kaplan also ruled jurors could not be told about Hoffman’s involvement in the case.

Hoffman also “contributed more than $600,000 to the legal defense fund of Bean LLC — otherwise known as Fusion GPS, the company responsible for the creation of the Steele Dossier,” which spread various false accusations of links between Trump and Russia.

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Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman, who has been funding Nikki Haley's run for the GOP nomination, has been outed as a visitor to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's private island, Little St. James – better known as 'Pedo Island'. show more

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Isn’t it funny? Not only did Trump openly boot Epstein from his Mar-A-Lago club when people began whispering about his behavior, but Epstein associates like Hoffman have made it their cause to try and stop Donald Trump at any cost
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January 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
UK

UK Election May Take Place Just 9 Days After America’s.

Britain’s general election is tipped to take place around November 14th, just nine days after the U.S. elections on November 5th.

UK elections do not fall on fixed dates. The Prime Minister — currently “Conservative” leader Rishi Sunak — is able to ask the Monarch to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections at any time within a period of five years.

Sunak has said his “working assumption is we’ll have a general election in the second half of this year.” The country’s top election commentator and pollster, Sir John Curtice, says “there is beginning to be a consensus it might be November 14th.”

“All the parties have decided to hold their party conferences rather early next Autumn. The Prime Minister will end the Conservative conference on October 2nd, that might be the starting gun,” he told the BBC.

As things stand, the Conservatives, or Tories, are expected to take a drubbing, with polls showing their support hovering around 25 percent. Boris Johnson, who led the Tories into the last election at the end of 2019, delivered their biggest parliamentary majority since the 1980s on a platform of completing Brexit, reducing immigration, and lowering taxes.

They have since squandered this support, however, leaving Brexit unfinished, wildly increasing legal immigration, allowing illegal immigration to surge, and pushing the tax burden to its heaviest since the Second World War.

The latest the British elections can be held is January 2025, but it is unlikely Sunak will delay the moment of decision this long, as it would require politicians to campaign through Christmas.

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Britain's general election is tipped to take place around November 14th, just nine days after the U.S. elections on November 5th. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
It’s a pretty big deal having all these elections so close together
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It’s a pretty big deal having all these elections so close together show more
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January 5, 2024
Politics

Anti-Trump Jan 6 Capitol Cop Announces Congressional Run.

Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn has announced his decision to run for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses the state capitol Annapolis, Ellicott City, Lake Shore, Naval Academy, and more.

Dunn – who was on duty during the January 6 riots and cried during his testimony – has been an outspoken and public proponent of the “insurrection” hoax as part of the Democrats’ House January 6 Select Committee.

“Obviously, my experiences on January 6 I saw firsthand democracy under attack,” Dunn said in an interview with CNN. “It’s no exaggeration to say we are one election away from the extinction of our democracy as we know it right now,” Dunn asserted.

Dunn rose to prominence following a dramatic testimony given to the January 6 committee. “Capitol Police officers and Metropolitan Police officers, MPD, were engaged in desperate hand-to-hand fighting with rioters across the west lawn,” Dunn said. “I witnessed the rioters using all kinds of weapons against officers, including flagpoles, metal bike racks that they had torn apart, and various kinds of projectiles. Many were screaming, and many were blinded and coughing from chemical irritants being sprayed in their faces,” he claimed.

Dunn is seeking to replace Democrat John Sarbanes, who has announced his decision not to seek re-election in 2024.

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Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn has announced his decision to run for Maryland's 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses the state capitol Annapolis, Ellicott City, Lake Shore, Naval Academy, and more. show more
January 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
War
World

Top Haley Advisor is ‘Israel Fanatic, Totally Opposed to Peace’, Was Fired by Trump.

Nikki Haley’s top advisor, Jon Lerner, is a neocon “fanatic” whose consultancy firm once received roughly $15 million per election cycle from the globalist Club for Growth – dubbed the “Club for No Growth” or the “Club for China Growth” by Donald Trump – before he took up a position as Haley’s deputy at the United Nations (UN) during the Trump administration.

A profile of Lerner quoted a Gulf States Institute scholar as describing him as a “complete fanatic, totally opposed to peace,” who would be “a flag-waving fan of Hamas” if he had been born an Arab.

While serving as Haley’s deputy, Lerner was tapped by then-Vice President Mike Pence to become his national security advisor, too – until President Trump caught wind of his background.

Discovering Lerner was heavily involved in producing vicious attack ads against him for the Club for Growth during the Republican primaries, the President blocked Lerner’s appointment in 2018. It was an early warning of Pence’s then-undiscovered disloyalty, with Trump said to have wondered aloud: “Why would Mike do that?”

While Trump adopted a strong pro-Israel position as President – a fact acknowledged by Lerner, who wrote in 2019 that Haley “would not have been able” to deliver anything for Israel at at UN without his steadfast support – Haley has adopted a foreign policy stance which appears to put Israeli interests ahead of American interests, repeatedly making the bizarre claim that Israel has “never” needed America but “America needs Israel” on the campaign trail.

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Nikki Haley's top advisor, Jon Lerner, is a neocon "fanatic" whose consultancy firm once received roughly $15 million per election cycle from the globalist Club for Growth – dubbed the "Club for No Growth" or the "Club for China Growth" by Donald Trump – before he took up a position as Haley's deputy at the United Nations (UN) during the Trump administration. show more
January 4, 2024
William Upton
Immigration
Politics

VIDEO: ‘We’re Not in a Classroom!’ – RINO Triggered by Border Security Question from Reporter.

U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) snapped at a reporter who asked lawmakers to raise their hand if they supported shutting down the government unless President Joe Biden shuts down the border. The incident took place at a press conference held by House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican lawmakers at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier today.

“We’re not going to do a show of hands,” Fallon can be heard saying – interrupting House Speaker Mike Johnson as he fielded the question from Real America Voice’s Ben Bergquam. The Texas Republican continued: “We’re not in a classroom. We’re not doing a show of hands.”

The moment was additionally bizarre given that Bergquam and other reporters are routinely asked to raise their hands to aks questions of politicians, despite not being “in a classroom,” and that the question should be relatively easy to answer for a so-called conservative concerned with U.S. border security.

Instead, Speaker Johnson indicated the House would push forward with passing individual appropriations bills. He added that House Republicans were able to head off a Christmas omnibus bill out of the Senate. The House passed a laddered continuing resolution, meaning Congress has until January 19th to fund part of the federal government – and February 2nd to fund the remaining departments.

More than 60 House Republican lawmakers traveled to the U.S. southern border on Wednesday to see first-hand the results of President Biden’s open border policies. Several illegal immigrants were caught on video crossing into the United States just feet away from Speaker Johnson and his Congressional delegation as they prepared for a press conference yesterday.

WATCH:

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U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) snapped at a reporter who asked lawmakers to raise their hand if they supported shutting down the government unless President Joe Biden shuts down the border. The incident took place at a press conference held by House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican lawmakers at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier today. show more
January 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
Politics

Dems Drop 156-Page Report Bemoaning Foreign Dignitaries Ordering Room Service at Trump Hotels.

House Democrats have released a report attacking Donald Trump over the fact foreign states and state-owned businesses have occasionally purchased services from his hotel and real estate empire, comparing this to the shady business dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The White House for Sale: How Princes, Prime Ministers, and Premiers Paid Off President Trump report lacks anything resembling a smoking gun, with the Trump Organization’s income from foreign sources consisting largely of foreign dignitaries and government-linked businesses renting office space or hotel rooms, and spending small amounts of money on conveniences like room service.

The Democrat report flagged “spending by foreign governments and entities” of as little as $590 dollars – attributed to European Union member-state Cyprus, at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. – indicating some desperation in their hunt for illicit funding sources.

The Democrats even flagged spending at Trump hotels by NATO allies Latvia and Hungary, worth $2,739 and $ 1,011, respectively.

“Former President Trump has legitimate businesses, but the Bidens do not,” commented Representative James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee which has been investigating the President and his family.

Eric Trump said the idea his father had somehow benefited from financial links to China, in particular, was “insane”.

“There is no President in United States history who was tougher on China than Donald Trump,” he pointed out.

Eric also noted that The Trump Organization made a voluntary annual payment to the Treasury, gifting profits from certain hotel stays to the American people, and explained that some of the business arrangements the Democrat report took issue with long predate Trump’s presidency.

A Chinese bank renting space at Trump Tower, for example, was noted to have first signed its 20-year lease in 2008.

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House Democrats have released a report attacking Donald Trump over the fact foreign states and state-owned businesses have occasionally purchased services from his hotel and real estate empire, comparing this to the shady business dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter. show more
January 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Lawyer Alina Habba Says Trump Concerned Over SCOTUS Verdict on Ballot Bans.

Alina Habba, a lawyer representing Donald Trump and advising the Save America PAC, says the 45th President has voiced concerns the Supreme Court may not rule in his favor over efforts to remove him from 2024 election ballots.

Responding to claims that Trump is concerned the court may want to look as though it is not biased in his favor, as he appointed three of its justices, Habba confirmed “that’s a concern that he’s voiced to me, he’s voiced to everybody publicly, not privately.”

“I can tell you that his concern is a valid one. You know, Republicans… get nervous, they unfortunately are sometimes shy[ing] away from being pro-Trump… they’re trying so hard to look neutral that sometimes they make the wrong call,” she said.

“I just encourage them to really look at the law and the Constitution; it’s very clean cut,” she added.

The all-Democrat-appointed Colorado Supreme Court ruled narrowly that Trump should not be allowed to appear on the state’s GOP primary ballot, alleging he is an insurrectionist and disqualified from the presidency under the 14th Amendment.

The Secretary of State for Maine, anti-Trump partisan Shenna Bellows, has also removed the 45th President from ballot in her state.

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Alina Habba, a lawyer representing Donald Trump and advising the Save America PAC, says the 45th President has voiced concerns the Supreme Court may not rule in his favor over efforts to remove him from 2024 election ballots. show more
January 3, 2024
Election 2024
Politics

Nikki Haley Campaign Hauls Whopping $24M in Q4 2023.

In a sign of financial momentum, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign reported raising $24 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, more than doubling the $11 million it raised in the third quarter.

The Haley campaign used the announcement to highlight its supposed grassroots support, noting that it received contributions from 180,000 donors across all three campaign committees in the past three months, including 83,900 new contributors. Furthermore, the campaign said that $16.25 million of the fourth quarter sum came through digital and mail grassroots efforts. With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching on January 15, the Haley campaign revealed it now has $14.5 million cash on hand to spend.

Haley currently leads her nearest competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in the New Hampshire primary, and is making a play to overtake him in the Iowa caucus vote. Both candidates trail far behind leading GOP candidate and former president Donald Trump, who polls suggest has the support of over 50 percent of voters in the Hawkeye State.

The exponential growth in Haley’s fundraising is surely impressive, but it still pales compared to the fundraising efforts of Donald Trump. While the Trump campaign has not yet released its fourth quarter fundraising numbers, it raised a staggering $45.5 million during the third quarter of 2023, and finished September 2023 with $37.5 million in its coffers.

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In a sign of financial momentum, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's presidential campaign reported raising $24 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, more than doubling the $11 million it raised in the third quarter. show more