Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has imposed a discovery order on the state’s House of Representatives, demanding they reveal they basis for the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton. The order came mere hours after The National Pulse pressed the matter in a scathing piece of analysis by Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.
It has been almost two months since the impeachment vote, but the House has still told neither Paxton nor the Texas voting public why they voted to impeach him, or what evidence they have against him.
Acting in his capacity as President of the Senate and Presiding Officer of the Court of Impeachment, Lt. Gov. Patrick has now instructed House impeachment managers to hand over all the reports, documents, and statements used to justify their investigation, and to allow Paxton’s counsel to inspect all the evidence they expect to bring against him in his Senate trial.
Patrick has warned the managers that failure to comply with these instructions may result in evidence being excluded from the trial, or even contempt of court proceedings.
While the Texas House is controlled by RINO-style Republicans, the impeachment efforts against Paxton have been spearheaded by Ann Johnson, a Democrat, in a classic episode of uniparty collusion.
Kassam said of the matter, Thursday: “Hundreds of The National Pulse’s readers sprang into action on the basis of our report yesterday, and I’m delighted it has led to more transparency for Texans and American tax payers at large. We will continue to report the truth, no matter who tries to stop us, and we are eternally grateful for the help our of audience.”
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Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has imposed a discovery order on the state's House of Representatives, demanding they reveal they basis for the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton. The order came mere hours after The National Pulse pressed the matter in a scathing piece of analysis by Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.
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Chris Wray, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), seemed to admit that President Joe Biden is under investigation for allegedly accepting Ukrainian bribes while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Wray was asked by Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) whether Biden had ever accepted payments from Burisma – a Ukrainian holding company for a group of exploration and production companies – or any other foreign companies while he was Vice President, President, or a private citizen.
“As you may know, there is an ongoing investigation being by the US Attorney in Delaware, Mr. Weiss, appointed by President Trump in the last administration, that our Baltimore field office is working with,” Wray responded.
Wray then refused to confirm whether Biden was the subject of the investigation when pressed in a follow-up question from Tiffany, who doubled down on the point, asking Wray, “so [Biden’s] not under investigation?”
“I didn’t’ say that either. By long-standing department policy and practice, I’m not going to be confirming or denying who is or isn’t under investigation,” Wray explained.
This follows the revelations that an executive of Burisma told the FBI he would have to pay “$5 million for one Biden, [and] $5 million for the other Biden.”
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🚨BREAKING: FBI Director Wray confirms Joe Biden is under criminal investigation for Ukrainian bribes by the US Attorney in Delaware then tries to backpedal after realizing what he disclosed
Chris Wray, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), seemed to admit that President Joe Biden is under investigation for allegedly accepting Ukrainian bribes while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
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Allan Lichtman – famous for correctly predicting the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984 (barring 2000) – says Donald Trump is now the mainstream in the Republican Party, and no other GOP presidential hopeful stands a chance of winning the party’s nomination.
The American University professor, himself a fierce critic of Trump, said ex-MAGA rival Ron DeSantis was an “abysmal candidate” who lacks Trump’s appeal and personal charm.
Lichtman was clear that other candidates, sometimes described as standard-bearers of the “Republican mainstream”, had no chance – and were no longer the mainstream. “Here’s another mistake that all the commentators make… They pose Donald Trump against the so-called ‘Republican mainstream’,” he explained.
“[S]upposedly Chris Christie is a ‘mainstream Republican’, right? Wrong! Donald Trump is the mainstream,” he continued, adding that Trump “is the new mainstream.”
The historian’s assessment echoes Trump’s own comments that the GOP is “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”
Lichtman said “the only way a DeSantis or a [Mike] Pence or a Tim Scott could possibly become the Republican nominee” is if the Republican National Committee (RNC) somehow strips Trump of the nomination, possibly following federal convictions. He noted that there is no legal bar to Trump running for the presidency however, even from behind bars.
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Allan Lichtman – famous for correctly predicting the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984 (barring 2000) – says Donald Trump is now the mainstream in the Republican Party, and no other GOP presidential hopeful stands a chance of winning the party's nomination.
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Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has decided Donald Trump’s comments about the now-failed rape accusations by gossip writer E Jean Carroll are no longer protected, even though he was President of the United States at the time, and simply responding to press questions from reporters.
Previously, both Trump and Biden’s White House said the remarks were protected.
The move comes as the DOJ is pursuing the former president through the courts, and clears the way for yet another law suit lodged by Carroll, set to proceed in January.
In a separate suit, jurors in New York found Trump was not liable for raping Carroll in a luxury department store decades ago, as she claims. They did find he was liable for sexual abuse and defamation, however. Trump is appealing the unusual verdict and counter-suing Carroll, while Carroll is seeking further damages as Trump has continued to publicly deny attacking her.
Carroll’s New York lawsuit was funded by Fusion GPS-linked Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman – though she initially denied having outside help, and the Democrat-appointed judge in the civil case ruled jurors could not be told about his role.
The 79-year-old advice columnist has accused many people of sexually attacking her throughout her life, including a small boy, a babysitter’s boyfriend, a camp counsellor, a dentist, a youth she dated in college, an unnamed former boss, and CBS chief executive Les Moonves. There is no indication she has ever pursued criminal charges against any of her alleged attackers.
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Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) has decided Donald Trump's comments about the now-failed rape accusations by gossip writer E Jean Carroll are no longer protected, even though he was President of the United States at the time, and simply responding to press questions from reporters.
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There is a 31 percent – nearly one-in-three – chance that President Joe Biden will die before completing a prospective second term in office, according to life expectancy data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number rises to a 64 percent chance of death for the octogenarian president when looking at the next ten years, as illustrated by PhD scholar Merrill Matthews at The Hill.
In fact, Matthews argues the man who will be 82 in 2024 is doing “one of the most stressful jobs in the world,” and has a number of “health challenges” which mean his likelihood of dying is office is more like “50 percent.”
Given those factors, it might be reasonable to bump up Biden’s 31.35 percent chance of dying in office to perhaps 50 percent. Thus, it is highly possible, perhaps even probable, that a Biden reelection victory would result in Kamala Harris becoming the first female president.
– Merrill Matthews PhD
A majority of men at 70 are expected to live another ten years, and a quarter are expected to make it to 90. The average 80-year-old man has just under a one-in-three probability of dying within five years. But that number relies on the individual being healthy.
“Eight years as commander in chief appears to dramatically age even a vigorous middle-aged man. And Biden is neither vigorous nor a middle-ager,” Matthews adds, though concedes that not all septuagenarians or octogenarians lack vigor as “Donald Trump at 77 is closing in on 80, and is still very physically active and high energy.”
President Biden’s declining health has not escaped the attention of the electorate. A whopping 83 percent of Americans admitted to being “concerned” about Biden’s physical and mental health in a recent poll.
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There is a 31 percent – nearly one-in-three – chance that President Joe Biden will die before completing a prospective second term in office, according to life expectancy data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number rises to a 64 percent chance of death for the octogenarian president when looking at the next ten years, as illustrated by PhD scholar Merrill Matthews at The Hill.
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Ron DeSantis’s Tuesday fundraiser in Wisconsin was hosted by a leading Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan donor who serves as vice chairman of the “woke” Goldman Sachs Foundation; is a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations; and has previously been a major backer of Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago Mayor and chief of staff to Barack Obama, The National Pulse can reveal.
Muneer Satter, 62, even has his own foundation – The Satter Foundation – which gave $1.4M to the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute think tank in 2021, as well as $75,000 to the George W. Bush Foundation.
The $13,200-a-couple lunch in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on Tuesday also involved climate change activists such as Diamond McKenna of Diamond Assets, whose firm discusses its “inclusion” policies and the need to “diversify our surroundings and celebrate our differences, rather than vilify and divide.” McKenna quotes Sheryl Sandberg, the Democrat ex-Facebook executive, as an inspirational figure.
Another DeSantis fundraising “host” – a title which requires major donations to the campaign – is Matt Neuman, who makes his money from real estate and solar panels, and supports climate change activism via the American Conservation Coalition.
Other hosts such as Jim Barry are known as straightforwardly ‘Never Trump’. The real estate mogul said he was “really not there yet” and “not sure I ever will be” on supporting Trump in 2016, after the then-Republican nominee said he was “just not quite there yet” in terms of supporting Paul Ryan for reelection. Others, like Gary Sui, have fewer comments on Trump on the public record, but are recorded as donating heavily to anti-Trumpers like Ryan, Mitt Romney, and Bob Dold.
These are not the first DeSantis donors to come under scrutiny. Top ally Morteza ‘Mori’ Hosseini and his wife Forough were recently exposed as bankrolling an Iranian political action committee which has funded Democrats including Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Jamie Raskin.
The news comes as DeSantis continues to crater in recent polls, as well as in delegate projections.
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Ron DeSantis's Tuesday fundraiser in Wisconsin was hosted by a leading Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan donor who serves as vice chairman of the "woke" Goldman Sachs Foundation; is a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations; and has previously been a major backer of Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago Mayor and chief of staff to Barack Obama, The National Pulse can reveal.
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Florida man Ron DeSantis is at an all-time low in GOP delegate number predictions, dropping more than 400 since declaring his candidacy, according to ‘Race to the WH,’ which tracks the latest GOP polling data.
DeSantis was predicted to receive around 1,413 delegates as late as February 25 this year, leading former President Donald Trump by almost 400. Since then, support for DeSantis has dropped precipitously, with the Governor now forecasted to receive only 405 delegate votes, down from 834 on May 25 – the day after his “historic screw-up” presidential campaign launch on Twitter spaces.
Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, is leading the Republican primary race in 49 US states and is expected to receive as many as 2051 delegate votes in a head-to-head with DeSantis: far more than the necessary 1,234 to win the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Worse still for DeSantis, Trump is predicted to attain a “decisive” victory in his home state of Florida, where the former President is predicted to receive 45 percent of the vote and gain 125 delegates.
This comes as the latest statistical blow to the Governor of Florida, who had to change the subject to the amount of corporate cash he has received when asked about his poor polling last week. The Governor is also expected to hold crisis talks with donors next week to insist that he is playing the “long game” and not just getting thrashed.
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Florida man Ron DeSantis is at an all-time low in GOP delegate number predictions, dropping more than 400 since declaring his candidacy, according to 'Race to the WH,' which tracks the latest GOP polling data.
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A new PAC linked to the Club for Growth – recently referred to as the “Club for China Growth” by Donald Trump – is funding a $3.6 million advertisement campaign to halt the former President ‘s efforts to become the 2024 Republican nominee.
The PAC known as ‘Win it Back’ will begin airing commercials in the key states of Iowa and South Carolina on Tuesday. The ads feature an overweight, single man – who looks more like a Lincoln Project supporter than a Trump fan – struggling to start a lawnmower while suggesting “[w]e definitely need someone that can freakin’ win,” and complaining that his sister blacklisted him for his one-time support of the 45th President.
David McIntosh and Adam Rozanksy, two leading members of the Club for Growth, are listed as agents for the new PAC. McIntosh openly announced the Club for Growth’s total opposition to Trump earlier this year, stating that “the party should be open to another candidate.”
Similar tactics have been deployed against Donald Trump before by the Club for Growth. The group spent around $1 million against the him in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. The group also spent and campaigned heavily against US Senator from Ohio JD Vance, Trump’s choice for the position in the Republican primaries last year.
“It’s not surprising that David Macintosh, a pro-China, America last, failed congressman wannabe is organizing another swampy D.C. insider super PAC,” told Chris LaCivita, a senior consultant for the Trump campaign, to POLITICO.
“Their goal is to maintain their shady influence over Washington because they know President Trump stands in their way as he protects Americans from these vultures,” LaCivita added.
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Win it Back PAC is merely the latest anti-Trump political group to be formed before the 2024 presidential election. Top Democrats and Republicans met at a “Uniparty summit” in Washington D.C. last month to discuss how to stop Trump’s re-election in 2024.
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A new PAC linked to the Club for Growth – recently referred to as the "Club for China Growth" by Donald Trump – is funding a $3.6 million advertisement campaign to halt the former President 's efforts to become the 2024 Republican nominee.
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Self-declared January 6th “orchestrator” Ray Epps is planning to sue Fox News for defamation, demanding an on-air apology and a retraction of former primetime host Tucker Carlson‘s claims that Epps may have been working for federal law enforcement at the time of the 2021 “mostly peaceful protest” at the U.S. Capitol.
“We informed Fox in March that if they did not issue a formal on-air apology that we would pursue all available avenues to protect the Eppses’ rights… [t]hat remains our intent,” told Michael Teter, Epps’s legal counsel, to The New York Times.
Teter himself has come under scrutiny, with Revolver News reporting his links to ‘Facts First USA’, “a nakedly partisan organization targeting the agenda of the so-called ‘MAGA Majority’ in Congress. The President of Facts First USA is none other than the disgraced Democrat/Clinton machine hatchet man David Brock. For those unfamiliar, Brock’s resume includes founding the Soros funded Media Matters, a so-called ‘watchdog’ group that watches conservative media 24/7 and excerpts ‘gotcha’ clips for political purposes. Brock’s current Superpac ran an 80 million dollar opposition research campaign for Biden, and the New York Times described Brock’s former group Correct the Record as ‘Hillary Clinton’s own personal media watch dog.'”
Carlson ran a number of segments on Tucker Carlson Tonight, which sought to highlight many of the inconsistencies around Ray Epps, such as the fact he was not arrested after video footage showed him shouting “we need to go into the Capitol” as well as boasting via text that he “orchestrated” the US Capitol riots.
Carlson recently claimed that he interviewed Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who told him the Jan 6th crowed was “filled” with federal agents. Fox News chose not to air the interview, and fired Carlson before he could show the footage to the world.
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Self-declared January 6th "orchestrator" Ray Epps is planning to sue Fox News for defamation, demanding an on-air apology and a retraction of former primetime host Tucker Carlson's claims that Epps may have been working for federal law enforcement at the time of the 2021 "mostly peaceful protest" at the U.S. Capitol.
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A front group being linked to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is being charged with a “desperate” dirty tricks attempt to portray former president Donald Trump as a “transgender trailblazer,” with leaflets “thanking” him for having “allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe competition in Canada” over a decade ago appearing in Iowa mailboxes.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” wrote Iowa blogger Laura Belin, who first reported the delivery of the gay leaflets on Saturday. It is unclear how many homes the leaflets have been delivered to, but the imprint reads ‘Paid for by Advancing Our Values’ – a front group registered on June 27th, 2023.
The DeSantis camp recently released a gay attack ad against former President Trump, but used an anonymous Twitter account to release it. DeSantis himself then had to run to the Fox Corp-owned Outkick website to explain the now-deleted meme.
The “dirty tricks” campaign is straight out of the playbook of DeSantis campaign chief Jeff Roe – whose firm is under investigation for campaign fraud in Nevada. Roe championed Senator Ted Cruz’s own dirty tricks campaign in Iowa in 2016, which won him the state primary but ended up hurting him in the long run.
“From the false alert the campaign sent out that Ben Carson was suspending his campaign as the Iowa caucuses began to the voter-violation mailer that the Iowa secretary of state condemned to a Photoshop-altered image of Marco Rubio and Barack Obama, they have pointed to Roe’s hidden hand in supposedly guiding Cruz into the gutter.”
The DeSantis War Room previously attempted to tie Trump to the LGBT lobby by sharing a now-deleted video of him saying he would “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens” and claiming it as evidence he supports Pride Month. The context of Trump’s comments, issued in response to the murder of 49 people at an Orlando gay club by a Muslim terrorist, was not mentioned.
‘The Campaign Trail’.
Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, analyzed the tactics – which DeSantis himself endorsed as “fair game” – on episode two of The Campaign Trail podcast released this weekend.
“[DeSantis is] taking an incident from, what, 12, 13 years ago, something to do with the Miss America pageant… and saying, ‘OK, well we need to hold Donald Trump accountable to that 2011 or 2012 standard… “On the other hand, the DeSantis team will tell you ‘Yes, DeSantis did listen to Fauci… and he did try to ban interstate travel into Florida, and he did mask up, and he did kill that old veteran that he put on television to have the vaccine… but then he course-corrected, so it’s fine, so we don’t need to deal with that’ – and that was only a couple of years ago.”
“The way [the DeSantis team] campaign, it’s not coherent, it doesn’t flow, and that’s what really works about the Trump stuff, the authenticity just flows – and this stuff, where they’re attacking one thing on one basis, but then saying that they’re allowed to do it when it’s some other topic, I’ve got to tell you, not only does it not work, it screams desperation,” Kassam explained.
.@RaheemKassam on the DeSantis campaign: "Their story doesn't even stack up. The way they campaign is not coherent it. It doesn't flow. And that's what sort of really works about the Trump stuff. The authenticity just flows." pic.twitter.com/UDWCNVyXZi
A front group being linked to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign is being charged with a "desperate" dirty tricks attempt to portray former president Donald Trump as a "transgender trailblazer," with leaflets "thanking" him for having "allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe competition in Canada" over a decade ago appearing in Iowa mailboxes.
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