The target letter sent to Donald Trump by special prosecutor Jack Smith suggests the former president will be charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and civil rights offenses – but not insurrection or sedition.
Leaks to Rolling Stone indicate that Trump is accused of violating three federal statutes:
Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States;
Deprivation of rights under color of law;
Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.
The target letter does not explain how Trump, who was told he must report to a grand jury by Thursday, is supposed to have violated these statutes.
While Trump’s critics have often accused the 45th President of having incited the “insurrection” on January 6th there are reportedly no allusions to insurrection and sedition charges in the target letter.
Trump believes he will almost certainly be arrested and indicted when he appears.
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The target letter sent to Donald Trump by special prosecutor Jack Smith suggests the former president will be charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and civil rights offenses – but not insurrection or sedition.
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Sixteen Republicans in Michigan — including former state co-chairwoman Meshawn Maddock — are being prosecuted by Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel for putting themselves forward as alternative electors after the 2020 election results were contested.
AG Nessel accuses the would-be electors – who average out at 69 years old between them – of having “undermined the public’s faith in the integrity of our elections,” and has hit each of them with eight felonies, among them forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, and election law forgery.
Several of the charges carry prison terms of up to 14 years.
“Undoubtedly, there will be those who claim these charges are political in nature, but where there is overwhelming evidence of guilt in respect to multiple crimes, the most political act I could engage in as a prosecutor would be to take no action at all,” the Democrat claimed.
The move has been blasted by observers as a state intimidation tactic ahead of the 2024 election.
The full list of Republicans facing prosecution, and their ages, is provided below:
Meshawn Maddock, 55
Kathy Berden, 70
William ‘Hank’ Choate, 72
Amy Facchinello, 55
Clifford Frost, 75
Stanley Grot, 71
John Haggard, 82
Mari-Ann Henry, 65
Timothy King, 56
Michele Lundgren, 73
James Renner, 76
Mayra Rodriguez, 64
Rose Rook, 81
Marian Sheridan, 69
Ken Thompson, 68
Kent Vanderwood, 69
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Sixteen Republicans in Michigan — including former state co-chairwoman Meshawn Maddock — are being prosecuted by Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel for putting themselves forward as alternative electors after the 2020 election results were contested.
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Ron DeSantis and his team do not really believe the narrative they have constructed against Donald Trump around COVID, with one of his top financial backers telling the media the ruse is just “politics”.
“No one believes he actually believes any of the stuff about the vaccine,” said one “megadonor” on the condition of anonymity, adding: “If you talk to the non-crazy people he’s got working for him, they don’t believe it, either. It’s politics.”
The donor didn’t say who the crazies or non-crazies were, in their estimation, but told Rolling Stone they now have doubts about the DeSantis campaign having been an early, big money backer.
GOP pollsters are also questioning the wisdom of DeSantis focusing on the topic, observing it as an increasingly low priority for Republican voters amidst inflation, crime, the economy, and America’s border crisis. The topic may also damage DeSantis by inviting scrutiny of his own pandemic record.
While the Florida Governor has claimed he would have fired Anthony Fauci in Trump’s position — with his team even circulating AI-generated images of Trump kissing the retired technocrat — questions are now being raised as to why he did not fire “Florida’s Fauci”, Dr. Alina Alonso.
The Palm Beach County health director hailed Fauci as her “patron saint,” and said her job persuading Governor DeSantis to go along with the mandates and other restrictions was “a piece of cake” compared to Fauci’s job persuading then-President Trump to do the same.
DeSantis has slumped to 14 points in a recent national poll of likely voters.
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Ron DeSantis and his team do not really believe the narrative they have constructed against Donald Trump around COVID, with one of his top financial backers telling the media the ruse is just "politics".
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Brexit leader Nigel Farage had his personal bank account closed by Coutts due to his friendship with former President Donald J. Trump, as well as tennis legend and vaccine refuser Novak Djokovic. The bank’s “reputation risk committee” kept a “Stasi-style surveillance report” on Farage, 59, which also bemoans his position on Brexit and LGBT issues.
Farage recently obtained access to the 40-page document which cites the company’s Equality, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) policies, as well as dedicating nine pages to alleged links to Russia before concluding: “NF seemingly has no direct links to Russia.”
Farage’s surveillance report makes negative mentions of his friendship with Novak Djokovic, appearances on Alex Jones/InfoWars, and his critical comments of Black Lives Matter.
The dossier mentions the 45th President 39 times, and Farage himself wrote on Tuesday: “The fact that I support Donald Trump is part of this charge sheet.”
The Brexit crusader concluded: “This story is not just about me. You could be next. Refinitiv, which monitors creditworthiness, can examine social media posts made by any of us on Facebook or elsewhere. If this situation is left unchecked, we will sleepwalk towards a China-style social credit system in which only those with the “correct” views are allowed to fully participate in society.”
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Brexit leader Nigel Farage had his personal bank account closed by Coutts due to his friendship with former President Donald J. Trump, as well as tennis legend and vaccine refuser Novak Djokovic. The bank's "reputation risk committee" kept a “Stasi-style surveillance report” on Farage, 59, which also bemoans his position on Brexit and LGBT issues.
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Stunningly, it appears that Farage’s old bank – Coutts – was also acutely aware of its political bias in compiling the dossier, so much so that it wanted to hide the fact that their Trump-hate was a motivating factor in this mess
Stunningly, it appears that Farage’s old bank – Coutts – was also acutely aware of its political bias in compiling the dossier, so much so that it wanted to hide the fact that their Trump-hate was a motivating factor in this mess show more
On the day President Trump announced he received a target letter from Biden prosecutor Jack Smith pertaining to the events of January 6th 2021, his Republican primary competitor Ron DeSantis was heard to echo the establishment line on the incident.
“For example, I think it was shown how he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on,” DeSantis said directly echoing the Democrat-led January 6th Committee line. He added that Trump “should have come out more forcefully,” before going on to accept that “to try to criminalize that [is] a different issue entirely,” and that having a situation where “one side [is] just constantly trying to put the other side in jail” is wrong.
Contrary to DeSantis’s claims, Trump issued a video statement on Twitter during the disorder, urging protesters: “[Y]ou have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order.”
Twitter took down the video and permanently suspended Trump’s account. The video was not restored even after Elon Musk reinstated the account, though it can still be viewed in the Miller Center presidential archive.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 18, 2023
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On the day President Trump announced he received a target letter from Biden prosecutor Jack Smith pertaining to the events of January 6th 2021, his Republican primary competitor Ron DeSantis was heard to echo the establishment line on the incident.
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Dozens of Wall Street executives have lined up to funnel as much money as legally allowed to Donald Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
Ron DeSantis, the leading contender to Trump, was a popular choice, attracting 15 significant donations from the likes of Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge fund manager who has previously bankrolled Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.
Nikki Haley also secured 12 maximum donations from Wall Street. Even Vivek Ramaswamy, who has retained a much more positive relationship with Trump than most of the GOP field – and accused Wall Street of having “birthed a new woke-industrial complex” together with Silicon Valley – has received support.
NBC News, which analyzed the FEC filings in collaboration with CNBC, noted that financiers’ backing of Trump rivals is “a continuation of the anti-Trump trend that saw just over $74 million from Wall Street leaders go to support Joe Biden” in 2020 – far greater than the $18 million finance gave to the Trump campaign.
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Dozens of Wall Street executives have lined up to funnel as much money as legally allowed to Donald Trump's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to have hit a new polling low, coming in at just 14 points in a TIPP Insights likely voter poll from early July. President Trump’s lead has increased to 39 points in the data, showing the 45th president with 53 percent, and 37-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy gaining to reach seven percent.
The news comes as DeSantis announces major shake-ups in his campaign due to overspending and fractious donor relations.
TIPP insights was described by the right-leaning Spectator magazine as “the pollster who doesn’t suck,” in 2020.
The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam discussed many of the DeSantis camp’s pitfalls on the latest episode of ‘The Campaign Trail’ podcast and even predicted that DeSantis would be down to 10 percent by mid-summer, in an appearance on Human Events Daily show with Jack Posobiec:
@RaheemKassam makes a prediction about Ron Desantis' disappointing campaign. LIVE on Human Events with Jack Posobiec 2PM EST on Rumble and Real America's Voice. pic.twitter.com/QzgWmp79fV
— Human Events Daily (@humaneventslive) June 22, 2023
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to have hit a new polling low, coming in at just 14 points in a TIPP Insights likely voter poll from early July. President Trump's lead has increased to 39 points in the data, showing the 45th president with 53 percent, and 37-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy gaining to reach seven percent.
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Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis has fired a number of his staff due to his struggling presidential campaign failing to meet fundraising goals, as well as burning through inordinate amounts of large, corporate donor cash less than two months after he announced that he was running for the Republican presidential nomination.
The news came just days after National Pulse Editor-in-Chief predicted the “shake up” on The Campaign Trail podcast as well as on Twitter:
Another major revelation is that just 15 percent of the DeSantis campaign’s donations came from “small-dollar donors,” compared to former president Donald Trump, who is heavily reliant on smaller donations from his fanbase. Instead, DeSantis has relied upon donors with international corporate interests, such as Morteza “Mori” Hosseini, who has bankrolled Nancy Pelosi and supported the Obamas, and globalists like Howard Cox, who served on a World Economic Forum board alongside Klaus Schwab.
Much of the internal campaign frustration has been aimed at Generra Peck, a former D.C. lobbyist.
“She should be [in the hot seat]” one DeSantis donor said, with another Republican source saying: “They never should have brought so many people on, the burn rate was way too high… People warned the campaign manager but she wanted to hear none of it.”
“DeSantis stock isn’t rising,” the donor added. “Twenty percent is not what people signed up for.”
In response, the DeSantis campaign aide, Andrew Romeo, argued in a statement: “Americans are rallying behind Ron DeSantis and his plan to reverse Joe Biden’s failures and restore sanity to our nation, and his momentum will only continue as voters see more of him in person…”
The news comes at the end of another poor week for Florida’s Governor, who saw his delegate forecast hit an all-time low. Donors, including the Murdochs, are subsequently looking to go elsewhere.
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Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis has fired a number of his staff due to his struggling presidential campaign failing to meet fundraising goals, as well as burning through inordinate amounts of large, corporate donor cash less than two months after he announced that he was running for the Republican presidential nomination.
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The number of 18 to 29-year-old who identify as Democrats has slipped from 64 percent to 49 percent since 2019, and the Biden White House is bringing on new advisors and seeking partnerships with influencers and celebrities to win them back. The left-wing alarm bells have been rung by John Della Volpe, an advisor and pollster to President Joe Biden himself.
The number of young people who believe politics cannot meet the country’s challenges has risen from 36 percent to 52 percent over the same period, suggesting serious dissatisfaction with the 80-year-old President.
“These voters gotta buy into the values of the party and the candidates… You can’t do that in a full-week ad buy after Labor Day,” Volpe said, warning that if the Democrats’ share of the youth vote drops below 60 percent things will get “ugly” for them. Volpe associate Richard Sweeney, amongst others, has been recruited by the White House to address the issue, while insider media outlet POLITICO has predicted “more White House celeb sightings like BTS and Olivia Rodrigo” as Biden seeks to appear relevant.
Similar stunts have fallen flat in the past. Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was invited to the White House to meet Biden to celebrate “day 222 of being a girl” but went on to become a highly divisive figure after an aborted partnership with Bud Light. Another young trans influencer, Rose Montoya, embarrassed the President by displaying his artificial breasts at a White House Pride party.
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The number of 18 to 29-year-old who identify as Democrats has slipped from 64 percent to 49 percent since 2019, and the Biden White House is bringing on new advisors and seeking partnerships with influencers and celebrities to win them back. The left-wing alarm bells have been rung by John Della Volpe, an advisor and pollster to President Joe Biden himself.
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The Dallas County GOP has voted to condemn the Texas House’s impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, a prominent, Trump-supporting conservative targeted by establishment Republicans partnered with left-wing “impeachment managers”. The group is the largest party association in the state. The Texas GOP as a whole also blasted the move as “illegal.”
“Now therefore be it resolved that the Dallas County Republican Party CONDEMNS the process by which the Texas House of Representatives impeached General Paxton as unprecedented and an offense to Due Process and the Rule of Law, and hereby IMPLORES Texas L. Governor Dan Patrick and members of the Texas Senate to uphold Due Process, fairness, precedent, and the Rule of Law by immediately returning the impeachment articles to the House of Representatives and conduct no further proceedings in the Texas Senate unless and until the House of Representatives fully satisfies due process, complies with applicable Texas law, and adheres to precedent regarding the Constitutional and statutory impeachment processes, and that Ken Paxton [may] immediately resume his duties as duly-elected Attorney General.
While the Texas House is supposed to be under Republican control, the impeachment effort was led by Ann Johnson, a Democrat. Democrats also made up majority of House members voting to impeach Paxton – though more House Repulicans joined them than opposed them, putting them badly out of step with the Republican grassroots in the Lone Star State.
Worse, the impeachment was rushed through in 48 hours without due process. Paxton was not given the opportunity to refute the supposed evidence against him – indeed, months on from the impeachment vote, Paxton, his counsel, and the American public still had no real detail on the charges leveled against him.
Coverage of this situation by The National Pulse saw Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick inundated with demands to to take action against House impeachment managers. Hours later, Patrick used his authority as President of the Texas Senate and Presiding Officer of the Court of Impeachment to impose a discovery order on the House, ordering impeachment managers to produce the evidence being used against Paxton or face contempt of court proceedings.
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The Dallas County GOP has voted to condemn the Texas House's impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, a prominent, Trump-supporting conservative targeted by establishment Republicans partnered with left-wing "impeachment managers". The group is the largest party association in the state. The Texas GOP as a whole also blasted the move as "illegal."
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