Thursday, March 28, 2024

DeSantis Campaign Spent More on Private Jets Than TV Ads.

Ron DeSantis’s beleaguered presidential campaign will have spent “significantly more” on private jets for the Florida Governor than it has on airing television ads, according to federal records and revealed by the New York Times on Sunday.

The brutal dissection of the DeSantis campaign also reveals:

  • DeSantis’s pollster Ryan Tyson described the final few months of “mak[ing] the patient comfortable,” in what the Times called “a phrase evoking hospice care”;
  • “The DeSantis team had penciled in that Ken Griffin, the billionaire investor, would give his super PAC at least $25 million and likely $50 million, according to three people familiar with the matter. Mr. Griffin neither gave nor endorsed…”;
  • Backer Steve Deace questioning if there is “enough runway to manifest… on caucus night”;
  • DeSantis hired Jeff Roe in an attempt to dissuade Ted Cruz, Glenn Youngkin, and others from jumping into the primary;
  • A GOP strategist described Ron as “Ted Cruz without the personality”.

The campaign is now said to have purged most of Roe’s influence, including most of his “Axiom Strategies” staff. Now run by close friends of DeSantis himself, the combination of the campaign, the Never Back Down PAC, and the new Fight Right PAC are still talking up their chances in Iowa, though still haven’t laid out a path forward from that moment, on January 15th 2024.

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El Salvador’s Populist Prez Says U.S. Can’t Lecture on ‘Democracy’ After Anti-Trump Colorado Ballot Ruling.

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, believes the United States “has lost its ability to lecture any other country about ‘democracy'” after the Colorado Supreme Court removed Donald Trump from its GOP primary ballot.

The all-Democrat court’s decision to kick Trump off the ballot for “insurrection” – an offense he has never been convicted of by a jury of his peers – came in response to a case brought by plaintiffs backed by the George Soros-funded CREW organization. They used Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, devised to keep Confederate rebels out of high office, to advance the case.

Bukele is not alone in criticizing the court’s move to deprive the people of Colorado of the right to decide whether or not they should vote for Trump. Three of its seven justices, including the Chief Justice, voted against the decision, with one warning the 45th President had been denied due process and a fair trial.

Bukele, best known for his draconian but effective crackdown on gangsterism in El Salvador, has been criticized by the Joe Biden regime for imprisoning some 74,000 people with suspected gang affiliations. Biden has also sanctioned officials close to the Central American leader.

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The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, believes the United States "has lost its ability to lecture any other country about 'democracy'" after the Colorado Supreme Court removed Donald Trump from its GOP primary ballot. show more
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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
America’s ability to lecture has been going out the window for a long time now
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DeSantis Aides Purge Florida Law Enforcement Agency in Effort to Conceal Travel Records.

Aides to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have led a purge of the state’s top law enforcement agency after pushback over an attempt to block a lawsuit seeking the release of records related to the Governor’s taxpayer-funded travel and security detail. Officials with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) clashed with the Governor’s office, arguing there were legal grounds to hand over at least some of the records. The Governor’s staff, known for having little toleration for disagreement, responded by removing the FDLE dissenters.

At the heart of the dispute between Governor DeSantis‘s office and the FDLE is a new Florida law which shields the governor’s travel records from the public, including the media. The law was part of a package of bills passed by the Florida legislature this past spring, which DeSantis used to increase his power while shielding himself from public scrutiny.

Top staff at the FDLE argued the disclosure law did not prevent them from handing over basic cost records in compliance with public requests. Aides for DeSantis responded to the FDLE’s position by blocking the promotion of at least one dissenting attorney in the agency, as well as pushing out the FDLE’s deputy chief of staff Patricia Carpenter and chief of staff Shane Desguin.

Despite the Governor’s position arguing the law essentially shields almost all details about his travel and security detail from the public, the Republican sponsor of the statute says this was not his intent. State Rep. Jeff Holcomb says the law was simply intended to prevent individuals from constructing a ‘security profile’ of the Florida Governor using sensitive travel and security information. Preventing the public from obtaining basic information such as the taxpayer cost of the Governor’s security detail was not the end goal, he explained.

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Aides to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have led a purge of the state's top law enforcement agency after pushback over an attempt to block a lawsuit seeking the release of records related to the Governor's taxpayer-funded travel and security detail. Officials with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) clashed with the Governor's office, arguing there were legal grounds to hand over at least some of the records. The Governor's staff, known for having little toleration for disagreement, responded by removing the FDLE dissenters. show more
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Without veering into some kind of weird racial stereotyping, it’s incredible to me how DeSantis has run his operation like some kind of mafia boss
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DeSantis PAC Cancels ALL 2024 Ads In Iowa and New Hampshire.

The embattled Never Back Down SuperPAC, supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is cancelling the remainder of its 2024 airtime reservations in Iowa and New Hampshire. Reports indicate it had reserved about $2.5 million in airtime to run ads on behalf of DeSantis.

Never Back Down has experienced a spectacular collapse over the past month. Arguments over budgets and strategy erupted at the PAC’s board meeting last month, culminating a physical confrontation between the SuperPAC’s chief strategist Jeff Roe and long-time DeSantis fiend and confidant Scott Wagner. “You have a stick up your ass, Scott,” Roe is alleged to have shouted at Wagner, according to witnesses in the room, to which Wagner fired back, taunting, “Why don’t you come over here and get it?” Wagner also reportedly rose from his chair and had to be restrained by other board members.

The incident precipitated mass resignations from the Never Back Down SuperPAC, eventually leaving Wagner in charge. Chris Jankowski, the SuperPAC’s original CEO, resigned over Thanksgiving – as did Adam Laxalt who served a chairman of Never Back Down. Kristin Davison, an employee of Jeff Roe’s Axiom Strategies and protégé of Karl Rove, served only two-weeks as interim CEO before being forced out by Wagner and the SuperPAC’s board. The chaos at the SuperPAC reached its apex last week when chief strategist Jeff Roe resigned from his role.

With just three weeks to go before the Iowa Republicans gather for the state’s 2024 presidential caucus, the collapse of Never Back Down raises serious questions regarding the viability of Ron DeSantis’s candidacy. The Florida Governor’s presidential campaign committee has received little in terms of donor support, relying instead on Never Back Down to finance the primary campaign.

Never Back Down Chairman Scott Wagner told The National Pulse on Friday: “Never Back Down is laser focused on its core mission – running the most advanced grassroots and political caucus operation in this race and helping deliver the GOP nomination for Governor DeSantis who will deliver America from the disastrous policies of the Left. We are thrilled to have Fight Right and others covering the air for Governor DeSantis while we work the ground game in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond.”

Fight Right is a new DeSantis-supporting PAC charged with placing more aggressive ads on TV, especially against Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley.

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The embattled Never Back Down SuperPAC, supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is cancelling the remainder of its 2024 airtime reservations in Iowa and New Hampshire. Reports indicate it had reserved about $2.5 million in airtime to run ads on behalf of DeSantis. show more
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New York Establishes Commission for Slavery Reparations.

New York is establishing a commission to come up with an estimate for slavery reparations. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the bill creating the commission into law on Tuesday.

“In New York, we like to think we’re on the right side of this. Slavery was a product of the South, the Confederacy,” said Hochul, a Democrat. “What is hard to embrace is the fact that our state also flourished from that slavery. It’s not a beautiful story, but indeed it is the truth.”

New York, which abolished slavery in 1827, follows California, which entered the U.S. as a free state, in establishing its slavery task force.

State Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt spoke out against the commission, noting the “reparations of slavery were paid with the blood and lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought to end slavery during the Civil War.”

“A divisive commission to consider reparations in unworkable,” he argued, predicting an “astronomical cost” for a policy that “will only further divide our state.”

New York City is already facing enormous pressure on its budget due to the ongoing migrant crisis, with the Big Apple playing host to tens of thousands of migrants and Mayor Eric Adams predicting the influx will “destroy” the Big Apple if it continues.

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New York is establishing a commission to come up with an estimate for slavery reparations. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the bill creating the commission into law on Tuesday. show more
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Iowa Republicans ‘MORE LIKELY’ To Support Trump Due to ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Remarks.

Decembers’s Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll indicates Iowa Republican caucus goers are more likely than not to agree with former President Donald Trump’s warning that mass immigration and the unchecked flow of drugs is “poisoning the blood of our country.” Of those polled, 42-percent said the remarks made them more likely to back Trump during the January 15th Iowa Caucus. Just 28-percent said it made them less likely to support the former President.

The corporate media has tried to use the “poisoning the blood” line against Trump since he first used the phrase in an interview with The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam. “Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country; it’s poisoning the blood of our country… People are coming in with disease, people are coming in with every possible thing that you can have,” Trump told Kassam at the time.

Almost immediately, major American corporate news outlets from the New York Times and MSNBC to CNN pounced on the remarks. MSNBC’s former resident Islamic extremist, Mehdi Hasan, claimed Trump used a “white supremacist/neo-Nazi talking point” while CNN’s Dana Bash said the line was “borrowed from white nationalists.” Neither Hasan nor Bash provided any material evidence for their claims of Trump adopting Hitlerian rhetoric.

Just yesterday, U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) took a reporter for the Associated Press to task for exaggerating the former President’s words and trying to tie them to German Nazism and Adolf Hitler. The Ohio Senate noted Trump was obviously talking about the negative impact illegal (not legal) immigrants are having on law and order in the United States – and how President Joe Biden’s open border policies are allowing dangerous drugs like fentanyl to pour into our country, killing tens-of-thousands of Americans a year.

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Decembers's Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll indicates Iowa Republican caucus goers are more likely than not to agree with former President Donald Trump's warning that mass immigration and the unchecked flow of drugs is "poisoning the blood of our country." Of those polled, 42-percent said the remarks made them more likely to back Trump during the January 15th Iowa Caucus. Just 28-percent said it made them less likely to support the former President. show more
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16 States Have Colorado-Style Lawfare Campaigns to Remove Trump from The Ballot.

Colorado, where the state Supreme Court has narrowly decided to remove Donald Trump from the GOP primary ballot, is not alone in seeing efforts to stop the American people from deciding whether or not to reelect the 45th President. Sixteen states are now processing lawsuits seeking to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, designed to keep Confederates charged with insurrection and rebellion out of high office, to shut the MAGA kingpin out of the democratic process.

Michigan, Oregon, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, are dealing with 14th Amendment cases in their state courts. Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming have lawsuits pending in federal district courts.

Cases against the former president have already been dismissed in Arizona and Michigan, but are being appealed. A case in Maine will be heard by the Secretary of State in the coming days, due to quirks of state law.

California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis has also instructed Secretary of State Shirley Weber to “explore every legal option” to stop Trump from appearing on the presidential primary ballot in the Golden State.

The Colorado ruling was controversial even among the exclusively Democrat-appointed justices of the Centennial State’s top court. Chief Justice Brian Boatright, Justice Maria Berkenkotter, and Justice Carlos Samour all voted against Trump’s removal from the ballot, with Justice Samour warning the former president had been denied a fair trial and due process.

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Colorado, where the state Supreme Court has narrowly decided to remove Donald Trump from the GOP primary ballot, is not alone in seeing efforts to stop the American people from deciding whether or not to reelect the 45th President. Sixteen states are now processing lawsuits seeking to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, designed to keep Confederates charged with insurrection and rebellion out of high office, to shut the MAGA kingpin out of the democratic process. show more
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DeSantis Joins Biden in Attacking Trump Over ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Comments.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has joined Democrat President Joe Biden in attacking Donald Trump over his “poisoning the blood” remarks. Trump first made the comments in an interview with The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief-Raheem Kassam, referencing the Biden government allowing the unchecked flow of illegal immigrants into the country – and the dangerous and deadly drugs and violence that come with an open border.

DeSantis – who portends to be the leader of the Republican war-on-woke – told the Christian Broadcasting Network, regarding Trump’s comments: “This is a great issue for us to use against Biden, because this is one of the biggest presidential failures of our life time. When you start talking about using those types of terms, I don’t think that helps us move the ball forward. I would not put it in those terms.”

The DeSantis campaign’s knee-jerk reaction against Trump’s “poisoning the blood” comments come as the former Republican President’s remarks have drawn increased attention from the Democrat incumbent, President Joe Biden. In recent days, Biden has attempted to smear Trump as a white supremacist and someone akin to the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. DeSantis’s position is all-the-more-odd since the Florida Governor has routinely claimed to be the GOP’s strongest defender against the leftist ‘woke’ agenda.

Polling of likely Republican Iowa Caucus goers indicate most votes agree with former President Trump’s opinion on Biden’s open border policies. Among Iowa Republicans, 42-percent said Trump’s “poisoning the blood” remarks made them more likely to back Trump during the January 15th Iowa Caucus. Just 28-percent said it made them less likely to support the former President.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has joined Democrat President Joe Biden in attacking Donald Trump over his "poisoning the blood" remarks. Trump first made the comments in an interview with The National Pulse's editor-in-chief-Raheem Kassam, referencing the Biden government allowing the unchecked flow of illegal immigrants into the country – and the dangerous and deadly drugs and violence that come with an open border. show more
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Green New Dealers Want Govt to Seize Land Using Eminent Domain, Blanket U.S. in Wind Turbines, Solar Panels.

Climate activists are pushing the federal government to seize swathes of private land to speed the construction of wind turbines and fields of solar panels. An estimated 160 million acres of land must be given over Green New Deal-style developments to meet Joe Biden’s net-zero objectives.

Seventy percent of land in America’s 48 contiguous states is privately owned, however. Owners are often unwilling to turn their land over for industrial development, but they can be forced using “eminent domain”. This allows the state to purchase property against owners’ wishes.

The strategy is being pushed not just be activists and officials, but also by “woke capital”. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told shareholders in 2022 that “[t]o expedite progress, governments, businesses and non-governmental organizations need to align across a series of practical policy changes that comprehensively address fundamental issues that are holding us back.”

“[P]ermitting reforms are desperately needed to allow investment to be done in any kind of timely way. We may even need to evoke [sic] eminent domain,” he added.

In some cases, corporations that designate themselves “common carriers” can also use eminent domain against private property owners. In order to secure Inflation Reduction Act subsidies, Summit Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 Ventures are seeking to build carbon capture pipelines through five states. Landowners who do not want the pipelines running through their property could be forced to sell using eminent domain.

“It’s a big boondoggle, and there is a ton of money to be made,” said South Dakota state representative Karla Lems.

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Climate activists are pushing the federal government to seize swathes of private land to speed the construction of wind turbines and fields of solar panels. An estimated 160 million acres of land must be given over Green New Deal-style developments to meet Joe Biden's net-zero objectives. show more
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Texas Lt. Gov. Mulls Kicking Biden Off Ballot.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick hinted at removing Joe Biden from the Texas ballot “for allowing eight million people to cross the border” after the all-Democrat Colorado Supreme Court removed Donald Trump from their state primary ballot for “insurrection”.

“Seeing what happened in Colorado makes me think – except we believe in democracy in Texas – maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing eight million people to cross the border since he’s been President, disrupting our state,” Patrick quipped.

The Colorado Supreme Court justified its ruling against Trump, in a case brought by plaintiffs supported by a George Soros-funded organization, on the basis that the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bars anyone involved in “insurrection” or “rebellion” from high office. Despite the Colorado justices ruling 4-3 that the 45th President was culpable for Jan 6, however, he has not been convicted of any crimes related to insurrection or rebellion.

Lt. Gov. Patrick has also been taking a stand against anti-America First actors within his own state party, warning Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, who facilitated the failed impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, that his non-compliance with an audit of the sham investigation could result in prison time.

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