Thursday, March 28, 2024

Biden Camp Has 2X More Cash on Hand Than Team Trump.

Joe Biden already has more than twice as much cash on hand as Donald Trump heading into the presidential election, as big capital lines up behind the Democrat and lawfare campaigns drain the coffers of the America First leader.

The Biden camp has boasted of bringing in $53 million in February alone, taking its war chest to $155 million.

Over the same month, the Trump team raised $39.3 million across its official campaign committee, the Republican National Committee, a supportive super PAC, and his leadership PAC, Save America.

An astonishing $53 million in legal expenses has been sapped from Trump’s war chest since early 2023, as the Biden-controlled Justice Department and various Democrat law officers and activists target him in a sweeping lawfare campaign.

Biden outspent Trump substantially in 2020, with the Democrat and his allies accounting for around 61 percent of the $2.74 billion spent on the presidential contest.

Hillary Clinton also outspent Trump in 2016 by an even greater margin of almost two-to-one — but still ended up losing by a 77-vote landslide in the Electoral College.

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Most Americans Want to Stop Sending Weapons to Israel.

Over half of Americans believe the U.S. government should stop supplying weapons to Israel.

A recent YouGov poll commissioned by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) found that 52 percent of Americans believe the Biden regime “should stop weapons shipments to Israel until Israel discontinues its attacks on the people of Gaza.”

The poll revealed a slight split along partisan lines. Sixty-two percent of those who voted for Biden in 2020 agreed with stopping weapons shipments, while only 14 percent disagreed. Conversely, 30 percent of Americans who voted for Trump in 2020 wish to stop weapons shipments to Israel. Sixty percent of those who did not vote in 2020 wish the government to stop sending weapons to Israel until a ceasefire in Gaza is reached.

Israel’s military action in Gaza has reportedly resulted in over 30,600 Palestinians dead and approximately 72,000 wounded. Moreover, the conflict has triggered significant internal displacement in Gaza, with a markedly inadequate supply of food, water, and medication for 85 percent of Gaza’s population.

As concerns mount over the escalation of conflicts in the Middle East, many believe the U.S. should assume a hands-off approach to the Israel-Hamas dispute, considering the potential implications on wider regional stability. Such restraint echoes the sentiments of American voters in requesting a temporary halt in supplying weapons to Israel.

Once a stalwart supporter of the Israeli war effort, the Biden regime has been increasingly distancing itself from Israel in an attempt to woo Arab, Muslim, and progressive voters.

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D.C. AG Drops Charges Against Gold Star Parent Who Heckled Joe Biden.

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb has declined to press charges against Steve Nikoui, the father of an American soldier killed during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nikoui was arrested after causing a disruption in the State of the Union address, shouting “Abbey Gate” during President Biden’s speech.

Nikoui was invited to the State of the Union by Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL). Following his vocal outburst, he was escorted out of the House chamber and arrested by Capitol Police. According to Rep. Mast, he extended the invitation to Nikoui as a way of “reminding President Biden of the damage he has done to national security and American families.” After a public outcry in defense of the Gold Star father, Schwalb’s office confirmed that it would not pursue the case against Nikoui any further.

Kareem Nikoui, Steve Nikoui’s son, was among those who tragically lost their lives during the U.S. military’s hasty exit from Afghanistan in 2021. Despite the Biden government’s insistence that there would be an orderly withdrawal from the country, the U.S.-backed Afghan military was quickly overrun by Taliban forces.

As the Taliban surrounded the Afghan capital of Kabul, President Biden rushed around 6,000 additional troops to the country in a haphazard effort to secure the airport and evacuate U.S. citizens and assets. The cry of “Abbey Gate” during the address referenced the site where Nikoui’s son — along with 12 other American service members — lost their lives in Kabul.

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Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb has declined to press charges against Steve Nikoui, the father of an American soldier killed during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nikoui was arrested after causing a disruption in the State of the Union address, shouting “Abbey Gate” during President Biden’s speech. show more
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French Finance Minister Says He Won’t Fly Boeing.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he now avoids Boeing aircraft due to safety concerns.

“I now prefer flying in Airbus over Boeing – my family too, they care about me,” Le Maire said at the Europe 2024 conference in Berlin. Guillaume Faury, the chief executive officer of Airbus SE — Boeing’s lead competitor — was in the audience.

Faury distanced himself from Le Maire’s remarks, saying he was “not happy with the problems of my competitor,” adding: “Aviation attracts a lot of attention on safety. What I take is humility, not complacency.”

Safety concerns regarding Boeing’s aircraft have been growing after several high-profile accidents involving the company’s  737 MAX line. Following two fatal crashes and an episode of uncontrolled decompression in an airplane, the model was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for further inspections.

The FAA’s six-week audit of Boeing’s 737 production found “multiple instances” of failures to meet quality control requirements. The FAA failed Boeing on 33 of 89 product audits and recorded 97 instances of Boeing noncompliance. Spirit AeroSystems — which makes the 737 Max’s fuselage — failed seven of 13 product audits.

Earlier this month, Boeing whistleblower John Barnett — who raised safety concerns about Boeing production issues — was found dead from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound. However, before his death, Barnett warned a friend that “if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.”

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Populist Leader Marion Maréchal: Europe Is ‘Digital Colony of U.S., Economic Colony of China, Demographic Colony of Africa.’

Leading French populist Marion Maréchal has lamented Europe’s loss of independence in various spheres and warned mass migration could lead to it being effectively transformed into another country.

“I wake up at 34 years old in a European Union which has become a digital colony of the United States, an economic colony of China, [and] a demographic colony of Africa,” she said, adding that it is also “on the way to becoming a colony of Islam.”

Muslims accounted for around a tenth of the French population as of 2019-20. France has also suffered more radical Islamic terror attacks than any other European country, including the November 2015 attacks in Paris that saw 130 murdered and over 410 injured in a series of suicide bombings and mass shootings, and the July 2016 attacks in Nice that saw 86 killed and over 430 wounded by a North African migrant driving a heavy truck.

Maréchal is the niece of Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of National Rally (formerly National Front) who contended for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022.

Maréchal served as a National Assembly member — roughly equivalent to a U.S. House Rep. — for National Rally from 2012 to 2017, but is now a candidate for Reconquest, a rival populist party headed by “French Tucker Carlson” Éric Zemmour.

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Leading French populist Marion Maréchal has lamented Europe’s loss of independence in various spheres and warned mass migration could lead to it being effectively transformed into another country. show more
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RBG Awards Canceled After Late Justice’s Family Objects to Murdoch and Musk Presence.

The planned Washington, D.C., gala for the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award — set to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Sylvester Stallone — has been canceled, according to the Opperman Foundation, which was organizing the event. The cancellation comes after the family of the late Supreme Court Justice objected to Murdoch and Musk receiving the awards.

Objections to Murdoch and Musk being named as awardees were raised by Ginsburg’s children, James Ginsburg and Jane Ginsburg, as well as former Ginsburg clerk Trevor Morrison. The trio argued that the proposed honorees did not align with the principles espoused by the late Justice.

The initial focus of the award was to honor “an extraordinary woman” each year, a tradition from which the Opperman Foundation this year when it selected male honorees without conferring with the Ginsburg family. It remains unclear whether the selected honorees will still receive awards in the absence of the ceremony, as the foundation has made no further information available. The drama surrounding the awards caused the Library of Congress to dissociate itself from them, stressing its role as only the planned venue.

Ginsburg’s family primarily objected to the selection of Murdoch and Musk due to political reasons. Murdoch is the founder of NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News. Musk is known for his stalwart defense of free speech and promotion of right-wing causes. “I think she’d be appalled,” James Ginsburg said in an interview. “When you think about trying to create a more just society, which, of course, was mom’s ultimate goal, those are probably about the last names that would come to mind.”

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The planned Washington, D.C., gala for the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award — set to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Sylvester Stallone — has been canceled, according to the Opperman Foundation, which was organizing the event. The cancellation comes after the family of the late Supreme Court Justice objected to Murdoch and Musk receiving the awards. show more
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Texas Law Allowing State to Arrest and Deport Migrants on Hold AGAIN After Fifth Circuit Ruling.

A Texas law making illegal border crossing a state crime punishable by arrest and deportation is once again suspended after the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order reinstating a previous hold.

The Supreme Court extended a stay on the Texas law, SB4, indefinitely on Monday, pending further deliberation. Conservative justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett intervened on Tuesday, however, allowing SB4 to go into effect on grounds the stay had been administrative rather than a “stay pending appeal.”

Now, the Fifth Circuit has issued a new stay, which came late on the same day the SCOTUS justices issued their ruling.

The Joe Biden regime has been fighting SB4 — passed as a result of its refusal to control immigration — tooth and nail, arguing the power to secure the border (or not) belongs to the federal government alone.

The Mexican government reacted to the SCOTUS ruling with fury, saying it “condemns the enforcement of the SB4 law in Texas, which aims to stop the flow of migrants through criminalization.”

They claimed SB4 would contribute “to family separation, discrimination and racial profiling that go against the human rights of the migrant community.” They vowed they would not accept any migrants Texas attempted to deport back into Mexico.

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A Texas law making illegal border crossing a state crime punishable by arrest and deportation is once again suspended after the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order reinstating a previous hold. show more
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Billionaire Nelson Peltz Says Biden’s ‘Mental Condition Is Really Scary.’

Nelson Peltz, noted billionaire Disney investor, intends to vote for former President Donald Trump due to his concerns that Biden’s “mental condition is really scary.”

Peltz, who is the same age as Biden, told the Financial Times that his concerns about Biden’s mental fitness outweighed his reservations about Trump.

“I don’t know what [Biden] knows and I don’t know what he doesn’t know,” said Peltz. “I don’t know who’s speaking for him and that’s troubling.” Peltz also said that the “litany of criminal charges against [Trump] — including cases relating to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election” — is obviously a “miscarriage of justice.”

Peltz also cited concerns about Biden’s border crisis as driving his support for Trump. “We can’t go on letting everyone into this country . . . We have an immigration problem — it’s not a Republican or Democrat problem,” Peltz said. “I want some boundaries put on it so we know at least who we’re bringing in.”

Known for his disputes with Disney CEO Bob Iger, Peltz has recently made news headlines. His firm, Trian Fund Management, has challenged Disney’s direction under Iger and his predecessor, Bob Chapek. Peltz is exerting efforts to gain more control over Disney through a proxy war, in preparation for the upcoming annual shareholders meeting scheduled for April 3.

Under Iger’s leadership, Disney, Peltz points out, has maintained an emphasis on woke, far-left messaging. The entertainment company has witnessed a series of low-performing releases and financial losses, compounded by the substantial subscription rate increases for their viewership.

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Court Declares Bar Exam ‘Racist,’ Says Lawyers No Longer Need to Pass It.

In an effort to ‘diversify’ the legal profession, the Washington Supreme Court released two orders approving alternatives to the universal bar exam on Monday. According to the Court, the exam “blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law” and has “racism and classism written into the test itself.”

Spearheaded by Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis of the Washington Supreme Court and Dean Anthony Varona of the Seattle University Law School, a task force reevaluated traditional bar exam approaches after a year of pandemic-enforced changes. The task force’s report claims the exam “disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law, and the traditional bar exam is at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers.”

The court orders gave the green light to alternatives such as the NextGen bar exam by the National Conference of Bar Examiners, set for summer 2026, which will have a reduced minimum passing score of 266. The court also approved three experiential learning options for both law school graduates and students, as well as APR 6 law clerks.

The new pathways involve a six-month apprenticeship for graduates under a qualified attorney and three mandatory standardized courses. Law students must complete 12 qualifying skills credits and gain 500 hours of work experience as a licensed legal intern. Law clerks would follow a similar path to law school graduate apprenticeships while also obtaining the required hours as interns.

Moving forward, the court will join efforts with the Washington State Bar Association to develop an implementation system and timeline, despite recent criticism of the association due to controversial remarks made by an executive member.

Critics are concerned the Court’s decision will result in under-qualified and less-than-capable candidates becoming lawyers. A number of top American universities that abandoned standardized test scores as entry requirements — also in the name of diversity — have since reversed their decisions.

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In an effort to 'diversify' the legal profession, the Washington Supreme Court released two orders approving alternatives to the universal bar exam on Monday. According to the Court, the exam “blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law” and has “racism and classism written into the test itself.” show more
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European NATO Members Failing to Recruit OR Retain Soldiers.

European militaries are struggling to recruit or even retain soldiers amid the ongoing proxy war with Russia, which has exposed glaring weaknesses in the readiness and military-industrial capacity of European NATO members.

“At NATO meetings, we can talk about equipment, but now we also talk about… the level of retention,” revealed French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu when unveiling new policies to try and persuade French service members to stay.

“Those conversations now exist in all capitals, in all democracies that have professional armies without conscription,” Lecornu said.

French military personnel are, on average, now leaving the service a year earlier than they used to. Germany saw its army reduce in size by over 1,500 in 2023, while Britain faces year-on-year recruitment shortfalls equivalent to around two infantry battalions.

Several governments that have relied on volunteers for years are considering drafting conscripts again. Others believe increasing the recruitment of women could be a panacea and are offering them better pay and conditions — which has had the unintended consequence of prompting male soldiers to change gender in Spain.

Denmark, which is giving away all of its artillery to Ukraine, already practices conscription but is now expanding it to cover women and lengthening the required service period.

Lord William Hague, a former British Foreign Secretary and leader of the governing Conservative Party, argued early this year that the country “needs” to restore a form of conscription.

The 62-year-old also chastised young people for having a sense they possess “a lot of rights without any responsibility to protect them” despite never having served himself.

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European militaries are struggling to recruit or even retain soldiers amid the ongoing proxy war with Russia, which has exposed glaring weaknesses in the readiness and military-industrial capacity of European NATO members. show more
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