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April 6, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

Now Tish James is Going After the Firm Backing Trump’s $175M Bond.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is now questioning the financial status and regulatory compliance of the insurer that posted former President Donald Trump’s $175 million bond stemming from her civil fraud prosecution against him. In a court filing on Thursday, James challenged the “sufficiency of the surety” provided by Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) after a paperwork error resulted in Trump’s bond being temporarily rejected by a New York court the day before.

According to the filing, the New York Attorney General wants KSIC to provide documentation proving their certification to operate in the state. James is asking a state appeals court to order KSIC to produce a “certificate of qualification” within ten days with proof that the company can pay the bond if Trump’s appeals are unsuccessful.

The move by James comes after the initial bond filing on Wednesday was rejected due to missing documents — including a current financial statement from KSIC and the name of his attorney-in-fact. Attorneys for former President Trump resubmitted the corrected paperwork early Thursday.

However, the financial statement has drawn additional scrutiny as it only lists the assets for KSIC and not a related company, Knight Insurance Company LTD. New York insurance law limits the amount an insurer can underwrite on  a single bond to 10 percent of its total “capital and surplus.” KSIC and Knight Insurance Company LTD together meet the capital requirement, but the filing doesn’t clarify if the latter is also underwriting the bond.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is now questioning the financial status and regulatory compliance of the insurer that posted former President Donald Trump's $175 million bond stemming from her civil fraud prosecution against him. In a court filing on Thursday, James challenged the "sufficiency of the surety" provided by Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) after a paperwork error resulted in Trump's bond being temporarily rejected by a New York court the day before. show more
April 6, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election 2024

Trump Calls for Biden to Take Drug Test, Hints at Cocaine Use.

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday challenged Joe Biden to take a drug test if the two were to engage in a debate. The request came during an interview with Hugh Hewitt, during which Trump insinuated that Biden may, at times, be under the influence of cocaine.

“I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning. By the end, he was fading fast,” Trump noted. “There’s something going on there. I want to debate. And I think debates, with him, at least, should be drug tested. I want a drug test,” he continued. 

Hewitt, caught off guard, sought clarification on Trump’s comment hinting at Biden’s possible cocaine use. Trump replied that although he was not certain what Biden took, he said he believed he was “higher than a kite.”

“He’s obviously — he’s being helped some way, because most of the time, he looks like he’s falling asleep,” Trump said. “And all of a sudden, he walked up there and did a poor job. But he was all jacked up.”

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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday challenged Joe Biden to take a drug test if the two were to engage in a debate. The request came during an interview with Hugh Hewitt, during which Trump insinuated that Biden may, at times, be under the influence of cocaine. show more
April 6, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

No Labels Abandons Effort to Run a 3rd Party Candidate.

No Labels announced on Thursday that it is abandoning efforts to recruit a candidate to pursue a third-party run in the 2024 presidential election. The ‘centrist’ political group had been rumored to have tried recruiting several potential candidates to run on its ballot line, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD), and former Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH).

“No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House,” the group’s CEO, Nancy Jacobson, said in a statement. She added: “No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.”

The group launched its effort to field a competitive third-party presidential candidate in 2022, raising a multi-million dollar campaign war chest in the subsequent years. In November 2023, No Labels’s chief strategist, Ryan Clancy, predicted: “Based on the conditions as they are, we expect to be putting up a ticket early next year.” As late as January of this year, the group claimed they were considering 13 candidates to put forward on a third-party unity ticket.

Early in the 2024 presidential election cycle, No Labels surprised the campaign world by gaining ballot access in over a dozen states, demonstrating that they had built an organized effort. Throughout its candidate search, the group maintained its intention to recruit a candidate who could contend with Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger, former President Donald Trump.

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT), the founding chairman of No Labels, passed away on March 27, 2024.

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No Labels announced on Thursday that it is abandoning efforts to recruit a candidate to pursue a third-party run in the 2024 presidential election. The 'centrist' political group had been rumored to have tried recruiting several potential candidates to run on its ballot line, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD), and former Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH). show more
April 5, 2024
Politics
War
World

Trump Warns Israel is ‘Losing the PR War,’ Urges End to Gaza Conflict.

Former President Donald Trump said Israel must quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza as he warned the Jewish state is “losing the PR war.”

“Get it over with and let’s get back to peace and stop killing people. And that’s a very simple statement,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. “They have to get it done. Get it over with and get it over with fast because we have to — you have to get back to normalcy and peace.”

Trump specifically called out Israel for releasing video footage of its military actions against the Palestinians. “They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that,” he said. “That’s why they’re losing the PR war. They, Israel is absolutely losing the PR war.”“They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down. And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings, or people in those buildings, and they don’t like it,” Trump continued. “They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”

Once supported staunchly in its conflict against Hamas by both Trump and Joe Biden, Israel has seen its support across the world dwindle as humanitarian concerns in Gaza grow. Trump earlier warned that Israel must “finish up” the conflict amidst waning support.

Support for the Jewish state has declined even more since then, following a seemingly intentional attack against foreign aid workers in Gaza this week. The attack marked a major turning point for Israel’s relationships with Western powers, as calls in the U.S. and the UK to stop sending arms to Israel are increasingly gaining support.

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Former President Donald Trump said Israel must quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza as he warned the Jewish state is "losing the PR war." show more
April 5, 2024
Corruption
Crime

Georgia Lovers Fani Willis And Nathan Wade Face New Accusations of Impropriety.

Fulton County’s District Attorney, Fani Willis, is facing renewed legal scrutiny for allegedly recording a confidential phone conversation without the other party’s consent. Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for former President Donald Trump‘s co-defendant Harrison Floyd, claims Willis unlawfully taped a phone call with one of his Maryland-based associates — violating the state’s two-party consent law.

“She did reach out to us, one of my colleagues in Maryland, and was rude, abrupt with him on the phone, and he was dealing with the Maryland case, and I was dealing with the Georgia case, and she ended up recording him,” Kachouroff said in an interview on Tuesday with legal analyst Phil Holloway. Maryland state law requires that any recording of a conversation receive consent from both parties involved. Violations of the law could result in up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine.

Willis appears to have survived an attempt earlier this year to disqualify her from the RICO prosecution she brought against former President Donald Trump and 14 other co-defendants. Attorneys for the defendants accused the District Attorney of impropriety by having a sexual relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade prior to her appointing him to the case. Wade has subsequently stepped down from the prosecution after Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee determined that either he or Willis would need to remove themselves from the case.

Wade, meanwhile, finds himself facing a contempt of court charge after his estranged wife, Jocelyn Wade, claimed the former special prosecutor had not contributed financially towards their children and her emergency medical expenses.

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Fulton County's District Attorney, Fani Willis, is facing renewed legal scrutiny for allegedly recording a confidential phone conversation without the other party's consent. Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for former President Donald Trump's co-defendant Harrison Floyd, claims Willis unlawfully taped a phone call with one of his Maryland-based associates — violating the state's two-party consent law. show more
April 5, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

RFK Apologizes After Briefly Appearing to Back J6 Defendants.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a fundraising email from a third-party vendor on behalf of his campaign referencing participants in the January 6 Capitol riot as “activists” was an error.

The email, titled “We Must Free Assange!”, stated, “This is the reality that every American Citizen faces — from Ed Snowden, to Julian Assange to the J6 activists sitting in a Washington DC jail cell stripped of their Constitutional liberties.”

Following a corporate media backlash, the campaign blamed the issue on an external marketing contractor whose contract it terminated. The email’s statement “does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views,” clarified Stefanie Spear, Kennedy’s spokesperson. The campaign has not disclosed the identity of the vendor responsible for this newswire misstep.

TRUMP BLASTS BIDEN DOJ.

On Thursday, the former president blasted the Biden government on his Truth Social account over the case of 71-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz. A jury found Lavrenz guilty on four counts after praying inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Lavrenz faces three years in jail and up to $250,000 in fines.

SCOTUS TO THE RESCUE?

The Capitol riot defendants face charges under the novel legal application of The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. The act overhauled regulatory provisions dealing with financial record keeping and reporting for corporations. The DOJ contends that the “corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding” felony provision found in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) — and enacted under Sarbanes-Oxley — permits the prosecution of crimes besides those of a financial nature.

The Supreme Court is currently considering whether the “official proceeding” provision can be applied to crimes outside the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley. It is expected to rule by the end of June.

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a fundraising email from a third-party vendor on behalf of his campaign referencing participants in the January 6 Capitol riot as "activists" was an error. show more
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April 5, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Breaking
Election 2024
Lawfare

NEW: Trump Blasts Biden Over ‘J6 Grandma’ Rebecca Lavrenz Guilty Verdict.

President Donald J. Trump has blasted the Biden regime on his Truth Social account over the case of 71-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz, who was found guilty on four counts on Thursday after praying inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Lavrenz faces three years in jail and up to $250,000 in fines.

“Rebecca Lavrez, also known as the ‘J6 Praying Grandma,’ has been unfairly targeted by Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, and now faces up to 1 YEAR in prison for peacefully walking around the Capitol, and praying for our Failing Nation on January 6th!” Trump wrote.

Lavrenz clarified on the War Room show on Friday that her lawyers believe she faces up to three years in jail, given the charges. Her sentencing is on August 12th, though she is expected to appeal the verdict.

“Rebecca is a 72-year-old Grandmother and Small Business Owner from Colorado, and now she is one of Joe Biden’s J6 HOSTAGES!!!” Trump added, concluding: “Crooked Joe Biden spends more time prosecuting Patriots like Rebecca, AND ME, than Violent Criminals, Thugs, Murderers, and ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who are destroying our Country. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST. MAGA2024!”

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President Donald J. Trump has blasted the Biden regime on his Truth Social account over the case of 71-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz, who was found guilty on four counts on Thursday after praying inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Lavrenz faces three years in jail and up to $250,000 in fines. show more
April 4, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election 2024
Media

NeoCon John Bolton Appears on ‘Bloodbath Hoax’ MeidasTouch Network, Promoted by Biden Campaign.

Former National Security Advisor and noted warmonger John Bolton made an appearance on MeidasTouch Network, the media organization behind the Trump ‘bloodbath‘ hoax. The Biden campaign promoted the appearance on social media.

During a softball interview with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs associate Ben Meiselas that was shared by the official Biden-Harris HQ account on X, formerly Twitter, Bolton asserted that former President Donald Trump poses a threat to U.S. national security.

“The basic problem is he’s not really fit to be president,” Bolton claimed. “When you come to trying to make decisions on national security issues, he’s not focused on what’s at stake for the United States, what our options are, how we can protect our interests.”

However, Bolton’s characterizations of Trump are at odds with the former President’s foreign policy record. While in office, Trump made historic advancements for peace in the Middle East and took steps to normalize relations with North Korea, both opportunities that the Biden regime has squandered. The former President also took steps to revolutionize the U.S. relationship with NATO, arguing that other members must pay more for the common defense — a position that has been taken up and supported by several NATO states in light of the Russo-Ukraine War.

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Former National Security Advisor and noted warmonger John Bolton made an appearance on MeidasTouch Network, the media organization behind the Trump 'bloodbath' hoax. The Biden campaign promoted the appearance on social media. show more

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April 4, 2024
Politics

Biden Institutes Rule To Stop Trump Firing Deep State Employees.

The Biden government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a finalized rule on Thursday aimed at preventing the removal of career federal employees from policy-sensitive positions. Some see the move as a fail-safe against former President Donald Trump’s plans to reimplement his “Schedule F” policy to aggressively overhaul the federal workforce should he win re-election in November.

Under the new OPM rule, career federal employees can no longer be re-designated as political appointees or other at-will workers. Additionally, the rule clarifies a clause found in 5 U.S. Code § 7511, which exempts federal workers from government employment protections if their primary work is “confidential, policy determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating” in nature. Under the new policy, the clause only applies to “noncareer, political appointments.”

This change is in direct response to an executive order issued by former President Trump, which created the Schedule F employment designation — allowing him to remove federal employees who actively worked to undermine his policy agenda. Schedule F was underpinned by the clause in 5 U.S. Code § 7511.

Preventing the reimplementation of Schedule F has been a priority of President Joe Biden, especially with November’s presidential election looming. During his first week in office, Biden revoked the policy and directed White House policymakers to examine actions that could be taken to prevent its return in the future. While a future Trump administration could re-institute his federal employment reforms, the new OPM rule would make it more difficult. The rule also outlines a specific process for re-designating a career federal worker, making any future attempts to use Schedule F more cumbersome.

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The Biden government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a finalized rule on Thursday aimed at preventing the removal of career federal employees from policy-sensitive positions. Some see the move as a fail-safe against former President Donald Trump's plans to reimplement his "Schedule F" policy to aggressively overhaul the federal workforce should he win re-election in November. show more
April 4, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election 2024
Politics

Far-Left Calls for SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Retirement Reveal Dems Believe in Trump Victory.

Democrats are increasingly calling on Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from the Supreme Court before the 2024 presidential election, suggesting a widespread belief that former President Donald Trump will win.

Sotomayor is 69,  a lifelong diabetic, and the oldest liberal member of the court. Should Trump win the election and Sotomayor need to retire in the next four years due to her health, conservatives could secure a 7-2 majority.

Senator Richard Blumenthal recently expressed those fears. “I’m very respectful of Justice Sotomayor,” he told NBC. “I have great admiration for her. But I think she really has to weigh the competing factors. We should learn a lesson. And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be. The old saying — graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves in this body included.”

Although many Democrats have publicly spoken out against Sotomayor’s retirement, sources indicate that most believe she should. “All the people in the liberal legal community are putting hurting Sonia’s feelings ahead of the prospect of a 7-2 court. Insane,” said one Democrat who worked on judicial nominations but is prohibited from speaking about the justices publicly. “So they don’t say anything about her retiring when they all think she should.”

Controversial former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan echoed these concerns in a column in The Guardian. “Biden, elected Democrats, and liberals and progressives across the board should be both publicly and privately encouraging Sotomayor to consider what she wants her legacy to be, to remember what happened with [Ruth Bader Ginsburg], and to not take any kind of gamble with the future of our democracy,” Hasan wrote.

Trump currently leads Biden in six of seven of the most crucial swing states, according to recent polling.

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Democrats are increasingly calling on Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from the Supreme Court before the 2024 presidential election, suggesting a widespread belief that former President Donald Trump will win. show more