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January 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

D.C. Trump Prosecutor Had to Go BACK to College Because His Egyptian Human Rights Degree Didn’t Allow Him to Practice Law.

Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney James Pearce, who represented Jack Smith’s prosecution team against Donald Trump in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, worked as a law officer at the United Nations (UN) despite the fact his law degree did not actually allow him to practice law.

Pearce, who struggled to defend the DOJ position against Trump attorney Dean John Sauer before the D.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday, is a history major who initially taught migrant children in Turkey after graduating. After a few years, he made efforts to “upskill” himself, enrolling at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and graduating with a degree in human rights law.

He was able to parlay this into a job as a rule of law officer with the corruption-riddled United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Darfur, Sudan — despite not actually being qualified to practice law.

“I was the only one among the rule of law officers in the office who didn’t have a degree that allowed me to practice law,” Pearce admitted in 2008. He also disclosed he “wasn’t really sure that” he and his UN colleagues “were accomplishing that much” in Darfur.

The low value of Pearce’s Egyptian degree forced him to return to college in the United States before he could reinvent himself at the DOJ, where he began work in 2015. He has subsequently been involved in several cases related to Jan 6, which he has described as “an act of domestic terrorism.”

His opposite number in Trump’s D.C. appeal, Dean John Sauer, has a much more robust background. Sauer is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and a former Solicitor General of Missouri.

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Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney James Pearce, who represented Jack Smith's prosecution team against Donald Trump in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, worked as a law officer at the United Nations (UN) despite the fact his law degree did not actually allow him to practice law. show more
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January 9, 2024
News

Even Mitt Romney Thinks Jan 6 Is A Political ‘Dead Horse.’

Utah Senator Mitt Romney, in a recent interview, warned President Joe Biden against using the January 6 Capitol attack in his campaign against Donald Trump, deeming it a “dead political horse.”

“Jan 6 will be four years old by the election. People have processed it, one way or another,” he said. “Biden needs fresh material, a new attack, rather than kicking a dead political horse,” Romney said in an interview with The New York Times. 

Romney, who is retiring from the Senate this year, has been a consistent critic of Trump and voted to convict the 45th President in both impeachment trials.

The Utah Senator’s comments come as President Biden has made Trump’s alleged support for “insurrection” a key theme of his campaign. “Donald Trump’s campaign is about him, not America. Not you. Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy [to] put himself in power,” Biden said in a speech on Friday.

Romney recently described himself as a “turd in the punch bowl” for a biography of himself which failed to attract any interest.
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Utah Senator Mitt Romney, in a recent interview, warned President Joe Biden against using the January 6 Capitol attack in his campaign against Donald Trump, deeming it a "dead political horse." show more
January 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
News
Politics

LISTEN: Hot Mic Catches Journos Joking About Trump Being Assassinated – ‘Like JFK! Take a Convertible!’

Microphones caught journalists waiting for Donald Trump to arrive at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington D.C. joking about the former president being assassinated on Tuesday.

Trump is attending the D.C. Court of Appeals to hear the opening oral arguments in his appeal against Jack Smith’s efforts to prosecute him over January 6th, and journalists gathered outside the courthouse in substantial numbers ahead of his arrival.

Two of them could be heard in live feeds joking about having a “good shot” at the America First leader when he arrived, particularly if he showed up driving a convertible like the one the late President John F. Kennedy was riding in when he was shot in the head in 1963:

First Journalist: You know what the worst part is? Even if he has his window open and he’s hanging out of it, he will be on the other side of the street.

Second Journalist: I mean, if he’s driving, we’ve got a good shot!

First Journalist: Yeah, if he’s driving with the front window open?

Second Journalist: Yeah, or if it’s a convertible?

First Journalist: Yeah. I wasn’t thinking about that.

Second Journalist: Yeah. Like if he just pulls up–

First Journalist: Like JFK?

Second Journalist: (laughs)

First Journalist: Maybe someone, just like they told JFK. You know what you should do? You should take a convertible! It’s so nice out!

Trump’s hearing is being overseen by a panel of two Joe Biden-appointed judges and one George H. W. Bush-appointed judge.

His lawyers argue the Smith prosecution amounts to double jeopardy, as Trump was already tried and acquitted over January 6th by the U.S. Senate, and that Smith is also violating the principle of presidential immunity for official acts.

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Microphones caught journalists waiting for Donald Trump to arrive at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington D.C. joking about the former president being assassinated on Tuesday. show more
January 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Politics

Trump in DC Court at 0930AM EST. Listen Along Here.

Donald Trump is in Washington, D.C. today, at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, where his lawyers will appeal he should be entitled to presidential immunity from prosecution by Jack Smith over January 6th.

Trump’s lawyers are also expected to argue the prosecution violates the principle of double jeopardy — meaning a man should not be tried twice for the same offense — as he was already cleared of wrongdoing over January 6th in the Senate trial which followed the Democrats’ failed impeachment of him in 2021.

The appeal will be heard by one George H. W. Bush appointee, Karen LeCraft Henderson, and two Joe Biden appointees, Florence Y. Pan and Michelle Childs.

You can listen here from around 0930 EST:

Smith had sought to skip the D.C. Court of Appeals and take the case directly to the Supreme Court, but Trump successfully argued against it. This means even if the current panel rules against Trump, he can appeal to be heard by the entire D.C. Court of Appeals en banc, and then finally the Supreme Court.

Even if Trump loses all of these appeals in D.C., a Democrat-dominated city, the delay helps the former President. His trial will likely have to be delayed under after the November elections if the D.C. appeals are not completed until relatively late in 2024.

While cameras and generally disallowed in federal courthouses, members of the public can listen to audio from the appeal hearing live from 9:30 a.m. EST.

 

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Donald Trump is in Washington, D.C. today, at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, where his lawyers will appeal he should be entitled to presidential immunity from prosecution by Jack Smith over January 6th. show more
January 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
Crime
Politics

Fulton County DA Fani Willis ‘Had Affair With Married Special Prosecutor, Funded Vacations with Public Money.’

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, pursuing Donald Trump for supposed election interference in Georgia, and married special prosecutor Nathan Wade have been accused of engaging in an “improper” and “clandestine” relationship by lawyers for Michael Roman, one of the former president’s co-defendants.

Willis and Wade are accused of personally enriching themselves, with Wade having been paid almost $654,000 in legal fees authorized by the DA since his appointment in January 2022. Wade is said to have used this money to bring Willis on vacations in Florida and Napa Valley and to take her on Caribbean cruises.

Roman’s lawyers are calling for the charges against him to be thrown out, with the DA and special prosecutor potentially facing investigation for the federal crimes of honest service fraud and racketeering.

“The district attorney chose to appoint her romantic partner, who at all times relevant to this prosecution has been a married man,” Roman attorney Ashleigh Merchant wrote in a filing.

Merchant is calling for the case to be dropped “on the grounds that the district attorney and the special prosecutor have been engaged in an improper, clandestine personal relationship during the pendency of this case, which has resulted in the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers.”

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, pursuing Donald Trump for supposed election interference in Georgia, and married special prosecutor Nathan Wade have been accused of engaging in an "improper" and "clandestine" relationship by lawyers for Michael Roman, one of the former president's co-defendants. show more

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January 8, 2024
Media

WATCH: Even Mike Pence Says Jan 6 Was Not ‘An Insurrection.’

“Do you think Donald Trump engaged in insurrection?” Jake Tapper asked former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday, eliciting a slap back from the man consistently name-checked by the left as being on the receiving end of “hang Mike Pence” chants back in 2021.

“I have never called what happened on January 6 an insurrection. And it is noteworthy that, even in the federal case in Washington, D.C., the president hasn’t been charged with insurrection,” Pence replied, adding: “And while I said that the president’s words were reckless, and I believe that history and the American people will hold him ultimately to account for his role in that day, I think these efforts to take the decision away from the American people are really antithetical to the very democracy that the President Biden and many Democrats talk about wanting to defend.”

“Removing the former president or any other candidate from the choice of the American people, I don’t believe is in the interest of the country.”

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“Do you think Donald Trump engaged in insurrection?” Jake Tapper asked former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday, eliciting a slap back from the man consistently name-checked by the left as being on the receiving end of "hang Mike Pence" chants back in 2021. show more
January 8, 2024
William Upton
News

Dems Prioritise Jan 6 Museum at Capitol if They Win Congress.

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said if Democrats are able to attain majorities in both houses of Congress after the 2024 election, he intends to push for ‘exhibits’ and ‘tours’ to ensure the January 6th riot is remembered by the American people.

During a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol building, the Maryland Democrat was asked if was concerned about public knowledge of the 2020 riot fading. “We should be having tours of the capitol grounds and the Capitol of exactly what took place on January 6th,” Raskin responded, adding: “And I hope we will get to a point where there will be an exhibit inside the Capitol which talks about Sergeant Gonell, and Harry Dunn, and Michael Fanone, and the police officers who put their lives on the line on that day.”

Turning to Donald Trump, Raskin said: “When we defeat Trump and we defeat Trumpism we will be able to get to a point were January 6th will be a day where we can celebrate the heroes and champions of democracy…”

With the 2024 election cycle heating up, President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats have ramped up claims former President Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy. Biden himself has accused Trump of parroting the rhetoric of the German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, though his campaign worries the ridiculousness of the comparison may actually turn off voters.

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Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said if Democrats are able to attain majorities in both houses of Congress after the 2024 election, he intends to push for 'exhibits' and 'tours' to ensure the January 6th riot is remembered by the American people. show more
January 8, 2024
News

Judge Bans Trump From Challenging The Rape Claim Against Him During The Second E Jean Carroll Trial.

A U.S. federal judge has bizarrely ruled that former President Donald Trump may not argue that he did not rape author E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. Trump is set to face off against Carroll a second defamation trial next week. This decision follows another jury’s finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued the order Saturday evening supporting Carroll’s request to exclude the defense’s argument that the previous jury’s conclusion was reached because they dismissed Carroll’s claim of rape.

Just months ago, another jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in a defamation case related to an alleged encounter in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, which Trump denied took place. The upcoming trial will determine additional damages for defamation linked to a statement Trump made in 2019 while he was still president, denying he knew Carroll and asserting that she invented the rape allegation to promote her book.

In defending their client, Trump’s legal team argued that the first jury’s verdict detracted from Carroll’s rape allegation. However, Judge Kaplan stated in his ruling that Carroll’s rape claim is “substantially true under common modern parlance,” even if it doesn’t match the New York legal definition of rape. Carroll is pursuing $10 million in compensatory damages, along with punitive damages. Both Carroll and Trump are set to testify.

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A U.S. federal judge has bizarrely ruled that former President Donald Trump may not argue that he did not rape author E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. Trump is set to face off against Carroll a second defamation trial next week. This decision follows another jury's finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued the order Saturday evening supporting Carroll's request to exclude the defense's argument that the previous jury's conclusion was reached because they dismissed Carroll's claim of rape. show more
January 8, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Trump Demands Sec Def Lloyd Austin ‘Fired’ After Going ‘Missing for One Week.’

Former President Donald Trump has called for U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin to be “fired immediately for improper professional conduct and dereliction of duty.” Austin was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the first day of 2024, following severe pain from an unexplained elective procedure. For days, Biden and the White House were not informed that Austin had been hospitalized, with even Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks unaware of her superior’s status when she began assuming some of his duties on Jan 2nd.

“[Austin] has been missing for one week, and nobody, including his boss, Crooked Joe Biden, had a clue as to where he was, or might be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“He has performed poorly, and should have been dismissed long ago, along with ‘General’ Mark Milley, for many reasons, but in particular the catastrophic surrender in Afghanistan, perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our Country,” he added.

While the public remains in the dark about the nature of Secretary Austin’s condition, Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder now claims he has resumed his professional duties from hospital. Austin is also said to have communicated with President Joe Biden and other senior officials, including Deputy Secretary Hicks and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown, Jr.

No specific discharge date has been provided for Secretary Austin, with Ryder citing privacy reasons for withholding additional information about the exact nature and progress of his condition.

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Former President Donald Trump has called for U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin to be "fired immediately for improper professional conduct and dereliction of duty." Austin was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the first day of 2024, following severe pain from an unexplained elective procedure. For days, Biden and the White House were not informed that Austin had been hospitalized, with even Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks unaware of her superior's status when she began assuming some of his duties on Jan 2nd. show more
January 6, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

More Far-Left Activists Team Up to Keep Trump Off the Ballot. This Time in Illinois.

A small group of Illinois voters, backed by the the leftist law-fare nonprofit ‘Free Speech for People’, has filed a petition with the state board of elections asking that former President Donald Trump be removed from the Republican primary ballot. The petition claims the former Republican president is barred from office under the ‘insurrection’ clause found in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Democrat operatives have pushed the ‘insurrection’ clause claim in several states with mixed results. The Colorado Supreme Court recently ruled that Trump is ineligible to run for President, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, however both the Minnesota and Michigan supreme courts threw out similar cases. The United States Supreme Court is widely expected to step in and overturn the Colorado decision.

The Petitioners.

The petitioners include a far-left professor of English & Latin American and Latino Studies to a local Chicago lawyer. One of the petitioners, Prof. Ralph Cintrón of the University of Illinois Chicago, has a long track record of far-left work — especially pertaining to mass immigration. Speaking at Penn State last year, Prof. Cintrón lamented the lack of representation for illegal immigrants in America. Steven Daniel Anderson, Charles J. Holley, Jack L Hickman, and Darryl P. Baker joined Cintrón in signing the petition.

The petitioners are being represented by Chicago civil rights and constitutional law attorney Matthew Piers, president of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. Piers is a prolific donor to Democrat candidates across the country. A review of Federal Election Commission records reveals he frequently makes significant contributions to far-left progressives, including Rep. Chuy García (D-IL), former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL). He also donated to the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Free Speech for People.

Based in Amherst, Massachusetts, Free Speech for People is a leftist law-fare group founded by John Bonifaz — a long time voting rights activist and political progressive. According to their IRS 990 filings, Free Speech for People had a total revenue of just over $1.5 million in 2021. In 2020, the group’s revenue was double at just over $3 million. According to the left-wing legal advocacy group’s annual reports, its 2021 budget was raised through funds from the Arkay Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, CREDO, The Fred Gellert Family Foundation, the Gaia Fund, The Kohlberg Foundation, the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund, the Park Foundation, Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, the Threshold Foundation, and the WhyNot Initiative.

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A small group of Illinois voters, backed by the the leftist law-fare nonprofit 'Free Speech for People', has filed a petition with the state board of elections asking that former President Donald Trump be removed from the Republican primary ballot. The petition claims the former Republican president is barred from office under the 'insurrection' clause found in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. show more