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November 16, 2023
William Upton
Politics

Nikki Haley Hires Romney-Ryan Money Man Amidst JP Morgan Endorsement Chatter.

Spencer Zwick, a GOP fundraiser with deep connections to mega-donors, is reportedly joining Nikki Haley’s 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign. A founding partner of Solamere Capital, Zwick served as National Fundraising Chair on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, and is known to have connections to GOP mega-donors with deep pockets.

In early October, Zwick hosted several of the Republican presidential candidates at his annual E2 Summit in Deer Valley, Utah. The question of ‘How to defeat Donald Trump‘ dominated much of the discussion at the event. According to Zwick, those in attendance were “sincerely looking for an alternative to Donald Trump.” In joining the Haley campaign, Zwick appears to have not just found his Trump-alternative, but hoping to convince the Republican establishment that she is the alternative as well.

The Haley campaign staffing news comes amidst chatter that JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has been holding private, informal phone conversations with the candidate. The private conversations have lead to increasing speculation that Dimon is close to endorsing – and financially backing – the former Governor of South Carolina and U.N. Ambassador’s presidential bid.

While Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s campaign continues to falter, Haley has used two relatively strong debate performances to build some momentum among ‘Anti-Trump’ primary voters. Polling now shows Haley and DeSantis in a close battle for second place nationally, while the former-U.N. Ambassador has pulled ahead of DeSantis in the early primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina. Former President Donald Trump continues to hold a near insurmountable lead in primary polling and is by-far-and-away the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

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Spencer Zwick, a GOP fundraiser with deep connections to mega-donors, is reportedly joining Nikki Haley's 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign. A founding partner of Solamere Capital, Zwick served as National Fundraising Chair on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, and is known to have connections to GOP mega-donors with deep pockets. show more
November 16, 2023
Breaking
Corruption

NY Appeals Judge Lifts Trump Gag Order on Engoron’s Far-Left Staff.

A New York appeals court judge has lifted a gag order that had previously restrained former president Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers involved in his civil fraud trial. The gag order, imposed last month by trial judge Arthur Engoron and accompanied by a fine of $15,000 for violation, followed after Trump criticized court staff for political bias in asocial media post. The decision to pause the gag order by Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court arrived amid concerns about infringements on Trump’s free speech rights.

Trump’s lawyers, responding to the aforementioned gag order, have filed a lawsuit against Engoron, accusing the trial judge of abuse of power. Following this action, an emergency hearing was set on Thursday afternoon by Judge Friedman in a state appellate courthouse, located several miles away from the ongoing trial.

The central issue at hand pertains to Trump’s claims of improper influence by law clerk Allison Greenfield in the trial. His defense team has frequently highlighted Greenfield during the trial, alleging the former Democratic judicial candidate has assumed an oversized role in the case against the ex-Republican president. Judge Engoron has defended Greenfield’s participation in the trial, responded with fining Trump for perceived violations, and further prohibited lawyers from commenting on “confidential communications” with his staff.

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A New York appeals court judge has lifted a gag order that had previously restrained former president Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers involved in his civil fraud trial. The gag order, imposed last month by trial judge Arthur Engoron and accompanied by a fine of $15,000 for violation, followed after Trump criticized court staff for political bias in asocial media post. The decision to pause the gag order by Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court arrived amid concerns about infringements on Trump's free speech rights. show more
November 16, 2023
Politics

Senator Joe Manchin Says He’s Down to Run for President.

Democratic Senator of West Virginia Joe Manchin announced in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker his potential consideration for running for president as a third-party candidate in 2024.

Manchin has previously skirted questions on presidential aspirations. Despite acknowledging that there’s ample time for a third-party candidate, he maintained, “It’s not about me.” However, his participation in a July event hosted by the centrist group “No Labels” did raise questions about his potential White House campaign.

He suggested that President Joe Biden had been “pushed too far to the left” on policies ranging from engird to migration, citing the unprecedented levels of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. He also said he does not believe Biden and Harris are in the strongest position to defeat former President Donald Trump.

“I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure, to mobilize that moderate, sensible, commonsense middle,” he explained.

“The business of politics has gotten so big because the business model is a Democrat business and a Republican business and it’s really forgotten about the people to a certain extent,” he added.

This comes as his most explicit potential presidential ambition statement, following last week’s declaration that he would not pursue reelection in 2024. This decision sets the stage for an almost certain switch of his seat to a Republican holder, sparking further speculation about his potential presidential bid.

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Democratic Senator of West Virginia Joe Manchin announced in an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker his potential consideration for running for president as a third-party candidate in 2024. show more

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November 16, 2023
Jake Welch
NatSec

FBI Forced Out Trump Supporting Agents, Claims Whistleblower.

High-ranking Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) officers have been targeting former members of the U.S. military who became FBI agents, apparently discriminating against their for their political beliefs. Some were even targeted for removal from the agency, according to whistleblower disclosures presented to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee this week.

The disclosures state several former servicemen were accused by Jeffrey Veltri, the deputy assistant of the FBI’s Security Division, alongside Dena Perkins, an assistant section chief, of “disloyalty to the United States” after displaying characteristics similar to those of a Donald Trump supporter.

The characteristics are said to have included refusing to wear a face mask, refusing to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, and participating in religious activities.

Agents were even stripped of security clearances following the accusations, and were forced out despite there being “no indication that any of the individuals had any affiliation to a foreign power or held any belief against the United States,” the disclosures explain.

The claims add that Ms. Perkins ordered investigations to contact ten police departments where employees lived to ascertain whether there were allegations or legal violations by the agents. “During the process, Perkins was attempting to provide evidence so she could terminate this employee because he was ‘Disloyal to the United States,'” the disclosures continue.

The FBI denied the allegations to The Washington Times, referring to them as “outrageous and demonstrably false.” However, the agency has been found to be weaponizing its resources to monitor and surveil supporters of the 45th President in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.

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High-ranking Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) officers have been targeting former members of the U.S. military who became FBI agents, apparently discriminating against their for their political beliefs. Some were even targeted for removal from the agency, according to whistleblower disclosures presented to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee this week. show more
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November 15, 2023
William Upton
News

REVEALING: Trump Slammed ‘Communist & Fascist Thugs’ as ‘Vermin’ and Joe Biden Attacked Him For It.

U.S. President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump for comparing “communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs” to “vermin”. The Democrat President, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, said Trump’s use of ‘”vermin” was “a specific phrase with a specific meaning”, adding: “It echoes language you heard in Nazi Germany in the ’30s.”

Trump made the comparison between America’s enemies and “vermin” during a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire on Veterans Day. He then followed up the remarks by posting them nearly verbatim on TruthSocial. Meidas Touch – a liberal dark money group that poses as a news outlet – was quick to jump on the former President’s remarks, smearing Trump with comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

Firing back at both the corporate media and White House criticisms of the former President and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

When viewed in context, former President Trump’s remarks appear to be little more than an enthusiastic pitch for part of his campaign’s ‘Agenda 47’ policy platform. If elected, Trump has promised to rein in rogue federal agencies, expose and dismantle the ‘Deep State’, and use the “Schedule F’ federal employment designation to remove career bureaucrats who actively work against the President’s agenda.

This isn’t the first time President Biden has compared Trump to Nazis. During the 2020 election, Biden said Trump reminded him of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

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U.S. President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump for comparing "communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs" to "vermin". The Democrat President, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, said Trump's use of '"vermin" was "a specific phrase with a specific meaning", adding: "It echoes language you heard in Nazi Germany in the '30s." show more
November 15, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

DeSantis Sinks to 7% & 4th Place in New Hampshire.

Ron DeSantis is continuing to nosedive in New Hampshire, with neoconservative Nikki Haley now enjoying more than twice his support and Never Trump also-ran Chris Christie pushing him into fourth place.

Donald Trump dominates the field in the Granite State, on 49 points, with Nikki Haley a distant second on 18 percent. This puts her far above Christie on 9 percent, however, and even further ahead of DeSantis, on seven percent – only two points ahead of the hitherto unknown Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never held a high-profile public office like Haley, Christie, and DeSantis.

DeSantis’s team had put a great deal of stock into winning or at least coming a strong second in Iowa and New Hampshire, in order to build a credible platform to take on the former president. Polls placing him fourth and even fifth in New Hampshire suggest this strategy has failed. DeSantis has even begun to play down the early states, saying: “I think Florida, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, those states will be great for us”.

Trump’s lead over DeSantis is substantial and growing even in his home state of Florida, however.

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Ron DeSantis is continuing to nosedive in New Hampshire, with neoconservative Nikki Haley now enjoying more than twice his support and Never Trump also-ran Chris Christie pushing him into fourth place. show more
November 15, 2023
William Upton
Politics

Rep. Stefanik Demands DOJ Prosecute Michael Cohen After Congressional Perjury Admission.

Evidence that disgraced attorney Michael Cohen perjured himself before Congress is being referred to the Department of Justice for a second time. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Michael Turner (R-OH) state: “Michael D. Cohen appears to have committed perjury and knowingly made false statements while testifying under oath during his deposition before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on February 28, 2019.” The House Members point to testimony from Cohen from October 25th during the civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump, where he clearly states he lied under oath to Congress in 2019.

“The Biden Justice Department must take off its partisan blinders and investigate disgraced fraudster and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen, a felon previously convicted for lying to Congress, who just admitted to lying again to Congress,” Rep. Stefanik said.

While on the stand as a witness for the prosecution, Cohen initially insinuated Trump had directed him to artificially inflate the value of his financial assets. This directly contradicted testimony Cohen gave to Congress in 2019 where he said that Trump had not directed him to do so. During cross-examination, Trump attorney Alina Habba pressed Cohen, “Mr. Cohen, were you being honest in front of the Permanent Select Committee when you testified on February 28, 18 2019?” Cohen responded, “No.”

Habba followed up: “So you lied under oath in February of 2019? Is that your testimony?” To which Cohen responded, “Yes”. A few hours later, Cohen would contradict himself again, telling another Trump attorney that the former President had not directed him to inflate his asset values.

In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress regarding statements he made to the Senate Intelligence Committee and House Intelligence Committee in 2017 concerning an abandoned Trump real estate deal in Moscow. The 2017 hearings conducted by Congressional Democrats were largely fueled by the now-debunked Steele Dossier.

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Evidence that disgraced attorney Michael Cohen perjured himself before Congress is being referred to the Department of Justice for a second time. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Michael Turner (R-OH) state: "Michael D. Cohen appears to have committed perjury and knowingly made false statements while testifying under oath during his deposition before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on February 28, 2019." The House Members point to testimony from Cohen from October 25th during the civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump, where he clearly states he lied under oath to Congress in 2019.

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November 15, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Jenna Ellis Raised $220K Pledging to Fight Georgia Case While Selling Trump Out to Prosecutors.

Former Donald Trump attorney Jenna Ellis attempted to sell out the 45th President to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis despite claiming she would fight the RICO indictment the Georgia Democrat brought against her, raising almost $220,000 from MAGA conservatives to help her do so.

Ellis, now a Ron DeSantis booster, was included in RICO charges alongside Trump, Sidney Powell, and others related to alleged election interference. She raised $216,000 on GiveSendGo claiming she would “stand for the truth” but later tearfully pleaded guilty in exchange for reduced charges.

It now emerges she also flipped on the former president, claiming Trump official Dan Scavino said they planned on refusing to leave the White House on December 19th 2020, after she had told him the legal fight against the election results “was essentially over.”

“[H]e said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,'” Ellis told prosecutors in a so-called “proffer session”.

“And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss’, meaning President Trump – and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him – he said, ‘The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power,'” she continued.

Ellis claims she told Scavino “it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?” and Scavino responded: “We don’t care.”

Trump did leave the White House of January 20th, however – and Trump lead counsel Steve Sadow insists that it “the only salient fact to this nonsense line of inquiry”.

“If this is the type of bogus, ridiculous ‘evidence’ DA Willis intends to rely upon, it is one more reason that this political, travesty of a case must be dismissed,” Sadow added.

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Former Donald Trump attorney Jenna Ellis attempted to sell out the 45th President to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis despite claiming she would fight the RICO indictment the Georgia Democrat brought against her, raising almost $220,000 from MAGA conservatives to help her do so. show more
November 15, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Politics

Businessman Says DeSantis ‘Bugged’ Him for Endorsement, Then Falsely Announced It: ‘I am 100% For Trump’.

Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been left with egg on his face after claiming New Hampshire business owner Thomas Estey had endorsed him, only for Estey to deny it and announce his support for Donald Trump.

“Ron DeSantis’s team kept bugging me for my endorsement, but I am 100 percent voting for President Trump,” said Estey in comments to local media this week.

“[Trump] is the only one who can save our country from Joe Biden.” Estey added.

Several recent polls support the businessman’s assessment, with Trump beating Biden in five out of six of the nation’s key swing states – sometimes by substantial margins

DeSantis has not been achieving similar results, despite his surrogates claiming one of his key selling points is the fact he carries less “baggage” and has alienated viewer voters, making him a more “electable” nominee.

The Floridian has proved unable to cut through even with Republican primary voters, with his polling in New Hampshire, where he is a distant forth behind neoconservative Nikki Haley and Never Trump hardliner Chris Christie, being particularly abysmal.

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Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been left with egg on his face after claiming New Hampshire business owner Thomas Estey had endorsed him, only for Estey to deny it and announce his support for Donald Trump. show more
November 14, 2023
William Upton
Media
Politics

WATCH: House Speaker Mike Johnson Endorses Trump Live on CNBC.

Former President Donald Trump’s bid to retake the White House received big endorsement this morning from the newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Johnson was pressed by host Joe Kernen as to who he was supporting in the Republican presidential primary to which the Speaker responded: “I’m all in for President Trump.”

Addressing the Department of Justice, as well the New York and Georgia, prosecutions against former President Trump, Johnson made it clear that he believed they were politically motivated, stating: “We call it lawfare… And what’s happened to President Trump is unprecedented.” The House Speaker went on to point out that “every time a new indictment drops, it follows after some favorable thing he gets in a poll…”.

Before becoming Speaker, Johnson was a vocal proponent of Donald Trump in the House of Representatives. Along with 125 other House Republicans, Johnson was a signer of an amicus brief in Texas v. Pennsylvania. The case, brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, argued that states which changed election procedure during the 2020 presidential contest without legislative approval were in violation of the U.S. Constitution – specifically the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, arguing that Texas lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.Mik

Johnson is the 91st Member of Congress to endorse Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has just 6 Congressional endorsements, while former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum each have one respectively.

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Former President Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House received big endorsement this morning from the newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA). show more