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biden speech
January 4, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

Biden Moves Valley Forge Jan 6 Speech to Friday Due to Weather.

President Joe Biden is set to yet again deliver a speech claiming former President Donald Trump is an “existential threat” to American democracy. The Democrat incumbent was set to deliver a speech at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania this weekend, marking the third anniversary of the January 6th protests at the U.S. Capitol. The speech has now been pushed forward to Friday, with the campaign citing inclement weather, scarcely in the spirit of George Washington’s winter encampment from 1777 to 1778.

The last time Biden engaged in such theatrics was outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he appeared menacingly flanked by uniformed Marines and backlit by an ominous red glow. In the speech, Biden took direct aim at Trump and the America First movement.

“But as I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise,” Biden said.

“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic… there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country,” he added.

With cratering approval ratings and voters discontented over his handling of the economy and the southern border, Biden has increasingly found himself reliant on trying to paint Trump as a “threat to democracy” comparable to Adolf Hitler.

Minorities and young voters have increasingly become disillusioned with the Biden government, however, and attempts to push ‘Bidenomics’ as a success have fallen flat.

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President Joe Biden is set to yet again deliver a speech claiming former President Donald Trump is an "existential threat" to American democracy. The Democrat incumbent was set to deliver a speech at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania this weekend, marking the third anniversary of the January 6th protests at the U.S. Capitol. The speech has now been pushed forward to Friday, with the campaign citing inclement weather, scarcely in the spirit of George Washington's winter encampment from 1777 to 1778. show more
January 3, 2024
News

Jan 6 Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Donald Trump Dismissed by Federal Judge.

A federal judge has dismissed three of the five civil counts against former President Donald Trump and two others in connection with the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, including a claim of wrongful death.

The lawsuit against Trump was initiated by Sandra Garza, Sicknick’s girlfriend, who sought damages for wrongful death, conspiracy to violate civil rights, and negligence under D.C’s anti-riot law. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote that Garza could not claim damages associated under the Wrongful Death Act because she was not legally Sicknick’s spouse or domestic partner.

“Garza does not allege that she and Officer Sicknick filed the requisite ‘declaration of domestic partnership’ under District of Columbia law. Nor does she claim that they formed a domestic partnership under the law of any other jurisdiction,” wrote Mehta. “Her contention that a ‘domestic partnership’ was established simply by Officer Sicknick having identified Garza as his ‘domestic partner’ in his will finds no basis in the plain text of the statute. Garza therefore cannot recover the damages she personally seeks under the Act,” the judge continued.

While this is an obvious legal victory for Trump, the former president still faces two of the civil counts in the suit, as well as a number of other legal challenges in the coming weeks. Sicknick did not die on Jan 6, as first claimed by the media, but rather later from a stroke.

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A federal judge has dismissed three of the five civil counts against former President Donald Trump and two others in connection with the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, including a claim of wrongful death. show more
epps
January 3, 2024
Crime

Prosecutors Want 6-Month Sentence for ‘Unique’ Ray Epps.

Federal prosecutors are recommending a mere six-month prison sentence for controversial Jan 6 defendant Ray Epps. Set to be sentenced next week, Epps submitted a guilty plea for a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor charge in September, despite having claimed to have “orchestrated” the violence in 2021.

Prosecutors filed a sentencing memo on Tuesday arguing that Epps should receive just six-months for his attempts to provoke the storming of the Capitol building. Other Jan 6th prisoners have suffered years in jail, including solitary confinement, already. Some are facing decades in prison.

Epps was widely suspected of being an agent provocateur working on behalf of the authorities, but prosecutors denied this, stating: “Other than his four years in the Marines, Epps has never been a federal agent.”

Prosecutors also say Epps attributed the rioting to undercover Antifa members in the sentencing memo.

Last year, Epps launched a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that the network and its former host, Tucker Carlson, presented him as a key instigator of Jan 6, damaging his reputation and livelihood.

Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steve Sund, however, has said Carlson was not “crazy” to question to question Epps’s role on Jan 6, adding that it also “raises concern for me”.

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Federal prosecutors are recommending a mere six-month prison sentence for controversial Jan 6 defendant Ray Epps. Set to be sentenced next week, Epps submitted a guilty plea for a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor charge in September, despite having claimed to have "orchestrated" the violence in 2021. show more
December 14, 2023
Jake Welch
Media

WATCH: Vivek Steamrolls Panicked CNN with Jan 6, Fed Entrapment Explainer.

Republican 2024 presidential nominee outsider Vivek Ramaswamy railed against CNN host Abby Phillip on Wednesday night, detailing the reality of federal government agent involvement in Jan 6 and the Governor Whitmer kidnap hoax.

Phillip confronted Ramsmwamy on his claims, telling him a protestor who participated in the event – Alan Hostetter – used the GOP nominee hopeful’s comments during his sentence hearing last week.

“If you told me… back when I was a biotech CEO not steeped in this world… that January 6 was in any way an inside job, the subject of government entrapment. I would have told you that was crazy talk, fringe conspiracy theory nonsense. I can tell you know having gone somewhat deep in this: it’s not,” Ramaswamy replied.

“The reality is, we know that there were federal law enforcement agents in the field. We don’t know how many,” he continued before being quickly interrupted by the panicked CNN host. “We’ve seen multiple informants suggesting that there were, we know people who were FBI informants who were asked to do this,” Ramaswamy then countered.

“Why did they suppress footage of now what’s been released 200 hours of footage of shooting rubber bullets into that crowd, shooting tear gas into that crowd, you didn’t see that response before you saw what the response was to that, now you footage coming out of actually out the red carpet for Capitol police allowing people in,” he continued, with the audience beginning to applaud his remarks.

Whitmer Plot.

Ramaswamy then decided to enter uncharted territory for the mainstream media. He mentioned the potential Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) involvement in the Whitmer Plot, which supposedly saw an attempt to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

“Three people who were in an alleged plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer were acquitted at the end of trial because it was entrapment – that is, government agents put them up to do something they otherwise wouldn’t have done,” he explained.

“They gave them credit cards with spending limits of up to $5,000, encouraged them to buy munitions, plan something they were otherwise unwilling to plan. So much so that… one of the jurors went to those defendants and apologized afterwards, gave them a hug… seeing what the government had put a poor guy up to.”

“These people were exploited… FBI agents putting them up to a kidnapping plot that we were told was true but was entrapment, same thing with the Capitol Police…” He added, “I think this is the civil libertarian issue of our time.”

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Republican 2024 presidential nominee outsider Vivek Ramaswamy railed against CNN host Abby Phillip on Wednesday night, detailing the reality of federal government agent involvement in Jan 6 and the Governor Whitmer kidnap hoax. show more
December 12, 2023
Jake Welch
Corruption
TECH

Jack Smith Says He Knows When Trump’s Phone Was Unlocked & When the Twitter App Was Open on Jan 6.

Federal investigators probing the 2020 presidential election reportedly obtained phone records from the White House, one of which belongs to former President Donald J. Trump, revealed in a late Monday court filing by special counsel Jack Smith. The disclosure suggests the records could serve as evidence in the forthcoming trial.

A so-called “Expert 3”, who analyzed phone usage during the post-election period, may testify about the findings. These likely include when phone was unlocked and had active Twitter engagement on January 6.

The unnamed technical witness also reviewed digital data such as images and website history from the ex-president’s phone and another owned by an individual, identified as Trump’s former lawyer and former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani.

Trump faces four criminal charges, including a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. He pleaded not guilty to all counts. Giuliani, named as “Individual 1” in the indictment, remains uncharged.

Extent of Analysis.

However, it remains unclear to what extent Smith had access to Trump’s phones. He admits in the filing to using images, websites, and locations on Google. But he does not suggest whether he accessed communications or anything else usually protected by executive privilege.

It is also uncertain whether the information implicated Trump directly. The former President’s phones were often managed by others including his social media manager, Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino.

Details in the court document come in response to a query about expert witnesses for the trial scheduled to begin March 4, 2024. Two additional digital data experts may testify, revealing patterns in the movement of crowds on January 6.

This is not the first time Trump’s phone usage has been part of inquiry into his post-election actions. Internal White House records show a 7-hour, 37-minute gap in Trump’s official phone logs on the day of the Capitol building breach.

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Federal investigators probing the 2020 presidential election reportedly obtained phone records from the White House, one of which belongs to former President Donald J. Trump, revealed in a late Monday court filing by special counsel Jack Smith. The disclosure suggests the records could serve as evidence in the forthcoming trial. show more
December 11, 2023
Jake Welch
News

DOJ Files Motion to Hide Jan 6 Docs in Trump Case Discovery.

The Department of Justice (DOJ)’s special counsel in the January 6 case, Jack Smith, has filed a motion rejecting Donald Trump’s request for documents from multiple government agencies.

Smith argued this weekend that Trump’s demands amount to “an unprecedented expansion of the Government’s discovery obligations that would provide special treatment for him and result in delay.”

Smith claims the “prosecution team” is not the entire executive branch, meaning documents belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the DOJ, the Special Counsel’s office, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and other Congressional committees, are “not discoverable”.

“The Government has taken a broad approach to discovery, providing voluminous, comprehensive, and early productions that exceed its obligations,” Smith adds.

The motion accepts prosecutors must reveal information that may be useful to a defendant, yet claims much information Trump has requested “is not in the Government’s possession, [and] in many cases does not appear to exist…”

Reports suggest the information is not discoverable because thousands of texts between Secret Service officials were deleted in January 2021 “after House Democrats notified executive agencies to preserve all Jan 6-related records.” Other withheld information includes Secret Service transcripts, which detail operations on January 6, 2021.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ)'s special counsel in the January 6 case, Jack Smith, has filed a motion rejecting Donald Trump's request for documents from multiple government agencies. show more

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December 7, 2023
William Upton
Politics

WATCH: Vivek Schools CNN’s Dana Bash on How Cops Incited Jan 6.

Vivek Ramaswamy sparred with with CNN’s Dana over his assertion during the debate that federal law enforcement, and other elements of the government hostile to former President Trump, instigated the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021. During the debate he challenged his fellow Republican primary candidates to be more open to questioning the government’s official narrative – posing the question: “Why am I the only person on this stage this state, at least, who can can say that January 6th now does look like was an inside job.”

Bash kicked off the post-debate spin room exchange with Ramaswamy, bluntly claiming: “There is no evidence that is is an inside job. It was a fringe was a fringe conspiracy theory that Trump appointed FBI director Christopher Ray has said explicitly, over-and-over, is just not true.” Nonplussed, Ramaswamy pushed back: “Looking at the facts of the video footage that have come out, it is shocking that you still haven’t gotten a clear answer as to how many federal agents were in the field that day.”

Ramaswamy pointed Bash to U.S. Capitol security camera footage made public by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) which indicate federal law enforcement deployed dangerous crowd dispersal tactics against the mass of protestors prior to the riot. Footage also shows police opening doors to let protestors into the Capitol, later declared a “crime” for which many have faced prosecution.

“That is a case of entrapment,” Ramaswamy told Bash.

The interview continued for more several minutes with Bash appearing increasingly confused. The CNN anchor incorrectly argued  “an inside job” suggests all of the protestors who rioted and entered the Capitol were either federal agents or acting the government’s behalf.

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Vivek Ramaswamy sparred with with CNN's Dana over his assertion during the debate that federal law enforcement, and other elements of the government hostile to former President Trump, instigated the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021. During the debate he challenged his fellow Republican primary candidates to be more open to questioning the government's official narrative – posing the question: "Why am I the only person on this stage this state, at least, who can can say that January 6th now does look like was an inside job." show more
December 1, 2023
William Upton
Corruption

The Jan 6 Committee Depositions Have Been Destroyed, Reveals Congressman.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) says the video depositions of witnesses for the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee – including Cassidy Hutchinson among others – have been destroyed. According to Loudermilk, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) – who chaired the partisan committee – did not believe preserving the video data was necessary.

Loudermilk says when he asked Thompson for the files, the Democrat Congressman confirmed to him they had been destroyed. Expressing frustration with these actions, Loudermilk said, “…according to House rules, you have to preserve any data and any information and documents that are used in an official proceeding.”

The revelation of the deposition tape destructions came after Rep. Loudermilk says he was asked by a constituent for information from one sitting. The Congressman’s staff quickly realized something was amiss when they were unable to locate the tapes. This prompted the Georgia Republican to ask Rep. Thompson for his committee’s original files.

According to Loudermilk, because Rep. Thompson and House Democrats aired portions of the video depositions during the January 6 Committee hearings, House Rules required the Committee to preserve the tapes. Undeterred, Rep. Loudermilk says he still believes the complete video of witness depositions “exists somewhere.”

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Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) says the video depositions of witnesses for the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee – including Cassidy Hutchinson among others - have been destroyed. According to Loudermilk, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) – who chaired the partisan committee – did not believe preserving the video data was necessary. show more
November 23, 2023
Jake Welch
Media

‘OPENLY AUTHORITARIAN’ – Media Panic Intensifies As Trump 2nd Term Looks Likely.

Left-wing media is panicking at the prospect of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election because the former President intends to curb the power of federal agencies such as the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) as well as launch investigations into the Biden family‘s dubious financial affairs.

A report published in the Guardian has raised the possibility of Trump’s second term being “openly authoritarian” and a throwback to either 1970s Latin America or 1930s Europe – a comparison used both before Trump was elected in 2016 and throughout his first presidential term.

“I’m hard pressed to find any candidates anywhere who are so open that they would use the power of the state to go after critics and enemies,” argues Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who, however, fails to comment on the 91 indictments filed against the former President.

“This is one of the most openly authoritarian campaigns I’ve ever seen,” he adds.

The report is similarly spooked by the prospect of “Project 2025,” which aims to replace federal employees inside agencies like the FBI and DOJ and branches of government such as the Department of Homeland Security and Education with conservative-minded individuals.

It is suggested even former DOJ officials are “appalled” by the project. Donald Ayer, a former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, says, “Project 2025 seems to be full of a whole array of ideas that are designed to let Donald Trump function as a dictator, by completely eviscerating many of the restraints built into our system.”

Others are concerned that Trump would pardon January 6 protestors like Jacob Chansley, who was released early from federal prison after it was shown by Tucker Carlson that he was escorted into the U.S. Capitol by police officers. Trump is “promising them pardons for the insurrection. This is about giving power to an autocrat and letting his id take over,” asserts Columbia University researcher and CNN historian Timothy Naftali.

The 45th President is storming ahead of incumbent President Joe Biden in the polls less than 12 months before the 2024 presidential election. Trump is currently on course to receive over 300 Electoral College votes, way above the required 270 to become President.

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Left-wing media is panicking at the prospect of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election because the former President intends to curb the power of federal agencies such as the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) as well as launch investigations into the Biden family's dubious financial affairs. show more
November 21, 2023
Jake Welch
Corruption
Politics

AUDIO: DeSantis Influencer Says J6 Prisoners ‘Will Do Time’ Under Ron… ‘It Will Be Fun to Watch’.

A leading online booster for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said that January 6 protestors will go to prison if DeSantis manages to make it to the White House, wildly concluding: “It will be fun to watch.”

Chris Nelson, a blogger, DJ, and avid fan of the Florida Governor spouted his fantasies in an X (formerly Twitter) Spaces meeting with other DeSantis loyalists, entitled: “Never (Again) Trump. Change…”

Nelson explained: “To everybody that wants the January 6 stuff worked out, you can have these idiots in Congress release every single footage, from every single room, and what happened… and they’re trying to say ‘oh! look at that I saw a little flash, it’s an FBI badge there,’ ok please: alright, when DeSantis gets in, that’s gonna be something that gets resolved.”

“When DeSantis gets in, that’s going to be something that gets resolved,” Nelson continues, claiming the Florida Governor will “look through all the cases, issue pardons, commutations where necessary. People will do time for what they did – [if] they broke a window, it’ll probably be time served,” Nelson continued.

He goes on to discuss firing the FBI director and hiring “good personnel” before concluding with “It’s just going to be exciting… it’s going to be fun to watch.”

Nelson’s wishes are, however, unlikely to be realized as DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign continues its downfall. Only last week, the Florida Governor polled in fifth place behind former President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and even Chris Christie in New Hampshire.

Notably, Nelson’s ex-wife filed a restraining order against him in 2017, accusing him of domestic battery. Nelson has previously accosted Trump supporters such as Steve Bannon and Kari Lake in person, and celebrated the indictments of Donald Trump. In exchange, he has been granted privileged access to DeSantis events, and is regularly boosted online by officials from Team DeSantis and his PAC.

NOTE: An original tweet embedded on this story truncated Nelson’s audio from the X Space. We have included a fuller version below.

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A leading online booster for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said that January 6 protestors will go to prison if DeSantis manages to make it to the White House, wildly concluding: "It will be fun to watch." show more

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