Leadership Institute founder and long-standing American Conservative Union (ACU) and Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) member Morton Blackwell resigned his position from Matt Schlapp’s organization this week. Blackwell is the latest in a long-line of resignations of both staff and board members from CPAC, as the Schlapps continue to run the right-wing institution into the ground.
Blackwell, 83, has served on the ACU board since the 1970s, and joins other senior figures such as Charlie Gerow and Bob Beauprez in walking out the door. Beauprez quit in May, alleging a “cancer” metastasizing inside the once-great conservative group which now appears only to exist to line the pockets of Matt and Mercedes Schlapp. Gerow stepped down shortly after, though initially refused to release his letter of resignation.
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Schlapp faces a lawsuit for the alleged sexual battery of a younger man, Carlton Huffman, as well as a series of allegations detailing how his organization has failed to adhere to financial rules, with Gerow’s letter – released this week – revealing how the ACU may have even broken the law in its procedures.
The National Pulse has been reporting on the refusal of Schlapp to run the organization properly for over two years, with a number of senior sources inside the organization repeatedly reaching out to sound the alarm.
In his note, Gerow explained how board members were not provided with an affirmation of terms of coverage to sign, as required by law, when CPAC began shelling out vast sums of money for Schlapp’s personal legal defense.
He wrote of being stonewalled when he attempted to acquire the paperwork, explaining he was “presented with reams of paper I had not asked for, [but] this vital sheet of paper was missing,”
Gerow also expressed concern that CPAC failed to carry out “any independent investigation into the underlying accusations made against Matt Schlapp, something any similarly situated nonprofit or for profit corporation would have done.”
He said CPAC staffers were suddenly forced to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) on pain of losing pay, and board members were warned they “serve[d] at the pleasure of [Schlapp].”
Earlier this year, The National Pulse reported on Schlapp’s own ‘DO NOT INVITE’ list for the CPAC conference, which included America First Members of Congress, Trump family members, and even some of his own board members.
Barnard College suspended Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, for her involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University. The daughter of the controversial Somali Congresswoman was arrested at the protest.
Hirsi announced her suspension on social media on Thursday. This coincided with Columbia University President Nemat Shafik’s congressional appearance discussing antisemitism on campuses. Dr. Shafik assured lawmakers of her commitment to enforce rules relating to unauthorized protests and antisemitism during her testimony. Barnard is the sister school of Columbia.
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Representative Omar, a committee member during the hearing, pushed Dr. Shafik on her treatment of Palestinian and Muslim students without mentioning her daughter’s involvement in the protest.
Hirsi, who identified herself as an organizer with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, has been advocating for the university to sever ties with companies supporting Israel.
In a social media post, Hirsi wrote, “I just received notice that I am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.”
Hirsi’s mother is also vocal critic of U.S. support for Israel. Joe Biden faces increasing pressure and resistance from political progressives and Muslim and Arab Americans for his government’s continued support of the Jewish state.
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Barnard College suspended Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, for her involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University. The daughter of the controversial Somali Congresswoman was arrested at the protest.
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The newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA) government in the West Bank territory announced it would distribute bonus payments to security forces responsible for attacks on Israeli citizens and military targets. Just days earlier, President JoeBiden‘s State Department declared its support for the newly formed West Bank government, stating they looked forward to working with the PA “to deliver on credible reforms.”
“Service Director in Jenin Adnan Abu Aisheh said that the message of the service, under the instructions of its leader, Majed Faraj, is to emphasize what President Mahmoud Abbas has said again and again — that if we are left with one penny, it will be paid to the families of the martyrs and the prisoners,” Palestine News Agency WAFA reported. On April 4, the Palestinian General Intelligence Service issued grant payouts to 36 families whose relatives were killed or arrested in the course of committing crimes against Israelis.
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The PA’s announcement comes as a blow to the Bidengovernment‘s initiative to elevate the West Bank government as the legitimate authority over a separate Palestinian state as part of a potential peace process. State Department officials have insisted the PA be reformed and given governing control over the Gaza Strip after Israel’s military operations against the Hamas terrorist group there conclude. Former President Donald Trump suspended American taxpayer funding of the Palestinian Authority. The Biden government subsequently reinstated the aid.
West Bank Palestinian officials have repeatedly refused to condemn the barbaric October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. Some of the newly ‘reformed’ PA members have even gone so far as to endorse continued acts of terrorism against the Jewish state.
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The newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA) government in the West Bank territory announced it would distribute bonus payments to security forces responsible for attacks on Israeli citizens and military targets. Just days earlier, President JoeBiden's State Department declared its support for the newly formed West Bank government, stating they looked forward to working with the PA "to deliver on credible reforms."
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In a campaign visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday President Joe Biden repeated the Trump “bloodbath” hoax.
During a speech, Biden said that former President Donald Trump “means it” when he allegedly called for a “bloodbath.” In reality, Trump did not call for a bloodbath, but used the term to describe the state of the U.S. auto industry under Joe Biden.
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“He called—you know he means it. He argues for another bloodbath when he loses again,” said Biden. Biden’s implication seems to be that Trump is calling for violence should he lose the election.
The National Pulse previously reported that the “bloodbath” hoax was started by MeidasTouch Network, a White House-linkedmedia group known for its controversial contributors and its promotion of anti-Trump disinformation.
Last month, Trump blasted the media for promoting the hoax. “The Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation, pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Biden spreads "bloodbath" hoax on the campaign trail.
JoeBiden cheered his government’s lawfare campaign against former President Donald Trump while campaigning in Pennsylvania on Thursday. The 81-year-old Democrat incumbent made the remarks while speaking at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh.
“Under my predecessor, who’s a little busy right now, Pennsylvania lost 275,000 jobs,” Bided said, referring to Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee currently confined to a Manhattancourtroom. The reference to Trump’s ongoing hush money trial brought by Biden-ally and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg may come as a surprise to the President’s campaign advisors. Thursday morning, POLITICO reported that the Biden campaign and national Democrats planned to say as little as possible about the ongoing lawfare campaign aimed to interfere with Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
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During a press call on Monday, the Biden campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, hinted they and their surrogates would remain relatively quiet on Trump’s trial. “Look, Donald Trump and his team are going to have to speak to his legal issues,” Tyler said. He added: “No matter where Donald Trump is, whether it’s in Mar-a-Lago or a courtroom or anywhere else — he will be focused on himself, his toxic agenda, his campaign of revenge and retribution.”
Judge JuanMerchan, whose daughter has deepties to national Democrats, ordered that Trump be present at court every day his trial is in session. If the former President skips a date to campaign — or even attend his son Barron’s high school graduation — Merchan informed Trump he would be arrested.
The National Pulse reported earlier this week that CNN legal analyst and globalist hatchet man Norman Eisen said the quiet part out loud, albeit unintentionally, insisting that the corporate media shouldn’t refer to Bragg’s prosecution as a “hush money” trial but rather an “‘election interference’” trial.
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JoeBiden cheered his government's lawfare campaign against former President Donald Trump while campaigning in Pennsylvania on Thursday. The 81-year-old Democrat incumbent made the remarks while speaking at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh.
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An Oklahoma resident, Sean Patrick Palmer, was arrested and charged Wednesday for an alleged pipe bombattack against the Massachusetts headquarters of The Satanic Temple.
The 49-year-old is accused of using an explosive to damage the Salem-based building, which also operates as an art gallery. If convicted, Palmer could serve up to 20 years in prison and face a fine of $250,000.
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Surveillance footage captured a man approaching the building around 4 AM on April 8, wearing a facial covering, tactical vest, and gloves. He ignited an improvised explosive device before fleeing. Authorities say the bomb partially detonated, causing minor fire damage. DNA was uncovered from a single hair on the partially detonated device.
A six-page note urging repentance was found in a nearby flowerbed. Palmer had allegedly made similar comments on social media. Investigators also noted a black Volvo, registered to Palmer, acting erratically in the vicinity before and after the incident. Records affirmed that Palmer had recently purchased PVC pipe, the suspected bomb material, from a home improvement store in Oklahoma.
In 2023, the Satanic Temple erected an idol of the demon Baphomet in the Iowa State Capitol. Christian veteran Michael Cassidy beheaded the idol, resulting in his arrest. He was charged with a hate crime because the vandalism was motivated by “the victim’s religion,” according to the prosecutors.
Corporate media outlet POLITICOdescribed Satanists as “people of faith” like Jews or Episcopalians earlier the same year, while Cosmopolitan magazine promoted Satanic abortions.
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An Oklahoma resident, Sean Patrick Palmer, was arrested and charged Wednesday for an alleged pipe bomb attack against the Massachusetts headquarters of The Satanic Temple.
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Joe Biden made a significant error while discussing Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, claiming he warned the Israeli government against attacking Haifa. Haifa is an Israeli port city far to the north of Gaza, while the last remaining Hamas stronghold is the city of Rafah.
“I’ve been meeting with them, number one,” Biden told an interviewer who has asked him about his plans to win over voters sympathetic to the Palestinians, who are increasingly discontented with his foreign policy.
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“Number two, I made it clear that we have to vastly increase the amount of food, water, healthcare going into Gaza, and I made it clear to Israelis — don’t move on Haifa,” Biden continued. “It’s just not, I mean, anyway…” he trailed off.
Rafah, rather than Haifa, has become Israel’s main strategic target. Hamas is believed to have concentrated the bulk of its surviving forces in the city, along with its remaining Israeli hostages. It also hosts around a million Palestinians displaced by the war, and the White House does not want Israel to mount a major offensive against it, fearing there will be significant civilian loss of life.
Biden has made a major error when discussing geography before. Addressing the Hur Report on his mishandling of classified documents, which described him as having a failing memory, he insisted he has no such issues, before describing General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the President of Egypt, as “the President of Mexico.”
Biden has also made repeated false claims about about traveled 17,000 miles around the world with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, despite even friendly outlets like CNN repeatedly debunking the story as a lie.
BIDEN: "I made it clear to the Israelis — don't move on Haifa!"
Joe Biden made a significant error while discussing Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, claiming he warned the Israeli government against attacking Haifa. Haifa is an Israeli port city far to the north of Gaza, while the last remaining Hamas stronghold is the city of Rafah.
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Younger staff in President JoeBiden‘s WhiteHouse have taken to derisively referring to former President Donald Trump as “Hitler pig.” The moniker appears to be an attempt to emulate the former President’s penchant for effectively neutralizing opponents by assigning them nicknames and is just the latest in a pattern of the Biden government attempting to connect Trump with the genocidal German dictator, despite the public mostly seeing the comparison as absurd.
This isn’t the first time the Biden White House has made the ludicrous claim. The National Pulse reported in early January that aides with Biden’s re-election campaign often joke about when they will go “full Hitler” and make a stark comparison between Trump and the German war criminal and dictator.
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Biden’s campaign aides, at the time, signaled they thought the President needed to push the envelope and not simply accuse Trump of parroting language similar to the leader of the German Nazi Party.
In another incident, the corporate media attempted to smear the former President with the Hitler comparison after he told The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief, Raheem Kassam, that illegal aliens were “poisoning the blood of our country.” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) pushed back against the media attacks on Trump, noting: “First of all he didn’t say immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country. He said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of the country, which is objectively and obviously true.”
“You guys seem far more upset about the guy who criticized the problem than you do about Joe Biden who’s causing this problem,” Vance continued.
“White House nickname for Trump is ‘Hitler Pig.’ How humorless and pathetic is that?” said Marc Thiessen, a former George W. Bush White House speechwriter, in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
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Younger staff in President JoeBiden's WhiteHouse have taken to derisively referring to former President Donald Trump as "Hitler pig." The moniker appears to be an attempt to emulate the former President's penchant for effectively neutralizing opponents by assigning them nicknames and is just the latest in a pattern of the Biden government attempting to connect Trump with the genocidal German dictator, despite the public mostly seeing the comparison as absurd.
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Speaker Mike Johnson’s top policy adviser, Dan Ziegler, previously lobbied for corporations that have taken a clear interest in the Ukraine war. Ziegler was a lobbyist with Williams & Jensen, a firm with a clients list including Amgen, Eli Lilly & Co, Visa, Vanguard Group, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Merck, which have all issued statements in support of Ukraine and, in many cases, eliminated or curtailed their business activities in Russia.
Among Ziegler’s reported former clients is Bloom Energy Corp., which provides energy services to Lockheed Martin. The U.S. arms supplier could benefit from further U.S. aid to Ukraine via increased military contracts, boosting Bloom, in turn. The impact of the war and associated sanctions on the traditional energy market has also benefited Bloom, which specializes in renewable energy.
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Ziegler’s connections to businesses with interests in Ukraine emerge as Speaker Johnson is controversially paving the way for more Ukraine aid. This has angered America First conservatives, but he has insisted he will “do the right thing and… let the chips fall where they may.”
“If I operated out of fear of a motion to vacate, I would never be able to do my job. History judges us for what we do. This is a critical time right now,” he added — although before becoming Speaker, he voted against bills including further Ukraine aid.
SEPARATE BILLS.
Johnson is allowing separate bills funding aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan to go before the House, having previously rejected a Senate bill that combined aid for all three with a border security package that could have made immigration worse.
Allowing a standalone Ukraine aid bill to go forward and likely pass with the help of Democrat lawmakers is widely regarded as a U-turn. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) have expressed support for removing Johnson from the Speaker’s chair.
However, both previously supported Kevin McCarthy, who also supported Ukraine aid, and it is unclear who might replace Johnson.
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Speaker Mike Johnson's top policy adviser, Dan Ziegler, previously lobbied for corporations that have taken a clear interest in the Ukraine war. Ziegler was a lobbyist with Williams & Jensen, a firm with a clients list including Amgen, Eli Lilly & Co, Visa, Vanguard Group, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Merck, which have all issued statements in support of Ukraine and, in many cases, eliminated or curtailed their business activities in Russia.
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Timothy Pearson, a top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, has been accused of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation in a second lawsuit filed against him on Wednesday. The legal action marks the latest controversy facing either Adams himself or a close associate.
A former New York Police Department (NYPD) inspector, Pearson, is alleged to have engaged in retaliation and discrimination against retired NYPD sergeant Michael Ferrari while the latter worked in the Mayor‘s Office of Municipal Services Assessment. Ferrari claims he was forced into early retirement and lost $2 million in salary and pension benefits due to demotion, which he alleges happened after he raised concerns about Pearson’s behavior.
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HARASSMENT AND CORRUPTION.
The lawsuit — filed in the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan — follows an initial claim lodged by retired NYPD sergeant Roxanne Ludemann accusing Pearson of harassment and retaliation after she rejected his inappropriate advances last March. Ferrari does not allege receiving personal advances from Pearson but insists he witnessed his untoward conduct towards female colleagues.
According to Ferrari’s lawsuit, he was appointed by a superior to supervise Pearson’s interaction with female colleagues. His complaint points to a pervasive “hostile work environment” impacting all team members, irrespective of gender. The lawsuit also refers to Pearson’s alleged commentary regarding city contracts — particularly the discontinuation of an illegal immigrant shelter due to flooding — which, it asserts, expressed his intent to exploit such situations financially.
MAYOR ADAMS UNDER SCRUTINY.
Pearson isn’t the only New York City official accused of sexual crimes and public corruption. Mayor Eric Adams himself was accused of committing sexual assault last November. The alleged incident took place in 1993.
Adams is also the subject of two additional probes involving campaign finance schemes. The FBI is investigating his 2021 mayoral campaign over foreign donations. Meanwhile, the Democrat mayor has also been tied to a straw-donor scheme by supports hoping to gain lucrative city contracts.
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Timothy Pearson, a top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, has been accused of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation in a second lawsuit filed against him on Wednesday. The legal action marks the latest controversy facing either Adams himself or a close associate.
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In New York, a Haitian national, Kenol Baptiste, now faces charges for the murder of two individuals following his entry into the United States via parole, facilitated through the Biden regime’s CBP One application. The application, initially developed under the Trump administration, was massively expanded under the Biden government, allowing the regime to fast-track the parole process and allow up to 1,450 migrants per day to arrange entry processing.
Baptiste, who was arrested on April 1 in Middletown, NY, is accused of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and fourth-degree criminal weapon possession. The victims succumbed to multiple stab wounds. Baptiste was apprehended in a nearby woodland region by the police’s K9 team and subsequently detained at Orange County Jail.
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Baptiste was documented to have arrived in the U.S. in July 2023 via the Paso Del Norte port of entry in El Paso, Texas. He scheduled his port entry using the CBP One app, was paroled into the U.S., and was given notice to appear in immigrationcourt. ICE has since issued a detainer for Baptiste, requesting that he be transferred to ICE custody upon his release from jail.
Republicans have criticized the expanded use of the app, which since 2023 has enabled over 547,000 individuals to schedule appointments. Critics describe it as a ‘concierge service’ for illegal aliens. The application is not solely restricted to ports of entry but also permits up to 30,000 migrants from countries including Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to arrive in the US directly, once parole approval is granted. Most of the illegals flown directly into the country by the Biden regime have gained entry via the app.
Last month, another Haitian illegal who entered the country under Biden’s parole program was charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in Massachusetts.
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In New York, a Haitian national, Kenol Baptiste, now faces charges for the murder of two individuals following his entry into the United States via parole, facilitated through the Biden regime's CBP One application. The application, initially developed under the Trump administration, was massively expanded under the Biden government, allowing the regime to fast-track the parole process and allow up to 1,450 migrants per day to arrange entry processing.
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