Alessandra Todde of the Five-Star Movement claimed victory in the regional elections in Sardinia. The result marks a significant setback for the reigning right-wing coalition led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Todde triumphed over Paolo Truzzu of Fratelli d’Italia in a close election, snaring 45.4 percent of the votes against Truzzu’s 45 percent. Todde will become the first female leader of Sardinia.
The election day was tense, with only a gap of around 3,000 votes between Todde and Truzzu. Alongside casting their ballot for the presidency, citizens were asked to vote for a party. Votes for parties that support Truzzu outnumbered those for Todde-supporters. Nonetheless, the Democratic Party emerged at the forefront with 13.8 percent of the vote, slightly besting Fratelli d’Italia’s 13.6 percent. This result sparked momentum for a potential alliance between the Five-Star Movement and the Democratic Party ahead of June’s European elections.
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Tensions ran high among Meloni‘s center-right coalition, which has been grappling with challenges, including its stance on the European stage. Meloni had earlier imposed Paolo Truzzu as the coalition’s candidate, which sparked allegations from Lega of internally obstructing their candidate.
Former President Donald Trump is now ahead in key battleground states, surpassing Joe Biden in recent polls released on Wednesday, indicating a swing in political momentum. According to the latest Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll, Trump’s lead, already evident in Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina since March, has expanded. Additionally, Trump is now also leading in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Trump’s lead has extended to six points in a head-to-head comparison between the two in Michigan and seven other swing states. The polled margins put Trump one point ahead in Pennsylvania, four points in Wisconsin, six in Georgia, seven in Arizona, eight in Nevada, and ten in North Carolina.
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Conversely, Biden remains in the lead in Michigan by a slight margin of two points. This lead, however, has slimmed since March when both candidates were tied. The economy stands as the most imperative issue to voters, with 51 percent of the respondents signaling their concern about its worsening state by year-end.
Survey takers also had far more faith in Trump’s economic management, with the former president having a 16-point lead when voters were asked under whose administration the U.S. economy was better. A survey released earlier this month revealed that over half of Americans rate Biden’s economy as “poor.”
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Former President Donald Trump is now ahead in key battleground states, surpassing Joe Biden in recent polls released on Wednesday, indicating a swing in political momentum. According to the latest Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll, Trump’s lead, already evident in Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina since March, has expanded. Additionally, Trump is now also leading in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Thursday morning as to whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on charges related to alleged election misconduct. The justices’ decision will likely set a new precedent on the boundaries of presidential power and could significantly impact the pace of the 2024 presidential election campaign.
Reports claim that most legal analysts do not believe that the justices will decide that Trump has absolute immunity, but they may decide that he has partial immunity. This could require Joe Biden‘s Justice Department and special prosecutor Jack Smith to revisit some aspects of their prosecution. The justices could also refer elements of the case back to the lower courts so they can rule on the extent of any partial immunity.
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If the Supreme Court takes a month to arrive at its decision, a possible trial date for the former president would be pushed to around autumn, deep into the presidential race. A later ruling, towards the end of June, could mean it has to be delayed until after the election in November.
This could deny Biden’s Justice Department the opportunity to brand Trump a felon before voters head to the polls or even imprison him. Trump could also direct the Justice Department to drop the charges or possibly issue himself a pardon if he wins.
PANDORA’S BOX.
Regarding the merits of Trump’s case, his lawyer, D. John Sauer, argues that authorizing “the prosecution of a president for official acts would open a Pandora’s box from which this nation may never recover.”
“If a president has to look over his shoulder or her shoulder every time he or she has to make a controversial decision and wonder if ‘after I leave office, am I going to jail for this when my political opponents take power?’ that inevitably dampens the ability of the president,” he explained.
While Trump’s prosecutors and political enemies have characterized this as an argument that presidents are “above the law,” Trump’s lawyers say the constitutionally proper way for presidents to be held to account for official acts is via Congress, through impeachment and a Senate trial.
Trump was acquitted of inciting an insurrection by the Senate in 2021. His lawyers also argue that attempting to try him for further offenses related to January 6 violates the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Thursday morning as to whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on charges related to alleged election misconduct. The justices' decision will likely set a new precedent on the boundaries of presidential power and could significantly impact the pace of the 2024 presidential election campaign.
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An investigator for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel testified in a state court on Wednesday that former President DonaldTrump, former New York City Mayor RudyGiuliani, and former White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows are “unindicted co-conspirators” in state prosecution of alternative 2020 electors. In two days of testimony, Howard Shock — a special agent in the Attorney General‘s office — has identified at least 11 individuals as alleged co-conspirators despite no charges being filed against them. Mike Roman, the director of the Trump campaign’s election-day operations, was also listed.
In July of last year, Nessel secured indictments against 16 individuals — alleging eight felonies — her office says engaged in forgery as part of a plot to falsely claim Trump won the 2020 Michigan presidential election. While the Attorney General’s office says the investigation into their allegations remains ongoing, preliminary examinations in the prosecution began last week. Shock revealed the identities of the unindicted co-conspirators while being questioned by Duane Silverthorn, who represents one of the defendants.
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Among the other uncharged alleged co-conspirators named by Shock are former MichiganGOP chairwoman Laura Cox, former state House Speaker Tom Leonard, the Speaker’s wife Jenell Leonard, and Republican consultant Stu Sandler. Details regarding each co-conspirator’s alleged involvement were not revealed to the court.
“I stand by the sound legal advice I gave, and these partisan lawfare prosecutions have to stop,” Sandler said, responding to the revelations he was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator. He added: “Why in five years of Dana Nessel are only Republicans the continuing targets of these partisan lawfare prosecutions?”
With the preliminary examination concluding on Wednesday, Ingham County District Court Judge Kristen Simmons will now weigh whether Nessel presented enough evidence indicating probable cause that a crime had been committed.
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An investigator for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel testified in a state court on Wednesday that former President DonaldTrump, former New York City Mayor RudyGiuliani, and former White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows are "unindicted co-conspirators" in state prosecution of alternative 2020 electors. In two days of testimony, Howard Shock — a special agent in the Attorney General's office — has identified at least 11 individuals as alleged co-conspirators despite no charges being filed against them. Mike Roman, the director of the Trump campaign's election-day operations, was also listed.
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New evidence has emerged challenging the Pentagon‘s account of an ISIS-K suicide attack at Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate during the American troop withdrawal in August 2021. The attack resulted in the loss of 13 U.S. service members and an estimated 170 Afghans.
Two separate Pentagon reports, one of which was released last week, assert that the deaths were caused solely by the explosion. The Pentagon insisted that troops’ reports of coming under fire were the result of confusion in the chaos following the blast. However, newly uncovered GoPro footage from a Marine’s camera contradicts this claim, showing more gunfire than ever reported by the Pentagon.
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“The 2021-2022 Abbey Gate Investigation thoroughly investigated the allegations of a complex attack, as well as allegations of outgoing fire from U.S. and coalition forces following the blast. The Supplemental Review found no new evidence of a complex attack, and uncovered no new assertions of outgoing fire post-blast,” said Army Lt. Col. Rob Lodewick, a Pentagon public affairs adviser.
However, the Marine’s GoPro footage reveals 11 instances of gunfire, including one sustained burst of around 17 shots roughly 30 seconds after the explosion. The footage also shows Marines running for cover from the gunfire. In addition to the new video evidence, Afghan doctor Sayeed Ahmadi told CNN that he personally extracted bullets from the wounded and that he and his staff identified dozens of Afghans who died from gunshot wounds.
The new footage and Dr. Ahmadi’s testimony directly contradict the Pentagon’s official report of the incident.
The Abbey Gate attack was the bloody crescendo of the Biden regime’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. One historian described the fiasco as the United States’ “greatest humiliation since Saigon.”
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New evidence has emerged challenging the Pentagon's account of an ISIS-K suicide attack at Kabul airport's Abbey Gate during the American troop withdrawal in August 2021. The attack resulted in the loss of 13 U.S. service members and an estimated 170 Afghans.
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Solomon Galligan, a 33-year-old transgender registered sex offender, was recently apprehended by authorities after allegedly attempting a child abduction at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado.
The act was caught on the school’s surveillance video, where Galligan is seen approaching a group of students who reportedly scattered and began screaming “stranger danger” as Galligan allegedly tried to restrain one of the children. Reports note that Galligan was identified as male in his arrest affidavit. Galligan publicly shared his transition journey on social media in 2011.
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“So im starting my hormone shots and i relly cant wait im on my hormone pills ive been on them for almost 4 months i wake up all depressed and crying but in the end its gonna be totally worth it you know what io mean im really excited my measurements are already changing and im super thrilled,” Galligan wrote.
The same year he announced his transition, Galligan was convicted of non-consensual sexual contact. Details surrounding the unsolicited sexual contact incident in 2011 remain undisclosed. Currently held at an Aurora jail, Galligan faces legal proceedings on Thursday, with bail set at $25,000.
The attempted kidnapping is the latest high-profile incident of a transgender individual being linked to crimes against children. Earlier this month, a man claiming to be a transgender ‘vampire‘ was convicted of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old. In March, Doritos was forced to drop a transgender ‘brand ambassador’ after it emerged he had a history of posting pedophilic content online.
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Solomon Galligan, a 33-year-old transgender registered sex offender, was recently apprehended by authorities after allegedly attempting a child abduction at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado.
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This story has been updated with a statement from John Eastman’s lawyer, highlighted in orange below.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted a group of individuals on charges related to their adoption of the role of alternate electors in the 2020 Presidential election. The group included Kelli Ward, then Arizona GOP chair, who disputed the legitimacy of the election results. Notably, the indictment names former President Donald Trump as “Unindicted Coconspirator 1”, although no charges have been filed against him.
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The Washington Postreported other indicted individuals as “former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman.”
Given the ongoing roles of Meadows, Giuliani, Eastman, Epsteyn, and Bobb in campaigning for and working with the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee it is impossible to view the new round of indictments as anything more than further banana republic-style election interference.
Charles Burnham, an attorney for John Eastman, told The National Pulse on Wednesday evening: “The phenomenon of partisan lawfare grows more troubling by the day. Professor Eastman is innocent of criminal conduct in Arizona or any other place and will fight these charges as he has all the other unjust accusations leveled against him.”
The indictment comes under the leadership of Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, who took over the position from Republican Mark Brnovich in November 2022. Brnovich had previously clashed with Trump over allegations of voting irregularities in Arizona.
This indictment marks yet another chapter in the ongoing legal battles since the 2020 election, with disputes flaring in several other states. Arizona joins Nevada, Georgia, and Michigan in filing charges against those who championed alternative electors.
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A fight between two United States Secret Service (USSS) agents assigned to KamalaHarris‘s security detail raises concerns about the impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies on the agent hiring process. On Monday, a Secret Service agent who is described to have displayed erratic behavior on prior occasions became involved in a confrontation with another agent. While preliminary reports described the incident as involving only two unarmed agents, new details paint a very different picture.
The incident occurred at Andrews Air Force Base Monday morning, shortly before Harris arrived at the military facility. In what USSS officials describe as a medical incident, an erratic agent began arguing with colleagues. A fight broke out when the Special Agent in Charge and a supervisor attempted to intervene. The aggressor had to be restrained by other SecretService personnel.
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Late Wednesday, RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree posted on X (formerly Twitter) that “there are DEI concerns among the USSS community about the hiring of this agent.” She continued: “Other agents and officers within the USSS are asking questions about the agent’s hiring process, whether the USSS did enough to look into the agent’s background and monitor the agent’s mental well-being…”
While initial reports insinuated the two agents involved were unarmed, that now appears not to be the case. The aggressor did possess a holstered sidearm, which was removed once they were restrained by other Secret Service agents present.
“At approximately 9 AM. On April 22, a U.S. Secret Service special agent supporting the Vice President’s departure from Joint Base Andrews began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing. The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned,” Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.
Other details: Sources say the agent in question was acted erratically upon showing up for a traveling shift at Joint Base Andrews. The agent ended up tackling the Senior Agent in Charge of the VP detail, got on top of him and started punching him. At this point, I'm told, the…
A fight between two United States Secret Service (USSS) agents assigned to KamalaHarris's security detail raises concerns about the impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies on the agent hiring process. On Monday, a Secret Service agent who is described to have displayed erratic behavior on prior occasions became involved in a confrontation with another agent. While preliminary reports described the incident as involving only two unarmed agents, new details paint a very different picture.
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A provision in the foreign aid supplemental funding bill passed late last night by the United States Senate — and by the House of Representatives last Saturday — would force the Chinese-owned technology conglomerate ByteDance to either divest itself from TikTok or face its ban in the U.S. However, TikTok isn’t the only ByteDance-owned app that the bill will impact once it is signed into law by Joe Biden. The divestment language mirrors that of legislation passed by the House in mid-March.
An additional number of Chinese-owned companies could face having to find a buyer for their U.S. operations or being banned from American markets as well. ByteDance alone offers several other apps in U.S. digital app stores that fall under the same provisions impacting TikTok. The National Pulse has compiled a list of ByteDance-owned apps and other products that could be impacted below.
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CapCut – A video editing app often used by TikTok content makers.
A provision in the foreign aid supplemental funding bill passed late last night by the United States Senate — and by the House of Representatives last Saturday — would force the Chinese-owned technology conglomerate ByteDance to either divest itself from TikTok or face its ban in the U.S. However, TikTok isn't the only ByteDance-owned app that the bill will impact once it is signed into law by Joe Biden. The divestment language mirrors that of legislation passed by the House in mid-March.
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Mass migration is causing a housing crisis while failing to increase wealth per person, according to Robert Jenrick, who resigned as Minister of State for immigration at the end of 2023. Jenrick, who previously served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government under Boris Johnson, warned the British government has become “hooked” on mass migration — but it is not improving the economy and amounts to a “betrayal to voters.”
A reduction in net legal immigration “from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands” was promised by Jenrick’s Conservative Party ahead of the 2010, 2015, and 2017 elections, and an “overall” reduction was promised ahead of the 2019 election. The Brexit campaign was also fought mainly on an anti-immigration basis. However, the Conservatives increased net immigration from 196,000 in 2009 to 745,000 in 2022, and illegal immigration is also at unprecedented levels.
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“[T]he economic model that we’ve become hooked on isn’t working,” Jenrick admitted. “If importing hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to the UK was a route to prosperity, the UK would be one of the richest countries in the world. Instead, for almost the last two years we’ve had a recession in GDP per capita… I care about the prosperity of our own citizens, not the overall size of the economy.”
HOUSING CRISIS.
Jenrick stressed that government “modeling of the benefits of immigration has consistently overlooked the fiscal costs arising from pressure on housing, public services, and welfare.” On housing, in particular, he noted that the country currently would “have to build a house every five minutes, day and night, purely to keep up with the level of net migration to this country” — a feat that is not being accomplished, driving up home prices and rents and causing severe shortages of public housing.
The United States also suffers due to dogmatic beliefs that immigration benefits the economy. In early April, globalist media outlet Semafor argued “[t]he border crisis might be a boon for the economy,” citing an economist who formerly worked at Joe Biden’s White House.
The cost of housing, feeding, and otherwise caring for illegal aliens is costing billions of dollars across multiple states, near and far from the southern border.
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Mass migration is causing a housing crisis while failing to increase wealth per person, according to Robert Jenrick, who resigned as Minister of State for immigration at the end of 2023. Jenrick, who previously served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government under Boris Johnson, warned the British government has become "hooked" on mass migration — but it is not improving the economy and amounts to a "betrayal to voters."
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) has vetoed state legislation allowing homeowners to have unlawful squatters removed from their property by law enforcement. Senate Bill 1129 (SB1129) would have changed the status quo, which subjects homeowners to lengthy court battles before they can reclaim their property, empowering law enforcement to remove squatters as trespassers swiftly.
Hobbs, 54, argued in her veto letter that SB 1129 did not “respect the due process rights of lawful tenants” and could have “unintended consequences, such as for victims of domestic violence.”
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Republican state senator Wendy Rogers questioned whether Hobbs “read the bill.” She said it addressed only illegal occupants, not lawful tenants, and included carve-outs for family members and “anyone with an agreement to cohabitate.”
“The issue of squatters taking over people’s homes is growing exponentially across the nation, including here in Arizona, yet Governor Katie Hobbs is refusing to address the problem,” complained Republican state senator Wendy Rogers.
“If a stranger invades a home unlawfully and claims a right to live there, SB 1129 would have allowed the homeowner to request law enforcement immediately remove that person from the property,” she explained, adding that refusing to leave would have been treated as trespassing.
‘WE CAN SEIZE IT.’
“Criminals are scheming to take over homes that aren’t theirs, posing a threat to the safety of homeowners and infringing on their private property rights,” Rogers said. It is “a shame Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed yet another piece of commonsense bipartisan legislation,” she added.
Illegal aliens have been taking advantage of America’s permissive squatting laws. Venezuelan illegal Leonel Moreno built a substantial TikTok following teaching migrants how to abuse the law.
“I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it,” Moreno said in one video. He boasted his friends had “already taken about seven homes.”
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) has vetoed state legislation allowing homeowners to have unlawful squatters removed from their property by law enforcement. Senate Bill 1129 (SB1129) would have changed the status quo, which subjects homeowners to lengthy court battles before they can reclaim their property, empowering law enforcement to remove squatters as trespassers swiftly.
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