Posts on Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Hillary one of several Dems who failed
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at shaming Trump with darkened White
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Hillary Clinton and other Democrats stepped on a pretty big rake in their efforts to create a narrative about President Trump being a coward.The failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee was one among many who were giddily sharing a photo of the White House with the lights out after it was reported that Trump was temporarily taken to a bunker below amid increasingly violent protests. (Tweet/Photoso) “Elections matter,” she wrote in a smug tweet comparing the darkened White House to a lit-up photo during the Obama administration.
Appearing Tuesday Cheddar Live, Rep. Maxine Waters (D) formally endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for the White House, claiming that President Donald Trump is “destroying America” and advocating for the killing of both black and white children in the wake of nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. (Tweet/Video) A transcript is as follows BRAD SMITH: You’ve expressed being unsure that Biden can win the presidency over Trump. Do you expect the escalation of national issues and the responses of both candidates to voters one way or the other? REP. MAXINE WATERS: I do, I do.
Police debunk widespread media narrative,
say ‘tear gas’ not used to clear Lafayette
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say ‘tear gas’ not used to clear Lafayette
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Reports that claim ‘peaceful demonstrators’ were tear-gassed at a Washington, D.C. park ahead of a visit Monday evening by President Donald Trump suggesting that he directed the action appear to be false.According to a Twitter thread posted by WTOP reporter Neal Augenstein, “a source says tear gas was never used — instead smoke canisters were deployed, which don’t have an uncomfortable irritant in them. And, the source says Park Police didn’t know President Trump would be walking across the park several minutes later.”(Tweets) Augenstein went on to reported that the reason why police moved against demonstrators in the first place was that they were being pelted by bottles.
We reported previously that the groups behind the riots in the US include domestic terrorists, Black lives Matter, US Islamists and others linked to the Democrat Party.
These protests are organized – bricks are being delivered uninhibited to riot sites.In cities around the US bricks are being delivered to riot locations and used to destroy property. (Photos) In Boston and Houston bricks are being delivered.(Photos) More bricks popping up everywhere:
Saks Fifth Avenue surrounded its flagship Manhattan store with razor wire on Tuesday to keep thieves from smashing their way in and making off with troves of expensive merchandise, The Post has learned.The luxury retailer has also hired private security guards with specially trained dogs to protect the premises in the wake of Monday night’s looting of Macy’s iconic, Herald Square location.At Saks, workers on Tuesday afternoon began attaching chain-link fencing to plywood that was previously installed to cover the luxury store’s famed display windows.The second phase of the job saw workers further fortify the fencing with a coil of razor wire
We may have virtually met; it has been the greatest honor of my professional career to guest host for Rush Limbaugh on multiple occasions. (Snip) When Professor Jacobson granted me the great privilege of writing here, I did not know it would come as my childhood home, the birthplace of my own child and my neighborhood of twenty-five years was being destroyed, partly by Antifa. I absolutely knew the Antifa attacks would come one day. Now, the President is aware these attacks are designed to spread. He is acting, as he must, designating Antifa a domestic terror group.
It’s easy to be a social justice warrior until the liberal mob hurls rocks at you. A couple of white SJW’s took a break from playing beer bong to show their support for the liberal mob marching down the street. One young guy stood at the window and gave the thumbs up to the mob when one of the left-wing terrorists decided to hurl a rock through the window.
A suspected Antifa anarchist accused of inciting riots in Pittsburgh was turned in to police by his own parents Monday evening. Brian Bartels, 20, is accused of inciting violent protests in the city on Saturday in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. “Police secured the warrant as part of an investigation into a male suspect who incited Saturday’s violence by breaking the windows out of a marked Pittsburgh Police vehicle Uptown, against the wishes of peaceful protesters who tried to stop him,” police spokesman Chris Togneri told Fox News of the search law enforcement conducted on his home in Shaler, PA.
White House Spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany held a presser on Monday afternoon following the violence and looting by leftist groups in cities across the country this past weekend. One America News reporter Chanel Rion asked McEnany if the Trump White House will investigate members of Congress who are funding or tied to the Antifa terrorist movement. Chanel Rion: Kayleigh, is it possible that DC will be placed under Martial Law in order to protect these national monuments from further destruction? And second under the Civil Rights Act of 1968 will this administration investigate either members of Congress or political organizations
An 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force battalion arrived to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland Monday evening for a civil unrest mission in the nation’s capitol, according to sources.The IRF battalion — which deployed to Iraq earlier this year to quell Iran-backed violence — brought approximately 750 soldiers, ten Black Hawk helicopters, and four Chinooks, according to sources. The helicopters are utility, not attack, and are used to transport troops short distances.The aircraft are just one of the ways troops could be transported, but would give the IRF the ability to rapidly deploy to a number of locations in the D.C. Metro area quickly.
Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., was caught on a hot mic Tuesday saying he “wouldn’t care” about not being allowed to speak at a news conference about the unrest in his Bronx district following the death of George Floyd – if he wasn't in a competitive Democratic primary. “If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care,” Engel can be heard telling Bronx President Ruben Diaz twice, as he asks for a chance to speak at a news conference with city and state officials.
“Don’t do that to me,” Diaz responded.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and U.S. Representative Val Demings of Florida have risen in prominence amid protests against police brutality as Joe Biden weighs whether to choose a black woman as his Democratic running mate for November's presidential election. Activists say such a pick would excite disenchanted African-American voters and demonstrate to a crucial part of the Democratic base that Biden is committed to criminal justice reform following the death of George Floyd, who was black, in Minneapolis last week at the hands of a white police officer. Biden has said Demings, 63, a former police chief of Orlando
An Amazon.com delivery driver in Long Island, New York, was told to abandon his van and call 911 in the event of looting and avoid “high crime” areas. A driver in Chicago encountered a heavy police presence and road closures. In Washington, another driver canceled his shifts for the week after seeing video of an Amazon van in Santa Monica, California, being looted in broad daylight. The thousands of drivers who deliver Amazon packages around the U.S. are adjusting to civil unrest that has prompted curfews and road closures aimed at quelling riots and looting. It’s the latest test of
Grant Napear was fired by his radio station and resigned as the Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer Tuesday after his tweet Sunday saying “All Lives Matter” amid the George Floyd protests was met with backlash. Napear, a graduate of Syosset High School on Long Island, tweeted “All Lives Matter…Every Single One!” after former Kings star DeMarcus Cousins asked the 60-year-old for his view on the Black Lives Matter movement. The phrase, “All Lives Matter,” is seen as mocking the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in 2013 as a campaign against systematic racism and violence toward black people.
Governor Roy Cooper was out walking with leftist protesters on Tuesday without his mask on. Masks are for the peons. Governor Cooper walked with leftist marchers despite their disregard for his coronavirus orders. (Tweet/Video) Governor Cooper wrote the RNC on Tuesday and told them he cannot guarantee a full convention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cooper killed the convention that would have been a huge boon for the economy.
ALBANY, NY – Across the state we’ve seen peaceful protests, and some violent ones as people mourn the killing of George Floyd and seek justice. NewsChannel 34’s Corina Cappabianca has more on the state response and the Governor’s message to protesters as people voice their frustrations. The Governor says protesters are rightly outraged, but he’s asking them to be calm and peaceful. He’s also asking them to follow COVD precautions as they protest. From Buffalo to Albany tensions remain high over the killing of George Floyd. The Governor says the looting and criminal activity should be looked at separately from
Four days after a Michigan court ordered barber Karl Manke to cease operations and lock the doors of his shop, he was cutting hair Tuesday morning with music playing in the background. Manke had about a dozen other people in his Owosso barbershop — many of whom were waiting for haircuts — as his defiance of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's restrictions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic rolled on.
Attorney General Bill Barr ordered law enforcement officials to extend the perimeter of Lafayette Square before President Trump ventured outside the White House on Monday to visit sites vandalized during violent protests, administration officials tell Fox News. According to one senior administration official, the plan had been made to extend the perimeter of the park--which is across the street from the White House--by one block.(Snip)But a senior Justice Department official told Fox News the decision was made early Monday morning after the Treasury Department and St. John’s Church--which are both in the area--were vandalized the night before.
Leftist outlet Teen Vogue told its readers that the terrorist organization Antifa “aspires to create a better world” in the wake of riots that have broken out across the country, which have involved looting, vandalism, businesses being destroyed, beatings, and death.“‘Antifa grows out of a larger revolutionary politics that aspires toward creating a better world, but the primary motivation is to stop racists from organizing,'” tweeted Teen Vogue on Monday. (Tweet) The magazine’s tweet included an 2017 Teen Vogue interview with Dartmouth College historian Mark Bray, in which he defends the violent group
The governor of Virginia refused to send his National Guard troops across the Potomac River into Washington D.C., despite a request from the White House for the state to deploy its guardsmen to help disperse protesters.'I am not going to send our men and women in uniform of a very proud National Guard to Washington for a photo-op,' Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, said at a press conference in Richmond on Tuesday.White House officials also inquired about taking control of Washington D.C.'s police force as President Donald Trump sought to retake control of the situation after protests broke out over the country
Before she was tapped by Gov. Jay Inslee to head Washington’s Employment Security Department, Suzi LeVine spent years hobnobbing with dignitaries as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, stationed in an elegant Bern villa.
She’d been named to the diplomatic post after raising more than $2.3 million in support of President Barack Obama’s campaigns (snip) Despite the chaos and criticism, LeVine retains support from key Democratic lawmakers.
A teen murder suspect in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors is expected to plead guilty Wednesday for his involvement in her botched mugging death, according to an official. Zyairr Davis, 13, has admitted to helping Luchiano Lewis, 15, and Rashaun Weaver, 15, rob the 18-year-old college freshman in Morningside Park in December, but has denied being the one who stabbed her. Lewis allegedly put Majors in “a bear hug or headlock” during the robbery, while Weaver allegedly stabbed her with such fury that feathers flew from her winter coat, authorities have alleged. The pair were arrested in February
President Trump signed an executive order on religious freedom Tuesday as Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory slammed the president and first lady's visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine amid the protests taking place across the country. The executive order has not been publicly released but a senior administration official told Fox News it was meant to protect “people of faith around the world.”(Snip)Earlier Tuesday, Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid a visit to the National Shrine in Washington, a place of prayer for Catholics. During their visit to the shrine, they laid a wreath under the statue of Saint John Paul II.
If pushed, we know what to do
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Donald Trump sounds ready to go to open war against the evil arrayed against him. And about time. Everybody in America knows that these riots have nothing to do with George Floyd and everything to do with trying to force Trump from office. We've seen videos of Antifa paying off thugs and of pallets of bricks waiting at strategic spots for thugs to come throw them. We saw video of a thug admitting he did it for the money. We suspect that the guy who provided the money is named Soros. This has all been carefully thought through and planned out.
The attorney for George Floyd’s family said Tuesday that former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend the funeral service next week in Houston, Texas for the Minneapolis man who died in police custody. Ben Crump, the attorney for Floyd’s family, announced details of Floyd’s memorial services—one set in Minneapolis this Thursday, North Carolina on Saturday, and Houston on Monday--during an interview with "Team Roc" on Tuesday.
Boni posted a link at Lucianne.com to the Juan Williams' column, "Bush could strike blow for Biden."
Then Boni wrote, "'Well, this is a surprise,' said no conservative, ever."
The Family Bush has really been living up to that name by acting bush league since Donald John Trump arrived on the presidential scene. Mr. and Mrs. 41 were actual supporters of Hillary once Jeb! was trumped. But 43 seemed resigned to being viewed as a failure by history, and is too busy painting to bother with politics.
Williams wants the Ex-Presidents to band together to stop President Donald John Trump.
Why people leave the church
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Wattles are a-quiver within the mainstream religious hierarchy. President Donald John Trump visited a church.
In their Greta Thunberg voices they demanded How Dare He!
NBC reported, "Lawmakers, former elected officials and religious leaders voiced outrage at President Donald Trump after police used tear gas and flash bangs against peaceful protesters outside the White House to clear the crowd for Trump to do a photo-op at St. John's church on Monday evening. (Snip)The peaceful-by-day, arsonist-by-night protesters had tried to burn the church down the night before.
The captain of New Orleans’ largest Carnival parading organization has apologized for social media posts that featured a photo of a black child caressing the face of a white child under the slogan “#ALLLIVESMATTER Our Souls Are the Same Color.” Julie Lea said that she was unaware that the use of that hashtag in posts, which appeared on both her personal Instagram account and on Nyx social media, would be divisive. “I apologize and take responsibility for my own lack of knowledge,” she said in a press release on Monday.(Snip) Historically, the slogan "All Lives Matter" has been associated with criticism of the Black
The head of the Minneapolis police union says George Floyd’s “violent criminal history” needs to be remembered and that the protests over his death are the work of a “terrorist movement.” “What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this,” police union president Bob Kroll told his members in a letter posted Monday on Twitter. Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail reported
As if Los Angeles didn't have bigger problems, Harry and Meghan, are leaking through friends to the press about their displeasure with all those surveillance drones.
According to the Daily Beast:
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are concerned for their family’s safety following multiple incidents at their Hollywood Hills home, where drones have flown as low as 20 feet above their property to snatch photographs of the couple and their young son, Archie.
A source has exclusively told The Daily Beast that the couple has been coping with “unimaginable” levels of press intrusion
Catholic archbishop says Trump visit to
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Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, the first African American archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, condemned President Trump's visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine. He said the visit "violates our religious principles.""I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people even those with whom we might disagree,"
United States Park Police officials defended themselves Tuesday from charges that they fired tear gas at protesters outside of the White House, and denied that they dispersed a demonstration just so that President Donald Trump could walk from the White House across the street to the historic St. John’s Church.Trump and the Park Police both ran afoul of mainstream media commentators for the incident Monday, with many on social media claiming that the Park Police used extraordinary and violent measures to disperse a peaceful protest simply so the president could take photos outside of the historic church which was nearly burned Sunday night, per Fox News.
Fox Corporation Executive Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch on Monday sent a memo to employees declaring “black lives matter” in the wake of the nationwide riots spurred from the police custody death of George Floyd.
“The events that have unfolded over the past week have left me shocked and saddened,” Mr. Murdoch wrote. “Each of you has been in my thoughts as we watch the tragic death of George Floyd continue to cause immense pain and spark important discussions around the country.(Snip) “The FOX culture embraces and fosters diversity and inclusion,” he contiuned. “Often we speak of the ‘FOX Family,’ and never has
Growing up in the countryside perhaps provided enhanced opportunities to observe natural things closely, undistracted by urban crowds and sounds. On occasion, massive flocks of birds, hundreds of them resting in adjacent trees would, on an unheard signal, take sudden simultaneous flight. En masse, they’d fly up together, swooping around, first this way, then on another signal, the opposite direction as united squadrons on a mission. I think of those scenes often these days, watching our national media attempt to cover a historic pandemic and our messy 59th presidential selection procesx [Snip]
Trump’s Greatest Challenge Now
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President Trump faces the greatest challenge of his very eventful life, and also an immense opportunity to silence his detractors. Not since Charles de Gaulle faced a prolonged general strike in France in 1968 has the leader of a large Western democracy faced something so closely approximating an insurrection as the situation President Trump faces now.
(Snip) there is almost always overwhelming support for the legitimate government as long as it restores order with no more force than is necessary and in the impartial national interest. (Snip)President Trump’s challenge is less complicated—apart from the declining but still lingering pandemic—as public opinion is almost unanimous in opposition both to police brutality
Rapper Ice Cube has asked if Donald Trump could become the first U.S. president to nuke an American city after he pledged to employ military force if nationwide riots are not brought to an end. In an address made from the Rose Garden on Monday, Trump described the violent protests as “domestic acts of terror” that law enforcement must “dominate the streets” in order to quell. “If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Trump said. The comments caught the attention
The Department of Justice on Monday unloaded on the antics of the rogue federal judge overseeing the Michael Flynn trial, accusing him of usurping the constitutional authority of the executive branch to make prosecutorial decisions and ignoring both statutory law and federal court precedent requiring him to dismiss the case against Flynn.(Snip)n a sign of how important DOJ views the underlying constitutional issues in the case, the formal brief to the appellate court wasn’t just signed by the line attorney managing the government’s case. Instead, it was signed by Noel J. Francisco, the Solicitor General of the United States who is tasked with representing the U.S. government in the most
New Jersey’s response to the pandemic inside nursing homes was “an unmitigated failure” that led to “preventable deaths,” a group of anonymous health department employees charged in a letter to lawmakers Monday. Moreover, the administration “is making things up as they proceed” in order to reopen the economy, the writers also allege. The letter, sent to Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, and Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr., R-Union and obtained by NJ Advance Media, also calls for the resignation of Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli and an investigation into other top administration officials who they said have mishandled the state’s response.
As many of us continue to deal with the enduring impact of COVID-19 on lives, families and our country, it’s easy and even normal to spend our days thinking only about this virus. It’s the focus of news broadcasts and email alerts, the focus of businesses thinking about how to weather a world of distancing, the focus of families homeschooling children, wondering how they’ll pay rent and whether they’ll get sick. The pandemic has created chaos that has drawn a thin and temporary curtain over Trump’s enduring incompetence and dishonesty — behind it, he is actively sabotaging oversight and the rule of law at the same insatiable rate. Corrections**
The looters of a New York City Rolex store did not get justice, but they did get a high price timepiece on Monday night.Looters grabbed $2.4 million worth of watches after breaking into a Rolex store in New York’s Soho neighborhood, according to a New York Post report citing police sources.A video shows a huge crowd of people running toward the store, entering it, and then leaving shortly afterward.(Video) As Breitbart News noted, a plethora of luxury brands — all of whom endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement — have had their stores ransacked and looted by rioters
From the start, TV news media have done their darnedest to paint the riots happening across the country in a positive light. While many journalists have glossed over the widespread violence by relying on misleading characterizations like “mostly peaceful,” others have outright defended and justified the rioting. Some of the these attempts to sanitize the rioting have bordered on parody. For a sampling of the media’s most desperate damage control, watch the video below: (Video) Last Friday MSNBC’s Ali Velshi stood in front of a burning building and absurdly refused to describe the scene as “unruly.”
Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told a press briefing an officer was shot around 11 p.m. Monday night and is in critical condition and on life support at University Medical Center.Lombardo said officers were dealing with a large group of rioters at a George Floyd protest near the Circus Circus hotel-casino when the officer went down.Rioters were allegedly throwing rocks and debris at the officers before the officer was shot, KTNV Las Vegas reports.“Our officers were attempting to take rocks and bottles from the crowd,” said Lombardo during the press conference.
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday questioned how much blame should be directed at Antifa for the violent protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody. Mr. Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Antifa has played “a part” in the civil unrest. But the South Carolina Republican noted that rioting and looting happened during protests long before the militant anti-fascist group became a movement. “We will try to find out how organized this violence is,” Mr. Graham said. “But I am old enough to remember 1968, and Antifa was not around in 1968, that I know of.”
It looks like the stage is set for quite a showdown over separated powers and the fate of General Michael Flynn. It will pit, on the one hand, America and President Trump’s first national security adviser against, on the other hand, a United States district judge, who has balked over a motion by the government to dismiss the criminal charges to which the general once pled guilty. The stakes, though, are bigger than General Flynn alone.
That’s because the district judge, Emmet Sullivan, has signaled he’s considering opening a new legal attack against the general and, through him, the Justice Department itself. He’s suggested he’s prepared
Donald Trump is “blundering toward nuclear chaos.” That’s the verdict rendered by the organization Global Zero, which received a signal boost on Wednesday from National Security Action, an advocacy group founded by Obama administration alumni Ben Rhodes and Jake Sullivan.
The portrait National Security Action’s Ned Price paints of Trump’s nuclear brinkmanship is a bleak one: The Trump administration has already abrogated bilateral accords such as the Open Skies Treaty and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with its nuclear peer, Russia.
Disturbing footage shows swarms of looters rushing into one of the world’s most famous stores—Macy’s flagship on Herald Square—as Midtown descended into chaos overnight. One overhead video showed looters racing into one of the boarded-up entrances shortly before the curfew started Monday night—with only a small unexplained explosion seeming to halt the rush. Other clips showed a steady stream of cops finally arriving to follow the looters inside the Manhattan superstore on 34th Street, which had been boarded up in a futile attempt to protect it from potential attack.
“Hundreds of looters and rioters here with absolutely no concerns about cops
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South Philadelphia residents are uniting to put an end to looting and rioting in their community amid the nationwide protests against the death of George Floyd, Stand Up South Philly founder Anthony Giordano explained Tuesday.In an interview on "Fox & Friends" with host Ainsley Earhardt, Giordano stated that his organization mobilized against the crime because they are "just tired.""We are fed up with the crime and the revolving door in the criminal justice system, the looting, and the rioting," he asserted. "This was not protesting that was happening in Philadelphia and around the country.
Following President Trump’s visit to the torched church the Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde attacked the US President for holding a Bible at the church without her permission.This woman is completely out of her mind.(Photo) It’s not clear why this woman believes she gets to decide who can, and who cannot, carry a Bible.How awful. (Tweet) But Bishop Budde could not let this go. Later tonight she called into CNN to continue to lambaste on the President of the United States.
Guts! Pelosi, Clinton and Schumer triggered
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Senator Marco Rubio defended President Trump for visiting St. John’s Episcopal Church after leftists set fire to it the previous day during the mass riots and looting that occurred in Democrat-run cities across the country.President Trump walked out the front door of the White House like a boss into Lafayette Square — where left-wing protesters were harassing police and trashing property — to visit historic St. John’s Church. Senator Rubio tweeted: “Many in the media fell for the calculated and deliberate tactics of professional agitators. They knew the street needed to be cleared before 7 pm curfew. But they deliberately stayed to trigger police action
For days now, since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Americans have seen riots take over many of our big cities. Countless properties have been vandalized and businesses have been looted and torched — damage that only hurt the neighborhoods of the rioters. But the most disturbing revelation of these clearly organized riots throughout the country has been seeing the thousands of people in all the affected cities who feel they have a right to steal that which does not belong to them. Night after night, we have watched thieving thugs break windows of small and large businesses, charge into them,
New York State's top prosecutor is threatening to sue President Trump if he follows through on his threat to deploy the United States military to put down domestic protests that were sparked by the police-involved killing of George Floyd. 'The President of the United States is not a dictator, and President Trump does not and will not dominate New York state,' Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement on Monday. 'In fact, the president does not have the right to unilaterally deploy US military across American states.'
Joe Biden said Monday that police -- if facing a threat from a person with "a knife or something" -- should be trained to “shoot ‘em in the leg instead of the heart,” amid five straight days of protest following the death of George Floyd.
“Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at ‘em with a knife or something, shoot ‘em in the leg instead of in the heart,” Biden said in an address to black community leaders in Wilmington, Del.
“There are a lot of things that can change,” Biden said, regarding police training. [Video]
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KEY LARGO, Fla. — The Florida Keys reopened for visitors Monday after the tourist-dependent island chain was closed for more than two months to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
As the Keys took down barriers, Miami-Dade County decided to keep its beaches closed because of protests in South Florida and across the country over the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Roadblocks were taken down shortly after midnight near Key Largo, the northernmost island in the chain. Almost half of all workers in the Keys are employed by hotels, bars and other hospitality industries, and many of the rest are involved in commercial and sport fishing.
Before Monday, President Trump kept a low profile regarding the riots. He wasn’t invisible; he just wasn’t putting himself front and center. That changed dramatically on Monday. Trump scolded governors who allowed rioters to gain control in their states, announced that he would be mobilizing “all available federal resources” to end the riots in Democrat-run cities, and took a historic walk across the street from the White House (which inflamed the Trump haters).
Someone leaked to CBS News audio of a phone call that Trump had with the nation’s governors. In it, in typical Trumpian language, he essentially told them that if they don’t alpha up with the rioters
This isn’t an internet tough guy post. This isn’t me flexing about my love of the 2nd Amendment and practice thereof. This isn’t about how well I can shoot, or what kind of guns I own. This is a legitimate warning about what will happen. Riots are popping up in cities over the murder of George Floyd, completely overshadowing the legitimate protests containing peaceful people making a valid point. Some of these rioters, namely those belonging to the group “Antifa,” have mentioned that they’re going to leave the cities and move their destruction and violence into the suburbs.
It was highly unusual for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to order Judge Emmett Sullivan to explain his refusal to grant General Michael Flynn’s motion to dismiss. That made it easy to miss that it also allowed the Department of Justice the right to file a brief supporting its petition.
Sullivan filed his pathetic and dishonest brief on Monday. The DOJ’s brief, however, is filled with devastating facts and entirely on-point legal authority. What makes it even more compelling is its front page, which is weighted with the names of big guns. The DOJ is taking this matter very seriously.
General Michael Flynn filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate requesting that the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit order Judge Emmett Sullivan to dismiss Flynn’s case, in the face of Sullivan's refusal to do so. (snip) Sullivan apparently felt he was not up to the task of explaining his own legal analysis, so he hired one of Washington’s fixers – Beth Wilkinson. He should have saved his money. Wilkinson’s brief (which you can read here) is a joke. Additionally, Wilkinson has abandoned any pretense that Sullivan is impartial. This is an attack brief against Flynn.
The riots that began in Minneapolis are the intended consequence of the fake history dished out by our media, Hollywood, and most colleges and public schools for the past 50 years. This new “institutional racism” falsely blames all whites for every injustice -- especially whites who are Christian, Republican or who love America.
These whites are the new Jews. Minneapolis is the new Kishinev.
In 1903, Kishinev was part of Russia and ruled by an emperor, the Czar. Just before Easter, a non-Jewish girl there was depressed and swallowed poison. She was rushed to a Jewish hospital where she died.
Why on Earth am I So Hopeful?
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It could be spring and the reappearance of leaves on bare trees and flowers blooming, but I think it’s really because I do not watch network news or read the New York Times, The Washington Report or The Drudge Report. I live in New York City, which has been christened pandemic ground zero, but I’m still alive even though I am at high risk of dying from Covid 19.
What I do watch on Sundays is Mass from my local parish’s Facebook page, and a recent homily by my parish priest was what stirred this feeling of hope.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden was a sharp critic of Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s work for investment firm Bain Capital, but now Bain executives are helping fuel Biden’s 2020 presidential bid.
Bain co-founder Joshua Bekenstein and his wife Anita each donated $250,000 to Biden’s super PAC in April, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records showed. The donations accounted for the majority of the PAC’s fundraising in April, according to FEC records.
Additionally, both Joshua and Anita Bekenstein donated the federal maximum of $5,600 — split between the primary and general election — to Biden’s campaign, FEC records
Almost everything connected George Floyd’s tragic death and the subsequent riots involve Democratic leaders. So naturally, President Donald Trump is taking the blame.
Start at the beginning. George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, a liberal city (the New York Times calls it “one of America’s most liberal cities”) in a liberal state (that hasn’t voted for a Republican for president since 1972).
In 2017, Larry Jacobs, a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, observed that “In Minneapolis, we have one of the most liberal activist agendas in the U.S. They are seeking to
When looters threatened to bring their mayhem and destruction from the city of Chicago to my suburb on Sunday, our town’s leadership acted quickly. Snow plows were used to block access to the major shopping mall and big-box outlets; police SUVs and undercover cars patrolled heavily-traveled streets carrying cops with riot gear. Stores and restaurants, which had just reopened on Friday after a nearly three-month shutdown, closed again. Suspicious cars congregating in vacant parking lots adjacent to strip malls were hustled away.Our police chief—Tim McCarthy, the secret service agent who took a bullet for Ronald Reagan in 1981 and saved the president’s life—could be heard
An NYPD officer was attacked by several men in the Bronx Monday night as onlookers recording the struggle instigated the suspects.The footage, which was tweeted by the city’s Sergeant’s Benevolent Association, shows two men forcefully toss an unknown object at an officer who’s on the ground struggling with somebody else.After the second man attacks, the man tussling with the cup runs free, the video shows.The officer, appearing dazed, gets up after the group flees and immediately withdraws his gun, but doesn’t appear to point it toward anyone
Prominent leftists on Monday raged over President Trump’s walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church after authorities cleared out protesters in the area around Lafayette Park, accusing the president of having demonstrators “viciously attacked” for a “photo op” and deeming him a “fascist.”The president concluded his Rose Garden address by announcing his intention to “pay my respects to a very, very special place.” From there, Trump departed, walking to the historic church that rioters targeted on Sunday night.Authorities cleared out protesters ahead of Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 7:00 p.m. curfew and Trump’s walk to the church.
2020 and the Spirit of Dunkirk
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These are the times that try the souls of Americans. Those that stand by the country deserve the love and thanks of their fellow citizens. Difficulties are not easily conquered. The scene is depressing with two factors: the continuation, if some mitigation, of the pandemic, and the violent protests over the murder of a 46-year-old African-American man by a police officer in Minneapolis. The fight against the virus has been a collective national effort, with medical staff, doctors, nurses, going far beyond their normal duties, and a considerable part of the U.S. population helping in mutual aid and abiding with the official advice of social distancing.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted White House adviser Jared Kushner as one of those responsible for subverting President Donald Trump’s “instincts” on key issues that affect his presidency.
Commenting on the ongoing protests, riots and general lawlessness taking place in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week, Carlson used part of Monday night’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” opening monologue to take aim at “key advisers,” including Kushner, who don’t understand the “gravity of the moment.”
The term “anti-fascist” began as a lie. It remains a lie today.
Clueless commentators, ignorant of its history, have been known to refer to the "antifa" movement as “strictly principled anti-fascists,” or a group that “protests fascism.” In fact, this is a movement of violent extremists whose philosophy traces back to the early 20th century.
The riots now raging in U.S. cities are not about police misconduct. They haven’t been for many days. The senseless and callous police killing of George Floyd inspired peaceful protests at first, but now it has become an excuse for a troupe of professional revolutionaries and marauders. They use these incidents in order to flex their muscle
Logic, Rhetoric, and Race
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Are you against murder? Of course you are. Murder is not merely illegal, but also morally wrong, and you would never advocate or condone murder. What about racism? Are you also against racism? Certainly, every American can be expected to condemn prejudice, racial hatred, and unjust discrimination. There is widespread agreement in our society that racism is a bad thing, and therefore it may be assumed that everyone reading this was horrified by the video of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Four police officers involved in Floyd’s arrest were dismissed from the force, and one of them, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third-degree murder.
Why on Earth am I So Hopeful?
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It could be spring and the reappearance of leaves on bare trees and flowers blooming, but I think it’s really because I do not watch network news or read the New York Times, The Washington Report or The Drudge Report. I live in New York City, which has been christened pandemic ground zero, but I’m still alive even though I am at high risk of dying from Covid 19.
What I do watch on Sundays is Mass from my local parish’s Facebook page, and a recent homily by my parish priest was what stirred this feeling of hope.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Monday police should be trained to shoot at the legs of assailants, which police training experts decry as impractical and dangerous.
"We also have to fundamentally change the way police are trained," he said. "The idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there's an unarmed person that's coming at them with a knife so they shoot him in the leg instead of in the heart, is a very different thing. There's a lot of different things that can change."
Biden addressed parishioners and local leaders at a black church in Wilmington, Delaware,
There’s something I say all the time, only because it’s true: Frankenstein’s monster always returns to the castle to destroy it.” There are many other ways to put it: chickens coming home to roost, you reap what you sow, etc., – and it’s all true. That adage came true again this weekend as left-wing mobs turned on left-wing cities that have elected left-wing politicians for generations, many in left-wing states, and burned much of them to the ground. The monster came home.
Conservatives have been warning about the dangers of Antifa and other left-wing groups for years. No one in the Democrat media listened.
A retired Navy SEAL whose rank and qualification pin were restored by order of President Trump accused military officials of leaking confidential court documents to a New York Times reporter last year during his high-profile war crimes trial in an effort to create a false narrative about the case and ultimately taint the jury pool.
Former Chief Special Operator Edward Gallagher was convicted of posing for a photograph with the corpse of an Islamic State fighter in Iraq in 2017 but was acquitted of more serious charges, including murder. The uproar over the case eventually led to the firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer.
Mr. Gallagher has filed a lawsuit
The Justice Department on Monday reportedly asked a federal Appeals Court to force a lower court judge to dismiss the prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
District Judge Emmet Sullivan declined to immediately dismiss the case against Flynn, after the Justice Department announced May 7 that the agency had dropped its case on Flynn lying to the FBI in 2017 about his communications with the Russia ambassador to the U.S., according to Politico.
As a columnist and pundit, it’s usually a lot easier to hammer out good content on small, self-contained items. Some politician says something stupid. Some economic study pops out and either destroys or reinforces some narrative. And so forth.
But the events of the last week, in which a bad Minneapolis cop killed an arrestee by kneeling on his neck — which practically everybody in America agrees was a criminal act deserving criminal charges, and those charges came to Derek Chauvin by the end of last week — and then almost three dozen cities erupted in violence purportedly as a result, make it a lot more difficult to offer punditry.
Restoring order to America’s cities isn’t a complicated proposition.
All it requires is resources and determination, and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is “provocative” and “escalatory” and must be avoided.
As has been established across decades of civil disturbances, it is police passivity that emboldens mobs. When the cops stand by, or don’t show up or, even worse, run away, it is a permission slip for destruction. They might as well supply the spray paint, bricks and hammers for the crowds, and beckon them into the local Target or Nike store to take whatever they want.
It took several days for Minnesota to assert itself in the face of rioters, but they finally took some steps toward restoring order yesterday. Rather than the retreats that characterized the police and National Guard response for most of a week, last night the combined forces began arresting people en masse for curfew violations. Around 150 got hauled into custody last night, while police and National Guard used some of the intelligence gleaned to seize materials for use in more arsons:
Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson elaborated on his call for the payment of $14 trillion in reparations to African-Americans Monday on "Special Report."
Johnson told host Bret Baier that Americans must look at the passing of time in "total context."
"Part of that context is people have a right to protest when they see injustice. That goes all the way back to Dr. Martin Luther King," he said. "But on the other hand, we have to go to the root cause of people's protesting that leads to violence, whether it is agitated violence or just violence because people feel frustrated and bitter."
Authorities in St. Louis said early Tuesday that four police officers were shot during protests in the city’s downtown area and officers continue to be under fire.
St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden told reporters during an overnight briefing that two of the officers were shot in the leg and one was shot in the foot. The other was shot in the arm. Hayden said they were hit by gunfire while standing on the side of a police line amid protests in the city. He said they didn't hear the shots when, all of a sudden, they felt pain.
"As we speak we're trying to get control