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Joey D
2/21/22


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In the third hour of the morning show, guest host Vince Coglianese and Julie Gunlock talked to legal analyst Joe diGenova and Hillsdale's Matthew Spalding. They also discussed the Democratic party struggling to find a 2024 candidate and the latest CNN drama.

It was nothing but a fishing exhibition from the very start.

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Prosecutors in charge of Trump criminal probe have resigned

NEW YORK (AP) — The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business dealings suddenly resigned Wednesday, throwing the future of the probe into question.

A spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed the resignations of Carey Dunne and former mafia prosecutor Mark Pomerantz. Both started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and were asked to stay when Bragg took office in January.

Dunne, the office’s former general counsel, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a successful fight for Trump’s tax records. Pomerantz was brought out of private practice by Vance last year to add his expertise in white collar investigations to the probe.

“We are grateful for their service,” said Bragg’s spokesperson, Danielle Filson. She declined to comment further, saying the investigation is ongoing.

The New York Times, citing sources, reported that Dunne and Pomerantz quit after Bragg raised doubts about pursuing a case against Trump.

Messages seeking comment were left for Dunne and Pomerantz.

The D.A.’s office investigation led to tax fraud charges last July against Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg.

Weisselberg was accused of collecting more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including apartment rent, car payments and school tuition. He and the company have pleaded not guilty.

On Tuesday, lawyers for Weisselberg and the Trump Organization filed court papers seeking to throw out the case. Weisselberg’s lawyers argued the D.A.’s office was targeting him as punishment because he wouldn’t flip on the former president.

Just last month, Bragg said he was proud of the continuity that Dunne and Pomerantz had brought in running the high-profile investigation through the transition from Vance’s administration to his leadership.

“I do think the one continuity is the staffing and (Vance) brought on incredible lawyers to do it,” Bragg said in a Jan. 20 question-and-answer session with reporters.

“And they’ve been dedicated and we’ve been working and keeping them in place and thinking about the kind of resources to continue the investigation in order to then be in a position to make” decisions on the direction of the probe, Bragg said.

Bragg, limited by ethics rules from discussing the case in detail, said at the time that he was getting up to speed on the Trump investigation and that he would “follow the facts.” He didn’t offer a timeline for a charging decision.

“It’s a matter that’s personally, as you would imagine, on my radar screen and that I’m mindful of and paying attention to,” Bragg said.

https://apnews.com/article/new...9536663a6abd73abbf80

Video of Trump from 2018 Spreads Like Wildfire, Proof He Wanted to Hurt Russia - NATO Did Nothing

During a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018, then-President Donald Trump was asked whether he believed the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies that the Russians had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help him win.

“I don’t see any reason why it would be. President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today,” Trump replied, according to Reuters.

The backlash was quick and severe. The media reported that Trump had thrown U.S. intelligence agencies under the bus. He was Putin’s puppet. He was weak.

The president was attacked mercilessly even by members of the Republican Party.

Well, video from a NATO summit a few days earlier in Brussels shows, in spite of the massive condemnation that came his way following the news conference, it wasn’t Trump who was soft on Russia.

Rather, it was NATO’s European leaders.

In the clip, Trump addressed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a breakfast meeting on July 11, 2018. Although both had several aides present, the conversation took place between Trump and Stoltenberg.

Without notes or a teleprompter, Trump forcefully and articulately called out European Union leaders for allowing their countries to become so utterly dependent upon Russian energy. The worst offender, he said, was Germany.

Moreover, the president plainly stated that none of the European nations was contributing its fair share to NATO.

Trump pointed out the hypocrisy that the European countries who look to the United States for protection from Putin are the same ones who enrich him by importing Russian energy.

Had anyone actually listened and acted upon Trump’s warning, EU countries wouldn’t be so reliant on Russian energy today.

Trump began, “Well, I have to say, I think it’s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where you’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.

“So, we’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of these countries, and then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia.”

“And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that’s supplying the gas,” he said. “Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70 percent of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas.

“So, you tell me, is that appropriate? I mean, I’ve been complaining about this since the time I got in. It should never have been allowed to happen. But Germany is totally controlled by Russia.”

Trump went on to say, “On top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over 1 percent, whereas the United States in actual numbers is paying 4.2 percent of a much larger GDP. So, I think that’s inappropriate also. …

“Now this has been going on for decades. This has been brought up by other presidents. But other presidents never did anything about it. … I think it’s very unfair to our country, it’s very unfair to our taxpayers. And I think that these countries have to step it up. Not over a 10-year period — they have to step it up immediately. Germany is a rich country.”

“We’re not going to put up with it,” he said. “We can’t put up with it. And it’s inappropriate.”

“Germany, as far as I’m concerned, is captive to Russia, because it’s getting so much of its energy from Russia. … Explain that, and it can’t be explained. You know that,” Trump said.

He was widely criticized for his directness at the time. Would his critics have preferred that the president mind his manners and lie?

When Trump demanded Germany stop funding Russia and start paying dues to NATO, the press spun this was “weakening the NATO alliance.”

Trump’s message was blunt, powerful and truthful. He acted as a leader should.

He understood that reliance on other nations for energy, the lifeblood of every modern economy, can leave the dependent nation vulnerable, especially during periods of political upheaval.

He saw that Germany was putting itself into a very precarious situation with Russia. Considering the fact that the U.S. would be called upon in the event of a conflict between Germany and Russia, he spoke up — which is what Americans should want their president to do.

Had they listened, the loss of revenue from Germany would have hurt Russia’s economy. Why would Trump have recommended — forcefully — that Germany look for a different source of energy if he were in Putin’s pocket, as so many on the left claim?

Trump worked to make the U.S. energy independent. His successor squandered that status in the name of climate change.

If Biden really wanted to hurt Russia, he would max out U.S. energy production. He would reissue the license for the Keystone XL Pipeline and reduce government regulations, which would boost domestic oil and gas production. He could then sell energy to the EU to wean those countries off Russian energy.

These moves would boost U.S. national security and add to our gross domestic product.

They also would strengthen the national security of our NATO allies and hurt the Russian economy at the same time.

But just last week, Biden deferred approval for “new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world costs of climate change,” according to The Associated Press.

The geniuses who are running NATO don’t quite know what to do because Europe is so dependent on Russian oil, most notably Germany. How did the “best and the brightest” so greatly underestimate Putin?

More than a decade ago, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin famously said, “We do not have a scarcity of resources in America. We have a scarcity of common sense in Washington, D.C.”

The slogan “Drill, baby, drill” from her 2008 vice presidential debate with Joe Biden applies even more today than it did then.

Putin did not invade Ukraine under Trump. The reason is no mystery. The Russian president both feared and respected his U.S. counterpart.

Would Putin have tried this if Trump were president? He didn’t. And I think that tells us all we need to know.

https://www.westernjournal.com...m_content=2022-02-25

While we were all distracted...

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/U...rison/7941645821543/

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Jan. 6 rioter who posed with Nancy Pelosi's lectern sentenced to 75 days

Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The rioter pictured with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 75 days in prison Friday.

Adam Johnson will get some credit for time already served and a $5,000 fine.

"We're on a dangerous slide in America." U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said during Johnson's sentencing while calling the insurrection something you'd expect to "see in banana republics."

In the government sentencing memo filed with the court, federal prosecutors had asked for a 90-day prison sentence.

Addressing the court Friday, Johnson said he had been cooperative with the government since being arrested. He said he was apologetic and ashamed to have been part of the riot.

In court documents, Johnson's lawyers said "he deeply regrets his participation in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021," and that the "damage and violence inflicted on that date by others is contrary to everything he believes in."

Johnson pleaded guilty to a criminal count of entering and remained in a restricted building or grounds.

In the sentencing memo, prosecutors said Johnson traveled to Washington, D.C., from Florida and participated in "a violent attack that forced an interruption of the certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote count, threatened the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election, injured more than one hundred law enforcement officer, and resulted in more than $1 million in property damage."

So one of the rioters of "the most dangerous violent attack on American Democracy" pretty much only got time served.

Thought for today.

Reminiscing:

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^^^ Peace in the middle east too.

The sentencing Judge was mistaken. A stolen Presidential election is what one would expect to see in a banana republic. Regards 18DAI

A couple of Trump highlights from CPAC.



Someone had to say it: "It's a lot of bullshit."



We will do it again...



President Trump on the Truckers in Canada...



Zuckerberg used to kiss my ass...



And the full speech...

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Joey D
2/28/22


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In the third hour of the morning show, Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock talked to Joe diGenova and discussed CPAC highlights and Biden's dropping approval numbers.

Joey D
3/7/22


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In the third hour of the morning show, Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock talked to legal analyst Joe diGenova about a special anniversary and former Trump Education Department official Nick Bell discussed how some Republicans in Richmond are undermining Governor Youngkin's agenda. Plus, they chatted about some wild Elon Musk tweets and some interesting things happening in the parent movement.

Got a verification email from Truth Social, well got about 10 of them, in a row, app allowed me to verify my SMS which is done, will see how long before access is opened, finally the Truth will be revealed!

Three Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Run for President in 2024
By William Sullivan

Donald Trump was a great president, and Americans of all stripes are beginning to recognize that. Even his opponents will find it hard to argue against that conclusion without waxing stupid about a supposed “January 6th insurrection” that was “worse than 9/11,” or citing the futile “impeachments” where Democrats beclowned themselves in conducting show trials against him.

The truth is that under the Trump presidency, America became a net exporter of energy. We were largely “energy independent,” a phrase that had been little more than a pipe dream since at least the 1970s until it became a reality in Donald Trump’s America. We had a genuine path to peace in the Middle East, another prospect once-unthinkable in most of our lifetimes. The economy was the best it had been in 50 years, businesses were repatriating due to competitive tax policy, and the vast majority of Americans experienced significant tax cuts (even the New York Times begrudgingly admits this).

Perhaps most importantly, President Trump did nothing short of giving American conservatives a voice in the culture again, punching back at left-wing government-corporate-media attacks against conservative principles like life, family, and American exceptionalism, and by eventually forcing them to expose their fascistic impulses and practices for all to see.

No man is without faults, and like so many great men, Trump certainly has his share. Yet I am deeply thankful for him, and his service to this country. All of that said, if he loves this country and wants what’s best for it, he should not run for the presidency in 2024.

Official portrait of the 45th President of the United States

Here are three reasons why.

The Virginia Template

We don’t need to delve into all the fishy late-night delays in tallying newly-discovered ballots to determine that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Molly Ball, at TIME magazine, confessed to us all that she was a conspirator among a “well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”

This testimony from the horse’s mouth notwithstanding, lamenting lost battles has little value in rallying your troops to pursue a mission’s objective, and politics is no different.

Virginia, however, presents a rousing victory in the ideological contest for Americans’ hearts and minds, and one that conservatives and moderates are suddenly winning.

Biden won Virginia by 10-points in the 2020 election*. That’s the political equivalent of finishing by miles in a marathon. If you asked anyone even a year ago, Virginia would be considered solidly blue.

Yet in November 2021, Republican Glenn Youngkin ended the longstanding Democratic stranglehold on the governorship in Virginia. Republican Winsome Sears won the Lieutenant Governor role, and Jason Miyares, another Republican, won the Attorney General role. And Republicans picked up seven seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, rallying to a two-delegate majority from being a five-delegate minority in the state legislature.

In all of this, Trump remained at arm’s length from Youngkin’s campaign. What drove that election was a massive groundswell of moderate, and even some left-wing, opposition to the huge uptick in crime, a faltering economy crippled by inflation and supply chain disruptions, and most importantly, the school closures and forced imposition of Critical Race Theory and radical sexual and transgender ideology in public schools.

Republicans won the deep-blue state of Virginia by espousing Trump’s policies in a relatively Trump-free campaign.

The point here is simple. Trump would likely win most or all red states in 2024 by presenting similar political arguments to those that won Virginia for Republicans. It seems far less likely that Trump would win in Virginia in 2024 while presenting those same arguments.

The Romney Curse

It’s politically difficult to oppose a thing that you once favored. Mitt Romney may not understand this about his own political career, but some of us observers have known it about him for a decade. The 2012 election was largely a referendum on Obamacare. And somehow, the Republican Party managed to select the only candidate that had instituted Obamacare-Lite in his own state. After pushing Romneycare for Massachusetts back in 2006, Mitt Romney was perhaps the worst choice imaginable to represent the Republican opposition to Obamacare.

2024 is destined, along with whatever comes of Biden’s foreign policy that has led us to the brink of World War III, to be a referendum on America’s liberty-strangling and economy-crushing COVID response. Time can only illuminate how wrong the government’s “health experts” have been about everything when it comes to COVID. We shut down the country over a disease that we knew, almost immediately, only severely affected the very old and immunocompromised.

Donald Trump supported the national shutdown to flatten the curve. Then he shut everything down until Easter of 2020, opening the door to a level of tyranny that has never before been seen in America. Trump had supported the lockdowns, then the masks, then the vaccines, and then the boosters.

Here is the truth that Republicans can, should, and will run on in 2022 and 2024. Masks don’t work and have never worked. There’s not a single place on the planet where they have. The vaccines may be efficacious in preventing hospitalization or death, but they do not prevent infection or transmission as was promised. And boosters? They’ve proven so obviously ineffective that they’re rarely mentioned anymore, even by the most zealous of the Fauci faithful.

The problem with later opposing a thing you once supported is a simple matter of credibility. Joe Biden knows this all too well. It’s hard to push a widely supported anti-crime bill in 1994 only to later lead a Party which argues that it was a terrible and racist idea, while also supporting the defunding of police departments across the country.

Lucky for Biden, all of the other candidates in the Democrats’ field in 2020 were so terrible and clearly unelectable that the Party conspired in his favor for the primary. After being shellacked in early primary races, he was thrown a life preserver in South Carolina in the form of a James Clyburn endorsement to carry the crucial state. Then, on Super Tuesday, the Party destroyed Bernie Sanders by forcing him to split the socialist vote with Elizabeth Warren while the supposed moderates, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, dropped out of the race just in time to clear the moderate lane for frail, doddering, yet hopefully nostalgically familiar Joe Biden.

Republicans will not be in such dire straits in 2024. And among potentially many suitable candidates, one stands out among the rest.

The Rise of Ron DeSantis

Ron DeSantis is the face of the opposition when it comes to government-imposed COVID tyranny and the voice of modern conservatism. He doesn’t suffer from the Romney Curse, in that he doesn’t have to defend against his own past violations upon Americans’ liberty over COVID, because he was among the first to successfully lift and speak out against those impositions.

Like Youngkin, he is able to openly and charismatically promote Donald Trump’s ideas while enjoying the benefit of being someone other than Donald Trump.

In all likelihood, the Democratic Party has already determined that the ancient and embarrassingly incompetent Joe Biden will be unelectable in 2024. The speed at which his cognitive faculties are abandoning him is scary, and this has been accentuated by the complete disaster that his presidency has proven to be.

We need a strong and measured president to lead America in these precarious times. One who doesn’t bandy loose threats of annihilation or petty insults against foreign leaders on social media. One who doesn’t necessarily embrace his role as being the most polarizing figure in American politics. One who passionately rebukes the media and demolishes their lies, but remains grounded in logic, reason, and facts.

We need a leader who can’t be tied to leading America into COVID lockdowns or, right or wrong, the mythological January 6 “insurrection.” And most importantly, we need a leader that doesn’t come with the physical and mental impairments that come with 78 years of life on Earth, as Trump will be carrying in 2024.

The frontrunner for that role, it seems clear, should be Ron DeSantis. And while Trump was the right man for the presidency in his time, I hope that he will recognize that his time for that role has passed, and he will pass the torch to his natural successor.

https://www.americanthinker.co...esident_in_2024.html

I’ve always thought that he is, and we are better off if he does not run for President.

He has been there and done that.

I think he should run for the Senate in a friendly state like Florida.

He would be elected fir six years rather than four and would have a greater influence on how things get shaped.

Also they would all still have to refer to him as Mr President and that will piss off the dems in Congress every single day.

Hopefully Trump is President next year, if the Dems are crushed and he's elected Speaker, then Joe and the Ho are impeached.

He will run in 2024 and will win, if the Commies don't steal the election again.

Better a King Maker than King....

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Hopefully Trump is President next year, if the Dems are crushed and he's elected Speaker, then Joe and the Ho are impeached.

He will run in 2024 and will win, if the Commies don't steal the election again.

An interesting possibility that others have posited. I don't think Trump is up for it, but we'd get him in place 2 years earlier. It's only possible because there is no rule or law tht the Speaker of the House has to be an elected member of the body.

flashguy

As much as he did for this country, I don't think it prudent that President Trump run again in 2024. As others have stated, he might do "us" better with a Senate seat. Besides, I think he'd have a tough time getting a supportive VP candidate. Mike Pence turned out to be a lump of fecal matter at the end of the day. I think the DeSantis postulate is a valid course of action. JMHO...

As much as we may not want to admit it, even a strong turn out by Trump supporters won't be enough to win in 2024 if Trump is the nominee.. The Trump haters will come out in droves. We need moderates in order to win. I don't see Trump getting enough moderates to win. Anyone going to contribute to help Trump buy a new plane? https://gazette.com/news/trump...82-3dd17ddb0cb2.html

What a bunch of defeatists... Trump will win in spades if he runs in 2024.