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I think Trump is too polarizing and will turn voters away. DeSantis is more personable and like it or not in someway the presidential election is as much a personality pageant as it is a leadership vote.

I like Trump as the ultimate disruptor and he is good at it. He can whip up support by the train loads but I believe it will do others a lot more good than it will for him.

We need a decisive kill shot on democrats. They need to be utterly destroyed as a political entity. I don’t think Trump can do that.

I agree. I think Trump succeeded in his most important mission: to expose the Deep State, the widespread corruption at all levels of government in DC, a main stream media that is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, and the Democrat politicisation of the most powerful agencies of government, including CIA, FBI, IRS, ATF. I can't think of another politician who would have had the guts and the fighter instincts of Trump throughout his term.

I also agree that what we want now, above all, are the political victories in '22 and '24 that will vanquish the corrupt/communist Democrat Party and leave Pelosi, Biden, Schumer shit stains on the history of American politics. Those of us who supported Trump in both elections, and who appreciate all his achievements, cannot fathom the width and depth of hatred for the man. If Trump is the candidate in '24, there is a good chance-- I would even say likelihood-- that he will lose.

DeSantis has the strengths of Trump without the weaknesses. Yes, of course the propaganda arm of the Democrats will attack and try to vilify him, but he won't play their game-- as Trump unfailingly did. How many times did you, as a committed supporter, find yourself muttering "Donald! STFU!"

DeSantis will win. And there is no way to exaggerate the crucial importance of a Republican victory.

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Yes, of course the propaganda arm of the Democrats will attack and try to vilify him, but he won't play their game-- as Trump unfailingly did. How many times did you, as a committed supporter, find yourself muttering "Donald! STFU!"

Actually, I wanted to see for myself all of the ridiculous things Trump was accused of saying. I learned pretty quickly that he said virtually none of them and the press had decided to manufacture outrage by "paraphrasing" him. I would expect nothing less from them when attacking whoever the next candidate is. It is possible that DeSantis can play the game successfully, but make no mistake, once the game begins the next candidate will be just as hated and reviled by the left.

^^^^^^
And the RINOs.

I agree that DeSantis should be the nominee. Trump has too many negatives and a massive number of voters who hate him, fair or not. Nominating Trump again would be a mistake a la the Dems nominating Clinton in 2016.

DeSantis is a fighter and I see him as being highly effective.

I liked a recent quote by a local Dem personality, ambulance chaser lawyer John Morgan who stated, "DeSantis is a brawler with brass knuckles in one hand and a switchblade in the other."

Damn straight.

Joey D
7/25/22

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In the third hour of the morning show, Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock talked to legal analyst Joe diGenova and Dave Kallman.

EXCLUSIVE: Video Used to Charge Jan. 6 Defendant Exonerates Him on Charge of Assaulting Police, Attorney Says
After nearly a year in jail, court motion seeks his release

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...1bFLkp%2FWgqf%2BeqlJ

Maybe it was the death threat delivered by a fellow law-enforcement officer while he stood shackled in belly chains.

Perhaps it was being described as a “terrorist” by a federal judge who will preside over his trial.

It could have been being released on bail by a U.S. magistrate judge in Tennessee, only to be ordered held until trial by a U.S. district judge in Washington D.C.

Former sheriff’s deputy Ronald Colton McAbee, 28, of Tennessee, has faced a difficult road since being indicted for alleged criminal actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Arguably the most trying situation for McAbee was being denied bail for nearly a year based on video evidence that his attorney now says exonerates him.

“What makes the government’s case weak is the fact that the videos actually exonerate Mr. McAbee of the very allegations made against him, and Mr. McAbee is motivated to appear for trial, take the stand and narrate those videos for [the] jury,” wrote attorney William Shipley in a May 2022 motion to have his client released from jail.

McAbee, a former sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee and Georgia with more than seven years of law-enforcement experience as a deputy and correctional officer, was charged by federal prosecutors with seven alleged crimes.

Charges included assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, two counts of civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and committing an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.

McAbee was outside the Lower West Terrace tunnel during some of the worst violence on January 6. Several times he tried to render lifesaving aid to a dying Rosanne Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia. His interactions with Metropolitan Police Department officers resulted in most of the charges and served as justification for a D.C. judge to jail him until trial.

McAbee was arrested on Aug. 17, 2021, in Tennessee. At a detention hearing on Aug. 26, prosecutors argued that McAbee assaulted Metropolitan Police Department Officer Andrew Wyatt. They said after Wyatt fell at the tunnel entrance, McAbee—who had a broken shoulder from a car accident nine days earlier—pulled him down the concrete stairs into a hostile crowd.

The prosecutor played a video for the court, but there was no sound, according to Sarah McAbee, Ronald McAbee’s wife. The lack of audio would later prove to be a crucial element of the story.

After the detention hearing was continued on Sept. 8, 2021, Magistrate Judge Jeffery Frensley ruled against the U.S. Department of Justice and ordered McAbee released pending trial.

No Danger to Community

“I do not believe that Mr. McAbee poses a future danger to the community if he were to be released between now and the time that he resolves this case,” Judge Frensley said. “And the government, despite my request that they provide me any evidence that he’s presented any sort of a danger to the community, have been able to point to absolutely nothing beyond the events around and during January the 6th.”

Judge Frensley said what he saw on the video was open to interpretation. McAbee’s guilt or innocence could not be part of the consideration for bond, he said.

“We have a system that presumes innocence, and for me to make a decision where I become judge, jury, and executioner all in the same role without affording him the rights he’s entitled to under the constitution is inappropriate,” Frensley said. “And that’s the important distinction between the bond decision and the decision on guilt that will follow at a trial.”

That victory for McAbee was short-lived. Prosecutors filed an emergency appeal the same day in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. Senior District Judge Emmet Sullivan stayed Frensley’s order and scheduled hearings on the government’s motion to keep McAbee behind bars until trial.

During a hearing on Sept. 22, 2021, Sullivan seemed to telegraph his eventual decision to hold McAbee without bond.

When being shown a video with McAbee wearing body armor with a patch that read “Sheriff,” Judge Sullivan said, “That’s pretty outrageous,” according to the official hearing transcript. A short time later, Sullivan said, “These videos are very disturbing.” He made several statements agreeing with the prosecutor’s assessment of the evidence.

Sullivan then suggested McAbee is a terrorist.

“So it appears clearly to this court that the defendant is pulling the officer back into the crowd of other terrorists,” Sullivan said, according to the transcript.

After another hearing on Oct. 13, 2021, Sullivan reversed Frensely’s order and ruled that McAbee should not be released pending trial. Sullivan said he would issue a written ruling, which was released more than two months later on Dec. 21, 2021.

While Frensley told prosecutors they did not show evidence that McAbee had done anything to prove he was a danger during the eight months between January 6 and his August arrest, Sullivan ruled that the only way to protect the community is to keep McAbee in jail.

“The court concludes that clear and convincing evidence supports a finding that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community,” Judge Sullivan wrote (pdf) in his 41-page ruling.

Sarah McAbee was stunned.

“It’s just the craziest situation, them saying he’s a danger to the community when he’s been a law enforcement officer and never has had stripes on his record, let alone a speeding ticket,” Sarah McAbee told The Epoch Times.

A break in McAbee’s case came when video investigator Gary McBride of Decatur, Texas, studied the bodycam footage shown in court, except with the audio track turned on. It painted a vastly different picture of what took place, McBride told The Epoch Times.

“The prosecutors did not play the audio of AW [Andrew Wyatt] and McAbee talking during this point,” McBride said in a video he made about the evidence. “McAbee is trying to save AW. Prosecutors didn’t play that in court.”

McBride said his analysis showed McAbee did not pull the officer down the stairs, but was swept backward and lost his balance, due to two protesters pulling on the officer’s legs. McAbee was standing over Wyatt at the time. As a result, McAbee fell on top of Wyatt and was over him for about 25 seconds.

While McAbee was on top of Wyatt, bystanders called him a traitor, ostensibly for helping the officer. When someone in the crowd tried to grab at Wyatt, McAbee shouted, “No!” and “Quit!”

“At that point, my husband just saw an officer down and an officer needing help, because the first thing he says, when he pops in around the tunnel before he gets around the rail is, ‘Hey, you guys have a man down,’” Sarah McAbee said. “They literally did nothing to help that guy. So he’s the one who jumped into action.”

Sarah said she was relieved when she learned the audio track from the evidence videos backs up what her husband told her that day.

Story is Consistent
“My husband’s story has not changed from January 6. There’s actually a picture of him that they have on the FBI website of him on the phone,” she said. “I know that’s a phone call with me about everything that just went down.

“His story has not changed from that day to today. He’s just not a liar. That’s just not who he is and even the little details have always remained the same.”

McBride and Sarah McAbee said the audio track should have been disclosed to the defense as exculpatory evidence.

If you listen to the audio, he says, ‘Hey, I’m one of you. Let me know when you’re ready to get up. I’m going to help you up.’ And they get up together,” Sarah McAbee said. “That’s not him assaulting anybody. It’s the same videos, they just wouldn’t play the audio in court, because the audio is so detrimental to their case.” If you listen to the audio, he says, ‘Hey, I’m one of you. Let me know when you’re ready to get up. I’m going to help you up.’ And they get up together,” Sarah McAbee said. “That’s not him assaulting anybody. It’s the same videos, they just wouldn’t play the audio in court, because the audio is so detrimental to their case.”

According to the transcript developed by McAbee’s legal team, after someone in the crowd shouted, “[expletive] traitor!” McAbee asked Officer Wyatt, “You ready?” and then added, “I’m one of you. I’m one of you.”

Wyatt replied, “Let go of me, man!” McAbee then told him, “I’m helping you.” Wyatt replied, “I know. I know. Help me up.”

William Miller, public information officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, declined to comment. “We typically do not comment on cases beyond our public filings and statements to the Court and have no comment,” Miller said in an email statement to The Epoch Times.

A Difficult Journey
The road since January 6 has been a rough one for the McAbees. Ronald McAbee was in a serious automobile accident on Dec. 27, 2020, and suffered a broken shoulder. His decision to attend President Donald Trump’s speech wasn’t necessarily a popular one in the McAbee home.

McAbee asked a friend to order him a pair of motorcycle gloves that have carbon-fiber reinforcements in the knuckles and fingers. The gloves are designed to protect the hands from flying debris while riding, or from injury in the event of a crash. Prosecutors classified the gloves as a “deadly weapon” in the charges against McAbee.

According to McAbee’s filings in the case, he wanted to have the gloves because there had been attacks on Trump supporters by Antifa at other events in Washington. There is no evidence he used the gloves in any attack or offensive manner, his attorney said.

The ordeal has been a trying one for Sara McAbee. She married her high school sweetheart in 2016 and had recently moved back to Tennessee from Georgia to be closer to family. Then came January 6.

When her husband was initially arrested and jailed, she drove five hours to a detention center in Kentucky to see him. She said she spoke to someone at the jail the night before to make sure it was okay to visit. After a more than five-hour drive, she showed up, only to be told McAbee had just left on a bus for another facility.

Ronald McAbee was flown from Lexington to Atlanta and then to Oklahoma. While waiting to board the flight in Atlanta, a law enforcement officer guarding McAbee asked about his charges for allegedly assaulting a police officer, Sarah McAbee said.

“He’s trying to explain it to him. [The officer] looked at him and said, ‘You touch one of my officers, you’re dead,’” she said. “My husband is like, ‘You can’t threaten me like that. … I’m bound by waist chains. What do you think I’m going to do?’”

McAbee eventually was transferred to the District of Columbia’s Central Detention Facility, dubbed by January 6 defendants as the “DC Gulag.”

New Efforts to Secure Freedom
The motion (pdf) seeking reconsideration of McAbee’s pretrial detention is pointed in its criticisms of Judge Sullivan, and accuses prosecutors of “misrepresentation of the video evidence.”

“There is no evidence—it did not happen as admitted by the government—that Mr. McAbee assaulted Officer AW while Officer AW was in that vulnerable position,” attorney Shipley wrote.

Shipley noted that McAbee was thanked by Metropolitan Police Department Officer Steven Sajumon for helping Officer Wyatt get back to the police line. “That exchange is captured on the audio of the video submitted with this motion,” Shipley wrote. McAbee’s previous attorney in Tennessee, Isaiah Gant, said the officer told McAbee: “Hey, man, thank you. We appreciate you.”

Makhetha Watson, a spokeswoman with the Metropolitan Police Department Office of Communications, declined to comment on McAbee’s assertions.

Judge Sullivan made repeated statements that he accepted prosecution evidence and believed McAbee guilty, Shipley wrote.

Sullivan said McAbee allowed his personal beliefs “to override his sworn duty to uphold the rule of law as a law enforcement officer and even [fought] against officers with whom one would expect he held a mutual respect or kinship,” the motion said.

“That is another pronouncement of Mr. McAbee’s factual guilt by this court,” Shipley wrote.

Sullivan has yet to rule on the motion.

Sarah McAbee said she is left with many questions after a nearly year-long ordeal. How did her husband survive a potentially deadly vehicle crash, only to end up in jail from a protest?

“You just have to believe this is bigger than any of us could ever fathom,” she said. “And that hopefully, because he does have such a unique perspective of being in law enforcement and being inside the jail, and now he’s on the other side of the wall, maybe reform will come from this if enough good men stand.”

She said she is especially proud of her husband for the aid he rendered to Boyland. Video shows McAbee assisting another bystander as they gave CPR to Boyland after she was pulled away from the police line where she was beaten. He helped carry her in front of the police line, then tried starting CPR on her again.

“I would expect nothing less of him. It makes me proud to be his wife to know that he, at the expense of himself, tried to save somebody else,” Sarah McAbee said. “You know, he just runs into action. … He just was in life-saving mode.”

^^^^^^^

Judge Emmet Sullivan

same political hack POS that ruined Michael Flynn's life

Looking at what is going on now with the Biden administration, I feel strongly that Donald Trump will announce he is running in 2024. I expect the announcement to be put off for quite a while, as the DNC and the insane news media are waiting to hear his decision, and Trump delights in torturing them. They're so easy to fuck with and he loves it.

Donald Trump is not going to sit on the sideline and watch someone else get the Republican nomination. He's looking for payback and frankly, I don't blame him.

The Dems are floating people like J.B. Pritzger. This is the guy who had the toilets removed from a multi-million dollar mansion so that he could write it off as uninhabitable. Go ahead and put somebody like that up against Donald Trump. He'll get his guts ripped out. The mockery would be incessant. He'd end up getting a nickname like "Toilet Boy" or "The Lavatory Attendant". Maybe "The Flushmaster"

I truly believe that Trump wants another shot at being President, and when he makes it, boy are some heads going to roll. Trump learned a LOT during his 4 years as to how things function and who are some of the backstabbers. I think he will hit the ground running and really piss-off a ton of folks.....including a lot of GOP!!

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...rruption-of-the-doj/

The Department of Justice (DOJ) was reported this week to have begun a criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump in connection with his effort to contest the 2020 election.

Also this week, the DOJ was accused of having spiked its own investigation of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, based on false clams that reports of his misconduct were just “disinformation.” And last week, the DOJ convinced a D.C. jury to convict Stephen K. Bannon, a Trump associate and former Breitbart News executive chairman, for contempt of Congress.

Notably, the DOJ declined to prosecute past left-wing offenders for the same crime — such as Lois Lerner, the former IRS official who targeted conservative groups; and former Attorney General Eric Holder, who refused to provide Congress with information about Operation Fast & Furious, a gunrunning fiasco that led to the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

And few at DOJ were punished for the “Russia collusion” hoax, a partisan operation that involved lying to the FISA court.

We are witnessing the transformation of the DOJ into an arm of the Democratic Party

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"Transition" was completed years ago

^^^ Transformation? It transformed years ago under the libtard messiah, Obama, and under the Direction of Holder. The DOJ has been corrupt for some time now.

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Crown at LIV Golf Tournament breaks out "Lets Go Brandon" chant where Trump is in attendance.

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Video Of Trump Goes Viral After ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Chant Breaks Out At LIV Golf



Footage of former President Donald Trump listening to a “Let’s Go Brandon” chant at the LIV Golf tournament went viral Sunday.

The former president was flanked by his son, Donald Trump Jr., Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, as well as Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, all of whom were smiling and laughing as the chant broke out over the course, video shared on Twitter shows. Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Eric Trump were also in attendance.

Trump was wearing his iconic “Make America Great Again” hat, embroidered with the number “45” on the side, as he pumped his fist to the beat of the chant. The chant was first made popular after an interviewer misheard a crowd of NASCAR fans yelling “Fuck Joe Biden,” claiming they were actually cheering “Let’s Go Brandon,” for driver Brandon Brown.

“I accidentally became one of the most famous drivers in NASCAR,” Brown said after the chant went viral, replacing the former “Fuck Joe Biden” cry. “Thousands of fans could be heard chanting what the reporter (incorrectly) said was ‘Let’s Go Brandon!,’ and a meme was born.” (RELATED: Watch As ‘Lets Go Brandon’ Chant Takes Over America)

A follow-up image from the golfing weekend showed Trump chatting with Carlson as Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle watched the tournament. At one point during the event, Trump reportedly signed memorabilia that fans brought along, according to tweets.

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Crown at LIV Golf Tournament breaks out "Lets Go Brandon" chant where Trump is in attendance.

Yeah, well, he and the crowd didn't do LIV Golf any favors with that stunt.

Attendance at Bedminster was observed to be noticeably down from that of the two prior LIV events, as were the YouTube viewership numbers.

Of course there may be many explanations for that, but it is strongly suspected the venue likely had more than a little to do with it.

IMO, the same principle applies here as it does on the other side of the political divide: Why go out of your way to offend half your customer base?

If LIV lives, I suspect that stunt may well have precluded future LIV Golf events at Trump-owned golf courses.

^^^Oh, the travesty of it all...

Joey D
8/1/22

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In the third hour of the morning show, Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock talked to legal analyst Joe diGenova and VA-8 GOP nominee Karina Lipsman.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...ed-david-farnsworth/

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican who testified at the January 6 Committee hearing against former President Donald Trump, lost his primary to State Sen. David Farnsworth.

Bowers was stymied by the Trump-backed candidate in his attempt to join the state Senate for its longer term limits.

Farnsworth criticized Bowers for refusing to help Trump or go along with a contentious 2021 election “audit” that Republican leaders in the Senate commissioned. Bowers also drew criticism after he testified in front of the January 6 Committee hearing against Trump in June.

Farnsworth will automatically win the state Senate seat because no Democrat is running in the heavily Republican district.

Bowers faced an uphill battle during the election after the state Republican Party censured him following his June testimony before the January 6 Committee.

“I’m well aware that I’m highly distrusted,”

with good reason

Sounds like justice was correct and swift!!

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Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican who testified at the January 6 Committee hearing against former President Donald Trump, lost his primary to State Sen. David Farnsworth.

KARMA!!

Liz Cheney is disgusting.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

Dick Cheney lashes out at Trump in a campaign ad for daughter Liz

It’s been known since 2015, when Donald Trump first came down the escalator, that the Bush family’s allegiance is entirely with the Obama-Biden claque. It was no surprise, therefore, that Liz Cheney would be in the NeverTrump category. Still, it’s been interesting seeing her personal animus toward Trump turn her into the Democrats’ most vicious weapon on the January 6 Committee. And it’s even more surprising—and kind of disgusting—to see her drag her dad, Dick, out of his retirement to demonstrate his own personal animus toward Trump.

You know how I love context, so let me start with the automatically generated photo montage that you get when you go to Bing and do a search for “ Bush and Obama families”:

Could the love fest be more nauseating? Incidentally, you don’t get a montage like that when you do a Bing search for “Bush and Trump families.”

Nor do those pictures paint a false impression. The Bush family absolutely refused to support Donald Trump in 2016. Whether this was because they were mad that he insulted Low Energy Jeb! or because the Bush clan’s “compassionate conservativism” was nothing more than an amalgam of soft leftism and globalism, the fact remained that the two living Republican presidents in 2016 (both named George Bush) effectively threw their weight to Hillary in 2016. Then, in 2020, the one remaining George Bush effectively backed Biden.

Liz and Dick Cheney were part of this anti-Trump clannishness. During the early years of the Iraq War, the Bush-Cheney cabal seemed to be pro-American hawks fighting for America’s security. However, given their relaxed attitude to the Southern border and their war on Main Street in favor of Wall Street, it became increasingly clear that—and I hate to say this—the anti-War left was correct when it said that the administration’s actors were and are nothing more than warmongers. With Ukraine, Liz Cheney once again sees her role as getting America into a foreign war that confers no benefit on it.

Nothing made this more clear than their response to Trump’s refusal to embroil America in new conflicts, his emphasis on border security, and his refusal to kowtow to the Bush clan: They sided with the Democrats because, as between their delicate sensibilities and globalist values, on the one hand, and America’s well-being, on the other hand, America didn’t stand a chance.

No wonder, then, that Liz Cheney, given a choice between conservative values and trying to destroy Trump, opted to go after Trump. And if she must destroy hundreds of American lives along the way (remember those J6 prisoners), damage Congress by running a despotic kangaroo court, and abandon all her previously voiced principles to do so...well, omelets and broken eggs, right?

Unfortunately for Liz, even though she’s getting a lot of money, most of it is coming from people who don’t vote in Wyoming. Within Wyoming, at least as of April, the big money was going to Liz’s opponent, Harriet Hageman. The polls reflect the money: Wyoming voters are unimpressed by the out-of-state financiers, and Liz seems destined to lose the primary. The Republican voters whom CNN interviewed were very clear that Liz is not Wyoming’s candidate.

It’s against this backdrop that Daddy Dick appeared for a TV commercial in which he assured voters that Trump is the greatest threat to America in its history and that only Liz can save the Republic:



https://twitter.com/greg_price...or_daughter_liz.html


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