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Eerie Video Circulates Online Showing Trump, Family, Staff In Cheerful Mood Hours Before Riot

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Jared Evan

Many social media users have shared a video from the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., along with the allegation that it shows members of the Trump family and administration watching the riot at the Capitol and enjoying it. Also, seen in the video is Trump, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Trump adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle. Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle are dating.

Giofolye is seen cheerfully dancing in the video to 1980’s disco hit “Gloria” by Laura Branigan. This in itself makes the video almost bizarre, dancing to a forgotten disco song as they allegedly watch the riot.

While the anti-Trump forces were quick to frame the video as Trump and company celebrating the riots which left 5 people dead, the video actually took place hours before and appears to be taken right before Trump made his voter fraud speech.

Though Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle both encouraged the president’s supporters to “fight” in the video, this was said before the march on the Capitol and was most likely referring to the fight against voter fraud in the 2020 election accusations.

If you look at the video, the president is seen looking at computer monitors showing the crowd filing into the stage area where Trump spoke.

The video is quite eerie, with the disco backed soundtrack, we see some of Trump’s closest allies, in a jovial mood, around 2 hours before an event which resulted in the deaths of 5 people and a riot that shook America and the world.

The last happy moments of the Trump regime from behind the scenes  forever captured.

Hours later the riots which took place almost immediately after the speech would place a dark cloud over the Trump administration and the MAGA movement forever.

Later in the evening, the votes would be certified for Biden.  Several Republicans who vowed to stand against the alleged voter fraud changed their minds because of the carnage, and the electoral votes were swiftly certified and the Trump era came to an end.

Trump will spend the last days basically isolated as Democrats and several Republicans are calling to remove the president in his last days.

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s joyful dance to “Gloria” on this video will forever be documented as an eerie and symbolic end to Trump’s administration.

The many accomplishments of the Trump era will be buried by historians and the media. The historic unemployment, relative world peace, effective efforts to fight COVID, the giant steps Trump made in attracting minority voters into the Republican fold, Jews making peace with Arabs, brave efforts to make peace with North Korea and countless other accomplishments will be forever overshadowed by the carnage of January 6th.

Boston Marathon Bomber Sues for $250K over Ball Cap, Showers in Prison

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AMY FURR
The Boston Marathon bomber is suing the federal government for $250,000 over what he claims is unlawful and discriminatory treatment at the prison where he is serving his life sentence.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lives at Colorado’s Supermax in Fremont County, according to an Associated Press (AP) article published Friday.
In the handwritten suit, Tsarnaev claimed the treatment is contributing to his “mental and physical decline.”
The lawsuit was assigned to a federal judge but the judge said Tuesday the filing was “deficient” because it did not have a “certified copy of prisoner’s trust fund statement” or the $402 fee, the Boston Herald reported:
Tsarnaev alleges his baseball cap and bandana were confiscated by prison guards “because, by wearing it, I was ‘disrespecting’ the FBI and the victims” of the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing. “There is no proof and no evidence to support (the) false accusation,” Tsarnaev alleges in his eight-page lawsuit posted on the federal court system.
In October, the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the United States Supreme Court to hear Tsarnaev’s case when a panel of circuit court judges overturned his death sentence, according to Breitbart News:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who first arrived in the U.S. with his family on tourist visas, was previously convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out an Islamist terrorist attack with his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, on April 15, 2013, at the annual Boston Marathon.
Tamerlan died during the manhunt for his arrest.
In the attack, the Tsarnaev brothers killed eight-year-old Martin Richard, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, 23-year-old Lingzi Lu, and left more than 280 people injured. Later in the evening, the Tsarnaev brothers killed 27-year-old MIT Officer Sean Collier.
This week, former Florence prison warden Bob Hood told the Herald that lawsuits such as Tsarnaev’s are common among inmates, adding, “I get it. He wants more than three showers a week.”
“But he’s a twentysomething living in a 7-foot box where life is worse than if he did get the death penalty,” he concluded.

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Suspicious Videos Emerge From D.C Riot, Protestors Allowed in Capitol by Cops, ANTIFA Involvement

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.(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Jared Evan

As the nation continues to react to the shocking riot which occurred at the now-infamous January 6th MAGA event, the responses are running the gamut of emotions. Liberals have declared this the darkest day in America’s history and lay all of the blame at Trump’s feet,  many elected officials are using this tragedy as an excuse to finally remove Trump from office permanently destroying Trump’s possible future political aspirations; while the most devout Trump supporters have immediately absolved themselves of the horrible scene which took 5 people’s lives, placing all of the blame on ANTIFA infiltrators, and barely acknowledging that what should have been a spirited peaceful event, turned into a blood bath. The most strident far-right activists have actually celebrated the riot as part of a “great awakening”.

Is there a grain of truth to the immediate, almost knee jerk response from the MAGA minions who pointed the finger at ANTIFA? Evidently, based on several videos leaking out on social media, there were ANTIFA or some kind of unaffiliated agent provocateurs egging on the chaos. Even more shocking, it appears DC Police actually let protestors into the capitol and even directed traffic.

In this video provided by banned.video- as windows are being broken thousands of Trump supporters are screaming “f**k ANTIFA” indicating that the vandals, who are setting up the chaos to follow were not Trump supporters but members of the radical left-wing militant group.

In this video, allegedly taken during the march, several black-clad ANTIFA members waving the Pan African flag were caught on camera

This circulating video is an alleged confession of a protestor who claims he was paid to be part of the event, he refuses to name the organization who paid him, and called it an “organized effort”. Is this proof that clandestine leftists organized an infiltration?

In this video, 2 mysterious men dressed in all black appear to be the first ones physically attacking the capitol as they smash thru the doors with flag poles. The crowd is screaming  F**K ANTIFA and booing their actions. While it is not known if the men were actually in ANTIFA these videos do make a case that the initial violence was set up by a select group of agitators or possibly professional paid provocateurs and many Trump supporters were against the actions.

The most shocking videos which have emerged following the madness seem to reveal that some police officers were possibly part of the invasion of the capitol itself or simply gave up trying to police the event.

In this first video, police officers literally, remove barriers allowing protestors to flood the capitol’s surroundings.

In this unbelievable video, which should immediately be investigated, we see thousands of people flood right into the capitol, as police officers stand aside and watch the activity. An officer is caught on camera saying ‘ I disagree with this, but I respect it’. The door is open, no action is being taken to stop the angry protestors from walking right in.

Here is another video from inside the capitol, as cops stand aside and do nothing to stop masses of protestors from entering the capitol. The door is wide open, no action is taken, an alleged journalist identifies herself as press, the officer responds ” nobody can come in here, as thousands of MAGA hat flag-waving protestors are invading.

In this final video, an officer is seen literally directing traffic inside the capitol, it appears he is directing the protestors and giving directions !!

We can be sure, investigations are underway, but the question remains: will the media keep the public informed as to what actually happened?

Miami Doctor Dies After Receiving First Dose Of Pfizer COVID Vaccine

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(TJV NEWS) As the US sees 4K confirmed COVID-19 deaths in a single day, the CDC is reporting another shocking potential reaction to the new mRNA-vector COVID-19 vaccines: A doctor in Miami has died two weeks after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, Zero Hedge reported.

Heidi Neckelmann, the widow of Dr. Gregory Michael, said her husband was vaccinated on Dec. 18, and died 16 days later. He was 56 years old, according to Sputnik. Patients typically receive a second dose of the vaccine 3 weeks after the first. Neckelmann also shared the news in a Facebook post.

Neckelmann wrote on Facebook

The love of my life, my husband Gregory Michael MD
an Obstetrician that had his office in Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach Died the day before yesterday due to a strong reaction to the COVID vaccine.
He was a very healthy 56 year old, loved by everyone in the community delivered hundreds of healthy babies and worked tireless through the pandemic.
He was vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine at MSMC on December 18, 3 days later he saw a strong set of petechiae on his feet and hands which made him seek attention at the emergency room at MSMC. The CBC that was done at his arrival showed his platelet count to be 0 (A normal platelet count ranges from 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood.) he was admitted in the ICU with a diagnosis of acute ITP caused by a reaction to the COVID vaccine. A team of expert doctors tried for 2 weeks to raise his platelet count to no avail. Experts from all over the country were involved in his care. No matter what they did, the platelets count refused to go up. He was conscious and energetic through the whole process but 2 days before a last resort surgery, he got a hemorrhagic stroke caused by the lack of platelets that took his life in a matter of minutes.
He was a pro vaccine advocate that is why he got it himself.
I believe that people should be aware that side effects can happened, that it is not good for everyone and in this case destroyed a beautiful life, a perfect family, and has affected so many people in the community
Do not let his death be in vain please save more lives by making this information news.
Three days after vaccination, small spots began to appear on Gregory Michael’s feet and hands. In response, he went to the emergency room at Mount Sinai. As his blood count was not in the normal ranges, he was admitted to the intensive care unit, according to Heidi Neckelmann. Unfortunately, shortly after, he suffered a stroke and died

Deadly siege focuses attention on Capitol Police after Capitol Police Officer, Brian Sicknick Becomes 5th Victim of DC Riots

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This undated image provided by the United States Capitol Police shows U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, of injuries sustained during the riot at the Capitol. A native of South River, N.J., Sicknick served in the New Jersey Air National Guard and went on to a law enforcement career, which his family said was his lifelong dream. He joined the Capitol Police in 2008. (United States Capitol Police via AP)

(AP) — The police were badly outnumbered.

Only a few dozen guarded the West front of the U.S. Capitol when they were rushed by thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators bent on breaking into the building.

Armed with metal pipes, pepper spray and other weapons, the mob pushed past the thin police line, and one protester hurled a fire extinguisher at a officer, according to video widely circulated on YouTube.

“They’re getting into the Capitol tonight! They’re getting in,” the man filming shouts in delight.

They breached the line moments later, and rioters soon broke into the building, taking over the House and Senate chambers and running wild in Statuary Hall and other hallowed symbols of democracy. The mob ransacked the place, smashing windows and waving Trump, American and Confederate flags. The lawmakers who were voting to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory were forced into hiding for hours.

Throughout the melee, police officers were injured, mocked, ridiculed and threatened. One Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, died Thursday night from injuries suffered during the riot. The melee was instigated by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump who have professed their love of law enforcement and derided the mass police reform protests that shook the nation last year following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“We backed you guys in the summer,” one protester screamed at three officers backed against a door by dozens of men screaming for them to get out of their way. “When the whole country hated you, we had your back!”

The rampage shocked the world and left the country on edge, forcing the resignations of three top Capitol security officials over the failure to stop the breach. Lawmakers have demanded a review of operations and an FBI briefing over what they called a “terrorist attack.”

Sicknick was the fifth person to die because of the Capitol protest violence.

One protester, a woman from California, was shot to death by Capitol Police, and three other people died after “medical emergencies” related to the breach, including at least who died of an apparent heart attack.

Sicknick, 42, was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during a struggle, two law enforcement officials said, although it was not clear if he was the officer shown in the video. The officials could not discuss the ongoing investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Another disturbing video shows a bloodied police officer screaming for help as he’s crushed by protesters inside the Capitol building. The young officer is pinned between a riot shield and metal door. Bleeding from the mouth, he cries out in pain and screams, “Help!”

Other images show police completely overwhelmed by protesters who shoved, kicked and punched their way into the building. In one stunning video, a lone police officer tries to hold off a mob of demonstrators from cracking into the lobby. He fails.

Protesters attacked police with pipes, sprayed irritants and even planted live bombs found in the area.

Sicknick’s family said Friday that he had wanted to be a police officer his entire life. He served in the New Jersey Air National Guard before joining the Capitol Police in 2008. Many details regarding the incident remain unknown, and Sicknick’s family urged the public and news media not to make his death a political issue.

Still, the riot — and Sicknick’s death — focused renewed attention on Capitol Police, a force of more than 2,300 officers and civilian employees that protects the Capitol, lawmakers, staff and visitors. The agency has an annual budget of about $515 million.

Three days before the riot, the Pentagon offered National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents. Capitol Police turned them down both times, according to senior defense officials and two people familiar with the matter.

Despite plenty of warnings of a possible insurrection and ample resources and time to prepare, police planned only for a free speech demonstration.

Like many other agencies, the Capitol Police have been hit hard by COVID-19, with frequent schedule changes for officers and many forced to work overtime to fill out rosters. The pandemic has put the police under strain going into the new session of Congress and the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned Thursday under pressure from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders, defended his department’s response, saying officers “acted valiantly when faced with thousands of individuals involved in violent riotous actions.” Two other top security officials, Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger and House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, also resigned.

By Friday, prosecutors had filed 14 cases in federal district court and 40 others in the District of Columbia Superior Court for a variety of offenses ranging from assaulting police officers to entering restricted areas of the U.S. Capitol, stealing federal property and threatening lawmakers. Prosecutors said additional cases remained under seal, dozens of other people were being sought by federal agents and the U.S. attorney in Washington vowed that “all options were on the table” for charges, including possibly sedition.

Among those charged was Richard Barnett, an Arkansas man who was shown in a widely seen photo sitting in Pelosi’s office with his boots on the desk. He also wrote a disparaging note to Pelosi. Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen called the photo of Barnett a “shocking image” and “repulsive.′

“Those who are proven to have committed criminal acts during the storming of the Capitol will face justice,″ Rosen said.

Also charged was a West Virginia state lawmaker who posted videos online showing himself pushing his way inside the Capitol, fist bumping with a police officer and then milling around the Rotunda as he shouted “Our house!” The lawmaker, Derrick Evans, was arrested by the FBI at his home on Friday and charged with entering restricted federal property.

Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the Capitol Police Officers’ Union, said he was “incredibly proud of the individual officers whose actions protected the lives of hundreds of members of Congress and their staff.”

Once the breach of the Capitol building was inevitable, officers prioritized lives over property, leading people to safety, he said. “Not one member of Congress or their staff was injured. Our officers did their jobs. Our leadership did not. Our law enforcement partners that assisted us were remarkable.”

Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who leads a subcommittee that oversees the Capitol Police budget, said Friday that rank-and-file officers “were put in a incredibly dangerous situation. And that’s really where my frustration comes in.″

Sund and other leaders are charged with protecting lawmakers, “but also making sure that the rank-and-file members are put in situations where they’re as safe as possible and they have the support that they need. And that clearly isn’t the case,” Ryan said.

Pelosi ordered flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Sicknick’s honor.

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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro in Washington, Nomaan Merchant in Houston and Derek Karikari in New York contributed to this report

Twitter Permanently Bans President Donald Trump

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Allum Bokhari

Twitter has permanently banned the account of the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

“After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” said Twitter in a statement.

The company also banned the @TeamTrump campaign account.

Twitter previously removed a video from the president that called on his supporters to peacefully disperse and respect law an order, which the president posted less than an hour after reports that D.C.’s Capitol Hill was in the process of being stormed.

The president reiterated his condemnation of violence the next day.

This comes after Facebook and Instagram along with other big tech platforms indefinitely suspended the president’s access, cutting off a key line of communication between the president and the citizens of this country.

For more than four years, Breitbart News has reported on the rapidly increasing, undemocratic power of Silicon Valley companies, and their growing determination to interfere in the political affairs of the United States and other countries.

Politicians and commentators from across the political spectrum, including former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, liberal journalist Glenn Greenwald, and countless conservative lawmakers have warned that this is a threat to freedom of speech and democracy.

Despite having control of the Senate, Congress, and White House from 2016 to 2018, Republicans did not pass any legislation to curtail tech companies’ ability to censor American citizens, elected representatives, government officials, or interfere in the politics of the United States.

Big tech’s legal immunities were even strengthened in the USMCA trade bill, despite a bipartisan effort to block them.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai recently declined to move forward on a proposed rulemaking change to Section 230, the law that allows tech companies to censor with impunity.

Trump is the first head of state to be permanently banned by a major social media platform.

Republican senators have yet to speak out in opposition to Silicon Valley’s silencing of the president in recent days.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.

Trump to skip Biden swearing-in — Biden’s fine with that

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(AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he will skip President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, refusing to fulfill the outgoing president’s traditional role in the peaceful transition of power and undercutting his own message just one day earlier on the need for “national healing and unity.”

Trump, who has not appeared in public since a violent mob of his supporters besieged the Capitol on Wednesday and tried to halt the transfer of power, will be the first incumbent president since Andrew Johnson not to attend his successor’s inauguration.

Biden said he was just fine with that, calling it “one of the few things we have ever agreed on.”

“It’s a good thing him not showing up,” he added, calling the president an ”embarrassment” to the nation and unworthy of the office.

Traditionally, the incoming and outgoing presidents ride to the U.S. Capitol together on Inauguration Day for the ceremony, a visible manifestation of the smooth change of leadership.

Biden will become president at noon on Jan. 20 regardless of Trump’s plans. But Trump’s absence represents one final act of defiance of the norms and traditions of Washington that he has flouted for four years.

Historian Douglas Brinkley said that while attending the inauguration “would be a wonderful olive branch to the country,” he wasn’t surprised by the decision.

“Donald Trump doesn’t want to be in Washington as the second-fiddle loser standing on stage with Joe Biden,” he said.

While Trump stays away, former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will be there to stand witness to the rite of democracy. The only other living president, 96-year-old Jimmy Carter, who has spent the pandemic largely at home in Georgia, will not attend but has extended “best wishes” to Biden.

Trump’s tweet that he would boycott the inauguration came as he holed up in the White House with a dwindling coterie of aides and as momentum grew on Capitol Hill to subject him to impeachment for a second time.

 

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” Trump said in a tweet.

It may have been his last. The company announced Friday evening that it had permanently suspended Trump from its platform, citing the “risk of further incitement of violence.” The sitting president said the company was trying to “silence” him and replied in an official statement that he was “negotiating” with other social media platforms while looking at “the possibilities of building out our own platform.”

Trump’s decision not to attend the inauguration was not a surprise: For more than two months, he has falsely claimed he won reelection and advanced baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, even though his own administration has said the election was fairly run.

Sen. Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, urged Trump to reconsider.

“He is, of course, not constitutionally required to attend and I can imagine losing an election is very hard, but I believe he should attend,” Scott said in a statement. The senator called the rite “an important tradition that demonstrates the peaceful transfer of power to our people and to the world.”

Vice President Mike Pence, who defied Trump on Wednesday when he refused to intervene in the congressional process to certify Biden’s win, was expected to attend the inauguration, according to one person close to him and one familiar with inauguration planning. But Pence spokesperson Devin O’Malley said in a statement Friday that the vice president and the second lady “have yet to make a decision regarding their attendance.”

Biden said Pence was “welcome to come,” and he’d be honored to have him.

“I think it’s important,” he said, that “the historical precedents and how and the circumstances” by which administrations transition “be maintained.”

Brinkley said Trump’s decision makes him look like a “sore loser.”

“It will also show that he’s an authoritarian at heart who doesn’t believe in the democratic process. If you don’t honor the idea of a peaceful transition, then you don’t honor the Constitution or the spirit of democracy itself,” he said.

On Thursday, with 12 days left in his term, Trump finally bent to reality when he released a video late in the day that condemned the violence carried out in his name at the Capitol and acknowledged his presidency would soon end.

“A new administration will be inaugurated on Jan. 20,” Trump said in the video, after issuing an earlier written statement that offered the same message. “My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.”

But by the next morning, Trump was back to his usual division. Rather than offering condolences for the police officer who died from injuries sustained during the riot, Trump commended the “great American Patriots” who had voted for him.

“They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” he tweeted.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone has repeatedly warned Trump that he could be deemed responsible for inciting Wednesday’s violence. Aides said the president’s video was intended, in part, to try to ward off potential legal trouble and to slow the mass exodus of staffers who have announced their early departures in response to the violence.

Wednesday’s violent insurgency erupted after Trump spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally where he told his supporters the election had been stolen and urged them to fight. Since then, Trump has been increasingly isolated, abandoned by all but a few of his closest enablers.

He has watched the resignations of top aides, including two Cabinet secretaries and a long list of administration officials.

In addition to those who have resigned, senior staff, including longtime aide Hope Hicks, will begin departing as part of the usual “offboarding” process marking the end of an administration, leaving Trump with only a skeleton crew of aides in his final days in office.

Those who remained on the job continued to weigh their own futures and struggled with how best to contain the impulses of a president deemed too dangerous to control his own social media accounts but who remains commander in chief of the world’s greatest military.

There were fears about what a desperate president could do in his final days, including speculation Trump could incite more violence, make rash appointments, issue ill-conceived pardons — including for himself and his family — or even trigger a destabilizing international incident.

On Capitol Hill, Democrats laid plans to impeach Trump a second time, with articles of impeachment expected to be introduced on Monday. A draft of the resolution charges Trump with abuse of power, saying he “willfully made statements that encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — imminent lawless action at the Capitol.”

White House spokesperson Judd Deere responded by saying, “A politically motivated impeachment against a President with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great country.”

Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was pursuing other measures to try to check Trump’s powers. She said she had spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about preventing an “unhinged” Trump from initiating military actions or a nuclear strike. She and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer have also called on Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to force Trump from office — though the urgency of that discussion among Cabinet members and staff had diminished by Thursday.

Staff-level discussions on the matter took place across multiple departments and even in parts of the White House, according to two people briefed on the talks who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations. But no member of the Cabinet has publicly expressed support for the move.

Pence has not said publicly whether he would support invoking the 25th Amendment, but Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he did not think that was likely. “I’m just hearing he is basically not moving in that direction,” he said, citing “my Senate channels.”

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Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire in New York and Alan Fram and Kevin Freking in Washington contributed to this report.

Impeachment Articles Could Be Brought ‘as Early as Mid-Next Week’- 238 Lawmakers Back Impeachment

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President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden as President, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Two hundred and thirty-eight lawmakers are calling to impeach President Trump following the Wednesday riots at the U.S. Capitol, according to the latest tally on Friday morning.

The number of lawmakers calling for President Trump’s impeachment is growing, with House Democrats drafting articles of impeachment which conclude that the president effectively exists as a “threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution.

President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any sort of office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States,” the articles state, accusing Trump of inciting the riots that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, resulting in evacuations, lockdowns, and fatalities — including one police officer.

Two-hundred members of the House of Representatives back the calls to impeach Trump — all Democrats and one Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

According to CNN’s running tally, the other House members include:

  1. Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island
  2. Rep. Ted Lieu of California
  3. Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York
  4. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas
  5. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee
  6. Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia
  7. Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida
  8. Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia
  9. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington
  10. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland
  11. Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado
  12. Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas
  13. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania
  14. Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania
  15. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas
  16. Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York
  17. Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri
  18. Rep. Mike Thompson of California
  19. Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon
  20. Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts
  21. Rep. John Garamendi of California
  22. Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts
  23. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
  24. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
  25. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan
  26. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts
  27. Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York
  28. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York
  29. Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida
  30. Rep. Eric Swalwell of California
  31. Rep. Jackie Speier of California
  32. Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada
  33. Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois
  34. Rep. Katie Porter of California
  35. Rep. Jared Huffman of California
  36. Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire
  37. Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota
  38. Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California
  39. Rep. Mark Takano of California
  40. Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
  41. Rep. Grace Meng of New York
  42. Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey
  43. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania
  44. Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia
  45. Rep. Bill Foster of Illinois
  46. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California
  47. Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts
  48. Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina
  49. Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York
  50. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado
  51. Rep. Antonio Delgado of New York
  52. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas
  53. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio
  54. Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Michigan
  55. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas
  56. Rep. Tony Cardenas of California
  57. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona
  58. Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Maryland
  59. Rep. Salud Carbajal of California
  60. Rep. Joe Courtney of Connecticut
  61. Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois
  62. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton of District of Columbia
  63. Rep. David Price of North Carolina
  64. Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee
  65. Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida
  66. Rep. Karen Bass of California
  67. Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio
  68. Rep. Dwight Evans of Pennsylvania
  69. Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado
  70. Rep. Al Green of Texas
  71. Rep. Charlie Crist of Florida
  72. Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York
  73. Rep. Alma Adams of North Carolina
  74. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware
  75. Rep. Donald Payne of New Jersey
  76. Rep. Marie Newman of Illinois
  77. Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois
  78. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois
  79. Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida
  80. Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York
  81. Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut
  82. Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York
  83. Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York
  84. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier of California
  85. Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York
  86. Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada
  87. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey
  88. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia
  89. Rep. Anna Eshoo of California
  90. Rep. Val Demings of Florida
  91. Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas
  92. Rep. Barbara Lee of California
  93. Rep. Suzan Delbene of Washington
  94. Rep. Bill Keating of Massachusetts
  95. Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts
  96. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama
  97. Rep. Tom O’Halleran of Arizona
  98. Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona
  99. Rep. Lori Trahan of Florida
  100. Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona
  101. Rep. Doris Matsui of California
  102. Rep. Ami Bera of California
  103. Rep. Jerry McNerney of California
  104. Rep. Ro Khanna of California
  105. Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California
  106. Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California
  107. Rep. Ruben Gallego of California
  108. Rep. Julia Brownley of California
  109. Rep. Judy Chu of California
  110. Rep. Brad Sherman of California
  111. Rep. Pete Aguilar of California
  112. Rep. Grace Napolitano of California
  113. Rep. Norma Torres of California
  114. Rep. Linda Sánchez of California
  115. Rep. Nanette Barragán of California
  116. Rep. Lou Correa of California
  117. Rep. Alan Lowenthal of California
  118. Rep. Mike Levin of California
  119. Rep. Scott Peters of California
  120. Rep. Sara Jacobs of California
  121. Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado
  122. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado
  123. Rep. John Larson of Connecticut
  124. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut
  125. Rep. Darren Soto of Florida
  126. Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida
  127. Rep. Lois Frankel of Florida
  128. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida
  129. Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia
  130. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia
  131. Rep. David Scott of Georgia
  132. Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii
  133. Rep. Kai Kahele of Hawaii
  134. Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois
  135. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” García of Illinois
  136. Rep. Sean Casten of Illinois
  137. Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois
  138. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois
  139. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois
  140. Rep. André Carson of Indiana
  141. Rep. Cindy Axne of Iowa
  142. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas
  143. Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky
  144. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine
  145. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland
  146. Rep. John Sarbanes of Maryland
  147. Rep. Anthony Brown of Maryland
  148. Rep. David Trone of Maryland
  149. Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts
  150. Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan
  151. Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan
  152. Rep Andy Levin of Michigan
  153. Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan
  154. Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan
  155. Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota
  156. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota
  157. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi
  158. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri
  159. Rep. Susie Lee of Nevada
  160. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster of New Hampshire
  161. Rep. Donald Norcross of New Jersey
  162. Rep. Andy Kim of New Jersey
  163. Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey
  164. Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey
  165. Rep. Albio SIres of New Jersey
  166. Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey
  167. Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey
  168. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico
  169. Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York
  170. Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York
  171. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York
  172. Rep. Paul Tonko of New York
  173. Rep. Joe Morelle of New York
  174. Rep. Brian Higgins New York
  175. Rep. David Price of North Carolina
  176. Rep. Kathy Manning of North Carolina
  177. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio
  178. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon
  179. Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon
  180. Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania
  181. Rep. Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania
  182. Rep. Jim Langevin of Rhode Island
  183. Rep. Lizzie Pannill Fletcher of Texas
  184. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas
  185. Rep. Marc Veasey of Texas
  186. Rep. Filemon Vela of Texas
  187. Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont
  188. Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia
  189. Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia
  190. Rep. Donald McEachin of Virginia
  191. Rep. Abigail Spangenberger of Virginia
  192. Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia
  193. Rep. Rick Larsen of Washington
  194. Rep. Derek Kilmer of Washington
  195. Rep. Kim Schrier of Washington
  196. Rep. Adam Smith of Washington
  197. Rep. Marilyn Strickland of Washington
  198. Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin
  199. Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin

No Senate Republicans are calling for Trump’s impeachment and removal, but 38 Democrat senators have. Those include:

  1. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York
  2. Sen. Pat Murray of Washington
  3. Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii
  4. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon
  5. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio
  6. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon
  7. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania
  8. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
  9. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
  10. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont
  11. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
  12. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut
  13. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
  14. Sen. Alex Padilla of California
  15. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia
  16. Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii
  17. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland
  18. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware
  19. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware
  20. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington
  21. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts
  22. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan
  23. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
  24. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont
  25. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
  26. Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
  27. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado
  28. Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
  29. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota
  30. Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
  31. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
  32. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
  33. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey
  34. Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico
  35. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
  36. Sen. Angus King of Maine
  37. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California
  38. Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Thursday that the House is prepared to move forward with impeachment in the event of Vice President Mike Pence or the Cabinet failing to act.

“Yesterday, the president of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America,” she said.

Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA) said on Friday that an impeachment vote could reach the House floor as soon as next week.

Friday, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) called on President Donald Trump to be “removed from office” over the riots at the U.S. Capitol this week.

Clark said on CNN’s “New Day” if Vice President Mike Pence is not going to invoke the 25th Amendment, as has been reported, then Congress will move forward with impeachment. She expects the articles of impeachment to be brought against Trump “as early as mid-next week” as President-elect Joe Biden is set to take be inaugurated in less than two weeks.

“Donald Trump needs to be removed from office, and we are going to proceed with every tool that we have to make sure that that happens to protect our democracy. If the reports are correct and Mike Pence is not going to uphold his oath of office and remove the president and help protect our democracy, then we will move forward with impeachment to do just that,” Clark threatened.

“[W]e know that we have limited time, but that every day that Donald Trump is President of the United States is a day of grave danger,” she added. “So, we can use procedural tools to get articles of impeachment to the floor for a House vote quickly. We have already had Chairman Jerry Nadler, chair of the Judiciary Committee, say that he will use those tools to bring the articles as fast as possible.”

“When is that?” host John Berman asked.

“Well, that will be, you know, as early as mid-next week,” Clark replied. “We do have a process we have to go through, but let’s be clear what’s at stake here. We have a president who incited a seditious mob to storm the Capitol. We now have five deaths from that. And the harm to our democracy is really unfathomable.”

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ABC News Political Editor Calls for ‘Cleansing’ of Trump Movement

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JOHN NOLTE
Rick Klein, the political director for far-left ABC News, is openly calling for a “cleansing” of Trump supporters.
In a tweet published Thursday, one day after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol and an unarmed woman was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer, Klein appeared to deliberately wield Stalinist eliminationist rhetoric as a means to increase tensions and divisions even more.
Cleansing the movement he commands, or getting rid of what he represents to so many Americans, is going to be something else.
Back in June, President Donald Trump tweeted that he wanted anyone who “vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property” to face punishment up to “10 years in prison.”
Of course, then he was threatening those in the streets protesting police violence and racial inequities with whom he disagreed.
While Klein accuses the Trump supporters he wants to see “cleansed” of being driven by conspiracy theories, nowhere does he mention that the left-wing terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter are driven by conspiracy theories involving “systemic racism,” a ton of hate crime hoaxes, and the shooting deaths of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin.
This was the most revealing part of Klein’s misinformation, “This wasn’t just any federal property, this was the Capitol — the most famous and important symbol of democracy in the world.”
Apparently, Klein is more concerned with a federal building as opposed to the countless small businesses that have been destroyed all across the country by left-wing terrorists, who are still engaged in a campaign of hate and violence that has been going on for almost a year now.
The U.S. Capitol will recover. Many of these small business owners never will.
The media have spent ten years, beginning with the riots in Wisconsin over Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s public union reforms, justifying, excusing, and openly encourage the worst kind of political violence we’ve seen in my lifetime — everything from, yes, occupying government buildings to looting, arson, assault, and murder.
There’s no excuse for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. None whatsoever. But when three of our country’s institutions — the Democrat Party, the corporate media, and law enforcement — spend a decade condoning and rewarding political violence, they should not act surprised and innocent when that idea spreads.
And now Klein is deliberately using the provocative word “cleansing” in an obvious effort to make things worse.

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Florida Republican plans on putting Israeli flag outside office door to needle neighbor Tlaib

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By David Isaac, World Israel News

Florida Republican Kathryn “Kat” Cammack, 32, who became the youngest Republican woman in the House of Representatives in January, found herself placed next door to Israel-hating Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib when office spaces were assigned.

“She [Tlaib] has some very strong opinions about Israel, and I have some very strong opinions about Israel, so I have made a pledge that I’m going to be planting the flag of Israel outside my door right next to the American flag,” WCJB TV reports Cammack said.

“I think it’ll be very helpful as she walks past it every day,” Cammack said.

Student group Gators for Israel sent her a package which includes an Israeli flag for display, Cammack says.

Tlaib likes to boast of her Palestinian Arab descent. For Tlaib, that heritage appears to comprise mainly of a hatred for Israel. She supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

 

When the House voted overwhelmingly to pass a bipartisan resolution condemning the boycott-Israel movement, 398-to-17, Tlaib was one of the handful of representatives to condemn the resolution, launching into a violent defense of it. But Rep. Ted Deutch, Democrat of Florida, represented the majority view when he said “BDS doesn’t seek social justice. It seeks a world in which the state of Israel doesn’t exist.”

In early December, Republican Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania said Tlaib should be stripped of her committee assignments for participating in an American Muslims for Palestine conference, which featured terror supporters.

“Rep. Tlaib’s participation in this conference, coupled with her recently deleted retweet of a slogan calling for the elimination of Israel, are just the latest examples of a deeply disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism that has been on display since she was elected. Yet Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats refuse to condemn her heinous behavior,” he said.

A week prior to the conference, Tlaib promoted a tweet on her Twitter account which read, “From the river to sea, Palestine will be free,” a slogan associated with the destruction of the Jewish State. Tlaib later deleted the tweet.

The Israeli flag that Cammack plans to display may be a form of karma for Tlaib, as she, or someone in her office, displayed a map featuring Israel with the word “Palestine” and an arrow on a post-it note pointing to it.

Iran: ‘Strong evidence’ Israel behind assassination of nuclear scientist

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By Paul Shindman, World Israel News

Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami said Wednesday the Islamic Republic has “serious evidence” that Israel was involved in the November 2020 assassination of Iran’s nuclear mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and warned Iran would exact revenge, the Fars News agency reported.

Hatami sent a letter to 60 other defense ministers in different countries accusing Israel of playing a role “in the assassination of Dr. Fakhrizadeh.”

“Iran possesses strong evidence that the Zionist regime was involved in the assassination. The Zionist intelligence services have a dark history of assassinating Iranian scientists,” Hatami wrote in the letter.

“Silence on this terrorist act will result in its repetition and insecurity in the world,” Hatami said, adding that Iran “preserves the right to respond to the assassination.”

The previously unheard-of Fakhrizadeh, whose identity was kept secret by Iran, was killed in November in an apparent high-tech assassination by a remote-controlled machine gun that Iran blamed on Israel.

 

Iran’s state-run Press TV reported unnamed sources told the station that the remains of the weapon used in the attack “show that it was made in Israel.”

The Fars report also said that “Israel is not able to carry out such dangerous operations without the prior information and support of the United States.”

“Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was carried out by using electronic equipment and no one was present on the scene,” said Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, “but some clues are available, and the identity and records of the designer of the operation has been discovered by us.”

“Certainly … the Zionist regime and Mossad are the criminal mastermind of this incident,” Shamkhani added.

A previous Fars report claimed Israel’s Mossad spy agency gained access to Fakhrizadeh’s name via a UN list which referred to him as a senior scientist of Iran’s Defense Ministry’s Physics Research Center.

Following the killing, the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said “revenge for the terror attack is already on the country’s agenda.”

“The enemies of the Iranian nation … should also know that such crimes will not undermine the resolve of the Iranians to continue this glorious and power-generating path, and harsh revenge and punishment is on agenda for them,” Salami said.

Jerusalem court rejects Netanyahu request to postpone hearing in corruption cases

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's defense lawyers at a Jerusalem District Court hearing, Dec. 6, 2020. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)

By World Israel News Staff

The panel of judges overseeing the corruption trial of Prime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a request for a delay so his lawyers would have extra time to study new material.

Netanyahu’s defense team had petitioned the Jerusalem District Court for more time to review the implications of amendments to the charges that accuse the prime minister of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

“For the record, it should be noted that the legal significance of the amended indictment is being reviewed in relation to the immunity law for lawmakers, their rights and obligations, and Netanyahu reserves his rights on the matter,” the lawyers said according to the Haaretz report.

The judges ruled that defense lawyers were in possession of the original indictment for over a year and that the amendments to the charge sheet were not substantial enough to warrant a delay.

The change in the indictment involved a case accusing the premier of giving political favors in return for positive media coverage, dividing the charges into those alleging Netanyahu’s personal requests from those made by his family members.

Two weeks ago the lawyers had asked the court to dismiss the charges against Netanyahu, saying the investigation began without the written approval of the attorney general to conduct the investigation, as required by law.

On Tuesday, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit denied he had given approval retroactively, telling the court he gave verbal authorization for the police investigation and had not written it down, but had documented the office meetings at which the decision was made.

However, the judges ruled in favor of Netanyahu, saying the documents given to the court by Mandelblit were not in the proper format and therefore did not show proof that Mandelblit had approved the probe in advance, the report said, with the judges agreeing that the documents had to be handed over to Netanyahu’s defense team.

Nikki Haley Slams Trump: Actions ‘Will Be Judged Harshly By History’

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Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley delivered a harsh rebuke of President Donald Trump’s words and actions since the November election, telling fellow Republicans on Thursday that his behavior since the November election “will be judged harshly by history.”

The former South Carolina governor left the administration two years ago as one of a handful of top Trump officials who had managed to criticize the president without provoking a public denunciation from the tweeter-in-chief. Her remarks will reveal whether she can continue to do so.

“President Trump has not always chosen the right words,” Haley said at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting taking place on an island off Jacksonville, Fla. “He was wrong with his words in Charlottesville, and I told him so at the time. He was badly wrong with his words yesterday. And it wasn’t just his words. His actions since Election Day will be judged harshly by history.”

Haley, who is considered a likely 2024 presidential contender, struck a balance between criticism of the president’s actions and a full repudiation of his tenure. Calling Wednesday’s violence “un-American,” she nonetheless vowed to “defend the achievements of the past four years” and referred to her service in the Trump administration as “the honor of a lifetime.”

She went on to praise the administration’s approach to foreign policy and the president personally for taking a clear-eyed view of China. “President Trump was our first commander in chief to see China for what it really is—the greatest global threat facing America. He held China accountable for its unfair trade, its theft of our secrets, and its egregious human rights record,” she said. “The United States now sees China with open eyes, and we have Donald Trump to thank for that.”

Republican losses in both Georgia Senate runoffs and Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol have upended the GOP’s annual winter meeting, with Trump himself joining by cell phone at one point and some calling for the resignation of party chairwoman and Trump ally Ronna McDaniel.

Haley’s remarks follow criticisms from other top Republicans and Trump allies, including Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), who slammed the president on Wednesday for misleading his own supporters in his claims about the November election, and offer a window into how Trump allies are starting to grapple with a future in which Trump is still present but less powerful. Haley homed in on three issues that have little to do with the man who has dominated the news for the past four years: out-of-control government spending; socialism, which Haley argued has gone “mainstream in America”; and the rise of a so-called woke mob that threatens some of the country’s fundamental liberties.

“They’ve demonstrated that they’ll ‘cancel’ anyone who gets in their way,” Haley said. “They want to shout down and shut up anyone who disagrees with them. They want to take control of the classroom, the boardroom, the media green room, and even the dining room table.”

Trump Cabinet Members And Other Administration Officials Tender Their Resignations Due to Furor Surrounding Capitol Protests

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By: Fern Sidman

Resignations of Trump administration officials and cabinet members continued on Thursday, when it was reported that Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos expressed their wish to no longer remain in their respective posts.

In her resignation letter that was submitted to President Trump on Thursday, the New York Times reported that DeVos said she would step down on Friday.

In the letter, Ms. DeVos described the protestors who disrupted a Congressional session as it was certifying the election results on Wednesday as “unconscionable for our country.”

Moreover, she told the president in her letter that “there is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”

Prior to Ms. DeVos’ resignation, it was announced on Twitter on Thursday that Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, (who happens to be married to Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell), was also tendering her resignation.  “Yesterday, our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the president stormed the Capitol building following a rally he addressed. As I’m sure is the case with many of you, it has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside,” Chao wrote.

For his part, McConnell on Wednesday condemned the Capitol riots as a “failed insurrection.”

On Wednesday night, it was reported that Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s former acting chief of staff, resigned as special envoy to Northern Ireland  saying  in his resignation letter that he “can’t stay” after watching the president encourage the mob that overtook the Capitol complex, as was reported in the New York Times.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mulvaney (who was named acting chief of staff in 2018) wrote on Twitter that “the President’s tweet is not enough. He can stop this now and needs to do exactly that. Tell these tfolks to go home.”

During a Thursday morning interview with CNBC, Mulvaney said, “I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of my friends resign over the next 24-48 hours. It’d be completely understandable if they did. Those who choose to stay are choosing to stay because they are concerned that the president might put someone in to replace them that might take things even worse.”

In the same interview Mulvaney expressed praise for those administration officials who defended Vice President Mike Pence, who oversaw the tallying of the votes that certified Mr. Biden’s victory despite pressure from Trump, according to the Times report.

Mulvaney added that “I’m not condemning those who choose to stay, but I can’t stay here. Not after yesterday. You can’t look at that yesterday and think ‘I want to be part of that’ in any way, shape, or form. ”

Also on Thursday it was reported that other Trump administration officials had decided to resign from their posts. Among them were Matthew Pottinger, John Costello, Ryan Tully and Tyler Goodspeed.

Matthew Pottinger has been Trump’s deputy national security adviser since 2019, as was reported by the NY Times.  He was formerly the administration’s Asia director on the National Security Council, and was known for his on-the-ground experience in China,  where he advised  Trump during his meeting with President Xi Jinping in 2017, according to the NY Times report.

Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs shared on Twitter that Pottinger had intended to resign on Election Day, but had stayed at the request of National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, according to a report in People magazine. Jacobs added that O’Brien was expected to stay for the remaining two weeks.

Bloomberg and Politico reported Thursday that Ryan Tully, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs, had left his post on Wednesday, according to the People magazine report.

Tyler Goodspeed, the acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers also resigned on Thursday, according to multiple reports. After informing the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, of his decision, Goodspeed told the New York Times that, “the events of yesterday made my position no longer tenable.”

John Costello, one of the country’s most senior cybersecurity officials, resigned Wednesday, telling associates that the violence on Capitol Hill was his “breaking point” and, he hoped, “a wake up call,” as was reported by the New York Times.

As was previously reported by the Jewish Voice, Stephanie Grisham, the former White House communications director and press secretary and current chief of staff for first lady Melania Trump, submitted her resignation Wednesday afternoon, effective immediately, in the wake of the violent protests.

CNN reported that White House social secretary Anna Cristina “Rickie” Niceta also resigned Wednesday effective immediately, a White House official told the network.

Grisham and Niceta were among the longest-serving Trump administration officials, as was reported by CNN.

Grisham began her tenure working for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2015 as a press wrangler on the campaign trail. She entered the White House as deputy press secretary under Sean Spicer, but in March 2017, Melania Trump hired her for her East Wing staff. As East Wing communications director, Grisham quickly became the first lady’s most prominent staffer, acting as defender, enforcer and, often, protector.

Spielberg Makes Movie Celebrating Jeffrey Epstein’s Anti-Israel Associate

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In November 2020, filming began on Oslo: an adaptation of the revisionist history Broadway play about the fake peace process between Israel and the PLO terrorist organization.

That same month, the man at the center of both the play and the movie, Terje Rød Larsen announced that he was stepping down as president and CEO of the International Peace Institute after it was revealed that he had taken a $130,000 personal loan from Jeffrey Epstein.

The International Peace Institute is closely linked to the United Nations and its honorary chair is usually the UN Secretary General. The notorious pedophile didn’t just give Larsen money, he also pumped $650,000 into the UN-linked group through his “foundations” and the Norwegian paper that broke the story published emails showing that Larsen’s people were trying to move money from IPI back to Jeffrey Epstein. “For forms sake we should send it to Jeff, however I am sure we will get it back many fold!” Larsen appears to have written in one email.

It was 2016. The date on the original loan was in 2013. All of this took place years after the original Epstein case and his conviction. The ex-UN diplomat knew whom he was dealing with.

But the Epstein scandal didn’t stop Oslo from being produced by Steven Spielberg anyway. Or HBO from moving forward with plans to air a story about a disgraced Jeffrey Epstein associate.

Neither HBO nor Spielberg are strangers to revisionist history or anti-Israel propaganda.

Spielberg’s most infamous movie, Munich, equated the terrorists murdering Israeli civilians with the Israeli operatives trying to stop them, and was the work of screenwriter Tony Kushner who had declared that he wished Israel had never existed. HBO has been responsible for a litany of anti-Israel flicks, most recently, Our Boys, which was protested by the families of terror victims.

But Oslo is awkward because a man linked to the world’s most notorious pedophile is its hero.

Oslo, the original play, was born when Terje Rød Larsen modestly proposed it to director Bartlett Sher who is also directing the HBO movie. The director and the diplomat are good friends.

“We were part of a historic event which we have waited twenty years to see written about,” is how Larsen pitched his story.

The “historic event” has been written to death. The so-called peace agreement has killed more people than many actual wars. The real problem was that the story was fading away. And, most particularly, Larsen’s starring role in the story which is key to his fame and his career.

The premise of Oslo is that Larsen and his wife, Mona Juul, who still serves as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Norway Mission to the United Nations, got the “warring sides” to make peace by seeing each other as human beings for the first time. And it’s nonsense.

The true story of Oslo is how Israeli lefty radicals double-crossed their own country and government, violated laws against doing exactly what they were doing, made repeated concessions to the terrorists, and then presented a hoax of a peace agreement.

Arafat, the PLO, and the entire terrorist movement built around a fake ‘Palestinian’ nationality, never made peace, never recognized Israel, and were not going to stop killing Jews.

What was the whole thing really about? Long before Epstein, Larsen had been accused of trading cash for a Nobel Peace Prize. Kåre Kristiansen, a member of the Nobel Committee, alleged that Larsen got $100,000 from the Peres Center, a project of Israel’s notoriously corrupt left-wing foreign minister, to ensure that Shimon Peres would receive a Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian government had been pumping millions of kroner into the Peres Peace Center which was writing a very large check to Larsen. Meanwhile Larsen was also sitting on the board of governors of the Peres Peace Center which was giving him an award and a big check.

The diplomat claimed that he had informed the Norwegian government to which it responded, “no one in the Foreign Ministry has known about these sums of money.” There were also suggestions that it would investigate the role that Mona Juul, Larsen’s wife, who was also getting the prize money, had played in getting those millions of kroner to the Peace Center.

In 2002, a conservative Israeli government bounced Larsen, who was being billed as ‘Mr. Peace’, after he falsely accused Israel of having “lost all moral authority” while it was fighting the Islamic terrorists behind the Passover Massacre of thirty people: most of them senior citizens.

Larsen’s false claims of an Israeli massacre in Jenin that was “horrifying beyond belief”, “a shameful chapter in Israel’s history”, and rife with “the stench of death” were disproven. Even the UN’s own report found that 52 died, most of them terrorists, along with 23 Israeli soldiers.

Two years later, the PLO declared ‘Mr. Peace’ persona non-grata making Larsen’s unwantedness in the region about the only thing that the Israelis and the terrorists agreed on.

A few years later, it was discovered that all of the ‘Oslo Files’, the papers related to the so-called negotiations, had vanished from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The twists and turns in the search for those documents, and why they went missing would make for a much more interesting story than the tedious nonsense of Sher directing another glamorization of Larsen.

There are plenty of interesting angles to Larsen’s story that Spielberg and Sher won’t touch, but the real truth about Larsen is that his story matters much less than the devastation of Oslo. The backchannel wasn’t a triumph of peace, but a dirty leftist political trick that wrecked Israel’s security, touched off decades of intense violence in the region, and cost thousands of lives.

Oslo is another one of the same stories that the elite tell each other. Larsen and Sher got to know each other because their daughters attended the same Manhattan private school. Larsen and J.T. Rogers, the playwright, then met up at an “Upper West Side haunt” for drinks. Oslo did well on Broadway by way of being touted by the New York Times, and will be an HBO movie.

There is one giant hole in Oslo’s story about the power of Norwegian diplomats who send their kids to Manhattan private schools to make peace. There wasn’t and isn’t any actual peace.

The only meaningful peace accords in the region that led to normalization weren’t made by Larsen, Clinton, Peres, and Rabin, but by Trump, Netanyahu, and conservative leaders. Oslo is nostalgic peace porn from the elites who failed miserably, though not at getting rich or getting a lot of people killed, calculated to obscure the real world triumphs of Trump and Netanyahu.

Jeffrey Epstein thrived in these same elitist circles and was plugged into the same networks. When Larsen, previously earning around half a million a year as head of the IPI, needed $130,000, he was there to lend it to him. And provide cash and connections for countless members of the elite, trading favors, offering introductions, and palling around with everyone.

Oslo isn’t about Israel or Islamic terrorism. Like everything the decadent cultural industry of our country makes, it’s about that incestuous world whose key players all send their kids to the same private schools, hang out at the same bars, and agree on the same basic things. They’re also very good at not seeing things like abused teenage girls or thousands of dead people.

If Bartlett Sher wanted to make a truly relevant and groundbreaking play, he would tell the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s network and of the girls he abused, some of them the same age as his daughter. But that play, unlike his theatrical smears of American foreign policy in Afghanistan and the Middle East, would never be put on, and would be quickly sunk by the New York Times.

And Spielberg, and the rest of the gang, along with HBO, wouldn’t turn it into a movie.

The real life players and their fictional counterparts in this world give each other awards and good reviews. They write about the world, but the only world they know is their own, and despite the dictum of writing what you know, they have little interest in writing about the horrors in their own world, when they can write about how their friends brought peace to the Middle East.

Oslo unintentionally explains why the professional peacemakers failed so miserably. It wasn’t only Jeffrey Epstein’s abused girls they couldn’t see, but the limits of their own corrupt hubris. They promise to solve the problems of the people who aren’t as famous and connected as they are, but fail horribly every single time, only to spin those failures as historic successes.

And if the New York Times says so, it must be true.

The true story of Oslo is a tale of corruption, death, and bloodshed. It’s about the price that ordinary people paid when the elites got their way. It’s about Jewish senior citizens murdered while celebrating Passover, schoolgirls blown up on buses, and children shot in the head. It’s a million miles away from the world of Off-Broadway plays and Manhattan private schools, skyscraper boardrooms and Brentwood mansions that spawned Oslo’s revisionist history.

The violence unleashed by Oslo’s empowered terrorists in Israel fell heaviest on working class people riding the bus to their jobs or commuting to cheaper homes in Judea and Samaria.

While Oslo films in Prague, the terrorism continues in Israel. And Jeffrey Epstein’s old associates look forward to being able to watch Oslo’s message that the elites know best while paying no attention to the terrorism, to Larsen’s scandals, or to their own corruption.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Donald Trump Announces Plan for ‘Smooth Transition of Power’ to Joe Biden

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President Donald Trump condemned supporters who stormed Capitol Hill in stronger terms on Thursday, calling for renewed bonds of patriotism during the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden.

“This moment calls for healing and reconciliation,” Trump said. “2020 has been a challenging time for our people.”

The president addressed the nation in a video posted to Twitter after the platform lifted the suspension of his account. Twitter suspended his account Wednesday after he appeared to defend the actions of the rioters in the Capitol building.

But the president changed his tone, returning to his campaign theme of law and order.

“The demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy,” Trump said. “To those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country, and to those who broke the law, you will pay.”

Trump said that he was “outraged” by the lawlessness he witnessed, and he deployed the national guard “immediately” to help defend the building, despite reporting that he first resisted the idea.

“America is and must always be a nation of law and order,” Trump said, adding that although “emotions are high” after the election, “tempers must be cooled.”

The president recalled that he pursued every legal avenue to contest the election, defending his efforts as a way to defend American democracy and the integrity of the vote. He said he would turn his focus toward a smooth transition of power to the next administration.

Trump called for renewed civic values to help restore the country at a time of transition.

“We must revitalize the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family,” he said.

Trump said that serving his country as the president was the “honor of my lifetime” and thanked his supporters.

“To all of my wonderful supporters, I know that you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning,” he concluded.

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