Delaware Chancery Court Judge Sam Glasscock III has declined to block the March 22 shareholder vote on a merger involving Trump Media & Technology Group, which might result in a $4 billion gain for President Trump.
This court decision came despite protests from Trump Media co-founders Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss, who claim that the merger will reduce Trump’s 8.6% ownership in the firm. Litinsky and Moss were previous competitors on Trump’s TV show The Apprentice, and they eventually collaborated with him to build Trump Media.
Glasscock declined to schedule a hearing on the challenged merger before the March 22 vote. He stated on a Zoom call that if Trump agrees to place the extra shares in an escrow account during the dispute, “maybe the whole thing will go away.”
Officials at Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank-check corporation that will handle the vote, have already agreed to put the disputed stock in escrow in response to a separate complaint brought by Patrick Orlando’s ARC Global Investments II, Bloomberg reported.
ARC opposed the suggested conversion rate for its founder’s interest, arguing for a larger share in the merged entity. Orlando, Digital World’s former CEO, filed the case.
Lori Will, the Chancery judge hearing the case, recently refused a plea to accelerate the proceedings, citing the escrow agreement.
The business development comes in the aftermath of an unprecedented New York civil case that hammered the former president with $350 million in damages.
Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in February that Donald Trump must pay the massive sum and barred Trump “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.”
Trump enterprise Truth Social faces considerable obstacles, but it has a promising future if it “goes public.” The platform was once valued at over $700 million in 2022 and has since dropped in value to less than $100 million.
If that happens, Trump’s stake in Truth Social may increase to an impressive $4 billion.
CNN earlier reported on the potential windfall for Donald Trump from the media merger.
Most Americans agree that our elections should be free of foreign influence. Apparently, some Democrats feel differently.
This week, the Ohio Senate passed a landmark bill by Sens. Theresa Gavarone and Rob McColley to ban foreign influence in critically important ballot measure campaigns. The issue couldn’t be simpler. As McColley put it, “Are we against foreign money in elections or not?”
Democrats in the Ohio Senate answered unanimously: they are not.
No issue should be more bipartisan than protecting elections from corrupting foreign influence. Polling shows the public overwhelmingly opposes foreign nationals playing a role in American politics.
So why is the left defending foreign influence in elections? Because they are benefiting from a half-billion dollars in foreign funds from billionaire activist Hansjorg Wyss.
Wyss is one of America’s biggest political donors, even though he is not a citizen. According to a biography written by his own sister, Wyss aims to “[re]interpret the American Constitution in the light of progressive politics.” He is putting his money where his mouth is. As the watchdog group Americans for Public Trust exposed, Wyss exploits a complex web of left-wing “dark money” groups to inject nearly $500 million into left-wing causes, all while helping to conceal the foreign source of the funding.
A single group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, has received $243million. Part of the Arabella Advisors’ dark money network, Sixteen Thirty is a powerhouse of left-wing political spending.
NBC News reported that Sixteen Thirty spent nearly $200 million in 2022 alone “helping Democrats” win elections and “backing state ballot measures.”
Ballot issues are a major focus for the left. Initiatives are supposed to be a chance for citizens to directly check the power of government. But the left has focused on weaponizing them, reducing “citizen-initiated” ballot measures into a tool for left-wing activism — and a backdoor for foreign election influence.
Federal law, and the laws in most states, bar foreign contributions to candidates. But most states do not apply the same safeguards to ballot measure campaigns. That creates a huge loophole, one which foreign-funded groups like Sixteen Thirty are more than willing to exploit.
Since 2017, Sixteen Thirty has spent almost $80 million to influence 33 ballot measures in 18 states. Though it has spent on everything from abortion to Medicaid expansion, Sixteen Thirty has concentrated most of its largest contributions on voting measures. According to figures compiled by Ballotpedia, the group spent $3.5 million fighting voter ID in North Carolina, nearly $4 million to give Florida felons the right to vote, and over $6 million to bring error-prone automatic voter registration to Nevada.
In Michigan, Sixteen Thirty spent $6 million to take redistricting powers away from the Republican-controlled legislature, then followed up with over $11 million to enshrine a left-wing rewrite of Michigan’s voting laws in the state’s constitution — a one-two punch that helped turn the state blue.
Now, the foreign-funded left has its sights fixed on Ohio. Sixteen Thirty poured over $10 million into ballot measures last year, and is already one of the largest donors to a Michigan-style “independent” redistricting measure headed for the ballot this November.
Left-wing election lawyer Marc Elias, who has represented Wyss, is suing in the Ohio Supreme Court to advance another measure rewriting the Buckeye State’s voting laws. That initiative is so extreme that it even re-opens the door to non-citizen voting, something Ohioans just voted to ban.
Issues this important should be free of any trace of foreign influence. It’s already illegal for foreign nationals to donate to candidates. Ohio’s SB 215 simply applies that same protection to ballot measure campaigns. It is hard to imagine a more bipartisan issue.
But with this week’s vote in the Ohio Senate, Democrats are signaling they are perfectly willing to let the foreign influence flow, so long as it helps them. For a party that has railed against foreign election interference, the hypocrisy is astounding — but hardly surprising.
After all, the left is perfectly comfortable with “Zuck Bucks” schemes that pump private funding and left-wing politics into election offices.
The Biden administration is preparing to use tax dollars to finance a get-out-the-vote operation that is partisan in all but name. And liberal groups like the Sixteen Thirty Fund are happy to spend a quarter-billion dollars in foreign money to influence American politics.
For the left, it’s winning uber alles.
Voters deserve elections they can trust, and that begins by protecting them from foreign influence. Ohio is showing us how to protect ballot measure campaigns from corrupting foreign influence.
Every state should follow suit.
This article was written by Jason Snead, the Executive Director of Honest Elections Project, for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Javier Milei, Argentina’s newly elected libertarian and self-described “anarcho-capitalist” president, is embracing sweeping reforms to save the country’s struggling economy, even in the face of overwhelming obstacles.
Despite challenges arising from lawmaker opposition and a soaring inflation rate that has plagued the country for years, Milei’s “shock” adjustment actions have improved market and investor confidence both among the Argentinian population and abroad. Milei inherited a 140% inflation rate, an impoverished population and hundreds of billions in debt when he took office in December.
Milei acknowledged on the day of his inauguration that Argentina’s economy would temporarily get worse while he embraced “shock” adjustments to start making fixes.
“They have ruined our lives … There is no money!” Milei said during his inauguration speech. “Therefore, the conclusion is that there is no alternative to adjustment and no alternative to shock … this is the last straw to begin the reconstruction of Argentina.”
One of Milei’s first actions as president was to slash Argentina’s bureaucratic ministry from 18 to nine in a bid to reduce government spending, fulfilling a promise he made on the campaign trail, according to Reuters. Milei and his supporters saw several of the agencies as ineffectual and bloated with cash, including the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works, Tourism and Sports and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, which were absorbed by other existing ministries, according to the CATO Institute.
Milei also allowed the value of the peso currency to plummet by 50% in December to reduce export costs while also increasing the import costs, according to The Associated Press. The goal is to close the trade gap, making Argentina a bigger global trade competitor and stem the flow of money leaving the country, which would increase the stockpile of its exhausted foreign currency reserves.
The eventual plan for Milei is to replace the peso currency entirely with the U.S. dollar, another promise he made on the campaign trail, according to NPR. The U.S. dollar is prized in Argentina because it is generally stable and holds its value longer than the peso.
Temporary tax hikes were imposed by Milei’s administration to reduce the national debt and start balancing the budget according to the AP. Argentina’s budget deficit currently sits at 3%, and Milei has promised to balance it this year, according to Reuters.
Milei sent an omnibus reform bill to Congress in December that would privatize state-owned companies and raise export taxes, and remove limits on bonds issued overseas and on debt restructure rules, according to Reuters. He also issued a separate presidential decree in December to deregulate Argentina’s economy.
These actions are already having positive impacts. Argentina’s monthly inflation slowed down to 15.3% in February, much lower than the spike in December, according to Reuter’s forecast. The country also saw a monthly budget surplus in January for the first time in over a decade.
“The Milei administration has inherited a steep stabilization task, but has already taken some important steps toward restoring fiscal sustainability, adjusting the exchange rate, and combating inflation,” U.S. Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen said during a press conference in late February.
Argentinian citizens have deposited over $2.3 billion in dollar-denomination banks since Milei took office, restoring the entirety of the banks’ losses from the last year and signaling that the population feels stability, as withdrawals typically increase during unsteady times, according to Bloomberg. Argentina’s bonds are at four-year highs and the country’s risk index has fallen to a two-year low, according to Reuters.
“The market is becoming very optimistic about Javier Milei’s conviction,” Javier Casabal, a Buenos Aires-based fixed-income strategist at Adcap Grupo Financiero, told Reuters. “It’s a real shift worth celebrating, given that most investors did not have confidence in his ability to reduce the deficit just a few weeks ago. If anything, perhaps he’s going overboard in some ways.”
Milei still faces several roadblocks. Inflation is still at record highs and poverty continues to consume much of the Argentinian population. Major provisions in Milei’s reform bill were blocked in early February by the country’s Congress, which he has referred to as a “nest of rats,” according to Reuters
Milei vowed to Congress during a speech on March 1 that he would “speed up” his reform plans, encouraging them to join his efforts but warning that he did not need them to accomplish his goals, according to Reuters.
“We won’t back down, we’re going to keep pushing forward,” Milei said. “Whether that’s by law, presidential decree or by modifying regulations.”
Milei’s government is now considering breaking up the reform bill and passing provisions separately through Congress, according to Reuters. He is requesting lawmakers to agree to a 10-point social pact, which would include negotiations in discussions on economic reform, by May 25.
President Joe Biden apologized for referring to Laken Riley’s alleged killer an “illegal” at his State of the Union Address on Thursday night.
The Coward-in-Chief sat down with NBC’s Jonathan Capehart to set the record straight, which undoubtedly came after he was berated by his handlers about his politically incorrect choice of language.
“During your response to her [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene] heckling of you, you used the word ‘illegal’ when talking about the man who allegedly killed Laken Riley,” Capehart said, apparently setting Joe Biden up to set the record straight, attack his political opponent Donald Trump, and defend his disastrous border policies.
“Undocumented person,” Biden said, as if there are no such thing as immigration laws and the only thing a person needs to become a legal migrant is a “document.”
“And I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It is undocumented,” he said.
Biden’s rhetorical reversal came after the radical “Squad” led a campaign to compel him to take back the language.
No human being is illegal.
Just like we should not be implementing Republican policy, we should not be repeating Republican rhetoric.
“No human being is illegal,” Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) claimed. “Just like we should not be implementing Republican policy, we should not be repeating Republican rhetoric.”
“Let me be clear: No human being is illegal,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI) echoed.
The Biden administration has tried various rebranding of terms for “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant” as a justification for ignoring border enforcement and immigration law, including “migrant,” “undocumented person,” and “noncitizen.”
Podcaster Jesse Kelly noted the left’s deceptive use of language is intentionally designed to justify illegal or immoral policies.
The Left’s response to Biden calling an illegal “illegal” is proof why nobody on the Right should ever use the word “migrant”.
They rely on specific language because they rely on lies.
“The Left’s response to Biden calling an illegal ‘illegal’ is proof why nobody on the Right should ever use the word ‘migrant’,” he said. “They rely on specific language because they rely on lies. So never, ever, ever use their words. Ever.”
Biden then goes on to pretend that he doesn’t use dehumanizing language against his political opponents, which is patently false.
“I’m not gonna treat any of these people with disrespect. They built this country,” he dishonestly added, conflating legal migrants with illegal migrants.
Attorney Viva Frei put Joe Biden’s cowardly reversal of his language in perspective.
Imagine how Laken Riley‘s parents must feel watching that demented old demon apologize for calling the illegal immigrant accused of killing their daughter an “illegal”.
“Imagine how Laken Riley‘s parents must feel watching that demented old demon apologize for calling the illegal immigrant accused of killing their daughter an ‘illegal’. It is intentional insult to injury. It is utterly inhumane,” Frei remarked.
Joe Biden not only failed to say Laken Riley’s name at the State of the Union address, but he also appeared to minimize the significance of her unfortunate death.
Here's Why Biden's Now-Infamous "Say Her Name" Response May Be Worse Than People Think
"Lincoln, Lincoln Riley. An innocent woman who was killed by an illegal. That's right. But how many of the thousands of people being killed by LEGALS (?)."
“Lincoln… Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal,” he went on. “That’s right! But how many of thousands of people being killed by legals (?) to where parents… I say my heart goes out to you, having lost children myself. I understand.”
Joe Biden has the authority as commander-in-chief to shut down the border without an act of Congress. His administration has issued dozens of executive actions that have made it easier for illegal immigrants to make it into the country.
There have been between seven and ten million illegal migrants who have come into the country on Biden’s watch. One of them killed Laken Hope Riley.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams explained the circumstances of her suspected murderer’s presence in the United States before he allegedly bludgeoned Riley to death.
“Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old citizen of Venezuela, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 8, 2022, after unlawfully entering the United States near El Paso, Texas. He was paroled and released for further processing,” Williams said.
“On Aug. 31, 2023, Ibarra was arrested by the New York Police Department and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation,” Williams added. “He was released by the NYPD before a detainer could be issued.”
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would deport illegal migrants in the U.S. who have committed certain crimes. The legislation was named in memory of the once-promising and luminating student. 170 Democrats voted against the bill.
Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, the bill’s sponsor, who represents the district where Riley died, said that he believes it should pass the senate.
“It should pass the Senate,” he said. “That doesn’t mean it will or it would, but it should. This is common sense legislation. This is good legislation, and this can help our local law enforcement, so I would hope that the Senate would look at it from that standpoint.”
“There’s nothing wrong with this bill,” he continued. “There’s nothing I could see that they could point at and say ‘That’s wrong,’ with this bill. And if we can pass this, we should pass it. It’s got a good chance of helping save a life.”
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia also weighed in on the legislation.
“Her murderer was arrested in New York City weeks before and was released. Why shouldn’t he have been deported at that moment, by committing a crime?” he asked.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, is seeking justice for Laken Riley and comforted her parents at his Georgia rally on Saturday night. Biden not only failed to meet with her grieving parents, but he cannot even say the name of the woman who was killed by his border crisis.
One of America’s last two presidents knows how to act humanely. The other is Joe Biden.
At his State of the Union address, Joe Biden tried — and failed — to ‘say her name.’ He botched Laken Riley’s name, twice, by calling her “Lincoln Riley” (a college football coach, by the way) and then downplayed the significance of her death. He even apologized for calling the inhumane animal who bashed in Riley’s head while she was jogging near the University of Georgia an “illegal.”
Tonight, former President Donald Trump not only said Laken Riley’s name correctly, but he gave Joe Biden a lesson on how to be humane towards a grieving family. Trump demanded justice for the 22-year-old nursing student, who was slain by a Venezuelan migrant named Jose Ibarra whom the Biden administration refused to deport.
Trump delivered a strong statement on behalf of Laken Riley in front of a Rome, Georgia campaign rally and with Riley’s parents in attendance.
“Laken Riley would be alive today if Joe Biden had not willfully and maliciously eviscerated the borders of the United States and set loose thousands and thousands of dangerous criminals into our country,” Trump said.
“To her family tonight, I promise you, I will demand justice for Laken,” he said as the crowd applauded. “Justice for Laken,” he emphatically repeated.
Donald Trump also comforted Laken Riley’s family.
Tonight Donald Trump met with Laken Riley’s family and consoled them.
Also tonight, Joe Biden went on TV and apologized for calling the man who did it an illegal.
“Tonight Donald Trump met with Laken Riley’s family and consoled them,” Travis from Flint noted. “Also tonight, Joe Biden went on TV and apologized for calling the man who did it an illegal. How can anyone vote for Biden at this point?”
The political commentator, of course, is remarking on Joe Biden’s about-face on using the term “illegal,” which is a term referring to a migrant who has illegally entered the United States without permission.
Now Biden says illegals built our country and that he won’t disrespect the illegal who killed Laken Riley by calling him any names, says he should have said that he was undocumented instead of illegal.
“Undocumented person,” Biden said, as if there are no such thing as immigration laws and the only thing a person needs to become a legal migrant is a “document.”
“And I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It is undocumented,” he said.
Biden’s rhetorical reversal came after the radical “Squad” led a campaign to compel him to take back the language.
No human being is illegal.
Just like we should not be implementing Republican policy, we should not be repeating Republican rhetoric.
“No human being is illegal,” Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) claimed. “Just like we should not be implementing Republican policy, we should not be repeating Republican rhetoric.”
“Let me be clear: No human being is illegal,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI) echoed.
The Biden administration has tried various rebranding of terms for “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant” as a justification for ignoring border enforcement and immigration law, including “migrant,” “undocumented person,” and “noncitizen.”
Podcaster Jesse Kelly noted the left’s deceptive use of language is intentionally designed to justify illegal or immoral policies.
The Left’s response to Biden calling an illegal “illegal” is proof why nobody on the Right should ever use the word “migrant”.
They rely on specific language because they rely on lies.
“The Left’s response to Biden calling an illegal ‘illegal’ is proof why nobody on the Right should ever use the word ‘migrant’,” he said. “They rely on specific language because they rely on lies. So never, ever, ever use their words. Ever.”
Biden then goes on to pretend that he doesn’t use dehumanizing language against his political opponents, which is patently false.
“I’m not gonna treat any of these people with disrespect. They built this country,” he dishonestly added, conflating legal migrants with illegal migrants.
Attorney Viva Frei put Joe Biden’s cowardly reversal of his language in perspective.
Imagine how Laken Riley‘s parents must feel watching that demented old demon apologize for calling the illegal immigrant accused of killing their daughter an “illegal”.
“Imagine how Laken Riley‘s parents must feel watching that demented old demon apologize for calling the illegal immigrant accused of killing their daughter an ‘illegal’. It is intentional insult to injury. It is utterly inhumane,” Frei remarked.
Joe Biden not only failed to say Laken Riley’s name at the State of the Union address, but he also appeared to minimize the significance of her unfortunate death.
Here's Why Biden's Now-Infamous "Say Her Name" Response May Be Worse Than People Think
"Lincoln, Lincoln Riley. An innocent woman who was killed by an illegal. That's right. But how many of the thousands of people being killed by LEGALS (?)."
“Lincoln… Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal,” he went on. “That’s right! But how many of thousands of people being killed by legals (?) to where parents… I say my heart goes out to you, having lost children myself. I understand.”
Joe Biden has the authority as commander-in-chief to shut down the border without an act of Congress. His administration has issued dozens of executive actions that have made it easier for illegal immigrants to make it into the country.
There have been between seven and ten million illegal migrants who have come into the country on Biden’s watch. One of them killed Laken Hope Riley.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams explained the circumstances of her suspected murderer’s presence in the United States before he allegedly bludgeoned Riley to death.
“Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old citizen of Venezuela, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 8, 2022, after unlawfully entering the United States near El Paso, Texas. He was paroled and released for further processing,” Williams said.
“On Aug. 31, 2023, Ibarra was arrested by the New York Police Department and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation,” Williams added. “He was released by the NYPD before a detainer could be issued.”
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would deport illegal migrants in the U.S. who have committed certain crimes. The legislation was named in memory of the once-promising and luminating student. 170 Democrats voted against the bill.
Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, the bill’s sponsor, who represents the district where Riley died, said that he believes it should pass the senate.
“It should pass the Senate,” he said. “That doesn’t mean it will or it would, but it should. This is common sense legislation. This is good legislation, and this can help our local law enforcement, so I would hope that the Senate would look at it from that standpoint.”
“There’s nothing wrong with this bill,” he continued. “There’s nothing I could see that they could point at and say ‘That’s wrong,’ with this bill. And if we can pass this, we should pass it. It’s got a good chance of helping save a life.”
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia also weighed in on the legislation.
“Her murderer was arrested in New York City weeks before and was released. Why shouldn’t he have been deported at that moment, by committing a crime?” he asked.
Donald Trump is seeking justice for Laken Riley and is comforting her parents. Biden not only failed to meet with her grieving parents, but he cannot even say the name of the woman who was killed by his border crisis.
Legislation pushed by Senate Republicans to exclude non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, from being tallied on the census for the purposes of apportionment for House seats and the Electoral College was defeated late Friday after failing to get support from a single Democrat.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) proposed an amendment to the $460 billion spending package that would require the Census Bureau to include a citizenship question in any future census and then bar anyone who is not a US citizen from being counted for congressional district and Electoral College apportionment.
While the plan would also exclude legal immigrants on temporary visas and green cards from the census, the move is specifically intended to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted amid millions of new entries into the United States under the Biden regime.
The law would be comparable to a Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Democrats and left-wing immigration organizations slammed Trump’s move, claiming that a citizenship issue was illegal and intended to benefit Republicans in future elections.
The Heritage Foundation’s Lora Ries and the President of the National Immigration Center For Enforcement R.J. Hauman co-wrote an essay warning that illegal immigration is causing “warped representation” in Congress.
“Barring the Census from including non-citizens in apportionment is critical in making sure that American citizens — the only population who can and should vote in U.S. elections — are picking America’s leaders,” Ries and Hauman wrote, warning that the crisis is “distorting the representation that states have in the House, and how many electoral votes they have in presidential elections.”
However, Hagerty’s proposal failed because 51 Democrats and Independents voted against it or were absent. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a Republican, also voted against the plan. All other Republicans either supported the bill or were not present. The result was 51 to 45 against.
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, reacted to the legislative defeat.
Most Americans do not know that the US census currently counts, for purposes of voting power, all people in a district, regardless of citizenship!
Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to defeat an amendment that would have stopped counting illegals for congressional seat… https://t.co/5gXt4Z1wzP
“Most Americans do not know that the US census currently counts, for purposes of voting power, all people in a district, regardless of citizenship!” he wrote. “Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to defeat an amendment that would have stopped counting illegals for congressional seat apportionment and electoral college (presidential) votes.”
“Since illegals are mostly in Democrat states, both the House and the Presidential vote are shifted ~5% to the left, which is enough to change the entire balance of power!” he added. “This is a major reason why the Biden administration is ushering in record levels of illegals and doing so few deportations.”
Stacy Washington, a political commentator, added more context.
Democrats would not have the border open without the SCOTUS decision requiring non citizens to be counted in the CENSUS.
These illegals cannot legally vote. But they can increase the number of seats in the House of Representatives, ensuring Democrats have control of the House.
“Democrats would not have the border open without the SCOTUS decision requiring non citizens to be counted in the CENSUS,” she noted. “These illegals cannot legally vote. But they can increase the number of seats in the House of Representatives, ensuring Democrats have control of the House.”
Another commentator, @DogRightGirl, also noted the implications of the vote.
“Democrat Senators just admitted they use illegals (in census) to gain Congressional seats,” she said. “All Dems voted against Sen. Bill Hagerty’s amendment to stop illegal aliens from being counted in apportionment for congressional districts and the Electoral College.”
Vice President and would-be presidential successor Kamala Harris (perish the thought), had an unusual moment of clarity during an interview with NBC Nightly News.
Harris was asked about the lack of bipartisanship in Congress before the NBC correspondent (apparently forgetting his Schoolhouse Rock fundamentals about how a bill becomes law) pressed her — why doesn’t the White House just issue executive orders?
“The American people deserve leadership that’s about fixing problems, and that’s why he’s going to lose in November,” Harris replied without missing a beat.
“We have a lot of work to be done, but let us not negate the role and responsibility of leaders in Congress,” she added.
NBC News last month sounded the alarm about the “biggest lead” former President Donald Trump has ever had over President Joe Biden, according to election analyst Steve Kornacki.
NBC’s Kristen Welker walked through the results of a NBC News Survey conducted by Hart Research Associates/Public Opinion Strategies.
“These are some truly stunning numbers,” Welker said.
“They really are. Kristen,” Kondracki said. “Let’s just start with the bottom line. When you ask folks, ‘Hey, if it’s the general election and it’s Trump versus Biden,’ our poll, Donald Trump now leads Joe Biden by five points. Compare that to the last time we polled back in November. Trump was ahead then, but it was only by two points.”
“It’s even more significant when you look at it this way over time,” he continued. “We have been testing for five years now, going back to 2019, a Biden Trump matchup. Remember 2019, 2020, Joe Biden led. He led big in every single one of our polls. For the first time in November, Donald Trump polled ahead in our poll, and now at five points.”
“This is the biggest lead NBC has ever had in 16 polls for Donald Trump over Joe Biden,” he went on. “And of course undergirding. All of this is this question of he’s the incumbent, Joe Biden. We ask voters, what do you think of the job he’s doing? And look at that, Kristen, 37% approve and now 60% disapprove.”
It has only gotten worse for Biden since then. In late February, Bloomberg reported that Biden is trailing Trump by an average of five points in seven swing states: North Carolina (9), Arizona (6), Georgia (6), Nevada (6), Pennsylvania (6), Wisconsin (4) and Michigan (2), the Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll found.
Another problem for Biden is that Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to take more votes away from Joe Biden than Donald Trump in a 2024 race, and he was just accepted on the ballots in Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia.
These are three crucial swing states that Joe Biden has to win, and could only “win” in 2020 despite mass mail-in ballots, Zuckerberg boxes, and a host of voting anomalies.
So, unless Joe Biden rolls out the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Kamala Harris will undoubtedly be proven right.
Here is 2 hours, 23 minutes and 9 seconds of Joe Biden blunders that show why Americans should never consider re-electing him as Presidentpic.twitter.com/3EDG3zrol0
New York’s partisan Attorney General Letitia James was loudly booed at a ceremony for the New York Fire Department on Thursday.
While speaking at the event, James is heard praising FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, right before a large number of individuals in the audience begin shouting former President Trump’s name.
When James began her lecture, several in the audience booed, leading her to reply, “Come on, we’re in a house of God…simmer down.”
FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens said in a statement, “Today’s ceremony was about one thing: the accomplishments of the members being promoted. The members whose behavior distracted from that celebration were an embarrassment and not befitting of the world’s best fire department.”
But the NY Fire Department is taking it one step further: Those firefighters who booed Letitia James, who has led an open crusade to see Donald Trump “locked up” by any means possible, will be ‘re-educated.’
“After NY Firefighters exercised their 1st Amdt right to protest corrupt city leaders, a letter was sent saying anyone who booed Letitia James will be sent to HQ for re-‘education’,” Rogan O’Handley, known on X as D.C. Draino, reported while providing the letter.
“NYC has become a Marxist hellhole where politics are prosecuted & anyone objecting gets in trouble,” he added.
“NYC is run by communists. This is bullsh*t,” popular conservative commentator Catturd reacted on X.
The letter is provided below.
It states among other things, it lays out the “next steps.”
Have DC visit each firehouse that had a member promoted
Relay bullet point message
They should understand that BITS is gathering video and identifying members that brought discredit to the Department
We want the members to come forward. They will come to HQ to be educated why their behavior is unacceptable
There is not a word in the memo about Attorney General Letitia James’ partisan mission to abuse her law enforcement office to carry out political vendettas against the Democratic Party’s enemies, like former President Donald Trump.
I got kicked off Twitter for 2 years for saying Joe Biden didn’t get 81 million votes
Letitia James campaigned on the premise that Trump was illegitimate & she would stop him, and now that her frivolous case is falling apart she pretends she’s impartial pic.twitter.com/CeWBglQRJy
It’s interesting how partisanship only runs one direction. If you boo Donald Trump, nobody cares. If you boo a Democrat, you get sent to Woke re-education camp — if not canceled outright by intolerant left-wing bureaucrats.
The death of Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, continues to haunt American headlines.
There are numerous questions about the timing and circumstances of Angela Chao’s death, which was first reported in the American media in early February as an “unfortunate accident” at an Austin, Texas area ranch whose ownership can be traced to a company with ties to her billionaire capitol investor husband Jim Breyer.
Chao’s “unfortunate accident” occurred when her husband Jim Breyer was in the United Arab Emirates for an event calling itself the “World Government Summit.”
Angela Chao’s death was also referenced by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as one trigger for his surprise announcement to retire from politics.
As reported by the New York Post on that seismic event in Senate politics, “McConnell cited the recent death of his wife’s youngest sister as a moment that prompted introspection.”
But Angela Chao’s death itself came amidst a number of changes in the relationship between the Chao family of shipping tycoons and China. In an interesting wrinkle to the story, Breyer in January had announced that his firm Breyer Capital was suspending investments in China for 18 months. In early February, IDG Capital, a venture firm with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong that is co-chaired by Jim Breyer, had to fend off the Pentagon’s accusations that it is assisting the Chinese military.
According to U.S. media details that eventually arose (foreign reports surfacing earlier had oddly described her death as a result of an intoxicated trucker running a red light and killing her in an accident), Chao had backed her Tesla into a pond and drowned.
There are perceived issues over this story: Teslas do not roll backwards like gas-powered vehicles that are put into “neutral.” Some also believe it is possible that Chao’s Tesla may have been “hacked” (like in the movie “Leave the World Behind.”)
The official response fueled speculation due to the mixed messages it sent.
“This incident was not a typical accident,” the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton following Chao’s death.
“Although the preliminary investigation indicated this was an unfortunate accident, the Sheriff’s Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity,” the letter said.
It was an “unfortunate accident,” but not a “typical accident”; and thus, a criminal investigation was opened.
Now, there may be some clarity over the circumstances of Chao’s death. The New York Post is reporting that Chao had made a 911 call during the eventually fatal incident.
Angela Chao, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law, spent her last minutes alive frantically calling her friends for help as her Tesla slowly sank in a pond on a remote Texas ranch, according to a report.
Chao, the billionaire former CEO of dry bulk shipping giant Foremost Group, tragically died at the age of 50 on Feb. 10 after accidentally backing her car into the pond while making a three-point turn.
The driving mishap was detailed in a report by The Wall Street Journal that shed light on the chaotic rescue efforts that ultimately came up short, turning what was supposed to be a celebratory weekend with friends into a nightmare.
The Wall Street Journal conducted several interviews in order to piece together what allegedly happened on the night Chao died.
The night was chilly and very dark, with no moon, so rather than walk, Chao got in her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute trip back to the house. […]
Within minutes of saying her goodbyes, she called one of her friends in a panic. While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond. It was sinking fast…
Over the next several hours, her friends, then the ranch manager and his wife, and then paramedics, and firefighters and sheriff’s deputies rushed around and tried to break the windows, find an escape hatch or any way to get Chao out of the car.
The WSJ piece goes on to explain why Chao may have had a difficult time escaping. A motorist has approximately one minute to get out of a sinking automobile. When automobiles were built with more manual mechanics, a driver could crank down the window to get out, but this still required mental clarity, which is sometimes elusive in an emergency. In modern vehicles, such as the Tesla Model X, the driver may have seconds to press the button to pull down the window before the water level climbs too high. After that, the only way out is to shatter it, according to vehicle safety experts.
That is extremely tough underwater, and it becomes even more difficult when attempting to bash through tempered glass or stronger laminated glass, which is used by the majority of automobile manufacturers nowadays. According to company documents, Tesla could have utilized any of these two kinds of glass in its 2020 Model X. Laminated glass, in particular, is praised for its safety features, such as preventing a driver from being ejected after a collision; yet, the American Automobile Association’s testing found that it is very difficult to break while underwater.
The basic timeline of events leading up to Chao’s death, based on the WSJ investigation and additional reporting, is as follows.
On Friday night, after eating dinner and celebrating the Chinese New Year, Chao left the guesthouse about 11:30 p.m. to return to the main home, where her son slept. Due to the frigid weather, she chose to drive her Tesla Model X SUV instead of walking the four-minute distance.
However, within minutes, she contacted one of her pals in a panic. She explained that when performing a K-turn, she put the car in reverse rather than drive. While traveling rearward, the automobile slid over an embankment and into a pond, sinking quickly.
Her friends rushed to her aid, and one lady dove into the water, according to the Journal. The ranch manager and his wife went outside after hearing the disturbance, and someone else in addition to Chao called 911.
Blanco County emergency units arrived at 12:28 a.m., a full 24 minutes after receiving the call, according to an incident record acquired by the Post. Because of the difficult terrain, some responders exited their vehicles and walked to the site.
One respondent characterized the Tesla as fully submerged. During the rescue operations, sheriff’s deputies stood on top of it, attempting to break through a window.
According to the event report, a dive crew was required, but none was available. A tow truck arrived to remove the automobile out of the pond, but it lacked the necessary cable to reach the vehicle, which was considerably further out in the pond than rescuers had expected.
A longer cable was ultimately found. According to a witness at the scene, at least one tow truck driver was concerned about getting electrocuted by the electric car. Around 12:56 a.m., a two-man rescue crew extracted Chao from the automobile, according to authorities. When the car’s doors were opened, hundreds of gallons of water poured out.
Chao was unconscious, and EMS personnel attempted to revive her for 43 minutes without success, authorities said.
Angela Chao was much more than the daughter of a Chinese shipping tycoon who became the CEO of Foremost Group. She was a member of the board of the Bank of China and a vice chair of the Council of China’s Foreign Trade. She was also a director of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, a Chinese government-owned enterprise that makes ships for the Chinese military and Foremost Group. She was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Her sister is Elaine Chao, the wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and herself a former labor and transportation secretary. An inspector general report in 2021 accused Elaine Chao of abusing her influence while in office to help her family’s shipping business.
The Transportation Department’s inspector general delivered a 44-page report that laid out how Chao exploited her office personnel for a dozen personal duties and work connected to promoting the business development of the Foremost Group.
Despite the fact that the inspector general forwarded complaints of Chao’s alleged abuses to the Justice Department’s U.S. attorney’s office and Public Integrity Section in December, the Justice Department declined to conduct an investigation, claiming a lack of proof of criminal misconduct.
According to the report, Chao instructed her staff in departmental emails to include her father, sister, and brother-in-law in official events and high-level meetings planned for a departmental travel to China.
As reported by the New York Times, Chao had abused her office to boost the family’s shipping firm in China, where the government manages a bank with loan guarantees from the company worth “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
The Times report said Foremost Group’s “fleet is overwhelmingly focused on China.”
According to the report, in addition to the shipping firm, Chao’s family has other links to the Chinese Communist Party, including board seats in state-owned enterprises and a strong friendship between Chao’s father and former Chinese President and General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
A Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked Republicans’ efforts to stop President Joe Biden’s migrant parole program.
The Biden policy has allowed up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) to enter the United States each month and stay for up to two years, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Texas and 20 other Republican-led states sued the administration over the program, but U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton dismissed the case, stating that the plaintiffs failed to show how they were “injured” by the policy.
Over 541,000 migrants have been granted entrance into the United States through the parole procedure, the DCNF reported.
“Plaintiffs … are unable to demonstrate that they have been injured by the Program, and as a result, they lack standing to bring these claims,” Tipton wrote. “In reaching this conclusion, the Court does not address the lawfulness of the Program. The Court may only reach that question after a plaintiff has established that it has standing.”
The Biden administration has given parole to nearly 541,000 migrants seeking entrance into the United States, using internal government figures, court documents, and public reporting.
Republican states filed a lawsuit against the scheme in January 2023, claiming that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working “under the false pretense of preventing aliens from unlawfully crossing the border between the ports of entry.”
According to USCIS, parole is used to provide temporary entrance to migrants in need of humanitarian aid or who are assessed to be of “significant public benefit.”
“The number of CHNV nationals entering the United States since the Program’s implementation has dramatically decreased by as much as 44 percent,” according to the court’s order on Friday.
Joe Biden Apologizes for Calling Inhumane Monster Who Killed Laken Riley an “Illegal”
President Joe Biden apologized for referring to Laken Riley’s alleged killer an “illegal” at his State of the Union Address on Thursday night.
The Coward-in-Chief sat down with NBC’s Jonathan Capehart to set the record straight, which undoubtedly came after he was berated by his handlers about his politically incorrect choice of language.
“During your response to her [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene] heckling of you, you used the word ‘illegal’ when talking about the man who allegedly killed Laken Riley,” Capehart said, apparently setting Joe Biden up to set the record straight, attack his political opponent Donald Trump, and defend his disastrous border policies.
“Undocumented person,” Biden said, as if there are no such thing as immigration laws and the only thing a person needs to become a legal migrant is a “document.”
“And I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It is undocumented,” he said.
Biden’s rhetorical reversal came after the radical “Squad” led a campaign to compel him to take back the language.
“No human being is illegal,” Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) claimed. “Just like we should not be implementing Republican policy, we should not be repeating Republican rhetoric.”
“No human being is illegal,” Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) remarked.
“Let me be clear: No human being is illegal,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI) echoed.
The Biden administration has tried various rebranding of terms for “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant” as a justification for ignoring border enforcement and immigration law, including “migrant,” “undocumented person,” and “noncitizen.”
Podcaster Jesse Kelly noted the left’s deceptive use of language is intentionally designed to justify illegal or immoral policies.
“The Left’s response to Biden calling an illegal ‘illegal’ is proof why nobody on the Right should ever use the word ‘migrant’,” he said. “They rely on specific language because they rely on lies. So never, ever, ever use their words. Ever.”
Biden then goes on to pretend that he doesn’t use dehumanizing language against his political opponents, which is patently false.
“I’m not gonna treat any of these people with disrespect. They built this country,” he dishonestly added, conflating legal migrants with illegal migrants.
Attorney Viva Frei put Joe Biden’s cowardly reversal of his language in perspective.
“Imagine how Laken Riley‘s parents must feel watching that demented old demon apologize for calling the illegal immigrant accused of killing their daughter an ‘illegal’. It is intentional insult to injury. It is utterly inhumane,” Frei remarked.
Joe Biden not only failed to say Laken Riley’s name at the State of the Union address, but he also appeared to minimize the significance of her unfortunate death.
“Lincoln… Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal,” he went on. “That’s right! But how many of thousands of people being killed by legals (?) to where parents… I say my heart goes out to you, having lost children myself. I understand.”
Joe Biden has the authority as commander-in-chief to shut down the border without an act of Congress. His administration has issued dozens of executive actions that have made it easier for illegal immigrants to make it into the country.
There have been between seven and ten million illegal migrants who have come into the country on Biden’s watch. One of them killed Laken Hope Riley.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams explained the circumstances of her suspected murderer’s presence in the United States before he allegedly bludgeoned Riley to death.
“Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old citizen of Venezuela, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 8, 2022, after unlawfully entering the United States near El Paso, Texas. He was paroled and released for further processing,” Williams said.
“On Aug. 31, 2023, Ibarra was arrested by the New York Police Department and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation,” Williams added. “He was released by the NYPD before a detainer could be issued.”
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would deport illegal migrants in the U.S. who have committed certain crimes. The legislation was named in memory of the once-promising and luminating student. 170 Democrats voted against the bill.
Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, the bill’s sponsor, who represents the district where Riley died, said that he believes it should pass the senate.
“It should pass the Senate,” he said. “That doesn’t mean it will or it would, but it should. This is common sense legislation. This is good legislation, and this can help our local law enforcement, so I would hope that the Senate would look at it from that standpoint.”
“There’s nothing wrong with this bill,” he continued. “There’s nothing I could see that they could point at and say ‘That’s wrong,’ with this bill. And if we can pass this, we should pass it. It’s got a good chance of helping save a life.”
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia also weighed in on the legislation.
“Her murderer was arrested in New York City weeks before and was released. Why shouldn’t he have been deported at that moment, by committing a crime?” he asked.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, is seeking justice for Laken Riley and comforted her parents at his Georgia rally on Saturday night. Biden not only failed to meet with her grieving parents, but he cannot even say the name of the woman who was killed by his border crisis.
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