Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has initiated a state-led investigation into the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club, citing concerns over federal transparency and cooperation.
In an executive order issued under the directive of Executive Order 24-197, DeSantis tasked state law enforcement agencies with investigating the incident, bypassing federal authorities whom he accused of obstructing the state’s efforts to uncover the truth.
According to DeSantis, Florida investigators faced obstacles from the FBI when attempting to gain access to the scene of the crime, a move the governor called deeply concerning.
🚨 #BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis just told Fox News that the Feds are BLOCKING his investigators’ access at Trump’s golf course where the 2nd attempt on Trump’s life occurred
WHY?
Attempted m*rder is a STATE CRIME. How do the Feds have the right to block that investigation?
“I have directed state agencies to move expeditiously and to provide full transparency to the public,” DeSantis said, criticizing the federal authorities for allegedly rebuffing state investigators. “The FBI’s unwillingness to include Florida in this investigation raises serious concerns, particularly as there were numerous violations of Florida law.”
DeSantis’ decision to take on an independent investigation underscores his growing frustration with what he sees as a lack of openness from federal agencies.
He linked this incident to previous high-profile cases—such as the 2017 Las Vegas shooting—where he claimed that important details remained unresolved due to a lack of federal transparency.
FDLE Commissioner Mark Glass, who is leading the state investigation, expressed his determination to get answers for Floridians. “The people of Florida deserve answers, and we will not stop until we know the truth and how we can best prevent similar attacks in Florida,” Glass said.
Former President Donald Trump has announced his upcoming visits to Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado, two cities grappling with significant issues due to the influx of illegal migrants. During a rally in Uniondale, New York, Trump said, “I’m going to go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield, and I’m going to Aurora,” as reported by Just The News.
Springfield, Ohio, has made national headlines for its surge of illegal immigrants from Haiti, with some reports even suggesting that migrants have resorted to hunting local pets and wildlife for food.
The small town, which once had minimal crime, has seen its population swell by 32,000 due to the migrant influx. Trump remarked, “This is a little beautiful town. No crime, no problem. Thirty-two thousand illegal immigrants come into the town… they almost double their population in a period of a few weeks.”
Springfield, overwhelmed by the influx, has been forced to find ways to accommodate illegal migrant children who do not speak English. Trump criticized the local response, especially the decision to hire teachers and interpreters for the migrants. “What the hell is wrong with our country?” he asked, expressing disbelief at the town’s approach.
The economic and civic chaos caused by this migrant surge, particularly in Springfield, underscores the detrimental impact on American workers and communities. Springfield has become a haven for over 20,000 Haitian migrants, many of whom were granted work permits and federal aid under Biden’s economic agenda. This massive influx has driven up housing costs, depressed wages, and pushed American workers to the sidelines.
Trump’s rhetoric has drawn criticism from left-wing voices like Paul Krugman and Adam Serwer, who argue that deporting migrants would harm the town’s economic revival. However, local residents have voiced frustration at being displaced by the government-backed influx.
🚨 BREAKING: SPRINGFIELD, OHIO UPDATE
Local mother and resident of 7+ years says that the 20,000+ Haitians are outpricing and pushing low-income renters like her out of the neighborhood with money from assisted living, food stamps, and other government aid.
U.S. intelligence officials have revealed that Iranian cyber actors hacked materials from former President Donald Trump’s campaign in June and early July and passed the information to the Biden-Harris campaign and various media outlets.
This alarming disclosure was made in a joint statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), underscoring a significant attempt by Iran to interfere in the 2024 election to favor Democrats.
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI: Iranian hackers sent unsolicited information stolen from Trump campaign to people associated with Biden's campaign
he agencies detailed how hackers, linked to Iran, sent emails to individuals associated with Biden’s campaign before he exited the race.
These emails contained portions of non-public information from Trump’s campaign, highlighting the targeted nature of the breach.
The FBI confirmed that Trump’s campaign team was informed of the hack within the last 48 hours and that the Biden-Harris campaign was among the recipients of this stolen data.
According to a senior Trump campaign official, Iranian hackers had stolen sensitive documents from the Trump campaign and leaked them to news outlets, including Politico, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Each of these media outlets has refrained from disclosing what specific information they received.
Politico revealed it had begun receiving materials from an anonymous email account in July, with the documents appearing to be a research dossier prepared on Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate.
The Trump campaign’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, condemned the incident, calling it “further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election” to help Vice President Kamala Harris.
Intelligence officials have indicated that Iran views Trump as a threat, citing his administration’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the reimposition of sanctions, and the targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in 2020 as key points of tension between the U.S. and Iran.
While the Biden-Harris campaign spokesperson, Morgan Finkelstein, stated that they were unaware of any materials being sent directly to the campaign, she confirmed that individuals associated with Biden’s team had been targeted with phishing attempts.
The Harris campaign referring to itself as “victims” when they received the leaked files from Trump’s campaign, is really perfect encapsulation of both the gaslighting and the non-stop victimhood https://t.co/8gL4n0BUpa
For some reason, whenever we want to joke about silly or self-defeating people, we often rope in a fast food restaurant to make the point. “Chickens for Kentucky Fried Chicken,” is a common joke made about people who vote or act against their own best interests. The Chick-Fil-A fast food chain famously ran years’ worth of ads featuring cows holding up signs saying “eat more chicken” as a cheeky way to poke fun at their burger competitors.
But none of these humorous standbys seem sharp enough to describe the lunacy of so-called “trans people” demonstrating on behalf of “Palestine” or Gaza. Muslims in the middle east are famously hostile to gays and what you might call “gender dissidents.” Even the absurdly left-wing Wikipedia acknowledges that gay people aren’t very safe in most middle eastern countries.
Check this find out from Oli London, himself a former gender-bender. London, who has had more than 30 cosmetic surgeries to make himself look variously like a Korean person and/or a woman, says he has turned over a new leaf. Newly non-woke, London says he regrets his time as a “trans influencer” and now wants to expose the hypocrisy and the harm of the growing transgender movement.
You read that right; anew campaigning group called the New Tolerance Campaign is dangling $1 million in front of any “Queers for Palestine” activist brave enough to put their money where their mouth is and hold a pride march in “Palestine.” There is no such country, of course, but the group is probably referring to the Gaza strip.
Yes, believe it or not, so-called “trans” and “queer” people around the U.S. have demonstrated on behalf of “Palestine,” and genuinely seem to believe they’d be loved and accepted. It’s more likely in a Muslim country that they’d be summarily hung or thrown off the top of a skyscraper.
Let’s see what X users had to say.
This one’s funny because it’s true (and grim). The only problem is the people look too normal and they’re not fat enough.
Ryan Routh, a suspected assassin who allegedly targeted former President Donald Trump, had been flagged by U.S. federal agents after returning from Ukraine last year, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to take any action.
Routh, who was accused of plotting an assassination attempt on Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club, had previously been involved in recruiting foreign fighters to assist Ukraine in its war against Russia.
The DHS’s lack of follow-up raises concerns about missed opportunities to prevent this alleged assassination attempt.
Routh was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in June 2023 when he landed at Honolulu International Airport.
During an interview, Routh revealed that he had spent three months in Ukraine recruiting soldiers from countries like Afghanistan, Moldova, and Taiwan to fight in Ukraine’s war against Russia.
He had previously traveled to Poland and Turkey in 2022 and 2023. Despite these revelations, the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division of the DHS declined to pursue the case.
“Subject is a USC who had traveled to Kiev, Ukraine for 3 months to help recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova, and Taiwan,” the CBP notes read. “Subject stated that he does not get paid for his recruiting efforts and all his work for the Ukrainian government is strictly volunteer work.”
Routh provided the CBP agents with a business card identifying himself as the director of an organization called the “International Volunteer Center.”
The business card listed his recruiting partners across various countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Israel.
Despite the evidence provided during the interview, HSI opted not to follow up on the information, and the case was left unresolved.
Assassin was “known to the FBI…” because of course he was. I’m grateful that Florida was running their own investigation, thanks to Gov DeSantis, or I imagine much of what we find out would never otherwise be known. pic.twitter.com/dODLVvZTyR
Routh’s foreign travel and connections to Ukraine were not the first time he had raised concerns with law enforcement. In 2019, he was under suspicion by the FBI for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Veltri.
However, no significant action was taken at that time either.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two new bills into law on Tuesday, aiming to crack down on the use of “deepfakes” and digital disinformation during elections.
The legislation, seen as controversial, marks a direct response to the rising influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in politics, particularly as AI-generated content becomes more prevalent in social media.
I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California.
You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content — including deepfakes. https://t.co/VU4b8RBf6N
The laws, known as AB 2655 and AB 2839, specifically target politically motivated deepfakes, which are digitally altered videos or images that can portray candidates saying or doing things they never did.
The first law, AB 2655, requires major online platforms to block any “materially deceptive content” related to elections in California before and after election periods.
This covers AI-generated media, including deepfakes. The law defines “materially deceptive content” as audio or visual media that is altered or digitally created, a category that includes political misinformation as well.
The second law, AB 2839, more narrowly targets deepfakes of political candidates in California.
It prohibits any deepfakes that portray a candidate for federal, state, or local office as saying or doing something they never did, if it is likely to damage their reputation or harm their electoral prospects.
The push for these laws came after social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, featured a deepfake parody of Vice President Kamala Harris.
On his social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Musk voiced his discontent with the new law, calling Newsom “The Joker.” Musk, who has positioned himself as a free speech advocate, claims the legislation infringes on First Amendment rights.
You’re not gonna believe this, but @GavinNewsom just announced that he signed a LAW to make parody illegal, based on this video 🤣🤣 https://t.co/bdykNuxe6G
A woman accused of stabbing a three-year-old boy to death has been sent to a rehabilitation clinic by a Democrat judge.
Bionca Ellis, 33, was deemed not fit to stand trial for the killing of thee-year-old Julian Wood outside a Cleveland, OH, grocery store on Wednesday, June 3, 2024.
Prosecutors say Ellis was inside the Giant Eagle store when she spotted Wood with his mother, Margot. As the mother was loading her groceries into her vehicle, Ellis charged towards the pair with a knife, fatally stabbing the child.
On Friday, Sept. 13, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo said Ellis – seen smiling during court proceedings in June – would remain hospitalized indefinitely until she is deemed fit to stand trial.
While the position as judge for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas General Division is nonpartisan, he did run in the Democrat primary for the position before running unopposed.
A preliminary trial date of Dec. 9 has been scheduled, with Ellis’ bail set at $5 million dollars.
Many were critical of the judge’s decision on social media.
She of the ramen-noodle-looking hair is upset at the press again. Who? White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, famous for avoiding answering any specific questions from the press and scolding them instead for being “inappropriate.”
Jean-Pierre was recently “triggered” when she got press questions about allegations that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are kidnapping and eating house pets and ducks and geese that frequent town parks. Her reaction is pretty much the same as the reaction from most government officials and the media: they are not concerned about whether the complaints from Springfield residents are true. They are only interested in shrieking that people are “racist” and “xenophobic” (*yawn*) for daring to suggest that Haitians—who are widely reported to sacrifice and eat cats in Voodoo ceremonies in their home country—might actually be doing something wrong.
Putting on her best schoolmarm/mommy tone of voice, Jean-Pierre lectures reporters about “attacking” a “vulnerable community” in “a hateful way.” No word on whether she considers the Springfield cat, duck, or geese communities to be vulnerable as well. Don’t bother asking if she has any sympathy for the human residents; she doesn’t, obviously.
See for yourself:
What’s got Jean-Pierre upset? Well, what doesn’t. She can put on the aggrieved act on at least two fronts. First, she’s black, so she gets to call any criticism she doesn’t like “racist,” and in America, that kind of dishonest whining works to shut down white people. But she’s also the daughter of Haitian immigrants, and so she’s going to refuse to admit that immigrants from her third-world country are any different from native-born Americans who understand that duck parks are not a meat market.
Indeed, it seems the entire mainstream media is bent on denying that it’s even possible that the 20,000 Haitian migrants dumped unceremoniously on the town of 60,000 in Ohio could do anything wrong or uncivilized. This, despite numerous eyewitness reports from Springfield residents that Haitians are crashing cars and killing people along with snatching up geese and ducks to take home to cook.
Andrew Cuomo does not want you to read this article. He definitely does not want you to watch the above video. He would prefer that you forget his past and let his acts and omissions during the Coronavirus pandemic be lost to posterity, far away from today’s news cycle.
Andrew Cuomo wants you to forget because remembering his past dooms his future aspirations for a political comeback, which includes growing rumblings of a possible run to become the Mayor of New York City. So, he cannot have the horrible truth of his tenure during the pandemic get in the way of his ambition.
That is why Andrew Cuomo was so angry and combative while offering public testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week. That is why he railed against the Subcommittee’s 48-page memorandum detailing how Cuomo’s mismanagement of New York State’s response to COVID-19 cost the lives of over 15,000 seniors exposed to the deadly virus while in nursing homes. That is why he blustered at new findings re-confirming older findings from his own state that his administration played number games with the death toll of those seniors to cover-up his political complicity.
It’s a story of political negligence powered by an insatiable political ambition that, if forgotten, may happen again.
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Here’s a little hometown trivia for you from my home state, which I often refer to as “The People’s Republic of New York”: the last time an Empire State governor was voted out of office in an election was Gov. Mario Cuomo when a relatively unknown state senator named George Pataki defeated him.
That happened in 1994.
Since then, thirty years of gubernatorial succession has been marred by controversy. Pataki chose not to run for a fourth term amid all-time low approval numbers. His successor, that “f***ing steamroller” Eliot Spitzer resigned as “Client No. 9” to an upscale call girl. Then, Spitzer’s successor, David Paterson, withdrew from his campaign after news broke that his administration improperly intervened in a domestic violence case against one of his closest aides.
Which brings us to Andrew Cuomo. After winning a third term in 2018, Cuomo, who positioned himself as a foil to then-President Donald Trump, found the media spotlight during the pandemic. Indeed, many found reassurance in the routine that Gov. Cuomo’s daily televised briefings developed into in the spring of 2020. Meanwhile, others fell for Andrew’s appearances on his brother’s primetime show, dubbed by some as the “Cuomo Brothers Comedy Hour” on CNN).
As Andrew Cuomo reveled in his new-found popularity, he parlayed his stewardship during the pandemic into financial opportunities, like his weird “flatten the curve” poster that he took much pride in creating, and his multi-million-dollar book deal. He even won an Emmy, for goodness sakes.
On the surface, the summer of 2020 became the summer of the “Cuomosexual.”
Yet, underneath the bella figura Cuomo and his staff created for him laid a hubris beyond imagining that left a trail of failure, mismanagement, and, according to the opinion of many, death in his wake.
In the infancy of the pandemic in March of 2020, Cuomo and his Department of Health issued a flurry of advisories intended to guide hospitals and health care facilities. On March 25, 2020, Cuomo, having already withdrawn a nursing home’s ability to deny care to an incoming patient, further ordered that “[n]o resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID19.” Cuomo further ordered that “[nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested from COVID-19 prior to admission or re-admission.”
That latter directive not only ran counter to federal guidelines issued by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), but also to common sense. What kind of a “leader” would mandate in a prohibition on testing for a novel virus during a pandemic?
The effect of this now-infamous advisory was tragic. Effectively, Cuomo forced the most vulnerable population of New Yorkers to be heavily exposed to a deadly virus.
Oftentimes, it is not a poor political choice that does in a politician. It’s the cover-up that follows. Such is the case here, as Cuomo and his administration compounded his errors in judgment by lying about the true extent of the death toll that his Orders caused. In January of 2021, New York’s own attorney general, Letitia James, issued a report finding that Cuomo’s administration and his Department of Health undercounted nursing home resident deaths by approximately 50 percent.
But, even these tens of thousands of deaths were not enough to taint Cuomo and his legacy to the point of political radioactivity. Though damaged by the nursing home scandal, Cuomo persevered to the dismay of many. It was only after a boatload of claims of sexual harassment came to light thanks to a second report from AG James detailing inappropriate and unwanted advances of affection from Cuomo that he ultimately resigned in disgrace.
Gone was the praise and the fame. Gone was the book deal. And even the Emmy, which the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences stripped Cuomo of the day after he resigned.
Cuomo laid low for years to allow the shock and shame subside; to allow his disgrace to fall into the memory-hole. He began to re-emerge in 2023, taking media appearances again. He appeared on friendly media who seemingly chose to enable their disgraced friend. Friends like Anthony Scaramucci, who sat idly by as Cuomo painted himself as the victim of a conspiracy, allowing Cuomo to lash out at the families of loved ones lost during the pandemic who had since become politically engaged. “The attacks are just vicious. Vicious!: Cuomo proclaimed with a face of disgust.“ ‘You didn’t care about people in nursing homes.’ How dare you suggest such a vile thing?”
Cuomo’s re-emergence in the fall of 2023 coincided with whispers indicating to allies of his interest in running for New York City mayor if fellow Democrat Eric Adams would become entangled within the federal investigations that have once again cropped up in the news cycle.
It’s a shame for Cuomo that those “vile” family members never relented in spreading the truth about him. The perseverance of organizations like Voices for Seniors and other notable personalities like Fox News’s Janice Dean culminated into the release of the Subcommittee’s memo, which detailed just how deep Cuomo and his staff’s cover-up of their mismanagement went. It turns out that Cuomo knew that nursing homes presented a real risk of infection, calling it a “nightmare” scenario. Yet, his administration still issued that March 25 Order, thus perpetuating that nightmare scenario.
To this day, even Cuomo wants us to believe he doesn’t know who signed off on the March 25 order; other than, according to his sworn testimony, telling you it was not him. Curiously, that viewpoint runs counter to other Cuomo staffers, including his own Health Commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, who testified that during the pandemic, “everything ended up having to go through the Governor’s Office.”
With the insurmountable weight of the Subcommittee’s findings brought to bear, Cuomo remained stubbornly insolent, even refusing to apologize to the gathered audience of those “vile” family members in attendance. Cuomo dismissed such demands as a political stunt.
It is in those moments where Cuomo refused to capitulate that he let his mask slip and reveal his true nature; that he is, at his core, an arrogant, audacious and irredeemable creature of political opportunism. No amount of re-packaging or political window dressing will ever change him.
Seeing this true nature, Rep. Elise Stefanik boldly proclaimed that during a shouting match with Cuomo that “You will never hold elected office again.” I wish I had Stefanik’s confidence, as the voting populace in “The People’s Republic of” New York were fooled once by Cuomo.
Which is why it is so important that we never forget what he did; so we never allow him the opportunity to do anything like that again.
Gene Berardelli is a street-smart New York-based trial attorney with a successful track record representing conservative candidates and a solid reputation as an award-winning podcaster and as the award-winning author of the Amazon bestseller Schnooks, Crooks, Liars & Scoundrels: A Field Guide to Identifying Political Buffoons. He currently hosts Buffoon of the Week! whcih is available on YouTube, Rumble and other video-hosting platforms, featuring daily original content which seek to find the dumbest political newsmakers each week.
Several “contributors” to Matt Walsh’s new film “Am I Racist?” deleted their X accounts ahead of the film’s premiere.
The film, produced by the Daily Wire, shows Walsh exposing the world of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. He attends seminars and events focusing on affirmative action while also conducting interviews with DEI advocates.
“White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo was among those to deactivate. She features in several scenes within the movie, including one where she awkwardly pays a black producer $30 in reparations (despite being paid $15,000 for the interview). DiAngelo also put out a statement on the film to whine about being misled into doing an interview with Walsh.
“This is a shame. I was hoping she’d stay here so we could celebrate the release of our film together tomorrow,” Walsh wrote on X the day before the film’s debut. “She’s really the star of the movie. She should be proud of her performance.”
Others to delete their accounts included Kate Slater, an “anti-racist scholar” who teachers her four-year-old about racism. She did however responded to the film on Instagram.
“This piece of shit film comes out on Friday,” she wrote on the platform. “If you’re wondering why I’ve been off the radar, it’s because I have an inbox full of angry white men who are incensed that I don’t let my daughter dress as Moana for Halloween.”
Two other people featured in the film, Sarah Rao and Regine Jackson, who host “Race 2 Dinner,” where white women pay an exorbitant amount to be lectured about their racism, also deleted their accounts.
All of those who deleted their accounts are featured in the film’s trailer (at the top of this article).
Many on social media were delighted to see the departures.
Others argued that the film’s interviewees contributed to their own demise.
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