Many millions of Americans afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome --- latest symptoms and prognosis suggest the death of the nation might be near

The worst cases [as depicted in the photo below] demonstrate the symptoms of extreme euphoria or unexplainable happiness at the news that a NYC Grand Jury accepted the Rube Goldberg concoctions of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and voted to indict former President Donald Trump

Nancy Pelosi appears to have been transfigured
by a beatific presence and transported to a
higher astral plane, while Eric Swalwell's
face seems to have been paralyzed in a
 permanent smile, also known as
"a shit-eating grin"

Yesterday, a particularly disturbing cluster of sick people were found in the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., where House Democrats acknowledged that what had been done to President Trump was unprecedented, but cheered none-the-less when news broke that a New York grand jury had voted to indict former President Donald Trump.....

Alvin Bragg makes history --- and how proud and justified all true Democrats must be at this moment of triumph and righteousness

 

Obviously, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg decided that his moment had come  ---  and he also decided this historic instant was the right time to weaponize the incompetence and ignorance obviously installed throughout most of those now in the legal, judicial, journalistic and economic professions 

It remains to be seen whether the woke views of this Soros-backed prosecutor can succeed in marshalling the law and the facts behind his prosecutorial fiat, now apparently ratified by a Manhattan grand jury  ---  probably first, through a variety of courts  ---  then, to a jury during and after a trial  ---  and then, if a jury should hand down a guilty verdict,  again to another variety of courts.....

Who knows by what highways and byways this criminal case brought-on by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg might travel and for how long.....  However, Bragg has lit off a train of powder that leads to several stores of explosives  ---  whether there will be an explosive result of some kind seems likely, but far from certain.  So, we will have to wait to see if Bragg and his ilk succeed; or, at the other end of the possibilities spectrum, Bragg and his supporters in all of this are hoist on their own petard.

Was one of the main sites for Brooklyn GOP fund raisers over the last two years making fraudulent under-the-table-type "in kind" donations to GOP candidates associated with Liam McCabe ???

How many pictures have we posted on this independent GOP blog for Brooklyn & Staten Island over the last two years of fund raisers for the likes of Brian Fox and Ari Kagan that were held at the Lone * Star Bar and Grill in Bay Ridge???   

---  Frankly, it's so many that we have lost count.....

Here's what the place looked like in better days:

And here's the Lone * Star in a recent shot [with a "blow-up" detail showing a very long-delayed Court Order, and a current Marshal's Notice announcing an auction of assets at the premises]

Were any of the "deals" involving events held at the Lone * Star Bar and Grill made by representatives of the Brooklyn GOP, its candidates, and/or the campaigns of those candidates made in derogation of the statutory, contractual and equitable rights of others  --- constituting a fraudulent diversion of funds from those rightfully entitled to receive them ?????

Here's the beef  ---  just over two years ago, the owner of the property 8703 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY,  brought an action for ejectment and damages for breach of contract against the owners of the Lone Star Bar and Grill., d/b/a the Lone Statr Bar and Grill, alleging among other matters the non-payment of rent for a protracted period since 2020 and earlier, and other damages,  now in excess of several hundreds of thousands of dollars.

During that time, several fund raisers have been conducted by or on behalf of candidates of the Brooklyn GOP   ---  including for Brian Fox, Ari Kagan and others ---  at the Lone Star Bar and Grill in complete derogation of the statutory, contractual and equitable rights of the true and rightful owner of the property to possess and enjoy the premises occupied by the Lone Star Bar and Grill, and to conduct its lawful business at the site.

Our sources have indicated that those fund raisers had largely been arranged by several members of the Brooklyn GOP, including but not limited to Brian Fox and Liam McCabe, under terms and conditions that allowed the operators of the Lone Star Bar and Grill to conceal the portion of  income being generated for the benefit of the owners of the Lone Star Bar and Grill from the righful owner and landlord of the premises.

Focusing on the campaign events conducted during 2021, 2022, and 2023 and the agreements reached by the owners and operators of the Lone Star Bar and Grill, and  representatives of the Brooklyn GOP, its candidates, and/or the campaign's of its candidates; and the amounts raised by representatives of the Brooklyn GOP, its candidates, and/ the campaigns of its candidates  at the individual and several fund raisers conducted by the representatives of the Brooklyn GOP, its candidates, and the campaigns of its candidates  >>> were not as reported on several documents filed by representatives of the Brooklyn GOP, its candidates, and.or the campaigns of its candidates.

We here at this independent Republican Blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island will followup with more detailed information on these particular problematic aspects of the financing conducted on behalf of the Brooklyn GOP, several of its candidates,  and/or the campaigns of several of its candidates during events held at the Lone * Star Bar and Grill during 2021. 2022, and 2023 when they are provided by our past sources, and such new sources as might pop up in due course. 

President Joe Biden and his terribly incompetent press flack, Karine Jean-Pierre both flogged the newly-dead kids in an attempt to score political points

After being briefed on today's shooting tragedy in the religion-based Covenant School grammar school in Nashville, Tennessee   >>>  in her haste to intone the party line propaganda about Biden's promise to ban AR-15s, Jean-Pierre made a wrongful statement about the victims of the shooting.  ---  However, and she was immediately and unceremoniously corrected by a member of the White House press corp.....

Separately, in a blatantly political effort not to waste a tragedy, President Biden flogged the dead children killed earlier in the day  ---  in order to tout his as- yet-unfulfilled promise to ban AR-15-type rifles

From the White House podium, Biden's Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said  >>>  “We can’t keep seeing what we saw today. Right now, we’re hearing six kids — six elementary [school] kids dead,”   Almost immediately a reporter rebutted the Press Secretary's erroneous statement with this >>>  “Three kids and three adults...”

For his own part, Biden said the shooting was "sick" and "heartbreaking";  and he urged Congress to take further action on gun safety legislation, thus  >>>  We're monitoring the situation very closely," Biden said. "And we have to do more to stop gun violence. It's ripping our communities apart. Ripping at the very soul of this nation, and we have to do more to protect our schools and they aren't turned into prisons."  Then Biden discussed how the shooter was armed with two assault weapons..., and a pistol. And he  said, ""I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapons ban. It's about time that we begin to make some more progress," Biden said.

January 6th watershed moment possible today --- in the now-ongoing trial of several J6 Defendant-Members of the "Proud Boys" --- a key FBI informant will be examined and testify in open court about the extent of her activities before, during and since the so-called J6 "Insurrection"

 

Today, defense attorneys are scheduled to question Jen Loh, amid growing questions about the extent to which FBI informants, aka "confidential human sources" (CHS), knew about the Capitol riot, and whether they might have led and encouraged the crowd at the Capitol during the events of January 6, 2021.... 

One of the shocking revelations during a J6 trial of several of the "Proud Boys" last week was that at least one FBI informant, Jen Loh, a member of Latinos for Trump, had been in close contact with the defendants  ---  and their legal team  ---  throughout the instant trial, potentially compromising the defendants' constitutional rights.....  

If the government had spied on discussions among the defendants and their lawyers by using an informant, that would violate the attorney-client privilege and the Sixth Amendment.  

Even  CNN is now reporting that:  "Over the past year, Texas woman Jen Loh has been in touch with several Proud Boys now on trial for seditious conspiracy, talking with the members of the far-right group and their defense counsel about the case and suggesting possible witnesses and attorneys who could help....  All the while, Loh was also a paid FBI informant....  That revelation threw a wrench into the ongoing trial this week in federal court in Washington, DC, when defense counsel learned of her relationship with the government...."  (See "FBI informant speaks with CNN about her role in Proud Boys trial"  by Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, 3/24/2023,  CNN/ Politics    [https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/politics/proud-boys-fbi-informant/index.html]). 

Is anybody trying to find out what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's "Asset Forfeiture" account(s) --- that folks say were gone before he took office

Why hasn't DA Alvin Bragg gone after the well more than Six Hundred Millions of Dollars from the Manhattan DA's "Asset Forfeiture" account(s)  >>>  apparently gone since the first day that Bragg took over the Manhattan DA's Office from former Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance ??? 

There have been many questions raised lately about Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's selective enforcement of the law  ---  and by the same token, his selective investigations of certain possible crimes, and not others.  >>>  Perhaps the biggest uninvestigated case since Bragg took over the Manhattan DA's Office involves a massive amount of funds no longer in the accounts of the Manhattan DA's Office itself 

The very woke-sounding Soros-backed Alvin Bragg won the 2021 election ro become Manhattan’s first Black-American DA. Bragg ran as a radical change reformer who promised to pull back on prosecuting certain offenses and to pursue alternatives to incarceration.  Also very significantly, he also pledged to create a so-called participatory budgeting system, which would be similar to one used by many City Council members  >>>  in it,  Bragg's constituents would have some say on how to steer some spending.  “I want to have a process that’s more open.....”  

Bragg told  a small leftish-oriented alternative media outlet, called "The City" late in 2021, that he would prefer to spend on programs that focus on “mental health” and re-entry services for people coming out of jail and prison.  However, Bragg will start with just $31 million of available "Asset Forfeiture" funds instead of almost three-quarters of a billion bucks amassed by Bragg's predecessor, according to some records —  and most of those available dollars had  already been dedicated to a City University of New York grant program called the Criminal Justice Investment Initiative   >>>  by the former Manhattan DA  (See " Vance Depletes Manhattan DA’s $715M Bank Haul, Leaving Bragg With Small Change" by Reuven Blau. 11/14/2021, The City/     [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/11/14/22781589/vance-spends-manhattan-da-asset-forfeiture-fund-stiffing-bragg]). 

Bragg says he has no plans to divert any funds that Vance had allocated from his office's "Asset Forfeiture" accounts  ---  but that leaves close to another seven hundred million bucks that Vance and his lavish money spenders shot to hell on other stuff  --- in other words, pretty much unaccounted for.  Official records showed that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance had spent nearly $715 million in money brought in from big money case settlements for so-called "criminal justice programs".....  And, as a direct result of that largesse by the Vance team  >>> Vance's successor, Alvin Bragg has been left with almost none of the vast fund amassed by Vance's tram from "Asset Forfeitures," as its rake from profitable prosecutions of the very big fish-big money defendants  ---  all the way down to contraband cash seized from the more normal-sized defendants..... 

Vance seemed to have lavish tastes and an expensive life style

Not very long before the Vance-Bragg transistion, Vance had come under criticism  for using Asset Forfeiture funds to travel across globe for a variety of seminars and conferences  —  expending nearly $250,000 on meals and trips ranging from Los Angeles to Paris.

Vance was not derterred by public dislosures of his lavish spending. And he continued the spending even after public exposure of his high-flying trips, expensing $20,327 for travel to Miami and Singapore as well as for various meals and cab rides in the year that began in June 2019, which the few records provided by his office had shown.

There is no real auditing of the NYC DAs' Asset Forfeiture accounts by the NYC Comptroller or anybody else.**  The NYC Comptroller only conducts occasional audits of certain operations, methods and expenditurs of NYC's five DA's offices; and the current NYC Comptroller Brad Lander especially wants nothing to do with auditing the Asset Forfeiture books of the Manhattan DA, aka the New York County DA (DANY), nor those of any other NYC DA's offices. (For example, in the year 2022, the NYC Comptroller only audited the inventory, control and handling of office and technical equipment in the Office of the Manhattan DA [DANY].)  

As reported in the article appearing in "The City" ---  in November of 2021, immediately before the Vance-Bragg transition, Danny Frost, a Vance spokesperson, defended the overall spending of the Asset Forfeiture funds during Vance's three terms in office.  As told by Vances's man Frost  ---  the DA's Office under Cyrus Vance led “... aggressive” probes into '11 of the world’s biggest banks, then directed that hundreds of millions of dollars in the forfeited proceeds of those banks' economic crimes'..." into a variety of community-grounded organizations and projects that purportedly "...supported young people, survivors of crimes, and New Yorkers re-entering underserved Manhattan neighborhoods...."  

Frost also said that Vance made  >>>  “sustained investments in our neighborhoods so that fewer people became involved in the justice system in the first place....”  However, Frost declined to address Vance's use of Asset Forfeiture funds for travel expenses during his three term tenure in the Manhattan DA's Office; or any detailed information about where most of about $700 million in "Asset Forfeiture" funds went in the rather short peiod before Bragg became the Manhattan DA. 

So far, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg doesn't seem to want to know any more about Vance's expenditure of almost all of the $715 million Manhattan DA's Office  "Asset Forfeiture" slush fund accounts than does NYC Comptroller Brad Lander.

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** According to a 2018 report by the New York City Independent Budget Office,  "....  The five District Attorneys have received a sizable amount of funds through asset forfeiture in recent years, dollars allocated to them outside the city’s normal budget process. Although there are certain requirements on how these funds are deposited and spent, the District Attorneys retain considerable discretion over how they use the funds....  Federal guidelines accounting for the use of these funds are more stringent than the state’s, but at least in terms of the Manhattan DA more asset forfeiture funds have recently been received through state asset seizures and deferred prosecution agreements than from federal forfeitures. As of June 30, 2017, the Manhattan DA had more than $500 million in state asset forfeiture funds and more than $220 million in federal funds—information provided at IBO’s request. The state does not require the reporting of forfeiture balances held at the end of the year nor reporting on how money from state forfeitures has been spent. Given that all funds received by the District Attorneys through asset forfeiture are essentially public dollars, more transparency and accountability is warranted...."  ( See "Nest Egg: City’s District Attorneys Holding Millions in Off-Budget Funds From Asset Forfeitures"  by Bernard O'Brien,  February 2018, NYC Independent Budget Office/ Fiscal Brief             [https://ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/nest-egg-citys-district-attorneys-holding-millions-in-off-budget-funds-from-asset-forfeitures-2018.html]).

Fatso Alvin Bragg decides that he would rather defy Congress --- and instead, the NYC DA with the goatee proposes "discussions" to see if Congress has a legitimate interest in seeing what he's been up to.....

Congressional Committee and the Manhattan DA:  Pushback  ---  then counter-pushback  ---  then counter-counter pushback 

Wash, rinse, repeat !!!

In a letter from the Manhattan DA's Chief Counsel on behalf of the George Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the DA's in-house top advisory lawyer is calling the demands of GOP House Committee chairmen to force his testimony an “unlawful incursion” onto the DA Bragg's legal turf, and interference with his ongoing probe into former President Trump’s role in a very local hush money scandal.  This response from Bragg comes as GOP DC lawmakers, led by the Republican House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, demanded that the NYC DA turn over all documents and communications about the case, in order that Bragg would meet their Thursday deadline, which had been set earlier this week by Jordan's committee.

In Bragg's Chief Counsel's letter pushing back on the U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan's earlier letter demanding information on the Trump probe, Bragg's lawyer mentioned the following:  “Your letter treads into territory very clearly reserved to the states. It suggests that Congress’s investigation is being ‘conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to “punish” those investigated,’ and is, therefore, ‘indefensible’...”  ---  citing a 1957 Supreme Court ruling limiting congressional investigations.

It should be noted that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is no longer the only local NYC official or former official sought by the GOP-led House Committee in connection with the NYC DA's Trump probe. Chairman Jordan has also requested testimony from two former prosecutors who had resigned from the Manhattan DA's office over disagreements with Bragg.

Those requests by Chairman Jordan were sent to Mark Pomerantz, former New York County Special Assistant District Attorney, and Carey Dunne, a former Manhattan Special Assistant District Attorney, both of whom had resigned from Bragg’s office during February 2022 over disagreements involving various Trump investigations.....

Dems say that Republicans in Congress are trying to obstruct Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's attempt to bring this Bragg v. Trump case to court in NY --- Well-well-well, Captain Obvious ! --- So what !!! --- Why not !!!!!

What this left wing grifter Bragg is now trying to pull is a terrible overreach by a prosecutor corrupted by false ideology  ---  he needs to be stopped by push back from our side using any and all lawful means.....

The U.S. Congress has the complete and absolute lawful authority to investigate any state or local governmental actor for any overreach or attempted overreach into the federal sphere of jurisdiction  ---  and fully explore Bragg's reasons for doing so with his personal Bragg v. Trump case  ---  to determine if any federal laws are impacted in any way  --- and/or --- to determine if any of Bragg's actions are part of a larger conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.....

Congress can specifically look into questions arising from this Bragg v. Trump case  >>>  involving any possible violation of the legal doctrine of Federal Pre-emption to determine if any federal laws have been broken by Bragg  ---  or if new federal laws might be necessary to avoid any repeat of what is going on in this Bragg v Trump case by any local or state prosecutors in the State of Georgia, or any other state(s).....

BACKGROUND

To all those that don't know  ---  Alvin Bragg is a woke Democrat zealot, who took over the Manahattan DA's Office in January 2022, following his election as Manhattan DA in 2021.

Although Bragg's predecessor as Manhattan DA had indicted the Trump's family-owned company and its top financial executive over what has been described as a 15-year-tax fraud scheme. The prosecutor leading that probe as a former assistant DA, Mark Pomerantz, resigned in February 2022, after the incoming DA, Bragg, declined to charge Trump personally  for those financial crimes. 

Since then Mark Pomerantz has publicly criticized DA Bragg's decision not to bring charges against Trump personally;  and he as even published a book about his investigation of Sonald Trump, done while he was in the Mahattan DA's Office before DA Bragg came onboard. Pomerantz has repeatedly expressed his judgment that the DA's potentially losing any  case brought against Trump personally needed to be weighed against the very real possibility of "promoting disrespect for the law" by not bringing charges against Trump personally, when they were warranted.

Several observers have defended Bragg against Pomerantz's criticism. In addition, in his biggest trial victory thus far during his tenure as Manhattan DA, Bragg's office won a hallmark conviction of the Trump Organization on the tax fraud charges brought by Bragg's predecesor; and secured a guilty plea from  Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's former chief financial officer, who then testified against the Trump Organization at trial as part of that deal.

The potential BRAGG -v- TRUMP CASE

During a November 2020 interview, when he still was a very woke Soros-backed Democrat candidate running for Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg mentioned that among the "staggering" number of cases "swirling" around then-President Donald Trump at the time, a matter involving Trump's former so-called "fixer," Michael Cohen, stood out to Bragg. Bragg told the interviwer that, while he was a former New York State Deputy Attorney General clashing with Trump's company in civil suits, Bragg indicated he had been following the media coverage of Cohen's federal case very closely. During that 2020 interview, Bragg told the reporter that  ---  "You know, we haven't talked about Michael Cohen yet and the campaign finance part,"  However, Bragg stressed he would not "prejudge" any case until he saw the evidence; but clearly Bragg wanted the public to know that the Trump/ Cohen/ Campaign Finance matter was something that he wanted to pursue if and when he became the Manhattan DA.

Alvin Bragg was elected the the office of Manhattan DA in November 2021, inheriting the office's Trump investigation from his predecessor,. Early in his term, that investigation and prosecution was thrown into confusion when the two of the Manhattan DA's Office prosecutors leading the Trump probe resigned. In a copy of his resignation letter sent to The New York Times, former Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz wrote that Bragg had "reached the decision not to go forward with the grand jury presentation and not to seek criminal charges at [that] time....  The investigation has been suspended indefinitely...."  However, Bragg's office insisted the Trump probe remained active.

In August 2022, after his office secured a guilty plea from former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg in the tax fraud case stemming from the original investigation; and then turning Weisselberg into the prosecution's star witness in the trial of two Trump Organization companies, the two companies were found guilty of 17 criminal counts related to tax fraud and other related matters on December 6, 2022.

By that time, investigators and ADAs in Bragg's office had returned to the Cohen/ Stormy Daniels payment. During the early months of 2023, a stream of former Trump employees and White House staffers were presented to a grand jury by Bragg's office.  It has been widely reporter that they have been looking into the case of the Stormy Daniels/ Cohen/ Trump/ Federal Campaign Finances matters.

And now that everybody is talking about Manhattan DA Bragg's indicting the GOP frontrunner for the Presidency, Republicans in Congress want to take a very close look at all of this  --- and ask Manhattan DA Bragg directly what he thinks he's doing, and what makes him think he can do it.

Did Florida's Republican Governor DeSantis just scuttle his own chances of being POTUS any time soon --- by his dissing President Donald Trump instead of supporting him ???

 

Just twenty-two words might have completely derailed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 campaign before it was even announced  ---  very much like he was aboard a Norfolk Southern freight train jumping the track in Palestine, Ohio  ---  and poisoning any chances of his ever getting MAGA Republicans onboard for his campaign any time soon  

Ron DeSantis' belated remarks about Donald Trump's possible indictment by NYC's Soros-supported Manhattan DA opened with this  ---  "I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair...."

And then DeSantis said this  ---  "I have no interest in getting involved in some manufactured circus by some Soros-DA.... He’s trying to do a political spectacle. He’s trying to virtue signal for his base. I’ve got real issues I got to deal with here in the state of Florida...."  

What a guy  ---  that Ron Desantis  ---  he showed that he is the man of the moment  ---  except that, it's not this moment, because Ron DeSantis would rather take a pass than weigh-in on the issue of the Dems' indicting the former GOP President and present GOP front-runner for President in 2024

DeSantis governs effectively in Florida, where he says he now has a full plate. But until a few hours ago, he also was a legitimate 2024 Republican presidential prospect  ---  and he shouldn’t have dismissed a major moment in the history of presidential politics simply because he had his own political stuff going on in his home state.

If DeSantis couldn't effectively juggle his current job as Florida Governor with his growing position as a national GOP spokesperson, then most likely he can kiss any of his presidential dreams goodbye. 

Until he shows everybody that he has learned how to juggle being a local elected leader and a being a GOP presidential contender that understands when a national moment has been thrust upon him and vital national interests are at stake, he is not a viable or suitable presidential contender.  ---  But that will have to be some time in the distant future; because for the 2023-2024 election cycle for President of the United States, Ron DeSantis has burnt his own toast, dropped it on the floor, and stepped all over it.

For the moment this is the most important thing --- Trump is going to be arrested early next week --- The time has come to push back, and push back hard.....

This from our leader himself, Donald J. Trump:

"ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK! " 

Meanwhile the left went into an almost total meltdown at Trump's courageous defiance and rallying call to the MAGA folks out there.....

---  Maxine Waters:  "...  I don’t know what’s going to happen when he announces [it himself like this]. It’s almost like he’s attempting to organize his domestic terrorists to show up and to resist him being arrested....”

---  Rachel Maddow:  "...  “His overall defense is going to be to try to raise the civic cost of indicting him....  He is trying to bring intimidation and pressure to bear against the prosecutors who are considering right now whether to indict him....”

---  Guest, former FBI agent, on NBC's Alex Witt program:  “We have Trump already saying that he has a rally planned for Friday in Waco, Texas, right on the cusp of the 30th anniversary of a deadly standoff between a religious cult and federal agents where at least 75 people died, including three ATF agents....    All of this is going to stress and test our system with regard to lessons learned from Jan. 6th....”

---  And a different guest on the Alex Witt program:   "... The American people need to pay attention to who the Republican Party is, and continues to be.... Anyone who thinks that Ron DeSantis or anyone else is going to swoop in and save the Republican Party and bring it back to a respectable party, they are deluding themselves. This is who they are, and you have a stochastic domestic terrorist in Donald Trump out here about to stoke violence again....”

No matter what "THEY" say, and there will be many, many more "THEYS"  ---  including prominent RINOs,  real Americans must respond appropriately to defend our rightful  leader and POTUS, Donald Trump, in the true and righteous "Spirit of January 6th."

Let us reiterate  >>>  "...  The time has come to push back, and push back hard..."

The Biden Biden Family Corruption Watch: Hunter Biden's PR and legal team decided that he needed to blink --- so he did in a couple of ways that ain't so good for Joe Biden and his White House team trying to keep a lid on things

 

President's son makes a major public admission about getting large funds from China and giving them out to various members of the Biden Family

Yesterday, after years of shifting evasions and outright denials , Hunter Biden now admits and tries to justify some of the facts of the Biden family’s multi-million dollar dealings with Chinese "business entities" closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party   ---  simultaneously Hunter Biden's lawyers filed a suit against the "Hunter Biden laptop" repair shop owner, citing an invasion of Hunter Biden's privacy and other matters

 

This boiling over in the action(s) and reaction(s) between Hunter Biden and computer shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac, escalates the legal battles surrounding Hunter Biden, and it very much complicates the White House PR efforts to keep the whole Hunter Biden-Chinese Busines dealings mess under control at a very sensitive time for President Joe Biden and his presidency

Here is Hunter Biden statement containing a major admission about some of his China business dealings and some of the financing involved in that in black and white:

"...  Hunter Biden, a private citizen with every right to pursue his own business endeavors, joined several business partners in seeking a joint venture with a privately-owned, legitimate energy company in China. As part of that joint venture, Hunter received his portion of good faith seed funds which he shared with his uncle, James Biden, and Hallie Biden, with whom he was involved with at the time, and sharing expenses...." [sic]

Hunter’s statement is his latest attempt to push back on the furor caused by House Oversight Committee James Comer’s latest revalations that the Biden family enterprises received wire transfers from a Chinese energy company and made subsequent sistributions to Biden family members shortly after President Joe Biden left the vice presidency in 2017. Comer has additional evidence that shows the Biden family business received $179,836.86 since Joe Biden was in the White House. Although that sum appears to be insignificant compared to a previously reported total of $31 million received by the Biden Family businesses during Joe Biden’s time as vice president, the new amount ties the Biden pesidency directly to the emergent corruption and national security scandal.

In addition, the Washington post has reported that lawyers for Hunter Biden have filed a significant countersuit against the computer repair shop owner who long ago claimed that Hunter Biden hed dropped his laptop off and never claimed it, this most recent legal action apparently escalates the battle over the provocative data and images of the president’s son that were obtained and madepublic nearly five years ago.

According to WAPO ---   ".... The 42-page filing goes into significant detail on the ways Hunter Biden’s data became public, a development that propelled it into the maelstrom of the last presidential campaign and, since January, to the center of a Republican-led congressional investigation of the president’s son....  The lawsuit could draw further attention to a sordid chapter in Hunter Biden’s life, one involving nude photos, sensitive audio and a trove of personal texts and emails. The countersuit is in part an attempt by Hunter Biden and his lawyers to reframe the story, focusing it on a private citizen whose privacy was allegedly invaded rather than a man who critics say traded on his father’s name and benefited from his political connections....  Hunter Biden’s decision to respond with an aggressive legal challenge of his own intensifies the battle with his critics, just as Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, prepares a high-profile investigation  into the president’s son. The dynamic could become an awkward distraction for President Biden, who is expected to launch his reelection bid within weeks...."  (See "Hunter Biden sues laptop repair shop owner, citing invasion of privacy" by Matt Viser. 3/17/2023. Washingtin Post/ Politics    [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/hunter-biden-lawsuit-computer-repairman/]).

Perhaps the most important item in Matt Viser's WAPO article was this  >>>  "....  The higher-profile strategy has not been endorsed by all of those in Hunter Biden’s orbit. Those close to President Biden and the White House, in particular, have made it clear they would prefer a more conservative, quieter approach...."

This is how one key Biden Family finance investigator and reporter put it yesterday:  "The fact that they keep shifting the stories, I think, should be a major concern for people in the White House, because it’s pretty clear that the people spinning the news in the White House don’t know the full story, and I think there are going to be several other shoes to drop on this...." [Peter Schweizer, investigator, news reporter, author, and contibutor to Breitbart News]

Alternative view of J6 "Riot" --- "Invasion of the Capitol" --- later called an "Insurrection": It was a "false flag operation" aided and abetted by paid government operatives and provocateurs ---OR --- Why the Dems and the Deep State had to have their J6 '"Emergency Joint Session of Congress" to complete the 2020-2021 election theft.....

 

Purpose of the entire J6 "enterprise" was to dispense with the regular order of business for the certification of the results of the vote of the Electoral College  ---   and switch to "Emergency Rules" so as to avoid any debate on motions by the Congressional Members to the legitimacy of the vote of the Electoral College due to the wrongful selection of electors from several disputed states

There was a substantial institutional motive for "government operators" to create a J6 crisis, which would permit House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to trigger an "emergency session" for the proceedings scheduled for January 6, 2021. And the purpose of all of it was to avoid further legal challenges to the certification of the 2020 election of Joe Biden.

The plan for those challenges were well known to a bi-partisan cabal of anti-Trump leaders in congress well in advance of the scheduled J6 session.  The fear of those anti-Trumpers was that, even if the objections to certification were to be voted down by following regular order, the conduct of the entire J6 congressional proceeding might have provided an additional legal standing by congressional objectors for subsequent judicial review of the entire 2020-21 election-certification process for president.

Instead by conducting the certification during an "emergency session" the problem of members' objections was obviated by simply ruling them "out of order"   ---  and even suggesting that they were part of the scheme to disrupt the proceedings by the rioters, Capitol invaders and "insurrectionists."

Lest we forget --- the way some have done for fun and profit.....

Show of hands  ---  who among Brooklyn Republicans believes that the City Councilman elected as a Democrat, Ari Kagan's, conversion on the Road to Damascus is real ?

---  Who thinks it is rank opportunism by the former Democrat District Leader ???  

---  Who thinks it was a move made in desperation by a notorious Democrat desperado, who was a top staffer to Mark Treyger before being elected as Treyger's Democrat successor on the City Council ?????  

To help you answer  ---  here is a picture of Ari Kagan not so long ago  >>> TOGETHER WITH JUSTIN BRANNAN  ---  while BOTH WERE  SUPPORTING ANDREW GOUNARDES for the NY State Senate <<<

Yes, and don't forget that there was the time  ---  again, not so long ago  ---  when Ari Kagan was such a strong supporter of the movement to "defund the police" that he openly recounted and defended his part in the budget process which moved NYPD funds to another NYC department  ---  and he even felt so strongly about it, he bragged about having done so during both his Democrat Primary and General Election campaigns during 2021, when he was elected to be the City Councilman for the 47th Council District as a Democrat

So which is it ?????  

--- A true conversion.....

---  Rank opportunism.....

OR

Desperation.....

WOW !!! >>> BREAKING NEWS <<< Democrats and woke media --- in what seems to be a major orchestrated VOLTE FACE --- now appear to be trying to change their anti-Tucker Carlson strategy into one that is telling everybody --- "CARLSON'S J6 SECURITY VIDEO AND HIS CONCLUSIONS ABOUT WHAT THE VIDEOS SHOW IS NO BIG DEAL"

 

What a difference a few days make....  Just like the Comintern under Stalin in the '30s and '40s, the left wing media operation now running the MSM in the USA seems to be turning on a dime on the "party line" about Tucker Carlson and his three nights of revelations about the false narratives that came out of the Democrats' J6 Committee  ---  using several lengthy segments of the J6 Capitol Security video that had been released to Carlson by the Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy  

--->>>  After several days of vilifying Tucker Carlson as having done the worst of all things imaginable by his coverage of the J6 Capitol events based upon the newly revealed Capitol security video  ---  the left is now saying something like  "This Tucker Carlson stuff is not really that much of a big deal after all....."  <<<---

Maybe it was because the collective left felt that its initial defenses against the Carlson and GOP pushback against their J6 House Select Committee excesses was failing, and they needed something else to help cut their losses.....  

Maybe it was because many of the Democrats' and the MSM's former allies and usual supporters in their false J6 narratives, along with more casual followers, were suddenly skeptical or even openly critical.....    

Perhaps the most notable of those openly critical former allies was the iconic leftist feminist Naomi Wolf, whose self-published article in "Substack" late last week, defended and praised Tucker Carlson for his disclosures  ---  and she even compared Carlson's brave reporting and commentary to the heroic and historic anti-Vietnam War revelations of Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times and the world.....

 

 A week ago, Tucker Carlson’s program aired a lot of previously unseen surveillance footage of the U.S. Capitol taken during the January 6th incursions into the Capitol that to some extent has undermined the left’s narrative that a “deadly insurrection” had gripped the Capitol on January 6, 2021. 

Contrary to many critical claims that Tucker Carlson and Fox News entirely glossed over a riotous invasion of the Capitol (called an "insurrection" by many in government and in the left-controlled media), what was shown to viewers by Carlson were many of the graphic scenes of the J6 turmoil that Democrats on the J6 Select Committee and their willing acolytes in the mainstream media had played for Americans repeatedly for many, many months. Carlson never said that any of these video images was fabricated or false in their content in any way.  Some of what Tucker DID SAY about them was that  “...  [t]hese are the pictures you’ve seen of January 6th.... But it turns out there’s quite a bit of video you haven’t seen. And that video tells a very different story about what happened on January 6th....”

Even before Tucker Carlson went on the air last Monday evening, Democrats in Congress and their allies across the spectrum of media outlets were decrying what an outrage it all was; and that was without knowing what the outrageous thing that Tucker might do would be. Of course, once Carlson started his presentations, all hell broke loose. That continued all last week and even included some quality time on SNL for the snickering value for its wokesters in its audience.

But now, there seems to be a sudden change of course.  Some in  the media including "The Hill" and "Salon" are chiding Carlson for completely missing his marks, and leaving the right without any smokimg gun to prove that January 6th, 2021, was a jinned-up governmental false flag operation to permanently wreck Trump and usher in more dictatorial powers for any non-Trump government.

Some of that sudden change by some of those in the left MSM might be attributable to the broad support that Tucker C. has received by many, including some folks on the left like Naomi Wolf.  Wolf was an icon of the left,  but in the past she has said that she had been studying the end of democracies for about the last twelve years. and she feared that’s down the road on which the U.S. is headed.

In case you missed it --- among some other good stuff about the whole J6 imbroglio, she wrote in an article that she published in Substack that said:  ".... I believed a farrago of lies [about January 6, 2021]. And, as a result of these lies, and my credulity — and the credulity of people similarly situated to me - many conservatives’ reputations are being tarnished, on false bases.... The proximate cause of this letter of apology is the airing, two nights ago, of excepts from tens of thousands of hours of security camera footage from the United States Capitol taken on Jan 6, 2021. The footage was released by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson...." (See "Dear Conservatives, I Apologize  --  My 'Team' was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda" by Naomi Wolf,  3/0/2021,  Substack/ Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf

[https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry]).

Dr, Wolf opened her lengthy article with this:  "There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who 'put America first' everywhere....  It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to 'move on' without ever acknowledging that I was duped, and that as a result I made mistakes in judgement, and that these mistakes, multiplied by the tens of thousands and millions on the part of people just like me, hurt millions of other people like you all, in existential ways....  But that erasure of personal and public history would be wrong....  I owe you a full-throated apology....  There is no way for anyone thoughtful, even if he or she is a lifelong Democrat, not to notice that Sen Chuck Schumer did not say to the world that the footage that Mr Carlson aired was not real. Rather, he warned that it was “shameful” for Fox to allow us to see it. The Guardian characterized Mr Carlson’s and Fox News’ sin, weirdly, as 'Over-Use' of Jan 6 footage. Isn’t the press supposed to want full transparency for all public interest events?...  How can you 'over-use' real footage of events of national relevance?...  I don’t agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos as depicting 'mostly peaceful chaos.'...  I do think it is a mistake to downplay how serious it is when a legislative institution suffers a security breach of any kind, however that came to be.

But you don’t have to agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to believe, as I do, that he engaged in valuable journalism simply by airing the footage that was given to him...."

She also went on to say many other very significant things like this:  "....  You don’t have to agree with Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to notice the latest hypocrisy by the Left. My acquaintance and personal hero Daniel Ellsberg was rightly lionized by the Left for having illegally leaked the Pentagon Papers. The New York Times was rightly applauded for having run this leaked material in 1971....  I do not see how Mr Carlson’s airing of video material of national significance that the current government would prefer to keep hidden, or Fox News’ support for its disclosure to the public, is any different from that famous case of disclosure of inside information of public importance.

And she summed up her lengthy piece with this:   "....  Through lies, half of the electorate was denied a fair run for its preferred candidate.... I don’t like violence. I do believe our nation’s capitol must be treated as a sacred space....  I don’t like President Trump (Do I not? Who knows? I have been lied to about him so much for so long, I can‘t tell whether my instinctive aversion is simply the habituated residue of years of being on the receiving end of lies)....  But I like the liars who are our current gatekeepers, even less....  The gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time — and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors - deserve our disgust....  I am sorry the nation was damaged by so much untruth issued by those with whom I identified at the time....  I am sorry my former “tribe” is angry at a journalist for engaging in —- journalism....  I am sorry I believed so much nonsense....  Though it is no doubt too little, too late... —  Conservatives, Republicans, MAGA: I am so sorry...."

Kagan's Bay Ridge fund raiser really LOOKS like a flop by most standards -- but pretty successful for something done by Liam McCabe and Brian Fox

What is that they say about BAD FIRST IMPRESSIONS ???

---  Well, you can surely say it about Ari Kagan and his recent political forray into Bay Ridge for some cash support from the Fox and McCabe "crowd"  ---  and a very very few other "Republicans"

You don't have to just believe what we say here at this independent GOP blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island  >>>  here it is as Ari posted it on his own campaign social media:  

"Ari Kagan@AriKagan47·Mar 10...  Thank you, Verrazzano Republicans,  @BrianFox4NYC, @BkLiam, @JEM_NYC, 
@RayDenaro,@mi34779646 & many others, for joining my team & working hard to deliver our common victory on Republican Primary Day, June 27th, and General Election on November 7th! 2/2 [sic]... [with photos depicted below]"

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words  ---  well here are a few of them as provided by Ari, himself:

UH-OH !!!!!

[[[SORRY ---  DOWNLOAD OF EIGHT [8] PHOTOS FROM KAGAN'S CAMPAIGN TWITTER PAGE WERE BLOCKED TO THIS SITE]]]

At any rate,, that would have made  >>>  about 8000 words of bad news by our count [see it for yourslf at Ari's campaign Twitter site at Ari Kagan@AriKagan47].....  By all counts, in all eight pix there were fewer than twenty-five (25) different people shown to be in the house, and that included Ari and about ten (10) folks from Liam's and Brian's entourage of "usual suspects".....   

We just can't wait to see the dislosure of the haul from this extravaganza on Ari's filings, we only hope that it doesn't crash the NYC CFB computers when it's entered.....

(And BTW this was yet another very sad looking Liam McCabe/Brian Fox-Lone Star-style fund raiser in Bay Ridge !!!)