Month: May 2024

Credit: The Daily Mail

A massive riot involving hundreds of juveniles and adults occurred outside an ice skating rink in the Tampa Bay Metropolitan area after a party was canceled.

FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported the large brawl occurred Saturday night in the parking lot at Astro Skate in Brandon when angry party organizers called on people to “riot” and “confront law enforcement” at the skate park in response to the cancellation.

Police say there were 400–500 people in the crowd at the time. The roller rink has a 670-person capacity limit according to FOX 13 Tampa Bay.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office posted footage of the wild brawl on its Facebook page.

The most brutal part involves a group of hoodlums assaulting a youth inside the Time Out Barber Shop. He was beaten and hurled through the shop’s plate-glass window.

Several other individuals can also be seen beating each other up in the parking lot of the 1916 Irish Pub across the street.

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In addition to fighting, police revealed that several of the unruly youths and adults looted a nearby convenience store. They stole merchandise and caused over $500 worth of damage to the store’s wine bottle selection.

FOX 13 Tampa Bay revealed that deputies arrested 23 minors and six adults. The youths and adults were taken to the juvenile assessment center, and the adult suspects were subsequently booked into the Orient Road Jail.

The following six “adults” were taken into custody following the fight: 32-year-old Lekera Evans, 21-year-old Yazelynn Ramos, 20-year-old Malik Carter, 18-year-old Jadyn Sebro, 18-year-old Aliyah Alfonso, and 18-year-old Fareed Carter.

All six were charged with trespassing. Ramos and Sebro were also charged with disorderly conduct, while Evans was charged with resisting an officer’s orders without violence.

Credit: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office

Hillsborough County Chad Chronister condemned the riot and credited the deputies for professionally handling the situation.

“I am outraged by the violent and disruptive behavior that targeted hard-working people and businesses and created harm, fear, and chaos in our community. Let me make this unequivocally clear: this violent and destructive behavior will never, under any circumstances, be tolerated in Hillsborough County,” he said.

“When responding to a scene as hectic as this, our deputies must account for potential danger from any direction,” he continued. As you can see in the horrifying footage, these individuals had no regard for safety. Our deputies had to step in to defuse the situation professionally and swiftly.”

Robbie Remon, the 1916 Irish Pub manager, said incidents like this have happened before and compared the brawls, including this one, to the book Lord of the Flies.

“They’ll run in here. They’ll yell. They’ll go up to the tables, Take food off the tables,” he explained. “Last year, one kid got arrested because he slapped one of my patrons outside, a female.”

“It’s exactly like Lord of The Flies,” he continued. “Very feral is the only way to describe it,”

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World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab has announced his resignation as executive chairman of the WEF.

In an email to WEF staff members, Schwab announced he would be officially stepping down as executive chairman and transitioning to non-executive chairman.

Schwab has not announced his successor yet but noted that over the last year, the WEF executive board “under the leadership of President Børge Brende, has taken full executive responsibility.”

Schwab, who founded the WEF, has been heavily criticized for his comments and ideas over the last decade.

Under his leadership, the WEF has touted ushering in a “Great Reset,” which aims to replace democratic models worldwide with a model of elite stakeholders who make decisions on behalf of the people.

NEW – Klaus Schwab will be stepping down as executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.https://t.co/PItYvddkfN

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 21, 2024

Per Semafor:

World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab will be stepping back from his role running the global gathering since he founded it in 1971.

Schwab announced his intentions in an email to staff on Tuesday that was shared with Semafor by a person connected to the organization.

He will be stepping down as executive chairman and transitioning to a role as non-executive chairman, he said, adding the change in his role is pending approval by the Swiss government but should be finalized ahead of the WEF’s annual meeting in 2025.

Schwab has not named his successor, but said that over the last year, the group’s executive board, “under the leadership of President Børge Brende, has taken full executive responsibility.”

In 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that Klaus Schwab praised communist China and shared that China is a role model for many countries.

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Klaus Schwab says Communist China is a “Role Model for Many Countries” in Creating the “New World of Tomorrow” (VIDEO)

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If you want a TL;DR description of the to-do over the upside-down flag at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house, I can sum it up for you in one sentence: Same old witch-hunt, different witch.

As those who’ve followed the news over the past year or so know, that the left has been engaged in a secular jihad against Justice Clarence Thomas, part of which has to do with the statements of his wife in regards to the outcome of the 2020 election. Somehow, liberal pundits seem genuinely shocked that Americans have mostly tuned them out, believing that husbands and wives can have differing opinions. The nerve of the right-wing ghouls!

So Clarence-Thomas-as-traitor was a bit like “fetch”: despite leftists trying to make it happen, it wasn’t going to happen. But suppose they tried the same tactic on a different conservative justice? That’s the ticket!

A headline from The New York Times last week brings critical news about Justice Samuel Alito’s exterior home decor just three years after it happened:

“At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display; An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case.”

The Thursday story by Jodi Kantor was what we’ve come to expect from the Times when it comes to a story about a supposed misdeed allegedly committed by a conservative: A touch of truth larded up with slanted conjecture and pull-quotes obtained from sympathetic scholarly types recruited to say whatever the reporter can’t if a patina of objectivity is to be maintained.

So first, the basics, as per Kantor: “After the 2020 presidential election, as some Trump supporters falsely claimed that President Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag,” she wrote.

“One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va., according to photographs and interviews with neighbors.”

Indeed, a photo published by the Times indicates the flag was present outside the Thomas home on Jan. 17, 2021, just days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The upside-down flag is a violation of U.S. federal flag code, which notes the stars and stripes “should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”

The New York Times obtained a photo of an American flag being flown upside down at the home of Justice Samuel Alito in the days leading up to President Biden’s inauguration. Alito denied any “involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag”, and instead blamed his wife. pic.twitter.com/LzZG0JW5sT

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 17, 2024

Now, a few paragraphs into the story, you get a plausible explanation from Alito as to why it was displayed that way:  “I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” he wrote in an emailed statement to the Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”

Given that Alito and the rest of the Supreme Court were pretty busy around that time, this is a plausible explanation. That said, the “judicial experts” the Times was able to scrounge up told them “that the flag was a clear violation of ethics rules, which seek to avoid even the appearance of bias, and could sow doubt about Justice Alito’s impartiality in cases related to the election and the Capitol riot.” Because of course it could.

“It might be his spouse or someone else living in his home, but he shouldn’t have it in his yard as his message to the world,” University of Virginia law professor Amanda Frost told the Times. She added that it was “the equivalent of putting a ‘Stop the Steal’ sign in your yard, which is a problem if you’re deciding election-related cases.”

“You always want to be proactive about the appearance of impartiality,” said former federal judge Jeremy Fogel, currently the director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute.

“The best practice would be to make sure that nothing like that is in front of your house.”

It’s somewhat ironic that, in the selfsame week the left is having a meltdown over Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker suggesting to female graduates at a Catholic college that their most fulfilling role might be as a wife and a homemaker, the Times manages to scrape together enough legal scholars who suggest a conservative Supreme Court justice ought to be in complete control of managing his wife’s opinions.

If you’re searching for ideological consistency, you couldn’t find less of it than the faux outrage over the upside-down flag, which no real evidence ties to the justice himself.

In fact, those the outlet talked to seemed to indicate it was Mrs. Alito who was responsible for it: “In recent years, the quiet sanctuary of his street, with residents who are Republicans and Democrats, has tensed with conflict, neighbors said. Around the 2020 election, a family on the block displayed an anti-Trump sign with an expletive. It apparently offended Mrs. Alito and led to an escalating clash between her and the family, according to interviews.”

But leave it to the left-wing media to seize upon Alito’s upside-down flag as the new witch-hunt du jour. Take Newsweek, which had this article the day after the Times’ piece: “Republicans Slam Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.”

Make that “Republicans” — in very prominent quotation marks.

First, Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former Trump administration aide who’s become a NeverTrumper since her exodus to “The View,” wrote in a social media post that “a SCOTUS Justice would allow this to be displayed at his home days before a peaceful, lawful transition of power is deeply disturbing.”

“My conservative friends: imagine for a minute if Justice [Sonia] Sotomayor displayed an upside down flag at her residence when Trump won in 2016. There would outrage & calls for her resignation,” she wrote in another.

Then there was anti-Trump former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee. He called it “a huge issue.”

Newsweek also cited a former adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and the American Enterprise Institute, none of which are major players in the Republican Party of May 2024. So two (2) big-name kinda-sorta Republicans — who are best known for bashing former President Donald Trump — are pretending to be aggrieved over the fact Alito’s wife maybe violated the flag code. Whoop dee doo.

And tucked away in between these quasi-Republicans going off on Alito was this little disclaimer: “An upside-down flag has been used to protest the results of a U.S. election before. On January 20, 2001, a demonstrator was photographed waving an inverted flag in the streets of Washington, D.C., in protest of then-President-elect George W. Bush who was being sworn in that day after a contested election between him and former Vice President Al Gore.” (Emphasis added.)

In fact, a People magazine article published roughly two months before the Times dug up the 3-year-old Alito smear chronicled “How Flying the American Flag Upside Down Became a Bipartisan Act of Rebellion.”

“These days, however, hanging the Stars and Stripes upside down is seen as more of a symbol — a symbol Republicans and Democrats alike are beginning to use more and more,” the article stated.

“Since June 2022, progressive activists have begun flying their flags upside down, particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade,” the article noted. “Months later — amid fury over the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Aug. 8, 2022 — it became a symbol used by the former president’s most loyal allies.”

There may be Timesian hand-wringing over the latter, of course, but not the former — another signal that, if it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

In fact, if those flying the flag upside-down were merely supporting the causes the Times usually does, nobody would be giving them lectures on flag code or seeing whether their husbands had high-profile positions in the world of governance or corporate America.

That’s the real point here.

The rest, as Dan McLaughlin noted in a piece at conservative outlet National Review, is much ado about nothing.

In the reaction piece, published the day after the Times launched its unlikely crusade against flying upside-down American flags, McLaughlin wrote that conservatives “can freely acknowledge that this response to profane provocation and personal invective is disrespectful to the flag and a display of injudicious temperament on the part of Mrs. Alito, but then, Mrs. Alito is not a judge or the holder of any political office whatsoever.”

Alas, if the invective aimed at Clarence Thomas is any indication, this isn’t going to stop anything anytime soon.

The witch hunt lives on, in search of a witch leftists can finally burn to somehow nullify the conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

We can at least take solace in the knowledge that, if this moves the needle on Alito as scantly as it did with Thomas, it’s a big fat waste of time.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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CNN’s attempt to engage rapper Cam’ron in a serious discussion about Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recent controversies spiraled into an unexpected promotion of a sex stimulant drink and ended with the artist questioning his own appearance on the network.

The interview, conducted by CNN’s Abby Phillip, initially aimed to discuss the implications of a recently surfaced video showing Diddy in a negative light.

However, Cam’ron, who has recently gained media attention due to his popular podcast with fellow rapper Mase, “It Is What It Is,” was not having any of it.

The Gateway Pundit reported that a 2016 surveillance video showed Diddy violently assaulting his then-girlfriend, model and singer Cassie Ventura.

Diddy is seen running down the hotel hall with a towel wrapped around his waist. He grabs Ventura by her neck, throws her on the ground and repeatedly kicks her before dragging her away.

“Everything in the video is egregious,” Cam’ron said firmly. “I don’t support all the charges that are alleged against him. I don’t support any of that traffic in minors, domestic violence. I’m totally against it. So when I saw the video, yeah, I was upset with it… He’s not necessarily a friend, but yeah, I was upset when I have seen it.”

Phillip’s relentless probing into Cam’ron’s personal experiences with Diddy only fueled the rapper’s frustration.

“Did you recognize that anger at all from your experiences?” asked Phillip.

Cam’ron’s response was pointed: “I don’t know him like that. What do you mean did I recognize him? I seen him. What do you mean my experiences? I seen him and I thought it was disgusting, I didn’t do a zoom in to see if it was really him or nothing, but he admitted it was him so yeah, it was him.”

When asked about what he thinks about the apology video by Diddy, the 48-year-old rapper responded, “The apology ain’t for me, it’s for Cassie. He ain’t do nothing for me. What I think about it don’t matter. You need to ask Cassie if she accepts the apology. I told you how I feel. I said what I said.”

Phillip then aired a clip from Cam’ron’s podcast ‘It Is What It Is,’ in which he discusses with fellow rapper Mase the reasons behind Mase choosing to introduce him to the Notorious B.I.G. instead of aligning him with Diddy’s Bad Boy Records when Mase secured his own record deal.

“Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Is there something known in the industry about how Diddy treated his artists?” asked Phillip.

Phillip’s inquiries into Diddy’s historical treatment of artists prompted Cam’ron to pause and conspicuously consume his Pink Horse Power sex supplement on live television. This left Phillip visibly confused and horrified as she looked at her producer.

“Sorry, I’m gonna get some cheeks after this Horse Power drink,” said Cam’ron after drinking his sex-stimulant drink.

Cam’ron brought up his podcast partner, Mase, suggesting that much of his knowledge about Diddy came second-hand. He then plugged his podcast, saying, “My show does come on at 08:00 AM Eastern on YouTube. It’s called ‘It Is What It Is.’ Make sure y’all check it out. I might get some more information out of Mase from there.”

As Phillip continued to probe about industry protection enabling Diddy’s behavior, Cam’ron’s patience wore thin.

It became painfully obvious that he wanted absolutely no part of the interview about Diddy. Visibly annoyed, he questioned the purpose of his appearance on CNN.

“Who’s the talent agent for this joint? You think I’ll be sitting around watching what Diddy’s doing? I didn’t know this was a Diddy joint that y’all invited me to. Who booked me for this joint? I don’t sit around watching Diddy and all that. Come on, man. That’s just crazy,” he said.

Watch the dumpster fire interview:

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Argentine President Javier Milei is on a roll: inflation is shrinking, the Peso is the best performing currency in the world. As he said: ‘We went from discussing the possibility of hyperinflation in December to talking about mortgage loans.’

And now, he is taking his fight against communism to Europe, to their old colonial power, Spain.

Watch: Triumphant entry of Milei in Vox’s rally in Madrid.

Triumphant entry of Milei in Vox’s rally in Madrid. pic.twitter.com/FWxztRKp6p

— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 21, 2024

Milei is back in Argentina after his triumphant participation in the Vox rally in Madrid, in which he called the wife of the Spanish Prime Minister ‘corrupt’:

“HELLO EVERYONE…!!! THE LION IS BACK, SURFING ON A WAVE OF SOCIALIST TEARS… LONG LIVE FREEDOM DAMMIT”

Milei gave a fiery speech against communism and socialism that reverberated in Conservative circles around the world:

“Socialism hides the worst of human nature, which is envy, hatred, resentment, and, if necessary, murder. Never forget that the damned socialists murdered 150 million human beings.”

Milei also encouraged the ‘cultural battle’: “Let’s go back to defending the values that made the West great: life, liberty, and property,” he urged.

But it was the criticism of the corruption inside the Prime Minister’s family that is causing controversy.

Milei accused Begoña Gómez, the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, of being “corrupt” during an event organized by the Vox party

“What a bunch of people who got into power. Even when he has a corrupt wife, he gets dirty and takes five days to think about it.”

The  Spanish government reacted by summoned its ambassador in Buenos Aires for consultations. Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares demanded a ‘public apology’ from the Argentine leader for words he considers ‘extremely serious’.

“It is unacceptable that a sitting president, while visiting Spain, insults Spain and the Prime Minister. It is a direct attack on our democracy and our institutions.”

Pepa Millán, spokeswoman for VOX party, defended Javier Milei against Pedro Sánchez:

“What did they expect him to do after Sánchez called him a drug addict and fascist? Milei was restrained; he was very polite. Sánchez should watch his wife.”

And just like that, #PedroVigilaATuEsposa began trending on X to the despair of the Spanish socialist apparatus.

It’s true: Spanish authorities have called Milei a ‘drug addict’, ‘fascist’, ‘denialist’, ‘authoritarian’ and ‘delirious’, in addition to accusing him of ‘attacking democracy’.

Leader of the VOX Party, Santiago Abascal, also criticized Pedro Sánchez after the Spanish government recalled the Spanish Ambassador in Argentina.

“What the hell does the president’s wife have to do with the sovereignty and dignity of Spain? What kind of joke is [Foreign Minister] Albares calling the parliamentary groups?

[…] Diplomatic conflicts open when the sovereignty of the Nation is attacked, not when the alleged corruption of the president’s wife, and therefore the president, is mentioned.

And even less so when your ministers had previously called the same Javier Milei a drug addict whom they now want to muzzle.

Go ahead Pedro Sánchez, take another five days of vacation to whine but don’t make pathetic diplomatic antics.

Long live Spain! Down with Sánchez, his political corruption, his lies and his betrayal!”

Watch: After Javier Milei criticized corruption cases involving the wife of the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, protesters gathered and chanted: “Pedro Sánchez, son of a b*tch!”

Madrid – Spanish citizens had a message to the PM: ‘Pedro Sanchez, son of a b*tch!’ pic.twitter.com/b5BmPWhcJG

— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 21, 2024

Galicia – citizens have something to say about PM Sanchez. pic.twitter.com/sdu18NvwAD

— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) May 21, 2024

Meanwhile, PM Pedro Sanchez had a meltdown after multiple users on X trended the hashtag #PedroVigilaATuEsposa.

“I have already asked over and over again to leave my precious wife alone and now they are making a trend

This is not going to remain like this in any way and the Ministry of Equality and the Ministry of Women are already making the corresponding complaints.”

Read more:

Argentina’s Milei Cheered in Spain’s Vox Party Mass Rally – Calls PM Sanchez’s Wife Corrupt – Spanish Government Recalls Ambassador as Diplomatic Spat Intensifies

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Bread line, image courtesy of Antonio Graceffo

In the first year of the Biden administration, inflation hit a 40-year high and has continued to climb steadily since then. However, he blames the problem on “evil corporations,” not his own misguided economic policies.

“Too many corporations raise prices to pad their profits, charging more and more for less and less,” said President Biden in his most recent State of the Union Address. His administration has driven the deficit, expanded the debt to historic levels, printed money, increased the money supply, and given away trillions of dollars to people who do not work and to foreign countries, but he blames corporations for inflation. And to “protect” the public from the evil capitalist system where everyone is free to buy, sell, trade, and earn as they wish, he has vowed to crack down on “price gouging.” Ostensibly, the White House will decide what the “correct” prices should be and which prices are being gouged, and the government will use its vast power to force corporations to return those prices to a federally determined level.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City blames inflation on corporate profits. Some reports claim that corporate profits accounted for as much as 53% of inflation. The reality, however, is that inflation is a monetary phenomenon caused by the reckless fiscal and monetary policies of the Biden administration.

Inflation, by definition, is the expansion of credit and the money supply. This causes the buying power of the dollar to decrease, which means you need more dollars to buy things. Most consumers see and are alarmed by rising prices, but this is not inflation; it is only the result of inflation. The real culprit is massive debt creation, deficit spending, loan forgiveness, foreign aid, and transfer payments made by the Biden administration.

Evidence used by the White House and other liberal pundits regarding inflation reference the fact that corporate profits are up, identifying this as a cause of inflation. However, corporate profits are up in nominal terms because the dollar is worth less and prices are rising. Corporations took in more dollars, but those dollars buy fewer raw materials and pay for less labor than they did before Biden took office. The same administration that blames corporations for rising prices is also demanding that the minimum wage be doubled. Labor accounts for between 20% and 40% of cost for most retail and fast food businesses. Forcing a doubling of the minimum wage will drive prices up.

A CNN article about inflation is typical of the error the White House and mainstream media are making, whether wittingly or unwittingly. The article talked about a small business owner who had trouble earning a profit despite rising prices. As prices were rising, so were his costs. To break even, he was forced to raise his prices even higher. The small business owner then blamed corporations for higher prices. His personal experience was that costs were rising and his profits were dwindling, yet he believed corporate greed was causing inflation.

In the same article where the Federal Reserve blamed inflation on corporate profits, they also stated that “although corporate profits and inflation do not have a direct accounting relationship, inflation is directly affected by growth in the markup, or the ratio between the price a firm charges and the firm’s current marginal cost of production.” The Fed is wrong in stating that inflation is affected by changes in prices. It is true, however, that when costs increase, companies have to raise prices to earn a profit. And even if the margin stays the same, say 3%-8% profit, the nominal size of the profit increases.

Here is a simple example. If, before the start of the Biden administration, your business earned a 6% profit equal to $1. That $1 is worth less today and may not be enough to cover the increase in your costs and still earn a profit. So, you have to raise your prices to get a $1.20 profit to still earn 6%. And that $1.20 buys the same quantity of goods as the $1 did pre-Biden. Just like the cost-of-living adjustment in your salary, you are absolutely no better off; you are just dealing with larger numbers.

Another point that many media reports and studies made was that corporations were evil because they based their price rises on future expectations. In fact, there is nothing evil about this; it is totally normal. If you believe prices will go up next year, you make purchases this year. In the case of corporations, they order from the factory three to six months before the product will go to market. If they expect the costs of manufacturing to rise during that period, they raise prices so that they will have money to cover the next batch of manufacturing, which will be at the higher price.

An absolutely spurious claim made by the Federal Reserve is: “Specifically, markups grew by 3.4 percent over the year, whereas inflation, as measured by the price index for Personal Consumption Expenditures, was 5.8 percent, suggesting that markups could account for more than half of 2021 inflation.” This statement recognizes that inflation was higher than the markup. What this should mean is that increases in prices are lagging inflation, not driving it.

And finally, proof that the Biden administration is the culprit: An argument made by the Groundwork Collaborative think tank and others who blame “the corporations” is that corporate profits as a percentage of GDP have increased, and therefore corporate profits must have increased and are the cause of inflation. This logic ignores the fact that Biden’s lockdowns prevented people from working during the pandemic, and even now, not everyone is back at work. So, obviously, wages as a percentage of GDP will be lower if people are not working. Ironically, even the graphs created by Groundwork Collaborative clearly show that salaries as a percentage of GDP decreased during the lockdown.

As the nation rolls toward the 2024 elections, the White House is looking for anyone to blame for inflation while attempting to buy votes by continuing to give away free money, which is driving inflation.

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Donald Trump is planning to sue the filmmakers behind The Apprentice, a feature-length film where he is depicted raping his late wife Ivana.

The film, which was directed by Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi and tracks Trump’s rise in the New York real estate industry, shows Trump throwing his wife to the ground and raping her.

“Did I find your G spot?” he asks her.

In a statement to Mail Online, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung confirmed that they would be taking legal action against the filmmakers for defamation:

‘We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.

As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked.

This “film” is pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store, it belongs in a dumpster fire.

As reported yesteday, the ghoulish attendees at the Cannes Film Festival gave the film an eight minute long standing ovation.

Variety described the event:

In Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) violently throws his then-wife Ivana (Maria Bakalova) to the ground and proceeds to have nonconsensual sex with her.

In the controversial scene, Ivana playfully presents a book to her husband about the merits of a female orgasm. But the interaction between the two turns dark quickly, as an uninterested Trump tells his wife that he is no longer attracted to her. They argue, and then Trump throws her to the ground. As he angrily thrusts himself into her, an icy Trump sneers: “Is that your G spot? Did I find it?”

Heading into tonight’s premiere, insiders insisted that the scene, which Variety previously reported on, was consensual but uncomfortable. But reactions within the Palais said otherwise. One woman in her 20s called the scene, which unfolds in the couple’s home after an argument, “gross” and referred to it as “rape” after the credits rolled. Another female attendee agreed, calling it a disturbing sexual assault.

In reality, Trump had a close relationship with Ivana despite their eventual divorce. She passed away in 2022, with her death said to have had a profound impact on him.

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Muggings, vehicle break-ins, carjackings, and homicides continue to surge in blue cities nationwide following the Democrat-led institution of bail-reform laws that keep violent offenders out of jail and legislative measures that put the burden of liability on police officers while emboldening criminals.

In San Francisco, Prop 47 prevents police officers from arresting or even intervening with anyone shoplifting up to $950 of merchandise.

Flagrant shoplifting has become such a regular occurrence in the Golden City that convenience store chains like Target, Walgreens, and CVS have resigned to shutting down operations in the Democrat-run city.

Footage from inside a Target store in San Francisco showcased by journalist Benny Johnson in an “investigation of the most dangerous Target in America” could be mistaken for images from a communist third-world hellhole in South America or Akistan or dystopia satire from the movie Idiocracy.

Unfortunately, it’s the Biden regime’s ghettoization of America.

“Target is one of America’s most successful retailers. They’re typically in the business of opening up stores, not closing them down. Every single Target in San Francisco has been closed down except one in this location. This Target in the Tenderloin district is suffering, severely,” Johnson explains as he walks into one of the only remaining Target stores in the city. “And why would that be? Typically when you open up a store you want to sell items, not have them stolen.”

“Because San Francisco refuses to criminalize homelessness or robberies, the robberies within the neighborhood this Target is located are up 44 percent this year. Not just robberies. The homicides are up 33 percent; rape is up 20 percent; assault is up 17 percent; and arson is up 21 percent.”

“Also, motor vehicle theft, which we nearly experienced when we were in San Francisco, is up 50 percent.”

Even the glass door to the entry of the store was shattered and broken, the popular conservative talk show host noted.

Johnson and his film crew also witnessed a robbery the second he entered the building. He then watched an armed security that “looks like special forces” bust the shoplifter.

Oh, and Johnson’s car was also vandalized while parking in the Democrat-run district.

At least the store shelves in the San Francisco Target are stocked, not empty as they had been throughout the manufactured Covid-1984 takeover. But nearly every item in the store is locked in, behind glass or in a plastic box or tied to the shelf with metal detectors to prevent theft.

“Does your Target have to lock up, in plastic boxes, literally every item?” Johnson quipped. “As soon as you get in the shopping area, you notice that everything, I mean everything, is locked up inside of little plastic containers that would be very, very hard to steal.”

“This is what a zero-trust society looks like.”

 

“To buy something at this store you need a personal shopper, [sales assistant] as everything is behind glass, or has a tag attached to it that alarms if you move the item — everything from underwear, to chapstick to lotion has a security tag and box,” he continued. “Need a pair of pants? You’re going to need to call somebody because everything has been locked up.”

WATCH: 

I Investigated Most Dangerous TARGET in America | You Will NOT Believe This pic.twitter.com/aoBHdgmp1e

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 19, 2024

While the political party that led efforts to defund the police and allow robbers, rapists, pedophiles, and killers back into the streets without posting bond or bail, Americans who protested the tyranny and installation of a dictatorship in the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 continue to get handed long prison sentences, even decades behind bars, for non-violent misdemeanor offense, like cavalierly strolling around the US Capitol building while taking selfies.

Hundreds of J6 political prisoners languish in jails across America for year 3+ years in pretrial detention.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a delegation to Washington this week to demand that the Biden regime reverse a ban on the firing of U.S. missiles on Russian territory.

The delegation, which included five members of the Ukrainian parliament, met with Biden officials and requested that the U.S. drop the ban, which would dramatically increase the risk of WW3 and perhaps even nuclear armageddon.

The Hill reports:

Ukraine’s struggle to fend off Russia’s massive offensive in the Kharkiv region has underscored a pressing issue that Kyiv has long tried to overturn: a ban on firing U.S. weapons to hit inside of Russia.

Russia launched its Kharkiv offensive from the neighboring Belgorod region, and some Ukrainian officials are arguing that the attack could have been blunted if they were allowed to hit targets in that Russian province.

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In lieu of a policy change, Ukraine has resorted to hitting inside of Russia with its own weapons, including cheap drones that have harassed Russian targets such as oil refineries. The campaign to hit oil refineries with drones has picked up in pace and breadth in recent months.

But Ukrainian officials say there is no substitute for American-made arms such as the missile launcher weapon High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) or valued long-range artillery like the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).

David Arahamiya, a Ukrainian MP who led the delegation, revealed that the request came directly from the country’s military generals.

“It’s like if somebody were to attack Washington, D.C., from the Virginia state, and you say we’re not going to hit Virginia for some reason,” he said. “It’s crazy. Military people, like generals, they don’t understand. So they are pushing us as politicians, like stop [the policy] this is insane.”

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a trip to Kiev this week that Ukraine should focus on retaking lost territory.

“Ukraine has to make decisions for itself about how it’s going to conduct this war, a war it’s conducting in defense of its freedom, of its sovereignty, of its territorial integrity,” Blinken said at a press conference. “We’ve been clear about our own policy.”

This position was reiterated by Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh. “We believe that the equipment, the capabilities that we are giving Ukraine, that other countries are giving to Ukraine, should be used to take back Ukrainian sovereign territory,” she said. “The weapons that are provided, again, are for use on the battlefield.”

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned that he will launch a nuclear strike if he feels it is necessary.

“From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready,” Putin said in March. “(In the U.S.) there are enough specialists in the field of Russian-American relations and in the field of strategic restraint. Therefore, I don’t think that here everything is rushing to it (nuclear confrontation), but we are ready for this.”

It might be time to negotiate a peace agreement.

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Catherine Engelbrecht reveals how True the Vote is cleaning the voter rolls this election cycle to cut down on the massive voter fraud.

Catherine Engelbrecht joined The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and Patty McMurray this week to discuss True the Vote’s latest efforts to prevent Democrats from stealing the 2024 election with mail-in voter fraud.

Catherine also spoke about her time in prison for exposing the Konnech company, the ballot harvesters in Atlanta, and the late night ballot drops at the TCF Center in Detroit on election night.

In 2020, President Trump was famously leading by wide margins in every single battleground state. That’s when the state officials announced they were going to take the night off for the first time in US history. Within four days, after locking election observers out of the counting rooms, Democrats secured a lead in every single swing state by Saturday thanks to their unlimited supply of mysterious votes.

This year True the Vote launched their IV3.US platform that empowers voters with an automated way to confirm accuracy, identify ineligible records, report findings to local authorities, and stay up to date on the recent changes to your local voter rolls.

Catherine Engelbrecht: I look back at 2020. We recognized early in the year, early in 2020. In fact, we recognized in the fourth quarter of 2019 that some things were happening that were uncommon… Of course, it was revealed that this was under the fog of COVID, we were going to see this push towards mass mail out of ballots and the distribution and deployment of drop boxes all over the country, all funded by Mark Zuckerberg and nearly a half a billion dollars, plus, of course, federal Cares Act money and so forth.

So we saw a lot of newly introduced weaknesses in the process. And one of the funny parts of what happened, not so funny, that may be ironic, I guess, that at the time, it seemed as though the Republican Party’s position was, and it’s typically this, they didn’t want to get involved in fighting back because they don’t like to get involved in primaries, even though what was happening in 2020 wasn’t about a primary, it was about a permanent change to our electoral process.

And so many of those changes went on to be codified, and now it’s just part of the normal process. Dropboxes are normal now. The mass mail out of ballots, although some of it’s been reeled back, it’s still prevalent, far more so than it had been historically. Anyway, all of that happened in 2020, leading into November third and the chaos that ensued.

I think maybe the only good thing to come out of 2020 is that we now have millions more Americans who are engaged, who are asking questions, who are working instructively. And that’s the power. If we can just stay that course, that’s the power that we have to bring and demonstrate at the polls. So So that’s a look back at 2020 for us. Lots of lessons learned and moving them forward. We’re a little older, a little wiser, certainly still as sleep-deprived as ever. But we’ve built a lot of apps and new technology and training and support to bring into 2024.

Catherine on True the Vote’s election integrity efforts this year

Catherine Engelbrecht: We have, I think, four things that are going on that people might be interested in knowing about. And is it okay with you? I’ll just go through them. The first is a simple project. It’s called Scan, Check, Protect. And this is something that anybody Everybody can do. Maybe you don’t want to be a part of a bigger research effort. Totally fine. You can find all of this on our website. What Scan, Check, Protect does is you snap a QR code and it takes you to a page that if you’re not registered to vote, and this is nationwide. If you’re not registered to vote, you can get registered. If you are registered, you can look at your registration and make sure it’s accurate. But the most important part is the protect part. If you have ever moved to a different state from the original state where you were registered, chances are that registration in your previous states is still on the books. Most people think that because we live in modern age, that it should resolve itself and that once you move on and you move all your affairs to another state, that it should be autocorrected, but that’s not the case.

And so what you can do from this page on our website is any state that you lived in previously, go and look up your record. If it’s still there, we give you information on how to have it removed. So that’s a very simple spring cleaning, something that everybody can do, and it’s a great way. If you are just checking on your record, because we have a big project with IV3 going on about cleaning the rolls, but this is just you coming with your record and saying, Hey, I don’t live in the state anymore. Please take me off the rolls. Simple, quick win. So that’s Scan, Check, Protect.

IV3.US takes it another step. And IV3 is for the concerned citizen who’s registered in their county and wants to look at ineligible records. Every state has a different process. Some of those processes aren’t very clearly defined, but every state has somewhat of a process that a voter can submit ineligible records to their county for their review, and then the county can take appropriate action. It’s just another step All with the goal of getting the rules as accurate as they can be before the election.

There’s a deadline involved. And so IV3.US is our most pressing project right now because According to the National Voter Registration Act, which not every state is a part of, but most states are. And according to that standard, states have to lock in their roles 90 days out from an election. And So now is the season for doing all you can to help evaluate roles and to submit your findings to the county.

This is all good news for the country and President Trump!

Please listen to Catherine Engelbrecht discuss her latest efforts to secure the election in 2024.

And please support True the Vote in their ongoing efforts for voter integrity.

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