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Daily Bible Verse
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Revelation 21:4
Least Surprising Bombshell News of the Day:
Despite being “fact-checked” by debate moderators who insisted he was wrong about violent crime being up, it turns out Donald Trump was right. The FBI claimed the violent crime rate was down by 2.1% from September 2022 to September 2023, but it was actually up by 4.5%.
The Biden Justice Department did everything possible to keep the revision quiet, making a stealth edit on their website to correct incomplete data. Researcher John R. Lott said the revision wasn’t apparent unless you downloaded the latest numbers and compared them to the previous numbers that had already been deleted from the website.
Now, maybe the media can turn its attention to disproving the equally laughable claim that more illegal aliens were coming in under Trump than under Biden.
Here’s more enlightening and entertaining reaction to the news…
Wade testifies in closed session of the House Judiciary Committee
Former Fulton County, Georgia, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who proved suspiciously hard to locate, finally testified Tuesday in a closed session of the House Judiciary Committee in what was described as “a marathon 4-1/2-hour grilling.”
His former (?) girlfriend, DA Fani Willis, did everything possible to prevent the testimony, including sending Wade a letter ordering him not to speak and sending a scathing letter to Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan. She claimed that Wade had "knowledge of highly sensitive and confidential information regarding this ongoing criminal matter" (her RICO prosecution of Trump and his associates) that “belongs” to her office and is protected by "privileges" held by them. Willis, who’s been threatened with contempt of Congress, has claimed that Jordan is “ignorant” of the Constitution and lacks "a basic understanding of the law, its practice, and the ethical obligations of attorneys generally and prosecutors specifically." Wow, that's a huge lack of self-awareness.
For the record, Jordan has a law degree and, as previously mentioned, is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
I freely admit I don’t have a law degree, but I have watched a lot of “Perry Mason” episodes, and I’ve noticed that it’s not the DA who springs last minute surprise evidence in court, it’s the defense. I believe there’s this thing called “discovery” that requires DAs to share all the evidence against a defendant long before they get to this stage of a prosecution. So I’m curious about what this “confidential” information is that nobody but the DA is allowed to see, 14 months after she filed her ridiculous indictments.
Video of the Day!
From last weekend’s “Huckabee” on TBN: My interview with Rabbi Jonathan Cahn about his startling new book “The Dragon’s Prophecy” and how the October 7th attack on Israel was prophesied in the Bible. He even shared that information with his congregation on the night of October 6, 2023.
New Heights of Hysterical Insanity
On the subject of the left’s increasingly desperate attacks on Trump, it appears that Harris’ cratering in the polls now that voters are finally hearing from her is driving leftists to new heights of hysterical insanity, and it’s downright hilarious. For instance, James Carville claimed that Trump will “use the military to round up…his domestic political enemies” (you remember how he did that in his first term? No?) and that his plan to hold a rally in Madison Square Garden is “a mimic of a rally held on February 20, 1939, by the American Nazi Party.” Or maybe with all the music, dancing and blue-collar Americans, it will be a mimic of countless Billy Joel concerts there.
Then there was the Kamala backer on MSNBC who claimed that there are no gangs of criminal illegal aliens terrorizing places like Springfield, Ohio. No, the real threat is gangs of roving MAGA white supremacists terrorizing those neighborhoods. Really? What are they doing, forcing people to say the Pledge of Allegiance at gunpoint? I’m surprised they have time to terrorize the citizenry since they actually have jobs.
https://rumble.com/v5ioybx-liberal-argues-maga-gangs-are-terrifying-neighborhoods.html
Finally, from our “They’ve been smoking their own stash” desk comes the story of the morons posing as MAGA supporters who tried to crash a boat parade for Trump in Jupiter, Florida, wearing swastika T-shirts and flying Trump and swastika flags. The real MAGA boaters immediately spotted their attempted smear, surrounded them yelling curses, and then one in a larger boat got in front of them, gunned his engine, and soaked them with a wall of water.
It’s unclear whether the person to whom the boat was registered is an actual neo-Nazi (it was reported that he’s not a registered Republican or a known Trump supporter) or more likely, a leftist who’s fallen for the “Trump is Hitler” garbage and didn’t realize that nobody outside Kamala’s campaign team would be dumb enough to believe they were actual MAGA people.
There might have been a time when these crazy rants from nutjobs like Joy Reid on MSNBC about MAGA folks being Nazis might have worked on some people who weren’t paying close attention. But it’s after Labor Day, voters are now paying attention, and most can see which side is filled with normal, hard-working Americans of all races who want a return to common sense and which side is filled with radical loons led by babbling idiots. All this caterwauling about Nazis is just making them look even more ridiculous than they already did, and considering how many of them are men in dresses, that’s quite an accomplishment.
I suspect that the reason they believe MAGA people are mind-numbed cult members who think Trump is their God is because that’s how they view politics. As I’ve pointed out for years, having abandoned real religion, leftists have a God-shaped hole in their souls that they try to fill with “charismatic” politicians like Bill Clinton (“Power crackles from his jeans!”) and Barack Obama (“The Lightbringer” who could reverse the rising tides with a wave of his hand.) At least those guys were good at playing the role. When they’re stuck with stiffs like Dukakis, Kerry, Hillary and Kamala, it’s an impossible sell, so they resort to claiming it’s the Republicans who are blindly following a false Messiah.
Let me clear: I back Trump because I agree with most of his policies (not all); I think he has good intentions, sincerely loves America and wants to restore its power and leadership role and help its people; he’s a businessman and not a Washington insider; he tells you what he really thinks; and he has a solid record of peace and prosperity. I don’t think he’s perfect or deny his faults, I just choose to overlook them because they’re nowhere near as big as the positives. And unlike the Democrats, I’m just hiring a President, I’m not choosing a Messiah. I already have a Messiah, thank you.
“Galileo Harris” and Trump
Kamala Harris appeared on black radio host Charlamagne Tha God’s show Tuesday. Here are some of the most notable moments from that:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/4-key-takeaways-from-harris-interview-charlamagne-tha-god
A couple of points worth underlining: When asked about slavery reparations, a controversial and divisive idea estimated to cost up to $12 trillion, she replied, “So my agenda, well, first of all, on the point of reparations, it has to be studied. There's no question about that. And I've been very clear about that position in terms of my immediate plan." Does that mean she’s in favor? Who can tell?
Also, when asked if she and Biden don’t have to take some responsibility for the massive surge of illegal aliens, she said this:
"No, Charlamagne. Within hours of being inaugurated, the first bill we passed before we did the Inflation Reduction Act, before we did the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, before we did the Safer Communities Act to deal with gun violence. The first thing we dropped was a bill to fix the broken immigration system, which, by the way, Trump did not fix when he was president."
That’s a lot of words that mean, “No, I refuse to take responsibility.” That bill not only wouldn’t have fixed the border problems, it was unnecessary. The border was open because Biden immediately undid all of Trump’s security measures with executive orders, and after years of blaming the results on Congress and claiming he couldn’t act unless they passed a border bill, he got close enough to the election that he finally imposed some security back by executive order.
(Speaking of Biden & Harris’ superb border security efforts, we just learned that 30% of the security cameras on the border are broken.)
Kamala Harris also appeared on Roland Martin’s Black Star Network show and was asked about Trump’s alleged fixation on violent crime in Democrat-run cities. She served up this world salad that quickly earned her the nickname “Galileo Harris.”
“I talked with somebody once who said, ‘You know, if you just look at, where the stars are in the sky. Don’t look [at] ’em as just random things, if you just look at ’em as points. Look at the constellation — what does it show you?’ So you just outlined it, Roland, what does it show you? That the cities that he picks on in terms of black population or black mayor or both. C’mon.”
Personally, I’d say when it comes to crime in Democrat-run cities, the fault lies not in our stars but in themselves, by which I mean the Democrats running them, regardless of race. In a related story, Walgreen’s just announced that it’s closing 1200 stores, or about a seventh of its locations.
They didn’t say which locations yet, but they’re already fleeing Democrat-run cities like San Francisco due to heavy financial losses from shoplifting and customers getting tired of having to wait for bulletproof cabinets to be unlocked to get a tube of toothpaste. I hope the Big Dipper won’t call me a racist for pointing that out.
Trump also made an appearance Tuesday before the Economic Club of Chicago. Despite hostile questions from the Bloomberg interviewer, he parried them masterfully, earning multiple rounds of applause from the audience. Afterward, the Harris campaign tweeted that he was “rambling” and “angry.” Okay, let’s see her answer tough questions on the economy live for a couple of hours and show him how it’s done.
Yeah, I didn’t think so…
Here are five major takeaways from the event…
Remember when…
Remember after the Trump-Harris debate, when the media savaged Trump for lying that Kamala Harris backed taxpayer-paid sex change operations for prison inmates and illegal alien detainees? And then it turned out she’d said exactly that? Well, she didn’t just say it…
The Harris plagiarism scandal grows
The plagiarism scandal is getting worse around Kamala Harris’ 2009 book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” (that title had to be stolen from someone else, since no part of it applies to Kamala.) I reported yesterday that some substantial portions of it were found to have been copied from Wikipedia, which is not only plagiarism, it's lazy plagiarism.
Well, here are the latest updates:
It appears that in the same book, Harris cribs a story from the Rev. Martin Luther King and presents it as if it happened to herself.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/15/kamalas-plagiarism-scandal-just-got-worse-n4933359
Harris’ publisher accidentally CC'd Christopher Rufo, the journalist who broke the story, on an internal email revealing that they’re in damage control mode and see this as a “very sensitive topic.”
And the New York Times attempted to brush the story under the rug, first by claiming the stolen parts weren’t substantial enough to matter, thus establishing a new literary standard that “a little plagiarism” is okay. Then they tried the “Republicans pounce” trope and claimed that pointing out the plagiarism was racist. Then it turned out the plagiarism expert they quoted to exonerate Harris hadn’t even seen the entire book, just excerpts provided to him by the Times reporters.
As I always say, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” You may quote me on that.
The Times stands by its story
The New York Times might want to stop playing defense for Kamala and start spending more time on fact-checking. The Times published a guest article, allegedly by 65 doctors, nurses and paramedics who worked in Gaza, claiming they treated children who were victims of Israeli military violence. It came complete with X-rays supposedly showing bullets lodged in the skulls and necks of children.
But is this just a hoax to smear Israel? Forensics experts are crying foul, citing multiple things wrong with the X-rays that suggest they’re hoaxes, such as no entrance or exit wounds, no deformation of the bullets, and the bullets all being perpendicular to the camera, as if they were simply placed beneath the X-rays.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/15/did-the-new-york-times-publish-a-hoax-n3795835
Despite the many issues with the images, the Times is standing by its story, although they’ve so far refused to release the evidence to independent investigators. They insisted that “any implication that its images are fabricated is simply false.” I’m sure they are real as the Soviet famines of the 1930s were false, and we got the New York Times’ word for both.
Time for a laugh
I always like to include a laugh or two amid the serious news, and few articles are funnier than this one, about the latest recipients of the MacArthur “Genius” Grants. It appears that most of them only have a genius for using DEI nonsense to game the system and bamboozle guilty white liberal award judges out of 800,000 bucks each.
https://revolver.news/2024/10/macarthur-joke-geniuses-proof-dei-still-dominant/
Breaking story
As we were going to press, word came that Israel has reportedly eliminated Yahwa Sinwar, the top Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7th attack. This is a breaking story, but here’s what’s known at this writing…
Voting
Here is an interview I gave to Wendy Griffith at CBN.com about the importance of voting and the dire consequences to the nation when 40 million Christians don’t even bother to vote.
https://cbn.com/news/us/its-shocking-former-governor-mike-huckabee-calling-christians-vote
Our judges are doing their part to ensure that Americans believe that the election is trustworthy. Only kidding: they’re siding with Democrats to undo virtually every voting integrity measure.
In Nebraska, the State Supreme Court ruled that convicted felons can vote in the November election.
The Harris campaign celebrated a Georgia judge blocking a rule that election officials must hand-count ballots after they’re machine-counted.
The next day, a (guess where?) Fulton County, Georgia, judge declared an entire slate of new election rules to be “illegal, unconstitutional and void,” including the hand-counting rule above.
These stories can be added to the pile, along with California’s ban on asking voters to show ID.
I don’t print these stories to discourage you from voting. I relay them to show you which party is working 24/7 to make elections less secure (which I don’t believe they’re doing for purely altruistic reasons) and to make you so furious that you will not let anything keep you from voting, and taking as many like-minded people with you as possible. Make sure that the vote to stop this kind of thing is so overwhelming that it dwarfs any ballot chicanery that might be attempted.
Speaking of voting, here’s Kurt Schlichter on that very subject, and he has a message I want every Republican to hear:
The Interview
Wednesday, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both made appearances before questioners who were perceived as not being especially friendly. Trump appeared before a Fox News forum of women and a Univision townhall of Latino voters. As usual with Trump, he answered even uncomfortable questions and maybe won over a few people who were predisposed by the media to hate him. Here are links to stories on both of those appearances:
And now, to the one you’ve been waiting for, the interview that has Democrats howling and some analysts saying it ended Kamala’s campaign (I don’t believe that; if the majority of her followers cared about her being prepared, competent or even coherent, her campaign never would have started.) That would be Harris’ interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. Stories about it have used the word “trainwreck” so many times, I can’t believe Pete Buttigieg wasn’t involved.
I don’t like to be too negative, so let me start out with some praise: She finally agreed to do a live interview with Fox News and actually showed up. That showed more courage than any other interview she’s done so far (of course, most of them were with fawning fans like “The View” and Stephen Colbert. And Trump shows up to hostile media outlets almost daily. Bret Baier interviewed him last year and didn’t go easy.) Plus, she reportedly showed up 15 minutes late, forcing the scheduled 25-minute interview to be cut to 15 minutes. Baier said her handlers were frantically waving off-camera after 15 minutes to wrap it up (I can imagine why, and not because of the clock.) And there are those who say she never would have agreed to it if her internal polling wasn’t brutal...
Nevertheless, she did show up, and for that, I give her credit.
But everything beyond that…Hoo boy! This interview proved why she has only talked to fan club members up until this point. Baier was the first real interviewer she’s faced, and she imploded like the Tropicana Hotel. Some are even comparing it to Biden’s campaign-ending debate performance.
Baier asked questions that she has been asked before and should have been ready for, about illegal immigration, how her policies differ from Biden’s, when she noticed Biden’s mental decline, etc. The difference was that Baier didn’t accept the same canned, robotic non-answers she’s given before and kept asking follow-up questions to try to get a clear answer. She seemed unprepared for that and became rattled, defensive and irritated.
Perhaps the moment that best summed it up was when she ended a typical evasive word salad response with “You and I both know what I’m talking about,” and Baier replied, “I actually don’t, what are you talking about?” This was in an interview in which I lost count of how many times she said, “Let’s be clear,” then proceeded to be about as clear as Mississippi mud.
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1846680688189161605
I’m not going to go through every bad moment, or this would just be a full transcript. In fact, rather than tweeting the most damaging clips as campaigns usually do, the Trump campaign simply tweeted out the entire interview. It’s also sparked so many write-ups that I’ll link to some of the best:
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/17/vigilant-fox-kamala-harris-fox-interview-thread-n2402313
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/10/16/kamala-harris-gives-a-train-wreck-fox-interview-n2180674
And here’s Scott Pinsker of PJ Media on the scrambling fallout over the interview…
If I had to pick the most disturbing moment for me, personally, it would be her failure to apologize to the families of Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley for their deaths at the hands of criminal illegal aliens. Just saying “I am so sorry for (their) loss, sincerely,” when you at least indirectly caused it isn’t sympathy, it’s deflection.
But the line that will undoubtedly appear in hundreds of Trump ads was when Harris said, “You got to take responsibility for what happened in your Administration.” Yes, you do. So when will she start?
Democrats and the Harris-doormat media are frantically trying to spin this as a win for her…
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/17/top-10-meltdowns-over-kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-n2402298
…Or to accuse Baier of “ambushing” her (with predictable questions?) Joe Scarborough called him “shockingly rude,” which I would define as showing up 15 minutes late for a live TV interview – or calling someone a Nazi, Joe. But he was just being that rarest of things in 2024: a journalist doing his job, without regard to politics.
What this interview really exposed is something that even Democrats once understood: Kamala Harris is not presidential material, which is why she didn’t even make it to the Iowa Caucuses in 2020 and had to be handed the nomination without winning a single primary vote. If she can’t even withstand an interview with Bret Baier, how is she going to stand up to Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-Un? It’s not sexist to ask that. I wouldn’t want a man in that job who couldn’t go face-to-face with our enemies, and I would never question whether a woman like Margaret Thatcher could do it.
In fact, here’s Trump dealing skillfully with an actual hostile interviewer just this week (FYI: Harris was invited to this same event, but declined.)
Here are more reactions to Harris’ Fox News interview from a number of sources. The best might be from Danny DeUrbina, who tweeted that “getting absolutely COOKED on Fox News right now is the closest Kamala has ever been to working the fries.”
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/10/16/im-speaking-bret-baier-interviews-kamala-harris-n2402284
I’ll give the last word to the Babylon Bee…
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-wondering-if-its-too-late-to-go-back-to-joe-biden
A follow-up: Liz Cheney’s improper communications with J6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson
Yesterday, we discussed the newly-discovered reason why the testimony of January 6 “Select” Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson kept growing and changing during their so-called investigation. Her testimony grew to include such tall tales as Trump lunging to grab the steering wheel away from his driver so he could go to Capitol Hill (not only hearsay, but a physically impossible feat disputed by both Secret Service agents who were actually there). Recently uncovered encrypted messages suggest that committee co-chair Liz Cheney had been unethically coordinating with Hutchinson on her testimony, going around Hutchinson’s own attorney, Stefan Passantino, to do this. To account for Hutchinson’s evolving testimony --- ultimately she had SIX transcribed interviews --- a phony story was apparently concocted that Passantino had given her bad advice, leading almost to his disbarment, though charges were later dropped.
It was also Cheney who arranged for Hutchinson to have new, different counsel (from a short list of attorneys created by Cheney herself) and for them to work pro bono.
Our perspective --- we’re admittedly non-lawyers and have our own terminology --- is that this stinks to high heaven. For a legal perspective, we now have a column by law professor Jonathan Turley, who goes into more detail on all the things Liz Cheney was doing to shape a phony narrative for the cameras, including burying the evidence of Trump authorizing the deployment of the National Guard in advance of the rally.
Turley thinks that “ethical proceedings against Cheney are unlikely” over the disclosure of the ex parte communications with witness Hutchinson. (Well, of course they are.) But “the evidence seemingly contradicts public accounts of how Hutchinson decided to fire her counsel and change her testimony.” As much as we want to see accountability, we’d say it’s not as important as being able to view Hutchinson’s later testimony in the clear light of day, which we now can do.
Turley quotes Rule 4.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, which says “a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate about the subject of the representation with a person known to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the prior consent of the lawyer representing such other person or is authorized by law or a court order to do so.” We’d take that to mean that if anyone should be disbarred, it’s Cheney, not Passantino.
It appears that one mitigating factor for Cheney is that, judging from these messages, Hutchinson is the one who reached out to her about her testimony, not the other way around. We see little difference that this should make in Cheney’s subsequent behavior --- she should have flatly said, “I can’t talk to a witness” --- but for fellow attorneys looking for a reason to give Cheney, as a member of Congress, a pass, this might be enough. Turley says it’s “a gray area.”
He singles out this quote from Passantino’s conversation with JUST THE NEWS that we linked to yesterday: “I absolutely had no knowledge at the time that Congresswoman Liz Cheney was communicating with my client behind my back --- either directly, through her staff, or through cutouts.” (Passantino is presently pursuing a defamation lawsuit against Andrew Weissmann, an MSNBC legal analyst and former aide to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.)
Also noted by Turley: “Cheney and the Committee were aware that the account [of Trump and the limo driver] was directly and clearly refuted by the driver of the vehicle. However, they buried his account and highlighted that claim in its final report as being credible.”
One shocking thing we learned from Turley’s column is that Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House staffer who served as the handy go-between for Cheney and Hutchinson’s conversations, is now a co-host on THE VIEW. (We most definitely don’t watch THE VIEW and so had no idea.) Actually, this shouldn’t be shocking at all; it’s really just par for the course.
I Just Wanted to Say
Thank you for reading my newsletter.
If Kamala Harris "wins" this Election after all this crap and crud We the People will KNOW it was a FRAUD. And you can mark my words.
Trump Trump Trump. That's all this street brawd had to talk about. She intentionally arrived late being full of fight to deflect lie and stonewall on the few issues Brett Baier got to. She refused to accept blame for all the failures of her administration over the last three and a half years. In her previous sixteen minute forty seven second interview she said.......I haven't changed. That's all you need to know about her. Real Americans can see through this fraud and will vote accordingly on November 5th.