FBI Authorized Use of Deadly Force During Mar-a-Lago Raid
An exhibit filed today by Donald Trump in a motion to suppress evidence seized during the FBI’s August 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago revealed shocking new details about the bureau’s plans to use deadly force and even engage the former president and his security detail that day if necessary.
The document is just one of many court filings recently ordered unsealed by Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the matter in southern Florida.
The raid involved 25 Miami FBI agents, four Washington FBI agents, one unidentified individual from FBI Headquarters, one DOJ attorney, and the assistant U.S. Attorney from the Southern District of Florida.
But according to the operations order, law enforcement was not preparing a routine search for presidential papers. One section of the plan described how agents should handle the potential for use of deadly force:
The FBI also considered various scenarios should the former president unexpectedly arrive at his residence during the raid. Agents were also prepared to go door-to-door to terrorize Mar-a-Lago guests if staff refused to turn over room keys:
Perhaps most shockingly, the FBI team included a medic to tend to anyone “injured” during the raid. The operations order identified a nearby trauma center with directions how to get there:
Additional exhibits in the unsealed motion today also indicate agents ransacked the bedrooms of Melania and Barron Trump
Glenn Greenwald sounds the alarm on increasing global censorship
American journalist Glenn Greenwald spoke about the rise of government-imposed censorship around the globe at Rumble LIVE in Toronto.
China’s censors deleted a video of children performing in Sichuan| Radio Free Asia (RFA)
China’s censors deleted a video of children performing in Sichuan. The kids are from a private performing arts school. They danced to Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall.” The 1979 song protests against abusive teachers and “thought control.
STUNNING RESULTS: Trump’s “Deport them ALL” Promise Beats Full Illegal Alien Amnesty
TMTG Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
SARASOTA, Fla., May 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq: DJT) (“TMTG” or the “Company”), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, is announcing financial results for the fiscal quarter ending on March 31, 2024, and will also file its 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) today. TMTG’s quarterly report and financials were reviewed by Semple, Marchal & Cooper, LLP, which the Company appointed as its independent registered public accounting firm, effective May 4, 2024, after a detailed evaluation process.
As of March 31, 2024, TMTG’s balance of cash and cash equivalents was $273.7 million. This comprises $233.7 million in unrestricted cash accounts and $40.0 million held in restricted accounts pending the effectiveness of TMTG’s registration statement on form S-1, which was filed with the SEC on April 15, 2024….
IDF intensifies offensive vs Gaza; U.S. Condemns ICC Prosecutor re Israel TV7 Israel News 21.05.24
1) Israel pledges to persist the fight against Hamas, irrespective of the ICC Prosecutor’s request for Arrest Warrants against Premier Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant.
2) Israel and Hezbollah exchange blows, as cross-border hostilities continuously intensify along the Israel-Lebanon border.
3) The Biden Administration, NATO and the European Union relay their respective condolences to the Islamic Republic of Iran for the death of President Ibrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Fani Willis once again cries racism — this time smearing investigators looking into her possible misconduct
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has an apparent tendency of ascribing race-based antipathies to her critics. Willis leaned once more into the trend when campaigning for re-election on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday, while also casting doubt on the legitimacy of her scrutineers.
The op-ed also called the allegations so far raised against Willis “dubious,” despite even Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee acknowledging the Democratic prosecutor’s “bad choices,” her “tremendous lapse in judgment,” her “legally improper” remarks, and her prosecutions’ encumbrance “by an appearance of impropriety.”
Maddow said, “This strikes me very close to my heart because I feel like this is one of the first times I’ve seen people stand up for you on this point.”
Willis, facing off Tuesday against fellow leftist Christian Wise Smith in the Democratic primary, told Maddow that she has complied with subpoenas from the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, even though she reportedly dragged her feet on producing requested documents regarding her office’s use of federal funds in March, such that Jordan felt compelled to threaten her with contempt of Congress.
Cori Bush claims police cause black people ’50 million’ days of trauma a year
Bush made the remarks while commemorating the birthday of Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer in self-defense in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
Bush goes on to say Brown’s family and friends have to deal with the trauma of the “police violence” that took away Brown. It is because of Brown’s case and others, Bush is pushing Congress to pass the “Helping Families Heal Act.”
Bush goes on to whitewash the destructive riots in Ferguson following Brown’s death by calling it an “uprising” for justice that “birthed an affirmative vision of our community.”
Cosponsors of Bush’s include Democratic Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.), Jesús “Chuy” García (Ill.), and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.).
Slavery-reparation activists demand $15 billion from Boston, perhaps $50 million more from white churches
Activists at a recent meeting demanded the City of Boston allocate billions of dollars in slavery reparations and also called for local white churches to invest millions more.
On Saturday, approximately 200 people gathered at the Bolling Building in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston to meet with members of an activist group called the Boston People’s Reparations Commission.
The professed purpose of the meeting was to establish community demands regarding restitution for slavery, which was effectively banned in Massachusetts before the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1789.
The Boston People’s Reparations Commission officially called for $15 billion from the city, ostensibly to be distributed among current black residents to atone for the beleaguered lives of slaves who died centuries ago. However, Rev. Kevin Peterson, the head of the activist commission, indicated that no amount would ever be satisfactory.
Charles Yancey, who spent more than three decades on the Boston City Council, noted that the promises made to former slaves following the Civil War have never been realized. “That has yet to happen,” Yancey insisted. “Let’s set the tone for the United States of America right here in the city of Boston.”
Still others took advantage of the opportunity simply to vent racial grievances. “I’m born and raised in Boston, Mass.,” railed Wanda Hervey. “I couldn’t stand this country [for] what they did to my people!”
Dem Rep. Tlaib Paid $435,000 to Anti-Israel Firm
Unbought Power was hired by Tlaib’s campaign for “fundraising consulting” beginning in 2020, the Examiner reports. The company is run by Rasha Mubarak, who has ties to organizations linked to terrorism, the Examiner said. Tlaib is the only lawmaker of Palestinian heritage.
Mubarak previously said it was a lie that Israel has the right to defend herself against terrorism, the Examiner reported. She was recently listed as a press contact on the website for Alliance for Global Justice, a charity with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, according to the Examiner.
The organizations have supported the boycott, divestment and sanctions move against Israel, calling for an academic and cultural boycott of the country, the Examiner reported.
Mubarak also worked for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. On Oct. 7, Nihad Awad, the national director for CAIR said he “was happy to see” Palestinians “break the siege” that day, according to The Examiner.
Tlaib has come under fire for her anti-Israel rhetoric. She was censured by her House colleagues in November after using and defending the chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which many say calls for the elimination of Israel.
Israelis Seize AP Equipment, More; Cite New Media Law
Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera.
The Qatari satellite channel is one of thousands of AP customers, and it receives live video from AP and other news organizations.
Officials from the Communications Ministry arrived at the AP location in the southern town of Sderot on Tuesday afternoon and seized the equipment. They handed the AP a piece of paper, signed by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, alleging it was violating the country’s foreign broadcaster law.
“The communications ministry will continue to take whatever enforcement action is required to limit broadcasts that harm the security of the state,” the ministry said in a statement.
On May 5, Israeli officials used the law to close down the offices of Al Jazeera and confiscated the channel’s equipment, banned its broadcasts, and blocked its websites.
Israel has long had a rocky relationship with Al Jazeera, accusing it of bias against the country, and Netanyahu has called it a “terror channel” that spreads incitement.
Revenge-seeking Colorado trio kills 5 in ‘coordinated’ arson attack – on the wrong home
Colorado man Kevin Bui has pleaded guilty to torching an innocent family’s home in the middle of the night, killing five people, including a toddler and a baby, out of revenge for stealing his cellphone – except none of the victims had anything to do with Bui’s stolen phone.
Bui was believed to be the ringleader of a trio of murderous arsonists, and used the “Find My iPhone” app to track the location of his stolen phone to the area of the victims’ home in 2020, but burned the wrong house, prosecutors said.
The group spent weeks planning the attack, according to the probable cause affidavit, which detailed texts and social media messages, including Bui’s Snapchat message: “#possiblyruinourfuturesandburnhishousedown.”
The blaze killed Djibril “Jibby” Diol, his wife Adja, and their 22-month-old daughter, Khadija, as well as Diol’s sister, Hassan, and her 6-month-old daughter, Hawa Beye.
Three other victims survived by jumping from the second-floor window, but suffered injuries, according to the probable cause affidavit, which detailed the horrifying moments the fire ripped through their home.
Suspected Portland serial killer indicted in murders of 3 women
Jesse Lee Calhoun, 39, an ex-con who was released from prison early in 2021, is accused of killing at least three women and suspected of causing at least two more deaths, according to authorities.
Police arrested him last year after women kept turning up dead within a 100-mile radius of the city.
Now he faces three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of abuse of a corpse after a large-scale investigation involving law enforcement agencies in multiple counties and the FBI across two states.
Calhoun received a light punishment for his prior convictions, including car theft, burglary and fighting with arresting officers. In 2021, then-Gov. Kate Brown commuted his 2018 sentence on drug and weapons charges as part of a program offering leniency for prisoners who volunteered to fight wildfires.
That was not his first release from prison – he had also served about two years on an assault conviction between 2009 and 2011.
Report: Chinese Citizens Using Ecuador – and Tiktok – to Reach U.S. Border
Ecuador is one of two countries in South America that presently do not impose any kind of entry visa requirements for bearers of Chinese passports. As a result, Chinese citizens seeking to claim asylum in the United States are taking advantage, reportedly flying to either Istanbul, Turkey, or Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on their way to Ecuador.
From there, they reportedly take another flight to Ecuador, followed by a bus ride toward the northern Colombian city of Necoclí, where they cross through the dangerous Darién Gap jungle trail to reach Panama, and then continue their journey through Central America toward the U.S. southern border.
Upon reaching the U.S. southern border, the Chinese nationals allegedly request asylum to American authorities under grounds of persecution by the Chinese communist regime led by dictator Xi Jinping.
Statistical information published by Panama’s migration authorities in April showed that more than 125,000 migrants crossed through the Darién Gap between January and April 17. In 2023, Panama registered a record-breaking number of 520,000 migrants crossing the jungle trail. The majority of the migrants who crossed the Darién Gap in 2023 hailed from Venezuela, Ecuador, Haiti, and China.
Alabama: Illegal Alien, Freed into U.S., Charged with Murdering 19-Year-Old Adam Luker
Antonio Antonio Rodas, a 29-year-old illegal alien, was arrested on May 8 and charged with murdering Luker.
According to Mobile County prosecutors, on April 28, Rodas was drunk driving at three times the legal limit and going 88 mph when he ran through a red light and crashed into Luker, who had the green light and was turning at the intersection.
More than a week after the crash, on May 6, Luker died from his injuries. A GoFundMe page has been created to help Luker’s family. Luker graduated from Mary G. Montgomery High School in May 2023.
At the scene of the crash, investigators said Rodas’s vehicle was filled with opened alcohol containers and smelled of alcohol. Before police could arrest Rodas, he sought to flee the U.S. to South America but was ultimately stopped from doing so and taken into Mobile County custody.
An extensive report from Brendan Kirby at FOX10 News revealed that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency knew Rodas for nearly six years before the crash that killed Luker.
An ICE official confirmed to FOX10 News that Rodas first crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near Hidalgo, Texas, in December 2018. Rather than remaining detained or being removed, Rodas was given a Notice to Appear (NTA) in immigration court at a later date and released into the U.S. interior, where he resettled in Mobile County.
In 2021, Rodas was arrested and charged in Mobile County for drunk driving. In this case, Rodas drove his car into a utility pole while driving drunk.
ICE officials were aware of Rodas’s arrest but did not take him into custody due to a policy that President Joe Biden’s administration imposed that does not consider arrests for driving under the influence to be grounds for deportation.
Police: Previously Deported Illegal Alien Raped Child in Virginia
Hiuder Pedro Javier Sacul Caal, a 21-year-old illegal alien, has been arrested and charged by the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office with the rape of a minor.
The day before Sacul Caal’s arrest, the sheriff’s office began investigating the rape of a child in Campbell County. Investigators were led to the illegal alien, whom they said had been previously deported from the U.S.
“Due to the fact that this is an active investigation, the sheriff’s office will not be releasing any additional details related to the case,” Campbell County Sheriff Whit Clark said in a statement.
The Great Reset: Klaus Schwab Steps Down From WEF Position
World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab has announced his decision to step back from his role overseeing the globalist organization, a responsibility he has held since its establishment in 1971.
In an email to staff on Tuesday, which was shared with Semafor by a source connected to the organization, Schwab expressed his intention to transition from executive chairman to non-executive chairman. He stated that the pending change in his role is awaiting approval from the Swiss government, with finalization anticipated ahead of the WEF’s annual meeting in 2025.
While Schwab has not disclosed his successor, he acknowledged the executive board’s assumption of full executive responsibility over the past year under President Børge Brende’s leadership. Brende, a former Norwegian conservative leader, has been pivotal in overseeing the organization’s operations.
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