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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Virginia police looking for suspect who burglarized Trump campaign office


[NYPOST] It's giving Watergate vibes.

One of former President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
's Virginia campaign offices was burglarized over the weekend and police are looking for the suspect, authorities said Monday.

The break-in took place on Sunday about 9 p.m. at Trump's campaign office in Ashburn, prompting deputies to respond to the scene, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

Video surveillance footage captured the burglary suspect — a white adult male, wearing dark clothing, a dark baseball cap and a backpack — as he entered the office.

''It is rare to have the office of any political campaign or party broken into,'' Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman said.

Look for the FBI raid for what was planted.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No one hold their breath waiting for an arrest. That guy looks like one of those Patriot Front ‘actors’.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/13/2024 7:08 Comments || Top||

#2 
After seeing the picture. I started thinking about the DNC planted Jan 6th pipe bomber. The FBI is at what? 3 years 7 months and never found?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump Virginia presidential campaign office burglarized
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2024 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  It's pretty brazen of the perp to not even wear a mask. He had to know there would be cameras. I'd love to see him behind bars.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/13/2024 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  ^I hear he's visiting with Ray Epps for tips.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/13/2024 13:38 Comments || Top||

#6 

In speaking with some Newport News gray hat friends. A good point was brought up.

Did the Trump Team do a TCSM and BIO-Hazard office sweep, before returning to and using the location again?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 16:01 Comments || Top||

#7 

OBTW: Has anyone ran the face thru Google Face Search?



Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 16:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Trump assassination task force identifies first major targets as shooting investigation ramps up
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The new House task force probing the Trump assassination attempt made its first moves on Monday, requesting documents and briefings with agencies involved in investigating the shooting. Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas and Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe received one letter from committee heads Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crowe, D-Colo. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray.

Former President Donald Trump was shot at at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13, 2024. One attendee, Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others were critically injured. A bullet just grazed Trump's ear, drawing blood but causing no real damage.

The task force notified the agency heads that its own request should 'supersede' any other member of Congress after a flurry of information was demanded by House and Senate lawmakers after the momentous tragedy. It requested briefings from each agency and all documents and evidence that has already been produced to Congress to be rounded up and handed to the task force.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The primary avenue of investigation is why the guy missed
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/13/2024 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  At the end of the day, they're going to blame Trump, it's all they do.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/13/2024 13:24 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Trump plans to SUE Justice Department for $100M over Mar-a-Lago classified documents raid
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
is preparing to launch a $100 million lawsuit accusing Attorney General G Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray of running a 'malicious prosecution' against him.

It comes two years after the 2022 of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home that yielded a trove of 300 documents marked 'classified'.

Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon subsequently dismissed a case brought by special counsel Jack Smith against the former president.

The new lawsuit, prepared by Trump lawyer Daniel Epstein, claims a 'clear intent to engage in political persecution' against Trump.

It says the search, which occurred while Trump was away, came from actions 'rooted in intrusion upon seclusion, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process.'

The actions of the DOJ and FBI are 'inconsistent with protocols requiring the consent of an investigative target, disclosure to that individual’s attorneys, and the use of the local U.S. Attorney’s Office,' Epstein writes in the document obtained by Fox News.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if the rationale for this is the publication of material that set this invasion of Mar-al-Lago in motion.
Posted by: Sligum Hupomoling9524 || 08/13/2024 10:45 Comments || Top||

#2 
Should have included a few well known (D) names and the DNC HQ also.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 16:06 Comments || Top||


Retired ‘CSM’ Tim Walz Mocked NG Troops As '19-Year-Old Cooks' When Refusing to Deploy Them in Minneapolis
[RedState] As Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his police chief were frantically calling Governor Tim Walz in the summer of 2020 to save a besieged police precinct, Governor Tim Walz refused to send National Guard soldiers to help the beleaguered police officers. Later, in rationalizing and justifying his conscious decision to let riots metastasize, Walz said the Guard wasn't up to the task.

I don’t think the mayor knew what he was asking for. He wanted the National Guard, and what does that mean? I think the mayor said, 'I request the National Guard, whew, this is great. We’re going to have massively trained troops.' No, you’re going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks, in some cases.

He went on to say, "Putting a young troop with limited experience in the military with a loaded automatic weapon in the middle of a system with no one giving him direction -- they don’t have zip ties. They don’t have legal authority,"

That was on Wednesday, by the time Walz finally authorized the deployment of "19-year-old" cooks, the Minneapolis Third Precinct had been sacked, and the riots were widespread.

As a former National Guardsman, Walz's answers and responses sound blatantly dishonest. He should have trained in crowd control at some point in his career and would have known that you don't put troops on the streets with automatic weapons until things have gone pear-shaped in a major way. From personal experience, I was deployed as part of an Operation GARDEN PLOT exercise to secure a real nuclear weapons storage facility against a sizeable force of role-players. Even under those circumstances, I had a strict progression in the use of force to follow. You didn't load weapons until you were in extremis. I find it hard to believe that an organization that has managing civil disturbances as a primary mission would not have rules on the use of force.

According to a disgustingly servile "fact check" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that is supposed to prove that Walz did all he could to stop the riots, the Minneapolis mayor asked for troops at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday; the police chief contacted Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington shortly after 8 p.m., asking for the Guard and providing “mission plan” details. The first Guardsmen arrived at around 3:45 a.m. on Friday. What happened? Did the 19-year-old cooks get replaced?

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Economy
US budget deficit rises to $244 billion
The US Treasury announced on Monday that the US government recorded a budget deficit of $244 billion in July, an increase of 10 percent over the same month of the previous year.

The Ministry added that the deficit last month rose by $23 billion from a deficit of $221 billion in July 2023.

A Treasury official said that interest on the debt rose 21 percent to $89 billion last month, and the average interest rate rose by about 49 basis points to 3.33 percent.

In the first ten months of fiscal year 2024, the deficit in the United States decreased by 6 percent to $1.517 trillion compared to $1.614 trillion in the same period of fiscal year 2023.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Suggestion:

Quit giving out $100's of Billion of $$$$$ to other nations.

Quit forgiving student loans for people making 6$$$ & 7$$$ figure incomes in professional practices.

Quit over reaching and stick to what the US Constitutions limits the Federal Government to doing.

Quit funding 10+ Million Illegals at an estimated cost of $25k per year in various impacts to the US Economy Medical industry and direct support to states (Cal) giving them $$$$ per month.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  No new spending or increases (not the fake less increase in projected spending).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2024 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  These numbers have gotten to the point where a lot of people are unable to wrap their heads around them. It's beyond comprehension. The only thing people understand is that there must be a lot of crooks in government.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/13/2024 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4 
How about Job cuts in the DC Swamp?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5 
How about Job cuts in the DC Swamp?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 16:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
The EU threatens Musk and "X" for doing an interview with Trump the EU people will be able to hear.
[X]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/13/2024 01:18 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats



#3  Why should we put ourselves in the position of mutual assured destruction over the defense of the EU?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2024 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden's Ousting 'Was a Coup of the President of the United States'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2024 8:12 Comments || Top||

#5  My advice to EU and UK, don't get in the middle of a family fight.
Posted by: `AlmostAmonymous5839 || 08/13/2024 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Do any of these idiots realize how DUMB this makes them look? Makes you wonder why they are SO AFRAID of someone interviewing the former President. Perhaps they are afraid of their own people waking up?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/13/2024 10:15 Comments || Top||

#7  UAW files labor charges against Trump, Musk
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/13/2024 10:23 Comments || Top||

#8  You idiots reeeeeeallly don't want to get involved.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/13/2024 11:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Why should we put ourselves in the position of mutual assured destruction over the defense of the EU?

At this point, I believe the only justification for NATO is not to defend the Euroweenies but to defend ourselves from the Euroweenies.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/13/2024 11:50 Comments || Top||

#10  From Russia, Russia, Russia to NATO, NATO, NATO.

Shut it down, and let these nascent deadbeat fascists fend for themselves.
Posted by: Regular+joe || 08/13/2024 14:26 Comments || Top||



Government Corruption
Joe Biden Threatens President Trump Again - Calls Him Danger To Society
[GatewayPundit] Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
held his first interview today since being pushed out of the 2024 presidential race.

Biden spoke to CBS' Robert Costa in an interview taped for Sunday morning and stated that he left the race despite claiming he was in a dead heat with Trump in the polls (he wasn't). But Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
were concerned that his struggles would hurt them in down-ballot races.

He also seemingly confirmed one critical part of the coup: Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
pressured him to drop out behind the scenes due to her concerns over him losing and dragging Congress down with him.

Joe Biden also issued another veiled threat against President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
. This comes less than one month after he was almost killed on a stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Joe Biden is a nasty piece of work.
Posted by: || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stochastic terrorism is political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric which is directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.[1] A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/13/2024 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2 
Does anyone think Biden actual thought and said something on his own, without it being whispered in his ear?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 6:38 Comments || Top||


#4  So was the attack on X after the Trump interview by the EU or by the Biden Regime ?
Posted by: 3dc || 08/13/2024 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Was an attack from Gaza by Hamas or PIJ?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/13/2024 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Does anyone think Biden actual thought and said something on his own, without it being whispered in his ear?

Nobody with any powers of observation. Mrs. Uluque still watches CBS in spite of all my protests so I happened to see a small portion of said interview. Costa was treading lightly to put it mildly, tossing softballs and letting Joe ramble on and on about Beau. But, apart from that, I observed Joe holding note cards. Dunno who provided him with the cards but it's a good guess the answers to all of Costa's questions were on those cards.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/13/2024 11:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
High-profile Texas Democrats endorse Ted Cruz for Senate
[NYPOST] Three and a half years into an unprecedented border crisis impacting Texans in border communities and the state's largest cities, high-profile Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
are openly endorsing a Republican candidate for Senate who they never endorsed before: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz;

...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...

Cruz, a Houston Republican, is running for reelection for his third term. He's being challenged by U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a Dallas Democrat, who is trailing in the polls.

While Cruz has been characterized as polarizing or far right by those on the left, those on the right argue he's a conservative stalwart championing their causes: pro-life, supporting traditional marriage, women's rights, the Second Amendment, and school choice, among other issues. Differing on these views doesn't matter. Texas Democrats supporting Cruz argue that border security and combating crime are their top concerns.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the greatest number of illegal border crossers have entered the U.S., with the bulk illegally entering in Texas, and increasing number of violent mostly peaceful crimes being committed against Americans, The Center Square has reported.

Texans who have traditionally been Democrats or apolitical say they aren't anymore after their loved one or friend was killed by an illegal foreign national solely in the country because of Biden-Harris policies or by a violent mostly peaceful repeat offender released into their community by who they describe as activist Democratic judges.

Democrat Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has repeatedly stood up to a progressive Democratic-controlled Harris County judge and commissioner's court after they attempted to defund law enforcement, prompting the state to get involved. As crime and public corruption reportedly increased under the former Democratic mayor and current Harris County judge, Ogg began working with Houston's new mayor, John Whitmire, and the Republican attorney general's office to combat both.

Crime is a top concern among voters in largely Democratic-controlled cities and small border communities in Texas.

While Allred and some Democratic politicians appear to have distanced themselves from Biden-Harris border policies, more Democrats are switching to vote Republican, running for office as Republicans, or endorsing a Republican, The Center Square reported.

This week at a law enforcement rally in Houston, Ogg made history by endorsing Cruz. ''We are seeing a problem at our border,'' she said.

''My constituents hate crime and expect the government to keep them safe from criminals. They deserve protection, but our country's laws and policies don't always work to that end. No case has spotlighted our crime problem and shaken our city more poignantly than the brutal murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was tragically murdered by two undocumented Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...

n nationals who were captured crossing the border illegally but were released from federal custody. Had Senator Cruz's Justice for Jocelyn Act been the law today, Jocelyn would be alive.

''I am endorsing Senator Ted Cruz because he has taken action at a time when Americans want solutions, not excuses, about why Democrats and Republicans won't work together. I appreciate the Senator for reaching out to me, the top law enforcement official in Harris County and Democratic office holder, to work together to protect our nation's children from predators who shouldn't be roaming our streets. Crime is bigger than partisanship.''

Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because they know a Democrat cannot win in Texas.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/13/2024 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Even LBJ stole an election or two in Texas, IIRC.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/13/2024 6:23 Comments || Top||

#3  When the Donks got control of Congress for the first time after the Civil War, they refused to fund the Army. The situation changed when the Apaches raided southern Texas from Mexico and the Texas delegation voted with the Trunks for funding. All politics sometimes boils down to 'local'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2024 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  'Texas Could Possibly Be in Play' for Kamala Harris
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2024 8:19 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^ Californicaton, Skid?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/13/2024 8:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Every state is in play when the steal is on -and it is most definitely on. Confirmed by PA yesterday.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/13/2024 9:11 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: badanov || 08/13/2024 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  An Allred ad runs every night during Wheel of Fortune. I commented to my wife, who supports Allred, that he seems to have plenty of money, but I never see Cruz ads.

She says it's because Cruz has statewide recognition and Allred does not. Oh, OK.

But the ads we are seeing are in Allred's Dallas district....
Posted by: Bobby || 08/13/2024 13:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Voted for Cruz in the '16 primary. Trump wasn't the NY RINO I thought he would be. I'd still like to see Cruz as either AG or SC chief.
Posted by: alanc || 08/13/2024 16:46 Comments || Top||


Tim Walz Is a coward and a liar
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This situation just gets worse by the day.
Posted by: Sligum Hupomoling9524 || 08/13/2024 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  So he will drop out during the convention. Mike Obama will step in to save the party. The dem wave, associate with the cheat, will rule the day... Back off of this guy, wait until its official...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/13/2024 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Frightening, but certainly NOT out of the realm of possibility.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/13/2024 17:07 Comments || Top||

#4  walz was in Bagram Afghanistan for one day in 2008 when he was a congressman

Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/13/2024 18:44 Comments || Top||


Biden: ''Mark my words. If [Trump] wins this election, watch what happens. It's a danger—He's a genuine danger to American security.''
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Open borders without obstruction to terrorists isn't?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2024 7:11 Comments || Top||


#3  As a sometime imbiber of American history I cannot recall another moment when a sitting President declared his political opponent "a genuine danger to American security." Biden has by now certainly secured his place as the most dastardly of all American Presidents.
Posted by: Sligum Hupomoling9524 || 08/13/2024 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump is only a threat to American bureaucracy.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/13/2024 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump is only a threat to American bureaucracy.

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2024 11:37 Comments || Top||

#6  More Democrat projection.

But watch this clip and see that Joe is holding note cards. It's a good bet that all the answers to Costa's questions were on those cards. No doubt CBS edited the interview to cut the parts where Joe was reading those cards.

Then see the smug look on Costa's face. He's a sociopath and a shill for the Democrats. But he thinks it's funny that people who watch CBS are gullible enough to believe that he is a real journalist.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/13/2024 12:01 Comments || Top||

#7  If he is a danger, it is miniscule next to the current demoncrats in power currently. They are truly a clear and present danger to our freedoms and security.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/13/2024 13:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Pot-Kettle
Posted by: OregonDave || 08/13/2024 13:24 Comments || Top||

#9 
Here is the 1st clue it is BS Poli-Speak.

"Biden said __________'
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2024 16:26 Comments || Top||

#10  The accusation is the confession.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 08/13/2024 22:11 Comments || Top||



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  Hamas kills one hostage and wounds two
Mon 2024-08-12
  Taylor Swift terror plot suspect's lawyer downplays plan to carry out ISIS-inspired suicide attack: 'Playing with ideas'
Sun 2024-08-11
  Lebanon proposes additional LAF troops in south to restore calm
Sat 2024-08-10
  Israeli airstrike targeted the security chief of Hamas in the Ain al-Hilweh camp while he was in his car in the city of Sidon
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  Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran arrested in political assassination plots including Trump
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  US, France call for 'utmost restraint' in Middle East. Utmost.
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