[NYPOST] A North Dakota man accused of plotting to use a forklift to flip over President Trump’s limo to "kill the president" pleaded guilty on Friday.
Gregory Lee Leingang, 42, was charged in federal court regarding his plan that revolved around Trump’s visit to Mandan, North Dakota, in September 2017, the Grand Forks Herald reported.
Trump was visiting the city, roughly 6 miles east of Bismarck, to give a speech on tax reform.
Leingang, according to U.S. Assistant State’s Attorney Brandi Sasse Russell, stole a forklift and entered Trump’s motorcade route after the president arrived in the city one afternoon.
"The intent was to basically try to get to the limo, flip the limo and get to the president and he wanted to kill the president," she said of Leingang.
Leingang tried to escape after the forklift got stuck in a gated area, according to reports. He was caught by local police and allegedly confessed his plan to authorities, including the U.S. Secret Service.
A public defender argued in court that Leingang was "suffering a serious psychiatric crisis during this incident," and reportedly set two fires earlier on the same day he stole the machinery.
Leingang was charged with one count of attempting to enter or remain in a restricted building and on grounds while using a dangerous weapon and one count of attempting to damage government property.
He entered a plea deal with federal prosecutors and was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing the forklift. He’s also serving time for pleading guilty to starting the fires and for a burglary case, and is expected to remain behind bars for decades.
A sentencing hearing for Leingang is scheduled for Feb. 15.
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Give the guy some credit for originality. I'm pretty sure he didn't see this on Mission Impossible reruns.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Leyla Pirnie's roommates searched her room after they discovered her MAGA hat
They wrote to the landlord asking for mediation stating that the Harvard student agreed to move out but later changed her mind in October
The students said they are comfortable with her staying if she secures the guns in a 'safe or container'
Law enforcement checked that Pirnie had taken the necessary safety measures
However the other roommates continued to feel anxious about the weapons
Of Pirnie's six roommates, a Parisian female named Aurelie, suffers from PTSD after her friend was recently killed in a shooting in France, the landlord claimed
The students felt uncomfortable with the legal firearms on the property in case someone broke in and used it or it was accidentally fired
Pirnie says she owns guns because she was in a physically abusive relationship when she was an undergraduate student
She complained that she would incur additional expenses by moving out or staying and having to pay for the vacant rooms of the students who would leave
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Has nothing to do with the gun. Has everything to do with the hat.
Which means these are no longer universities, only anti-Constitution indoctrination centers equivalent to third world ignorance.
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says she owns guns because she was in a physically abusive relationship when she was an undergraduate student
Smart of her to do that. Why is she in Harvard?
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Wow. What a bunch of little fascists in training. Harvard is no doubt very supportive of her roommates. I wonder how long it will be before they find an excuse to expel this poor woman?
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She does need to secure her weapons. Somebody stealing them in an apartment would create some serious problems. Her personal protection pistol could have a coded touch opener for quick access.
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Kinda like the '68 Watts riots. Burn down your own stores and neighborhoods! Don't they realize Car-B-Ques and the resulting individual financial loss will not sway the French government??
[Washington Examiner] Bill and Hillary Clinton's star power has faded, but that has done little to humble their egos, according to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
After attending a recent event in Toronto for the political power couple, Dowd described a "depressing" sight in which organizers cordoned parts of the Scotiabank Arena because of poor ticket sales.
The opinion piece published Saturday explores how former President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary Clinton, a former senator, ex-secretary of state, and failed presidential candidate, used to attract massive crowds in Canada and elsewhere and could command top-dollar ticket prices. While they still insist on embarking on the speaking circuit, with some VIP seats for speaking tour events have gone as high as $700, the fanfare isn't what it used to be.
"Their pathological need to be relevant in America is belied by a Canadian arena, where stretches of empty seats bear witness to the passing of their relevance," Dowd writes.
Dowd could not help but note the "sad contrast with the sold-out boffo book tour of Michelle Obama, who’s getting a lot more personal for the premium prices."
Dowd also has some harsh words for President Trump, whom she calls "an orange puffer clown fish who will go down as one of the most destructive forces in American history" and says she's been told that former President Barack Obama has expressed regret for putting so much faith in Hillary Clinton in 2016 and misreading voters.
In a June opinion piece, Dowd wrote that Obama believed he was "too good" for Americans who were "constantly disappointing him."
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Link to Maureen's article. I read it yesterday and thought about posting it to Opinion but then it does feature a couple of seedy politicians. It's the kind of piece that warms the cockles of my cold, black heart.
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The Clintons have always been a couple of amoral, seedy, classless grifters. The world is just becoming more aware. She was supposed to win. Thank God she did not.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Snipes is set to receive $71,000 a year in a pension from her time serving as elections supervisor; she also has a separate pension from her time as a teacher.
Rick Scott issued an order to immediately remove crooked Brenda Snipes from office “for misfeasance, incompetence and neglect of duty.”
Snipes isn’t going away quietly.
NBC Miami reported:
Brenda Snipes’ attorney on Saturday said the recently suspended Broward County elections supervisor would rescind her resignation.
“We believe these actions are malicious, we believe that the allegations that are set forth in the governor’s executive order are done for the purposes of embarrassing Dr. Snipes – embarrassing her and tarnishing her record, and we will be fighting this. In addition to that, Dr. Snipes herby rescinds her resignation that was set forth which would have been effective on the fourth of January,” Snipes’ attorney Burnadette Norris-Weeks said in a press conference.
Brenda Snipes has a history of corruption and violating the law.
In this year’s midterm election, Broward County Democrats mysteriously manufactured 83,000 votes in two days!
On Election night on November 6th, Broward County Elections supervisor Brenda Snipes reported 634,000 votes were cast in the midterm election in her county.
On Friday morning Broward County Elections officials said 717,000 votes were cast in the midterm election in her county.
We still have no explanation for how Snipes came up with all of these extra votes – which were all in favor for the Democrats.
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...Yeah, she suddenly remembered that seventy large is a lot of principle.
Mike
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A weirdly modern take on the old "You can't fire me, I quit!".
[D.C. Clothesline] The case was potentially bigger than the one against the Holy Land Foundation, the largest terrorism-financing case in American history. And, if prosecutions occurred, there would likely be a domino effect impacting many other Islamist organizations in America and around the world.
Then, near the end of the Obama Administration in 2016, the Justice Department declined to prosecute.
Federal agents were stunned. You heard me, stunned. Absolutely stunned!
No clear reason was given.
The investigation into Islamic Relief
...more formally, the International Islamic Relief Organization, one of Osama bin Laden’s favourite charities and for many years the recipient of Saudi largess, including the current king, Salman ibn whoever. The UAE listed it as belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, #44 on their 2014 blacklist ..
continued, but the criminal case presented by the three government agencies would not move forward.
The only reasonable speculation: The administration lacked the political will to take on the case.
Yes, because those "Islamist organizations" were Obama’s friends and allies.
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The FBI, IRS and Office of Personnel Management opened investigations into Islamic Relief and its various arms.
Islamic Relief USA’s acceptance onto the Combined Federal Campaign charity list, which allows federal employees to automatically donate to approved non-profits, also drew federal scrutiny.
Can the case be reopened? Since it did not go to trial, double jeopardy isn’t involved...
This may have somethng to do with it:
The charity was embraced by both political parties. It even enjoyed close working relationships with the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development
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A historical note: In Pakistan General Zia and his Military Intelligence (ISI) supported the activity of Muslim charities that began to arrive shortly after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Perhaps the most important of such institutions was the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), the outreach element of Muslim World League. It was a perfectly disguised conduit used in offices around the world to support the mujahideen. And many of its offices abroad continue to do so to this day.
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Yeah, but that orange puffer clown fish will go down as one of the most destructive forces in American history...at least the way that history is written by the New York Times.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Snipes is set to receive $71,000 a year in a pension from her time serving as elections supervisor; she also has a separate pension from her time as a teacher.
[D.C. Clothesline] The case was potentially bigger than the one against the Holy Land Foundation, the largest terrorism-financing case in American history. And, if prosecutions occurred, there would likely be a domino effect impacting many other Islamist organizations in America and around the world.
