[Newsmax] A Republican member of the House task force investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump said he doesn't yet "buy" an explanation by the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security that the alleged would-be assassin acted alone.
Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told DailyMail.com that Thomas Matthew Crooks' alleged motivation to kill Trump remains unknown.
"I don't understand, and I don't have any answers yet to help me understand how the [Secret] Service and DHS came out so quickly and said – and I think the FBI as well, but I'll have to check that – and said, he operated alone," Waltz said of Crooks on Wednesday.
"How do you know that mere days into your investigation?"
Waltz then added: "You can't tell us his motive, but you could tell us he operated alone? You can't get into these encrypted overseas accounts, but you can tell us he acted alone? So, I don't buy that yet."
Waltz said he was worried that a foreign entity or other third-party could have been involved in the attack, during which Crooks allegedly shot Trump in the ear, killed one spectator, and wounded two at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Crooks, who had been noticed at the site by law enforcement well before the shooting, was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.
2. Can't tell us who was who was in charge of the security detail.
3. Can't tell show us the site security plan.
4. Can't tell us who authorized the sniper team and why.
5. Can't tell us about the sniper team's Rules of Engagement.
6. Can't explain the primary communitions plan.
7. Can't explain the alternate communications plan.
8. Can't tell us who was served as liaison btwn local law enforcement and Secret Service.
9. Post-event walk-through, summaries, after action report (ARR), Lessons Learned?
10. Corrective actions ?
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As with Kennedy assassination. I hope Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorses Trump or is given a position in the Trump administration. Perhaps truth for both will be resolved. Deathly fear of democrats should that happen. Democrats have done their best to kick him under the rug.
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Can't tell...
Can't tell...
Can't tell...
One thing we do know is that the Secret Service did not complete their mission. Whether you believe their goal was to protect Trump or whether you believe their goal was to get him whacked, they failed at both.
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Even I could clearly hear the difference in the sounds made by the first cluster of gunshots, followed by the second cluster. Audio analysis of multiple recordings showed it more clearly. I noticed this on 13 July.
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This video is an exhaustive analysis of the sound recordings
9 days old. Analyst assumes that the 9th shot misses. Since then video has surfaced which shows a local LEO counter sniper standing in the line of fire, firing the 9th shot. This shooter continues to look through his scope, then turns to his right & raises his left arm in triumph.
Some videos have only recently come to light, as the video owners examine what they had recorded at the time. Hundreds of recordings must have been made of the shootings.
[NYTimes] You KNOW this hurt the Times to print this!
But the justices kept blocking a provision that bars already-registered residents from voting by mail or for president until they prove their citizenship.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Arizona, at least for now, to toughen some voting requirements, saying that people registering to vote before the coming election must show proof of citizenship.
The decision, issued in a terse, unsigned order, handed a partial victory to Republicans who supported a 2022 Arizona law imposing new restrictions on voting. But the court declined to allow Arizona to put into effect another part of that law, which could have prohibited tens of thousands of voters who are already registered from participating in the presidential election or casting any ballots by mail, unless they provided proof of citizenship.
The decision did not include any legal reasoning, which is common in such emergency applications. But there were signs that the court was divided over the issue, and that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh may have split their votes between two factions.
The order did not mention either. But it said four justices had wanted to keep the state from enforcing both measures: Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson. It named three as wanting to let the state put both provisions into effect: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch.
The mixed decision means Arizonans newly registering to vote for the coming election will have to provide copies of one of several documents, including a birth certificate or a passport, in order to prove their citizenship.
Disputes over voting requirements in Arizona have raged since the 2020 presidential election, when Donald J. Trump narrowly lost the state. Since then, Republican lawmakers have carried out a partisan audit of the election vote count, and Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized the vote-by-mail system that became more prominent because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Republican National Committee, along with state lawmakers, had asked the Supreme Court to weigh in after lower federal courts had blocked enforcement of the new legal limits.
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Townhall: Supreme Court Strikes a Blow to Illegal Aliens Registering to Vote
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[Fox5Atlanta] The fact that the usual suspects (Rep & Dem!) are squealing shows that the rules will help stop the steal
Georgia's State Election Board has voted 3 to 2 to approve a controversial last-minute rule change that allows local election officials to investigate counts before certifying their county's results, which could lead to a delay of final results.
That decision, made on the first day of absentee voting in the state, has drawn criticism from top state officials on both sides of the political aisle.
"This is dangerous to all Georgians, no matter who you want elected," said Brittany Burns, an activist opposed to the rule changes, during a news conference under the Gold Dome as the board met virtually.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has expressed concern that these changes could lead to chaos on election night, a sentiment echoed by many Democrats.
Earlier this year, three pro-Trump Republicans, who have cast doubt on the 2020 election results, were appointed to the board. Former President Trump referred to the trio as his "pitbulls fighting for honesty."
"We are already witnessing at least three board members on the Georgia State Election Board behind these rule changes showing partisan favor and putting their own goals before all Georgians," Burns added.
Two of those Trump-approved members spoke in favor of the rule changes in the meeting.
"These are all very important things that we want our boards to review and expect them to review before they certify an election," said Janice Johnston, a State Election Board member who has expressed skepticism about the 2020 results.
Janelle King, another board member aligned with the former president, said, "It is an important step to find some form of uniformity and knowledge that we do hear some of the other concerns."
But top state Republicans disagree.
On Monday morning, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr issued a formal opinion stating that the board couldn’t direct him to reopen an investigation into unfounded claims of voter fraud in 2020, citing state law as the reason.
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has strongly criticized these last-minute rule changes, warning that they could undermine confidence in the election system. Like there is any
"We're already conducting the election for all intents and purposes. It is too late to be making changes like this. If these were good ideas, they should’ve been proposed six months ago," said Sarah Ghazal, a member of the State Election Board opposed to the changes.
Just before 5 p.m. on Monday, Democratic State Sen. Nabilah Islam Parkes filed a formal complaint against the three board members, seeking their removal for ethics violations.
"The facts clearly show that acts that the Respondents have knowingly taken (and illegally concealed) are violations of their ethical obligations under the Code of Ethics and of the Open Meetings Act, and have placed the Board and the State of Georgia in legal and financial jeopardy," State Sen. Islam Parkes wrote in the complaint.
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Comrades Kamala and Walz for the win with 400,000,000 votes. The voting machines are programmed, the ballot counting machines are turbocharged, the fake ballots have been printed and are in the warehouses, ready to use.
[Epoch Times] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endorsing former President Donald Trump, according to an Aug. 23 court filing. Watch yer back, and trust nobody
"Respondents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan as the We The People candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, as a result of today’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the office of President of the United States hereby withdraw their opposition to the Petition of Alexander Reber and Janneken Smucker’s," the filing from Kennedy’s campaign, obtained by The Epoch Times, states.
The document was filed in a case challenging whether Kennedy should be on the November ballot in Pennsylvania.
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger asked Americans who believe in democracy to vote for the nominee who did not appear on the primary ballot and did not receive a single delegate vote. Cuck was redistricted by Dems
In a Thursday night address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... ), the man-without-a-party asked voters to cast their ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris once a marijuana-busting Caliphornia DA Kinzinger began his seven-minute speech by acknowledging the Republican Party's new direction under Trump in which it no longer engages in unchecked foreign adventurism — an approach he characterized as ''conservative.''
''I've learned something about the Democratic Party,'' he said, continuing that 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 as eager to defend American values at home and abroad as we conservatives have ever been. I was relieved to discover that because I've learned something about my party too, something I couldn't ignore, the Republican Party is no longer conservative. It has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself.''
Kinzinger, who did not run for reelection in 2022 after Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, redrew his district, has continued calling for U.S. intervention in Ukraine's war against Russia. Thursday night he further preached the virtues of intervening in foreign wars. Actually, it was Illinois Dems that redistricted him out of power
[DCNF via AlphaNews] Tim Walz and the hidden story of Twin Metals
Get ready for a new, refined version of Walz, where he is cast as a moderate, pro-worker Midwesterner—meant to balance out Kamala’s left-wing liberalism. But Walz is not that and American steelworkers, their families and the communities surrounding the Twin Metals mine of Northeast Minnesota know this all too well.
Northeastern Minnesota is blessed with a plethora of critical and strategic metals that are key components to our modern life. There is an area referred to as the Duluth Complex that, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, is home to the largest undeveloped deposits of nickel, cobalt and platinum group minerals (PGM) in the world.
The Twin Metals mine in particular is positioned to be a state-of-the-art underground operation within the Duluth Complex using advanced and precise methods of extraction that could deliver these much-needed metals to growing markets.
Given that these metals are key components to cell phones and cars—both gas-powered and electric—as well as solar panels and windmills, the location of these minerals here in the United States should be good news. This should especially be true for an administration like Biden-Harris that is hell-bent on restructuring our entire utility and vehicle industries, so they are more “green.”
From a practical perspective, this type of restructuring will require an immense amount of the minerals that are located at, and very accessible in, the Twin Metals mine. Globally, one estimate suggests that to reach electrification goals the world will need to produce the same amount of copper in the next 25 years as humanity has produced in the last 5,000.
Unfortunately, the Biden-Harris administration not only cancelled two long-standing mineral leases at the Twin Metals mine, but they also imposed a 20-year moratorium on the surrounding area. This decision imperiled the 750 direct jobs and 1,500 spinoff jobs in the surrounding community that the mine would have supported.
Many of these jobs were for United Steelworkers who were set to buildout and operate the $1.7 billion mine. As often as the Biden-Harris administration talked about creating green energy jobs, they took numerous actions that cancelled the ones that actually did exist.
Walz oversaw the entire debacle. And when the Twin Metals mine and local jobs organizations asked for a lifeline in the aftermath of the Biden-Harris cancellation, he answered it with … more process! Specifically, Walz’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) allowed the mine to explore surrounding state and private lands for minerals but reiterated there would be no actual mining, and such a decision would likely be years into the future after “lengthy environmental review and permitting.”
In other, non-bureaucratic words: It’s paralysis by analysis for the project.
These cancelled mining projects and jobs would have been done consistent with U.S. safety and environmental standards. Instead, China will reap the benefits of the Biden-Harris cancellation and Walz’s complacency.
Beyond concern for negative environmental impacts, some reports have found that foreign sourced minerals are mined using child forced labor. From a national security purview, this anti-development approach is equally damaging as U.S. reliance on foreign-sourced minerals continues to grow. Specifically, for the minerals buried in abundance at the Twin Metals mine, the U.S. is over 50% import reliant for nickel, 79% reliant for platinum, 76% reliant for cobalt, and 37% reliant for copper.
Those who have seen Walz work up close, including Republican Rep. Pete Stauber, have sounded the alarm on the consequences of his anti-mining, anti-energy policies. Under his watch Minnesota electricity costs have skyrocketed for residents.
For businesses, it’s even worse. Minnesota now boasts the highest industrial electricity prices in the Midwest.
Walz’s folksy appearance aside, he has embraced California-style climate zealotry to the extreme. He signed his state up for “100 percent carbon free electricity by 2040” which is estimated to cost billions of dollars, double electricity prices by 2034, lead to blackouts and kill jobs.
He also wants to ban gas-powered vehicles in the process.
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Has some real shady shit going on so he yells SJW for cover and distraction, like the timpons in boys' bathrooms. Compromised even without being a Kommie symp.
[Breitbart] On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said that California has the amount of homelessness it does “because of our own policies and neglect” and the issue boils down to not building enough housing “for decades and decades and decades” and that homelessness is becoming a bigger issue across the country, including in red states.
Newsom said that affordability and housing are the biggest issues in the state, and housing has a “byproduct, which is the ultimate manifestation of our failure, and that’s the issue of homelessness.”
Host Greta Van Susteren then asked, “How did you get to that point, though? It’s a problem that’s plagued every state in the nation. But, certainly, California, because it is such a large state, we know — we see the enormous impact on it. But how did California get so much homelessness?”
Newsom responded, “Because of our own policies and neglect. We put up our feet and we rested on our laurels. We allowed NIMBYism to dominate in our state. We’re not building — it’s Econ. 101, supply and demand. We simply have not been building enough housing for decades and decades and decades. So, the cost of living, affordability has been the dominant challenge in our state. That said, I will say, having traveled across the United States, the issue of housing and homelessness is becoming more and more dominant. Red states, not just blue states. We were down — you saw the new numbers last year in places like Florida that had a huge spike in homelessness. The housing costs, insurance costs across the board in states like Florida are increasingly challenging. So, it’s not surprising to me that, in the economic plan that Kamala Harris put out, she talked about affordability and housing, not just from the prism of being a former Californian, as it relates to her time served in the state, but as vice president, understanding the United States and its challenges.”
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If you want more housing you are going to need more energy and water. Good luck with that.
When the Dept of Defense closed the Presidio of San Francisco [which was turned over for 0 in return], they had a lot of land that the government could have turned into multi-housing units. Cry me a river.
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While you are at it, look at all the rules and regulations you pile on landlords and the restrictions you place in removing problem tenets. At a certain point, the 'landlord' really doesn't own the property as its literally run by the state via regulations.
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the issue boils down to not building enough housing “for decades and decades and decades”
BULLSHIT!!!
Developers in California have been building houses for decades and decades and decades as fast as they can in the name of "affordable housing" but the cost of living in California continues to rise astronomically. NEWSOM IS LYING. He and his fellow Democrats want to turn comfortable, single-family suburbs and small cities into miserable slums because they know that slum dwellers like the ones in New York will vote Democrat. It doesn't hurt that developers contribute to election campaigns for their pet politicians.
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As for homelessness, yeah, that's neglect. Drug addicts and the mentally need to be incarcerated for their own good instead of being allowed to die on the sidewalks and in the riverbeds. They don't need half million dollar condos. They need beds in institutions where they can get the treatment they need. They won't volunteer for it because they like being able to score their drugs and shoot up on the sidewalks. They need to be arrested and incarcerated.
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At a certain point, the 'landlord' really doesn't own the property as its literally run by the state via regulations.
Nobody really owns property in California. We pay rent to the government in the form of "property taxes". And the government has no problem evicting people who don't pay the rent.
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I suppose the solution is more government.
it’s Econ. 101, supply and demand.
Kommunist calls to burn the heretic?
[POSTMILLENNIAL] The Biden-Harris administration appointed Sneha Nair as special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration in February 2024. She is on a mission to arrest what she believes is ''white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... '' with a view to ''queering nuclear weapons,'' Fox News reports.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] On Wednesday night, members of the progressive "Squad" joined a protest of anti-Israel activists outside the Democratic National Convention, moments after the parents of one of the American hostages addressed the convention. These were Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... of Minnesota, New York's Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore , and Summer Lee of Pennsylvania.
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Truly despicable people.
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Oh goody. You know who else was all about the Third Way forward? Adolph Hitler, head of the National Socialist Workers Party.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been is set to deliver her acceptance speech for the Democrat Party's nomination of her for president on Thursday night, and as she does so, she's expected to lean into her identity, her life experience, and forego policy plans for a term in office.
A report out from the Washington Examiner, in which they spoke with an anonymous source inside the Harris campaign, states that in response to concerns about the economy, Harris will talk about her mother's struggles and her early work with a part-time job at McDonald's. The fact that she had this part-time job as a young person is meant to show that she's in touch with the struggles of American workers today. Her record as a prosecutor in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
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"I mean, we have three-and-a-half years of a Biden-Harris administration," Baier pointed out. "So that message of change and a new thing, is that just overlooking the Biden-Harris three-and-a-half years?"
"The gap that I still see in all of these speeches, as good as they were, is that she's in the White House right now. Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years," Jennings said on CNN.
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Intentional phony Beyonce performance rumor just before Kamala-A Cheezy trick to boost viewership/attendance reveals how low the demokrats and their media allies will go to fool the public!
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Perhaps she could explain why OSHA has recently made a ruling which will bury volunteer fire departments under a mountain of unnecessary paperwork, putting most out of operation for failing to comply with the overburden bureaucracy?
Better 'remind' her that this is Acting Secretary Su, and that some 85% of fire departments are volunteer.
[NYPOST] A Minnesota nonprofit committed to helping impoverished defendants pay cash bail
… the Minnesota Freedom Fund …
received a huge windfall in donations after Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been endorsed it.
Kamala Harris helped a controversial bail fund rake in millions of dollars, which it spent on getting violent mostly peaceful criminals back on the streets in the name of ''social justice'' — only for some of them to commit more crimes, including murder.
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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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...every time you hear the phrase 
On Wednesday night, members of the progressive "Squad" joined a protest of anti-Israel activists outside the Democratic National Convention, moments after the parents of one of the American hostages addressed the convention. These were 
