At the Sept. 29 rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, the president called out Brick Suit for his fearless demeanor after Trump was shot.

“There were so many people—tens of thousands of people—they didn’t flee,” Trump said.

“They stood. They watched and wanted to know what they could do to help,” he said. “The people in the front row—the Front Row Joes—(points to Brick Suit)—you were there, and it was amazing.”

Trump looked at Brick Suit again and pointed at him again.

“You stood. I watched you. You didn’t move, Mr. Wall,” the president said.

“I call him Mr. Wall,” he said. “Mr. Wall stood there. He didn’t move an inch, and the bullets are flying all over the place and it was an amazing thing to see, frankly, it was real bravery.”

Brick Suit said he was shocked Trump had such a hyper-awareness of what was going on around him.

Former President Donald Trump can expect to fight impeachment efforts again pending a second term this November.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page report unsealed Wednesday is the Steele Dossier 2.0, an anonymously sourced manifesto compiled to warrant deep state investigations into former President Donald Trump with the ultimate aim of tossing him out of the White House. //

The report, filed and made public within 60 days of an election, serves no legitimate legal purpose, as the special counsel desperately attempts to thwart Trump’s return to the Oval Office.

“Smith was clearly eager to get this out before the public despite Justice Department policies that encourage prosecutors to avoid acts that would be viewed as trying to influence an election,” wrote George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley on X. //

“In some ways …” wrote former prosecutor and National Review Editor Andrew McCarthy, “Smith’s public submission is better than a trial.”

Trials are messy and unpredictable; prosecutors’ written descriptions of what they hope to prove are often compelling and damning. That is why, at a trial, the judge routinely instructs the jury that an indictment and proffers by a prosecutor are only allegations; they are not evidence, they are not subject to cross-examination, and they prove nothing. Here, by contrast, there will be no cautionary instructions. //

If Trump were to win, Smith is certain to continue the deep state lawfare campaign even after the election, likely challenging any effort for the president to pardon himself. In other words, Smith’s persistent prosecution laid out in the 165-page filing is the Democrats’ “insurance policy” against another Trump presidency.

GBenton
6 hours ago
They know they are going to lose. Projection: they may not peacefully transfer power.

Never forget they always accuse us of what they are. //

Laocoön of Troy
6 hours ago edited
If this is true...and I think it's likely...then Republican Governors all across the nation need to be prepared to deal with the violence quickly. One of Trump's failures in his first administration was the near-complete lack of action to confront and suppress any revolts that occur. This nation cannot survive another orgy of lootings, burnings, murders, and assaults that Trump tolerated during the George Floyd unrest.

During the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, the Army left their barracks with orders to shoot looters. I don't know if any looters were actually shot, but the threat alone facilitated cleanup, and restoration of services pretty quickly. If we have another wave of George Floyd-style revolts...and the Republicans sit on their hands as they did the first time...the political price to be paid will be unbelievable. That means you Gov Kemp and you too Gov Hogan. //

NightTwister
6 hours ago
If he thought Kamala was going to win he wouldn't be talking about transfer of power.

Jack Smith has failed in his quest to try Donald Trump before the 2024 election. So instead, the special counsel has bent ordinary procedure to get in one last shot, just weeks before voters go to the polls.

Smith has now dropped a 165-page doorstop of a filing in federal court, on the issue of Trump’s immunity from prosecution. Judge Tanya Chutkan — who suddenly claims not to care about the impending election despite her earlier efforts to expedite the case to get it in before the very same election… duly complied with Smith’s wishes… //

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9:12 AM · Oct 3, 2024 //

The larger, if less obvious, headline is that Smith has essentially abandoned any pretense; he’ll bend any rule, switch up on any practice — so long as he gets to chip away at Trump’s electoral prospects. At this point, there’s simply no defending Smith’s conduct on any sort of principled or institutional basis. “But we need to know this stuff before we vote!” is a nice bumper sticker, but it’s neither a response to nor an excuse for Smith’s unprincipled, norm-breaking practice. (It also overlooks the fact that the Justice Department bears responsibility for taking over two and a half years to indict in the first place.)

Mark Moyar’s story shows why Trump has to prove to the people he needs for an effective presidency that he will not leave them twisting in the wind. //

In advance of Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, the Democratic National Committee put up a billboard outside Madison Square Garden calling Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, the “Poster boy for Project 2025.” As predicted by campaign email blasts, during the debate Kamala Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, name-checked this blueprint for conservative federal governance, yet again proving the Harris-Walz campaign has zero policy accomplishments to run on.

Since most voters don’t care about this pretty unremarkable effort to slim an ungovernable federal bureaucracy and staff the next Republican administration with effective people loyal to the United States, it’s telling that Democrats have turned it into the only other issue they’re running on besides abortion until birth. It shows Democrats believe growing the unelected bureaucracy that undermines elected officials such as Congress and the president is their top priority (competing with murdering mostly black and brown babies in the womb).

It’s also yet more evidence they always push Republican defeat even in the event of Republican victory, because Project 2025 proposals are nothing more than simple common sense. A majority of voters, and three-quarters of solid Republicans, think the federal government is corrupt. And it is. It’s now obviously a far cry from early progressive fantasies about “apolitical experts.” It’s a politicized fifth column enacting regime change by substituting unelected, unconstitutional government for elected, constitutional government of, by, and for Americans. //

A book out this year, Masters of Corruption, by former Trump appointee Mark Moyar, provides yet another vivid illustration of why. In it, Moyar, a former Trump appointee to the U.S. Agency for International Development, details how career bureaucrats sabotaged his whistleblowing on their corruption. His story shows that Trump has to prove to the people he needs for an effective presidency that he has their back, and that if they work to achieve Trump’s goals in office they will not be left twisting in the wind.

That’s effectively what happened to Moyar. A researcher with military and foreign policy experience, plus a PhD, Moyar wrote his sixth book in 2016. He submitted the manuscript for Defense Department review, in multiple ways going far above the legal and regulatory standards for ensuring he didn’t release classified information. After the department failed to review his manuscript despite receiving more than six times as much time to do so as court precedent allows, Moyar informed them he was moving forward with publication.

The book was published, and that was the end of it — until Moyar became a Trump appointee at USAID two years later and started to blow the whistle on corrupt employees. Then the manuscript review resurfaced. It was used as a pretense to deny Moyar the security clearance he needed to do his job, then ultimately to kick him out of the job on the grounds that he couldn’t do it without a security clearance. In a recent speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, started USAID to benefit U.S. policy, but it’s become a CIA front organization for regime change.

The entire time, no one ever provided any evidence that Moyar had published any classified material in his book that the Defense Department had failed — or refused — to review. And higher-level Trump appointees refused to defend Moyar against the bureaucratic jackals, leaving him defenseless. While his security clearance was held up simply out of spite, he couldn’t be hired for the majority of jobs for which he is qualified.
Torture by a Thousand Bureaucrats

That sounds Kafka-esque enough, yet it is a very brief gloss on the labyrinthian twists and turns that Moyar’s book relates. Reading them imparts a horror of ever getting caught in such a system embedded with people with the power to screw with you while they trap you there, all out of sheer hatred for political commitments that represent half the country. //

Moyar points out that anti-Trump bureaucrats worked furiously to sabotage the work voters had elected Trump to accomplish. They organized within agencies like an internal spy ring. They used their government positions to — often illegally — leak half-truths to media in a way that would damage Trump’s ability to govern. In Zoom meetings, they “offered the federal employees tips for thwarting Trump appointees, such as concocting excuses for procedural delays, demanding protracted legal reviews, leaking information to sympathetic journalists, and bringing complaints to the inspector general,” Moyar writes.

Thousands of good people who risked their careers to advance Trump’s policy agenda were not only backstabbed by agency colleagues, like Moyar was, but also placed on Democrat target lists and personally and professionally harassed to this day. //

Trump’s September promise to appoint Elon Musk to “conduct[] a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” also is the right direction. A week later, Musk gave more details, according to a RealClearPolitics transcript: “We do have an opportunity to do kind of a once-in-a-lifetime deregulation and reduction in the size of government. Because the other thing besides the regulations, America is also going bankrupt extremely quickly.”

When asked if federal agencies could be cut by “two, three, four, five percent,” Musk replied, “I think we’d need to do more than that.” Yes, more — try at least a factor of ten.

Smith’s filing comes just in time for the Harris-Walz campaign to try and make Jan. 6 a top campaign issue. Vice President Kamala Harris made a post on X about Jan. 6 just hours before the filing was unsealed.

“On January 6, the former president incited an attack on our nation’s democracy because he didn’t like the outcome of the election,” Harris said in a post on X. “If you stand for country, democracy, and the rule of law — our campaign has a place for you.”

It also doesn’t hurt that Smith’s filing was conveniently unsealed hours after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz bombed in the vice presidential debate against Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.

Smith had to walk a fine line in creating this filing after the Supreme Court shot down his earlier lawfare attempts. That’s to say, the high court could once again squash Smith’s lawfare efforts if the charges he brought against Trump impinged on the established presidential immunity guidelines.

But Smith doesn’t care whether the substance of his motion is just, accurate, or even legal, because it’s never been about the rule of law — it’s always been about interfering in the election.

If the election were held today, Atlas calculates that Trump has a 75% chance of winning in the Electoral College. His odds improve if you take historical polling error into account.

Robert A Hahn Mod 8 hours ago

The best part about the moderators going after Walz about his Tiananmen Square lie is that they did not then turn and ask Vance about his lie. Because they couldn't find one. It's CBS. You know they looked for one. They looked hard.

Walz said a lot of strange things. But one of the strangest had to be when he claimed that he was "friends with school shooters."

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"I've become friends with school shooters."

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I don't know what the viewership numbers were on the vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, but if they're not high they should have been because that was one of the best debates I've ever watched in my time as a political junkie (which goes back a looong time).

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Trump advocates for “one rough hour of policing” to teach criminals that committing crimes is dangerous again.
I’m all in on this idea.

12:19 PM · Sep 30, 2024 //

Cacao88
8 hours ago
So to clarify the left's position: days of violent city and business destruction by antifa and blm is ok, but one hour of enforced law and order is too much. //

anon-t3h4 anon-cdoc
4 hours ago
"....as a Christian..." I believe a parallel would be Jesus taking a whip to the money lenders in the temple'''?

I don't think Pres Trump was advocating anything more than enforcing the law vigorously. The left interprets it as Kyrstallnacht? Because he used the word "rough"? Why didn't they throw in racist/sexist/xenophobic, etc?

Enforce the law. Prosecute the criminals. Jail and significant fines. That would be pretty "rough" for most criminals....

to bad the judges and prosecutors would let them all skate.

so sad. //

oldgimpy&cranky
7 hours ago
You still don't get it: they have NO INTEREST IN "Curbing Crime". Zero, Zilch, ZIp, Nada, Nil, Nul.

I don't know how I can make that statement more plain, nor convincing.. They don't SUFFER the crime, and it keeps their base cowed and agitated. Gullible fools cry to their overlords and vote for them and their legislation.

Kamala Harris told the media she was going to try to troll former President Donald Trump at the Alabama-Georgia game on Saturday.

But the effort failed miserably and just showed how desperate she was.

Her campaign told the media that they were going to have a small plane fly over Tuscaloosa during the game at Bryant-Denny Stadium with a banner that said, “Trump’s Punting on 2nd Debate.” //

Except it didn't come off; it was a complete failure. It was nowhere to be seen during the game.

According to the New York Times, they were told by the Harris campaign that they couldn't do it because of "weather."

It was typical Kamala — all talk and no result. //

Harris just made herself look silly and desperate. She probably couldn't get all of her ridiculous word salad on a banner. If you're winning, you don't have to play such games to try to get attention.

Then too, she failed to understand the people to whom she was trying to appeal, much as she fails to understand most Americans.

Instead, Trump was wildly cheered when he was introduced at the game.

there was a funny catfight between two people who are election prognosticators, Professor Allan Lichtman and Nate Silver.

Lichtman has a system where he applies true or false questions to 13 questions. if there are six or more false answers, the challenger -- in this case, former President Donald Trump -- would win. But Lichtman has interpreted his keys and he's predicting Kamala Harris will win. //

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The funny thing is if you actually apply his keys correctly based on how he's applied them in the past, they predict a Trump victory. More about this soon lol.
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2:41 PM · Sep 27, 2024

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Nate. you don’t have the faintest idea about how to apply my keys. You are neither a historian or a political scientist or have any academic credentials of any kind. Remember you were wrong when you said the keys could early predict Obama’s reelection.
3:18 PM · Sep 27, 2024

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I've spent way too much time on this and have a lot of receipts from how you've applied your keys in the past! At least 7 of the keys, maybe 8, clearly favor Trump. Sorry brother, but that's what the keys say. Unless you're admitting they're totally arbitrary?

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Allan let's just say the little tricks you've played with the Keys in the past will come back to haunt you! The Keys shall be respected: they will outlast this little rivalry of ours. And they clearly predict a Trump win!

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"No Man nor Beast shall have the power to Turn the Keys, for the Keys are Eternal and True."

• A. J. Lichtman; V. I. Keilis-Borok (Nov 1981). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  5:36 PM · Sep 27, 2024

Louise1 Liberty Belle
4 hours ago edited
Yes.

"If you have a lemon, make a lemonade."

Vance certainly did that. He made himself, and Trump voters, look gracious, forgiving, and positive-minded. He also showed himself to be an excellent leader - a calm but take-charge guy.

What he told voters in front of the restaurant could be used in a pro-Trump/Vance election advertisement. //

kamief
4 hours ago
Have I mentioned lately, I was sad when Trump picked Vance, and was really hoping he would have picked Carson?
I was completely wrong. Vance was the smartest choice for this position. Gracious and warm. That is what coming from nothing gets you, and working your way to the top.
Damn I love being proved wrong. Excellent choice by Trump.

In response to a shouted reporter's question, her remarks at the border consisted of this less than 30-second sound bite, a word salad that included something about the agents "rightly need[ing] support to do their job"--something that the Biden/Harris administration has refused to do, and which the border agents union has debunked as false: //

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Former ICE Director Tom Homan: "The rank-and-file has no respect for her. She broke the border. President Trump handed this administration the most secure border in my 34-year career and they broke the border on purpose by abolishing everything we created."

7:23 PM · Sep 27, 2024

Especially when Zelensky said this:

And now, through a lot of challenges — Ukraine and the United States. And, of course, I want to discuss with you, I think, where we are together. I think we have common view that the war in Ukraine has to be stopped, and Putin can't win, and Ukrainians have to prevail. And I want to discuss with you the details of our plan.

Why would he feel the need to do that? Why would he say something like that? //

But Brandon, he also met with Harris and Biden," some might say.

Well... yeah. Of course, he did. He needed to secure another $8 billion for his country. Biden and Harris both wanted to be seen doing that. Harris especially wanted to be seen doing that. She did laps back and forth on the White House balcony with Zelensky to make it look like she was deep in foreign policy talks.

Does this mean Zelensky has confidence in Harris winning? Not necessarily. Keep in mind, he has to do this. This is the monkey dancing for his banana. He's willing to help Harris craft her illusion for it.

But he didn't have to meet with Trump. He did it because he felt compelled to.

And that should worry Democrats.

At the center of this controversy is Klippenstein’s decision to release the Trump campaign’s vetting documents on Vance, which included the senator’s personal information, including emails, phone numbers, and addresses. The documents were obtained by hackers on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which means there's a possibility that Klippenstein may be (purposely or accidentally) doing Tehran’s bidding for political purposes.

In response, X suspended Klippenstein’s account, which has angered folks on the left. They argue that this decision is hypocritical. They also claim folks on the right who support the move are also being hypocritical because of their opposition to the platform’s decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. //

What these folks are missing – or deliberately leaving out – is that X adopted a policy in March that disallows “doxxing,” which occurs when someone exposes personal information without the person’s consent: //

Under the previous management, the laptop story was suppressed for a different reason: The company claimed it was information that was hacked by Russians. This contention was later exposed as one in a long list of left-wing hoaxes.

What is also interesting about this story is that the doxxing of Vance was done using information coming from Iranian hackers, which clearly violates the platform’s rules. //

Mooslim&squirrel
13 hours ago
Dear Molly Stupid, Hunter Biden’s laptop wasn’t stolen. Wasn’t released by foreign actors and you are still lying about it. So there is that //

John Q. Public
13 hours ago
They seem to ignore the fact that Hunter willingly gave up the laptop and its contents, despite being contacted on multiple occasions to pick it up. It was not “stolen” or “hacked”. //

oldgimpy&cranky
13 hours ago
I continue to see leftists pretend to not understand that "hacking" into someone's personal accounts means [at the least] electronic B&E. Meanwhile, when you ABANDON your laptop and its drives full of info - you have literally given it away.

I can forgive the senile commies that never learned cp/m, but there is no way on earth the younger commies don't know the difference.

And, we've been over the whole DOXXING mess ad nauseam. It's not complicated. (and no, if we publish your OFFICE address and numbers and titles, found on your company site, it's not Doxxing). //

Cafeblue32
23 minutes ago
He should be banned for having the last name Klippenstein. I can't hardly read it without laughing. Sounds like a 1930s monster movie. Run! It's the Klippenstein monster!

That's the thing with the left. Everything they want is a Dollar Store moral equivalent of something decent and good.

Nature miscarries babies, so abortion is not wrong. (Intent of the mother is ignored)

A male athlete gussied up as a woman takes estrogen, so he doesn't have an advantage. (physical reality is ignored)

If abortion is wrong, so is the death penalty. (guilt or innocence of the one being killed is ignored)

A current day border crosser here is the same as a refugee from civil warin Africa or Asia. ( the fact none of our southern neighbors are at war is ignored)

Israeli apartheid is no different than South Africa's. (The role the two major world religions involved and who is the aggressor are ignored).

Etc.

7. He's an Existential Threat to Our Democracy. The Left keeps repeating this and has been doing so for quite awhile. It's like one of their academics dropped the word "existential" in a white paper and the next day they all began using it. It sounds so intellectual! So analytical! So....like..Einsteinian! //

Ok, I think this goes beyond hyperbole and maybe they really think he will destroy "our democracy" as we know it. But what is our democracy as we know it? Well, a democracy is rule by simple majority which can lead to the tyranny of the majority as written about by Alexis de Tocqueville in his work "Democracy in America." But, we're not that. We're a constitutional republic. This means that we operate on the principle of representative government. It will be extremely unlikely that one person is going to be able to assume power like some medal-chested strongman in Uganda. Lots of checks and balances to shove out of the way first. However, if you can do something to change the representative part, say import an entirely new population of voters without the consent of the citizenry because you believe they will vote a certain way, well then you kind of have a real live existential threat to the country.

So if you're going to say that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy, I'm going to raise you and say that Biden, Harris and Mayorkas are far greater threats to our constitutional republic. And l call.

In an added — and some might say ironic — twist, per CNN, Routh's case was assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon, the same U.S. District Court judge overseeing the classified documents case filed by the DOJ against Trump. (Cannon's name is present on the indictment, which may be viewed below — the preliminary proceedings were handled by Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe.) //

GBenton
3 hours ago
That's beautiful. The dirtbag got a Trump appointed judge in Florida. If Bongino is correct and there is much more to this story in regards to Iran and assassins and the Biden/Harris clownshow, Cannon is the judge for the job, IMO.

Her handling of the Documents case was masterful, to my non-lawyer eyes.

She's the judge for the Federal charges. If DeSantis's state level charges are brought, I'm assuming they'd be handled in a state level court and not Cannon but I'd be glad to be wrong about that.

NavyVet wildmlm
4 hours ago
I think every black man that has ever been harassed by police should take what the DoJ is doing to President Trump to heart and realize "running while Trump" is the same thing as "driving while black" when you have the likes of the unconstitutional Jack Smith and the extreme leftist Garland stinking up DoJ.