Saturday, March 23, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Bobulinski Threatens Fox/Tarlov Suit, Letitia Threatens Trump Properties, Legal Pros Threaten Jack Smith Legitimacy

Da Caller is amused when Dems Suddenly Decide To Care About Witness Credibility "After championing E. Jean Carol’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and praising her bravery for coming forward, Democrats questioned the credibility of Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner, Tony Bobulinski." Matt Margolis at PJM reports Jessica Tarlov's False Claim About Tony Bobulinski Sparks Lawsuit Threat Against Fox News. She claim his lawyers fees were being paid by a pro-Trump PAC. Under the threat of a suit she issued a mealy-mouthed correction. Then, Tony Bobulinski’s Lawyers Refuse to Accept Jessica Tarlov’s ‘Clarification.’ Jessica is the most likeably and smartest person to hold the "lib" seat on the Five, but that's not a high bar. Scott McKay at Am Spec, Behold, the Villains: Biden Family Defenders Make the Case for a Hero. "They no longer believe in anything but the hatred and subjugation of their fellow man." From ET, Jordan Subpoenas Biden’s Ghostwriter in Continuing Classified Records Probe "Jordan subpoenaed Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, on Friday, pressing for details about the president’s handling of classified documents." The guy who destroyed his taped to protect Biden from the classified documents scandal. That should prove amusing. TNP, Biden Inquiry Exposes Possible CIA Plot to Protect Hunter From Prosecution. "According to the individual who has spoken with the House Judiciary Committee, the CIA actively blocked officials from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and DOJ from interviewing several witnesses during the original Hunter Biden investigation." Paul Sperry at NYPo says Joe Biden proves he’s a hypocrite as money keeps pouring in. And at Da Fetched, Biden Tells a Bizarre Incoherent Story about Being the “Poorest Man in Congress.”

Stacy McCain is aghast when an Illegal Alien From Eritrea on Terror Watch List Arrested in Gates County, N.C. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.22.24, at Twitchy, 'Unbelievable'! Here's the Sign That's Been Put Up at TX Border Area Overrun by Illegals. Da Wire reports Biden Slammed After Hundreds Of Illegal Aliens Attack National Guard Troops In Texas. At Hat Hair, KJP Blames Illegal Immigrant Mob on Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Dave Strom expresses wonderment at the Joe Scarborough's  claim that Chaos at Border Is Trump's Fault? At Insty, HE’S NOT WRONGRep. Mike Collins@RepMikeCollins, "More shots were used to repel U.S. citizen Ashli Babbitt from the Capitol than on foreign invaders." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.22.24, at Am Think, Robin M. Itzler watches the transition from From Illegal Alien Invaders to Newcomers to Democrats and Silvio Canto, Jr. worries And then they voted Democrat in November.  Ace is disgusted when 200,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed, With Illegals Now Permitted to Stay in America, Because -- Whoopsie! -- Biden Administration Partisans Lost the Paperwork. "Whoops!" Hat Hair's KT reports Mexico Filed a Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Federal Court on Texas SB 4. "Mexico categorically rejects any measure that allows state or local authorities to exercise immigration control, and to arrest and return nationals or foreigners to Mexican territory. Mexico also questions legal provisions that affect the human rights of the more than 10 million people of Mexican origin who live in Texas, and give rise to hostile environments in which the migrant community is exposed to hate speech, discrimination and racial profiling." At JTN, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin declares disclosure of immigration status in courts is necessary. "GOP governor vetoes legislation would have protected illegal immigrants from having to disclose their status."

MD Kittle at Da Fed says Biden’s New EV Mandate Is A ‘Bloodbath’ For Consumers, Carmakers, And The ‘Climate.’ VodkaPundit at PJM, BYD: Here Comes the EV Bloodbath Trump Warned Us About. "The five-door hatchback doesn't have the best range or fanciest amenities. But what it does have is a top price under $14,000, good safety features, aggressive looks, and plenty of financial backing from Beijing. BYD's specialties are batteries and high-tech manufacturing, and they're using both to aggressively expand overseas production and deliveries." The Autopian reports Most Carmakers Lose An Average Of $6,000 On Every Electric Vehicle They Sell. And they still ain't cheap. At WUWT, Biden’s Newest Rule on Auto Emissions Set to accelerate the Death Spiral for auto manufacturers. WSJ, cited at Hat Hair warns The New Normal for Mortgage Rates Will Be Higher Than Many Hope. KT comments "Ugh. Bidenomics is destroying the American Dream for everyday Americans. It will take some time for the next president to make necessary economic corrections to get American back on its feet again."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.22.24, Eric Lendrum at Am Great reports a Poll: Trump Leads Biden in All Seven Swing States. At Am Con, Thus Far, Trump Has Huge Coattails. The Best Coattails. "Trump’s chosen candidates are winning from top to bottom of the ballot." Da Caller expresses fear when New Fundraising Haul Takes Biden War Chest Over Double Trump, RNC’s but Breitbart notices Joe Biden’s Average Approval Rating Well Below Historic Reelection Threshold. At HE, The 'bloodbath hoax' is just the start of the media's 2024 deceptions. Althouse, "Acyn Torabi... posted a video clip of the 'bloodbath' quote, shorn of most of the surrounding verbiage, garnering 22 million views..." "... on X.com. ... Joe Biden’s campaign posted a similar clip soon after Torabi did, implying Trump was fomenting violence. By Sunday morning, Republicans on the news-making talk shows were asked about Trump’s comment. . . . Writes Bill Scher, in "No More 'Bloodbaths' or How to Avoid Stupid Debates Over Trump’s Semantics/Forget parsing his words. Democrats should connect Trump’s past rhetoric to the street violence and Capitol insurrection of his last year in office" (Washington Monthly). Brianna Lyman at Da Fed is concerned when Secretaries Of State Won’t Explain ‘Coordinated’ Effort To Fight ‘Common Adversary’ In 2024. Common adversary is Trump, of course. 

Here we go again, Matt Margolis reports Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Motion to Vacate Speaker Mike Johnson over his support for the budget deal, which passed last night. Sundance at CTH, CHECK THE DATE – Republican Mike Gallagher Quits Congress, Dropping GOP Majority to One Seat "Gallagher’s exit date is as subtle as a brick through a window: I said last year to watch out for April 19th, Patriot’s Day. {SEE HERE" Also, Highlighting Her Alignment, Ronna McDaniel Joins MSNBC "Oh, there’s no UniParty silly…. No, none at all. lolol 😂"

At Am Think Marly Hornik thinks about Voting and the Meaning of Honor, but at Fox, Federal judge dismisses lawsuit challenging DC noncitizen voting law. "Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that plaintiffs did not show how noncitizen voters have harmed them." Hat Hair's KT asks What can go wrong? Voting is a sacred privilege for American citizens. Progressives are allowing non-citizens to vote. This will not end well.

From Breitbart, Trump’s Lawyers Rip Letitia James for Denial Request of $454M Bond Appeal: ‘Illogical,’ ‘Unconstitutional,’ ‘Unjust’. TNP, Letitia James Moves to Seize Trump’s Westchester Golf Course. Ace, Tyranical Rogue Prosecutor "Tish" James Begins Filing Motions to Seize Trump's Property. "And there's no appeal for this obviously corrupt and Soviet judgment because the judgment includes the requirement that Trump must pay a sum of money he does not have in order to file an appeal." Paul at the Ops Desk considers the question Will Trump Lose His Buildings? "Not Monday, he won't... and maybe not ever." Sundance, New York State Targets U.S. Citizen Donald Trump with Unprecedented Lawfare Maneuver, Effectively to Place Him Under a Personal Consent Decree "As if something akin to the John Galt character in Atlas Shrugged was coming to life, no American individual has ever faced this level of intentional weaponization of power. If the state appellate court does not intervene, I predict a federal judge will have to get involved.  The reason is simple; the State of New York is clearly violating the 8th Amendment, and despite the compromised judiciary, the scale of overreach is even beyond the ability of the pretending judicial system to overlook it." A couple from Althouse, "... Trump doesn’t own Trump Tower.... Trump Tower is owned by the people who own the apartment units...." "What he actually owns at Trump Tower is 'the parking garage, the valet booth, room-service kitchens, lobby bathrooms, a restaurant space, and one unit.' That’s his apartment.... His basic model is that he goes to a city, lines up money to build the building... essentially licenses his name to operation, builds it and then gets what amounts to an ongoing residual in the form of some kind of servicing contract tied to the structure. You sell the units to a mix of people who are wowed by the Trump name and others from Russia and Saudi who want to park their money through a blind LLC..... [W]hat he does own is by design deeply intertwined with the real stuff that other people own.... The stuff he actually owns owns is the stuff [Letitia] James is going after — golf courses, big houses...." Writes Josh Marshall, in "We Have Met the Enemy and He Owns the Valet Booth at Trump Tower" (TPM)." Also "Former president Donald Trump claimed Friday that he had 'almost $500 million' in cash, undercutting his lawyers’ previous statements..." "... that he would not be able to pay a bond of more than $450 million to secure a massive judgment in his New York civil fraud case. 'I currently have almost five hundred million dollars in cash, a substantial amount of which I intended to use in my campaign for president,' Trump said Friday morning in a TruthSocial post in all caps....." From TNP, Left-Wing Mag Admits Trump NYC Fine is Politically Motivated. It's quite clear that James and Energon chose the amount of the "fine" to attempt to hamstring Trump.

In the Florida case, MXM reports Judge Cannon orders Jack Smith to allow jury to peruse classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. So what happens when it turns out a majority of those documents turn out to concern the "Russiagate" hoax? Josh Blackmun at the Volokh Conspiracy has a New Amicus Brief: Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Not An "Officer of the United States" "At most, Smith’s temporary position is properly characterized as a mere “employee.” To paraphrase Justice Scalia’s Morrison v. Olson dissent, this employee came as an employee." Seth Tillman, Brief of Professor Seth Barrett Tillman and Landmark Legal Foundation as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant Trump’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment, on the same grounds. If accepted, Smith is gone, and all his work wasted. Althouse, "Time will tell whether Mr. Garland and Ms. Monaco made the right calls in the period before they turned the investigation over to Mr. Smith..." ""... who within eight months brought not only the election-case indictment but the separate charges against Mr. Trump for mishandling classified documents. But like many before them, Mr. Garland and his team appear to have underestimated Mr. Trump’s capacity for reinvention and disruption, in this case through delay...." I'm reading this long NYT article by Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman, "Inside Garland’s Effort to Prosecute Trump/In trying to avoid even the smallest mistakes, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland might have made one big one: ending up in a race against the clock.""

At WaEx, Byron York is not impressed by Biden’s lawfare joke. Althouse quotes "But what is interesting is that a few voices on the Left have spoken up to question the fairness of the proceedings."

Althouse sees A lucky break for Trump. "The NYT reports: "Trump Media Merger Is Approved, Providing Fresh Source of Cash/The deal will pump money into Trump Media, which will allow Truth Social to keep operating. Mr. Trump’s personal stake in the company will be worth more than $3 billion on paper." It may be a lucky break that it comes now, but it was a business deal he work on for a long time. No luck involved. Sundance, DWAC Voting Members Approve President Trump’s Truth Social Platform for Public IPO.

Da Blaze reports Congress asks Capitol Police chief questions arising from Blaze Media report "The House subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Capitol Police Department has some questions for USCP Chief J. Thomas Manger about discipline records of two officers who likely perjured themselves during the 2022 Oath Keeper trial — records that were kept from the Oath Keepers’ attorneys and could have been relevant to their defense. Here’s what happened and how we got here." From PM, Trump's acting defense sec says J6 committee threatened him when he revealed Trump called for National Guard in DC. "Chris Miller said that when the J6 Committee would "make his life hell" if he kept going on TV to talk about the J6 case. He said it was clear Liz Cheney was running the show." Hollywood in Toto wonders Is Billy Ray’s Jan. 6 Project Hollywood’s October Surprise? "Mysterious film by Trump-obsessed director of 'Comey Rule' is coming ... soon." From HE, The investigation into the Transition Integrity Project reveals the 'darkness of the deep power structures within the US government'.

Da Caller, Authorities Release Man Never Convicted Of Crime After Waiting In Jail For Over 10 Years. Cam Edwards at Bearing Arms hears Family Has Questions After Airport Executive Killed in ATF Raid, "Under Joe Biden's watch the ATF has become a weaponized arm of the gun control lobby complete with law enforcement powers, and the House Oversight Committee needs to bring Steve Dettelbach to Capitol Hill for questioning ASAP."

Hat Hair's John Sexton notes 'Forest Defenders' Had Financial Backing from a Millionaire Communist. Campus Reform has the VIDEO as University of Memphis protesters block students from leaving Kyle Rittenhouse event. At Behind the Black, a Mob of Democrats threatens violence against conservative students at the University of Memphis. mrcTV, Rittenhouse Walks Off Stage After Uninformed Activists Repeatedly Disrupt Event. Ben Kew at RedState, BLM Thugs Torpedo Kyle Rittenhouse Event in Memphis, Attack Attendees

Matt Taibbi at Racket on America's Intellectual "Bloodbath" "If a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it?" Ben Weingarten, Will the Censorship Regime Deploy Weapons of Mass Suppression in 2024? "The means and motives are there for a mass censorship effort the likes of which we've never seen. Recent developments suggest where the information war is headed." Of course, it worked last time. Why would they stop now?  From Insty, HE’S RIGHTElon Musk@elonmusk, "This is a battle to the death with the anti-civilizational woke mind virus. My positions are centrist: - Secure borders - Safe & clean cities - Don’t bankrupt America with spending - Racism against any race is wrong - No sterilization below age of consent Is this right-wing?" And, THE LEFT’S WAR AGAINST ELON MUSK EXPLAINED IN ONE TWEET: Rasmussen Reports@Rasmussen_Poll "On Twitter: 3% believe a fake news Trump lie. Off Twitter: 40% believe a fake news Trump lie. Twitter is the Democrat's biggest issue for 2024." Elon Musk@elonmusk "The New York Times is pure propaganda x.com/defiantls/stat…" At Althouse, "The whole point of the First Amendment is to give ordinary citizens the power and the tools to decide for themselves what information to listen to and what ideas to find persuasive." "That’s the foundational principle of the First Amendment and a foundational principle of any democracy—that the power to decide what information to access and listen to and how much weight to give it are left to the ordinary citizen and not to the government." The Gateway Pundit@gatewaypundit "FDA Loses its War on Ivermectin: Agrees to Remove All Related Social Media Content and Consumer Advisories on Ivermectin Usage for COVID-19 via @gatewaypundit."

Da Wire reports Internal Docs Show Entire Intelligence Community Warned To Avoid ‘Problematic Phrases’ On Islamic Terrorism. "Top intel agency's DEI newsletter states that terms such as 'Jihadist' and 'Radical Islamists' must be avoided". They might be offended....  

The Free Bacon notes a Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard's DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct. The College Fix hears a Grand Canyon University student say she was ‘silenced’ about ‘biased’ econ textbook.  Ace wakes up and notices Another Harvard Racial Justice "Scholar" Is Accused of Plagiarism "I can't believe all of this white privilege!"

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.22.24, The Geller Reports NYC: Squatters Kill Homeowner, This After Another Homeowner Was Arrested for Trying to Keep Squatters Out of Her Home by Changing the Locks and Louder With Crowder: Chicago Mayor, with a straight face, blames Trump supporters for voting down his homeless agenda.  Da Mail, San Francisco man who stabbed Asian woman, 94, multiple times gets PROBATION after soft-touch judge was told he'd suffered 'trauma' and 'cried' on being told what he'd done.  

Breitbart reports on the Nashville School Shooting: Federal Judge Orders Release of Transgender Shooter’s Journals. At Front Page, Lloyd Billingsley calls him Non-Binary Biden "“Heartbroken” by a teen suicide - but willfully blind to mass murderer Audrey Hale." John Sexton, Tulsa DA: No Charges in the Nex Benedict Case. The Telegraph is concerned The West is being torn apart by the battle of the infinite sexes, "For a healthy society to function, lawmakers must strike a balance between individual freedom and collective harmony." Modernity, Museum Claims Dinosaurs Have “LGBTQ History” And Birds Are “Queer.”  At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn sees Fauxny Females All the Rage at Ladies Prisons, Doing Just What You Expect But Are Assured They Don't and KT wonders (hopes?) Is Drag the New Blackface? Libs of TikTok is on a roll,   "BREAKING: A nonbinary teen fatally shot her mother and injured her stepfather after getting hold of a gun. Carly went by she/they pronouns according to her IG. Another case of trans t*rrorism. The modern LGBTQ movement is radicalizing our youth into becoming v*olent activists. https://t.co/Yb13n7cryM" / X,  "GRAPHIC: @REVWUTRUTH read from the p*rnographic book “Push” which is available to students at @Midland_ISD. He then gets his mic shut and gets escorted out by 5 police officers! They hate when people expose what’s in the books they’re giving to kids! https://t.co/K8flwp17UK" / X"Male trans activist harasses a hostel worker after she told him to use the men’s bathroom. He threatens to ruin her life because she’s “transphobic” https://t.co/OGDc4vJXNU" / X and BREAKING: Washington State Gov signed a bill mandating LGBTQ history be taught in public schools. Your kids will be forced to learn about Dylan Mulvaney and drag queens. Ace rejoices as Planet Fitness Loses $400 Million in Stock Value as Boycott Grows Over Its Policy of Allowing Men in the Women's Changing Rooms. "You may have heard about Planet Fitness. Earlier this week, a woman in Alaska photographed what is clearly a man shaving his face in the ladies bathroom. She said he was in the bathroom while a 12-year-old girl was present. She reported him to Planet Fitness' management. Planet Fitness acted quickly: They cancelled the woman's membership and re-affirmed that Gender Is Whatever You Think It Is This Minute."

Linked at The Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Gloom, Despair, Etc. up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

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