President Donald Trump has a sit-down conversation with Theo Von at Trump’s country club in Bedminster, New Jersey to discuss reforming healthcare, border security, his friendship with Dana White and why he refrains from drinking and smoking.
Theo Von is a likeable young man who has casual conversations and a large podcast audience. The conversation with President Trump about addiction and the challenges around drugs and alcohol is very interesting and insightful. WATCH:
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It started with Senator Lindsey Graham previously saying that perhaps electronic encryption programs needed a legislative ban as an outcome of the Trump assassination attempt.
The “never let a crisis go to waste” narrative continues advancing today with Congressman Mike Waltz.
CHICAGO — Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to a member of a congressional task force investigating his assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), one of 13 lawmakers tapped to serve on the House bipartisan task force, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago that the “overseas accounts” piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives.”
“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad – where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” asked Waltz. (read more)
If you do not choose to give up some private communication tools in order to make the USA a safer place, then you don’t care about the security of President Trump or something. That’s the rapidly approaching talking point from the professionally republican.
The Deep State loves unilateral transparency where We The People are transparent, and they remain opaque. Sorry, but look where we are now. We never should have agreed to start taking off our shoes at the airport.
In this picture, a screengrab from a recent media question, you will notice Brian Fallon on screen right, using his cell phone to record the Q&A in case the principal, Harris, says something stupid and the campaign needs to clean it up.
The recording of media questions and answers is not that uncommon, and it is often done to protect the campaign in the event the media tries to distort the statement. However, in this example what is noteworthy is that Brian Fallon is doing it. The copying is not usually done by the campaign manager, it is usually a staff task assigned to someone else.
When contrast against the lack of accessibility and media pressers, Fallon being involved at this level indicates the extreme sensitivity and fear within the Harris campaign. Quite simply, the campaign is very concerned about what Harris might say and how that might create an issue for the construct that has been manufactured around her.
Never to be accused of doing anything timely for the American people, the republicans on the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees just released a 291-page report today [full pdf here], highlighting the evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption in office.
The Republicans couldn’t wait to send money to Ukraine. The same Republicans rushed a FISA reauthorization bill. The Republicans also fast-tracked a Green New Deal bill under the guise of an Inflation Reduction Act, and they delivered a fake border security bill. However, it took them three years to outline Biden’s pay-to-play schemes. Go figure.
Joe Biden is heading to the exit, his cohort Kamala now represents the face of the administration, and here comes the Chaff and Countermeasures committee members with their outrage and shock.
As noted by Politico, “House Republican investigators accused President Joe Biden of engaging in “impeachable conduct” as part of a long-awaited report. It’s unlikely to change a reality the party has faced for months: They don’t have the votes to impeach him.” (more)
One of the great mysteries about the January 6, 2021, events is the lack of curiosity by the FBI about who planted the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters. Amid all of the available CCTV video and surveillance technology exploited by the justice department, their transparent unwillingness to identify the pipe bomber has always been a dog that did not bark.
The Occam’s Razor explanation for why DC and federal law enforcement have been incurious, points to law enforcement actually planting the bombs. New CCTV video seems to show exactly that.
Shortly after 12:51pm a DC police SUV appears next to the park bench where the pipe bomb was discovered. [Video Below] A man with a bag exits the SUV, points to the bench, pulls up his right coat collar to obscure his face from the camera located across the street, then walks to the bench with the bag. The “pipe bomb” device allegedly was found at 1:05 p.m. by a plainclothes officer from the Capitol Police.
NEW: Recently discovered video from Jan 6 shows an individual believed to be police carrying a bag toward the location where “pipe bomb” was found at DNC.
This is about 15 minutes before another officer “discovered” the device.
Another shady moment in this unsolved “mystery” pic.twitter.com/OeZZsKw1hs
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 14, 2024
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I am not going to repeat the reporting above, the timelines therein, or the granular details painstakingly outlined. The research is solid, informative and accurate. Instead, my focus is about “why” the pipe bombs were planted.
Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy (House) along with Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence (Senate) did not want the January 6th certification of electors challenged. If you suspect the 85 million votes for Joe Biden might have been manufactured (mail-in ballots), then you understand the DC motive to avoid any electoral challenge that might have resulted in state level legislative inquiry and/or vote counting review.
To avoid the challenge to the electoral certification process, a lengthy and very formal process where the Senate must separate from the House as each state is formally questioned/challenged and a debate/vote on each state’s set of electors takes place (minimum 2 hours each state), an EMERGENCY process triggered by the House Speaker (Pelosi) was needed. That’s where the pipe bombs come into play.
RFK Jr is desperately trying to clean up the damage he created, just like he desperately tried to clean up the damage from his recording then leaking the phone call with President Trump.
Here’s the denial of Robert Kennedy Jr (today), that comes after Robert Kennedy Jr previously confirmed the attribution to other outlets (last night).
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I am going to outline something that might make a few people uncomfortable.
You may have recently read about RFK Jr being disqualified from the ballot in New York state.
(Via Fox News) – […] New York Justice Christina L. Ryba concluded in a 34-page decision that the rented bedroom Kennedy, 70, claimed as his residence in the state wasn’t a “bona fide and legitimate residence, but merely a ‘sham’ address that he assumed for the purpose of maintaining his voter registration” and furthering his political candidacy.
Ryba wrote in the decision that Kennedy’s designation of 84 Croton Lake Road in Westchester County as his place of residence “was a false statement requiring invalidation of the petition.” (SOURCE)
This represents yet another apparent fail (set back) by the Kennedy campaign that positions himself for sympathy. There is a pattern here inside the RFK Jr campaign structure and I have no more tongue to bite.
Here’s the cut to the chase aspect. Blue states will block ballot access for RFK Jr., Red states will work earnestly to keep ballot access for RFK Jr.
Within the party club system, as portrayed by the media apparatus they fund, this dynamic is being (and will be) sold as dishonorable, cheating Democrat states, and honorable, honest Republican states. However, that’s the illusion within the fraud that few can see.
Blue states blocking and Red states supporting RFK Jr is part of one UniParty continuum to elevate Harris and carve up Trump. Ballot access within red states allows maximum damage by RFK Jr in the November election. That’s the feature, not the flaw.
Everything this guy does and says glows brightly. On the NY ballot issue RFK Jr is a Kennedy, these are not political novices or stupid people. The Kennedy’s are to politics what the Rothchilds are to finance. When they fail, it is by design. When they whine it is by design. When they draw attention to an issue, there is a purpose for it.
Last week we found out that Kellyanne Conway, a rather disingenuous woman with deep professional republican bona fides, had registered under FARA laws so that she could lobby the US Government on behalf of Ukraine. Essentially, Kellyanne Conway is a Ukraine lobbyist.
The MSM tried to push a story that people around President Trump were positioning Conway for a more substantive role in the Trump campaign. However, President Trump put a stop to that false narrative by telling everyone there was ZERO truth to such a claim.
VIA MSM – Donald Trump denied a report that he might be looking to bring back his former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway who served as a senior counselor to the former president.
Speculation that Conway could again take on a prominent role in his campaign grew after Tara Palmeri reported in the online magazine, Puck, that some of the former president’s family members are pushing for her return.
President Trump will be broadcasting an interview/discussion with Elon Musk tonight from his Twitter/X Account.
The Spaces discussion is scheduled for 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT
If you are listening to the conversation on spaces, consider this an open discussion thread to share your thoughts and opinions.
A NOTE OF CLARIFICATION: President Trump HAS NOT returned to Twitter/X. Instead, the Trump campaign is purchasing ad space on President Trump’s Twitter account. It is the Trump campaign using the Twitter/X account, not President Trump himself.
It’s mid-August and the headlines are increasingly looming around the Ukraine v Russia conflict. You can sense it; I can sense it, and we all need to trust our instincts.
As we navigate our way through this intense foreign and domestic political gaslighting, lies being created daily by government officials and their allies in the corporate media, being able to hone your instincts becomes even more critical. Not many people can do it.
The last week or so has highlighted a marked increase in urgency and hostility amid those in the CIA/DoS who control the events in Ukraine. Everything about this insufferable World War Reddit is sketchy, including the ongoing absence of any frontline reporters anywhere in the “battlefield” giving updates on what we are told is intense fighting.
I have never seen a war that did not have a single journalist war correspondent, clad in a helmet and flak jacket, giving updates on what is happening on the ground from a location near the battle zone. Yet here we are more than two years into this “conflict” and not a single war correspondent is reporting. It’s just completely weird.
Adding to my own view on the sketchy reporting from Intelligence Community operatives, is my personal drive in a car from Russia (Kazan) to Montenegro (Kotor) through the entire cross section of Ukraine, without any difficulty. I did see some large fishing nets being deployed in what I was told was a makeshift counter drone effort, and I did witness some 6′ wide trenches being built, but no actual ‘conflict.’
To be fair, I wasn’t exactly trying to put myself into a combat zone, I was just going from East to West and was quite happy not to encounter any hostilities. But it’s all just weird.
If you read the western headlines and traditional legacy news reports, you get the sense that NATO is trying desperately to increase the intensity of the hostilities. At the very least, they are trying to increase the perception of an uptick in hostilities and conflict.