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Rittenhouse Prosecutor Points Rifle Toward Jury, Finger on Trigger (Video)

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger took up an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and held it in a shooting stance with the barrel pointing in the general direction of the jury and his finger inside the trigger guard.

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Economic Discontent, Criticisms of Biden Lift GOP to Record Early Advantage: ABC Poll

According to ABC News/Washington Post surveys spanning back 40 years, Republican congressional candidates hold the greatest advantage in midterm election vote preferences.

QUICK FACTS:
  • The GOP advantage underscores “profound challenges for Democrats hoping to retain their slim majorities in Congress next year,” ABC News reports.
  • “While a year is a lifetime in politics, the Democratic Party’s difficulties are deep; they include soaring economic discontent, a president who’s fallen 12 percentage points underwater in job approval and a broad sense that the party is out of touch with the concerns of most Americans — 62% say so.”
  • Just 31% say Biden is keeping most of his major campaign promises.
  • Only 35% think he’s accomplished much overall.
  • “And while most support his spending and policy plans, crosswinds are evident, as 59% worry he’ll do too much to increase the size and role of government, up 6 points since spring.”
  • “Looking to the midterms, 58% of all adults (and 59% of registered voters) are inclined to look around for someone new to vote for,” notes ABC.
  • See ABC’s PDF for full results, charts, and tables.
BIG QUOTE:

“As things stand, if the midterm elections were today, 51% of registered voters say they’d support the Republican candidate in their congressional district, 41% say the Democrat. That’s the biggest lead for Republicans in the 110 ABC/Post polls that have asked this question since November 1981. Indeed, it’s only the second time the GOP has held a statistically significant advantage (the other was +7 points in January 2002) and the ninth time it’s held any numerical edge at all,” according to ABC.

ECONOMY:
  • “With inflation soaring, 70% say the economy is in bad shape, up from 58% last spring.”
  • “While just half blame Biden directly for inflation — its worst in 31 years — his approval for handling the economy overall is down to 39%, off 6 points just since early September and 13 points from last spring.”
BIDEN’S JOB PERFORMANCE:
  • “In terms of Biden’s job performance overall, a new low of 41% approve, while 53% disapprove, highly similar to his rating on the economy.”
  • “Biden’s lost 11 points in approval since spring, accelerating with the coronavirus Delta surge and continuing with inflation.”
COVID-19:
  • “Biden’s rating is…a 47-49% split, approve-disapprove.”
  • “But that is numerically…underwater for the first time, with approval ebbing from 64% in April and 62% in June, both pre-Delta surge.”
APPROVAL RATING:
  • “Biden’s overall approval rating sets or matches career lows among nearly all demographic groups.”

RFK Jr. Explains Big Tech’s Censorship of ‘Vetted, Sourced & Cited’ Vax Data: ‘People Aren’t Stupid—We Can See What’s Happening’

“When they use the term ‘vaccine misinformation,’ they are using it as a euphemism for any statement that departs from official government policies and pharmaceutical industry profit-taking.”

QUICK FACTS:
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was in Bern, Switzerland for the International Rally to Halt Corona Measures on Nov 12.
  • During a press conference, Kennedy explained how even peer-reviewed data regarding Covid-19 and experimental coronavirus vaccines are being suppressed by Instagram, Facebook, and other Big Tech platforms.
  • Kennedy accused government officials “in league” with Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and other “internet titans” for coordinating this censorship, as well as for engineering “the biggest shift of wealth in human history.”
  • “3.8 trillion dollars from working people to these handfull of billionaires, many of them from Silicon Valley,” RFK Jr. specified. “Is it a coincidence that these are the people censoring criticism of the policies that are bringing them trillions of dollars?”
  • Kennedy went on to say that the people who are “benefiting” from this censorship and reallocation of wealth are the same people who are “squeezing away our Constitutional rights and engineering the destruction of democracy worldwide.”
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Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith and author of “An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing & How to Fix It.“

Pro-CRT Parent Threatens School Board: ‘I Have 1,000 Soldiers Ready To Go, Locked And Loaded’ (Video)

Fort Worth, Texas parents were threatened by a man defending the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) during a school board meeting.

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Trump Wins: Former President Victorious in Two Major NYC Lawsuits

It’s pretty extraordinary how often former President Donald Trump has been vindicated from the relentless attacks against him, which have been coming since the fateful day he came down that escalator and announced he’d be shaking up the American political scene forever.

His critics were wrong about his chances at winning the presidency. The hysterical Russia conspiracy theorists were wrong, several times over.

A historic pair of impeachments failed to satisfy his angry opponents.

And even now, after leaving office, the vindication just keeps coming.

Former President Trump has scored a pair of courtroom victories, which he declared, in true Trumpian fashion, to be “totally vindicating.”

On Friday, a former contestant for “The Apprentice,” Summer Zervos, ended her 2017 lawsuit against the media-and-real-estate-mogul-turned-populist-president in which she had alleged sexual assault.

Also on Friday, a judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Trump’s notorious former lawyer Michael Cohen against the Trump Organization, which sought $1.9 million to cover legal costs incurred by the work he previously did for the company, as well as an additional $1.9 million related to his own legal trouble in the early days of the Trump administration, as Reuters reported.

The judge, while far from sympathetic to the former president, said the Trump Organization is simply not responsible for Cohen’s fees.

“In a nutshell, Mr. Cohen’s legal fees arise out of his (sometimes unlawful) service to Mr. Trump personally, to Mr. Trump’s campaign and to the Trump Foundation, but not out of his service to the business of the Trump Organization,” the New York judge said in the filing.

Zervos, for her part, did not elaborate on why she had abruptly withdrawn her lawsuit, a separate Reuters report detailed, but her attorneys did issue a statement explaining that she no longer wanted to pursue it.

“Ms. Zervos no longer wishes to litigate against the defendant and has secured the right to speak freely about her experience,” the attorneys said. They added that she nonetheless “stands by the allegations in her complaint.”

The one-time reality TV contestant had accused Trump of unwanted kissing and groping in 2005 and of damaging her reputation by referring to such allegations as “lies” and retweeting a post that derided Zervos’ claims as a “hoax.”

Trump had been seeking permission from the court to countersue.

“Ms. Zervos made the prudent decision to voluntarily drop her case without the exchange of any compensation or attorneys’ fees,” Trump attorney Alina Habba told Reuters in an email. “She had no choice but to do so as the facts unearthed in this matter made it abundantly clear that our client did nothing wrong.”

The former president himself said that it was “so sad when things like this can happen, but so incredibly important to fight for the truth and justice.”

“Only victory can restore one’s reputation,” he added.

While President Trump is admittedly far from what you might call a gentleman, it’s worthy of note that so far, none of the allegations of flat-out sexual assault or misconduct have ever stuck, just as the plethora of oftentimes wild conspiracy theories levied against him routinely fall flat.

This hasn’t stopped his opponents from constantly seeking the next silver bullet to take him down, as we saw through the whole of his presidency.

Trump, meanwhile, absolutely refuses to be taken down, which in large part embodies his appeal to an American populace that has for far too long been scolded and browbeaten by ideologues on the left who accuse them of heinous sins against their fellow man simply for loving their country, sticking to biblical values and resisting the radical social upheaval from the progressive left.

The left has often characterized Trump as merely a “symptom” of our supposedly wicked, unredeemable racist and bigoted national heritage, but by so doing, they’ve smeared millions of perfectly decent, moral Americans who believe in genuine equality along with him.

He’s a symptom all right — a symptom of an American populace who is tired of taking things sitting down. In him, they see a hero who would fight until the bitter end to make sure our country isn’t taken over by anti-American zealots who want to sell us out to our ideological and militaristic enemies.

He might have been forced to fade to the background now that he’s out of office, but the movement he sparked isn’t going anywhere — and his followers, despite his predictions, have yet to get tired of winning.

Rumor That Biden Is ‘Considering’ Moving Harris To Supreme Court Sweeps D.C.

Buried in a recent scathing CNN story about Vice President Kamala Harris’ endless woes is a line that has sent shockwaves across Washington, D.C.

Two CNN reporters penned a piece on Sunday headlined “Exasperation and dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris’ frustrating start as vice president.” The article cited nearly three dozen officials in Harris’ office and the White House as their sources, and few had nice things to say.

But there was one passage that caught everyone’s eye.

“Defenders and people who care for Harris are getting frantic. When they’re annoyed, some pass around a recent Onion story mocking her lack of more substantive work, one with the headline, “White House Urges Kamala Harris To Sit At Computer All Day In Case Emails Come Through.” When they’re depressed, they bat down the Aaron Sorkin-style rumor that Biden might try to replace her by nominating her to a Supreme Court vacancy. That chatter has already reached top levels of the Biden orbit, according to one person who’s heard it,” said the piece.

That small “rumor” prompted The Daily Mail to write: “Harris’ approval rating has plunged even further than Biden’s in recent months, with rumors swirling that the president is considering appointing her to the Supreme Court as a backdoor method of selecting a new VP.”

Now, as CNN noted, it is indeed an “Aaron Sorkin-style rumor,” referring to the writer of the hit show “The West Wing.” Dramatic things were always happening on the show, but things are much slower — and much more boring — inside the Beltway.

Still, these kinds of things have a way of spiraling. And Harris’ dismal first year as vice president likely won’t quash the rumors.

Harris’ approval rating has plunged to just 28%, according to a poll of registered voters released last week by USA Today and Suffolk University. Biden’s rating hit yet another a new low, plummeting to 38%, but all eyes are on Harris as the person most likely to succeed Biden and run for president in 2024.

Harris basement-dwelling numbers are unprecedented, Business Insider reported.

“The closest comparison – which involves slightly different methodology and margins of error – would be former Vice President Dick Cheney, the most unpopular US vice president in polling history. He bottomed out at 30% in Gallup’s tracking survey, but that wasn’t until the end of former President George W. Bush’s second term in 2007,” the news site reported.

The notion isn’t that odd, though. Democrats immediately began talking about “packing the court” — meaning to add more justices to the Supreme Court — shortly after Biden took office.

In April, Biden announced he had created a commission to study packing the court. The New York Times reported that Biden made the decision to move forward with studying the partisan plan because he was “under pressure from activists.”

But the move is so toxic that even socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) doesn’t support it, warning that if Democrats do so, then “the next time the Republicans are in power they will do the same thing.”

MISDEMEANOR FROM HELL: Defiant Bannon Tells Biden He Picked The Wrong Target in Fiery Courthouse Speech.

A defiant Stephen K. Bannon emerged from the D.C. federal courthouse this afternoon promising to deliver Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Nancy Pelosi the “misdemeanor from hell” following his indictment on two counts related to an unconstitutional contempt of Congress charge.

Bannon, 67, emerged several hours after his first appearance before a D.C. court and used the specter of Hunter Biden’s “hard drive from hell” to frame his opposition to the case against him.

“I’m telling you right now, this is going to the misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden.

“Joe Biden ordered Merrick Garland to prosecute me, from the White House lawn, when he got off Marine One,” Bannon alleged, alluding to a politically-motivated prosecution the likes of which America has never seen.

“We’re going to go on the offense,” he added. “We’re tired of playing defense.”

Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, Bannon lawyer Douglas Schoen described his long career at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and insisted: “This is unheard of, to force a person to violate the invocation of executive privilege… I represented the American Civil Liberties Union for more than 20 years… this is an issue that the American Civil Liberties Union should be on our side with.”

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Austrian Govt. Forces Unvaccinated Into Lockdown, Police Monitoring Citizens’ Activities

Austria’s government is forcing around 2 million unvaccinated residents into isolation. Beginning Monday, anyone over the age of 12 was forced into at least 10 days of lockdown measures.

Police will be performing spot checks on people who are out in public and have been ordered to fine those who are not out for pre-approved reasons such as work or shopping.

Data shows around 65 percent of the country’s population are vaccinated, which Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said was “shamefully low.” He called for the government to be given the ‘green light’ for sweeping restrictions.

“Every citizen, every person living in Austria must be aware that they can be checked by the police at any time,” stated Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer. “Among others, we will also control the 2G status and the reason for entering the public space.” 

Schallenberg is also pushing the booster shots, saying without them the country will “never get out of this vicious cycle.” Meanwhile, protesters have taken to the streets in opposition to the vaccine mandate.

ACLU says FBI raid of Project Veritas founder O’Keefe’s home threat to ‘press freedom’

Barring significant evidence of criminal theft, the government ‘should not have subjected them to invasive searches and seizures,’ wrote the ACLU

The ACLU has weighed in on the recent FBI raid of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe home in connection with the diary of Ashley Biden, daughter of President Joe Biden.   

“Unless the government had good reason to believe that Project Veritas employees were directly involved in the criminal theft of the diary, it should not have subjected them to invasive searches and seizures,” wrote senior American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Brian Hauss.

Project Veritas, an undercover journalism group, came into possession of the diary when Biden was running for president in 2020 but purportedly tried to return it to law enforcement because its authenticity couldn’t not be proved. O’Keefe has said he believed at the time the diary was not illegally obtained. 

The group urged the court to “appoint a special master to ensure that law enforcement officers review only those materials that were lawfully seized and that are directly relevant to a legitimate criminal investigation.” 

O’Keefe and his attorneys have also requested a special master (typically a retired judge) to supervise the review of what was seized last weekend – O’Keefe’s cell phones.

At present, there is no public indication that the diary was stolen or that Project Veritas helped carry out its theft. A lawyer for O’Keefe told the court that sources of the organization said they had obtained the diary after Ashley Biden abandoned it at a home in Delray Beach, Florida. Project Veritas, which has never published any material pertaining to the diary, ultimately turned over the document to the authorities before the 6 a.m. raid of O’Keefe’s home on Oct. 6.

Attorneys for O’Keefe complained to a federal judge that the predawn raid denied O’Keefe the usual legal protection afforded to journalists. One question is whether the courts view O’Keefe’s work as journalism.

“Reasonable observers might not consider their activities to be journalism at all,” reads the ACLU statement in reference to some of the “disgraceful deceptions” in which Project Veritas has engaged.

Last month, Attorney General Merrick Garland struggled before the Senate Judiciary Committee to define who qualifies as a journalist under Justice Department policies.

“It’s very difficult to make that kind of definition,” he said.

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