IAF airstrikes kills 8 Hezbollah scumbuckets in Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes hammered eastern Lebanon late Friday, taking out eight members of Hezbollah, the Islamic terror group, including several local officials, according to two sources inside the organization.

The Lebanese Health Ministry bumped the overall death toll to 10 but conveniently declined to specify how many were militants versus civilians. This is the same game Hamassholes play when they give the media statistics about Gaza deaths, and the media believes them without question.

Those Hezbollonian officials, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren't cleared to yap about it, confirmed the eight fighters were eliminated near the village of Rayak in northeast Lebanon. An AP crew on the ground Saturday morning confirmed the damage: the top floor of a three-story building was completely obliterated.

The Israeli military on Saturday, announced that several members of Hezbollah's missile unit were "eliminated" across three separate command centers in the Baalbek area. They added that the targets were "operating to accelerate readiness and force build-up processes, while planning fire attacks toward Israel."

One Hezbollah source named three of the dead as local commanders: Ali al-Moussawi, Mohammed al-Moussawi, and Hussein Yaghi. Yaghi was the son of prominent Hezbollah figure and founding member Mohammed Yaghi, who passed away in 2023. Mohammed Yaghi had also served as a close aide to the late Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah, who was blown to bitesize pieces by an Israeli airstrike in September 2024.

Lebanon's Health Ministry reported Saturday that the strikes across eastern Lebanon killed 10 people and wounded 24, including three children.

Ali Abdullah, executive director of Rayak Hospital, told the media that the strike hit after sunset. They received 10 bodies and 21 wounded. Among the dead were two non-Lebanese: a Syrian man and an Ethiopian woman. The wounded included five Syrians and three Ethiopians. Ethiopians, of course, frequently end up in Lebanon as migrant domestic workers.

A funeral took place Saturday afternoon in the eastern village of Nabi Chit for two of the Hezbollah members killed in the strikes.

This all traces back to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamasshole-led attack on Israel that ignited the Gaza war. Hezbollah jumped in almost immediately, launching rockets from Lebanon into Israel in solidarity with Hamas and the Palestinians. Israel hit back with airstrikes and artillery. What started as a low-boil skirmish exploded into full-scale war in September 2024, only to be partially cooled, but not ended, by a U.S.-brokered ceasefire two months later.

Since then, Israel has repeatedly called out Hezbollah for trying to rearm and rebuild, responding with near-daily strikes targeting militants and facilities. Hezbollah has fired exactly one claimed strike into Israel since the truce.

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Friday's body count stands out as unusually high and lands amid spiking regional tensions. The United States has warned it could strike Iran, a key backer of both Hezbollah and Hamas, if talks over Tehran’s nuclear program collapse and no deal materializes.

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Arc de Triomphe terror: police officers targeted in mass stabbing

A mass knife attack targeting police officers unfolded near the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday evening, right during the solemn rekindling ceremony of the Flame of the Unknown Soldier. The Islamist suspect, identified as Brahim Bahrir (or Brahim Bahri in some reports), a known radical with a violent history, tried to stab a gendarme with a knife and scissors. Another officer quickly opened fire, hitting the attacker multiple times. He was rushed to the hospital but later died from his injuries and is currently on his way to Jannah where his 72 virgins await him.

This wasn't the scumcrumpet's first rodeo against law enforcement. Back in 2012, he carried out a stabbing attack on police in Belgium, seriously injuring one officer, and got slapped with a 17-year prison sentence tied to terrorism charges. Yet somehow, he was released early just a couple of months ago and allowed back on the streets in order to make liberals feel good about themselves. 

France has turned the country over to Islamic supremacists, and what do they get? More terror.

The attacker targeted an officer securing the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame honoring unknown soldiers at the Napoleon-era landmark, according to a Paris police official. Another officer shot the attacker, who was hospitalized, the official said.

No bystanders or police officers were injured in the incident, the official told The Associated Press.

The French counterterrorism prosecutor's office has taken over the investigation and sent personnel to the scene. A heavy police presence locked down the area around the monument Friday evening, closing it to the public while the traffic circle stayed open for vehicles. The nearby metro station was also shut down at police request, per the RATP transport operator.

The incident has reignited fierce debate over how France handles repeat violent offenders, especially radicalized ones fresh out of prison, and the glaring security gaps at these major national ceremonies. Investigators are digging into the motive and any deeper extremist ties, but the pattern here is painfully familiar: a known threat gets released, strikes again at a symbolic site, and the public is left wondering why basic common sense wasn't applied sooner.

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Ric Grenell explains why artists may be refusing to perform at the Trump-Kennedy Center

The elites in the performing arts world are throwing a full-blown meltdown over President Trump's name joining JFK's on the Kennedy Center, and it's exposing just how intolerant the left truly is when they don't get their way.

Red State recently reported, that the board of trustees, stacked with Trump's appointees, voted unanimously to rename the iconic venue The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, or the Trump-Kennedy Center for short. This honors Trump's massive efforts throughout 2025 to rescue and revitalize the place, pouring in upgrades and modernization under the guidance of his handpicked interim president, Ric Grenell.

New signs went up almost overnight, and that's when the hissy fits began, not from ticket buyers, but from the performers themselves.

Nick Arama, another reporter from Red State, nailed the coverage on jazz musician Chuck Redd, who'd been hosting the center's Christmas Eve "Jazz Jams" since 2006. He bailed at the last minute after spotting the name change. "When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert," Redd told The Associated Press.

Grenell wasn't having it, hitting back hard and threatening a $1 million lawsuit against Redd for breaching his contract.

"Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” Grenell wrote.

“Regrettably, your action surrenders to the sad bullying tactics employed by certain elements on the left, who have sought to intimidate artists into boycotting performances at our national cultural center," he added.

And Redd's not alone in prioritizing politics over paying fans. The New York jazz outfit The Cookers ditched their New Year's Eve shows, bloviating that "Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice."

Are you kidding?  Adding Trump's name to the building somehow muzzles "human voices"? 

Cut me a huss [don't Google it; Grok it], Trump didn't silence anyone; these guys are the ones ditching their audiences.

Country/folk singer Kristy Lee scrapped her January slot to preserve what she called her integrity, and the Doug Varone and Dancers company axed their April dates, whining they couldn't "step inside this once great institution." Of course it's their call, but don't pretend it's anything but a TDS-fueled tantrum.

Sure, artists cancel for all sorts of reasons: sickness, emergencies, or straight-up political freak-outs. But Grenell dropped a bombshell, claiming he's heard directly from booked acts that CNN and The Washington Post are actively emailing them, pushing boycotts of the Trump-Kennedy Center.

If that's accurate, and there's zero reason to doubt Grenell on this, it's outright interference, the media acting as left-wing activists trying to sabotage a national institution. Classic. It lays bare the left's entitlement: they think they own places like this, and if Trump touches it, they'll burn it down so nobody else can enjoy it. The real victims? The fans and patrons who lose out because orange man bad.

This is peak liberal hypocrisy on display, and it's glorious to watch it backfire.

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Habba: DOJ moved ‘swiftly and decisively’ stopping a ISIS-linked Halloween terror plot targeting Jews

Photo allegedly sent by Milo Sedarat online

In the grim annals of our age, where the West's complacency towards its own undoing has become a kind of collective delusion, comes yet another tale of thwarted barbarism, foiled, mercifully, not by some grand awakening of societal resolve, but by the quiet vigilance of those still willing to do the unglamorous work of keeping the wolves from the door. 

The Department of Justice, in a rare display of what might once have been called competence, has dismantled an ISIS-inspired network that stretched like a malignant tumor from the rust-belt suburbs of Detroit to the smug shores of New Jersey. And the target was not some abstract symbol of imperial hubris, but the everyday Jews of a quiet American neighborhood, alongside the usual litany of "infidel" outposts: LGBTQ bars and the like. 

Halloween, that peculiar pagan romp turned corporate confection, was to have been their stage for slaughter.

The plot, as federal prosecutors lay it bare, was a squalid affair of encrypted whispers and adolescent zealotry. It was a "sprawling federal investigation," as the Justice Department termed it, and turned into a cabal of young men who mistook jihad for a video game. At its heart lay the "pumpkin" scheme: a mass shooting scripted for October 31st, code-named with the banality of a child's prank but armed with the lethality of AR-15s, shotguns, handguns, and a stockpile of 1,680 rounds. 

Ayob Asamil Nasser, alongside brothers Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, stand accused in a 93-page indictment from Michigan's Eastern District of conspiring to funnel material support to the Islamic State. They trained at local ranges, swapped ISIS propaganda like contraband trading cards, and eyed Ferndale's gay haunts and a Jewish community center with the cold calculus of butchers. Raids on that fateful All Hallows' Eve yielded tactical vests, GoPro cameras for their snuff-film fantasies, and magazines from a U-Haul unit that might otherwise have hauled pumpkins.

Across state lines, the tendrils extended to Tomas Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, New Jersey, and Saed Mirreh, 19, of Kent, Washington, nabbed this week in a New Jersey indictment that knits their fates to the Michigan cell. Selfies exchanged in their fevered group chats, faces blurred in a nod to operational hygiene, show Jimenez-Guzel beneath an ISIS flag and Mirreh in jihadi drag, as if auditioning for a caliphate cosplay. 

They face charges of conspiring to aid a foreign terrorist outfit, with Jimenez-Guzel additionally tagged for attempting flight: arrested at Newark Liberty International as he angled for Turkey en route to Syria's meat grinder. Court papers, cited by the Associated Press, note how their travel frenzy accelerated post the Michigan busts, "picked up speed," as if this were a mere change in itinerary rather than a sprint from the law.

U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, presiding over the New Jersey front, cut through the fog with a statement that, in saner times, would scarcely merit remark. The defendants, she said, "had pledged themselves to ISIS" and were in "frequent communication with the Michigan cell." On Friday, she added: "We will continue to move swiftly and decisively whenever terrorism or hate threatens our communities. The threat of terrorism is real when Americans are threatened. We respond fast, focused and together." 

Words that land like a slap to the multicultural pieties that have long insisted such threats are but phantasms of Islamophobia. In Detroit, her counterpart Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. vowed persistence: "We will not stop. We will follow the tentacles where they lead." And FBI Special Agent Jennifer Runyan echoed the resolve: her team will "continue to investigate, arrest and disrupt all attempts or plots to do harm … to defend the homeland." Habba hailed the cross-jurisdictional tango as "a model of coordination against extremist threats."

The digital spoor of their conspiracy unfurls in the annals of a WhatsApp group dubbed "Muslimeen"—a forum for sharing beheading clips, plotting firearms drills, and syncing the "pumpkin" countdown. Prosecutors see it as one hydra-headed organism: some cells primed for homegrown carnage, others for the foreign lure of the caliphate's corpse. The Michigan trio cools its heels in Detroit custody; Jimenez-Guzel and Mirreh have shuffled through Newark and Seattle courtrooms. Juveniles may lurk under sealed dockets, their youth no shield against the presumptive innocence that cloaks them all—for now. A criminal complaint, after all, is but an allegation; guilt awaits the gavel's fall.

One pauses, amid this inventory of intercepted malice, to ponder the fragility of the veil we have drawn over such realities. These were not grizzled operatives smuggled across porous frontiers, but homegrown recruits, radicalized in the cradle of American liberty, their grievances nursed on the same screens that peddle TikTok dances and flat-earth follies. The Jewish center in suburban Detroit was no accident of selection; it was a deliberate echo of ancient hatreds, repackaged for the hashtag era. And yet, how swiftly the story will fade—eclipsed by the next outrage or apology tour, as our elites tut-tut about root causes that dare not speak their name. The threat endures, not in distant deserts, but in the encrypted chats of the disaffected, where the West's own hesitations furnish the accelerant. Until we confront that truth without flinching, the Habba doctrine—swift, decisive, unapologetic—remains our slender bulwark against the gathering storm.

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Trump Team Drops the Silverware Bombshell: Hillary's "Borrowed" China Cabinet Meets Trump's Fancy Footwork Floor

Ah, the White House—where the ghosts of scandals past waltz eternally with the drama of the present. On a recent episode of Fox News' Outnumbered, the panel dove headfirst into the Democratic dust-up over President Donald Trump's latest architectural fever dream: turning a chunk of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a ballroom big enough to host the entire cast of Dancing with the Stars... plus their egos.

In a plot twist straight out of a Capitol Hill soap opera, the Trump administration fired back at ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she mustered her Twitter troops to torpedo the Prez's 90,000-square-foot privately bankrolled bash palace. Their weapon of choice? A dusty 2001 doozy, accusing the former First Lady of absconding with White House swag like it was Black Friday at the Smithsonian.

"Failed presidential candidate and former First Lady Crooked Hillary stole furniture from the White House on her way out until she was forced to return it," White House spokesman Davis Ingle spilled to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, with the relish of a gossip columnist at high tea. "Crooked Hillary is shameless and a total disgrace."

"Meanwhile, President Trump is restoring the White House to its proper glory for Americans to enjoy for generations to come — at no expense to the taxpayer — something we should all celebrate," Ingle added, because nothing says "unity" like dredging up old linen lists.Clinton, never one to let a renovation go unchallenged, had taken to the digital barricades earlier that October, rallying the masses against Trump's ballroom bonanza—a taxpayer-free extravaganza aimed at shoehorning a mega-entertaining space into the people's palace.

The Trump administration took a shot at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she rallied Americans to reject President Donald Trump's White House ballroom construction project. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)

"It’s not his house," Hillary Clinton wrote on X Tuesday morning. "It's your house. And he's destroying it."

Oh, the irony—it hit faster than a dropped soufflé. Conservatives across the spectrum dusted off their 2001 highlight reels, replaying the tale of the Clintons' exit-stage-left luggage lift: an estimated $28,000 in donor-provided White House doodads that got packed up, only to boomerang back after the inventory elves cried foul. The power duo also forked over $86,000 to Uncle Sam for other inaugural swag, all chalked up to a "cataloging error" that sounds suspiciously like "oops, my bad" in legalese.

"Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the White House usher's and curator's offices," the Clintons declared in a 2001 statement, the verbal equivalent of crossing fingers behind their backs. "Of course, if the White House now determines that a cataloging error occurred ... any item in question will be returned."

When I asked Grok "did the Clintons take furniture and other things from the Whitehouse" the AI replied: 

Yes, there was a well-documented controversy in early 2001 when Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House, during which they took several pieces of furniture, artwork, and other household items that were later determined to belong to the government or were disputed by donors. However, the situation is nuanced: many of the items were personal gifts they were legally entitled to accept and keep under federal rules (which allow presidents to retain gifts valued over $375 after disclosure), while others were intended as donations to the White House residence and were returned voluntarily after media scrutiny and donor clarifications.Key Details from Investigations and ReportsWhat Was Taken? Upon departing, the Clintons shipped out about 950 items worth roughly $360,000 in total, including furniture (e.g., sofas, chairs, rugs, and tables valued at around $68,000 overall, with $38,000 kept initially), china, silverware, artwork, lamps, and other household goods. Some furniture had been donated specifically to the White House in 1993 for tax deductions by donors, but the Clintons treated them as personal property based on a 1994 White House Counsel memo.

Returns and Payments: In February 2001, following New York Times and Washington Post reports, the Clintons returned over $28,000 worth of disputed furniture and artwork (about 25 items, including sofas, a table, lamps, and a rug) to the National Park Service, which oversees White House furnishings. They also paid the government $86,000 to reimburse for other personal gifts received in their final months in office. Later that year, two minor items (a $1,725 easy chair and a $675 ottoman) were returned to the Clintons after NPS determined they hadn't been officially accepted as White House property.

So take that in your wet cigar, Hill and Bill.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed President Donald Trump's construction project at the White House to build a ballroom. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) The backlash ballroom? It was a conservative conga line. Lawmakers and meme lords piled on, turning Clinton's tweet into a piñata party.

"At least he didn’t steal the silverware," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posted to X Tuesday, because nothing disarms a dig like a dash of utensil-based shade.

"Hi Hillary, Remind us, wasn’t it you who walked off with $28,000 in White House furniture when you moved out?" conservative influencer Benny Johnson posted to X. "And your husband who defiled the Oval Office during his presidency? President Trump’s funding a beautiful new ballroom out of his own pocket."

"A Clinton would never defile the White House," former White House staffer Alex Pfeiffer shot back in response, dripping sarcasm thicker than White House gravy.

Fox News Digital pinged Clinton's camp repeatedly for a encore on her ballroom beef and the furniture fiasco mockery, but crickets echoed louder than a empty State Dinner hall.

Meanwhile, over in the demolition derby, the White House had already swung the wrecking ball at the East Wing to make room for Trump's terpsichorean triumph. (The Associated Press) Trump himself broke the glittery ground on Monday, because why whisper when you can trumpet? 

"I am pleased to announce that ground has been broken on the White House grounds to build the new, big, beautiful White House Ballroom," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Completely separate from the White House itself, the East Wing is being fully modernized as part of this process, and will be more beautiful than ever when it is complete!"

"For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for grand parties, State Visits, etc.," President Donald Trump said. (Getty Images)

"For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for grand parties, State Visits, etc. I am honored to be the first President to finally get this much-needed project underway — with zero cost to the American Taxpayer!" he continued. "The White House Ballroom is being privately funded by many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly. This Ballroom will be happily used for Generations to come!"

And just like that, the East Room gets an upgrade, the furniture files get a flip, and Washington waltzes on, proving once again that in politics, the only thing more enduring than a grudge is a good grudge match with a side of sequins.

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Palestinian activist who led Columbia U. protests arrested by ICE

Probably not Ilhan Omar behind him

Shalom Mahmoud.

In a move that ought to raise eyebrows among those still clinging to the notion of institutional integrity, a prominent Palestinian activist, Mahmoud Khalil, who spearheaded Columbia University's 2024 student encampment protests, found himself apprehended and arrested on Saturday night in New York City.

Federal immigration authorities, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer in a library, claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, or so his attorney, Amy Greer, relayed to The Associated Press. One can almost hear the bureaucratic machinery grinding away, indifferent to the human cost.

Khalil was ensconced in his university-owned apartment, just blocks from Columbia’s Manhattan campus, when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed the building and hauled him into custody. Greer recounted to the AP that one agent, in a phone call dripping with officiousness, informed her they were executing a State Department directive to nix Khalil’s student visa. When she pointed out that Khalil, a December graduate, held permanent residency via a green card, the agent nonchalantly declared they were revoking that too. A tidy little escalation, wouldn’t you say?

This arrest dovetails neatly with President Trump’s bombastic pledge to deport foreign students and jail “agitators” tangled up in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. The administration has trained its gimlet eye on Columbia, announcing on Friday a $400 million slash in grants and contracts—a punitive measure ostensibly tied to the Ivy League’s supposed failure to stamp out antisemitism on campus. One might wonder if this is less about principle and more about settling scores.

Greer noted that the authorities saw fit to leave Khalil’s wife—eight months pregnant, no less—in the dark about why her husband was being carted off. “We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained,” she told The AP. “This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.” Khalil, meanwhile, has been shuttled to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he presumably sits, a pawn in a larger game.

A Columbia spokesperson, with the practiced neutrality of a tightrope walker, insisted that law enforcement must brandish a warrant before setting foot on university property. Yet they declined to confirm whether such a warrant was produced for Khalil’s arrest. The university’s website offered this gem: “There have been reports of ICE around campus. Columbia has and will continue to follow the law. Consistent with our longstanding practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including University buildings. Columbia is committed to complying with all legal obligations and supporting our student body and campus community.” A masterpiece of saying much while revealing little.

Khalil, it should be said, had emerged as a poster boy for the pro-Palestinian cause at Columbia. When students pitched their tents last spring, he was tapped as a negotiator, parleying frequently with university administrators. Come September, with classes back in swing, he told The AP with defiance: “As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist.” A sentiment that, whatever one makes of it, has now landed him in the crosshairs of a system that seems less interested in dialogue than in deportation.

Here we see the collision of ideology and power, played out on the stage of a prestigious university that once prided itself on free thought. The question lingers: is this justice, or merely the heavy hand of retribution dressed up as policy? History, as ever, will be the judge.

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Zelenskyy unsure where the $100 billion plus went in US Aid

Zelenskyy made the claim in a recent interview with the Associated Press, where he casually admitted to having no idea the whereabouts of the majority of the funds allocated by the Biden administration.

“When I hear – both in the past and even now – from the U.S., that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions, as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you – we’ve received more than $75 billion,” he said. “We’re talking about tangible things because this aid didn’t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about $70 billion.”

"But when it’s said that Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army during the war – that’s not true," he added. "I don’t know where all that money went."

Zelenskyy claims Ukraine only received around $75 billion of the $177 billion in aid that was sent from the United States. pic.twitter.com/mbdbtljvV1— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2025

So what's the big deal? Did he check the floor of his car? Maybe it fell under the seats.

"Perhaps it’s true on paper with hundreds of different programs – I won’t argue, and we’re immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about $76 billion," he stated. "It’s significant aid, but it’s not $200 billion."

This means Zelenskyy is unsure of where just over 57 percent of the taxpayer money America sent to Ukraine is right now.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), some of the most vocal supporters of audits for the aid, may have a good point . . . unless, of course, Zee can come up with the dough.

seem like a rare duo who actually care what is happening with the funds and/or military equipment.

“We should immediately stop payments to Ukraine and begin a thorough audit of the $60 billion that Joe Biden and Congress have already sent there,” Massie wrote on X back in 2022.

From the days of bagman Hunter Biden, to the present day, Ukraine has been able to avoid accounting for the money we send them and it's only now that this administration is ready to turn off the money spigot.

In 2023, the Pentagon revealed an accounting "error" amounting to $6,200,000,000 that resulted in a surplus that would later be used in aid packages to the Eastern European nation.

Then-Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh announced the error at a presser, noting it took place in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 and was a result of overestimating the value of weapons being sent to Ukraine.

Even the Comedy News Network's Jake Tapper, was shocked when the error was originally reported at $3,000,000,000. He went so far as to call it a "hell of an accounting error” that "provides a lot of fodder to critics ... who say there’s not enough oversight going on.”

One thing is certain: that money went somewhere and did not disappear in a puff of smoke.

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Oh those Violent Vehicles [VVs] that crash into Christian Christmas shoppers: this time 5 killed, 200 hurt: media leaves important information out

As we know by now, a vehicle going at high speed plowed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Magdeburg, Germany, killing 5 and injuring around 200 at last count. An arrest has been made but the media did not focus on the perpetrator, they focused on the event and the casualties. 

The driver, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, is a 50-year-old Saudi Arabia national who has lived in Germany since 2006. The horrific attack was at a Christmas market in Magdeburg about 100 miles from Berlin.

Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister referred to the incident as “A terrible event, especially now in the days before Christmas.” 

Yes, it is a terrible event, but it's also a regular Islamist attack in spite of the intentional neglect by the media of that tidbit.

There appear to be signs that this might be the first of multiple attacks, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said reports “suggest something terrible is to come.”

So why would there be multiple attacks? Copycat killers? Cars that do evil things?

Considering what we know, the Associated Press posted this on X:

A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany https://t.co/IepW8HsBZg— The Associated Press (@AP) December 20, 2024

 And then there's this:

Oh those evil SUVs and cars and trucks. Why do they go after Christians and Jews?

This is a miscarriage of journalism. Here's what the AP wrote:

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Germans on Saturday mourned the victims of an apparent attack in which authorities say a doctor drove into a busy outdoor Christmas market, killing five people, injuring 200 others and shaking the public’s sense of security at what would otherwise be a time of joy.

The alleged attack Friday evening in Magdeburg, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, killed a 9-year-old and four adults and injured 41 people badly enough that authorities warned the death toll could rise.

Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.

But the good news is that people are waking up and are learning more about Islam, especially when it comes to jihad.

The Muslim who committed this atrocity was wanted in Saudi Arabia for criminal activity but Germany reefused to extradite him. Don't believe that he was anything but a jihadi.

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokes terrorist: all Gaza hospitals taken over by terrorists

A spokes scumquat for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) spilled his guts admitting that his fellow terrorists have taken over all the hospitals in Gaza. They use these facilities to hide military activities and launch attacks. They know the world will not be critical of their war crimes and if the IDF fires back at them, they will blame Israel for crimes against the poor Palestinian people.

Spokes-scum Tarek Abu Shaluf admitted to an Israeli interrogator from military intelligence that the PIJ terrorists initially lied about the source of a deadly rocket strike on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, when the war started, falsely blaming Israel so as to cover up the PIJ's involvement in the clusterfrack of the misfired rocket attack. [H/T Algemeiner.com.]

The IDF released audio recordings at the time, in which Hamas officials can be heard admitting that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was responsible for the misfired rocket, but anti-Semites being what they are, either didn't care or didn't believe what had actually occurred, and vilified Israel instead.

“We fabricated a story that the rocket belonged to the ‘occupation’ [Israel] and that the target was the building” of Al-Ahli hospital, Abu Shaluf said in the latest recording. He added that the terrorist group’s communications department chose to lie in order to “erase” the fact that the rocket had fallen short of its target. He went on to say that they also “relied on the stories in the international press.”

According to the IDF, Abu Shaluf was one of around 900 suspects detained during the recent raid on the Shifa Hospital complex. Of the detainees, over 500 were confirmed to be active terrorists. The operation resulted in the elimination of more than 200 armed jihadis, including senior commanders from both Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Where was Allah when you needed him, eh?

When Abu Shaluf was asked about which hospitals were being used by Hamas and PIJ, he admitted it was "all the hospitals," and said the terrorists are able to occupy wards and rooms in every hospital in Gaza and exploited the internet and electrical connectivity to hide their operations.

The anti-Semites will say that Abu Shaluf was forced into making a confession about the activities of the PIJ because this is what they want to believe and they can never be convinced otherwise. In truth, these revelations confirm long-standing Israeli claims that Palestinian terrorist factions systematically commit war crimes by using the protective status of hospitals as well as other civilian infrastructure for their anti-Israel purposes. But somehow the left and the Islamic diaspora gives them a free pass.

Hamas has consistently lied about not using hospitals and other civilian sites for military activities, despite mounting evidence of the truth. However, it's obvious the terrorist groups have the media on their side. When the Al-Ahli hospital strike on October 17, all major news outlets reported within minutes of the occurrence. The New York Times, the Associated Press, the BBC and many others immediately accepted the Hamas death toll release without checking the facts. The Times‘ headline said the strike [that they initially blamed on Israel] killed “hundreds.” AFP later put the number of those killed by the misfired rocket at between 50-90.

When you maniacally hate Israel and the Jews to the degree the terrorists do, you will believe anything they say no matter how big the lie.

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Netanyahu exposes journalists tied to Hamas: CNN caught with pants down had one as a photographer

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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu figuratively tore mainstream Western media a new anal sphincter after it was discovered that they were working with photojournalists embedded with Hamas. Bibi referred to these scum as “accomplices in crimes against humanity.”

CNN, always a friend of the foe, formally severed ties with a Hamasshole sympathizing freelancer, Hassan Eslaiah, who was photographed getting a wet kiss from the former Hamasshole leader, Yahya Sinwar, who is currently dead.

Ah, but the kiss lingers on, you can tell by the smile.

Netanhayu’s office tweeted Friday that it “views with utmost gravity that photojournalists working with international media joined in covering the brutal acts of murder perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, reminding us of how CNN was there when the FBI raided the home of Roger Stone in the middle of the night.

“These journalists were accomplices in crimes against humanity; their actions were contrary to professional ethics,” the Prime Minister said — and he demanded “immediate action be taken” by the outlets helping to employ them.

Netanyahu's anger followed a bombshell investigation by media watchdog Honest Reporting. They investigated journalists who were there to document the surprise Oct. 7 attack that brutally and sadistically murdered more than 1,400 people, with more than 240 others taken hostage.

Overnight, Israel Minister of Communications Dr. Shlomo Karhi issued a scathing letter to the outlets named in the investigation — Reuters, The Associated Press, Compromised News Network, and fake newspaper, The New York Times.

“The gravity of the situation demands a swift and thorough response. It is now a time for individuals, journalists, institutions, unions, and organizations around the world to make a clear choice,” he wrote in the missive, which he shared on X.

“We must decide whether we stand on the side of life and good and on the side of depraved terrorism, inhumanity, and evil.”

The allegations published late Wednesday accused a handful of photojournalists of being too close to the terror group reminiscent of CNN, suggesting it was why they were there for the Oct. 7 attack that took Israel by surprise. Many were seen without press identification at the time.

Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, said that “journalists who knew about the massacre, who remained silent and took pictures” were “no different from the terrorists.”

They should be tried for war crimes.

“We are aware of the article and photo concerning Hassan Eslaiah, a freelance photojournalist who has worked with a number of international and Israeli outlets,” CNN, thoroughly embarrassed, told YnetNews early Thursday.

“While we have not at this time found reason to doubt the journalistic accuracy of the work he has done for us, we have decided to suspend all ties with him.”

Eslaiah – a freelancer who also worked for the AP – shared since-deleted tweets on the attack that placed him at the scene of Hamas’ incursion into Kibbutz Kfar Azza, and did not appear to be wearing a press vest or helmet, the report alleged.

Why would he need to wear a press vest when he's obviously a friend of Hamas?

Honest Reporting’s screenshots of Eslaiah’s tweets include a photo of the photographer in front of a burning tank alongside the caption “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”

Another photo of the tank on a dusty road outside Khan Younis later appeared on AP’s website with Eslaiah’s credit, according to Honest Reporting.

The watchdog later updated its initial report with allegedly resurfaced footage of Eslaiah with the burning tank.

“In the above video, Eslaiah says in Arabic: ‘Everyone who were inside this tank were kidnapped, everyone who were inside the tank were kidnapped a short while ago by al-Qassam Brigades [Hamas’ armed wing], as we have seen with our own eyes,’” Honest Reporting claimed.

It was not shared as to whether Eslaiah was smiling when he made that report.

In addition to the scumbag Eslaiah, Honest Reporting accused Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali of being inside the Hamas attack at the time their work was shared in AP’s photo credits.

Do you really doubt it?

Masoud’s work has also been linked to emergency toilet paper known as The New York Times, Honest Reporting said.

The outlet also named photojournalists Mohammed Fayq Abu Mustafa and Yasser Qudih, whose work was published by Reuters “at the border just in time for Hamas’ infiltration.”

Abu Mustafa’s grisly image of an Israeli soldier’s body being lynched was later named one of the wires “Images of the Day.”

If found in public, these people need to be brought to justice.

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Mexico upset Texas floating barrier might actually work on Rio Grande

Mexico seems worried that the Texas floating barrier along the Rio Grande may keep illegal aliens on their side of the river and cause them higher crime and lower job availability if the migrants stay. They sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government saying such an effective barrier may violate treaties on boundaries and water, Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Bárcena said.

The Associate Press reports that Bárcena says Mexico will send an inspection team to the Rio Grande to see whether any part of the barrier – put in place to deter illegal immigration – extends into Mexico’s side of the border river. If it does, then it's no bueno, amigos. But if Texas can pull it toward their shore just a little, then they have nothing to say on the matter.

Texas began rolling out the new floating barriers in early July, but migrant advocates have voiced concerns about drowning risks from the buoys as opposed to the drowning risks of crossing the river in the first place.

Environmentalists, especially progressive liberal Democratic socialist environmentalist who believed the world should have already burned up, questioned the impact on the river.

Bárcena, a Mexican from Mexico not living in the United States, also complained about the installation of barbed wire on an island in the river near Eagle Pass, Texas, not Mexico. 

Photos of the inflatable barriers show what appear to be a string of connected inflatable spheres that spin when someone attempts to scale them. They look like giant caterpillars and can be fun for the whole illegal alien family.

According to a press release from Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office, the inflatable barrier will "proactively prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry by making it more difficult to cross the Rio Grande and reach the Texas side of the southern border."

This can serve as a deterrent and thus save lives rather than end them, but it certainly will help stop the flow of future Democrats, the left believes.

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NC bill favors tougher sentencing for rioters

North Carolina lawmakers have approved significantly stiffer punishments for rioters. This is the second such bill in three years, which first was drafted in response to the 2020 destructive riots following the death of George Floyd, a thug-turned martyr for the left.

House Bill 40 now needs Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, to sign it, but the leftist had vetoed a similar bill which was approved by the Republican-controlled General Assembly in 2021. However, the GOP gained enough seats to override Cooper's veto if only one House Democrat votes for the bill and the Republicans stand united.

[H/T Fox News]

The bill does not interfere with peaceful protests, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, but will drop the hammer down on rioters who damage property and perpetrate violence.

House Speaker Tim Moore voted for the bill both times it had been proposed and pointed out that North Carolina's current laws were useless in preventing rioting and looting in downtown Raleigh in June 2020. Last Thursday Moore urged the governor to sign the "commonsense bill into law without delay." But the chances of most Democrats having common sense is on par with winning the lottery without having purchased a ticket.

However, six House Democrats, including a chief sponsor of the bill, voted in support of the measure last month. In the Senate, lawmakers passed the bill with a 27-16 vote – first-term Sen. Mary Wills Bode, the only Democrat with balls, was the only Democrat to vote in favor.

The Associated Press reported that social justice and civil rights advocates have consistently pushed back on the measures, probably because it stops Black Lives Matter rioters and other rioting leftists, from destroying what they have the right to destroy due to centuries of repression and stuff like that.

CNN: "Mostly peaceful protests"

Sen. Danny Britt (R) of Robeson County, said on the Senate floor  that the bill only targets "violent actors" causing mayhem, and not those peacefully demonstrating. But Democrats know that it will result in targeting most of the "demonstrators" if they're members of BLM or Antifa, because they come with weapons and they come to destroy. 

Other opponents say the language is too broad and laws addressing rioting are already in place, but those laws proved to be as useless as Pete Buttigieg at a train derailment.  

Sen. Natalie Murdock, a Durham County Democrat, said the bill "doubles down on the punitive system that created the scars of mass incarceration that we’re still dealing with today," and blah, blah, blah.

Putting criminals in jail has decreased the number of crimes where that is happening, for some reason. 

Murdock also said it will only "stifle free speech, criminalize protest and erode our First Amendment freedoms," in spite of the fact that it will actually enhance free speech of counter-protesters, which she never considered.

   
Jordan Monaghan, a spokesperson for the governor, said Cooper "has worked to increase public safety and protect constitutional rights, and he will review this legislation." When he vetoed the bill in 2021, he deemed it "unnecessary" and said it is "intended to intimidate and deter people from exercising their constitutional rights to peacefully protest."

The AP said the new bill would increase punishments already in place [that are rarely upheld when the Democrats are in power]  for the crimes of those willfully participating in a riot or inciting one to cover more severe circumstances like brandishing a weapon or causing serious bodily injury. Rioters who cause a death or rioters who incite rioting that contributes to a death would face harsher punishment and assaults on emergency personnel would also result in higher felony sentencing.

The bill would also force rioters who destroy property during protests to have consequences to their behavior, like big boys and girls, and pay for any damages they created. This would obviously help business and property owners to recoup their losses and perhaps make the rioters who seek to destroy, think twice. It might even help lower insurance premiums.

Finally, those accused of rioting would have a 24-hour 'time out' before their bond and pretrial release rules are set. This would allow them time to think about what they had done, the impact their behavior had on others, and a lesson on how to act like a grownup. 

North Carolina would be the tenth state to pass similar laws since the 2020 riots, if the bill is signed into law, according to the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law.

The question is, what are the Democrats so afraid of by passing a law that doesn't violate the rights of anyone involved in a riot, but punishes those who violate the rights of others? Those characters must be their voting base.

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MO might be first state to execute a dude in a dress

He may be the first he who thinks he's a she to be executed in MO

Missouri may quite possibly be the first state to execute a man who claims to be a woman, unless political correctness kicks in and the governor grants the killer clemency.

Scott McLaughlin, who changed his name and hairdo to Amber, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection today after he was found guilty of killing a former girlfriend in 2003. Of course, he was tried as Scott McLaughlin but said he was a woman after he was sentenced, possibly due to the fact that he would fare better in a woman's prison than with men. [The lethal injection will not be the COVID vaccine, it was reported.]

The Associated Press reported that McLaughlin, who is now 49, was in a relationship with 45-year-old Beverly Guenther before transitioning and would sometimes show up at an office in St. Louis where Guenther worked. He would often hide inside her place of business, according to court records, so Guenther obtained a restraining order.

Not a My Pillow topper

Police officers, at times, would escort Ms. Guenther to her vehicle after work as she believed her life was in danger which, it turned out, was true.

On the night of Nov. 20, 2003, Guenther’s neighbors called police after she failed to return home, the AP reported.

Police went to the office where Guenther worked and found a broken knife handle near her car and a trail of blood. The next day, Scott McLaughlin showed police where Guenther’s body had been dumped in the Mississippi River.

He was ultimately convicted of first-degree murder in 2006 and sentenced to death after a jury deadlocked on the sentence, AP reported. In 2016, a court ordered a new sentencing hearing, but in 2021, the federal appeals court panel reinstated the death penalty.

With no appeals pending, McLaughlin’s attorney Larry Comp told AP, clemency is being sought.

The request for clemency does not primarily focus on McLaughlin’s gender dysphoria as it didn't exist until after he was sentenced, but instead it focused on traumatic childhood and mental health and victimhood issues which were never presented to a jury during trial because they were a poor excuse for killing another human being.

The petition claims McLaughlin suffers from depression because he's sad that he's slated to be executed, and he even tried to kill himself several times with an electric razor on his wrist.

"We think Amber has demonstrated incredible courage because I can tell you there’s a lot of hate when it comes to that issue," Komp told AP on Monday. But he added it is not the focus of the clemency request.

Incredible courage? How so? 

Merriam-Webster defines courage as: [n] mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. If he was courageous, would he have "transitioned" in prison to avoid the testosterone within the population?

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) is reviewing the request for clemency, which a spokesperson for the governor told AP is still underway. 

McLaughlin is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. today, Jan. 3.

Before 1976, the only woman ever executed in the state was Bonnie B. Heady, AP said. She was executed in a gas chamber on Dec. 18, 1953, for kidnapping and killing a 6-year-old boy.

But McLaughlin, in spite of his name change, is not a woman, but he is a murderer and Beverly Guenther's family deserves justice.

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Settlement in lawsuits regarding FBI posing as AP reporter

This is what gave it away in the newsroom

It's one thing when Superman poses as Clark Kent, a mild mannered reporter for the Daily Planet, but it's another thing when an FBI agent poses as a reporter for the Associated Press. But that's exactly what an FBI agent did and the bureau was sued over it.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press [obviously a Democrat-run organization] will receive a $145,000 settlement after two lawsuits were filed following an FBI agent posing as a reporter for the AP and even created a fake news story. 

That wasn't the agent's responsibility, that lies with the real reporters in the legacy media.

These Freedom of Information Act cases (FOIA) led to appeals court decisions that will increase access to public records, according to Adam Marshall, a lawyer for the group. The two cases also exposes FBI agents posing as members of the media, which further undermines media credibility and blurs the line between the press and law enforcement. It's bad enough the lines are blurred between the press and the Democratic Party, but this is going too far.

The FBI failed to follow its own rules over such undercover operations when an agent posed as an AP reporter and sent a link to a fake story in an investigation in Washington state in 2007, according to documents uncovered in the lawsuit filed along with the AP

Then-FBI Director and idos of all scumbags James "Lordy" Comey called the technique “proper and appropriate” under FBI guidelines at the time. But he said that it would require higher-level approvals once the incident was uncovered in 2014. Comey said that no actual fake news story was published and the ploy led to an arrest. [Not his, but maybe later.]

The agent posing as an AP reporter sent a link to the fake article to a 15-year-old suspected of making bomb threats at a high school. When the teen clicked the link, a tracking tool revealed his computer’s location and helped agents confirm his identity.

The FBI declined to comment Friday, as is their wont.

James Comey today

Kathleen Carroll, then-Executive Editor of the AP, said in 2014 that the FBI’s “unacceptable tactics undermine AP and the vital distinction between the government and the press.” A letter signed by two dozen news organizations called the revelations “inexcusable” and the Reporter’s Committee specifically called out the use of the AP’s name as “cover for delivery of electronic surveillance software.”

Still James Comey continued to roam free and was never put on trial.

Lauren Easton, an Associated Press spokeswoman, declined additional comment Friday, which is very uncharacteristic of her as she likes to talk, or "spokes," as it were.

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The lawsuits were filed as part of an effort to get records about FBI news-media impersonations, and eventually resulted in important court decisions about how far agencies must go in searching for requested documents and the standards they must meet in order to withhold documents, Marshall said. The settlement will cover attorney’s fees and costs and the money will come out of the pockets of taxpayers, as usual.

“This has shown that there are significant, concerning and ongoing issues with respect to federal law enforcement impersonation of the press in the United States,” Marshall said. The cases have also “shown that the Reporters Committee and The Associated Press were committed to finding out as much as we could about what happened here for the public to know.”

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Hurricane Fiona kills Puerto Rico's power: worse than California

Photo: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP

Like California on a hot day, Puerto Rico is without power across the island. The main difference is that while California has rolling black outs and asks people not to charge their electric vehicles, Puerto Rico lost their power in a violent hurricane.

Fiona reached Puerto Rico on Sunday as a Category 1 storm. Governor Pedro Pierluisi confirmed the island's electrical outage shortly before President Joe Biden authorized an emergency disaster.

“Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and ordered Federal assistance to supplement Commonwealth and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Fiona beginning on September 17, 2022, and continuing,” Biden, or someone behind the scene, who had not lost their language skills, wrote.

“The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population,” the declaration added.

The storm is expected to bring up to two feet of rain in some parts of the island, with more than 12 inches of precipitation across most of Puerto Rico. Fiona began as a tropical storm, striking Guadeloupe on Friday with one death reported.

Fiona was upgraded to hurricane status on Sunday as sustained winds reached more than 80 miles per hour. Gusts of up to 100 miles per hour have been reported on the island with a population of 1.4 million people.

Puerto Rico’s Luma Energy reported the blackout conditions on Sunday afternoon.

“The current weather conditions are extremely dangerous and are hindering our ability to fully assess the situation,” the company said in a statement.

“Due to the magnitude and extent of the blackout, as well as the effects of Hurricane Fiona, the total restoration of electricity service could take several days,” it added. This is actually worse than California, except for the schools on the island not being forced to teach critical race theory or have "Drag Queen Story Hour" with toddlers.

Health centers are reportedly running on generators, the Associated Press reported, and solar panels would have been useless, but imagine what wind turbines would produce.

The outlet noted that Health Secretary Carlos Mellado said crews were working to repair generators as soon as possible at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, which had experienced outages.

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The latest hurricane passes through just two days ahead of the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, which caused nearly 3,000 deaths in the region in 2017. The devastating Category 4 storm struck on September 20, 2017, destroying the island’s power grid.

Thankfully only one unfortunate person was killed but it could have been worse.

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Dem charged with a felony: can get 3 years and $100K fine

Colorado State Senator Pete Lee (D) and chair of the chambers judicial committee was indicted in early August for allegedly lying about where he lives for the purpose of voting. And this dolt is the freaking chair of the judicial committee--it's like a Babylon Bee story.

A grand jury for El Paso County indicted the Democrat, but he denies the charges, according to the Associated Press. The indictment alleges that on March 3, 2020, Lee “voted giving false information regarding the elector’s place of present residence,” the Colorado Sun reported.

Lying about one's residence is a Class 5 felony.

But it isn't as if he had documents on his computer about deals with China, or classified documents that only a President could declassify with just his word. It wasn't as if he video recorded himself smoking crack off the butt of a prostitute or "doing a Toobin" in a swimming pool and recording himself on video. No, it was lying about where he lived so that he could vote.

Lee had no comment when the indictment was handed down but he asked to be taken off the interim committee on judicial discipline because the irony was too ironic.

He wanted “to avoid having my personal circumstances become a distraction," [yadda, yadda] according to a statement, the AP reported.

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Lee's lawyer said the case will be vigorously challenged.

Lee can get 3 years in the slammer and a fine of up to $100,000 if found guilty. But unlike Republicans, especially Republican Presidents, a Democrat is innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.

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