Newsom PAC his biggest readers: they bought thousands of copies of his memoir and his tough life, spiking sales

In a development that surprised absolutely no one who has ever watched a Democrat try to game the system, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political action committee spent more than $1.5 million buying thousands of copies of his new memoir, accounting for about two-thirds of all copies sold nationwide, according to campaign finance filings.

The PAC spending helped propel Newsom’s memoir, "Young Man in a Hurry," onto the New York Times bestseller list and is raising new scrutiny as his national profile builds ahead of a possible 2028 presidential run.

In November, the Campaign for Democracy Committee launched a book campaign asking donors to contribute any amount to the PAC to receive the memoir when it was released on Feb. 24. Newsom spokesperson Nathan Click told the New York Times that the PAC bought about 67,000 copies, representing a substantial portion of the 97,400 total sold.

"We were thrilled with the response," Click told the New York Times. "Our goal was to deepen the relationship between him and the millions of folks who have already expressed support for Governor Newsom’s work."

Campaign finance filings reveal Gavin Newsom's PAC bought 67,000 copies of his memoir for over $1.5 million amid his 2024 presidential positioning. The PAC made two payments totaling over $1.5 million to Porchlight Book Company, according to a FEC filing posted on Wednesday and reviewed by Fox News Digital. The governor will not receive royalties from the books sold through the campaign, the New York Times reported.

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When asked about the book's ranking on the best seller list, a New York Times spokesperson explained the outlet places a dagger symbol on the list to indicate when a book's ranking has been influenced by a bulk purchase.

"When The Times has reason to believe that sales of a book include a mix of organic and bulk sales, the book's best-seller ranking is accompanied by a dagger. That's what we did with the Newsom book," Nicole Taylor, spokesperson for The Times, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Book promotion is common among politicians, but Newsom’s PAC spending outpaces similar political committee purchases. The Republican National Committee, for example, spent about $100,000 in 2019 purchasing Donald Trump Jr.’s book, the New York Times noted in its report. Newsom’s memoir is focused on the challenges he faced in his upbringing, addressing his battle with dyslexia and having divorced parents, as well as his political career.

Newsom's book tour, which included visiting cities across the nation, drew criticism from conservatives for the Democrat governor allegedly putting himself over leading California.

Chairwoman of the California Republican Party Corrin Rankin told Fox Digital, in response to the book campaign, she believes Newsom is trying to "rebrand his national image" while abandoning issues at home, as recent data underscores ongoing challenges in the state.

Social media commenters have not shied away from mocking Newsom over the book sales, including Republican California gubernatorial candidate and former Fox News host Steve Hilton."Gavin Newsom’s ‘bestseller’ memoir just got the ultimate California treatment: his PAC dropped $1.56 million of donor cash to buy 67,000 free copies and mail them to anyone who donated any amount," Hilton posted to X on Thursday. "That’s two-thirds of all print sales. Nothing says ‘Young Man in a Hurry’ like rigging your own book numbers with political slush funds while California burns."

Newsom is considered a top potential 2028 presidential candidate for the Democrat Party, though he has not confirmed whether he will officially throw his hat in the ring.

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Newsom disses Israel and Netanyahu, says Trump's strikes due to his 'grift'

In a vicious attack on President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the longstanding U.S.-Israel alliance, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a serious rethink of American support for Israel, smeared the Jewish state as an apartheid regime, and took vicious swipes at Trump, 

The comments came during an appearance with former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor at an event promoting Newsom's autobiography, "Young Man in a Hurry." When asked whether Democrats should reconsider U.S. military aid to Israel given Netanyahu's leadership, Newsom didn't hold back.

"Well, he's making that easy right now," Newsom began, launching into an attack on Netanyahu. "The issue of Bibi is interesting. Because he's got his own domestic issues. He's trying to stay out of jail. He's got an election coming up. He's potentially on the ropes. He's got folks, the hard line, that want to annex the West Bank."

Newsom then channeled the notoriously anti-Netanyahu New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to push the tired leftist falsehood that Israel is heading toward "an apartheid state," adding, "For two years, they haven't even been able to solve the Hamas question in Israel."He went on to imply that Trump's actions against Iran were driven purely by Israeli influence.

"In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversation of where Trump ultimately landed on this is pretty damn self-evident," said Newsom. "When you bring two aircraft carriers out there and you assemble the kind of military force that Trump did over the last few weeks, it didn't surprise me ultimately that they moved that direction."

When directly asked, "Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider, maybe, you know, rethinking our military support for Israel?" Newsom feigned heartbreak.

"It breaks my heart because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don't think you have a choice but that consideration."

He then pivoted to what he called "the grift and the corruption" tied to regional politics, dragging in Trump family members by name, including Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. 

"The fact that we are in this now, a regional war. All these proxies and all the grift and the corruption that also marks a huge part of this," he said. "And that's a real conversation we need to have, this Board of Peace. In the piece that the Witkoff family is getting, in the piece that Kushner is getting, in the peace that Trump Jr. is getting."

Newsom's remarks represent the predictable anti-Israel turn from a Democrat desperate to signal virtue to the progressive base, even as he wraps it in crocodile tears about a broken heart. The governor's willingness to echo smears of Israel as an apartheid state while questioning aid amid ongoing threats shows just how far the party has drifted from its once-stalwart support for America's closest Middle East ally. And throwing in baseless jabs at the Trump family for good measure? 

That's just par for the course in the current Democratic playbook.

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Zohran 'the magnificent' had wanted to abolish private property, but not his or his family's

Comrade Mamdani 

Well, look who’s back to remind us why New York City is headed for the dumpster fire of the century. Zohran Mamdani, the communist darling running for mayor, just got caught on a resurfaced video waxing poetic about . . . wait for it . . . abolishing private property. Although it's highly likely he doesn't mean his or his wealthy family's property. 

This guy’s out here channeling an anti-Semitic version of Karl Marx like it’s 1848, and he’s too dumb to hide it.

In the clip that’s now blowing up conservative social media faster than a Trump tweet, Mamdani lays it all bare: "My platform is that every single person should have housing, and I think faced with these two options, the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what?" 

Okay, fine, housing’s a problem. But then he goes full hammer-and-sickle: "If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now." Which is people who work and earn money, save for housing or a home, need to get over themselves and forget about it. Let's all live together in a commune. In fact, the word 'communist' is derived from 'commune.'

Oh, and don’t miss the cherry on top: "People try and play like gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it’s like, look, I care more about whether somebody has a home." Like sure, Zohran, nothing like screams like "I care" by like seizing everyone’s property.

Cue the conservative pile-on, and boy, did they bring the heat. Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, whose mother fled Cuba’s communist nightmare, didn’t hold back in an interview with Fox News Digital: "He claims to be a socialist, whether it’s wanting to abolish private property or wanting to seize the means of production, these are communist ideas right out of the playbook of Karl Marx."

And did I mention he's an anti-Semite?

Malliotakis then added, "The fact that too many members of the media, too many members of the Democrat Party, are willing to go along instead of calling him out on it is disturbing, and I think that if the majority of New Yorkers knew what this guy truly stands for and how destructive and dangerous his policies are, there’s no way that they vote for him." 

Then there’s Rep. Mike Lawler, who’s not exactly thrilled about Mamdani’s plan to turn the Hudson Valley into Havana-on-the-Hudson: "Zohran Mamdani’s call to abolish private property is dangerous and un-American. It’s the kind of radical socialist nonsense that would destroy livelihoods in the Hudson Valley and across New York. This will bring economic chaos, and New Yorkers deserve better than out-of-touch extremists pushing communist agendas that threaten our way of life." 

Rep. Claudia Tenney piled on, telling Fox News Digital: "Mamdani’s call to abolish private property isn’t just radical, it’s dangerous. Stripping this fundamental right would devastate families, close small businesses, and destroy entire communities, all while handing more power to the government. Private property is a cornerstone Constitutional principle. It represents the essence of personal freedom, economic opportunity, and the American Dream. We must defend it."

But the commie has nothing to personally worry about. His parents are very wealthy and communism will not affect the rich and powerful--it rarely does.

And Rep. Nick Langworthy isn't here for Mamdani’s utopian fever dream either: "Mamdani isn’t offering a housing plan--he’s pushing a communist manifesto. The idea of abolishing private property is fundamentally anti-American and wildly out of touch with the real issues New Yorkers face. Families are fleeing the City and our State because of high costs, crime, and broken leadership, not because there’s too much freedom."

The X platform, naturally, turned into a digital Thunderdome. Donald Trump Jr. couldn’t resist the low-hanging fruit, posting, "Yea, this guy is definitely not a communist," dripping with sarcasm. 

Sen. Ted Cruz kept it short and sweet: “He is a communist.” Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen echoed, “Like I said he’s a communist.” 

And Rep. Elise Stefanik brought the fire: "Yes, you heard that right. Like the true Communist he is, Commie Mamdani supports the ‘abolition of private property.’ This is the NY Democrat Party
@KathyHochul you lead and you have failed to condemn this dangerous insanity." 

Sen. Roger Marshall summed it up: "Meet the new leader of the Democrat party, everyone. He’s a literal communist."

Mamdani’s been dodging "communist" labels since his shock primary win, but clips like this aren’t helping his case. New Yorkers are already fleeing skyrocketing costs, crime, and a city that feels like it’s one bad policy away from collapse. Now they’ve got a mayoral candidate who thinks the solution is torching the very concept of ownership. Good luck selling that one, comrade.

All in all, this toad is still going to get a lot of Muslim votes simply because he is a Muslim. Do not allow him to get his foot in the door because he and his comrades [no pun intended] are not going to let you close that door.

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Anti-Semite Candace Owens dumped from Trump fundraiser

Candace Owens is the new face of American anti-Semitism. She has a lot of company, however, with university presidents and their students as well as Iran-funded protesters who hate Jews and Israel, as much as they hate America. 

Owens had been a weekly host on the conservative outlet the Daily Wire but was fired for her anti-Semitic sentiment and her downplay of the Holocaust atrocities. She even claimed that the experiments performed by Nazi scumbag Joseph Mengele on Jews during World War II sounded "like bizarre propaganda."

She was originally slated to headline the Friday event, which I wrote about, but having her at the event ignited a ton of backlash due to her recent anti-Semitic comments.

Donald Trump Jr. was also planning on attending.

“Donald Trump Jr. is making an appearance with Candace Owens, who recently suggested that the real victims of WWII were not the Jews but the Germans and the real villains not the Axis but the Allies,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) wrote on X/Twitter after the initial announcement.

Dov Hikind, a former New York State Assemblyman from Brooklyn, New York and founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, argued on social media that the Trump campaign “being so closely associated with her [Owens] and the disgusting behavior we’ve witnessed from her almost daily, makes it near impossible to make the case to the Jewish people that the Republican Party is where we can trust that antisemitism in any form will not be tolerated.”

It was after these and many other negative responses about Owens' attending the event that she was removed from the poster  and no longer attending the event in Nashville, Tennessee.

“It was never announced Candace was hosting an event with” the Trump campaign, a spokesperson for Owens told Jewish Insider.

Perhaps not, but it certainly seemed that it was announced.

Owens got into a verbal altercation with a reporter on X who said she was kicked out of the event over her recent comments, including her suggesting on her podcast that AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel lobbying organization in the United States, was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 

So in her warped mind, Lee Harvey Oswald was working for Israel or the American Jews. How did she make that bizarre connection? Oh wait, it's like the connection liberals make when a conservatives states a truism, calling them racists. 

She even claimed in the same podcast episode that the US is being “held hostage by Israel.” In other words, if the US doesn't do the bidding of Israel, Americans are no longer going to receive Israeli-made tahini sauce.  

The reporter mentioned above, Stella Escobedo, posted that she could confirm that Owens was off the panel for this week.

“I’m told it was a group of Bitcoin guys, not politicians who organized the event and didn’t know about her Jew hatred,” she tweeted.

“I’m told Don Jr. was invited to the event prior to Candace being added to panel. Zero tolerance for antisemitism.”

Owens denied the accusation saying, “I was definitively not canceled from any event over ‘Jew hatred,’ least of all because of anything to do with Trump’s campaign. This is just entirely made up out of thin air.”

Sorry, Candy, but I don't believe you.

The event in Nashville was billed as a “VIP Meet & Greet” and reportedly costs as much as $5,000 to attend. I probably won't make it.

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Candace Owens to headline Trump fundraiser: WTH?

Two anti-Semites jumping on the bed, one fell down and hit his head

I don't know what Donald Trump Jr. is thinking. He is preparing to headline his father's campaign 

fundraiser on Friday in Nashville, TN. Featured at the event is prominent far-right pundit and anti-Semite Candace Owens. 

This cannot be good for the Trump campaign, having Owens who recently amplified the ancient worn out blood libel against Jews, downplayed the Holocaust and defended Nick Fuentes, a disgusting white nationalist,  among other racist remarks.

Owens is an ardent Trump supporter who had worked for the Daily Wire but eventually was let go due to her anti-Semitic rhetoric which didn't sit well with founder Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew. She had served as a weekday host but pressure mounted as her antisemitic rhetoric and empty headed criticism of Israel bubbled up like a puss pimple after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israelis. 

So Don Junior has a scheduled appearance with the brazen Jew hater on Friday, while the former President's daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, have appeared to publicly distance themselves from Trump.

And while I don't see any evidence whatsoever that the former President is an anti-Semite or anti-Zionist, [all evidence points to the contrary], there is clear evidence that some in the GOP harbor anti-Jewish sentiment such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, who suggested California wildfires were caused by space lasers controlled by a Jewish banking family.  And the lieutenant gov. of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, invoked anti-Semitic stereotypes, hinted at Holocaust denial, and downplayed the Nazi atrocities.

Of course, Trump invited some Jewish students to speak at the convention as well. And let us not kid ourselves: the Democratic Party has a butt-load of anti-Semites compared to the GOP.

I just don't know what Don Jr. was thinking. Candace Owens is a disgraceful wretched woman.

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MA Trump supporter, 82, "violently assaulted" by motorist, 27

According to police, 82-year-old Charlie Chase, a U.S. military veteran, was attacked by a 27-year-old  dickweed in a car because he has a difference of opinion as to who should be president.

Chase, of Fall River, MA said he was holding a Trump sign and wearing a Trump hat when out of the blue, a scumcrumpet stopped his car, allegedly got out and charged at Charlie.

“Give me the f***ing sign!” the weasel said, according to police.

“The guy, when he came at me, I had never seen a horror story … that the face was so filled with hate and anger, as his was,” Chase told WPRI-TV of Providence, R.I.

Everything happened so fast that Chase had to ask a friend what had happened, he said.

“According to the other fella that was with me, I didn’t know that [the suspect] had lifted me up, but he apparently lifted me up and flung me down on my back to the ground,” Chase said.

The punk, identified as Aidan Courtright, 27, with a matching IQ, then grabbed Chase’s Trump sign, tore it in half, and threw it on the ground, the Providence Journal reported. He is also from Fall River.

After Chase went down to the ground, the cowardly suspect allegedly kicked the elderly man in his ribs and legs before returning to his vehicle and quickly making his getaway, police said.

Courtright evidently plans to vote for another elderly man named Joe Biden.

Police responded to the scene on a call that Chase was “violently targeted for his political views and violently assaulted,” the Journal reported. The offices saw visible bruising on Chase’s lower back and he was treated at a local hospital, according to the report.

Courtright later turned himself in after being contacted by authorities. He was charged with a civil-rights violation with injury, assault and battery on a person over 60, vandalism of personal property, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the report said.

Donald Trump Jr. learned about the story and posted a Twitter message Friday.

"What kind of person commits violence against an elderly man?" Trump wrote.

A chickens**t fascist punk who hates his own father and thinks his opinions are the only ones that matter, is who does crap like that.

After a hearing Thursday, Courtright was released and ordered to have no contact with Chase or post anything political online, with a date to return to court Aug. 6.

Chase told the station that political differences should be addressed through conversation rather than violence.

“If you’ve got something, listen to what they’re saying, figure out whether you agree you don’t agree -- ‘Ah some of that’s good, maybe I should change some of the things I think’,” he said. “That’s the American way.”

But Courtright allegedly doesn't believe in the American way because he's a leftist jerk. I bet he also would like to abolish all police departments so he can be a tough guy elder abuser.

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Newsweek fires "reporter" over fake story slamming Trump on Thanksgiving

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Newsweek has terminated Jessica Kwong, the so-called reporter who penned a phony story about President Trump in which she wrote: "How is Trump spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing and more." She didn't even have the courtesy of using the president's honorific.

As it turned out, of course, President Trump secretly traveled to Afghanistan and spent Thanksgiving with the troops stationed there.

Newsweek told the Washington Examiner that its story has been fully corrected, Kwong "has been terminated," and that it would take further action if an investigation proves it necessary.

Have you noticed that whenever a liberal publication makes an error, they always make it in the same direction? It's always against the president or conservatives to whom they are writing about. They never make an error that favors the right that needs to be corrected. Never.

Newsweek claimed that they investigated the failures that led to the publication of the inaccurate report that President Trump spent Thanksgiving tweeting and golfing rather than visiting troops in Afghanistan. The story has been corrected, and the journalist responsible has been terminated, they said, adding that they will continue to review their processes and, if required, take further action.

Don't hold your breath, however.

Newsweek editors corrected the story on Thanksgiving Day after the president's surprise trip was made public. What is amazing is how their readers either don't realize how far slanted to the left their reporting is, or how they are willing to believe anything negative about Trump without verifying the facts.

Fake News reporter Jessica Kwong

An editor's note at the bottom of the story reads, "This story has been substantially updated and edited at 6:17 pm EST to reflect the president's surprise trip to Afghanistan."

At the bottom of the story. The very bottom where many lefties are unable to hold their attention for that length of time.

The story's headline now reads, "How did Trump spend Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing—and surprising U.S. troops in Afghanistan."

It's a sneaky way of minimizing the visit. They could have just as easily have titled the story: "How did Trump spend Thanksgiving? Tweeting, playing golf, sitting on the toilet and also visiting people in Afghanistan."

Kwong said her story was an "honest mistake." Of course that's just as accurate as the story itself. Yes, it was a story, not a factual report. If journalism is supposed to be based on facts, on observations and not creative writing, then it was definitely not an honest mistake--it was a lie based on what she believed he would do.

On Twitter, Donald Trump Jr. said the inaccurate reporting was not a mistake, but rather reflects a consistent pattern of how the mainstream media report on the president.

"It wasn't an 'honest mistake' you tried to dunk on Trump and ended up dunking on yourself because you couldn't resist. Notice how there's never been a story that broke in Trump's favor & had to be corrected the other way? These aren't mistakes, they are a very consistent pattern," Trump Jr. said.

Kwong has not yet responded to her canning but CNN is taking a closer look into her resume.

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Mike Avenatti attacks Trump Jr. and Nike

Is porn actress lawyer Michael Avenatti trying to get in his "last licks" by going after Donald Trump Jr. and Nike, or is he simply trying to create a distraction hoping to get away with extortion much like Hillary Clinton has thus far gotten away with violating the Espionage Act?

Over the last several weeks, Avenatti, who rose to national fame after he represented porn actress Stormy Daniels [called "Horse Face" by President Trump], but have since had a falling out and parted ways. Now the slimy lawyer is facing two federal lawsuits, where in one he tried to "shake down" Nike Inc. for millions of dollars and the conversation was caught on tape by the FBI.

Rather than trying to come up with a defense for his precarious legal situation, Avenatti, who once appeared on CNN 59 times in less than two months, is trolling Nike and Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter.

On March 24, FBI Special Agent Christopher Harper submitted a complaint to the Southern District of New York alleging that a few days earlier the bald-headed idiot and an unnamed co-conspirator "devised a scheme to extort a company [Nike] by means of an interstate communication by threatening to damage the company's reputation if the company did not agree to make multi-million dollar payments to Avenatti and [his co-conspirator who we later learned worked for CNN as a commentator], and further agree to pay $1.5 million to a client of Avenatti's."

In phone calls and meetings recorded by the FBI, Avenatti allegedly threatened Nike that he would release damaging information about an "Adidas-like" scandal involving Nike employees if they did not "retain" him and his co-conspirator for millions of dollars to conduct an unasked-for internal investigation. Avenatti was charged with attempted extortion and various forms of fraud and besides prison, his soul is going to rot in hell for all eternity. So to kill time before that, he took to Twitter.

Since, the embattled lawyer has been posting tweets intended to damage Nike. "Contrary to Nike’s claims yesterday, they have NOT been cooperating with investigators for over a year," Avenatti tweeted two days after being arrested and released on $300,000 bond. "Unless you count lying in response to subpoenas and withholding documents as “cooperating.” They are trying to divert attention from their own crimes." That tweet is one of many the lawyer has since posted, proving that not only is he a complete fool, but he's also a crappy attorney.

Along with steadily attacking Nike, the cretin has been lashing out at Donald Trump Jr., apparently prompted, at least in part, by Trump Jr. ripping the lawyer over his failed Nike "shakedown."

"Fortunately we don’t all grow up with silver spoons in our mouth and a gold toilet under our ass," Avenatti declares in one post, not explaining why that would be fortunate not to have gold toilets. "If you are so smart and tough, let’s appear together and have a serious discussion about the issues. Bring the brains in the family - obviously not daddy." It might have to be a timed discussion because of the constraints on visiting hours at the federal prison where he should end up living.

In another post, Avenatti says his new enemy's "greatest two accomplishments during his lifetime are his inclusion in the lucky sperm club and carrying his sister’s puppy purse." Avenatti's "two greatest lifetime accomplishments" are his getting caught in an extortion scheme and losing the respect of a porn star.

Who would you rather be?


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Smollett cut back from 'Empire'

Singer, actor, purveyor of false stories, Jussie Smollett [aka Smellit] will reportedly be getting his appearances on Fox's "Empire" cut back amid his probable false police report that he was attacked by two white men in Chicago. They called him a f****t and n****r and punches were allegedly thrown, and a noose put around his neck and bleach thrown on him, but Jussie fought back because even though he's gay, he is tough, he said.

Oh, and they also shouted "This is MAGA country," which it certainly is not. Any city that would elect Rahm Emmanuel as its mayor is the enemy of MAGA.

The alleged attack supposedly occurred, he claims, in the tony Streeterville neighborhood on Chicago's north side. No video captured the alleged so-called attack, in spite of the over 30,000 cameras in the city, and after purchasing a Subway sandwich, being attacked and going home, he still had the sandwich intact, the noose still around his neck and his phone in his pocket.

He told police that he was on the phone with his manager when the alleged, hard-to-believe attack supposedly took place. But when Chicago police asked to see the phone, Smollett denied them access.

The leftist media had a field day with the fake story and blamed President Trump and the negative atmosphere he created in this country with his racism, homophobia, sexism, antidisestablismentarianism, and all the bad isms one can imagine.

But then the story unraveled and the two men who allegedly jumped him turned out to be two black Nigerian brothers who later said Smollett paid them to carry out the fake attack.

CBS affiliate WBBM-TV has now reported that sources informed them that Chicago police are seeking to interview the actor again after receiving information the attack was staged. Smollett is believed to have paid two men $3,500 to carry out the fake assault, which is a damn good price for the hire.

The Nigerian men — Olabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo — left for Nigeria the day after the attack and have since returned to the U.S.

According to TMZ, in light of these revelations, production sources for the Fox show “Empire” have cut back the nine scenes Smollett was supposed to appear in to only four.

He was slated to appear in a “big musical number” in the second to the last episode, which has been nixed.

“As for the remaining 4 scenes … we’re told he’s no longer the focus. The scene features an ensemble, meaning he’s flanked by a number of cast members,” TMZ reported.

As “Empire” writers scramble to rewrite the season’s closing scripts, Smollett faces the prospect of being charged with filing a false police report. If he is found guilty, and since James Comey is not on the case, there's a chance this will happen, he can go to prison for up to 3 years. However, probation is also an option for the judge in this case.

Thus far, Smollett has not agreed to a second interview by police, according to The Wrap.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted about the incident:

 “No problem, its not like he faked a vicious hate crime and rehearsed it thoroughly to try to create a national narrative of hate against Trump supporters… Or that he went on TV to bolster his whole hoax to create attention for himself as a victim or anything like that… Right?”

Several of the Democratic 2020 hopefuls, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand as well as Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Alexandria Obviously Communist, and the race-baiting Al Sharptongue, jumped on the story with both feet before the facts were known.

But the funniest thing was Sharptongue saying that if Smollett lied, he should pay the price for it. What? Like he paid for lying regarding the Tawana Brawley case?


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Unbelievable: Trump Jr.'s wife files for divorce

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Vanessa Trump is filing for divorce from Donald Trump Jr. after being married since 2005, a period of thirteen tremendous years. They have five children.

The divorce was listed as "uncontested" but the actual grounds were unclear. If "Junior" is anything like "Senior" the grounds become less murky but it's not fair to speculate.

Supposedly, the indications suggest the split was amicable, but if you go to the dictionary and look up 'amicable,' you might not believe that divorces can be that way.

There will evidently be more to follow, some real, some CNN. 

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Vanessa Trump taken to hospital after 'white powder' found in letter

Vanessa Trump, wife of Donald Trump Jr., was taken to the hospital Monday after she opened a letter containing white power. It was later determined to be non-hazardous, according to the NYPD.

The letter was actually addressed to her husband and she opened it a little past 10 a.m. at their Manhattan apartment. She will probably not be opening OPMs in the future.

It's unclear as to what the "white powder" is, but after it was tested by authorities, it was deemed "non-hazardous" unless you ate it or sniffed it like cocaine. 

Vanessa Trump was taken to the hospital as a precaution and two other people were also exposed to the substance and taken to the hospital [possibly a maid and manservant, but who knows].

A hazmat team was called to the apartment and began decontamination procedures soon after the incident.

Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the president, married Vanessa in 2005. The couple have five children but it isn't known if they were home at the time of the incident.

The Secret Service and police are investigating the incident but it is suspected that a Democrat or Bernie Sanders suppawtah was responsible.

The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement: "The Secret Service and our law enforcement partners in New York City are investigating a suspicious package addressed to one of our protectees received today in New York, New York. This is an active investigation and we cannot comment any further."

Trump Jr. dropped his Secret Service detail in September because he reportedly wanted more privacy, but the detail was reactivated the following week because he wanted not to be killed, so damn the privacy.

Thankfully, all parties are safe.


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Bannon calls it quits soon he splits

Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon has stepped down from Breitbart News, where he had inherited his role as executive chairman of the organization after Andrew Breitbart died.

After President Trump fired him, and he ran a failed campaign for the controversial Roy Moore, he returned to Breitbart, the only job left for him to once again screw up.

His resigning (if that, indeed, was what actually happened) comes amid his caustic remarks he reportedly made about President Trump's son, Donald Jr., describing his as "unpatriotic" and "treasonous," sentiments he shared with Michael Wolff whose gossipy book, "Fire and Fury," revealed this and other statements.

After trying to walk back the Don Jr. remark by claiming he was talking about Paul Manafort, Bannon found himself on the outs with the president. This may be in part due to the fact that he really gave no honest apology to the president, and the other unsavory things he said about President Trump's daughter, Ivanka, reportedly saying that she was as dumb as a brick.

The loser in all this, of course, is Bannon. He is a guy who has no achievements other than riding the coattails of those in power and acting important to the press--in this case, to a hack whose book is filled with misinformation and sheer inaccuracies. 

The fact that Wolff used Bannon as his main source of information is a testament to his poor judgment and lack of journalistic ability. He is a pseudo-journalist. 

In his NBC interview with Katy Tur, Wolff and Tur demonstrate that the media is engaged in confirmation bias--where the person believes the information of the biases he or she already has. Wolff actually said "my evidence is the book. If it makes sense to you, if it strikes a point, if it rings true, it is true."

No! That isn't how journalism works. If it rings true doesn't make it true. Wolff is an idiot and so was Bannon to think he could leak to this idiot and gain political traction.

Bannon's decision to go public was his own undoing and criticizing Trump's policies and his family was as dumb as the brick to which he classified Ivanka's intelligence.

Bannon can forget trying to find insurgent candidates to go up against the GOP establishment in 2018. His revolution is over, especially since Rebekah Mercer, his former wealthy benefactor said she's ending her support of his political efforts.

He's now known as "Sloppy Steve" by President Trump, and the moniker fits him perfectly.

Breitbart CEO Larry Solov said that "Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us accomplish." 

But I suspect, because it "rings true," that Solov is glad to have him go.


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Now irrelevant Steve Bannon 'regrets' his scummy betrayal of POTUS

Steve Bannon, the former useless political strategist for Donald Trump, apologized Sunday after the president lambasted his sorry butt for unflattering comments he is alleged to have made in the Trump White House gossip book "Fire and Fury." 

Bannon says he "regrets" his delayed response and that he continues to support the president.

How exactly has Bannon ever supported President Trump? All he's trying to do is save himself and latch onto power as he always did before.

"My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda," he lied in a statement to Axios, later confirmed by Fox News Sunday.

In one part of the book, he calls Donald Trump Jr.  "treasonous" and "unpatriotic" based on a meeting Trump Jr. had with a Russian, a meeting that took place before Bannon was a staffer for the president, so it's impossible for Bannon to have inside information.

In his apology statement, Bannon said, "Donald Trump Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around."

Question: So how can anyone know when Bannon is telling the truth?
Answer: He doesn't. Everything he says is for his own self-aggrandizement and the only "friend" he has left is the mainstream media. He has even alienated Breitbart News.

"I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr. has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency," Bannon said, after he removed his lips from Trump's rump.

Bannon said in the statement that the comments about the meeting were aimed at Paul Manafort, not Don Jr.

Trump's epic response can be heard on the Daily Wire video posted above. The statement begins at the 24:20 mark, but the entire video is worth watching.

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CNN and CBS screw it up as usual on Russia probe

The Careless News Network (CNN) got it wrong again in their enthusiasm to destroy Trump's presidency. They thought they had an actual scoop regarding President Trump and his associates coordinated with Russian-aligned operatives in 2016, but alas, they screwed the pooch.

Basically, they claimed 2016 Republican nominee Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and other campaign advisers received an email in September 2016 that offered them advance access to an impending WikiLeaks dump of emails from DNC staffers and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.

CNN's report was based entirely on an email that was supposedly sent on September 4th. The email to Trump Jr. and his team included a "decryption key and website address" for the WikiLeaks dump, the article stated.

BUT there is a yooge error in the claim made by CNN which they promoted all Friday morning and afternoon.

Specifically, the email the story hinged upon was actually sent September 14th, not the 4th, which means the email only pointed Trump's team to public hacked DNC documents. Public!

So the difference between the date CNN gave, Sept. 4, and the actual date Sept. 14, is the difference between someone merely using public information versus someone covertly slipping Trump and his team advance access to hacked correspondence.

The CNN story suggests that Trump and his team had someone on the inside for the DNC hacks versus a story that suggests his team gets a lot of crank emails.

"What a colossal f**k up," a CNN reporter told the Washington Examiner in response to the story's coming apart on Friday.

The House Intelligence Committee is pouring over all over the emails of Trump officials and even their family members, including their junk email in their investigation of the 2016 alleged meddling in the election by Russia.

Donald Trump Jr. was copied on the Sept. 14th email and was asked about the note this week in a closed-door session with committee members. Someone leaked that email to the press and it makes the committee look really bad.

The bogus CNN report, written by Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, claimed the email was "described" by "multiple sources" and "verified" by Trump Jr.'s attorney.

Even CBS misreported the date of the email was Sept. 4th.

The Post and the Wall Street Journal both got their hands on a copy of the Sept. 14th email and handled it differently--seeing that it lacked credibility.

WSJ's Rebecca Ballhaus noted that there were serious problems with the note. 

"The Sept. 14 email to Trump campaign advertising WikiLeaks emails promoted publicly available info, was riddled with typos and came from a Trump backer who had given $40 to the campaign months earlier, per email viewed by @WDJ," she tweeted.

Both the Careless News Network and Cannot Believe Squat have since corrected their unsubstantiated reporting, sometimes known as 'fake news.'

"CNN's initial reporting of the date on an email sent to members of the Trump campaign about WikiLeaks documents, which was confirmed by two sources to CNN was incorrect," a network spokes leftist said.

Originally, CNN used the term "multiple sources," rather than "two sources." And the "verified" by Trump Jr.'s attorney is just plain fake.

At the risk of sounding cliched, this is a nothingburger except for the fact that it indicates a clear political effort to spread misinformation by leftist media outlets, which should concern all Americans who believe in an honest press.

CBS, at least, added an editor's note Friday: "An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the email was dated Sept. 4, 2016, instead of Sept. 14, 2016. The information was erroneously confirmed by a source, who subsequently sent the actual email to CBS News confirming the Sept. 14 date."

CNN assured the public that there will be no disciplinary action taken because the mistake was made against President Trump, not his detractors, as is always the case.

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Goldstone hiding 'in plain sight'

Handsome, flamboyant cool-hand dude, Rob Goldstone is the publicist behind the Donald Trump Jr. meeting. Okay, maybe not so handsome.

After Goldstone, the PR guy for recording artists set up the meeting for Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, he now fears for his own safety.

The 57-year-old British publicity agent is globetrotting with his Lolita-ish companion and posting photos from hither and thither on social media to "hide in plain sight," according to reports.

Goldstone is currently believed to be aboard a ship in the Mediterranean with Lolita (not really her name) along with Dave Wilson, his business partner and semi-pro photographer.

He worries that he will turn up dead and it won't be due to bad sushi. His strategy, according to Geoff Baker, another British publicist, is to avoid New York and Russia and let everyone know where he is all the time. Wait . . . I think he's in the toilet as this is being written.

"I believe the reason he's being so blatantly transparent about his whereabouts is that, if anything does happen to him--like a car crash or being stabbed by a poison-tipped umbrella--everyone will know his death was no accident," Baker told The Express newspaper.

Baker's reference was to the 1978 murder of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident who was stabbed in the thigh with a poisoned umbrella tip while waiting for a bus in London.

Goldstone is the founder of OUI 2 Entertainment in New York. 

The British flack emailed Trump Jr. on June 3, 2016 saying: "the Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his (Emin's) father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some useful documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."

"If I were him, I'd never go back to New York and I'd certainly never set foot in Russia again," Baker told The Express. "Knowing him as I do, I think he'll end up back in Britain or, if he feels threatened, he'll ask for protection at the nearest British embassy."

The OUI 2 Entertainment website openly admits to Goldstone's ties to the Trump Jr. story and posted a link on its Facebook page leading viewers to a report on his "Pivotal Role in the Donald Trump Jr. Scandal."

The page is filled with photos of Goldstone looking like a traveling nerd wearing stupid hats and posing with a slew of well-connected acquaintances.

The guy's a regular Hugh Hefner.

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Cuck News Network leftist won't call Trump her president

A Cuck News Network (CNN) political drone kept referring to President Trump as "your president" on a panel Monday, refusing to acknowledge her understanding of what took place back in last November.

Schmucklette and leftist Angela Rye appeared on John Berman's show to discuss Russian meddling and possible collusion in the 2016 presidential election with former GOP Rep. Jack Kingston.

"Do you really think they would have had five people in a meeting if this was about collusion with Russia?" Kingston said, defending Trump Jr's. June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. "It defies logic."

Rye, sounding like an undercover fool, and presenting no facts, responded: "There are a lot of things that your president has done to defy logic--let's at least acknowledge that."

Kingston fired back: "Your president too, Angela; your president too."

Trying to win favor with Black Lives Matter, CNN viewers, MSNBC and Antifa she said, "Well, he's your president."

If that's the case, then Rye is living in the wrong country and perhaps should think about relocating back to where she'd rather be.

Cuck host John Berman put in his two cents as moderator saying "the president of the United States."

Rye, who has tested high positive on the Minnesota Multiphasic Idiot Scale tweeted: "Another day of #RussiaGate. #AlternativeFaceChecker! #NotMyPresident ..."

Hopefully the scobblelotcher will take to heart the idea President Trump is not her president and go elsewhere to find a president, premier, Ayatollah, or dictator who she can agree is hers.

Her vile canker-puss countenance curdles milk and makes babies cry.


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Assange says he urged Don Jr. to publish on WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks founder and enemy of our national security Julian Assange said he contacted Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday morning to convince him to publish the emails involved with his meeting with a Russian lawyer who lured him with the claim that she has damaging information about Hillary Clinton on the site.

"Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e. with us). Two hours later, does it himself," the self-serving slug tweeted.

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Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e with us). Two hours later, does it himself: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/884795916720406529 …

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Earlier on Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. published an email exchange he had with British publicist Rob Goldstone. It showed they corresponded about a meeting with Russian attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, last year.

Goldstone told Don Jr. that the lawyer had damaging information about Hillary Clinton, and this was part of Russia's government's efforts to help defeat the shrieking felon. [He didn't actually write that--I just did]. 

Ultimately, Trump Jr., former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in June 2016. According to Trump Jr., the meeting didn't discuss any information about Hillary and seemed somewhat confusing to Trump Jr., and appeared to have focused on the adoption issue of Russian children.

Donald Trump Jr. will be speaking to Sean Hannity Tuesday night and will discuss the emails, and Bob Muller will also be looking into the situation as well.


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