California's Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and other state legislators will reportedly convene on Monday to defend California's “progressive policies” in the run-up to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Terror-linked CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), America’s largest Muslim special rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a new ban on the Islamic Call to Prayer, being blasted from high-powered amplifiers at mosques throughout Israel as the Israeli government’s latest act of war against Islam. FYI: The Muslim Call to Prayer is symbolic of Islamic triumphalism. […]

According to The Hill, Special Counsel David Weiss rejected allegations that Hunter Biden’s prosecution was politically motivated. He refused to drop the indictments. Weiss’s office refused to dismiss the tax and gun cases against Hunter Biden. They said they hadn’t seen the pardon yet. They pointed out that the prosecution was not politically motivated as […] The post Special Counsel Refused to Dismiss the Cases Against Hunter appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will travel to Paris this coming weekend to attend the re-opening of France’s legendary Notre Dame Cathedral, which was badly damaged in a 2019 fire. The roughly 860-year-old cathedral, which underwent a restoration process that reportedly cost more than $700 million, is expected to reopen to the public with a big ceremony on Saturday, December 7. “It is an honor to announce that I will be traveling to Paris, France, on Saturday to attend the re-opening of the Magnificent and Historic Notre Dame Cathedral, which has been fully restored after a devastating fire five years ago,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social. He added: “President Emmanuel Macron has done a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so. It will be a very special day for all!” French authorities have said they suspected the fire started due to a lit cigarette or a faulty electrical connection, but The New York Times noted last month that an investigation continues and the cause “may never be determined.” Sources told CNN that Trump’s team had been in talks “for days” with French President Emmanuel Macron’s office about the visit, which is expected to be Trump’s first overseas trip since the 2024 election, according to reporter Alayna Treene. Since winning a second term in the White House a couple of weeks ago, the president-elect has issued statements about imposing tariffs on a variety of foreign countries if they did not comply with his demands. Last week, Trump threatened to impose tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico as well as China that will remain in place until they stem the flow of drugs and illegal immigration coming into the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, over the weekend after which the president-elect said their discussion was “very productive.” And on Saturday, Trump warned BRICS countries — which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and others — that they would face a 100% tariff if they abandoned the U.S. dollar. “They can go find another ‘sucker!'” Trump said on Truth Social. “There is no chance that the BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, and any Country that tries should wave goodbye to America.”

CNN’s Brianna Keilar grilled Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) on Monday over President Joe Biden giving a blanket pardon to his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden, by playing Goldman’s own words from the past denying that Biden would do so. Keilar played Goldman’s remarks on the network’s “News Central” after Biden issued the sweeping pardon that covered every crime Hunter Biden was convicted of and any additional crime that he may have committed over an 11-year period. When asked in 2023 — after the sweetheart plea deal that Hunter Biden had with federal prosecutors fell apart — if a pardon would be a mistake, Goldman responded: “Yes.” “And I don’t think there’s any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him,” Goldman claimed. “And I think you see that in this case, where he kept on — and Merrick Garland kept on — a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate the president’s son. If there is not an indication of the independence of the Department of Justice beyond that, I don’t know what we could look for.” When asked what it felt like “watching yourself back then reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son”, Goldman tried to wiggle out of answering the question. “Yeah, and I think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon,” he claimed. “That was a satisfactory outcome already fallen.” Keilar fired back: “It had already fallen through… When you reacted, this was when the deal had fallen through. And I hear what you’re saying about the Kash Patel appointment, but you know, you took him at his word. So what does that feel like, knowing that he’s gone back on it?” Goldman refused to directly answer the question and instead blamed Republicans, claiming that Republicans in Congress — who have no power to prosecute anyone — were responsible for Hunter Biden being charged. He concluded, “When you start to see what Donald Trump is planning to do with his Department of Justice and with his FBI, and the degree to which Hunter Biden has already been shamelessly attacked as a private citizen by Republicans, I certainly understand why the president felt like this miscarriage of justice should not carry forward, and that he should not be at risk of retributive prosecution for political reasons, which is not the proper way to execute our rule of law.” WATCH: BRUTAL: Brianna Keilar on CNN just made Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) watch a clip of himself insisting that Biden would never pardon Hunter. She then asked: “What does that feel like?” They even kept him on-screen as the video played so we could watch his reaction. pic.twitter.com/uC6EM06Ikh — Bill D’Agostino (@Banned_Bill) December 2, 2024

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday that President Joe Biden was being “truthful” with the American people when it came to the topic of pardoning his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden. Jean-Pierre made the remarks during a press gaggle, in which video cameras are not present, after she was asked about the highly controversial pardon that covered every crime Hunter Biden was convicted of or may have committed over an 11-year span. “One of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people,” she claimed, despite Biden repeatedly stating on the record that he would not pardon his son. “That is something that he always truly believes.” Jean-Pierre pointed to where Biden said in his statement that he has always followed the principle “just tell the American people the truth.” “Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further,” Biden said. “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.” She claimed that Biden just arrived at the decision this weekend, despite contrary reporting. NBC News reported that Biden had secretly discussed pardoning his son ever since he was convicted of federal gun charges in June and that the plan to “publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.” DOUBLING DOWN ON PACKS OF LIES: Karine Jean-Pierre denies she and Biden were lying when they repeatedly told the American people there would be no pardon for Hunter. pic.twitter.com/DKPIEHpB00 — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 2, 2024 Jean-Pierre was further pressed by reporters about Biden saying that his Justice Department was effectively broken and “infected” with politics. “He believes in the Justice Department,” Jean-Pierre claimed. “This is his words. He said this. This is the president saying this.” When asked “how deep is the rot” within the DOJ and “how many selective prosecutions” there are in the department, she responded: “What I can speak to is this particular case, which is Hunter Biden, who has the last name of the president, who, I just said, there were political opponents who were very clear and very vocal about going after his son.” REPORTER: “He’s saying his own Justice Department is broken.” KJP: “He believes in the Justice Department.” REPORTER: “He just said it’s infected with politics!” KJP: ……….. REPORTER: “How many selective prosecutions are there at the DOJ?” KJP: I can’t speak to that. pic.twitter.com/qz2gssqifB — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 2, 2024

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