On Monday afternoon, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s filing to drop the January 6 case against President-Elect Trump drew broadcast network special reports with ABC, CBS, and NBC breaking into regularly scheduled programming with sad, solemn tones about this beloved case “dying with a whimper” and what one correspondent deemed proof Americans think certain people can and should be above the law. NBC’s personal BFF for the Deep State — aka Justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian — drew the short straw in having to put on a brave face about this “sparse but historic document” by Smith’s team “asking Judge Tonya Chutkan to dismiss this case and the grounds they gave is essentially that the Justice Department has always held historically that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted or indicted[.]” Dilanian read excerpts of the filing before leveling his emotionally charged hot take trashing voters that, yes, the nearly 77 million Americans who voted for Trump are turning their back on “the lesson of Watergate” that not even presidents are “above the law”: Watch as a solemn NBC correspondent Ken Dilanian declare Jack Smith filing to drop the January 6 case against Donald Trump was a reminder that voters said on November 5 that they support certain Americans being above the law: “So, look, this indictment, this involves the three… pic.twitter.com/t3eGrYtT9Q — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 25, 2024 Dilanian even seemed bummed about a potential report (which would undoubtedly serve as bedside reading for Resistance types): And Jack Smith, the special counsel is required to file a report to the Attorney General before he leaves office explaining his prosecution decisions and Merrick Garland has a policy of making those reports public we can expect to see a public report, Lester. But, in this case we don’t expect it to go much beyond the volume of material that is already in the public record about both of these criminal cases[.] Perhaps the network journalist most directly impacted by Smith’s filing would be CBS congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane (who’s more accurate job title should be January 6 correspondent). Watch below as he had to put on a brave face to assert the case that he would likely have been covering gavel-to-gavel was over: CBS’s January 6 correspondent Scott @MacFarlaneNews appears crestfallen in admitting Jack Smith’s January 6 case against Trump “is dying with a whimper”: “The historic case against Donald Trump for allegations he tried to conspire to overturn an election and the ties to that… pic.twitter.com/8vsGxpUY4j — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 25, 2024 Moments later, MacFarlane tried to provide a few caveats of consolation for his fellow Resistence fiends, first telling chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes that their hero and Senator-Elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) had publicly tried to pressure Smith to put the probe on pause until 2029 when Trump leaves office. He also tag-teamed with Cordes to assure viewers that none of this means the case against Smith didn’t have merit (i.e. Trump shouldn’t have been found guilty and jailed): CORDES: And so, this has more to do with the fact that Trump won the election than it has to do with the merits of the case? Jack Smith isn’t saying anything about whether he believes in these charges or not? MACFARLANE: Yeah, the argument Jack Smith is making is a procedural one that, because he’s going to be the president-elect, because on January 6, 2025, he’ll be certified the winner. On January 20, he’ll inaugurated, and the policy is clear, you can’t bring criminal cases against a sitting president. He’s not making an argument that he believes his case has weakened, that his case has any flaws, or that there’s a problem with evidence. It’s just that he can’t try a sitting president. As for ABC’s sources of copium, chief Washington correspondent and three-time anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl implied these cases could have gone forward and tried (and thus have Trump jailed) if the Biden Justice Department would have moved sooner: During ABC's Special Report on Jack Smith filing to drop the January 6 case against Donald Trump, it threw out Jonathan Karl to try and comfort Resistance types: “I’m sure there will be questions that will be asked about whether or not this case should have started earlier, so… pic.twitter.com/yArlapNvR0 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 25, 2024 A few minutes later, chief legal analyst and NewsNation host Dan Abrams had a similar observation (click “expand”): [T]here’s another important point which Jonathan touched on, which is about the timing here. The Trump team, as a legal matter, has had an enormous success in delaying these cases, meaning that there were a lot of times when if they hadn’t succeeded, these cases could have moved forward. These cases could have been tried. They potentially could have been resolved. But the Trump team successfully delayed the cases to get to this point where here we are at the precipice of the inauguration. The second point on that is that at the outset, the DOJ didn’t bring the charges right in 2021. It seemed there was reluctance on the part of the attorney general to bring any criminal prosecution of Donald Trump until the documents case happened, until that point, when he appointed Jack Smith and Jack Smith effectively started making the decisions. So, there are two significant timing issues to think about there: the successes of Trump’s delays and the questions that will be asked about the DOJ, about when they started these cases at the beginning. Left unsaid by both was the fact that President Biden reportedly agrees and has harbored resentment against Attorney General Merrick Garland. To see the relevant transcripts from November 26, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

An illegal immigrant repeat offender was arrested for rape last week in northern Virginia — just days after his early release from jail for indecent exposure, WTTG-TV reported.Herndon Police said they arrested Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31 — who has no fixed address — for abduction with intent to defile and rape in connection with an incident that occurred on the night of Nov. 18 on the W&OD Trail between Ferndale Avenue and Grace Street.'It's frustrating because I tell the community you should feel safe here ...'Police believe Romero had other victims, WTTG reported, adding the he's been described as a repeat offender with a "troubling history."A Honduran national in the United States illegally, Romero has a documented history of sexual assaults and indecent exposures in the region dating back to 2022, the station said, citing Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard.Romero has been arrested and released multiple times, WTTG said, adding that he choked a Herndon police officer in June 2022 amid a response to a groping incident.DeBoard said Romero was charged with felony assault on a law enforcement officer in connection with the incident, but the Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney downgraded the charge to simple assault — a misdemeanor, the station reported."I mean he literally tried to get his hands around our officer's neck trying to choke him, so we don't understand that one," DeBoard noted, WTTG said.The commonwealth's attorney did not explain the decision to downgrade the charges but told WTTG that Romero was prosecuted for the incident and served jail time as a result.Romero was taken into custody Oct. 19 for indecent exposure and sentenced to 50 days behind bars, but the station said he was released 25 days early — on Nov. 14 — because of Virginia's "good behavior law."Four days later, Romero was arrested for raping a woman on the Washington and Old Dominion Trail in Herndon, WTTG said.The woman who filed the October indecent exposure report — Jennifer Pugh — spoke to the station about what she witnessed."He kept coming trying to grab my dog. Then he was trying to come after me; he was saying stuff. He didn't speak English, and then all of a sudden he started pulling his stuff out," Pugh recounted to WTTG. "I said, ‘There's Ring cameras all around, you know,’ and he didn't care."The station said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not yet confirmed whether it was notified of Romero's illegal presence in the U.S. following these incidents.WTTG said the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office took him into custody after both incidents. The sheriff's office website says its policy is that "ICE is notified every time an undocumented immigrant is taken into our custody."DeBoard told the station, "It's frustrating because I tell the community you should feel safe here, and I do believe they are safe here, I truly do, but when you have cases like this, I look at this and see if some part of the system … if it was all working together, if there was a way to make it work, this would never have happened. I don't think you can point the finger at any one place to blame because it's a conglomerate of problems."The sheriff said Fairfax County Adult Detention Center inmates are fingerprinted, and those prints are transferred to the commonwealth, which then submits them to federal law enforcement agencies, WTTG noted.“This is the only stranger rape that we have had in the town in my more than 12 years as chief of police,” DeBoard in a press conference Tuesday about Romero, according to the New York Post. Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin blasted local officials for allowing Romero's release instead of turning him over to ICE and deporting him, the paper noted.Police told WTTG that Romero is being held at the adult detention center without bond.You can view a video report here about the situation.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Several Hollywood stars threatened to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the election. How many of them will prove good on their ultimatums remains to be seen. However, one star who is most certainly on her way out of the country is Ellen DeGeneres. And she’s not just leaving; she’s “never coming back.” Dave Rubin and co-hosts Winston Marshall and Isabel Brown discuss the television star’s exodus. “She can't live in her Montecito house worth a hundred million dollars anymore with all of her servants. She's moving to the U.K.,” says Dave. “I am fairly certain that the jihadists running the streets of London love lesbians.” “Please keep her,” sighs Marshall, who’s from the U.K. “Things are bad enough.” In all seriousness though, liberal hysteria following Trump’s win has grown to comical levels. “I read the other day that a cruise company is actually offering a four-year cruise for almost $200,000 at over 400 ports of entry for you to temporarily escape the country while Trump is president,” says Brown. Further, it’s ironic DeGeneres is specifically fleeing to the U.K. where free speech “is not a guaranteed right.” One would think that “talk show hosts like Ellen DeGeneres that are quite used to the protections of being able to say everything that's on [her] mind and to criticize the people in power” would appreciate our First Amendment, but apparently the U.K.’s Orwellian grip on speech is preferable, adds Brown. To hear more of the conversation, including the prayer restrictions that are being proposed in Scotland, watch the clip above. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) was upset after news broke that special counsel Jack Smith is officially dropping his D.C.-based case against President-elect Donald Trump following Trump's historic election victory. Smith charged Trump last year with four felony counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges. 'The American people and President Trump want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system.' — (@) Goldman told CNN he understands Smith is following Department of Justice procedures that ban criminal prosecution of a sitting president but still called the whole situation a "shame for justice" in the country. "It establishes that Donald Trump is above the law. The Supreme Court put him above the law," Goldman said, referring to a ruling on presidential immunity issued over the summer. "... Now he appears to escape full accountability for what were crimes charged by a grand jury. And I would just add one other thing that we ought to pay close attention to: We cannot normalize the fact that Donald Trump, as the president-elect, should not be held accountable for crimes that he committed before." "So let's make sure we don't normalize Trump's political partisan behavior that has no place under our rule of law," he added. The Trump campaign took a victory lap after Smith moved to dismiss the D.C. case, the last federal case against Trump, claiming it was another example of political lawfare that failed. “The American people re-elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate to Make America Great Again. Today’s decision by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump and is a major victory for the rule of law. The American people and President Trump want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system, and we look forward to uniting our country," Trump communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement. Vice President-elect JD Vance noted that if Trump had lost the election, he would likely have wound up in prison. Vance further promised to work after the new administration is in place to "ensure what happened to President Trump never happens in this country again."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Ukraine is the richest country in Europe when it comes to minerals and that President Donald Trump will "do a deal" to get the United States its money back.The South Carolina senator spoke to Fox News' Sean Hannity last week and publicly stated that the Russia-Ukraine war is predominantly about the control of valuable mineral deposits, claiming it is the primary reason Russia decided to invade the eastern parts of Ukraine.Hannity asked on his program why President Biden has allowed Ukraine to use ballistic missiles toward the end of the administration."Why is he giving them more money, and why is he doing all of this knowing that Donald Trump has a very different approach when he gets in office in two months?" Hannity asked.Graham prefaced his response by saying that Ukraine would be a lot better off in late 2024 if Ukraine had been authorized to use the ballistic missiles earlier in the war, which has reached approximately 1,000 days of combat.'Donald Trump's gonna do a deal to get our money back.'"This war is about money," Graham revealed. "People don't talk much about it. But you know the richest country in all of Europe for rare-earth minerals is Ukraine. $2 to $7 trillion worth of minerals that are rare-earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st century," the senator added.Graham claimed that Ukraine is ready to deal with the United States, not Russia, and therefore it is in Americans' best interest to make sure Russia "doesn't take over the place.""It's the breadbasket of, really, the developing world. 50% of all the food going to Africa comes out of Ukraine. We can make money and have [an] economic relationship with Ukraine to be very beneficial to us with peace," Graham added. "So Donald Trump's gonna do a deal to get our money back, to enrich ourselves with rare-earth minerals, a good deal for Ukraine and us, and he's gonna bring peace," he continued.Hannity then asked if Ukraine could pay America back the "hundreds of billions of dollars" it has already invested in the war, to which Graham clarified, "That's just a drop in the bucket," repeating that Ukraine is the most mineral-rich country in Europe."That's why Russia is there right now," Graham concluded.However, Graham's numbers were different during an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation" about 10 days prior.During that appearance, Graham said Ukraine was sitting on about $10 to 12 trillion worth of "critical minerals," nearly double his later estimation.The senator again affirmed that the Ukraine would be required to pay the United States back."[Trump] created a loan system. ... I don't wanna give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China," Graham told host Margaret Brennan.The 69-year-old described the ending of the Russia-Ukraine war as a "very big deal" and called for the U.S. to help Ukraine "win" the war and "find a solution."He reiterated that the Ukrainians are "sitting on a gold mine" that cannot be allowed to go to Russia or China.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The tough times in the videogames industry show no signs of letting up as a promising studio has announced it’ll be shutting its doors before its debut game even sees the light of day. Humanoid Origin, the studio founded in 2021 by Casey Hudson, the former director of the Mass Effect trilogy, has confirmed it will be closing, and that means development on its upcoming triple-A sci-fi game is also ending. Continue reading Former Mass Effect director’s studio shuts down, new sci-fi game axed MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best space games, Best old games, Best PC games

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Casey Hudson, best known for being the director of the Mass Effect trilogy, left BioWare in 2021 to form a new studio, Humanoid Origin, and begin work on a new IP. Unfortunately, Hudson announced today that the studio will be shutting down due to a lack of funding.