Special counsel Jack Smith has moved to dismiss his federal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump due to a long-standing Justice Department policy that bars the prosecution of a sitting president. Sixteen months after the lawfare case was conjured up, it will be dismissed. Trump was first indicted on four felonies in August 2023: […] The post Jack Smith Files to Dismiss All Charges Against DJT appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Three men suspected of murdering Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan were arrested, the Emirati Ministry of Interior confirmed on Sunday. The suspects, Olimpi Toirovich, 28, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, 28, and Azizbek Kamlovich, 33 are citizens of Uzbekistan.  In a statement, the ministry said investigations and legal proceedings were initiated against the men for murdering Kogan, who was a UAE resident. The statement also praised its security authorities for quickly detaining the suspects who attempted to “undermine the safety and stability of the UAE community.” Photos released by the ministry show the men handcuffed and blindfolded. Kogan, 28, a Moldovan and Israeli citizen, was last seen alive in Dubai on Thursday. Over the weekend, his body was discovered in Al Ain, a city near the Oman border and approximately 90 minutes from Dubai. Kogan worked as an emissary for the Jewish group Chabad, by helping to support religious life for Jewish visitors and residents. He worked with the Chabad in Abu Dhabi and ran a kosher grocery store in Dubai.  The UAE has had a spike in Jewish and Israeli visitors since the establishment of formal ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords in 2020. The act of suspected terrorism may have been targeted at threatening the stability of the Abraham Accords. The White House National Security Council said the murder was also a crime against supporters of peace. “Our prayers are with his family, the Chabad-Lubavitch community, the broader Jewish community and all who are mourning his loss,” said Sean Savett, a spokesman for the council. “This was a horrific crime against all those who stand for peace, tolerance and coexistence. It was an assault as well on UAE and its rejection of violent extremism across the board.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called the murder an anti-Semitic terrorist attack and said that the Jewish state will seek justice against those who dispatched the three men. “This murder of an Israeli citizen and a Chabad emissary, is an abhorrent antisemitic terrorist attack,” Netanyahu said. “The State of Israel will use all means, and will deal with these murderers, and those who dispatched them, to the fullest extent of the law. None of them will get away.” Israel has information that Kogan may have been under Iranian surveillance, according to The Jerusalem Post. The chairman of Chabad, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, called upon governments around the world to protect their local Chabads. “It is incumbent upon the authorities of every country where Chabad representatives serve in good faith, to ensure that terror finds no haven within its borders. The targeting of Rabbi Kogan was an attempt to destroy the sacred Jewish values that he represented: light, goodness and kindness,” he said. “No country, no community, no society can afford the loss of these sustaining values.” Krinsky added that Kogan was “kidnapped and murdered in cold blood while serving the Jewish community in the UAE.” As of Monday afternoon, more than $630,00 was raised to support Kogan’s widow, who he married in 2022. Kogan’s wife is the niece of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife Rikvah who were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai, India in 2008. Kogan’s funeral took place Monday evening in Kfar Chabad, Israel.

The district attorney who refused to seek the maximum sentence for Laken Riley’s killer is one of three Soros-backed prosecutors to lose re-election this month. District Attorney (DA) Deborah Gonzalez of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit, who made headlines for her soft treatment of convicted murderer Jose Ibarra, lost her re-election to challenger Kalki Yalamanchili by over 75% of the vote.  Gonzalez was an active member of the organization Fair & Just Prosecution (FJP), a Leftist advocacy group funded by billionaire George Soros, which dictates both the public policy and private staffing of prosecutorial offices around the country. FJP’s efforts to hijack American justice were detailed in Media Research Center’s August exposé: “How The Soros Machine Directs and Controls Prosecutors Across America to Implement His Leftist Agenda.” Gonzalez was joined in defeat by fellow FJP members including Los Angeles County DA George Gascón and Alameda County DA Pamela Price. Gascón and Price were two of the last three remaining members of another Soros group, the censorship-obsessed Prosecutors Alliance of California, which worked closely with Governor Gavin Newsom to push an anti-police and anti-free speech agenda. Gascón, one of the founders of Prosecutors Alliance, lost to challenger Nathan Hochman by over 600,000 votes. Similarly, Prosecutors Alliance member Price lost her recall election by over 30%. Their defeat has dealt a crushing blow to the organization and the Soros Machine backing it. Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton remains, and is arguably now California’s most radically Left-wing prosecutor. Ibarra, a Venezuelan national released into the United States by the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS), beat Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley to death on February 22 of this year. Gonzalez chose not to pursue the death penalty, even though Ibarra had also attempted to rape Riley in broad daylight and had previously been charged with assaulting a child. Ibarra was convicted of Riley’s murder on November 20, just weeks after Yalamanchili’s victory. Gascón, who was previously San Francisco DA, created the Prosecutors Alliance of California in 2020 with Cristine Soto Deberry, a Marin County politician and Newsom’s former deputy chief of staff. The Prosecutors Alliance, which was backed by the Soros-funded Tides Advocacy, was designed to be a far-Left replacement for the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA), which Gascón had very publicly quit.  In August 2024, the Media Research Center (MRC) published detailed communications between the Prosecutors Alliance members showing their close relationship with Newsom and FJP. FJP pressured the Alliance’s members to sign pledges vowing to refuse to enforce certain laws that ran afoul of leftist political positions. In one instance, FJP got Prosecutor Alliance attorneys to pledge that it was a “prosecutor’s obligation” to create blacklists of police officers who would not be permitted to testify in court — thereby undermining the officers’ careers. To implement the blacklist for Los Angeles County, Gascón’s director for ethics has been accused of illegally accessing private county personnel database files to obtain the records of “over 1,600 statutorily-protected peace officer files” — a serious crime for which she was indicted. Gascón was sued separately for over $1.5 million for retaliation against attorneys who objected to his unlawful order that they not pursue prosecutions under certain California “criminal cases involving minors, including his blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults,” according to the Los Angeles Times. The lawsuit was successful. The Prosecutors Alliance successfully lobbied the California State Senate to pass a police censorship bill which mandated that elected prosecutors who accept campaign contributions from organizations supporting law enforcement (including unions) give up their authority to prosecute police officers. Had the censorship bill been enacted, police would effectively have been forbidden from using their own money for political advocacy against the millions in propaganda against them. When the California State Assembly refused to pass the Prosecutors Alliance’s censorship legislation, the group’s attorneys lobbied the state bar association to bypass the legislature and impose the speech restrictions via their own byzantine internal procedure. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The Prosecutors Alliance’s members were Gascón, Price, Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton, San Francisco City & County DA Chesa Boudin and San Joaquin County DA Tori Verber Salazar. Berkeley, Long Beach, Glendale, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and Stockton were among the many cities under the Prosecutors Alliance attorneys’ jurisdiction. In 2022, Boudin lost his recall election and Verber Salazar lost her primary re-election bid. Becton’s term is set to expire in 2026, but she may be removed from office early via a recall election. Remaining Soros prosecutors like Becton face a new foe in tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk has pledged to use his patriotic advocacy group America PAC to further combat Soros’s influence over America’s justice system. “Something has to be done to kind of counter the damage that Soros has done to the American system,” Musk pledged in an election day video uploaded to his social media platform, X. “America PAC’s going [t] aim to weigh in heavily on the midterms and intermediate elections, as well as just doing common sense stuff like having DAs who prosecute violent criminals who are obviously a danger to people.” * * * Conservatives are under attack. Contact Governor Gavin Newsom and tell him to renounce his support for the Prosecutors Alliance of California. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable. * * * Tim Kilcullen is Counsel for Investigations at the Media Research Center. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Kim Kardashian is getting a strong response on social media for an ad she posted on Instagram. The 44-year-old reality show star shared a photo of herself dressed in her shapewear brand, SKIMS, to promote a collaboration with luxury brand Dolce & Gabbana. In it, Kardashian is wearing a bra and underwear along with lace shorts. The caption of her post read in part: “Dolce&Gabbana and SKIMS unite to reveal curve-enhancing pieces for everyday confidence and unmatched sensuality.” Followers took issue with the fact that the influencer is also wearing rosary beads around her neck.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Kim Kardashian (@kimkardashian) “Why is she always wearing the cross when she’s half naked … like wtaf,” one popular comment said. “Wearing a cross while being half naked. [Would you] make a mockery out of other religions too?” another person agreed. “Nothing about you is holy,” a third person echoed. “Take the rosaries off lol.” Another said, “Why don’t you just get naked!!!!! Such hypocrisy stripping while wearing a cross!!!! So bored of your desperation.” “The Holy Rosary is NOT a fashion accessory,” someone else agreed. The rosary appears to be a Dolce & Gabbana item currently sold on its website for $525. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The item description says, “Dolce & Gabbana’s signature aesthetic is clear to see in this religious-themed jewelry collection, as it is filled with unique pieces flaunting great creativity. Contemporary and glamorous accessories with original and exclusive details, featuring different plated finishes, will be perfect for finishing off any look with style.” This is not the first time Kardashian was photographed wearing a cross and a revealing outfit. Last week, she wore a cross necklace with lingerie in another ad promoting the same collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Kim Kardashian (@kimkardashian) She also wore a custom dress featuring a cross and a cross necklace while attending the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018. This year, Kardashian wore the late Princess Diana’s diamond cross necklace to the Met Gala after purchasing it during a Sotheby’s auction for around $212,000 in 2023.

President-elect Donald Trump’s soon-to-be White House press secretary quashed a report that Trump will “kick transgender troops” out of the military, telling The Daily Wire that the report is based on unnamed sources who have “no idea what they are actually talking about.” “These unnamed sources are speculating and have no idea what they are actually talking about,” Karoline Leavitt told The Daily Wire. “No decisions on this issue have been made. No policy should ever be deemed official unless it comes directly from President Trump or his authorized spokespeople.” Her statement followed a report from the London-based Times alleging that Trump would sign an executive order as early as his first day back in the White House kicking trans-identifying troops out of the United States military. The story claimed that there are as many as 15,000 individuals in the military who identify as transgender, and that these troops would be deemed medically discharged upon Trump taking office in January. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE During his previous administration, Trump had quickly announced that trans-identifying service members would no longer serve “in any capacity,” arguing that the military needed to be focused on “decisive and overwhelming victory.” His ban on trans-identifying people serving in the military took effect in 2019, but was reversed by President Joe Biden in January 2021. “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump said in a post on Twitter in 2017.  “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.” After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017 Under former President Barack Obama, and with the support of then-Vice President Joe Biden, the military began admitting trans-identifying service members. There is no official count of how many trans-identifying members of the military there actually are, and the article in The Times gives no explanation for how it arrived at 15,000.

General Michael Flynn warns of deep-rooted opposition to President Trump’s reform agenda, outlining potential threats and calling for vigilance. Flynn claims the “Deep State” is actively working to prevent Trump’s reforms. Is he right? Flynn’s Warning: Deep State Opposition to Trump’s Reforms General Michael Flynn, a prominent figure in conservative circles, has issued a stark warning about the challenges facing President Donald Trump’s reform agenda. According to Flynn, the so-called “Deep State” – a term used to describe entrenched bureaucratic interests within the government – is actively working to prevent Trump from implementing his plans to reform America. This assessment paints a picture of a high-stakes conflict between new reform-minded visions and established powers resistant to change. Flynn’s analysis suggests that the opposition to Trump’s reforms is not merely political but deeply rooted in long-standing power structures. He argues that the intelligence community, in particular, has been serving its own interests and those of the ultra-wealthy for decades, rather than the American people. This claim echoes concerns long held by many conservatives about the unchecked power of government agencies. The truth is, the Deep State cannot afford to allow President Trump to implement his plans to reform America. Scenarios to frustrate:1. Assassination2. Conventional Resistance3. Violent Resistence4. Provoking War5. False Flag War In this longer than normal OPED below (pls… — General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) November 23, 2024 Five Scenarios of Resistance In a detailed threat assessment, Flynn outlines five potential scenarios that could be employed to frustrate Trump’s efforts. These range from the extreme – such as assassination – to more conventional forms of resistance. Flynn also warns of the possibility of violent opposition, the provocation of war, or even a false flag operation. While these scenarios may seem alarmist to some, Flynn insists they represent real threats that must be taken seriously. I read your report and I agree with every statement in it. I think the unsaid piece that may be giving them pause is the fact that there are 5.2 million combat veterans under 55 years of age in the United States and 70% of theme support President Trump. Additionally the US has… pic.twitter.com/GSUOrmmxoz — ProudPatriot (@sdavis68Id) November 23, 2024 This quote, attributed to Senator Schumer, underscores Flynn’s point about the perceived power of entrenched interests to retaliate against those who challenge them. It serves as a stark reminder of the formidable opposition that reformers may face within the government system. The 2020 Election and Its Aftermath Flynn suggests that Trump’s 2020 election campaign disrupted a long-standing effort to transform America, likening it to a communist “colour revolution.” This perspective frames the current political situation as a struggle between competing visions for the country’s future. Flynn questions the Left’s unexpected concession in the 2024 election, suggesting it might be a strategic move by the Deep State rather than a genuine acceptance of defeat. This phrase, attributed to President Obama, is cited by Flynn as evidence of a long-term plan to change the fundamental nature of American society. Flynn sees Trump’s presidency as a direct challenge to this transformative agenda. Call for Vigilance and Preparation Flynn concludes his analysis with a call for vigilance and preparation. He urges Americans to be aware of the potential threats and to take steps to ensure the nation reaches January 20 – presumably the date of the next presidential inauguration – safely. This appeal reflects a deep concern about the stability of American democratic institutions and the potential for disruption during times of political transition. Sources: Flynn warns. The Deep State? The post Insights from Joe Hoft and General Flynn on Trump’s Opposition Challenges appeared first on The Conservative Brief.

Peanut butter and jelly, macaroni and cheese — there are some combinations that seem like they were meant to be. But putting together the perfect song with an ice skater’s performance might not be one you think about often. Needless to say, ice skaters are highly impressive, even without music. That said, when the perfect song is chosen, their performance can be taken to the next level! Ryan Dunk understands this well. He is an ice skater himself, and he loves to showcase some of his impressive moves on social media. Although he has posted quite a few videos we adore, there is one in particularly that we are especially loving right now. For this performance, Ryan chose a Britney Spears classic: Lucky. Want to see the fabulous proof of this incredible performance? Watch the popular video below! @ryan_dunk this is a story about a girl named Lucky @Britney Spears #britneyspears #britneyarmy #oopsididitagain #figureskating #yurionice #dance #lgbtq #y2k camera @shanooski ♬ Lucky – Britney Spears There is a reason that Ryan is so incredible at ice skating. He was a competitive figure skater as a teen! He made a name for himself as the 2019 U.S. Junior National gold medalist. He also won the bronze medal in the 2019 Asian Open Trophy. And that’s just to name a couple of his accomplishments! So, while he is officially retired at the age of 24, it’s clear that he has not put his ice skates away for good! How lucky are we!? Ice Skater Stuns With His Fabulous Performance of Lucky by Britney Spears “I was under your spell the entire time,” one person shares in the comment section of the video, with another pointing out, “The person filming deserves an award.” “I’m currently watching this at 5 am,” a third person admits, adding, “with an immense amount of calm and peace that overcame me because of this video.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Ice Skater Performing To Britney Spears Classic Is The Boost You Didn’t Know You Needed appeared first on InspireMore.