Well, you can't say that public affairs can't command voters' attention -- provided, of course, politicians promise a no-holds-barred verbal fray as part of the deal. Viral footage from a House Oversight Committee hearing on a contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday evening shows Republican Rep....

Michael Cohen was caught in lie-after-lie Thursday in what even CNN is describing as “the best day for Donald Trump.” I’ve known Michael Cohen for over 30 years. He’s one of the dumbest human beings I’ve ever met.@NEWSMAX pic.twitter.com/9bWYe1DP8G— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) May 17, 2024 From CNN: Donald Trump finally had a good day in court. The presumptive GOP nominee has often seemed embarrassed and infuriated by his first criminal trial, which has featured salacious exposés of his personal life and details of his alleged attempts to cover it up. But on Thursday, he got to savor his former fixer-turned-enemy Michael Cohen wobbling on the stand under a fearsome cross-examination. Cohen appeared to be tripped up over an account of a call he’d previously said under oath was to discuss Trump’s hush money payment to adult film Star Stormy Daniels. It emerged under questioning on Thursday that, at least to begin with, the topic of the call was about another matter entirely. It was the kind of inconsistency that Trump’s attorneys can use to try to sow reasonable doubt about Cohen’s truthfulness and credibility in the mind of a single juror. That’s all it would take for Trump to walk. And now, the prosecution faces a stiff challenge in repairing the damage when they get to their redirect examination of Cohen’s testimony following the close of cross-examination next week. “I think what happened today still is so devastating they have to do something,” Ryan Goodman, a professor at NYU Law, told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “If the case ended today and there were final statements, I think there would not be a conviction.”

Free Press (freepress.net) is a media group funded by billionaire leftist George Soros. The Media Research Center reported Tuesday that the group is leading the charge to restrict free speech online. The Free Press Website claims a “free and open internet is a powerful tool for everyone fighting for social change and racial justice.” They […] The post Soros Paid $80 Million to Censor Speech Online Pre-Election appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A mugshot of the No. 1 golfer in the world was released after he was booked into jail on multiple charges — including a felony — on Friday morning while trying to get into Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, for the second round of the PGA Championship. Scottie Scheffler, who is coming off a victory at the Masters last month followed by the birth of his first child, was taken to jail by Louisville police reportedly after a traffic misunderstanding. The Louisville Metropolitan Department of Corrections confirmed on its website that Scheffler was booked into jail at 7:28 a.m. He is charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic, according to a court document, The New York Times reported. The second-degree assault charge is a felony while the others are misdemeanors. Scheffler was released from jail at 8:40 a.m., according to ESPN. Scheffler was initially scheduled to tee off at 8:48 a.m., but his tee time has been moved back to 10:08 a.m. ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington, who said he witnessed the incident, reported that Scheffler attempted to drive on a median to get around the scene of the accident. A police officer reportedly told Scheffler to stop, but Scheffler allegedly continued to drive another 10 to 20 yards toward the Valhalla Golf Club entrance. The golfer then stopped his vehicle at the entrance of the golf club and was told by the officer to exit his car. “When Scheffler exited the vehicle, the officer shoved Scheffler against the car and immediately placed him in handcuffs,” Darlington wrote. “He is now being detained in the back of a police car.” Dozens of police cars were on the scene outside Valhalla Golf Club in response to the fatal accident involving a pedestrian, but that accident was unrelated to Scheffler’s arrest. Scottie Scheffler’s mugshot from Louisville Metropolitan Department of Corrections. pic.twitter.com/bcJn54Nu5x — Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) May 17, 2024 A video of the bizarre arrest was posted to X by Darlington and shows police taking a handcuffed Scheffler to a police car before driving away. “Right now, he’s going to jail,” one officer told Darlington. “He’s going to jail, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it.” Here is video that I took of Scheffler being arrested: https://t.co/8UPZKvPCCf pic.twitter.com/9Tbp2tyrJh — Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) May 17, 2024

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was mocked after he claimed California was the “national model” for dealing with homelessness. Announcing a $3.3 billion fund to combat homelessness in his state on Tuesday, Newson boasted, “The state of California saw a decline in veteran’s homelessness,” adding that “we have a national model.” Although California has seen a 30% drop in veteran homeless since 2012, a 2023 federal report determined that 28% of the nation’s homeless live in California and people sleeping on the streets in the state accounted for roughly half of the entire nation’s total. The Daily Mail noted, “Los Angeles, which has more homeless people than any other US city at a staggering 65,111 people, saw its homelessness rate increase by nine percent in 2023 compared to the previous year.” California’s number of unsheltered homeless, 123,000, is eight times higher than that of Florida, which has just 15,000. California barely passed Newsom’s $6.4 billion Proposition 1 in March, 50.2 to 49.8 percent, a proposition for which Newsom had raised over $13 million; opponents of the proposition argued that it was far too costly and would jeopardize funding for mental health services and some small mental health agencies. CalMatters described the proposition: “It includes a bond to build treatment facilities and permanent supportive housing for people with mental health and addiction challenges. It also proposes changes to a longstanding tax on personal incomes over $1 million, known as the Mental Health Services Act, by requiring counties to spend 30% of that revenue on housing instead of other services.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “What Proposition 1 did is that it reinforced that model, provided more resources to advance that model, and we’re very excited to get those dollars to work,” Newsom declared. Newsom was roundly criticized on social media with comments such as, “The model: We don’t know what we did or where the money went,” “Newsom is right, we are a national model, but in the negative sense. Let the nation see us as a dire warning of how not to handle homelessness,” and “Newsom is right. The homeless crisis in California has made several nonprofit executives millionaires.” Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) simply posted on X, “This is the height of delusion.” This is the height of delusion. https://t.co/Vjiag9IiMg — Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) May 15, 2024

An image shared on X purports to show a baby standing beside the body of his dead mother in Rafah. A baby is crying in Rafah. Can you see, can you hear it earth?#RafahUnderAttack#Israel #Rafah #رفح_تحت_القصف pic.twitter.com/MvsZXzoSgR — SHAHID?? (@Shahidawan46) May 8, 2024 Verdict: False The claim is false. A content detection scan using the […]

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