Are you feeling the peace of mind I am? For a year, we have been through so much angst. Another Trump prosecution every day. Another Trump felony conviction every week. Here we were, hoping to elect him for the second (or third) time but worrying whether he even would be in prison during the campaign. Would they lock him up for a year? The media ran interference for Biden, with Kamala assuring us that Joe was the sharpest knife in the drawer — even though we knew that the Easter Bunny could not be wrong. They were calling Trump a “felon,” the disturbance of Jan. 6 an “insurrection,” and Kamala Harris “thoughtful.” We knew they were lying through their teeth, but we still sweated nervously because, regardless of whether we say it out loud, we intuitively know that half the country are idiots. That’s just a fact. In a country where voters actually can be persuaded to make the most important decision of their lives — who will be their president — based on the recommendations of Taylor Swift, Cardi B, and dimwits even below their wattage, truly half the country must be idiots. We aggravated. A biased judge presiding over a biased case brought by a biased District Attorney, in a biased district, supplied a biased jury that helped supply 34 fraud convictions. We saw through it, but would the other 50 percent, especially given the lying media’s one-sided reporting? Meanwhile, the corrupt trial kept our guy confined to the area adjacent to New York City, preventing him from campaigning in swing states. The fix was in. And yet, the lemonade thing: If Hizzoner, the Democrat Stooge won’t let you campaign in Pennsylvania and Michigan, gain national attention pursuing the Hispanic vote in The Bronx, the Black vote in Harlem, and the White vote on the Jersey Shore (the home of J-Woww, Mike “Da Situation,” and Snooki) and also Americans with measurable IQs. Our guy did not really crush Biden in that debate because Biden beat him to it in Minute 13, crushing himself. A miracle! And then Pelosi and her thugs did to Biden what she previously tried doing to Trump through two failed impeachments — regicide. They killed Biden. They broke him. They came in for the kill just when he was hit with COVID, at his weakest. He infamously had told Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett the night of the State of the Union, unaware he was on a “hot mic,” that he had decided to bring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to D.C. for a “Come to Jesus” browbeating. Yet, on the very day that Netanyahu ultimately arrived at the Capitol to successfully address a joint session of Congress, it was Biden who was encircled by Democrat leaders for the “Come to Jesus” browbeating that terminated him. Nevertheless, we did not exactly celebrate. We eagerly had been anticipating November, for Biden to lead the Democrats down in flames, maybe even see us flip the Democrat seats in red Montana and Ohio, giving us a 52–48 GOP Senate majority, along with West Virginia. (We did not really dare imagine taking Pennsylvania, too.) But then all our hopeful expectations shifted amid the bloodless palace coup, as Pelosi & Fiends emerged with Kamala Harris as Queen-in-Waiting. Initial polls saw Harris gaining as much as 5 points overnight from an energized electorate relieved that Biden was sent to pasture, and not for breeding. In a day, the media that had been singing Biden’s praises — sharp as ever, and age not a factor — turned shamelessly and declared that Harris was (1) the answer to Biden’s dementia and that (2) she was precisely the answer to old-man Trump because age is everything. The adulation of Harris crescendoed soon after at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), highlighted by Ocasio taking the rostrum and bringing the throngs to their feet. Speaker after speaker described Harris as the smartest, most politically deft, wisest, sharpest, toughest, most accomplished, most insightful mind in America — a person of color, a person of menstruation gender, a child of India, a person of destiny, a legend before her time. They stood and cheered wildly for her husband, the Embodiment of the New Masculinity, as he proudly described how he, born of Jewish parents, accompanies his wife to church on Easter, while she cooks him dinner on Passover. The religious inspiration was awe-inspiring. Democrats, in convention assembled, did not even mind that this Embodiment of the New Masculinity previously had knocked up his child’s nanny and schoolteacher, thereby destroying his first marriage, and later publicly slapped his next woman partner, Jane, on a date after the divorce. (Democrats would save their outrage for Pete Hegseth later who is accused of identical behavior.) (READ MORE: $1 Billion Raised, $20 Million in Debt, $1 Million for Oprah’s Endorsement) The polls grew concerning. Her replacement of Doddering Joe had elevated her. Then the three days of DNC laudatory speeches — even the Royal Obamas and Clintons praised her glory — rocketed her numbers into the stratosphere. Then she and two ABC shills dominated the only 3-on-1 Cage Match the media were able to foist on Trump. On top of that she raised One . . . Billion . . . Dollars. I kept publishing in this very outlet that we must be patient. It would dissipate. A political society comprised of an equal number of morons and sophisticates blows with the wind. The jump in polls after a State of the Union address or a national convention tends to be like a dose of Vicodin (codeine with ibuprofen) or Norco (codeine with acetaminophen) — a wonderful high for four hours, dissipating slowly for the next two hours, and then reverting back to the pain of six hours ago. I advised readers to remain steady and patient. Once people actually get to hear her speak, she will go “dud” as she did in 2020 when she began the Democrat primaries with Trump-like crowds and ended a few days later miraculously overspent and out of money, unable to linger even for the opening round, the Iowa Caucuses. Her handlers knew what we knew: to know her is to dump and abandon her (e.g. the Honorable Willie Brown). Therefore, she strategically hid in plain sight, as Doddering Joe did in 2020. She left it to CNN’s shills and the MSNBC Maddows and Sharptons and Joy (Joy?) Reids to campaign for her. A billion dollars meant she could afford so much more this time than when she overspent and ran out of cash before Iowa in 2020. Endorsements came in from everywhere. The influential Taylor Swift, an icon for managing money wisely to live well even in the Biden-Harris economy. Bruce Springsteen (though it was Billy Joel who had sung about desperately needed Allentown). The intellectually overpowering and compelling Cardi B. The all-knowing Oprah. The spiritual man of the cloth, Reverend Al Sharpton (Tawana Brawley was unavailable). She got Joy Reid to interview her, CBS to doctor her pointless word salads, The View to lob softballs she still could not catch, and NBC to showcase her on Friday Night Live days before the election. (Or is it Saturday Night Live? Not sure. I haven’t watched it for decades since Belushi, Aykroyd, Radner, Larraine Newman, Miller, Carvey, Hartman, and Murray moved on, pilfering the show’s smart humor with them.) And if we weren’t ill at ease enough, some crackerjack Iowa pollster who never is wrong unilaterally awarded that state, thought to be heavily Republican by double digits (which it indeed remains), to Harris by 3 points. While some other character was bolstered by all the mainstream media as the Ultimate Guru whose secret formula of special “Keys” had made his predictions correct for all but one of the past 10,000 years had determined from his tea leaves (so to speak) that Harris had it in the tea bag. For a final wince, some jackass of a “comedian” referred to Puerto Rico’s actual garbage crisis in a way that invited Harris’s shills to paint Trump as a racist, fascist, Nazi, and Hitler. Not even a Neo-Nazi, by the way, but a Proto-Nazi. So much to be wary about. But Biden, the gift that never stopped giving, came through one last time in the clutch, calling us all “garbage.” The Iowa poll proved a farce. Joe Rogan and Dana White mattered more than Oprah and Taylor Swift. The Washington Post and L.A. Times, for the first time in forever, just couldn’t bring themselves to put their Kamala preference in writing. The One Billion Dollar bankers started demanding repayment on Harris’s unpaid $20 million overdraft. Colbert, Kimmel, and Stewart showed how funny they truly are when speaking off-script without their comedy writers’ texts on their teleprompters. We won anyway — not only the Electoral College but even the popular vote — even without cherished “Republicans, past and present,” like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, a few angry generals who gave us the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Scarborough, and Anna Navarro. And we marvel. She went through A Billion Dollars in the time of a summer vacation. She bought political endorsements, just like sneaker and car campaigns — Oprah, a million to her company, and Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton,$ 500,000 to his. Think of all her small donors, the less wealthy and young people, who gave five bucks and ten bucks of hard-earned weekend jobs and federal and state monthly “entitlements” (i.e. handouts) learning that their blood money went to enrich Oprah and Pogrom Al. We can breathe easier and almost enjoy the moment. The only thing that can disrupt our vacation is if we misstep. Like with two or three regretful cabinet appointments… Subscribe to Rav Fischer’s YouTube channel here at bit.ly/3REFTbk and follow him on X (Twitter) at @DovFischerRabbi to find his latest classes, interviews, speeches, and observations. Watch Rav Fischer’s latest 10-minute messages: (1) “There is No Palestine” (here); and (2) 6 Divine Miracles by Which Trump Defeated Harris (here) READ MORE from Dov Fischer: $1 Billion Raised, $20 Million in Debt, $1 Million for Oprah’s Endorsement The Bullet We Dodged, the Miracles We Experienced, the Idiot We Faced If Trump Is Such a Nazi, Why Do 80 Percent of Orthodox Jews Support Him? The post Beyond Comprehension: Harris’s $20 Million Plus, Trump’s Cabinet, Peace of Mind appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

It was, in the historic telling, supposedly a swamp. That swamp being Washington, D.C. The problem with this story is that it is a myth. There was no swamp. Historians at the National Trust for Historic Preservation make it plain, as headlined here: “No, Washington Is Not Built on a Swamp.” It’s time to retire an old metaphor that has no basis in D.C.’s history. If in fact Washington had been built on a swamp, the buildings would have sunk into that swamp long ago. Yet in interesting fashion, the myth of Washington as a swamp is as solid as the also mythical belief that, once a governmental institution is established and filled with hundreds of federal employees, it can never be shut down and abolished. It must exist for, literally, eternity. This explains exactly why there is such animosity in the nation’s capital for President-elect Donald Trump and his appointed agents for government reorganization, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. I often posit this to friends to explain what’s wrong in Washington. Let’s say a congressman wakes up in the morning to find his 5-year-old has a runny nose. The congressman goes into his office and has legislative staff write a bill that creates a federal “Department of Children With Runny Noses.” The bill passes on a wave of outrage that nothing has been done to take care of America’s children with runny noses. Once passed, a brand new ten-story building to house the new department is built in downtown Washington. It is quickly filled with hundreds of brand-new federal bureaucrats who earn six-figure salaries. They are all unionized and their union dues go to the political world of the Democratic Party. The Department is now ready to live for eternity, or as long as the United States of America exists. In short, that has become exactly the model for governing the country in real life. This time around, President-elect Trump is vowing to abolish the federal Department of Education. One can be sure that when he takes office and actually tries to do this? When that moment arrives all unshirted “h…e… double l” will explode in Washington. In fact, as this is written, the Daily Caller is headlining this: “Trump Insiders Expect DOJ Attorneys May Resign En Masse To Avoid Being Canned By POTUS.” The story reports this: In the week and a half since Trump’s election, Politico reported that “a collective sense of dread” is filling the Department of Justice. Career DOJ attorneys told the outlet that they are considering leaving before the administration begins as the former president has threatened to fire “deep state” lawyers. “Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds,” one DOJ attorney told the outlet. Then there is the Establishment media. Indeed, the New York Times has already targeted Trump, editorializing that “America Makes a Perilous Choice.” They have also framed Hegseth “as undeserving of the post he seeks” at the Pentagon. And over at Newsweek is this article, “Trump Nominates Matt Gaetz for Attorney General in Shock Pick.” But of course. No surprise. This is exactly the reason Trump is nominating people like Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard to his Cabinet in their respective positions. They, as with Trump himself, are willing to challenge the quite standard Washington worldview. To do their best to put an end to it. In the case of the Gaetz and Hegseth nominations, they are appointed to head mammoth federal bureaucracies filled to overflow with woke bureaucrats who are all about a federal government that rules over the justice system and the American military respectively in the fashion of woke czars and czarinas. (READ MORE: Three Cheers for Pete Hegseth) The use of the Department of Justice and local Democrat-run prosecutors in places like New York and Atlanta epitomize the weaponization of the legal system to target a political opponent. That opponent, of course, would be Donald Trump. Lost sight of in all this is that someday — four years away come January — Trump will leave office. And whoever else would take his place as the leader of the 2028 GOP — a JD Vance, Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, or whomever — could be easily targeted in the same way as Trump has been because now the precedent has been set. The central question that is coming front and center as Trump preps to take office is, when will this routine way of doing business in Washington be put to an end? That is the central challenge for Trump, his Cabinet nominees, and his government efficiency appointees Musk and Ramaswamy. They are dealing in Washington with a Big Government mentality that is reinforced by countless special interests that make piles of money influencing that government. Will something be done about the revolving door mentality that has someone take a job in the federal bureaucracy, and then eventually revolve out to join a lobbying firm where their main task is to lobby — for big bucks — the government agency where the bureaucrat once worked? In short, Trump’s pledge to put an end to this decidedly expensive game for taxpayers has already made a city filled with political opponents who are going to target Trump and any of his Cabinet members who are seen as key players in taking on the system. Which guarantees that the next four years in Washington will be an existential battle royal. On the positive side, both Trump and his Cabinet nominees, not to mention his incoming White House staff, understand all of this. They understand exactly why Washington is really called a swamp. And they will not back down. In other words? Buckle in. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Three Cheers for Pete Hegseth The Media Targets Trump — Again Trump’s Win Is America’s Win The post Trump v. Washington appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

COP29, the global U.N. climate conference, is underway in Azerbaijan. Attendees at the conference (other than the host delegates and hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists) have been bemoaning the fact that the world is way off target to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. They and their media sympathizers see the world heading for a climate disaster of biblical proportions in the next 50 years. As the Secretary-General said last week, the world must “pay up or humanity will pay the price.” But climate activists seem oblivious to the disaster their policy proposals will plunge huge parts of the world into — not in 50 years, but in five. The first tremor of this climate policy-induced disaster occurred on the island country of Sri Lanka. Fertilizers are a little-known but important source of dreaded greenhouse gas emissions. The president of Sri Lanka, wanting to burnish his climate credentials, banned the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in 2021. The unsurprising result less than a year later was a cratering of food production, spiking food prices, famine, and a great deal of social and political unrest. Unmoved by this obvious drawback to their war on fertilizer, climate activists have been turning the screws on European farmers. Not only has the cost of what fertilizer they can get skyrocketed, they have seen the price of all their energy sources — electricity, diesel, natural gas — rise relentlessly. And like in Sri Lanka, protests have followed. Some researchers estimate that “net zero” goals in American farming would increase food prices by $1300 a year for the average family of four. However, the impending climate policy disaster is not limited to farmers and the agriculture sector. Europe has been deindustrializing in the quixotic quest to reach net zero emission targets by 2030. Germany’s transition to green energy, while shuttering their nuclear power plants, led not only to increasing electricity prices but to reliance on electricity generation in neighboring France (ironically generated by French nuclear power plants). Besides being the largest economy in Europe, Germany has historically had robust economic growth too. Not anymore. Germany’s economic growth over the past decade has hardly been stellar. This stagnation manifests on the ground in historic layoffs by legacy German company, Volkswagen. It can also be seen in the recent political turmoil of the governing coalition collapsing due to disagreements over how to deal with Germany’s economic problems. The diagnosis for the rest of Europe is bleak. Although the U. S. has not traveled as far down this environmental road to disaster, it has hardly escaped unscathed. Electricity costs are twice those of China despite access to huge amounts of coal, oil, gas, advanced technology, and enormous financial capital. Antiquated utilities, facing ever stricter emissions standards and expensive renewable energy mandates, continue to raise rates — putting U. S. manufacturers at a disadvantage. Social and economic inequality tends to be greatest in places that have implemented more climate restrictions — cue California’s labyrinthian environmental permitting, residential solar panel mandate, restrictive fuel standards, and prohibition on new combustion vehicles in the near future. (RELATED: The EPA’s ‘De Facto EV Mandate’ Faces Potential Supreme Court Scrutiny) These issues are only the beginning of the epic disaster the world will experience under the proposed net-zero policies coming out of COP29. Deindustrialization is a luxury priority for wealthy elites — and one with a short shelf life. The rapid economic (and emissions) expansion of India and China has softened the blow thus far. People in China and India seem far more interested in becoming prosperous than in reducing their carbon footprint. But the piper must be paid. Stagnant wages and stagnant economies can’t support extensive welfare states. And let’s not forget the geopolitical ramifications of low economic growth. Europe has become significantly less influential on the world stage relative to the U. S. and China because its economy has basically not grown over the past 15 years. Deindustrialization has already created hardship for low and middle-income folks across the Western world. If we continue down this road, the consequences will grow increasingly deadly. More intermittent renewable energy generation and overtaxed energy grids will fail more frequently under extreme heat and extreme cold. Slow economic growth means less innovation and less technology. More expensive food and energy will create ever more difficult tradeoffs for those with less income. Even more importantly, anti-growth climate policy will foreclose unknown future improvements in human welfare. While the costs attributed to Western industrialization and its accompanying greenhouse gas emissions over the last 50 years may be significant, they are dwarfed by the blessings of industrialization experienced by the poorest countries of the world: refrigeration, antibiotics, transportation, cheap food, etc. Creating an immediate disaster to avoid a highly speculative one in the distant future makes no sense. A lot can happen between now and 2050 or now and 2100. What’s worse, anti-growth climate policies, even if adopted by the U. S. and Western Europe, are basically worthless if China and India continue their current emissions trajectories — adding more emissions each year than the U. S. and Europe can cut. So, let’s avoid the immediate car wreck of net zero policies and worry about the potential accident 50 miles down the road later. The climate agenda threatens the prosperity and flourishing of billions of people today. READ MORE from Paul Mueller: Import Germany’s Cars, Not Its Policies A Harris Administration Will Create the United States of California The post The Real Climate Change Disaster appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees have produced howls of outrage, not only from the left, but also from many denizens of the D.C. establishment — but I repeat myself. Some, such as Rep. Matt Gaetz and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. seem like a middle finger waved in the face of the “swamp,” which may well have been intentional. Others, however, no matter how anodyne they may seem, have also aroused the ire of the usual suspects. That Gov. Doug Burgum or CEO Chris Wright have prompted peals of anguish says more about the entitled progressives than about their qualifications for office. Still, no one seems to have attracted such sustained ire as Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. He’s too young, the critics say, and as a mere National Guard major, he lacks the requisite stature to command generals and admirals. Despite degrees from Princeton and Harvard Universities, earned back in the day when such accomplishments still meant something, he lacks the appropriate educational heft. And, for too many left-wing pundits, the views he’s expressed in several books and frequently on Fox News suggest that, well, he just isn’t bright enough for the job. One might observe that, on balance, Hegseth is more qualified for leadership than Barack Obama when the latter entered the Senate, much less when he was elected president. Unsurprisingly, the left has no patience with such comparisons. I suspect, however, that these “progressive” pundits are even more angered by Hegseth’s strongly expressed support for Israel’s right to exist and his concomitant hostility to the Iranian regime. These, after all, are positions sharply at odds with the disdain for Israel that has animated both the Biden and Obama administrations, much less the outright hatred that now courses through the veins of the left on college campuses and in the streets. Since Oct. 7, 2023, we’ve witnessed how this has played out, with violent anti-Israel demonstrations centered on college campuses here and across Western Europe. These trailed off over the summer, one suspects because the camp followers went home to party, while the hardcore activists decided that they needed to tone it down to help Biden (and then Harris) get re-elected. But it never went away, and now, when they can no longer hurt the Democrats’ electoral prospects, one suspects that the demonstrations will pick up once again. And I suspect that Hegseth will quickly become a target, in much the same manner as conservative Supreme Court justices. In Europe, however, anti-Semitic violence has continued at a high level (and let’s not pretend that “anti-Zionism” is anything other than hatred for Jews). Recently it peaked in Amsterdam when anti-Semitic mobs coursed across the city in a well-organized and obviously carefully planned hunt for Jews attending an international soccer match. (READ MORE: ‘Pogrom’ in Amsterdam) Despite media protestation to the contrary, this was neither incidental soccer hooliganism, nor was it provoked by the actions of Jewish fans. This, simply, was a pogrom, as viciously conceived and brutally executed as those of the Nazis — and very pointedly coinciding with the anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi stormtroopers and gangs of Nazi students (yes, the universities then were poisoned with Jew-hatred) raged across German cities, destroying Jewish businesses, and beating every Jew they found on the street. The Amsterdam pogrom, sadly, offers the latest example of the progressive establishment’s unwillingness to forthrightly condemn Islamist radicalism and to insist on drawing a hard line against the Iranian mullahs who promote it across the West. But we’re told that this is impossible, that such condemnation risks promoting “Islamophobia.” This, of course, remains a kind of cultural “third rail” — touch it and die. This brings me to Sam Hanna, the ex-Navy SEAL fictional character portrayed by LL Cool J on NCIS: Los Angeles and, with the demise of that show, more recently on the egregious NCIS: Hawai’i. My wife and I once enjoyed the various NCIS shows, even though, as a veteran of military law enforcement, she frequently found the premises laughably inaccurate. But the characters were fun, none more so than the character Hetty Lange on NCIS: Los Angeles, a compellingly larger-than-life creation. But Hetty went away, and the plots became more stale, largely because the “who” of the “whodunit” became irksomely predictable — the villain always turned out to be the white guy, particularly the white guy associated in some way with big business or conservative politics. Gradually, only Russian oligarchs, intelligence goons, or mafia types were acceptable villains. This, after all, was the time when the left embraced the notion that the 2016 election of Donald Trump had been some kind of Russian conspiracy. The one category that could not be treated as hostile actors — at least storyline villains — were adherents of Islam. This posed a problem for a show concerned with terrorist plotlines in the years after 9/11. So, whenever it seemed necessary to locate a story in, say, Afghanistan, Sam Hanna would, with clockwork predictability, deliver a lecture reminding viewers that most Muslims were peaceful and that the bad actors were entirely unrepresentative of the “religion of peace.” This was Hollywood at its absolute worst, setting boundaries for allowable thought, boundaries untethered by reality. Pete Hegseth, it appears, understands only too well the realities of the world we live in, and the threats against which a Department of Defense must be prepared to defend. In an earlier article for The American Spectator, I wrote that we are at war with Iran’s mullahs, not because we chose to go to war with them, but because they chose to go to war with us. In yet another article, I wrote after Oct. 7 that Israel played the role of the “canary in the coal mine” for all of the West, and most notably for the U.S. In the oft-repeated Iranian propaganda phrase, Israel is the “little Satan,” but we are the “great Satan.” It speaks volumes for the values of the incoming Trump administration that stalwarts like Peter Hegseth will be joined by former Gov. Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel, Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.N. Ambassador, and Rep. Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor. Ironically, the best chance for peace in the Middle East follows from sending the clear message to the mullahs that we will no longer indulge their “from the river to the sea” shenanigans. We don’t need Hollywoke values in our Middle East policy, or indeed anywhere else in the world. We don’t need “Sam Hanna” values in a Secretary of Defense. We don’t need a military that trades combat readiness for DEI training. We do need someone who recognizes that, like it or not, there are hostile actors bent on doing us harm. We don’t need to indulge in crusades to remake the world, but we need to be prepared to defend ourselves, and that very much includes a strong stance in support of Israel and against the threat from Iran. We need this far more than “management experience” or conversance with Obama-era pieties about “leading from behind.” We might just need someone like Pete Hegseth. James H. McGee retired in 2018 after nearly four decades as a national security and counterterrorism professional, working primarily in the nuclear security field. Since retiring, he’s begun a second career as a thriller writer. His recent novel, Letter of Reprisal, tells the tale of a desperate mission to destroy a Chinese bioweapon facility hidden in the heart of the central African conflict region. A sequel is forthcoming. You can find Letter of Reprisal on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback editions and on Kindle Unlimited. READ MORE from James McGee: Trump’s Election Sends the Swamp a Message Peanut the Squirrel and the Coercive State Hurricane Outrage: Where is Harris? The post Pete Hegseth v. “Sam Hanna” and the Left’s War Against the Jews appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics: I have been warning that our Computer has projected that war will continue and that the Neocons are traitors to the people of the United States and a threat to the entire world. Biden, the senile one, will sign anything put in front of him, and he is incompetent to […]

by Deborah C. Tyler, All News Pipeline: We are living through an astonishing time in our nation’s political history.  Somewhat more than half of Americans see President Trump as a leader of courage, energy, and commitment with a proven record of promoting peace and strengthening both the U.S. economy and the southern border against an illegal […]

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Jose Ibarra, the alleged murderer of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, traveled from New York City to Georgia after requesting a humanitarian flight, his roommate testified Monday. Ibarra is currently standing trial after being charged for the murder of Riley, who died in February from blunt force trauma to the head outside of the University of Georgia’s campus. Ibarra’s roommate, Rosbeli Elisber Flores-Bello, testified that she and the suspected murderer arrived at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and requested a humanitarian flight to Athens, Georgia, in September 2023. “In Manhattan, we requested a humanitarian flight to come here to Atlanta,” Flores-Bello said when asked how they arrived in Georgia. Flores-Bello resided with Ibarra and his two brothers in Athens at the time of Riley’s murder; she told the jury Monday that her roommates showed no emotion or reaction when she informed them of Riley’s death, according to CNN. The former roommate said she identified Ibarra in surveillance footage while being questioned by police on February 23. Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, illegally entered the U.S. through the southern border near El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was later released into the country on parole due to the lack of detention space at the time. He was later arrested for allegedly acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 years old in New York City, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Federal immigration law under the Biden-Harris administration allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “parole” migrants instead of detaining them for “humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,” which has been challenged by many Republican-led states. An affidavit released in February revealed that Ibarra caused “bodily harm” to Riley by “seriously disfiguring her body” and skull with an inanimate object. He allegedly dragged Riley to a secluded area and caused blunt force trauma with the object. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Laken Riley’s Alleged Killer Arrived in Georgia on ‘Humanitarian Flight,’ Roommate Testifies appeared first on The Daily Signal.