Federal prosecutors last week indicted three people on charges of staging a hate crime involving the n-word and a burning cross to help a left-wing candidate get elected mayor of Colorado Springs. Prosecutors say Derrick Bernard, Ashley Blackcloud, and Deanna West, who were affiliated with a self-styled “minority-owned independent broadcasting and multimedia organization,” wrote the racial slur on a campaign sign for black candidate Yemi Mobolade, erected and ignited a cross in front of it, photographed it, and sent it to the media in order to boost Mobolade’s candidacy. The hoax came after Mobolade and Wayne Williams, a white Republican, nearly tied in an April 2023 election, triggering a runoff election the following month. Public opinion changed significantly before the runoff, with local news calling it a “stunning turn of events” that Mobolade won with 58%. He is now mayor of Colorado’s second-largest city. After Mobolade won the runoff election, Bernard allegedly texted him saying “we got you through it all brother.” He texted Blackcloud suggesting he expected favors from Mobolade, sending a link to city job openings and saying “I want favors quicker than later.” A day after the first election, Bernard wrote to Blackcloud “Ima just talk to you bout a few plans,” then texted candidate Mobolade on April 13 to say “I spoke with some of my friends in other places and theirs [sic] a plot amidst,” according to the indictment. Bernard allegedly texted Blackcloud that “they ain’t tryna let an African win” but “I got a plan.” Early in the morning on April 23, the trio allegedly staged the hate crime and emailed photographs to Mobolade and media outlets from an anonymous email address. The email attempted to use the fake hate crime to turn out black voters, writing that the “target of any one hate crime is not just the direct victim, but also anyone who shares the victim’s targeted identity.” At 7:30 p.m. that same night, Bernard texted Mobolade, “I guarantee the finish,” referring to a message saying he needed support to get to the finish line of his campaign, the indictment says. On April 25, Bernard texted Mobolade, “Brother some foul stuff came up I’m [sic] our email.” The next day, he spoke with him on the phone for five minutes, the inidctment notes. The media bit on the story. KDVR wrote “in the midst of the tight race, racially charged messaging has surfaced seemingly targeting the West African immigrant.” It quoted an NAACP official, Rashad Younger, saying that the NAACP spoke to Mobolade’s campaign, which said it was “assuming this is a hoax,” but that the NAACP was treating it as real, anyway. Angela Stevens, the president of the Colorado Springs NAACP, said “we are looking at this as voter intimidation…Do we believe that it’s a hoax? Personally, we do not.” The Daily Wire asked a spokeswoman for Mayor Mobolade whether he was aware of the scheme, what he thought Bernard was referring to when he said he had a “plot amidst,” why he thought Bernard “guaranteed” his victory, what they spoke about on the phone, why his campaign indicated to the NAACP that it was a hoax, why Bernard would think he was owed “favors” by Mobolade, and whether he sought or was given any. Colorado Springs spokeswoman Vanessa Zink replied with a statement from Mobolade. “That incident during my campaign led to a very traumatic time for my family, my campaign team, and our community. My knowledge and interaction with Bernard was as a local media personality, and I was not aware at the time that he was suspected of this crime. I appreciate local and federal law enforcement’s work in pursuing justice and sending a message that we will not tolerate such reprehensible behavior.” The trio is charged with making false statements and threats using interstate commerce, having used the internet to make searches like “contact news about a story,”“kkk email,” and “candidates racist acts during campaign.” Since allegedly staging the fake hate crime, Bernard was sentenced to life in prison for an unrelated murder in Texas. West is a fugitive, while Blackcloud is in custody.

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly expected to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after he is sworn into office in January. Politico reported the selection, citing a person familiar with the matter, but added that it was not set in stone and could still change. Kennedy launched a campaign for president as a Democrat in April 2023. Six months later, he ended his bid for the Democrat nomination and switched to running as an Independent candidate. Kennedy dropped out of the race in August 2024, endorsed Trump, and promised to investigate chronic health issues and what he believes is corruption within America’s health and food ecosystem. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease are the leading causes of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and the “leading drivers of the nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual health care costs.” Close to 30% of American teens are prediabetic, more than 18% of young adults have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and cancer rates among young people are rising. Experts have predicted that by 2030, almost half of United States adults will be severely obese, and data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey found that 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that President Joe Biden and his administration are “committed” to sending as much funding as possible to Ukraine in the remaining weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20, 2025. Blinken, speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, pointed to a recent “profound and incredibly dangerous development” — the movement of North Korean soldiers to aid in Russia’s war on Ukraine — and argued that it was of the utmost importance for the United States to continue supporting Ukraine’s efforts to repel the Russian troops. Blinken noted that NATO as a whole needed to deliver a “firm response” before pivoting to tout the United States’ role in that response. WATCH: BREAKING: Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces "every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed [to Ukraine] between now and January 20th" when Trump takes office. pic.twitter.com/7m6VLLfTlI — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 14, 2024 “As we’re working to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to effectively defend itself, the United States continues to step up. We’ve obligated just recently and pushed out the door another $8 billion in security assistance for Ukraine – that was in September, another almost half a billion dollars just a few weeks ago, and President Biden has committed to making sure that every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed out the door between now and January 20th,” he said. “We’re making sure that Ukraine has the air defenses it needs, that has the artillery it needs, that has the armored vehicles it needs.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ The urgency with regard to sending aid to Ukraine has been ratcheted up not only with the appearance of North Korean fighters in Russia, but with President-elect Trump’s landslide victory on November 5th, as many currently in power are concerned that Trump would not continue to send aid — particularly in the amounts that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has requested. Trump has said on a number of occasions that he could put an end to the war in as little as one day — and has also insisted that if he had been president at the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine in the first place.

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