Victory is sweet — literally, at Oakmont Bakery in Oakmont, PA, near Pittsburgh. The bakery has a long tradition of selling cookies with the faces of presidential candidates on them in an Election Year. And this year, the “cookie race” isn’t even close! The bakery’s Donald Trump cookies are absolutely dominating sales, at about 21,000 cookies sold so far. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris cookies are trailing at only 6,200 sales. And, get this, Kamala Harris isn’t even second place! No, that award goes to a third-party Pączki cookie, a Polish treat that the bakery has dubbed “the sweetest candidate” for people who will not be voting for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. This “sweetest treat” is beating Kamala with about 9,800 sales! Take a look: President Trump is DOMINATING cookie sales at this Pittsburgh area bakery. “We didn’t find anyone buying Harris cookies.” pic.twitter.com/bcwuYZJV2x — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 19, 2024 CBS News reported: Oakmont Bakery is once again selling election cookies with the faces of the presidential candidates on them. It has been a tradition for them since the bakery was able to print images onto cookies. “Just to sort of keep it fun and loose, we have a third-party (cookie) this year, which is the Pączki,” said Michael Sullivan, the retail manager at Oakmont Bakery. The bakery has titled that treat the “sweetest candidate.” You could say it is for those who aren’t a fan of either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Tony Serrao, the general manager of the bakery, said it just tallied up purchases of each treat on Friday. “So Donald Trump is leading at 21,000 individual cookies,” Serrao said. “Kamala Harris is at 6,200, and the sweetest candidate is about 9,800.”… KDKA-TV did not find anyone buying Harris cookies in our short time in the bakery on Friday evening. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we had a very similar report about a different bakery last month. Different bakery, same results! ANOTHER Real World Poll Shows CRUSHING Victory For President Trump Over Kamala Harris! ANOTHER Real World Poll Shows CRUSHING Victory For President Trump Over Kamala Harris! The paid pollsters are telling us this is a 50/50 race between President Trump and Kamala Harris. Some even say Kamala is leading! And yet, every "real world" poll shows the exact opposite. One by one, they're all consistent and showing wins for President Trump in the 70-90%+ range! Here's the latest.... A Philadelphia bakery near the location of tonight's debate decided to sell RED Trump cookies and BLUE Kamala cookies as a sort of "poll" among their customers. NOTE: the poll was not completely unbiased, as this is a notable "BLUE" county in prior elections. So you might expect it to skew towards Kamala. Except.....? It didn't. NOT. EVEN. CLOSE. Nope, with 4,228 cookies sold for President Trump and only 369 (!!) for Kamala, President Trump has a commanding 91.97% victory margin! Take a look: A Philadelphia-area bakery not far from where the debate is being held tonight is selling special Trump and Kamala cookies during election season. These are the total sales so far: Trump: 4,228 Kamala: 369 This is a blue county too pic.twitter.com/6r84U7jUqp — johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 10, 2024 Interestingly, this bakery has done this "informal poll" in each of the last 4 elections and their polling has accurately predicted the winner of the election in all but ONE year. Care you guess which one they (allegedly) got wrong? Of course, it was 2020. And I'm not sure sure they don't actually have a perfect 4 for 4 streak: The bakery has hosted this informal poll since 2012, predicting the outcome of three of the last four elections. Their winning streak came to an end in 2020 when the final cookie tally put Trump in the lead with 31,804 cookies over Biden's 5,750. If this isn’t undeniable proof… pic.twitter.com/pMjo83hT1k — AlphaFo? (@Alphafox78) September 10, 2024 Here is a picture of the tally on the wall showing the count: Full screen video player here: The bakery has hosted this informal poll since 2012, predicting the outcome of three of the last four elections. Their winning streak came to an end in 2020 when the final cookie tally put Trump in the lead with 31,804 cookies over Biden's 5,750. If this isn’t undeniable proof… pic.twitter.com/pMjo83hT1k — AlphaFo? (@Alphafox78) September 10, 2024 I mentioned at the top this was NOT an isolated incident. In fact, I seem to be covering about one of these each day recently. Here are the most recent ones: HILARIOUS: The Krassensteins FACE-PLANT Again! (NEW Article, Not a Repeat!) No one ever accused the Krassenstein Brothers of being geniuses (or even just of being "smart") but this is bad even by their standards! A couple of days I brought you a report on Ed Krassenstein posting this very biased poll on Twitter only to have it backfire right in his face with 72% of his followers (which you have to assume lean Democrat) saying they're voting TRUMP! You'd think at that point you'd leave well enough alone, but what does Genius #2 in the Krassenstein family do? Brian says "hold my beer" -- let me try! Famous last words. Here is Brian's poll and below I'll screenshot the results: Who are you voting for? — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 8, 2024 As of press time for this article, the poll still has 2 days to go, but with almost 71,000 votes, it's a near clone of brother Ed's poll, which has TRUMP securing over 71% of the vote: Hey dunces, you can run these as often as you want, the results aren't going to change. Actually, please do keep running them because you're proving exactly what we all already know: the MSM and the "pollsters" are lying to us, claiming it's a 50/50 race between Trump and Harris. It ain't even close folks! Get out and vote like your life depends on it (because it does), but President Trump holds a COMMANDING lead if the truth were known. And that truth seeps out each time these guys run their polls. But it's not just them.... Fellow "genius" Mark Cuban also face palmed, see his below: ANOTHER Far-Left Poll Backfires In Spectacular Fashion On Twitter! These Far-Left "influencers" must be gluttons for punishment because you'd really think they'd wise up and stop sticking their hand on the hot stove....but so far they haven't. And for my selfish amusement, I hope none of them ever stop, because this is pure comedy! Also, it's sending a massive red flashing warning to the world about how America REALLY leans politically and Spoiler Alert -- it is NOT a near 50/50 tie between Trump and Kamala. Not even close. Nope, according to polls ran by the Far-Left Krassensteins, Kamala honk Mark Cuban, and even independent journo Sharyl Attkisson, the Country is united....under President Trump. Little Ed Krassenstein posted this poll today and blasted it out to his 1M Followers on Twitter. I don't follow Ed because I couldn't stomach all the BS, so it would be reasonable to assume that most of the people who follow him like and agree with him, which you'd think would make them Democrat Kamala Harris supporters. But to juice the results a bit, Ed labeled Kamala as "Prosecutor" and Trump as "Felon". Very fair and balanced Ed! Who are you voting for in 2024? — Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) September 6, 2024 But even with all of those things seemingly in his favor, the results as of press time of this article have 72.1% of people hitting the FELON button! And yours truly was one. That is with over 65,000 votes already taken, so it's not as if it's a skewed small sample. You just gotta love it! But as I said, this isn't the first time this has happened. Let me show you two other gems... MUST SEE: Another Poll Backfires Spectacularly On Twitter In Mark Cuban's Face! A few days ago, I brought you this report showing very surprising poll results from an "independent" former-CNN reporter. The results were not only not what you might expect but far greater than you might expect: MUST SEE: New Presidential Poll Ran By Independent Journalist Has STUNNING Result Today I want to show you something similar... Mark Cuban was feeling cute and thought he would post a poll pitting Trump against Kamala and he assumed that all of his followers of course thought exactly like he does (which is to said a Far-Left ideologue). Cuban presents himself as the "smartest guy in any room" and yet he keeps having bad takes about our country and politics.  REALLY bad takes. And he keeps getting proven wrong by the masses. This was just the latest example, but man is it glorious.... Instead of running a "who are you voting for" poll, Cuban thought he'd get better results by asking "Who's persona and character would you like to see young children grow up to have:" thinking that he'd get more Kamala votes that way. Turns out most of his followers have way more common sense than he does and they see that even thought President Trump might do "Mean Tweets" and might have some "locker room talk" from time to time, most of America identifies with him because he's genuine and real and has heart and true character -- despite what Mark Cuban and the MSM try to brainwash you to think. America sees right through it: Who’s persona and character would you like to see young children grow up to have: — Mark Cuban (@mcuban) August 31, 2024 Screenshot if needed: What a beautiful thing! Mark, phrase the question however you want, but American LOVES Trump. We think Kamala is a vapid, brain-dead FAKE and PHONY. Let me put it in basketball terms you might understand:  Scoreboard.  Look up at it. RELATED REPORT: MUST SEE: New Presidential Poll Ran By Independent Journalist Has STUNNING Result This is truly a must see.... First let me set the stage so you understand why I am so blown away by this. Let me introduce you to Sharyl Attkisson, an independent journalist with a pretty incredible career working in the heart of the belly of the "Mainstream Media" beast. I knew of her but didn't really know much about her until now. Here's her Twitter profile where she has over 500,000 followers (a very large following): The winner of 5 Emmys (no small feat) and a very impressive bio which includes working at CBS, PCB and CNN.  Here's a short bio: Sharyl Attkisson is a nonpartisan investigative journalist, five-time Emmy Award winner, and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting. She is the NYT bestselling author of Slanted: How the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism; The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think and How You Vote, and Stonewalled. She is host, investigative reporter, and managing editor of the Sunday morning national TV news program, Sinclair’s “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” which feeds to 43+ million US households each week and focuses on investigative and accountability reporting. Her new book, Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails can be pre-ordered now (Harper Collins 09/04/2024). For thirty years, Attkisson was a correspondent and anchor at CBS News, PBS, CNN and in local news. In 2013, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for her reporting on :The Business of Congress,” which included an undercover investigation into fundraising by Republican freshmen. She received two other Emmy nominations in 2013 for “Benghazi: Dying for Security” and “Green Energy Going Red.” Additionally, Attkisson received a 2013 Daytime Emmy Award as part of the CBS Sunday Morning team’s entry for Outstanding Morning Program for her report: “Washington Lobbying: K-Street Behind Closed Doors.” In September 2012, Attkisson received the Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting for the “Gunwalker: Fast and Furious” story. As I said, an impressive bio, but what's more impressive to me for the reason I'm about to show you is this is not some Far-Right Fox News reporter. This is a former CNN reporter with an extremely mainstream following. And THAT is why this caught my eye so much.... Three days ago she asked her followers who they're voting for, and you might have thought it would be close to 50/50, right? After all, isn't that what the MSM tells us? They keep telling us it's tied or Kamala is even UP in some polls. And yet that's not how Attkisson's poll turned out. Not even close. 96% for Trump! Take a look: Who will you vote for now? — Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) August 25, 2024 Screenshot here if needed: Folks, this is not Don Jr. running a poll or even Elon Musk running a poll. This is an independent journalist, formerly with CNN. And it just can back 96% for Trump! I believe this poll. What about you? Can you say LANDSLIDE WIN incoming?

Rose O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea has just been arrested after her 11-month old baby son was found by police in a dirty drug home full of meth pipes, feces, and trash. She is being charged with four felony counts of child neglect, maintaining a drug trafficking place, possession of meth, and possession of THC. Here’s what’s being reported: Chelsea O’Donnell, 27, the eldest adopted daughter of comedian Rosie O’Donnell, of #Marinette #Wisconsin, has been arrested & charged with multiple felonies including child neglect, maintaining a drug trafficking place, & possession of methamphetamine after police found her… pic.twitter.com/9oSSfELTy2 — True Crime Updates (@TrueCrimeUpdat) October 19, 2024 BREAKING: Liberal Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter has been arrested for child neglect after baby found near meth pipe in Wisconsin. Rosie O’Donnell’s eldest daughter has been charged with child neglect after police found her 11-month-old son in a home full of meth pipes, feces,… pic.twitter.com/PJBYXemC5m — Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) October 19, 2024 JUST IN : Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter arrested for child neglect after baby found near meth pipe Charged with child neglect after police found her 11-month-old son in a home full of meth pipes, feces, and garbage. Chelsea Belle O’Donnell, 27, was charged with four… pic.twitter.com/GwPjPPIcT5 — Culture War (@CultureWar2020) October 19, 2024   Page Six reported: Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea Belle O’Donnell was arrested for child neglect and possession of drugs after police reportedly found her 11-month-old son near a meth pipe last month. The 27-year-old was charged on Sept. 17 with four felony counts of maintaining a drug trafficking place, child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and THC, the latter of which is commonly found in cannabis, according to court docs obtained by In Touch Friday. She was reportedly also hit with two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct/domestic abuse and possession of illegally obtained prescription drugs. Chelsea was arrested and charged after officers visited her home in Marinette, Wisc., on Sept. 10 due to a dispute she had with her boyfriend, Jacob Nelund, that promoted her to call police, the docs state. While on the phone, dispatchers could reportedly hear a woman telling another person to “get the hell away.” Upon arrival, police noted Chelsea’s pupils were “dilated” and that she “was not being honest whatsoever.” The officer who documented the visit also said he had been called to the home for a “similar incident” weeks prior and experienced the same situation. A spokesperson for Rose O’Donnell says her daughter’s arrested is no surprise: the family has known about her drug addiction for awhile. From Fox News: Rosie O’Donnell’s eldest daughter, Chelsea Belle O’Donnell, was arrested on charges of child neglect and drug possession. “Sadly, this is not new for our family – Chelsea has struggled with drug addiction for a decade,” Rosie’s rep told Fox News Digital. When asked what Rosie’s current relationship with her daughter Chelsea is, they did not mention it in their response but sent their well-wishes during this difficult time. “We are all hopeful she will find her way out of this deadly disease,” the O’Donnell family shared. According to court docs obtained by Fox News Digital, Chelsea, 27, was charged with multiple felony counts including possession of methamphetamine, possession of narcotic drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, bail jumping and resisting or obstructing an officer on Oct. 14. So, like X user Jennifer Coffindafer, I have to ask, where was Rosie while her grandson was being neglected by his drug-addicted mother? We often ask in cases of child abuse and neglect – Where is the family? Why didn’t the extended family intercede? Does the family not have time or money? While #RosieODonnell is spending her time campaigning for the release of two men who shot their mother 10 times, including in… pic.twitter.com/zpFO2zJTmR — Jennifer Coffindaffer (@CoffindafferFBI) October 19, 2024 This whole story is just sad and sickening. Please pray for this poor baby boy.

Oakmont Bakery, a bakery near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, held its tradition of selling cookies with the faces of presidential candidates. It has been a tradition for the bakery shop since they could place images onto cookies. Instead of having only Trump and Harris cookies, Oakmont Bakery decided to include a third-party candidate. “Just to sort of keep it fun and loose, we have a third-party (cookie) this year, which is the Pączki,” Michael Sullivan, the retail manager at Oakmont Bakery, commented. According to KDKA-TV, the bakery named it the ‘sweetest candidate.’ President Trump has dominated the cookie sales at the bakery. “We didn’t find anyone buying Harris cookies,” the outlet said. WATCH: President Trump is DOMINATING cookie sales at this Pittsburgh area bakery. "We didn't find anyone buying Harris cookies." pic.twitter.com/bcwuYZJV2x — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 19, 2024 KDKA-TV reports: Tony Serrao, the general manager of the bakery, said it just tallied up purchases of each treat on Friday. “So Donald Trump is leading at 21,000 individual cookies,” Serrao said. “Kamala Harris is at 6,200, and the sweetest candidate is about 9,800.” While some customers who were buying Trump cookies said they hoped it was a good sign going into the election, the cookie tally got the result of the election wrong in 2020. “The cookies can’t predict the election,” Serrao said. Barb Gerding said they found the cookies to be neat. She bought the Trump cookies. “I had to get my mom one because she’s 87 years old and she loves Trump,” Gerding said. KDKA-TV did not find anyone buying Harris cookies in our short time in the bakery on Friday evening. Trump DOMINATING Election Cookie Sales at Pittsburgh Bakery – Trump Leading with 21,000 Cookies – Kamala Harris in THIRD PLACE at Only 6,200 https://t.co/8WiLaACy6o pic.twitter.com/btNmMujJKx — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 19, 2024 President Trump will hold a rally Saturday evening at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Westmoreland County, approximately 44 miles from Pittsburgh. Trump will spend the weekend traveling around the battleground state. Per CBS News: Trump is set to deliver remarks at the campaign event at the airport in Unity Township at 6 p.m. The gates opened at 2 p.m., and hundreds of people flooded to their seats. Before Trump took the stage, former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown gave a short speech in support of the former president. Brown talked about how both he and Trump have overcome adversity. Saturday is set to be Trump’s latest visit to Western Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, he held a rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds, the same place where he was the victim of an assassination attempt in July. Trump is expected to traverse Pennsylvania this weekend. After Saturday’s rally in Westmoreland County, he is expected to work as a fry cook at a McDonald’s on Sunday after claiming multiple times that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has lied about working at McDonald’s in college. He is then scheduled to host a town hall at the Lancaster Convention Center in Southern Pennsylvania on Sunday. He is expected to finish his day in Western Pennsylvania at the Pittsburgh Steelers-New York Jets game at Acrisure Stadium.

Tennessee 5-year-old, Isaac Ihben, was diagnosed with severe regressive autism after a judge mandated that he receive 18 vaccines in a single day. According to Isaac’s father, the symptoms appeared almost immediately after the vaccinations. [...] The post 5-Year-Old Diagnosed with Severe Autism After Judge Mandates 18 Vaccines in One Day appeared first on The People's Voice.

Clinton operative Franklin Foer of the Russiagate and the Alfa Bank hoax is at fake news outlet The Atlantic trying to destroy Elon Musk with a story of his own invention. Elon is getting the Donald Trump treatment. Franklin Foer wrote and posted the Alfa Bank story on October 31, 2016, published by the hard-left […] The post Russiagate/Alfa Bank Hoaxer Creating Fake News About Elon appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A brutal crew of child Tren de Aragua migrant gangbangers at a city-funded Manhattan shelter are pulling off armed robberies in Times Square. They’re getting away with it. Nearly two dozen young migrant thugs, some as young as 11 years old, are part of the dangerous fake asylum-seekers. Democrats want to give citizenship to. They […] The post Tren de Aragua Migrant Gangkids Get Away With Armed Robbery appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former President Donald Trump has taken the lead in every battleground state, according to polling averages calculated by RealClear Polling. Since Thursday, Trump has been edging out Vice President Kamala Harris in the vital battlegrounds; his overall average lead in the states increased by +0.3 by Saturday. In Arizona, Trump is performing his best, up by 1.8 points, followed by Georgia (+1.7), North Carolina (+1.0), and Michigan (+0.9). The former president also holds leads in Nevada (+0.8), Pennsylvania (+0.5), and Wisconsin, where the lead is extremely tight, at +0.1. RealClear Polling calculates the average of numerous polls, including The New York Time/Siena College, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill/Emerson, the Trafalgar Group, and others. RCP’s average for national polls shows Harris ahead 49.2%-47.9% as of Saturday. But the site’s Electoral College page shows Trump being favored to win 219 electoral votes, Harris being favored to get 215 electoral votes, and 104 electoral votes labeled as “toss ups.” And with RCP’s “No Toss-up” option, Trump leads Harris 312-226 after Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, and Pennsylvania started to lean toward the GOP over the past few weeks. In another positive sign for the Trump team, Democrats down-ballot in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan are boasting of their ties to Trump, according to a report from Axios. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 Moreover, betting markets have Trump up. Polymarket’s election forecast has Trump up 59.9% to Harris’ 40.1%. The forecast shows Trump up in every battleground state, and topping Harris by double-digit margins in Georgia and Arizona. Harris is favored to win the popular vote, according to Polymarket, up 69% compared to Trump’s 31%. A report from Forbes, though, says there are positive signs for VP Harris and Democrats, too. Early voting for black Americans in Michigan, for example, is up 2.6% compared to 2020. While Harris is struggling to capture minority voters like past Democrats, she’s still predicted to have a significant lead. Additionally, an estimated 12 million Americans have already cast their ballots in this year’s election, and according to data from TargetSmart, around 5.68 million Democrats have voted, compared to 4.35 million Republicans. About 2 million voters identified as “other” have cast their ballots as well. Of course, it remains unclear how the trends will continue as we near Election Day. Daniel Chaitin contributing to this report. Related: Not Just The Betting Markets: Trump Takes Lead In Battleground State Polling

Top U.S. officials are worried about a potential mole inside the Intelligence Community after top secret documents were posted on pro-Iranian social media accounts that allegedly showed what U.S. spy satellites detected happening inside Israel as the country prepares to strike Iran. A pro-Iran Telegram account published the U.S. intelligence documents about Israel’s alleged preparations for their attack against Iran, which has been in planning for three weeks. Axios reported: The report, if accurate, would suggest very close and detailed surveillance by U.S. intelligence of Israel’s preparations for an attack on Iran, including the use of satellites to spy on operations carried out at Israeli Air Force bases. The report said that the leak could be an attempt to disrupt the forthcoming strike. The Department of Defense and Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not dispute the authenticity of the documents, the report said. The documents showed an alleged summary of what U.S. spy satellites observed the Israeli military doing earlier in the week as it prepared for the operation, the report said. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 Satellites captured movements by the Israel Air Force (IAF), including planes that were moved, munitions that were prepared, and “a large exercise” that it executed this week in preparation for the strike. Officials were “extremely concern[ed]” about what appeared to be a “very serious security breach within the U.S. intelligence community,” the report said. Top Israeli officials said that they were aware of the development and that they were taking the matter “very seriously.” The development comes after an alleged Iranian spy ring was busted inside the Biden-Harris administration last year. Top Republican members of Congress revealed earlier this year that the Biden-Harris administration’s special envoy to Iran, who is under federal criminal investigation, allegedly transferred classified material to his personal email and cell phone, at which point they were stolen by a hostile foreign actor. The revelation about Robert Malley, Biden’s now-suspended special envoy to Iran, comes after a report published in Tablet Magazine last October said that he was linked to an “Iranian spy ring” that was operating to shift U.S. policy to favor the Islamic nation. The FBI’s criminal investigation into Malley’s handling of classified material surfaced last summer after he was placed on leave without pay by the State Department. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member James Risch (R-ID) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) wrote a letter this week to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing their frustration with the Department’s “lack of responsiveness to our requests for information needed to conduct appropriate oversight.” Included in the letter was the following revelation: Specifically, we understand that Mr. Malley’s security clearance was suspended because he allegedly transferred classified documents to his personal email account and downloaded these documents to his personal cell phone. It is unclear to whom he intended to provide these documents, but it is believed that a hostile cyber actor was able to gain access to his email and/or phone and obtain the downloaded information. Malley was accused in the Tablet report of advancing several operatives in the suspected Iranian spy ring, including helping an alleged Iranian asset named Ariane Tabatabai infiltrate her way into “some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government,” including at the State Department and Pentagon. The operation began in 2014 when Iran created the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI), a propaganda and influence operation that recruited top talent from Iranians living abroad to help Iran obtain a favorable nuclear deal. The group reported to an official from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which is a terrorist organization, and Iran’s then-Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was also reportedly involved. The report, headlined “High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted In Washington,” stated: The contents of the emails are damning, showing a group of Iranian American academics being recruited by the Iranian regime, meeting together in foreign countries to receive instructions from top regime officials, and pledging their personal loyalty to the regime. They also show how these operatives used their Iranian heritage and Western academic positions to influence U.S. policy toward Iran, first as outside “experts” and then from high-level U.S. government posts. Both inside and outside of government, the efforts of members of this circle were repeatedly supported and advanced by Malley, who served as the U.S. government’s chief interlocutor with Iran under both the Obama and the Biden administrations. Malley is also the former head of the International Crisis Group (ICG), which directly paid and credentialed several key members of the regime’s influence operation. Retired CIA analyst Peter Theroux, who was with the agency for 25 years, told the outlet, “I know what a spy network looks like.” “This is how recruited assets speak to their handling officers,” he said. “There’s lots of the mood music around that correspondence saying, let me know what you need me to collect. It seems clear who’s the subordinate here — what you’d call responsive to tasking.” Theroux noted that for someone like Tabatabai to receive even the most basic security clearance from the U.S. government, she would be so thoroughly examined that it would be impossible that the Biden administration did not know about her connections to Iran. “The hoops you have to jump through to get a bare-bones top secret clearance even without compartments or special access programs are enormous,” he said. “They grill you on your foreign contacts. Contacts with any foreign government raise more red flags than Bernie Sanders’ honeymoon. Contacts with senior officials from enemy governments, classified as non-frat governments like Russia, China, Cuba, as well as Iran, are in a different category altogether — what would normally be totally disqualifying.” McCaul suggested last summer that Malley may have committed treason. Related: Iran Has Made Nearly $200 Billion In Illegal Oil Sales Under Biden-Harris

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Saturday night to an assassination attempt on his wife by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists, calling the decision to go after him and his wife a serious mistake that the group would pay for. “The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake,” he said. “This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.” “I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil: Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price,” he continued. “We will continue to eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them.” I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil: Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price. We will continue to eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them. — Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 19, 2024 He said that the attack would not stop Israel from getting the hostages back from Hamas inside Gaza, nor would it stop Israeli citizens from eventually returning to their homes in the northern part of the country. “Israel is determined to achieve all our war objectives and change the security reality in our region for generations to come,” he added. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 Hezbollah launched three drones as part of the attack on Saturday morning. Israeli helicopters managed to shoot down two of the drones, but the third evaded being destroyed. Some reports suggested that the drone hit a building near his home, however, one photo posted online showed damage at a residence that appeared to be his home. This marks the first time since the current Islamic war against Israel erupted just over a year ago that Netanyahu has been directly targeted, according to Israeli correspondent Barak Ravid. The attacks come after Hezbollah vowed this week to escalate its war against Israel after Israel terminated the leader of Iranian-backed Hamas terror group, Yahya Sinwar, on the battlefield this week. Sinwar was the mastermind of Hamas’ October 7 attacked in which 1,200 people inside Israel were murdered. Related: U.S. Intel On Israeli Military Plans For Iran Leaked From Biden-Harris Admin: Report

The following is an edited transcript of an interview between Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley and Jim Campbell, chief legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom on a Saturday Extra Edition of Morning Wire. For 12 years, Colorado cake shop owner Jack Phillips has been embroiled in bruising legal battles with the state and an activist attorney to uphold his First Amendment right to not create messages that violate his religious beliefs. A recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court in Phillips’ favor may be the end of that lengthy legal saga. In this episode, we sit down with Jim Campbell, chief legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been representing Phillips, to discuss the conclusion and implications of the free speech case. * * * JOHN: Joining us now is Jim Campbell, chief legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been representing Jack Phillips during his lengthy legal saga, which many are hoping has now come to an end. Jim, thanks so much for coming on. JIM: Thank you. JOHN: Jack has been in courts fighting for his freedom of speech for twelve years now, during which time he’s faced several lawsuits. First, can you give us a brief history of those lawsuits – who filed them and what were their motivations? JIM: So, the first lawsuit was filed back in 2012. It was filed by two gentlemen who went into Jack Phillips’ shop and asked for a custom wedding cake celebrating a same sex union. He declined that request because he couldn’t do it in good conscience, celebrate that message, and they filed a discrimination complaint with the State of Colorado. The State of Colorado then brought charges against Jack and that case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court back in 2018, when the court issued a ruling that found that the state acted with hostility towards Jack’s faith and it threw out the case that was brought against him. So that was the first case. The second case actually started the first day that the Supreme Court announced it was going to hear that first case. There was an attorney in Colorado who had heard the news and called Jack’s shop and asked him to create a custom pink and blue cake to symbolize and celebrate a gender transition. Jack declined to make that cake because, again, that message celebrating a gender transition was something he couldn’t in good conscience do. So then that attorney who made that phone call filed another discrimination complaint against Jack. That case then started when the state of Colorado picked it up and brought charges against Jack. Rather than sit back and allow that to happen, Jack filed a lawsuit against the state in federal court for, again, acting with hostility towards his faith. And then after a few months, the state agreed to settle that case. And that case was settled. And then the third case started, which was another lawsuit by that same attorney who requested the cake celebrating the gender transition. And that was the case that was just decided recently by the Colorado Supreme Court. Jack Phillips. Alliance Defending Freedom. JOHN: What do we know about this activist lawyer who brought these two cases against him? JIM: Well, this activist lawyer first called Jack’s shop back in 2012 when news first broke about his decision not to create the cake celebrating a same sex wedding. This individual called Jack a “hypocrite” and referred to Jack as a “bigot.” And then you fast forward six years later and the request is then brought asking for a pink and blue cake celebrating a gender transition. Right around that same time, that attorney made another request for a cake depicting Satan smoking marijuana. So, one thing that’s very clear is this attorney does not like Jack Phillips and is trying to harass Jack Phillips and make his life difficult. LISTEN: Catch the full interview on Morning Wire. JOHN: So there’s evidence that at least this attorney specifically is targeting Jack, and the state was also deemed to be acting in a hostile way against him. Can you unpack that for us a bit more? JIM: Yes, so the U. S. Supreme Court back in 2018 found that the State of Colorado is acting with hostility towards Jack’s faith. And it pointed to a couple different things. The first is that when the state was reviewing Jack’s case, there were a number of government officials that disparaged his beliefs and compared his beliefs to the beliefs of people that basically instituted the Holocaust. And the Supreme Court also found that Jack was being treated differently than other cake artists in the state. So there were other cake shops that were asked to create cakes that were either denigrating LGBT messages, and they declined to do so, and the state didn’t punish them. But when Jack declined to create a cake celebrating a same sex wedding, he was punished. So the Supreme Court said that this unequal treatment and these disparaging comments about Jack’s faith showed that the State of Colorado was acting with hostility towards his beliefs. JOHN: All right, so now all these years later, we have this Colorado Supreme Court ruling. And many people are saying, look, this is the end of the legal battle against Jack Phillips. What exactly did the Supreme Court rule, and is it really the end? JIM: The Colorado Supreme Court found that this attorney that brought the lawsuit did so using the wrong procedure, so they kicked the case out for that procedural reason. We’re hopeful this is the end of the road for Jack – that people will leave him alone, that the government of Colorado will leave him alone, that activists in the state will stop harassing him with requests simply to gin up lawsuits to be able to bring against him. But ultimately we have to wait and see. I mean, our position is: Enough is enough – let’s leave Jack alone and let him live his life consistent with his religious beliefs. And the other thing that a lot of people miss about Jack is that Jack serves everyone. He serves all customers, he serves all people, but he can’t create a cake that expresses all messages. If a message conflicts with his religious beliefs, he can’t do that, but he’ll serve everyone. He serves people from the LGBT community, that’s not an issue for him. It’s only when someone — anyone — asks for something expressing a message that he disagrees with. pawel.gaul. Getty Images. JOHN: Is there any chance that this ruling is appealed? JIM: This ruling cannot be appealed because it is a question of Colorado state law and the Colorado Supreme Court is the highest authority on that issue. So this case is final, and Jack hopefully can now put behind him 12 years of non-stop litigation against him. JOHN: Now you guys have obviously worked closely with Jack over these years. How has this impacted him personally? Has this done a lot of damage financially, professionally? JIM: It has undermined his business in many ways. He was forced to give up his wedding business as a result of the first case, and he still hasn’t brought that back. So it has been difficult from a financial perspective because the wedding aspect of his business was a significant part. It’s also been hard on him and his family personally because they’ve experienced death threats, hostility, people coming into their shop and yelling very, very hateful messages at them. So that’s been difficult. But in the end, one thing that Jack always talks about is that this has really drawn his family closer and it has given them an appreciation in their faith, in their faith in a way that they didn’t have before. So there certainly has been some good that has come of it. But 12 years of your life just absolutely devoured by litigation and activists coming after you and state officials acting with hostility towards your faith is sure to take its toll. JOHN: The legacy media has covered these cases at times over the course of the years. Do you feel that there’s anything that’s been missing from their coverage? What has been not emphasized enough about the nature of these cases? JIM: They want to make this a story about Jack not serving people, when it’s really a story about Jack not wanting to express and celebrate certain messages. That’s something that is absolutely lost, when many in the media talk about Jack’s case. And that’s something that we try to be very, very clear about. Jack serves everyone. Doesn’t matter who you are. The question is: what are you asking him to communicate through that custom cake? And if it’s a message that conflicts with his beliefs, then it’s not something he’s able to do. JOHN: Does this string of cases impact precedent in terms of legal expectations for people across the country in any way? JIM: I think one of the cases that’s in the background in all of these matters is one that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court just last year, called 303 Creative. And the 303 Creative case involved a graphic designer, and in that case the graphic designer objected to creating a custom web page celebrating a same sex wedding. And the Supreme Court said that the state of Colorado couldn’t force her to do that. That principle is very, very important, and it’s a principle that provides lasting protection, not only for graphic designers, like the one in that case, but also for custom cake artists like Jack Phillips, as well as wedding photographers – and many others. So, I think that that case, 303 Creative, provides significant ongoing protection for creative professionals that want to operate consistent with their beliefs and don’t want to be forced to express messages that they disagree with. But in terms of this decision from the Colorado Supreme Court in Jack’s most recent case, it really just decides a question of Colorado state procedure. But it’s the 303 Creative decision that provides that lasting protection. JOHN: Now that 303 Creative was another one of the cases you guys were involved with. Do you have other cases in the works now that are similar to Jack Phillips’ cases? JIM: In terms of others ongoing we have another one right now where we represent a wedding photographer in New York State. She’s a wedding photographer who doesn’t want to be forced to create images that celebrate events or express messages that conflict with her beliefs – and that case is ongoing there. We represent a wedding photographer in Louisville, Kentucky, who has a similar case, where she raises similar arguments that she doesn’t want to be forced to express messages that she disagrees with. So, this is an ongoing issue. There is more for federal courts to decide. And we’re hopeful that they will follow what the U.S. Supreme Court said in 303 Creative, which is these creative professionals can’t be forced to express messages that they disagree with. LISTEN: Catch the full interview on Morning Wire. JOHN: Final question, stepping back a bit here. What is the larger takeaway, in your view, from this string of cases against Jack Phillips and their results? JIM: I think it shows that there’s a lot of hostility towards people of faith. The government didn’t need to pick up this first case and treat it, Jack differently than it was treating other cake artists, but it did. And the only reason that we can come up with for why they would do that is the hostility towards his beliefs. The reason why this activist attorney concocted this request to ask for a custom cake celebrating a gender transition was because of hostility towards Jack’s faith. So at the end of the day, I believe what these cases show is that there’s a lot of hostility for people that simply want to quietly live their life consistent with their beliefs, and that’s unfortunate. And we hope that this is the end of the road for people doing that to Jack Phillips. And we hope more broadly that people throughout our society see that we should be allowing people to live according to their beliefs, and we don’t need to be harassing them and discriminating against them when they do it. JOHN: Well, Jim, thank you so much for coming on to discuss these important cases. JIM: Thank you. JOHN: That was Jim Campbell, chief legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom – and this has been a Saturday Extra edition of Morning Wire.