Month: January 2020

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Dennis Lemma, who is the Sheriff in Central Florida’s Seminole County, told a group of 2^nd Amendment activists recently that he would not enforce an assault weapons ban that could soon become Florida law if the “Ban Assault Weapons Now” amendment passes in the Sunshine State.

According to News965, the ban has the following specifications.

The amendment proposed in the state legislature would ban possession of assault weapons, which are defined as “semiautomatic rifles and shotguns capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition at once, either in fixed or detachable magazine, or any other ammunition feeding device.”

Lemma, an ardent supporter of the 2^nd Amendment and a first term sheriff who is running for re-election, said this about whether or not he would enforce such a law.

“It’s not only that I wouldn’t, the majority of sheriffs across the state would not do it,” Lemma said in the video.  It’s up to the sheriffs what they are willing to enforce.”

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A suspect accused of beating his girlfriend in Harriman, New York, was released on an appearance ticket Tuesday.

Surveillance footage showed Jay Vazquez-Paulino as he confronted the young woman inside the Superior Package Company, where he worked, and allegedly began to hit her, according to Mid Hudson News.

At one point in the video, Vazquez-Paulino went outside the facility and appeared to hide a large knife in his shirt sleeve. Once he reentered the building, he allegedly threw something at the victim and punched her several times.

Moments later, the suspect tried to kick the woman as she talked on the phone. He then appeared to throw the knife onto the roof after he exited the building.

Following the incident, Harriman Village Police Chief Dan Henderson expressed his concern that New York’s criminal justice laws were protecting defendants and not the victims.

“My fear is there will be a lot of recidivism and that the victims will no longer be protected if we are not able to not only arraign, but to get bail on these subjects and put them in jail right after the incident happens,” Henderson said.

Thanks to the state’s bail reform laws that provide immediate release from jail without posting bond, suspect Tiffany Harris was freed right after she allegedly attacked three Orthodox Jewish women in December.

“Yes, I was there. Yes, I slapped them. I cursed them out. I said ‘F-U, Jews,’” she reportedly told New York police officers following her arrest.

However, Harris was charged with 21 counts of attempted assault and harassment, according to Breitbart News.

December 28, a convicted bank robber was arrested after he allegedly robbed a fourth bank in Colonie, New York.

“Then, on New Year’s Eve, Seamans was released from jail without bail thanks to New York’s newest bail reform laws,” the report said.

Tuesday, Vazquez-Paulino was charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, attempted assault, and harassment.

“The fact that it is captured on video goes further showing the strength of the case and the fact that he did have an intention to do harm here,” said Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, adding that the suspect should have been put in jail.

“The real issue here is that this gentleman was released with a ticket and given an order of protection and again is free to terrorize this woman, which in domestic cases there should be bail and situations are often used for a cooling off period to allow parties to cool off,” he concluded.

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A 16-year-old student at an Alabama high school said she started a “prayer locker” at her local high school to help her classmates out in time of need.

Brianna Farris, who attends Pell City High School, said she heard about the concept from other high schools and wanted to start a prayer locker at her own high school, the Dothan Eagle reported.

WBRC reported that the administration had no problem with her request because it was a student-initiated activity.

“Within the first week, I probably got ten prayers in the locker, which is more than I expected,” Farris said. “So, I take them home and I’d pray for them and then on Sundays, my church also has a prayer request thing. So I write the prayer requests down and put them in the basket at church.”

The locker is located outside the library, and instructions by the locker state that students can submit prayer requests anonymously.

“I keep all the prayers that I get in a little bag. So I’ll just like have them with me at all times so if it hasn’t happened yet, I can still be praying for it,” according to Farris.

Farris said school administrators were worried that people would submit mean notes in the locker instead of prayer requests, but Farris reassured them that she would pray for them anyway.

“So if someone were to write a bad note, I would still be praying for them even if they were to do something mean towards me about the prayer locker or something like that,” said Farris.

Farris said the one regret she had was that she wished she had started the prayer locker idea sooner so that she could help more people.

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Michael Horowitz

The Inspector General’s report on FISA abuse was stealth-edited after its first publication in December of 2019 to cover-up a major discrepancy of the FBI’s use of CHSs [Confidential Human Source] into the Trump campaign.

The IG report on FISA abuse has two statements on the FBI’s use of CHSs into the 2016 Trump campaign that contradict each other.

In chapter 10 of the original report, the IG claimed that the FBI didn’t use any CHSs to infiltrate Trump’s campaign prior to the FBI opening Crossfire Hurricane in July of 2016.

However, in the next chapter of the original report, the IG contradicted itself and stated that the Crossfire Hurricane team “tasked several CHSs and UCEs during the 2016 presidential campaign, which resulted in multiple interactions with Carter Page and Papadopoulos, before and after they were affiliated with the Trump campaign, and an interaction with a high-level Trump campaign official…”

This means the FBI was running spies at George Papadopoulos prior to July of 2016, an admission that Joseph Mifsud, who approached Papadopoulos is March of 2016 was probably a CHS (spy).

IG Horowitz then stealth-edited this discrepancy to cover for the FBI and possibly cover for Mifsud’s role in spying on the Trump campaign because he approached Papadopoulos very early on.

In the edited version of Horowitz’s report, the IG claimed the Crossfire Hurricane team used CHSs on Carter Page and Papadopoulos during and after the time they were affiliated with the Trump campaign.

Our friends over at The Conservative Treehouse found the discrepancies:

In chapter ten of the report, on page #312 you will find the following information. The claim is that no-one in the FBI initiated any use of “Confidential Human Sources” into the campaign prior to opening the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Read Carefully:

“In our review, we did not find any evidence that the FBI used CHSs or UCEs to interact with members of the Trump campaign prior to the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”…

However, in the very next chapter (#11, page #400), in the original IG report as released on December 9th, 2019, you will find the following statement:

The IG report was modified after publication to change this paragraph to:

“We determined that the Crossfire Hurricane team tasked several CHSs and UCEs during the 2016 presidential campaign, which resulted in multiple interactions with Carter Page and Papadopoulos, both during and after the time they were affiliated with the Trump campaign”…

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry called out Horowitz for quietly revising his key findings without any press releases and without notifying Congress and the public.

DEVELOPING: Why’s IG Horowitz quietly "revising" key findings in his report & posting new iterations of original version on IG website? Why’s he not highlighting the effectively secret revisions thru press releases & letters notifying Congress &the public of the post-pub changes?

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 16, 2020

Did Horowitz stealth-edit his report to cover for Joseph Mifsud and the FBI’s early surveillance of Page and Papadopoulos?

Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who approached Papadopoulos in the Spring of 2016 to plant a story that the Russians had Hillary’s missing State Department emails, is presumed dead….

Or is Mifsud in hiding somewhere?

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A Virginia state senator has sounded a warning bell three days before a massive rally is set to coalesce in the commonwealth’s capital.

Conservative Sen. Amanda Chase of District 11 took to Facebook on Friday with a warning for every patriot who plans to attend the pro-Second Amendment rally Monday in Richmond.

Her warning came the same week that Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued an executive order temporarily banning firearms in the Capitol Square.

“Sadly, I am posting this, knowing that the Governor of Virginia has declared a State of Emergency in our state,” Chase wrote. “I want you to be aware of how we are being set up.”

“Does the Patriot Act ring a bell? Does the National Defense Authorization Act ring a bell?”

TRENDING: Northam Declares ‘State of Emergency’ as Militias Prepare To March on Richmond

Chase argued that these laws could be used to label pro-Second Amendment activists as “domestic terrorist[s].”

Specifically, she warned those who are planning to attend wearing military fatigues or rocking militia insignia.

“The Governor, using the media has already set the stage for this to happen,” Chase wrote. “He has already laid the groundwork to make the entire movement look like insurrection.”

It’s not just militia members and those wearing camouflage who have reason to worry.

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According to Chase, even some military veterans have been flagged as potential threats.

“They are kicking things into high gear,” Chase wrote. “Military veterans were/are even listed as potential domestic terrorist.”

“We were told not once, but several times by the current President, ‘It’s Not Me they are after, It’s You, The American People.’”

Northam indeed claims to have intelligence that some of the groups attending the Monday rally will be intent on insurrection.

However, this is the first time we have seen such a dire warning from a state official like Chase.

RELATED: Virginia 2nd Amend. Activists Make Last-Ditch Effort To Avoid Ugly Clash

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Although Chase’s post could be hyperbolic, there’s no doubt that the stakes are high for the Monday event.

Despite Northam’s emergency gun ban, it’s unclear how many of the tens of thousands of expected rally attendees will obey his decree.

The Virginia Citizens Defense League and Gun Owners of America, two groups behind the massive rally, attempted to battle Northam’s order in court.

They appealed all the way to the Virginia Supreme Court, where Northam’s gun ban was upheld on Friday.

Hopefully, violence can be avoided. But with many rallygoers almost certainly unwilling to bend on their right to bear arms and Northam seemingly intent on enforcing his order with state and local police, we can only wait and see — and pray.

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Joe Gruters, a prominent Trump ally and Chairman of the the Republican Party of Florida, will hold a press conference in Florida’s capitol on Tuesday afternoon to unveil the final version of his legislation that will allow Floridians to sue social media companies for censoring their political speech.

Last year, we reported on Gruter’s plans to file the bill, which you can read below.

Florida State Sen. Joe Gruters Files Legislation To Punish Twitter and Facebook For Conservative Censorship

Often referred to as the “most banned women in the world,” it’s not surprising that Loomer has been invited to his press conference at the Florida capitol discussing the bill and the effect it could have in reeling in the mass censorship of conservatives and Trump supporters in the Sunshine State.

As you are aware, this Gateway Pundit reporter has been banned from Facebook, Twitter, Paypal for criticizing Islam and supporting President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, much like journalists turned congressional candidate Laura Loomer.

Twitter blocks Jacob Engels after tweet on Islam

If passed, the law would take effect in July of 2020.

More from Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari, who first reported the press conference.

The bill, which can be read in full at the Florida Senate website, awards a minimum of $75,000 in damages against social media companies that: “Deletes or censors the user’s religious speech or political speech; or uses an algorithm to disfavor or censure the user’s religious speech or political speech.”

The bill also prohibits social media companies from using “the social media website user’s alleged hate speech as a basis for justification or defense of the social media website’s actions at trial.”

Damages may be mitigated if a social media company “restores from deletion or removes the censoring of a social media website user’s speech in a reasonable amount of time.”

The provisions of the bill only apply to religious and political speech. It will not apply to cases where a social media user has been censored for speech that “calls for immediate acts of violence, is obscene or pornographic in nature, is the result of operational error, is the result of a court order, comes from an inauthentic source or involves false impersonation, entices criminal conduct, or involves bullying minors.”

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President Trump’s Defense Team filed its first official response to the sham impeachment on Saturday afternoon.

The six page document was filed by the 5 PM deadline on Saturday.

The President’s team called the sham articles of impeachment with zero criminal accusations a dangerous, brazen and unlawful attack on our election system.

The Trump attorneys alleged “a lawless process in the US House that violated due process and fundamental fairness.”

This trial should be exciting.
Democrats have liar Adam Schiff and a bunch of House nitwits against Trump’s legal team of seasoned lawyers.
It should be interesting watching Schiff and Democrats push their nonsense on the Trump Defense Attorneys.

NY Times reporter Maggie Haberman posted the full document on Twitter this hour.

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President Donald Trump’s legal defense team began their offensive against Democrats’ partisan impeachment on Saturday, accusng the Democrats of a “brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election.”

The remarks came in a letter to the U.S. Senate from Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow and White House lawyer Pat Cipollone, both of whom are on Trump’s legal defense team.

“The Articles of Impeachment submitted by House Democrats are a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their President,” The letter begins. “This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election-now just months away.”

The letter correctly states that Democrats’ impeachment was a “highly partisan” event as no members of the opposing party joined the Democrats and multiple Democrats broke ranks with their party over it and one Rep. Jeff Van Drew (NJ) left the Democrat Party over it and became a Republican.

“The Articles of Impeachment are constitutionally invalid on their face,” the letter continued. “They fail to allege any crime or violation of law whatsoever, let alone ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ as required by the Constitution. They are the result of a lawless process that violated basic due process and fundamental fairness. Nothing in these Articles could permit even beginning to consider removing a duly elected President or warrant nullifying an election and subverting the will of the American people.”

Trump’s legal defense team said the first Article of Impeachment must be rejected because it “fails on its face to state an impeachable offense. It alleges no crimes at all, let alone ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ as required by the Constitution. In fact, it alleges no violation of law whatsoever. House Democrats’ ‘abuse of power’ claim would do lasting damage to the separation of powers under the Constitution.”

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