A military jury has found Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher not guilty on almost all counts, including the killing of a wounded ISIS fighter.
He was only found guilty on one count related to taking a photo of the ISIS fighter’s corpse, which carries a maximum sentence of four months, sources told Breitbart News.
As Gallagher has served nine months in pre-trial confinement, it is likely he will not serve any time in jail at all, sources said.
There were five Marines and two sailors on the jury, including one Navy SEAL.
On Tuesday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican, announced that the state would be withdrawing financial incentives promised to Nike over the company dropping an American flag-style shoe, reportedly at the behest of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
“The Betsy Ross Flag” edition shoe was kicked to the curb by the athletic gear giant after Kaepernick complained about the new sneakers, allegedly calling them “offensive.” The former QB, who famously took a knee during the playing of the national anthem before NFL games, claiming to protest police brutality and racial injustices, signed a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with Nike, last year.
“Words cannot express my disappointment at this terrible decision. I am embarrassed for Nike,” Gov. Ducey posted in a string of tweets on Tuesday morning. “Nike is an iconic American brand and American company. This country, our system of government and free enterprise have allowed them to prosper and flourish.”
Nike is an iconic American brand and American company. This country, our system of government and free enterprise have allowed them to prosper and flourish. 4/
“Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation’s independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism,” the thread continued. “It is a shameful retreat for the company. American businesses should be proud of our country’s history, not abandoning it.”
It is a shameful retreat for the company. American businesses should be proud of our country’s history, not abandoning it. 6/
“Nike has made its decision, and now we’re making ours,” announced Ducey. “I’ve ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to withdraw all financial incentive dollars under their discretion that the State was providing for the company to locate here. Arizona’s economy is doing just fine without Nike. We don’t need to suck up to companies that consciously denigrate our nation’s history.”
Arizona’s economy is doing just fine without Nike. We don’t need to suck up to companies that consciously denigrate our nation’s history. 8/
“And finally, it shouldn’t take a controversy over a shoe for our kids to know who Betsy Ross is. A founding mother. Her story should be taught in all American schools. In the meantime, it’s worth googling her,” the Republican concluded.
And finally, it shouldn’t take a controversy over a shoe for our kids to know who Betsy Ross is. A founding mother. Her story should be taught in all American schools. In the meantime, it’s worth googling her. 9/9
The shoe protested by Kaepernick included a U.S. flag with 13 white stars in a circle on the heel of the sneaker, “a design created during the American Revolution and commonly referred to as the Betsy Ross flag,” noted The Wall Street Journal in a Monday report.
Nike reportedly planned on investing $185 million to open a manufacturing facility in Goodyear, AZ, which would employ about 500 people, according to city records, the Journal noted, adding that the Goodyear City Council, on Monday, “approved a package of incentives that would reimburse the company about $1 million in planning fees and about $4,000 per full-time employee Nike hires, according to city records.”
Veteran actor Jon Voight joined the Fox & Friends couch Friday morning and spoke about his intention to attend the pro-freedom, anti-socialist “Rally for Freedom” alongside Gold Star moms at the U.S. Capitol lawn July 4.
Although the Democrat Party appears to be moving in the direction of socialism, not everyone in Hollywood is jumping on board. Actor Jon Voight, an outspoken conservative, talked about his intention to stand alongside Gold Star families at a freedom rally next week. He said he often looks for something to do on patriotic holidays and said Moms for America’s invitation answered his prayer.
“There’s no greater honor than to stand with these moms who have lost their loved ones who sacrificed for our country, for our freedoms, and who love and honor and respect our nation,” he said while sitting next to Gold Star mom Karen Vaughn.
Her son, a Navy SEAL named Aaron Carson, lost his life in 2011.
“He [Trump] is rebuilding the nation my son gave his life for. I feel like our country was rescued in November of 2016 from I don’t even know what, and I will fight with my last breath to get him re-elected in 2020,” she said.
“If they knew anything about the Second World War, they’d know that socialism is a disaster It’s never produced anything anywhere in the world. It’s an economic sinkhole, but it also produces nothing but misery and violence,” Voight added.
The actor was also asked to respond to a snarky tweet from left-wing actress turned activist Alyssa Milano.
“Now I understand why Republicans like to discredit actors and our political views,” she said in a response to a quote showing Voight praising President Trump.
Now I understand why Republicans like to discredit actors and our political views.
“Stay in your lane, Jon!” “Has been!” “F-lister trying to stay relevant!” “Nobody cares what an out of touch actor thinks!” https://t.co/LcIGgBO9az
“I have sympathy for people that are in ignorance. It doesn’t scare me. Ignorance doesn’t scare me. I was like that myself. I just root for everybody to come to the truth,” Voight said.
This isn’t going to end well — for somebody. Just as Thursday’s Democratic primary debate was getting started, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made a declaration that should have had all adult Americans reaching for their wallets. And Democrats of a certain age getting very scary flashbacks from the past. Under questioning from NBC’s Savannah Guthrie,…
Contrary to liberal talking points, conservatives understand the plight of migrants attempting to cross the southern border. We understand that parents in Central America and Mexico often can’t provide their children the life they want for them, so they risk it all by trekking hundreds or thousands of miles in an attempt to reach the…
Google intends to intervene in the 2020 presidential election in an effort to thwart President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, according to a new report from Project Veritas.
The accusation comes after one of Google’s executives, Jen Gennai, was recorded admitting that Google was focused on “never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.”
Gennai said that Google was “training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?”
The Project Veritas report claims Google’s efforts against President Trump could violate the Federal Election Campaign Act.
Specifically, the report says, “As an incorporated entity, Google is forbidden under the FECA to use resources to ‘never let [] somebody like Donald Trump [to] come to power again.’
“It is similarly forbidden to promote candidates it would favor. Using its massive resources to alter search results, impact electoral internet traffic, or otherwise attempt to prevent a candidate from winning an election are all illegal acts when done by corporate actors.”
Because FECA prohibits corporations from making in-kind contributions to support or oppose a candidate for office, Google “is forbidden under the FECA to use resources” in this way.
Benjamin Barr, a partner with Statecraft Law who drafted the report for Project Veritas, listed examples of past violations of FECA.
“[I]t would be illegal for a corporation to give free private jet transportation to favored candidates, but not to others,” Barr wrote.
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“Any use of corporate resources to advance or hinder candidates online is equally suspect and should be evaluated. This should be a grave concern for the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission.”
The report’s conclusion is printed in clear and concerning language:
“Through Project Veritas’s investigative reporting, it has found:
Big tech companies are likely using corporate resources to influence elections.
Big tech and social media companies hide behind the grant of congressional immunityunder Section 230 to manipulate speech and search queries.
In a touch of literary flair, Barr closes the report with a quote from George Orwell who said that if “liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
The usual caveat up front, i.e. I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Andrew Sullivan. But his piece on immigration and the 2020 candidates restates a lot of the points I’ve tried to make in the last few weeks about this topic. The Democratic Party has long winked at illegal immigration but these days it is openly advocating for open borders. There’s a fantastic deal being offered to millions of people around the world: If you can get here and don’t commit a felony, you can stay indefinitely.
Since 2014, there has been a 240 percent increase in asylum cases. As Fareed Zakaria has pointed out, the number of asylum cases from Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela has soared at the same time as the crime rate in those countries was being cut in half…
Last month alone, 144,000 people were detained at the border making an asylum claim. This year, about a million Central Americans will have relocated to the U.S. on those grounds. To add to this, a big majority of the candidates in the Democratic debates also want to remove the grounds for detention at all, by repealing the 1929 law that made illegal entry a criminal offense and turning it into a civil one. And almost all of them said that if illegal immigrants do not commit a crime once they’re in the U.S., they should be allowed to become citizens.
How, I ask, is that not practically open borders? The answer I usually get is that all these millions will have to, at some point, go to court hearings and have their asylum cases adjudicated. The trouble with that argument is that only 44 percent actually turn up for their hearings; and those who do show up and whose claims nonetheless fail can simply walk out of the court and know they probably won’t be deported in the foreseeable future.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement forcibly removed 256,086 people in 2018, 57 percent of whom had committed crimes since they arrived in the U.S. So that’s an annual removal rate of 2 percent of the total undocumented population of around 12 million. That means that for 98 percent of undocumented aliens, in any given year, no consequences will follow for crossing the border without papers. At the debates this week, many Democratic candidates argued that the 43 percent of deportees who had no criminal record in America should not have been expelled at all and been put instead on a path to citizenship. So that would reduce the annual removal rate of illegal immigrants to a little more than 1 percent per year. In terms of enforcement of the immigration laws, this is a joke. It renders the distinction between a citizen and a noncitizen close to meaningless.
Again, what Democrats want are defacto open borders. As Sullivan puts it, “This amounts to an open invitation to anyone on the planet to just show up and cross the border. The worst that can happen is you get denied asylum by a judge, in which case you can just disappear and there’s a 1 percent chance that you’ll be caught in a given year.” If you want to know why there’s a surge at the border it’s not just because things are bad in Central America. It’s because we’re giving away permanent residence, free school, and maybe soon free health care, etc. to anyone who arrives.
As I pointed out yesterday, that’s why Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez left El Salvador and why he tried to cross the Rio Grande with his toddler daughter. He was an economic migrant who wanted a better life and planned to use our broken immigration system to get it.
Sullivan believes the Democrats stance on immigration is “political suicide.” He may be right but I’m not so sure. I don’t think most Americans agree with open borders. That’s still a fringe position. But as long as the left can label opposition to open borders racist, a lot of people will hesitate to speak up in opposition to it. And as long as the media lets Dems talk as if there is only upside to illegal immigration, most people won’t ever hear about what all this generosity is costing them.
A new lawsuit alleges that information on shared medical records could be combined with Google’s location data to reveal identifying information about patients.
CNET reports that a lawsuit has been filed against the University of Chicago Medical Center and tech giant Google over a partnership between the two groups. The lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois, alleges that too much personal information of patients was revealed as a result of the alliance between the university and the Masters of the Universe.
The lawsuit claims that “the personal medical information obtained by Google is the most sensitive and intimate information in an individual’s life, and its unauthorized disclosure is far more damaging to an individual’s privacy” than leaked credit card or social security numbers that are often targeted in hacking attempts.
The project developed by Google and the University used A.I. to predict medical events including how long a patient could be hospitalized for and whether or not their health is deteriorating. The lawsuit alleges that the inclusion of certain dates violates HIPAA which requires that hospitals hide personal information of patients. The lawsuit claims that the dates, when combined with geolocation that Google collects from apps such as Waze and Maps, could be used to identify when individuals entered or exited the university’s hospital.
Google and the University of Chicago defended the project, with a Google spokesperson stating: “We believe our health care research could help save lives in the future, which is why we take privacy seriously and follow all relevant rules and regulations in our handling of health data.”
A spokesperson for the University of Chicago stated: “The University of Chicago Medical Center has complied with the laws and regulations applicable to patient privacy. The Medical Center is committed to providing excellent patient care and to protecting patient privacy.”
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolanor email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
Both debates displayed the left’s commitment to driving the party even further to the extreme left in what appears to be a desperate attempt to satisfy the Democrat Party’s new crop of “woke” voters.
Candidates hit on a range of issues and pivoted from their traditional methods of trying to appear moderate, instead embracing radical policies like Medicare for All, taxpayer-funded abortion, and marginal tax rates 70 percent and beyond.
Here is a compilation of some of the most extreme statements made by each candidate both nights.
1. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): “I’m with Bernie on Medicare for All.”
NBC moderator Lester Holt asked the stage of candidates if they supported abolishing private insurance altogether. Only two raised their hands – Warren and de Blasio. Warren argued that Medicare for All would solve a range of issues, from affordability to access to care, but provided little to no logistical details.
2. Julián Castro (D): “I don’t believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice. And, you know, what that means is that just because a woman — or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose. And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion.”
Castro’s answer was in response to a question about his government health care option covering abortion. Castro said it would and pivoted to a conversation about trans-females having the “right to choose.” His point remains unclear, as trans-females are incapable of becoming pregnant, making their right to “choose” nonsensical, at best.
3. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ): “If you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to buy and own a firearm.”
Booker temporarily dodged a hypothetical question on Republicans confirming his court nominees, instead addressing a previous question on gun violence.
“In states like Connecticut that did that, they saw 40 percent drops in gun violence and 15 percent drops in suicides,” he claimed. “We need to start having bold agendas on guns.”
4. Mayor Bill de Blasio (D): “I want to make it clear. This is supposed to be the party of working people. Yes, we are supposed to be for 70 percent tax rate on the wealthy. Yes, we are supposed to be for free college, free public college for young people. We are supposed to break up big corporations when they are not serving our democracy.”
The NYC mayor’s remarks were in response to a question about addressing “income inequality.” Mayor de Blasio used his experience governing New York to preview his lofty plans, which include upping marginal tax rates to astronomical levels and making “free” college a reality.
5. Gov. Jay Inslee (D): “There is no reason for the detention and separation. They should be released pending hearings and have a hearing and the law should be followed. That’s what should happen.”
Savannah Guthrie asked candidates what they would do with the illegal immigrant families residing in the U.S. on day one. Inslee also bragged about his state’s law that “prevents local law enforcement from being turned into mini-ICE agents.”
6. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI): “This president and his chickenhawk cabinet have led us to the brink of war with Iran.”
Holt asked Gabbard about her previous promise to revive the Iran Deal. While she admitted serious flaws within the deal, she said President Trump and his cabinet are “creating a situation that just a spark would light off a war with Iran,” adding that Trump needs to “get back into the Iran nuclear deal and swallow his pride.”
7. Beto O’Rourke (D): “But unfortunately, under this administration, President Trump has alienated our allies and alliances. He’s diminished our standing in the world and he’s made us weaker as a country, less able to confront challenges, whether it’s Iran, North Korea, or Vladimir Putin and Russia, who attacked and invaded our democracy in 2016, and who President Trump has offered an invitation to do the same.”
O’Rourke claimed Putin “attacked and invaded our democracy” as a response to a question about the U.S. and its role of combating genocide and crimes against humanity. He later referred to the attack as an “invasion democracy.”
8. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH): “I think it’s abhorrent — we’re talking about this father who got killed with his daughter — and the issue here with the way they are being treated is if you go to Guantanamo Bay, there are terrorists being held that get better health care than those kids that tried to cross the border into the United States. That needs to stop.”
Ryan’s answer was in response to a question about the nature of crossing the border illegally.
“Should it be a crime to illegally cross the border? Or should it be a civil offense only?” Guthrie asked.
Ryan added that “there are other provisions in the law that will allow you to prosecute people for coming over here if they’re dealing drugs and other things.”
9. John Delaney (D): “All the economists agree that a carbon pricing mechanism works. You just have to do it right.”
Chuck Todd asked candidates about their climate change plans and the prospect of taxing carbon.
“If pricing carbon is just politically impossible, how do we pay for climate mitigation?” he asked. Delaney said his plan would “put a price on carbon” and “give a dividend back to the American people.”
10. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): “And my plan would be to, first of all, make community college free and make sure that everyone else besides that top percentile gets help with their education.”
Guthrie asked Klobuchar about her past remarks, in which the Minnesota senator said she would make college free if she were “a magic genie.” She did not completely dismiss the idea of free college during the debate but added, “I do get concerned about paying for college for rich kids.”
11. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA): “You asked before what is the greatest national security threat to the United States? It’s Donald Trump.”
During Thursday night’s debate, Todd asked Harris about climate change, which she said “represents an existential threat to us as a species.” She connected it to Trump and referenced his denial before making the declaration.
12. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): “People who have health care under Medicare-for-all will have no premiums, no deductibles, no co-payments, no out-of-pocket expenses. Yes, they will pay more in taxes, but less in health care for what they get.”
Guthrie asked Sanders if his administration would raise taxes on middle-class Americans, and he eventually admitted that it would. He attempted to spin it as an incredible deal though.
13. Joe Biden (D): “I’m also the only guy that got assault weapons banned, and the number of clips in a gun banned. And so, folks, look, and I would buy back those weapons. We already started talking about that. We tried to get it done. I think it can be done. And it should be demanded that we do it.”
Biden bragged about his ambitious plans to tread on the Second Amendment, adding that gun buybacks are a “good expenditure of money.”
14. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): “Women’s reproductive rights are under assault by President Trump and the Republican Party.”
Gillibrand promised to make “women’s reproductive rights” one of her top priorities in the event that she makes it to the White House. She described herself as the “fiercest advocate for women’s reproductive freedom for over a decade.”
15. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA): “But I’m the only candidate on this stage calling for a ban and buyback of every single assault weapon in America.”
Swalwell declared his gun platform the strongest of all the candidates’ and claimed that their plans “would all leave 15 million assault weapons in our communities.”
16. Marianne Williamson (D): “What Donald Trump has done to these children — and it’s not just in Colorado — Governor, you’re right, it is kidnapping, and it’s extremely important for us to realize that. If you forcibly take a child from their parents’ arms, you are kidnapping them.”
Not only did Williamson accuse Trump of “kidnapping” children, she also said that the administration is inflicting them with trauma and abusing them.
“And if you take a lot of children and you put them in a detainment center, that’s inflicting chronic trauma upon them. That’s called child abuse. This is collective child abuse,” she added.
17. Andrew Yang (D): “That’s right.”
While the quote does not sound extreme on its own, it is in response to the following moderator statement: “Mr. Yang, your — your signature policy is to give every adult in the United States $1,000 a month, no questions asked.”
He later added:
I would pass a $1,000 freedom dividend for every American adult starting at age 18, which would speed us up on climate change, because if you get the boot off of people’s throats, they’ll focus on climate change much more clearly.
18. Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D): “Well, the reality is we need to begin adapting right away, but we also can’t skip a beat on preventing climate change from getting even worse. It’s why we need aggressive and ambitious measures. It’s why we need to do a carbon tax and dividend.”
Buttigieg confirmed that a carbon tax is part of his exhaustive list of policy proposals.
19.Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO): “When I — when I — when I see these kids at the border, I see my mom, because I know she sees herself, because she was separated from her parents for years during the Holocaust in Poland.”
Bennet essentially compared children at the southern border to his mother who was separated from her parents during the Holocaust.
20. John Hickenlooper (D): “I recognize that, within 10 or 12 years of actually, you know, suffering irreversible damage, but, you know, guaranteeing everybody a government job is not going to get us there.”
Hickenlooper happily toed the party line on the time frame on climate change, although he added that socialism is “not the solution.”
