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Officials in the town of Surprise, Arizona, have been humiliated by a public scolding from a judge in Maricopa County in a case in which they ordered a woman at a public meeting arrested because they didn't like what she was saying.

The Constitution's First Amendment, of course, was written in order to protect speech that someone doesn't like, and in this case the comments were about the ability – or ineptitude – of a tax-paid city official.

Rebekah Anne Massie came to the public meeting to express her displeasure, and got arrested for her words.

Judge Gerald Williams now has dismissed the charges fabricated against Massie, with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled, ever.

The issue pending before him was whether the charges would be dismissed without prejudice, meaning the city could pursue the case again, or not.

His conclusion was definitive: "IT IS ORDERED THAT this case is dismissed with prejudice, in the interests of justice," he wrote. "The defendant should not have faced criminal prosecution once for expressing her political views. The court agrees that she should never face criminal prosecution, for expressing her political views on that date, at that time, again. Nor should she be forced to encounter additional attorney feeds should this matter be re-filed…"

He continued, explaining the city's actions "regulated not just speech; but political speech. It regulated not just the time, place, and manner of the speech. It regulated the content of political speech… No branch of any federal, state, or local government in this country should ever attempt to control the content of political speech … In this case, the government did so in a manner that was objectively outrageous."

Massie, in a statement released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Express, which is representing her in a lawsuit against the town, said, "For more than two months I've been living with the threat of punishment and jail time — being taken away from my kids, even — for doing nothing more than criticizing the government. Free speech still matters in America, and I can't tell you what a relief it is to have people on my side standing up for our rights with me."

Conor Fitzpatrick, of FIRE, said, "This is an incredible win for Rebekah and an important message to government bureaucrats around the country that the First Amendment bows to no one. The fight goes on in Rebekah's lawsuit against the city of Surprise, Mayor Hall, and Officer Schernicoff. We want to make it crystal clear to governments across the United States that brazenly censoring people and betraying the First Amendment comes with a cost."

WND reported weeks ago when FIRE officials brought an action against the town on behalf of Massie.

And the report was posted when Mayor Skip Hall ordered resident Massie arrested for her speech during a portion of a government meeting set aside for residents' concerns.

She was opposed to a city decision to give its lawyer even more money.

"I have concerns with allocating the more funds to him specifically for a few different reasons," she explained. Her public records requests are under "review" regarding the actions of lawyer Robert Wingo, already one of the highest paid city officials in the Phoenix region at $265,000.

The FIRE case challenges the city's decision to overrule the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at council meetings.

Hall threatened her for making comments, and Massie responded, "You are violating my First Amendment rights."

Hall rebuked her with, "That's your opinion."

And he threatened, "Do you want to be escorted out, Ms. Massie? Because that's what's gonna happen. And it's gonna happen in the future also," he responded.

Ultimately, she was arrested, cuffed and accused of trespass, as she shouted: "Are you kidding me?" and "Do not put your hands on me!"

The dispute arose because of city officials' own insistence that an anti-First Amendment rule be imposed on residents. It states, "Oral communications during the City Council meeting may not be used to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the City or members of the body, regardless of whether such person is identified in the presentation by name or by any other reference that tends to identify him/her."

The complaint, filed in federal court in Arizona, lists Rebekah Massie and Quintus Schulzke as plaintiffs and the city and officials Skip Hall and Steven Shernicoff as defendants.

It states, "The Supreme Court has made clear that 'one of the most precious of the liberties safeguarded by the Bill of Rights' is the sacred promise to every American, enshrined in the First Amendment, that citizens enjoy the freedom to complain about their leaders. … But Defendants Surprise, Arizona and its mayor, Skip Hall, broke that promise, arresting Plaintiff Rebekah Massie in front of her 10-year-old daughter for criticizing a public official at a city council meeting.

"Video of the arrest speaks for itself. On August 20, 2024, during the public comment portion of the Surprise City Council meeting, Massie spoke in opposition to a planned pay increase for Surprise's city attorney. But Mayor Hall interrupted her remarks, scolding her for violating a City Council policy prohibiting 'complain[ing]' about public officials. Massie insisted—correctly—that the First Amendment protected her comments. Mayor Hall didn't care…"

Hall then ordered a police officer, Shernicoff, to detain and eject Massie, and he did.

The complaint charges, "When Massie exercised her constitutional right to criticize officials at a city council meeting, a right 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,' Lozman, 585 U.S. at 101, the Council Criticism Policy and Mayor Hall ensured she left the meeting in handcuffs. That might be how repressive regimes treat government critics, but it's an affront to our Constitution. Surprise's sudden move to arrest dissidents and enforce the Council Criticism Policy is casting a cloud of fear over the city. Plaintiff Quintus Schulzke, a frequent speaker at City Council meetings, now fears criticizing Surprise officials, knowing he, like Massie, now risks arrest when he exercises his constitutional rights."

The complaint charges the city is in violation of the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

And, in fact, state law allows the public "to criticize members of a public body during a public comment period."

Massie opposed paying the city lawyer more money, expressing her opinion that he had failed to comply with the Constitution, state law, and his duties of professional conduct.

"Defendants injured Massie by silencing, detaining and arresting her because she criticized government officials – an exercise of rights 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,'" the case charges.

The case accuses of Hall of using government power to "suit his own whims."

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For the first time in decades, the Washington Post will not be endorsing any presidential candidate this year, as owner Jeff Bezos personally killed the staff's planned endorsement of Kamala Harris.

William Lewis, publisher and chief executive officer of the newspaper, said: "The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates."

"We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility. That is inevitable," Lewis said.

"We don't see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects."

"We also see it as a statement in support of our readers' ability to make up their minds on this, the most consequential of American decisions – whom to vote for as the next president."

Meanwhile, the news staff at the Post published an article Friday revealing editorial page staffers had actually drafted an endorsement of Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president over her Republican contender, former President Donald Trump.

"The decision not to publish was made by The Post's owner – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos," the Post reported, citing two sources.

Marty Baron, former editor of the Washington Post, stated: "This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty."

″@realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others)," Baron wrote. "Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage."

The decision not to endorse a presidential candidate prompted Robert Kagan, the editor at large of the Post to resign Friday.

The Washington Post Guild, the union representing the staff at the paper, said it was "deeply concerned that The Washington Post – an American news institution in the nation's capital – would make a decision to no longer endorse presidential candidates, especially a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election."

"The message from our chief executive, Will Lewis – not from the Editorial Board itself – makes us concerned that management interfered with the work of our members in Editorial."

"We are already seeing cancellations from once loyal readers," the Guild said. "This decision undercuts the work of our members at a time when we should be building our readers' trust, not losing it."

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In August, Trump told Fox Business that Bezos personally phoned him after the assassination attempt in July at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

"He was very nice even though he owns The Washington Post," Trump said of Bezos.

Bezos last posted on X on July 13, mere hours after the would-be assassin's bullet struck Trump's ear.

"Our former President showed tremendous grace and courage under literal fire tonight," Bezos wrote at the time. "So thankful for his safety and so sad for the victims and their families."

U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said of the Post's decision not to endorse anyone in the 2024 race: "The first step towards fascism is when the free press cowers in fear."

As WND reported earlier this week, the owner of the Los Angeles Times instructed the paper not to make a presidential endorsement for the first time in two decades, just weeks ahead of the 2024 election.

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President Donald Trump, now leading in polls of voters in swing states for this 2024 presidential election, has posted on social media a warning to anyone caught tampering with the vote this year.

He explained, "CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation! Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people who CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long-term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.

"We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON'T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country."

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Kamala Harris, and many of her Democratic Party compatriots, have a long record of describing President Donald Trump in horrific terms, such as "Hitler."

Previously, they've been accused of "priming" Democrats to do violence, especially if Trump wins the 2024 election in a few days.

Now it is Fox News that is reporting two top Republican leaders in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are calling on her to quit the incitement.

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U.S. Rep. Eric Burlinson, R-Mo., has slammed the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign for being more left-wing than Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and suggested Walz was groomed by the People's Republic of China during his tenure as a teacher.

Burlinson is a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which released a report Thursday detailing how the Chinese Communist Party is carrying out political warfare against the U.S., and the actions needed to be taken by federal agencies to address the growing threat.

In the report's executive summary, it states the CCP are engaging in warfare tactics against the U.S. with "increasing efficacy," including poisoning Americans with fentanyl, and will do anything to weaken or destroy its enemy to maintain power, noting this is a "war without weapons."

The report states these tactics are an "extraordinary and intentional danger to the American way of life," however, the Biden administration and other federal agencies are doing little to engage the matter with any urgency.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria Friday, Burlinson said the attacks are coming from several different fronts.

"It's coming at us from all fronts, they're infiltrating our universities…they're performing corporate espionage in the United States, in the agricultural system, you know, while the United States prided itself as an exporter to China, they have integrated into the supply chain," Burlinson said.

During his short time in congress, Burlinson stated he has been surprised by the sheer number of incidents regarding Chinese espionage and how interwoven into the U.S. the Chinese Communist Party has become, adding the Biden administration has done little to fix it.

"They need to address this, this needs to be a system-wide global-wide policy with all of the federal agencies, to make sure that they have a posture that recognizes the reality which is that we are entering a cold war with China," Burlinson said.

Burlinson noted the hostility directed toward the U.S. from China needs to be taken seriously and there needs to be a systematic change.

"The Treasury Department, you know, they want to sell to China but they don't want to recognize that the Belt and Road initiative is a direct economic attack on the infrastructure of the United States," Burlinson said.

In terms of Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and his relationship with China, Burlinson said the relationship Walz maintained with China after becoming an elected official is disturbing.

"I think the most disturbing thing is his involvement with the Macao Polytechnic University, you know, a Chinese university. I think that while he was an educator, they were grooming him for the 30 trips that he took and he organized students to go to China. But the fact that he became a fellow with a Chinese university after becoming a member of Congress, that's the most deeply disturbing part of his background with China," Burlinson said.

The congressman stated he believes China paid for the dozens of trips that Walz made, and added it is something that needs further scrutiny.

"I don't think Tim Walz with a teacher's salary paid for those 30 trips … I don't know what the arrangement was, that's something we need to look into. I understand that he created a business and was receiving funds to pay for these trips … we need to determine exactly how that money flowed," Burlinson said.

Atlas Organization founder Jonathan D.T. Ward also spoke with Bartiromo, and said the Chinese are pushing boundaries, which will eventually come to a head with the U.S.

"I think this is all coming to a head, Maria, I mean we're in the moment now where, you know, some of our top national security leaders, including the former head of Indo Pacific Command told us that by 2027, the PRC is going to be ready and prepared to use force in the Pacific to potentially go after Taiwan," Ward said.

China has recently been escalating tensions in the South China Sea, which includes attacking U.S. allies the Philippines, and carrying out blockade drills around Taiwan, which China claims as its own. China has further attacked American infrastructure through hacking, used Chinese nationals as spies in the U.S., including within U.S. political offices, and undermined the U.S. presidential election by sowing seeds of division between American voters on social media platforms.

"So we're in that window, I mean this is finally coming to a head. The clock really has run out this time to continue to admire the problem, and the CCP is pushing forward on every front … But then they're also executing a giant military buildup," Ward said.

Ward noted polls show the American people are very much aware of the growing threat from China, and the majority say they want the U.S. government to actively work towards constraining the rise of China's power.

"The people get the problem, and the people get that we have to shut them down and prevent them from surpassing us. So let's get busy doing that. There's a whole lot we can do," Ward said.

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Some of the illegal aliens being allowed into the United States through the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris open borders agenda are criminals.

Some are even worse: gang members.

And multiple complaints have been raised about how members of the criminal Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela have taken over apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, beating up and chasing the building managers away, and then demanding the residents either move out, or pay rent to the gang.

The response from Colorado officials, including the leftist governor Jared Polis, has been that there is some gang activity there, but it's not serious, or a major problem.

That story line just got torpedoed by a member of the Aurora city council who has released documents that verify that local police knew about the takeover of the private property by the criminals in the gang more than a year ago.

It is Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky who has posted images of the documents to her personal X profile this week.

A report at Fox News points out the documents posted contain emails from within the Aurora Police Department discussing the extensive gang threat.

"I am done. I am tired of the city lying. I am done with the governor who called the cops on me. I am done with the local media. This is an issue of human suffering. Gang members are extorting and torturing other migrants who came here for a better life and to get away from gangs like this," she told Fox News Digital.

The same gang reportedly also is attacking the constitutional rights of renters and landowners in other cities, including at least one in Texas.

"This is one of the biggest cover-ups I've ever seen and Aurora police officers on the front lines are sick of it as well. They are putting their lives on the line and they are fed up," Jurinsky said.

She confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members are "still very much in control" of the apartment buildings in question.

Her documentation included records from October of 2023 from the Aurora PD's Gang Intervention Unit that show at that time authorities believed from 15-20 TdA members were taking over buildings in the metropolitan area.

"The document notes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had intelligence indicating that TdA planned to establish a headquarters in Aurora, even going on to list the addresses of two apartment buildings at the center of the controversy," Fox reported.

Those locations reportedly were The Edge at Lowry and the Fitzsimons Place Apartments.

The confirmation comes just a day after the Department of Homeland Security called for more than 100 illegal aliens, all apparently affiliated with the gang, to added to an FBI watchlist.

Fox reported NBC was first to report DHS actually has identified some 600 people with possible TdA gang ties, with recommendations they be put on the FBI's Watchlist for Transnational Criminal Organizations.

The gang already apparently is operating in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and the UI.S.

WND previously reported that the Aurora property management company whose properties were taken by the gang went online with its truth about the situation.

In Colorado the issue got attention when a video showed them apparently taking over an apartment building, collecting rent from tenants for apartments in a building they didn't own."

Management company Cbz Management went on social media after a network anchor minimized the troubles:

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Martha Raddatz' comments left Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance challenging, "Martha, do you hear yourself? Only 'a handful of apartment complexes' in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris' open border? Americans are so fed up with what's going on, and they have every right to be and I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting, because you seem to be more focused [on] nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs."

Raddatz had claimed, "The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes — apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns."

Cbz had another story:

The corporation statements continued, explaining illegal tenants and squatters apparently did pay rent, to the gang members.

"To address this entity (gangs) we contacted every city official we could think of for help with the problem. Unfortunately, none were willing to take meaningful action. Meanwhile, our CBZ representative continued receiving threatening messages, in which these criminals revealed his home address and his spouse's name. Finally, the APD, FBI and Homeland Security informed us that those sending the messages and controlling our buildings were part of the notorious Tren De Aragua gang from Venezuela. They also mentioned that our situation was just 'a blip on the radar,' as this gang is causing significant problems nationwide. Two days after our FBI meeting, the gang confronted our on-site manager, asserting control over all three properties. They offered an ultimatum: share rental income 50/50 or lose the buildings permanently. They also threatened to harm him and his family. For the safety of our management team and their families, we withdrew them from the properties and focused on seeking help from government agencies."

The company had expected help, "perhaps even from the National Guard."

"That never happened. Instead, we were left helpless, watching as violence, bullets, and destruction overtook our buildings. Many of our legitimate tenants fled out of fear. Despite the obvious crisis, several city officials refused to acknowledge the reality. Instead, they blamed us, citing 'code violations' as the reason for shutting down our property—violations we couldn't resolve for tenants who weren't even ours," the company said.

The company said it was speaking up because "many still deny the reality of the situation, sometimes using us as scapegoats. That's why we are no longer staying silent. We will continue to counter falsehoods with simple facts and evidence.

"Yes, gangs did take control of our apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and the government did nothing. That is the real story."

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A former girlfriend of Doug Emhoff, now the husband of Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, is expressing horror at the persona he's being given in the media.

Because she has charged, he slapped her so hard during their brief relationship that she spun around.

The accusations first were leveled in the Daily Mail, that Emhoff and the woman, a lawyer, were at an event in Paris a number of years ago when he suddenly broadsided her. The sources were people who knew her and knew of the incident.

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For years already Democrats have tried to tarnish President Donald Trump by calling him a threat to democracy.

They contend that his challenges to the 2020 election results, which were the result of a voting process that raised multiple integrity questions, meant he was trying, and would continue to try, to overthrow the government.

Their rhetoric for the 2024 campaign has gone to extremes: They claim he's "Hitler," he'll use the military to go after those he dislikes, he'd use the power of government to jail them, they say.

In fact, polling shows that, "Voters in swing states believe that Trump is more likely to protect democracy than Kamala Harris, who is running on a 'save democracy' platform. The poll sampled 5,016 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. When asked whether Trump or Harris 'would do a better job' of "defending against threats to democracy," 43% picked Trump while 40% picked Harris," reported Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage."

He explained, "The result was crushing for not just many in the Harris campaign but the press and pundits who have been unrelenting in announcing the end of democracy if Harris is not elected."

He said there is a "growing hysteria among press and pundits proclaiming the imminent end of democracy if Kamala Harris is not elected. The predictions of mass roundups, disappearances, and tyranny ignore a constitutional system that has survived for over two centuries as the oldest and most stable democracy in the world."

He noted that those who agree democracy is being threatened disagree with the Democrats' claims on the source of that threat.

"While over half said that threats to democracy were important to them, the voters trusted Trump (44%) more than Biden (33%) in protecting democracy," Turley reported.

He cited ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, represented Wyoming in Congress until voters tossed her from office following her alignment with Democrats who wanted to impeach and remove President Trump, and then blame him for the all factors of the January 6, 2021, riot in Washington.

She alleges that if Americans don't vote for Harris, 2024 "may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast."

Turley responded, "I have long criticized the apocalyptic, democracy-ending predictions of Biden, Harris, and others as ignoring the safeguards in our system against authoritarian power. Nevertheless, Harris supporters have ratcheted up the rhetoric to a level of pure hysteria. Recently, Michael Cohen, a convicted felon and Trump's disbarred former lawyer, told MSNBC that if Trump wins the election, he will 'get rid of the judiciary and get rid of the Congress.'"

Television hosts have been talking about an enemy's "list."

Even in Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed, "I wouldn't be surprised if this guy threw me in jail."

Turley noted that Congress, in fact, did make Biden president following that 2021 riot, and judges did rule against challenges.

"Our system was put through a Cat 5 stress test and did not even sway for a moment," he said.

He noted the Democrats still trot out their well-known claims that democracy will die without Harris in the White House.

But, he said, "The public is not buying it."

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The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris duo, in power in the White House, has worked hard to impose the LGBT ideology around the globe.

Promoting transgenderism, the unscientific belief that men can become women, essentially by saying so, has been made a core part of America's foreign practice.

So has the religion of global warming, or climate change as it has become known since global warming essentially quit.

President Donald Trump, if elected in just two weeks, would pick another priority, according to a report in the Blaze.

He would focus on ending the persecution of Christians.

The report explains that the issue arose when he was criticizing Biden and Harris for refusing to help the ethnic Armenians of Artsakh.

"The Biden-Harris administration has prioritized the advancement of the LGBT agenda and climate alarmism in its foreign policy. President Donald Trump has identified a different priority for his future administration: Combat the brutal persecution of Christians around the globe," the Blaze confirmed.

He explained, on Truth Social, "Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh. Christians around the World will not be safe if Kamala Harris is President of the United States."

He went on, "When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan."

The Blaze explained the Republic of Artsakh also known as Nagorno-Karabakh is in the Caucasus Mountains inside Azerbaijan.

The report said, "While internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan — whose close ally Turkey, formerly the Ottoman Empire, killed 1.5 million Armenians in what is regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century — the region was, at least up until September 2023, home to over 100,000 Armenian Christians who contested Azerbaijan's territorial claims."

The area became autonomous while Armenia, the world's oldest Christian nation, and Azerbaijan, which is more than 97% Muslim, still were in the Soviet Union, and two bloody wars have focused on the land since then.

Then Azerbaijan, helped militarily by Biden-Harris despite its war crimes and torture of Armenian prisoners, assaulted the region on Sept. 19, 2023, and within months Artsakh was dissolved, the report said.

Muslim troops killed ethnic Armenians by the hundreds, the report said and destroyed churches and even cemeteries.

Thousands were forced to run for their lives.

While peace "talks" have been developing in the aftermath, the report charged, Biden and Harris have been "less than helpful where Armenian Christians were concerned."

Their policy is "two-faced," accuses the Armenian National Committee of America:

"There is no clearer example of the Biden-Harris administration's two-faced policy towards Armenia than the spineless inaction of USAID Administrator Samantha Power during Azerbaijan's blockade and ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh. As Azerbaijan deprived Artsakh's 120,000 Armenians of access to food, fuel, medicine, and humanitarian goods in a brazen violation of international law — Administrator Power refused to acknowledge the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding. The genocidal ethnic cleansing of Artsakh's entire Armenian population was a humanitarian catastrophe the United States had every opportunity to prevent but instead chose to enable — sacrificing the existence of the region's indigenous Christian Armenian population for misguided geopolitical interests."

It openly warned the Democrats' failure will be on the minds of Armenian American voters, among the estimated two million Americans with Armenian heritage.

ANCA executive director Aram Hamparian said Harris, who recently has included the dispute in discussions, "did not lift a finger or even raise her voice against Azerbaijan's 2023 aggression. Even at the level of campaign rhetoric, she has not said a word about cutting U.S. military arms and aid to Azerbaijan."

The comment from Trump drew applause from entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who said, "Very gratified to see President Trump speak out about the persecution & displacement of Armenian Christians in Artsakh. It's our job to call out the hypocrisy of the foreign policy establishment & we refuse to simply sweep this issue under the rug."

The report said persecution monitor Open Doors said at this time 317 million Christians around the world face very high or extreme levels of persecution.

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Democrats, actually for years already, repeatedly have wildly claimed that President Donald Trump is a "Hitler," a strategy that encourages violence against him because, after all, if he truly is a "Hitler" society's limits on opposition are lifted in order to prevent the horrors that could follow.

Kamala Harris' rhetoric repeatedly has gone into that twilight zone.

Now there's another coalition using the same attack on Trump, according to columnist John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at the Federalist.

It's the Atlantic, which unleashed an "outlandish hit piece" on Trump, claiming he advocated for Hitlerian ideals, a wild claim by Jeffery Goldberg that "was immediately denied on the record by all the people who were in the room with Trump."

It, the commentary charged, is "part of a larger psy-op to justify mass post-election violence if Trump wins in November, to signal activists to reject the results of the election, to divide the military, and to coax an insurgency out of the radical left-wing base of the Democratic Party and unleash it on American cities."

Kamala Harris already has been quoting from the charges, but not the rejection of those by witnesses.

The publication claimed it was ex-Trump chief of staff John Kelly that made the claims against Trump.

Harris' own version of the claims? "He does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution, he wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military that is loyal to him personally. One that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States."

"This is not just the normal heated rhetoric that comes out in the final weeks of a close presidential election. This is something else. It is at least a tacit call for violent resistance, for insurrection, and even for a third assassination attempt against Trump," the commentary explained.

Trump already has been targeted in recent months by two assassination attempts.

"It's hard to overstate how reckless and dangerous this is two weeks before an election that Harris appears to be losing. Having staked out this rhetorical ground, what is she supposed to say if she loses the election? How is she supposed to concede? Will she come out and say, 'Sorry everyone we tried hard to save America but now you must all live peacefully under the new Hitler?' She's not going to say that. She can't now. She's going to call for resistance. 'Patriotic resistance,' she might call it, but it will be coded as a call for street violence or worse. After all, you don't just accept a Hitler-like, fascist regime. You fight it any way you can."

The "Hitler" name-calling, Davidson wrote, follows Joe Biden's repeated insistence that Trump is an existential threat to democracy.

That created an "opening" for assassins, he said, and it happened in Butler, Pennsylvania.

When Biden was tossed aside by Democrats, Harris picked up the refrain, "pushing the line that a Trump presidency meant the end of America as we know it. And so, inevitably, there was a second assassination attempt."

Others in the campaign have included White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, who has ranted about the danger from Trump.

"Is this reckless and dangerous? Is it designed to prepare the ground for mass violence? Is it assassination prep? Yes, it's all those things. But understand that we're not dealing with a normal political party here. We're dealing with an ensconced institutional oligarchy that has already executed a coup against the previous Democrat nominee (and sitting president), forcing him to end his reelection campaign. They have already discarded millions of Democrat primary votes to install their hand-picked successor despite their claims to care about 'preserving democracy.' They have already refused to tone down their incendiary rhetoric despite two assassination attempts against Trump. In other words, these are not people who care about political norms. They care about power and power alone," Davidson explained.

Previously, Davidson had warned how Harris over and over is diving into extremism to try to ramp up the possibility of violence against Trump.

He cited her comments including: "You and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him."

And her claim he "would use the military" to go after his critics.

At that time, he wrote, "The purpose of it isn't just to scare voters into casting their ballot against the former president, or to provoke some unstable would-be assassin into taking a shot at Trump (although some Democrats no doubt see that as a happy by-product of this Trump-as-dictator rhetoric). Its main purpose is to prime Democrat voters for violent resistance should Trump win in November."

He said Harris is "pushing a narrative that Trump is going to be a fascist dictator if he wins office and use the powers of the presidency to go after ordinary Americans. That's an extreme and frankly unhinged position with no basis in reality. You don't say things like that unless you're hoping to provoke a strong reaction, and the reaction Democrats are hoping to provoke is violent resistance to a second Trump term."