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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is threatening to take action against ABC over on-air claims made by comedian Jimmy Kimmel about the man suspected of assassinating Charlie Kirk last week.
Kimmel said in his monologue Monday, "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them – and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, however, is reported by family members to have moved to the left politically in recent months, and Utah officials released texts to his transgender roommate in which he offers the reason he shot and killed the popular activist who clearly was in the MAGA camp.
"I had enough of [Kirk's] hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out," Robinson said.
As reported at the Gateway Pundit, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appeared on "The Benny Show" and told host Benny Johnson that he may take action against ABC and Kimmel.
"This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead," Carr said.
"They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. There are calls for Kimmel to be fired. I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this."
Continued Carr, "The FCC could make a strong argument that this is sort of an intentional effort to mislead the American people about a very core fundamental fact, a very important matter.
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President Donald Trump, in recent months, has won massive legal victories over ABC and CBS.
To resolve a defamation lawsuit from Trump, ABC agreed to pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a future presidential museum or foundation. It settled a case brought on by anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly saying on air Trump was held liable for rape, when he wasn't.
And Trump's "election interference" lawsuit against CBS over its "60 Minutes" interview of Kamala Harris was settled for a sum that could reach $30 million.
Now he's taking aim at the New York Times and its long-standing and well-earned reputation of opposing and criticizing him, while praising other political candidates.
A report by Fox explains Trump is bringing a $15 billion action, for both defamation and libel, against the Times, whose officials claimed they would not be intimidated.
Trump's case describes the Times as a "mouthpiece" for the Democrat Party and thus, its advocacy for leftists in campaigns and elections amounted to an illegal "campaign contribution" to the left's failed 2024 presidential candidate, Kamala Harris.
"Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times, one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual 'mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party. I view it as the single largest illegal Campaign contribution, EVER," Trump explained.
"Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put dead center on the front page of The New York Times, something heretofore UNHEARD OF!"
His claims include that the publication lied about him, his businesses, family, and MAGA.
He added, "I am PROUD to hold this once respected 'rag' responsible, as we are doing with the Fake News Networks such as our successful litigation against George Slopadopoulos/ABC/Disney, and 60 Minutes/CBS/Paramount, who knew that they were falsely 'smearing' me through a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration, which was, in effect, a malicious form of defamation, and thus, settled for record amounts. They practiced this longterm INTENT and pattern of abuse, which is both unacceptable and illegal. The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW! The suit is being brought in the Great State of Florida. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
The Times alleged that the case lacks merit.
But Trump's case charges, "All across our country, Americans from a wide array of backgrounds saw the truth about him and voted accordingly—the same truth that the New York Times refused to recognize as it continued spreading false and defamatory content about President Trump."
It was filed in U.S. District Court for Florida's Middle District. The named defendants are the New York Times Company, reporters Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt, and Penguin Random House, which published "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success," which was authored by Craig and Buettner.
The Times leans precariously to the left and endorsed Harris in 2024, surprising no one.
But its editorial board went even further at the time, attacking Trump.
"It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest," the board politically claimed.
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Letitia James, the far-left attorney general in New York who campaigned for office on a promise to "get" President Donald Trump when there were no allegations available, now is in legal jeopardy again.
It's because of the height of a fence at a five-unit apartment structure she owns in Brooklyn.
It's the same address that triggered a federal mortgage fraud investigation into her, as she obtained an interest rate on a mortgage for the property that was based on it having four units, when it actually has five, according to building records.
The Washington Examiner said James could face $500 in fines because the fence at the brownstone is five feet, five inches tall, beyond the 48-inch limit.
The New York Department of Buildings served James with a violation notice recently that deemed her front fence exceeded height limitations.
It was James who, after campaigning to "get" Trump, came up with a claim that his business operations committed fraud. She worked with a judge, Arthur Engoron, on the case, which alleged that there was fraud even though the business entities that supposedly were victimized said their loans were repaid on time and in full, and they would like to do more business with Trump.
Despite the lack of evidence, the judge created a penalty for Trump and his businesses of almost half a billion dollars, a decision that subsequently was tossed by an appeals court ruling that said it violated the U.S. Constitution.
In James' latest legal woes, she'll face a hearing in October, and if found guilty could be ordered to pay $500 in fines. Alternatively, the problem could be "cured" by the time the hearing is held, when the case could be then dropped.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte referred James to the DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud over her Brooklyn and Norfolk properties in April, alleging that James consistently listed her Brooklyn residence as a four-bedroom home instead of a five-bedroom home.
James is accused of fraud for misrepresenting her residences in order to obtain preferential mortgage loan treatments, including once when she allegedly characterized her father as a "spouse" and represented a five-apartment building she owns as having four apartments because that would give her a better interest rate.
In a column at the Gateway Pundit, author Joel Gilbert explained that James needs to be held accountable, "for the integrity of public office, for victims of any wrongdoing, and for public trust."
He noted James herself "agrees."
"After Donald Trump's fraud conviction, on February 16, 2024, James released a statement: 'When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of honest and hardworking people.'"
The column explained that in 2011 James "obtained a US government HAMP loan by falsely claiming her apartment building had just 4 units. The HAMP loan was eligible only to owners with four or less apartment units. Letitia James likely also falsely claimed a financial hardship to qualify for the loan, as she was earning around $14,000 per month. With the HAMP loan, James was able to replace her 10% adjustable bank mortgage with a 2.7% government loan on the backs of American taxpayers.:"
He noted, "More recently, in 2021, James secured a $200,000 'Credit Line Mortgage' with Citizens Bank by describing the same five-family commercial building as a 'single-family dwelling.' The result: she paid just $4,070 in closing costs instead of $20,000-$30,000 that a commercial borrower would have faced, and got lower interest rates."
James' case against Trump was one of a multitude of lawfare cases assembled by Democrats that apparently were intended to demolish him financially and destroy his chances to run for president again in 2024, which he ultimately did.
Most of the cases now have evaporated.
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Commentator Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have announced, online, that they have launched a fund to help the family of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated this week during a free speech event at a Utah school
"We met Charlie Kirk when he was 18, through our friend Foster Friess, and have known him well since. He was an amazing person. It's hard to find the right words in a moment like this or to understand exactly what's happened.
"But in the meantime we want to do everything we can for Charlie's widow Erika and their two small children. We've set up a GiveSendGo page on their behalf and are seeding it with $1 million from Alp Pouch.
"The link is below,
"Every dollar will go to Charlie's family at: givesendgo.com/inlovingmemoryofcharlie
Announcements were all online but had this been published in an old legacy broadsheet, before the ink would have been dry, the total already was at $1.3 million.
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The face of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee gruesomely slain on a Charlotte train last month by career criminal Decarlos Brown, may soon be appearing on large murals across America.
Tech giants including Elon Musk and Eoghan McCabe, CEO and founder of the customer communications platform Intercom, are pledging major donations to get the artwork started.
"I am offering $500k in $10k grants to paint murals of the face of Iryna Zarutska in prominent U.S. city locations," McCabe posted on X.
"Please contact katie@eoghan.com for more details. Please also share this message. If you would like to contribute to this fund, please contact Katie also."
Musk responded to McCabe's announcement by saying he would contribute $1 million.
GiveSendGo also launched its own campaign to promote the artwork to honor the 23-year-old murder victim.
"Iryna Zarutska did not ask to be a martyr," its campaign states. "But you can help make sure there is at least some meaning in her brutal death.
"We will install as many posters and murals across this great nation as funds afford so that the important conversations her slaying provokes may perpetuate and drive much needed change. Eoghan McCabe is donating $500k and looking for other sponsors.
"Every dollar beyond that donated here will help. Eoghan's team will ensure all installations are in high visibility locations, are well executed, and are completed legally."
Already more than $54,000 has been raised in that campaign, with a goal of $100,000.
One artificial intelligence expert named Blake has already proffered his own design for a Zarutska mural, saying: "Not a painter, but I do stuff with gen AI. Would be happy to provide artwork to be painted. For free use."
Ian Miles Cheong noted of McCabe's mural project: "I support this effort. While you're at it, can you commission a bronze statue of Iryna sitting on that bench to be placed in front of the Charlotte court as a reminder of their failings and to basically say 'never again.'"
Meanwhile, bestselling author and DEI consultant Matt Walsh says the haunting image of Zarutska's final, fearful moments when her throat was slashed will have a long-lasting impact on Americans.
"This image will define the new civil rights movement," Walsh said.
"We have a right to use public accommodations without being butchered in our seats. We have a right to safe communities where violent animals are rounded up and caged. This is not just a local crime. It's a civil rights issue."
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for a "quick" trial for Brown as well as the death penalty for the "ANIMAL."
"The ANIMAL who so violently killed the beautiful young lady from Ukraine, who came to America searching for peace and safety, should be given a 'Quick' (there is no doubt!) Trial, and only awarded THE DEATH PENALTY," Trump said on Truth Social.
"There can be no other option!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP."
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There are a lot of threats to the rights of parents to raise their own children these days. Some schools have been caught forcing children into various religious ideologies, without parental permission.
Others, including several in Colorado, have been caught secretly campaigning for children enrolled in their classes to claim to be transgenders, and portray themselves in class as such.
Now those types of cases are going to be under federal review.
It is Just the News that revealed a new DOJ memo has directed the Civil Rights Division to work with various law enforcement partners to "identify threats to parental rights and freed speech" in schools.
"Recent years have seen a disturbing trend in which state and local authorities have brought radical gender and racial ideology into our public schools while suppressing dissenting viewpoints. Worse still, they have ignored, dismissed, and even retaliated against concerned parents who speak out against these morally and factually bankrupt ideologies and in defense of their own children," charged Attorney General Pam Bondi.
She explained the First Amendment guarantees the right of every citizen to speak freely, assemble peaceably, and petition the government for redress of grievances – including at public school board meetings.
Political ideologies, bureaucratic convenience and such do not overcome those rights.
The report said she specifically cited forced indoctrination that schools impose on children when they refuse to exempt them from teachings that violate their religious beliefs.
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Get ready for Democrats and other leftists, who long have called for gun limits, gun restrictions, gun bans and gun confiscations. to start defending the Second Amendment.
It's because there are reports the Department of Justice is considering the idea of banning transgenders from buying weapons.
After all, they could be argued to fall under existing restrictions on guns for those who have confirmed mental health conditions.
It is the Daily Wire that noted, "In the wake of the latest deadly attack on a school by a transgender-identifying individual, President Donald Trump's Justice Department is considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms."
A DOJ source explained, "Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell."
The reasoning is that those who say they are transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder.
Specifics were not yet being discussed.
But the DOJ official said, "Under Attorney General Bondi's leadership this Department of Justice is actively considering a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools."
The most recent gun violence by a transgender happened last week at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Trans-identifying Robert Westman, who changed his name to Robin, but also admitted he regretted brainwashing himself, shot up a school, killing two students and injuring many more.
"Westman's actions came only two years after another trans-identifying killer, this one a woman who identified as a man, targeted Christian school children in Nashville," the report said.
The report continued, "A review by The Daily Wire found that the Annunciation school shooting and the Covenant Christian school shooting are just two examples of a steady stream of transgender-related violence over the past decade."
It continued, "The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men — and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body. These critics argue that transgender identification is irrelevant when discussing school shootings and that even discussing the topic puts trans-identifying people in danger and should be off limits.
"In recent years, doctors, therapists, activists, and even President Joe Biden's administration have argued that people experiencing gender dysphoria will benefit from so-called 'gender-affirming care' — transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers — claiming that these gender dysphoric people are more likely to kill themselves if they don't receive such 'care.' Opponents of these measures, including young people who underwent the procedures as teenagers like Chloe Cole, argue that 'gender-affirming care' does not mitigate the distress that gender dysphoric people have, but actually often exacerbates mental health issues."
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Amid growing unrest in the United Kingdom over immigration policies and disconcerting incidents of Brits arrested for publicly – and silently – praying, word comes that a popular comedian has been arrested because of a series of "anti-trans" X posts.
Graham Linehan, creator of the comedy TV show "Father Ted," was arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport, the Daily Mail reports.
The Irish comedy writer, who was traveling on an American Airlines flight from Arizona to London Monday, says he was treated like a terrorist after being detained as soon as he stepped off the plane.
Linehan says he was then escorted to a private are and informed he was under arrest "for three tweets."
Police confirmed that a 57-year-old was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence at "in relation to posts on X," the British news site reported.
After his arrest, Linehan says he required medical assistance "because the stress nearly killed me."
One of the posts, from April 20, said: "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls."
Linehan decried the arrest, saying: "In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet.
"I promise you, I am not making this up."
He said he was "arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online."
"To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the U.K. has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad," Linehan added.
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Federal judges are getting better at stopping jet flights returning foreigners to their home.
This time, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered jets not to take off that were part of a program by the administration of President Donald Trump to repatriate children from Guatemala to their home country, and families.
Earlier, Judge James Boasberg infamously ordered several jets carrying illegal alien criminals being deported to turn around mid-flight, without acknowledging the fact they might not have enough fuel for a return flight.
The Trump administration did not comply, as the flights already were in international airspace and Boasberg, about whom ethics complaints already have been filed, had no jurisdiction there.
This time, the judge ordered the flights not to take off, leaving some children sitting in the aircraft on the runway.
A report at RedState explained the Trump administration was sending illegal alien Guatemalan children back to their home country, after requests by Guatemala and their parents.
That wasn't good enough for Sooknanan.
She issued a temporary restraining order halting the repatriation efforts "even as kids were already sitting in their seats."
The Trump administration had hoped to reunite nearly 700 kids with parents or guardians in Guatemala.
The judge stepped into the program and shut it down after "charter buses had already rolled up to planes in Harlingen and El Paso and, in some cases, children were seated on board awaiting departure," the report said.
Drew Ensign, a lawyer for the Department of Justice, said, "These are not removals under the statute. These are repatriations. All of these children have parents or guardians in Guatemala who have requested their return."
And Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, wasn't pleased with the court's decision to deny the children to opportunity to be reunited with family.
Sooknanan claimed her order was justified because the plan to return the children was happening in the "wee hours" of a holiday weekend.
Miller said, "Cleaning up the mess that Biden made was never going to be easy—his dereliction of duty (or purposeful malfeasance) led to millions of illegal aliens flooding our borders. Now the mainstream press and the Democrats cry foul and shriek 'cruelty' at any efforts to rectify the situation, when in reality it was they themselves who created this humanitarian disaster."
It is Boasberg whose antics have prompted accusations that he is a threat to the rule of law.
The DOJ has filed a complaint warning that he is undermining the nation's judiciary.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has explained the complaint over "misconduct" by Boasberg, a federal judge who once wildly ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to turn around airplanes that already were in international airspace to return the illegal alien criminals they were deporting to America, involved his "making improper public comments about President Trump and his administration."
These comments have undermined the integrity of the judiciary," she confirmed.
A DOJ official confirmed, "Judge Boasberg first tried to persuade Chief Justice Roberts and other federal judges that the Trump administration would not follow court orders, despite having no basis for his belief. Then he acted on his baseless belief again and again in litigation over which he was presiding. Judge Boasberg violated the Canons of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, including the requirement that he 'promote public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.'"
Boasberg has fought the administration's agendas, including that for securing the borders and deporting illegal aliens, especially criminals, for months.
WND has reported it was the Federalist that obtained access to comments Boasberg made at a recent judicial conference undermining the president.
He disparaged the president, even though he's required to be neutral on issues and people in his court, where Trump is a defendant in a number of cases brought by activists trying to undermine his agenda for America.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche later described Boasberg as a "threat to the rule of law" for using his own agendas in his court rulings to try to control the decisions of the Executive Branch.
A report at the Washington Examiner said Blanche was responding to Boasberg's comments and said, the judge was in "serious breach of the judicial oath and a threat to the rule of law."
"This memo confirms that at least some federal judges were predisposed against the Trump administration," Blanche wrote. "Every litigant, regardless of politics, is entitled to a fair forum."
The report noted, "Other senior DOJ officials, including Chad Mizelle, called the report 'very troubling' and said it 'perhaps explains the completely lawless order issued by Judge Boasberg (which was unsurprisingly stayed by the D.C. Circuit).'"
The judge's misbehavior was revealed by the Federalist which confirmed investigative reporter and senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland uncovered the fact that Boasberg, based in Washington, D.C., complained to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts that his colleagues were "concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis."
Boasberg is the chief judge in the judicial district and has been at center of a judicial campaign to prevent Trump's agenda to secure the American borders and deport illegal aliens, those who are in the United States illegally, and often have committed subsequent crimes.
Further, Boasberg also was at the center of activism during President Trump's first term when Trump was under attack in the fabricated Russiagate conspiracy theory launched by the Hillary Clinton campaign and others with lies about Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
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Texas authorities have delivered cease-and-desist letters to groups and organizations that are shipping the deadly abortion pills into the state.
A report at Live Action News explains the letters are from the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton, and targeted three "radical organizations."
The state demands include an "immediate end to the unlawful advertising, sale, and shipment of abortion-inducing drugs into the State of Texas."
The warnings went to Plan C, Her Safe Habor, and California doctor Remy Coeytaux, who have been cited as shipping agents for the pills.
On social media, Paxton explained, Texas will not "tolerate the murdering of innocent life through illegal drug trafficking."
There's a law in Texas, as well as the federal Comstock law, addressing the shipment of deadly drugs into the state.
The AG's letters explain that "performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion is prohibited in the State of Texas…."
Further, it informs the abortion cartel players that the federal Comstock Act of 1873 bars the carriage in interstate commerce of "any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion."
Paxton said, "This legal action follows two tragic cases in Texas in which radical abortion activists and organizations facilitated men illegally purchasing abortion-inducing drugs."
In one recent case a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against a virtual abortion pill business, accusing them of a forced chemical abortion that killed a child of a Texas woman against her will.
Further, Coeytaux is warned, "You have been named in a recently filed lawsuit as having shipped abortion pills into the State of Texas via your affiliation with Aid Access. … In Rodriguez v. Coeytaux, the plaintiff alleges that the abortion pills which caused the death of two preborn children were obtained from Aid Access via an order prescribed by you…. This conduct violates multiple state and federal laws."
"Texas also prohibits false, misleading, or deceptive trade practices under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), Tex. Bus. & Comm. Code § 17.46," the AG's cease-and-desist letter to Plan C said."
Civil penalties for violations can reach up to $100,000 per violation.
The letter warns a refusal to comply could mean a formal investigation and "injunctive relief."