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That Minnesota is a far-left state politically is no surprise, especially after the recent nationwide exposure of its governor, Tim Walz, as Kamala Harris' No. 2 on the Democrat presidential ticket this year.
His radical transgender and pro-abortion agendas, his alignment with China's ideologies, his questionable behaviors and wild claims, all were revealed to the alarm of many who were not previously familiar with his extremism.
The state's leftism actually runs back decades, after it established itself as the only state in the nation to vote against Ronald Reagan for president.
And now the state's questionable agenda regarding the U.S. Constitution has been further revealed by a lawsuit that charges the midwestern state has taken it on itself to decide people's constitutional rights.
It is a lawsuit by Liberty Justice Center that charges Minnesota officials have insisted they can decide the Second Amendment rights of individuals.
The fight is over two truckers who may need to drive through the state, but are banned by the state from carrying firearms in their trucks for protection.
"David McCoy is a full-time, long-haul trucker who lives in the sleeper compartment of his eighteen-wheeler. He has a Texas License to Carry that permits him to bear arms in many states across the country. Jeffrey Johnson is also a full-time, long-haul trucker, with both a Florida Concealed Weapons License and Georgia Weapons Carry License. Even though both men have lawfully issued firearm licenses, they are currently prevented from carrying firearms for self-defense while in Minnesota because the state prohibits carrying a firearm for self-defense, in public or in one's vehicle, without a Minnesota Permit to Carry or a permit recognized by the state," the legal team explained.
The state decides which firearms permits from other states it will recognize, and it now excludes Texas, Georgia, and Florida, and some two dozen other states.
"Due to this law, neither Mr. McCoy nor Mr. Johnson can exercise their constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense due to fear of prosecution, which could jeopardize the credentials needed for their profession," the institute reported.
The new lawsuit argues that Minnesota's permitting law "deprives nonresidents of their Second Amendment right to bear arms. The lawsuit asks the court to find the law unconstitutional and order the state of Minnesota to honor firearm permits issued by all other states."
"Minnesota's refusal to honor other states' lawfully issued firearm permits places an unreasonable burden on the Second Amendment rights of individuals like Mr. McCoy and Mr. Johnson who regularly cross state lines in the course of their work," explained Loren Seehase, a lawyer for the center.
"There is no other constitutional right that individuals are prohibited from exercising until they've obtained permission from the state. No one loses their right to free speech or freedom of religion by simply driving from Texas to Minnesota—so why should they lose their right to self-defense?"
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The Democrats, when President-elect Donald Trump was in his first term, and shortly after, tried to impeach him twice.
Those schemes now may boomerang on the leftist party, according to a new report from Just the News.
It's because there's substance to the suspicions held by Trump at the time that got him impeached, but cleared both times in the Senate jury.
The report explains that Democrats tried to impeach time over a Ukraine scandal, and in the aftermath of Jan. 6. 2021.
"But now, after both of those efforts were undermined by new evidence, their legacy could rebound on President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats," the report explained.
The first scheme wasn't complicated. Democrats claimed Trump abused his power by asking Ukrainian officials for an investigation of Hunter Biden's business operations there.
The claim from Democrats was that the younger Biden had done nothing wrong.
The second plot was to accuse Trump of inciting violence during that protest-turned-riot in Washington. Nancy Pelosi's partisan select committee later took up the messaging and manipulated evidence to try to make it appear Trump was at fault.
Evidence now essentially has destroyed those two premises and, the report said, "Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who will chair the investigating arm of the powerful Senate Homeland Security Committee, said congressional Republicans, with a new Washington, D.C., trifecta, may still have an interest in getting to the bottom of Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine and the conduct of the Democrat-led Jan. 6 Select Committee."
He said, in an interview of the John Solomon Reports, that Americans deserve the truth.
The report noted that House Republicans, and others, have found that "there is significant documentary evidence that Hunter Biden and his father engaged in an influence peddling scheme in Ukraine while the younger Biden was serving on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma."
Key was Biden's decision to change official American policy by "linking a $1 billion loan guarantee for the struggling country to its firing of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma's founder, Mykola Zlochevsky."
Significant in that scandal now is that Joe Biden has given his son a pardon for actions during that time period, so Hunter Biden now "has no Fifth Amendment right not to testify and tell the truth," Johnson said.
And regarding the Jan. 6 riot, the report noted, "evidence uncovered by House Republican investigators led by House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., show that the Jan. 6 Committee selectively framed its narrative, ignored significant evidence of security failures from Democratic leadership and the Pentagon, and even appeared to have coached witnesses."
In fact, one of Pelosi's stars on her commission, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, already has been referred to the Department of Justice for investigation for, among other things, witness tampering.
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David Muir, anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight," is being branded a "pathetic narcissist" after being caught using a clothespin on his fire jacket to make his on-camera appearance more "svelte" while reporting on the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles.
"Nice jacket bro," wrote Jack Osbourne, reality star and son of rock star Ozzy Osbourne. "Glad you look nice and svelte with those clothesline pegs while our city burns to the ground."
One person on social media said: "Just when your reputation hasn't gotten bad enough," as others branded the anchor as "pathetic" and "narcissistic."
Another said: "Fake news ABC's idiot David Muir, the guy who had a presidential debate with President Trump using clothespins to keep his jacket fitted while reporting on the devastating LA fires. Trump is 100% right. These people are sick. Fake! Lying all the time."
Other commenters noted:
"He's a fraud from head to toe."
"ABC con artist David Muir caught red handed clothes pinning his jacket while American burns behind him. Is this supposed to make him look better or something?"
"In the California wildfires, priorities go up in smoke – from what's for dinner to where's the nearest shelter. But David Muir, with his clothespins, shows us the real priority: report the news and always carry a clothespin to look svelte in a bulky outer jacket."
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It seems President-elect Donald Trump's influence on world events hasn't waited until he's president.
Already, Canada soon will be getting a new leader after Justin Trudeau's announcement about his departure, triggered at least partly by Trump comments that undermined his agenda, including his references to Trudeau as "governor" of what could become a state.
Now Mexico has decided, in light of Trump's warnings about the ramifications of continuing caravans of migrants that would become illegal aliens in the U.S., to divert some of that traffic.
Illegal migration has been one of the hallmarks of the Biden administration, with millions and millions crossing America's borders and entering, in violation of federal law, under his open borders agenda.
The impacts have been huge, with cities from Los Angeles to Denver to New York saddled with hundreds of millions of dollars in costs related to an exploding population of illegal aliens. Gang members have unleashed their crime waves.
Now Fox News is reporting the Mexican government "is working hard to break up migrant caravans trying to make the treacherous journey north to the U.S."
And it's coming "ahead of President-elect Trump's inauguration in less than two weeks' time."
"Faced with the prospect of massive tariffs on goods under the new administration, Mexico has been dispersing migrants throughout the country to keep them far from the U.S. border, including dropping them off at the once vibrant tourist hotspot of Acapulco, a beach resort town on Mexico's Pacific coast made famous by the jet set in the 1950s and '60s," the report explained.
The report said authorities now are dropping of busloads of migrants there "with little support and few options."
The goal reportedly is to reduce the number of migrants reaching the U.S. border.
"The migrants tell the Associated Press that they accepted an offer from immigration officials to come to the city under the premise that they could continue their journey north toward the U.S. border, but instead they have essentially been abandoned there," the report said.
"Immigration (officials) told us they were going to give us a permit to transit the country freely for 10, 15 days and it wasn't like that," Venezuelan Ender Antonio Castañeda, 28, said in an interview with AP. "They left us dumped here without any way to get out. They won't sell us (bus) tickets. They won't sell us anything."
Among Trump's plans for secured American borders once he's in office is his warning about a 25% tariff on goods imported from Mexico if the nation doesn't lower the number of migrants flooding into America from its territory.
Trump even has said he wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Trump has said, "Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. They can stop them. And we're going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada, they come through Canada too, and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers, record numbers. So we're going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada, substantial tariffs."
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Without fanfare and almost no notifications, Joe Biden has released 11 al-Qaida-linked prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay to relative freedom in Oman, according to a Daily Mail report.
Two of them had been bodyguards for Osama Bin Laden, killed by American forces after he masterminded the 9/11 terrorism against the United States that killed thousands, and all of them were taken into custody in the aftermath of those attacks.
The Yemeni prisoners suspected of terrorism had been held in custody for years without charges.
A Defense Department statement said, "The United States appreciates the willingness of the government of Oman and other partners to support ongoing U.S. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the Guantanamo Bay facility."
The statement said the "detainees" went through reviews by "professionals" who determined they were eligible for transfer "consistent with the national security interests of the United States."
The report explained it was "the latest salvo – and potentially the last – in a concerted effort from the Biden administration to clear Guantanamo Bay of such prisoners."
The transfer was part of a "covert operation" to get the detainees to Oman where they will be "resettled."
The report said they were not returned to their home country, Yemen, because of its civil war.
According to the report, two suspects, Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi and Suhayl Abdul Anam al Sharabi, both were accused of being bin Laden's bodyguards. And Alwi was thought to be an al-Qaida fighter.
"A separate intelligence file on al-Alwi from 2016 revealed he "has made several statements since early 2016 that suggest he maintains an extremist mindset,'" the report said.
Others given freedom were: Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, Khalid Ahmed Qassim, Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Tawfiq Nasir Awad Al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed Ali al-Rammah, Sanad Ali Yislam Al Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad Ali Bib Attash, Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah.
The report said the move leaves about 15 inmates still at Guantanamo, with cases in various stages.
The facility, set up by President George W. Bush in 2002 as part of the fight against terror, once held 800 prisoners. The inmates are not brought onto U.S. soil, where they would have access to the U.S. justice system.
Barack Obama promised to shut it down, but had two terms in office to accomplish that and failed.
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There were a number of undue influences on the 2020 presidential election that cast doubt on its integrity and fairness.
Ultimately Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were installed in the White House and America has since endured inflation of more than 20%, a stunning invasion of illegal aliens and criminal gangs over its southern border, a White House-led campaign for transgenderism for children and abortion for all, and worse.
Now a polling shows that a stunning majority, nearly 95%, say Trump's "loss" in that election was not fair.
While there were multiple allegations about voting machine failures and ballot manipulations, with suitcases of votes dragged out from under tables in the night, the evidence never showed any of those factors actually would have changed the results.
However, Mark Zuckerberg handed out $400 million to various leftist election officials to help them cope with the influences of COVID, and they ultimately used most of that money simply to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
Further, the FBI decided to interfere in the results by falsely claiming that evidence about Biden family scandals documented in a computer Hunter Biden abandoned at a repair shop was "Russian disinformation," when it actually was accurate.
A subsequent polling showed that probably changed enough votes to cost Trump the election and hand the White House to Biden.
Now a polling, on the anniversary of that protest-turned-riot at in Washington when Biden's victory was made official by congressional adoption of the Electoral College vote, reveals the public's perception.
It is from investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson that came the report of 95% saying " they think Trump did not lose fair and square in 2020."
The polling, while unscientific, did hear from nearly 8,400 people.
Only 5.1% said Trump lost "fair and square." A huge 94.9% said no.
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With the release of a new 182-page report by the Department of Defense, it has become clear that China is conducting its largest military build-up since that of 1930s Nazi Germany.
Prior to the report, some experts said China's military build-up in recent years has been fueled largely by a lack of respect for the Biden administration.
Col. Grant Newsham, USMC-Ret., who once served as the first Marine liaison officer to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, agreed. In his 2023 book "When China Attacks: A Warning to America," Newsham documents Communist China's ongoing covert war against the United States and its allies.
Speaking to WorldNetDaily, the Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy explained that "China's military build-up has been going on for over 30 years – regardless of who has been in the White House – Democrat or Republican." In addition, over the last 20 years, the People's Liberation Army, or PLA – the Chinese Communist Party's military wing – has also strengthened its capabilities.
According to Newsham, the CCP is increasingly emboldened by American weakness and perceived decline. To that end, he told WorldNetDaily, "The Chinese communists certainly did not fear the Biden administration," adding, "There was nobody on 'Team Biden' handling foreign, military, economic policies – or China matters in general – that scared Beijing."
However, in a few areas, such as maintaining former President Donald Trump's tariffs and imposing additional sanctions and trade restrictions on the People's Republic of China, Newsham said, "The Biden administration did some things that irked the PRC." Nonetheless, he admitted, the Chinese continue to telegraph that "they had little to fear from the Biden administration."
On the other hand, Newsham argued, "The first Trump administration was the first one in my lifetime that actually frightened Beijing."
However, he conceded, "the PRC did not slow down its military build-up." For Beijing, he added, the People's Liberation Army and national military power remain "priority number one."
For this reason, he said, "don't expect the PRC to pull back on its military build-up just because Donald Trump will soon be back in office." According to Newsham, "The CCP has reached a point a decade ago where its military is a serious threat to the U.S. and the U.S. military."
Therefore, warns the retired Marine colonel, "Beijing will not let up in its quest to be able to dominate – and defeat, if possible – the U.S. and the U.S. military." Newsham added, "I'm afraid the Chinese communist leadership finally sees this objective as achievable – and sooner than one might think," he warned.
"The PLA's overall capability for joint, combined operations and for operating far afield is becoming a huge problem – especially if you look out five or ten years in the future," Newsham told WND. In addition, he said, "the PLA's rocket force is an immediate threat, as is the rapidly improving and expanding PLA Navy."
China has added 300 medium-range ballistic missiles and 100 long-range cruise missiles to an arsenal of more than 600 operational nuclear warheads. By 2030, the communist country is expected to have more than 1,000.
On top of all this, Newsham told WorldNetDaily, that China's space and undersea capabilities, its biological and psychological warfare, and it electronic warfare capabilities are all equally concerning and threatening.
"The United States needs a sense of urgency," he said, yet "to date, it has not demonstrated such a thing."
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Two Republicans in the House of Representatives, after the first round of voting for a new House Speaker essentially had concluded, changed their votes, handing the leadership position, again, to Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson.
The first round of voting originally came to a conclusion with Johnson leading Hakeem Jeffries 216-215. The final vote was 218 for Johnson, 215 for Jeffries, and one for yet another candidate.
A total of 218 votes were needed to secure the speakership, and two GOP members changed their votes, after the voting essentially had concluded but before it was gaveled closed, to deliver.
It was Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who had charged that Republicans need to stop bickering and work together on the agenda for President-elect Donald Trump.
The 2022 election of a House speaker, then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy, took 15 rounds of voting. Johnson later replaced McCarthy when McCarthy was voted out by his own party.
But the stakes were much higher this year, with Congress scheduled on Monday to adopt the Electoral College victory in the presidential race for President-elect Donald Trump.
Reports noted the victory in one vote came after some conservatives threatened to withhold support from Johnson over the way he dealt with a government funding issue just weeks ago.
Johnson has a 219-215 majority in the House, giving him little breathing room on disputed issues this time around.
Johnson has said he's not in the business of "making deals" or being involved in "quid pro quo" for votes.
"I don't do anything in exchange for a vote other than commit to make this institution work as effectively and efficiently as possible," he said.
Trump offered his endorsement, and added just before the voting began, "Good luck today for Speaker Mike Johnson, a fine man of great ability, who is very close to having 100% support.
"A win for Mike today will be a big win for the Republican Party, and yet another acknowledgment of our 129 year most consequential Presidential Election!! – A BIG AFFIRMATION, INDEED. MAGA!"
After the vote, Trump offered his congratulations:
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A "deeply conflicted" judge in New York, Juan Merchan, says he wants to sentence President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 10 in his case over apparent misdemeanor business records infractions that suddenly were felonies because an anti-Trump prosecutor claimed they were in pursuit of another, unidentified, crime.
The announcement Friday comes from Merchan in the case in which a leftist jury in Manhattan convicted Trump on 34 of those records violations.
The legacy media has styled the case the "hush money" case essentially because Trump's organization labeled his payments to his then-lawyer as legal fees when some of the money went to a woman to keep quiet about an alleged affair, which both alleged participants have denied happened.
Trump communications director Steven Cheung didn't waste time responding: "Today's order by the deeply conflicted, Acting Justice Merchan in the Manhattan DA Witch Hunt is a direct violation of the Supreme Court's Immunity decision and other longstanding jurisprudence. This lawless case should have never been brought and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed. President Trump must be allowed to continue the Presidential Transition process and to execute the vital duties of the presidency, unobstructed by the remains of this or any remnants of the Witch Hunts. There should be no sentencing, and President Trump will continue fighting against these hoaxes until they are all dead."
There are legal motions that can be filed that could stymie Merchan's agenda.
The Article III Project, which advocates for the judiciary, similarly responded, revealing some of the conflicts that face Merchan's plans.
"Democrat Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan—who donated to Trump's opponents and whose adult daughter Loren is raising money off of this bogus case—once again proves he is partisan, corrupt, and dangerous. The Supreme Court must end this immediately," said Mike Davis, who helped win Senate confirmation battles for Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
ABC reported the case sentence will include an "unconditional discharge."
The report said Merchan claimed such a ruling is the "most viable solution to ensure finality and allow Defendant to pursue his appellate options."
Merchan, who analysts have suggested is thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court's recent immunity ruling regarding the Trump cases, assumed the pulpit to lecture Trump over his "disdain for the third branch of government."
He accused Trump of going to "great lengths to broadcast on social media and other forums his lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system as a whole."
That "disdain" from Trump followed a years-long series of lawfare cases assembled by Democrats who appeared to be trying to jail him to keep him from running for the White House again.
For example, multiple charges were filed over the government documents Trump held after he left the presidency. However, federal prosecutors found Joe Biden liable for the same offense, but gave him a free pass for his actions. One jurisdiction even claimed an "organized crime" conspiracy involved Trump.
Merchan's scheme to give Trump a "discharge" would mean there's no penalty, but the conviction would remain on Trump's record.
The conviction already is facing an appeal, with constitutional experts aligned in the opinion that the case ultimately will be thrown out.
WND previously has reported when Merchan insisted on keeping his case going, when other lawfare attacks were being dismissed, Trump wrote, "In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent Acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court, and its Historic Decision on Immunity. But even without Immunity, this illegitimate case is nothing but a Rigged Hoax. Merchan, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it. Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President-Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family's disqualifying and illegal conflicts…."
The case had shaky origins to start. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought business recording situations, which would have been misdemeanors had they been filed before the statute of limitations expired, to court, claiming they were felonies because they were in pursuit of another, unidentified crime.
Then Merchan allowed the salacious testimony of a former porn star in his courtroom and the leftist jury in leftist Manhattan returned guilty verdicts to 34 counts.
Trump continued, "….I am the only Political Opponent in American History not allowed to defend myself – A despicable First Amendment Violation! Merchan took the Manhattan D.A.'s Witch Hunt, that, according to all Legal Scholars, including Jonathan Turley, Elie Honig, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Gregg Jarrett, David Rivkin, Elizabeth Price Foley, Katie and Andy Cherkasky, Paul Ingrassia, and many others, is a nonexistent case, barred by the Statute of Limitations, and should have never been brought and, through his fraud and misconduct, gave it a semblance of 'life.' While Deranged Jack Smith was sent packing back to The Hague after losing all of his politically manufactured cases against me, Merchan, who is far worse and even more corrupt than Smith in his fight for my hopeless political opponents, just cannot let go of this charade. Is it because of his conflicts and relations that he keeps breaking the Law? This has to stop! It is time to end the Lawfare once and for all, so we can come together as one Nation and, Make America Great Again."
Trump's lawyers, citing Joe Biden's recent complaints about unfair prosecutions, had insisted Merchan, who inexplicably had told the jury their verdict did not have to be unanimous, dismiss the case entirely.
Trump's lawyers had told Merchan, "President Donald J. Trump respectfully submits this motion to dismiss the Indictment and vacate the jury's verdicts… The Presidential immunity doctrine, the Presidential Transition Act, and the Supremacy Clause all require that result, and they require it immediately."
Experts have noted the trial itself was "replete with layers of reversible error."
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The Houston mosque reportedly attended by terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar, who killed 15 and injured dozens more in a truck rampage early New Year's Day, has told its members to shun questions from the FBI and refer them instead to the radical CAIR organization.
A statement from Masjid Bilal ISGH, a mosque in Houston, said, after the attack, "Assalamu Alaikum brothers and sisters. I'm sure many of you have heard about the tragic events that took place in New Orleans this morning that are now being classified as an 'act of terror' by the FBI.
"I want to emphasize the importance of everyone to stay very vigilant and aware of your surroundings. The safety of our community is the most important thing."
It continued, "If anyone is contacted by the media, it is very important that you do not respond. If approached by the FBI and a response is necessary, please refer to CAIR and ISGH. It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts. Please stay safe."
It is signed off by JazakAllahu Khairun, "Masjid Bilal Management."
CAIR is the radicals Council on American-Islamic Relations and ISGH is the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.
Jabbar, 42, was discharged from the Army Reserve in 2020 and a report at the Gateway Pundit explained he "converted to Islam before spiraling into erratic behavior, according to family members who spoke with far-left New York Times."
"Dwayne Marsh, married to Jabbar's ex-wife, noted the suspect's increasingly bizarre actions, including cutting his hair drastically and displaying erratic behavior that prompted them to restrict his access to his daughters," the report said.
Law enforcement continues to investigate the motive for the horrific mass murder on Bourbon Street even as authorities have confirmed the terror aspect of the crime.