Trump’s North Carolina Speech Had Over 5.3 Million Viewers, Even Without Fox News

Even without Fox News, over 5 million Americans tuned in to hear the 45th President's second major speech since leaving the White House.

45th President Donald Trump’s speech at the North Carolina Republican Party Convention garnered more than 5.3 million viewers across multiple platforms, even with the former conservative juggernaut Fox News declining to air the speech on its cable network.

Last weekend, President Trump delivered a speech at the North Carolina GOP convention. President Trump’s speech featured the announcement that Rep. Ted Budd is running for U.S. Senate in 2022, complete with President Trump’s live endorsement. President Trump also sharply contrasted his administration’s America First policies to Joe Biden’s, which he framed as America last, and took jabs at Anthony Fauci over his leaked emails, even as he continued to claim the Operation Warp Speed program and the vaccines it created as a major victory of his administration. (READ MORE: TRUMP: Fauci Has Never Been More Wrong Than When Denying COVID Started in Wuhan Lab, China Must Pay)

Now, both Newsmax TV and Right Side Broadcasting have released their total viewership numbers from the event, which reveal a stunning number of Americans watched the 45th President’s speech, even as Fox News, once considered to be a juggernaut of conservative and Republican programming, declined to broadcast President Trump’s speech.

Newsmax reveals that 1.1 million viewers watched the speech on its cable network, while another 700,000 Americans watched the event on “all major [Over The Top] platforms, including Roku, Xumo, Pluto, YouTube, Apple TV, most smart TVs, and Facebook live,” resulting in a total of more than 1.8 million viewers. Newsmax also notes that “Fox News did not air Trump’s speech, leaving Newsmax as the only major cable news channel to air the event live.”

In a statement published to its Twitter, the Right Side Broadcasting Network congratulated Newsmax for its impressive viewership numbered, and revealed that their “version of the President Trump speech at NCGOP has amassed over 3.5 million views across all our platforms, including 2.1 million on YouTube alone.” Right Side Broadcasting Network also offered a tongue-in-cheek thank you to Fox News: “Thanks to @FoxNews for the ratings and all the new viewers!” Combined, over 5.3 million viewers tuned into both Right Side Broadcasting Network and Newsmax TV to see President Trump’s speech.

https://nationalfile.com/trumps-north-carolina-speech-had-over-5-3-million-viewers-even-without-fox-news/

Border Insecurity: Huge Cartel Marijuana Farm Bulldozed 300 Miles Inside California

Tuesday morning illegal drug cartel workers in California’s Antelope Valley got a rude awakening complete with bulldozers, helicopters, and paddy wagons courtesy of the largest law enforcement operational raid in Los Angeles County history. FOXLA reports:

The massive law enforcement effort included: Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.); Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva; multiple bureaus of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD); the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); the California Department of Fish and Wildlife; the Kern County Sheriff’s Office; the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department; the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department; the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department; and other state and local officials.

Nearly 500 law enforcement personnel worked in teams serving search warrants at numerous locations throughout the valley. Warrants yielded the seizure of five firearms and 23 individuals on various felonies and misdemeanor arrests — including one man who claimed to have come into the United States from the Mexican State of Sinaloa just last month.

Why is Sinaloa significant? According to the DEA, Sinaloa is home to the oldest organized drug smuggling and trafficking organization or cartel in Mexico:

The Sinaloa Cartel controls drug trafficking activity along the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Illicit drugs distributed by the Sinaloa Cartel are primarily smuggled into the United States through crossing points located along Mexico’s border with California, Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas.

This notoriously violent drug cartel has infiltrated deep into California’s high desert and other areas of the country. As I wrote last month, no community is safe from border crime. At a press conference Tuesday, Rep. Garcia made clear this infiltration is due to the Biden administration’s lax southern border security:

What we’ve seen the last few months, frankly, are the result of a lack of law enforcement especially at our southern border.

And to our President and our Vice President, this is what happens when you don’t secure the border. This is what happens when you don’t value law enforcement and you push an agenda that actually defunds police.

We end up with disorder and disarray in our local communities.

The Antelope Valley is nearly 300 miles from the southern border and yet, it was home to one of the largest illegal drug operations ever found. The illegal grow site contained over 70 grow houses and cultivated a crop worth an estimated $50 million dollars.

#DEA agents conducting search warrants on multiple illegal marijuana outdoor grows with other partner law enforcement agencies. These illegal grows threaten public safety in the Antelope Valley, destroy the environment & divert tons of water from local residents. pic.twitter.com/7MrYFioI2x

— DEALosAngeles (@DEALOSANGELES) June 8, 2021

That’s just one site. Authorities believe there are currently over 500 illegal grow sites in the high desert backyard of Los Angeles alone.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gwendolynsims/2021/06/09/border-insecurity-huge-cartel-marijuana-farm-bulldozed-300-miles-inside-california-n1453084

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now we know where all the water went

Not All Hackers From DarkSide Group Located in Russia, Cybersecurity Firm Says

The fact that members of the DarkSide hacking group speak Russian does not mean they all operate from within Russia and the majority of the cybercriminals are coming from Eastern Europe, cybersecurity firm FireEye Senior VP Charles Carmakal said during a congressional hearing on the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack.

“DarkSide group is a network of different operators that conduct subversions on behalf of the DarkSide name. While there is a requirement to be affiliated with a DarkSide group that you have to speak the Russian language, it doesn't mean that every single operator is located within Russia. We assess that the majority of the operators are Eastern European criminals,” Carmakal said on Wednesday.

Carmakal said that his company does not possess any information indicating that the recent attacks against Colonial Pipeline and the meat producer JBS were directed by the Russian government.

At the same time, Carmakal welcomed US government attempts to encourage the Russian side to try to apprehend the cybercriminals as well as to stop them from conducting harmful operations.

The cyberattack on the major US fuel transporting facility Colonial Pipeline occurred on May 7 and triggered a gas outage crisis across the southern US states. The attack was attributed to an unknown group of allegedly Russian-speaking hackers. However, President Joe Biden said on several occasions that there was no evidence Russia was involved.

FireEye assisted the investigation of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack by respective US agencies.

https://sputniknews.com/science/202106091083111868-not-all-hackers-from-darkside-group-located-in-russia-cybersecurity-firm-says/