20 Heavily Armed IRS and ATF Agents Raid Great Falls Gun Store, Seize Firearm Purchase Records

In an unprecedented move, twenty armed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents carried out a raid on a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, seizing all Form 4473 – documents that record buyer’s information during firearms transactions.

Tom Van Hoose, owner of Highwood Creek Outfitters, alleges that he has been under constant surveillance by state and federal agencies for over two years, KRTV reported.

On Wednesday, the gun shop owner reported an unexpected visit from 20 heavily armed IRS and ATF agents at his store.

The agents reportedly arrived at the shop early in the morning, as Van Hoose was opening for the day.

“We have now confirmed that both the IRS and the ATF were at Highwood Creek Outfitters in Great Falls around 7 am this morning. Both the IRS and ATF would not say why they were there,” KMON Radio reported.

“A spokeswoman for the IRS would only say they were there on official IRS business. The ATF says it was providing assistance to the IRS. We attempted to enter the store today and were stopped by agents at the door who would only say that the gun store is closed and will reopen tomorrow,” the news outlet added.

According to Hoose, the federal scrutiny began two years ago and has involved various agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, and now, the Internal Revenue Service.

“They must think we’re making a fortune in the gun business to investigate us like this, assuming we’re hiding thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. However, anyone familiar with gun business profit margins would know that’s not the case,” Van Hoose told MTN News.

Van Hoose claims that he was simply told his business had been reported, although he remains in the dark about who reported it or why. He believes the whole episode was politically motivated.

“I can only assume that it’s because of the style of weapons that we have and the press that’s so against them,” said Van Hoose. “The current administration seems to be hell bent on getting those guns out of the hands of average Americans.”

The day’s operations were disrupted, leading to a significant loss of revenue.

“I had about 30 minutes to operate, making just a single $16 sale,” Hoose said.

Highwood Creek Outfitters is America’s largest online firearms and accessories mall, according to its website. The store is known for selling what Van Hoose calls “fun guns,” including AR-15’s and AK-47s.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/it-begins-20-heavily-armed-irs-atf-agents/

FBI and DHS Used Foreign National Convicted Pedophile to Catch Murder for Hire Suspect

An exclusive report from Forbes uncovered that the FBI used a Department of Homeland Security source who was previously convicted of a “child sexual abuse material crime.”

In the investigative report, it was revealed a woman by the name of Julia Coda who went by the online name Bonfire was arrested after she allegedly went on a dark web hitman-for-hire-site to offer thousands to anyone willing to murder a Louisiana man who Coda believed kidnapped her late sister’s daughter.

Unknown to Coda at the time, the site was a scam that took people’s money and also fed details to federal investigators.

A search warrant obtained by Forbes which led to Coda’s arrest revealed the government received evidence from a DHS source from a foreign national who is a convicted pedophile.

In the warrant, however, it makes no mention of the DHS source being previously convicted of having child exploitation materials but rather they simply label the source as an “HSI Source.”

In 2021, a person going by the username Bonfire offered to pay thousands to have a Louisiana man killed on a dark web hitman-for-hire site. They wanted it to look like an accidental drug overdose. But Bonfire was unwittingly walking into two traps. Not only was the site a scam — where the admins simply took users’ money and provided no hitmen — but it had also been hacked. Details of Bonfire’s illicit purchase were going to be passed along to federal investigators.

This is all according to a search warrant unearthed by Forbes, which detailed an investigation into the woman believed by the FBI to be behind the Bonfire persona: Julia Coda, a Los Angeles hairdresser and beautician school founder, who is accused of ordering the assassination on the target because she believed he had forcefully kidnapped her niece following the death of Coda’s sister earlier in 2021. Coda has pleaded not guilty and declined to comment.

Core to the government’s warrant is evidence provided by a hacker who’d breached the hitman-for-hire site. But this hacker has their own dark past. Acquired as far back as 2018 as a source by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations agency, they had been previously convicted of crimes related to child sexual abuse material in a foreign country, according to the search warrant.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/06/14/exclusive-dhs-used-hacker-convicted-of-child-exploitation-as-a-source/?sh=12ef08c64ab8

Biden lays down NATO warning for Ukraine

Kiev has to meet the alliance’s standards before it can join the US-led bloc, President Joe Biden says

Ukraine will not have an “easy” entry into the US-led NATO alliance and will be required to meet the “same standards” as any other member of the bloc, US President Joe Biden has declared. His remarks come amid reports of a simplified procedural plan for Kiev, tabled by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

“They’ve got to meet the same standards. So we’re not going to make it easy,” Biden told reporters near Washington on Saturday.

His statement comes in the aftermath of a meeting he had with Stoltenberg, who was hosted at the White House this Tuesday. At the meeting, the NATO chief reportedly floated a plan to simplify the accession process for Ukraine, arguing that Kiev had already made significant progress toward membership.

Under his scheme, the country would not have been required to complete a so-called “membership action plan” (MAP), usually imposed by the US-led bloc on applicants. While other Eastern European members of the bloc went through this procedure before being admitted, the most recent addition, Finland, was spared the process.

Multiple US media reports had suggested Biden appeared to be “open” to the plan and had even provisionally supported it. At the same time, other reporting on the subject suggested Biden had another scheme for Ukraine in mind. For instance, the New York Times reported the US administration was reluctant to ever grant Ukraine full NATO membership, pushing instead for the ‘Israel model,’ which would mean a time-limited commitment to maintain the flow of Western weapons to a designated country.

Joining NATO has been a top talking point for pro-Western Ukrainian politicians for decades already, yet little to no progress has actually been made on that path. The pace has seemingly picked up amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev – triggered, among other things, by U

https://www.rt.com/news/578208-biden-ukraine-easy-nato/

Feds Quietly Drop 5 Charges Against SBF in Multi-Billion Dollar FTX Scam Including Allegation He Bribed Chinese – SBF Is the Democrat Party’s Second Largest Donor

Crypto giant FTX went bankrupt last year, the company losing billions of dollars overnight.

FTX owner Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was the second biggest donor to Democrats in the 2022 midterms.

In early January Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to all 8 counts related to the collapse of his crypto Ponzi scheme. SBF pleaded not guilty in New York federal court Tuesday to eight charges related to the collapse of his former crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research.

SBF was indicted on eight counts, including charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, individual charges of securities fraud and wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to avoid campaign finance regulations.

In January the attorney for FTX testified in court that the co-founder of the crypto company used a secret backdoor to launder money to Alameda Research, a sister company. Caroline Ellison, SBF’d ex girlfriend and Alameda CEO admitted she and Sam Bankman-Fried conspired to mislead FTX investors and customers.

On Thursday federal prosecutors announced they would drop several charges against this major Democrat donor.

ABC reported:

Federal prosecutors in New York said they would drop several criminal charges, at least for now, against disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried if the judge agrees to try him later on those charges.

The offer to sever five of the 13 charges followed a ruling earlier this week in the Bahamas that allows Bankman-Fried to challenge the additional charges.

A prosecutor said during a hearing Thursday it was uncertain when the Bahamas would decide whether to consent to the new charges, which included bank fraud and an allegation Bankman-Fried bribed the Chinese.

“Severing those counts seems to be appropriate given the developments in the Bahamas this week,” the prosecutor, Nathan Rehn, said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/biden-regime-quietly-drop-5-charges-against-sbf/

Barack Obama Proposes “Digital Fingerprints” to Help the Regime Combat What They Deem as Online “Misinformation”

Barack Obama has proposed the implementation of “digital fingerprints” online to assist the regime in regulating viewpoints that are not aligned with their agenda.

The proposition was made during an appearance on “The Axe Files,” a CNN Audio podcast hosted by David Axelrod, his former senior White House adviser.

During the interview, Axelrod brought up the “misinformation, disinformation, and deepfakes,” particularly those directed at Obama.

“As I’ve told people, because I was the first digital president when I left office, I was probably the most recorded filmed photographed human in history, which is kind of a weird thing,” Obama said.

Obama claimed that this collection had provided a rich source of raw material for the creation of manipulated content.

“Usually all the deep fakes start with like some version of Obama doing something, dancing, saying dirty limericks or whatever. Right. That technology’s here now,” Obama said.

Obama expressed concern about the next election cycle. If the government doesn’t control what they call “misinformation,” or opinions that oppose them, it could impact the election results.

Recall, current Secretary of State Tony Blinken was reportedly behind the effort to put together a list of government intel leaders to claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation” to help Biden with his election.

In addition, Obama spread the false claim that then-candidate Donald Trump conspired with Russia to secure his victory in 2016.

Obama advocated for the development of watermarking or digital fingerprint technology to tell apart true news from false news.

“And the need for us, for the general public, I think to be more discriminating consumers of news and information, the need for us to overtime develop technologies to create watermarks or digital fingerprints so we know what is true and what is not true,” he said.

“There’s a whole bunch of work that’s going to have to be done there, but in the short term, it’s really going to be up to the American people to kind of say.”

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Obama and Axelrod went on to say that today many consumers are only viewing information from sources they are predisposed to agree with and will likely believe what they see.

“Obviously, we saw that during the vaccination stuff. So, I am concerned about it,” added Obama, referring to the COVID vaccine. “And I think the best we’re going to be able to do is to constantly remind people that this is out there.”

The former president said he thinks most people are now aware that “not everything that pops up on your phone is true,” but cautioned misinformation can be used to discourage people from voting by characterizing the system as rigged and corrupt.

“That can oftentimes advantage the powerful,” said Obama. “And I am worried about that kind of cynicism developing even further during the course of this next election.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/barack-obama-proposes-mandatory-digital-fingerprints-help-regime/

Ukrainian Head of Intelligence Is Missing – General Budanov Hasn’t Been Seen in 17 Days – Russian Media Says He Was Wounded, Evacuated to Germany – Kiev Denies, Putin Confirms Attack on GRU Headquarters

General Kyrylo Oleksiyovych Budanov is a Ukrainian military leader who has been the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GRU) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine since August 2020.

Budanov has been one of the most outspoken and high-profile Ukrainian officials during the war, but now he has vanished from sight as the Counteroffensive peters out.

For weeks, the rumors that he was dead of seriously injured have spread like fire in the Russian Telegram channels, and now Russian mainstream media is starting to report it too.

RIA Novosti:

“According to the information received by the Russian security forces from sources in the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, it became known that Kirill Budanov was injured during a Russian strike on the building of the Main Intelligence Directorate located on Rybalsky Island in Kiev on the morning of May 29. ‘A Russian missile flew into the neighboring office with Budanov’, he said.

[…] Budanov managed to be pulled out from under the rubble, after which he was evacuated by an air ambulance helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Rzeszow military base in Poland, and from there – by a C-21A aircraft of the 86th air medical evacuation unit specially arrived from the Ramstein airbase. US Air Force squadrons were delivered to Berlin. A record of the flight of this American aircraft was also preserved in the data of the Flightaradar service, which confirms the words of the source.”

The RIA Novosti source says he is now in serious condition, being treated at the Bundeswehr hospital in Berlin, at 13 Scharnhorststrasse.

The GRU chef is a highly controversial figure who has publicly admitted to be ordering Russian propagandists – that is, civilians.

Newsweek reported:

“The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service has said in an interview that Kyiv has assassinated Russian propagandists.

[…] Among the more high-profile incidents was last August’s car-bomb killing of Darya Dugina, the journalist daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, an ideologue known as ‘Putin’s philosopher’.

More recently, the prominent military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by an explosion at a Saint Petersburg café in April, and earlier this month pro-Kremlin writer Zakhar Prilepin was injured in car-bomb attack.

[…] Though he didn’t give more details about Ukraine’s involvement in any Russian propagandists’ deaths, Budanov [stated] that ‘there have been well-publicized cases everyone knows about, thanks to the media coverage’.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/ukrainian-head-intelligence-is-missing-general-budanov-hasnt/

Congress Restricts Funding of Chinese, Russian Labs, But Loopholes Remain

More than three years after the U.S. stopped sending taxpayer dollars to fund coronavirus experiments on bats in China, 27 Chinese laboratories – including some run by the Chinese Communist Party – are still eligible for U.S. government funding for research on animals, according to a new review of Congressional Research Service data provided to Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst.

The ongoing debate over COVID’s origins, including U.S. intelligence agencies’ belief that the virus likely or could have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has spurred far more Washington scrutiny of U.S. funding of various research programs in China and Russia. Over the last year, Congress has broadened the effort, working to limit or altogether end U.S. financial support for research projects in all countries regarded as foreign adversaries.

In late May, an analysis by Ernst and the watchdog group Open the Books found that the American research institutes had sent Chinese and Russian entities at least $1.3 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars over five years for various programs, including several at the Wuhan lab, as well as experiments forcing cats to run on treadmills in Russia and a gender-equality New Yorker cartoon exhibition in Beijing.

The CRS data showed that $490 million in U.S. grants and contracts were paid to Chinese entities, while another $780 million went to Russian entities. Before Ernst’s efforts, the Government Accountability Office estimated that the U.S. sent just $48 million to Chinese entities over the five-year period examined, from 2017 to 2021.

Another outside group, the White Coat Waste Project, which seeks to end government-funded animal experiments and first exposed the U.S. financing of the coronavirus research in Wuhan, has since reviewed all the U.S.-funded research programs over that five-year period.

A White Coat Waste review of the CRS data, released to RealClearPolitics this week, found that the University of Illinois spent $123,552 of a $1.6 million NIH grant on a Kremlin-linked project at a Russian fur farm that killed foxes, and that the University of Southern California channeled $576,453 of a $1.9 million NIH grant to China’s Peking University for deadly experiments on mice.

It also showed that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Seattle-based Allen Institute sent $993,000 of a $64.7 million NIH grant to Wuhan’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology for a deadly experiment on baby mice. In addition, Emory University shipped $515,418 of a $38.6 million Health and Human Services contract to the CCP-linked Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, which houses one of China’s dangerous high-containment bio-agent labs.

The experiments at Harbin involved dangerous avian flu viruses collected from China’s wet markets being forced into mice and guinea pigs and efforts to supercharge viruses to make them more transmissible.

Ernst believes the $1.3 billion she uncovered is likely the floor, not the ceiling, for what she describes as “pointless projects” in China and Russia because federal agencies do not follow the trail of tax dollars overseas. To ensure Congress knows where all its funding ends up, Ernst has introduced a bill requiring all U.S. funding for organizations in China and Russia to be tracked to its final destination and disclosed. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the China Select Committee, has authored a House version of the measure.

https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2023/06/16/congress_restricts_funding_of_chinese_russian_labs_but_loopholes_remain__149367.html

Girl Sues Hospital For Removing Her Breasts At Age 13

A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy.

The defendants carried out “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” when they prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy, Charles LiMandri, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, Layla Jane, said in a statement.

Jane, now 18, was influenced by people online when she was just 11 and told her parents that she was a boy, prompting them to ask for guidance from doctors.

While three doctors said Jane was too young for cross-sex hormones, she was eventually referred to several other doctors who prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones. Within six months, they removed her breasts.

The hormones and puberty blockers were given based on a single, 75-minute session with Susanne Watson, a psychologist, according to the suit. Dr. Winnie Tong, a plastic surgeon, concluded after a 30-minute session that Jane could have her breasts removed.

“Defendants did not question, elicit, or attempt to understand the psychological events that led Kayla to the mistaken belief that she was transgender, nor did they evaluate, appreciate, or treat her multi-faceted presentation of co-morbid symptoms,” the suit reads.

“Instead, Defendants assumed that Kayla, a twelve-year-old emotionally troubled girl, knew best what she needed to improve her mental health and figuratively handed her the prescription pad. There is no other area of medicine where doctors will surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and intentionally induce a diseased state of the pituitary gland misfunction based simply on the young adolescent patient’s wishes.”

Doreen Samelson, a psychologist not named as a defendant, by contrast, told Jane and her parents that she couldn’t receive puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones due to factors such as her age.

Jane, whose given name is Kayla Lovdahl, has since “detransitioned,” or resumed identifying as a girl.

She’s currently receiving psychotherapy for mental health issues such as social anxiety disorder. That kind of treatment should have been offered instead of the drastic steps the defendants took, the suit states, noting that, per a number of studies, youth who experience gender dysphoria often ultimately become comfortable with their birth sex.

Other papers have found that people who underwent chemical or surgical procedures to “transition” experience mental health issues and higher suicide rates. And some countries have restricted the usage of puberty blockers to certain settings due to a dearth of clinical research on using them on youth wanting to transition.

The lack of therapy and outlining of possible side effects from the surgery means the doctors didn’t provide Jane with informed consent, according to the suit. Instead, the defendants claimed that the dysphoria wouldn’t resolve unless she underwent the procedure.

At one point, one allegedly told her parents, “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/girl-sues-hospital-removing-her-breasts-age-13

Meta Lowers Minimum Age of Quest Headsets in Bid to Lure Children Into VR

Facebook parent company Meta announced plans to enable children as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through its Meta Quest headset later this year, despite a recent advisory warning social media can negatively impact the mental health and well-being of children.

“Today we’re announcing changes to give families even more ways to use and enjoy Meta Quest. Starting later this year, parents will be able to set up parent-managed Meta accounts for Meta Quest 2 and 3 for their children ages 10—12,” the company stated in a blog post on Friday.

The policy change will lower the minimum age for a Quest account from 13 years old in order to allow preteens to immerse themselves in a virtual world filled with digital avatars and other technological fabrications.

In its blog post, Meta said that parents will play a pivotal role in creating and managing their children’s accounts for the Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets, and promised that preteens’ access will be limited to “age-appropriate” apps deploying virtual reality, or VR.

“We’ll require preteens to get their parent’s approval to set up an account, which will give parents control over the apps their preteens download from our app store,” the company said. “When parents share their preteen’s age with us, we’ll use this information to provide age-appropriate experiences across our app store. For example, we’ll only recommend age-appropriate apps.”

Meta also revealed that they’re working closely with developers to “bring more age-appropriate apps and games” to the platform in the coming months for the updated age bracket.

The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company’s push to lower the minimum age in a bid to lure preteens into a virtual world comes amid debate over potential health consequences linked to social media use and wireless device radiation.

For years, both Facebook and Instagram have been under fire for using tactics that get children hooked on social media at a young age, undercutting their real-life relationships with friends and families while exposing them to the risk of online bullying and abuse by sexual predators.

Mounting Concern

Last month, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called upon tech companies and lawmakers to take steps to protect children from the potentially harmful mental and emotional effects of too much exposure to social media.

https://www.ntd.com/meta-lowers-minimum-age-of-quest-headsets-in-bid-to-lure-children-into-vr_926014.html

Chinese Intel Arm Quietly Operates ‘Service Centers’ In 7 US Cities

A Chinese intelligence agency quietly operates “service centers” in seven American cities, all of which have had contact with Beijing’s national police authority, according to state media reports and government records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front Work Department (UFWD) — which at least one U.S. government commission has characterized as a “Chinese intelligence service” — operates so-called “Overseas Chinese Service Centers” (OCSCs) that are housed within various U.S.-based nonprofits. OCSCs were ostensibly set up to promote Chinese culture and assist Chinese citizens living abroad, according to Chinese government records.

State media reports, Chinese government records and social media posts show that during a 2018 trip to China, U.S.-based OCSC representatives met with Ministry of Public Security (MPS) officials. During the meeting, state security officials demonstrated how they’re leveraging new technology to conduct “cross-border remote justice services” overseas.

MPS is China’s national police authority and has been referred to as “China’s FBI” by China experts. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says MPS also conducts covert “intelligence and national security operations far beyond China’s borders,” including “illicit, transnational repression schemes” on U.S. soil.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/17/china-intelligence-service-centers-ccp/

Hate Speech Law to ‘Restrict Freedom’ for the ‘Common Good’, Claims Irish Senator

Impending hate speech legislation is about “restricting freedom” for the “common good”, the chairwoman of the Irish Green Party said this week.

Appearing before the Irish Senate (Seanad) this week, Green Party chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly admitted that the intention of proposed legislation to further curtail speech in Emerald Isle is intended to “restrict freedom”, but in an Orwellian turn attempted to convince the public that this would somehow be in their interests.

“When one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good,” Senator O’Reilly said.

“Throughout our Constitution one can see that while one has rights they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced.

“If a person’s views on other people’s identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for the common good.

“Social media has fuelled hatred but it has also put on display for all of us the dirty, filthy, underbelly of hatred in Irish society. That hatred has always existed.”

The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022, which is still being debated by Irish lawmakers, has become highly controversial, with Twitter chief Elon Musk recently branding the bill as a “massive attack against freedom of speech”.

The legislation would criminalise large swaths of speech, including “incitement to violence or hatred against” against people with “protected characteristics”, as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.”

The hate speech law would also controversially allow the government to jail citizens for merely possessing supposedly offensive material. Under the current form of the bill, anyone found in possession of so-called hateful material would be subject to up to one year in prison.

Speaking against the bill, Senator Rónán Mullen warned that the legislation would curtail free speech and be used as a weapon to target political dissent.

“We are in a society dominated by cancel culture where people are frequently accused of being haters for expressing points of view that are not hate but simply robust expressions of opinion,” Mullen said.

“When the social media mob is on the rampage, the Garda and the prosecution service will have little choice but to pursue the Graham Linehans and JK Rowlings of Irish society for robustly expressing their points of view.”

The independent Senator went on to say: “Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. Without it, there is no free exchange of ideas at all levels within society. In short, there is no democracy. That is why we use the term ‘fundamental’.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/17/hate-speech-law-to-restrict-freedom-for-the-common-good-claims-irish-senator/

Canada attempting to expand EUTHANASIA program to allow assisted suicide of the mentally ill

The country’s euthanasia program, known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), contains provisions for its expansion to eventually allow people in Canada with mental illness to petition the government to be allowed to commit suicide.

This proposed expansion has come under fire, prompting the government to delay its expansion to March 17, 2024 – with the delay supposedly providing the Liberal Party-led government with more time to “prepare” for the law’s expansion.

Long before the deadline approaches, conservative members of parliament (MPs) and advocacy organizations are already hard at work to make sure that MAID’s expansion is blocked and the legal euthanasia bill itself is, eventually, overturned.

In the Canadian House of Commons, the country’s lower house, Conservative MP Ed Fast recently submitted Bill C-314, “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying),” to prevent MAID’s expansion to include the mentally ill.

In statements made in parliament during Bill C-314’s second reading on May 17, Fast warned that the Canadian government is expanding MAID “to include more and more defenseless Canadians, most particularly those living with disabilities.”

“What is equally disturbing is that the Liberal government has also signaled its intention to extend the so-called ‘treatment option’ to minor children,” warned Fast. “That would arguably make Canada the most expansive, most liberal assisted suicide jurisdiction in the world.”

“Canadians have a right to conclude that the Liberal government has gone too far and too fast in its zeal to implement and expand the scope of assisted death,” he added. “My bill will reverse this momentum and repeal the government’s decision to extend MAID to the mentally ill. It will put a full stop to the expansion of assisted suicide to mentally disordered persons.”

Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) warned that the biggest issue with expanding MAID to include the mentally ill is that the people with mental health concerns do not have “the same level of capacity to make a decision about themselves or the mental illness.”

Further, MAID does not answer how people with mental health problems have an “irremediable disease,” which is supposedly the main metric for allowing euthanasia. “How could you say that someone with a mental illness has an irremediable mental condition?” asked Schadenberg.

https://www.genuinechristianitynow.com/2023/06/17/canada-attempting-to-expand-euthanasia-program-to-allow-assisted-suicide-of-the-mentally-ill/

Texas Sheriff Charges Border City Councilwoman from Mexico After Federal Judge Dismissed Drug Charge

A Texas sheriff arrested and charged a Reynosa, Tamaulipas, city councilwoman on state drug possession charges after a U.S. federal judge dismissed the federal charge and ordered her release. Federal authorities arrested the Mexican border city politician after finding more than 42 kilograms of cocaine inside her vehicle.

Brooks County Sheriff’s Office deputies took Denisse Martinez Ahumada into custody after she was released from federal custody. Court documents revealed that a justice of the peace in Brooks County ordered she be held without bond on the charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance. After the hearing, authorities booked Ahumada into the Hidalgo County Jail.

The state charges against Ahumada come just one day after U.S. Magistrate Judge Juan Alanis in McAllen, Texas, dismissed the federal charges against her. Court documents revealed that the judge ruled there was no probable cause in the case.

As Breitbart Texas reported, federal authorities arrested Ahumada after U.S. Border Patrol agents found 42 kilograms of cocaine in her vehicle at the U.S. Highway 281 Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint. A criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration revealed that during questioning by U.S. Border Patrol agents, she claimed to have previously transported drugs.

However, the information from the criminal complaint was not supported by the testimony of DEA Agent Nicholas Landsman during the hearing, Dave Hendricks from the Progress Times reported. During the hearing, the agent revealed that Ahumada’s vehicle set off a law enforcement alert, and after being referred to a secondary inspection area, agents x-rayed the vehicle and found the drugs.

The agent testified that Ahumada had been threatened in Mexico into moving a loaded vehicle, the Progress Times reported. The woman reportedly drove to Monterrey and then drove back to Reynosa one day before her arrest in Falfurrias. However, during the hearing, defense attorney Samuel Reyes got the agent to confirm that Ahumada apparently did not know that the vehicle contained cocaine when authorities found the drugs. Prosecutors tried to allege that a reasonable person knew that there was something illegal, however, based on the information Alaniz ruled that there was no probable cause and dismissed the charges.

Ahumada is a city councilwoman in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, her arrest caused much controversy in Mexico as various political parties used it to attack each other.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/06/17/texas-sheriff-charges-mexican-border-city-councilwoman-after-federal-judge-dismisses-drug-charge/

Twitter hit with $250 million copyright infringement lawsuit from music publishers

A coalition of music publishers, including Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music and Sony Music Publishing, is suing Twitter over “massive copyright infringement” involving the companies’ respective music catalogs.

Seventeen music publishers, who hold the rights to music from artists including Drake, Taylor Swift and Adele, filed the joint lawsuit in Tennessee federal court. They seek more than $250 million in damages.

Elon Musk’s X Corp, which owns Twitter, is the sole defendant.

“Twitter stands alone as the largest social media platform that has completely refused to license the millions of songs on its service,” David Israelite, chief executive of the National Music Publishers’ Association, said in a statement. “Twitter knows full well that music is leaked, launched, and streamed by billions of people every day on its platform. No longer can it hide behind the (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and refuse to pay songwriters and music publishers.”

Israelite accused Twitter of platforming leaked music, copyrighted music videos and other material. Under DMCA rules, Twitter and other social media websites are protected against copyright strikes over user-uploaded material, provided they work to remove infringing material and punish the offending users.

However, the lawsuit argues Twitter has failed to do so.

“Twitter further claims that it expeditiously removes content in response to valid claims, nearly always within hours of initial reports, if not in minutes,” the lawsuit reads. “But the reality is that Twitter routinely ignores known repeat infringers and known infringements, refusing to take simple steps that are available to Twitter to stop these specific instances of infringement of which it is aware.”

The 17 publishers suing Twitter are ABKCO Music, Anthem Entertainment, Big Machine Music, BMG Rights Management, Concord, Hipgnosis, Kobalt, Mayimba, Peer, Reservoir Media Management, Sony Music Publishing, Spirit Music Group, the Royalty Network, Ultra Music Publishing, Universal Music Group Publishing, Warner Chappell and Wixen.

In response to questions about the lawsuit, Twitter’s press department sent an auto-reply of the poop emoji.

Twitter has long drawn the ire of music publishers, even before Musk purchased the site in October 2022. In a 2020 hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, the Recording Industry Association of America accused Twitter of taking no action to stop “industrial scale piracy” on its website.

According to The New York Times, Twitter had recently considered licensing music from the three major labels but talks fell through after Musk assumed control of the company.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/06/twitter-hit-with-250-million-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-from-music-publishers/

Zelensky Slams Trump for Saying He Would End the War in Ukraine

The Ukrainian leader admitted that there was an ongoing civil war prior to the Russian invasion

In an interview with NBC News, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attacked former President Donald Trump’s pledge to end the war. He argued that if Kiev does not defeat Moscow, Russia will attack a NATO member state and force the US into a direct conflict.

Zelensky was asked about Trump’s claim he would immediately engage the Kremlin in talks and bring the war to a negotiated settlement. "Are they ready to start a war to send their children? Are they ready to die?" he said in the interview that was published on Thursday. "If Russia occupies Ukraine, they will move on to the Baltic countries, to Poland, to any NATO country, and in that particular case the U.S. will have to choose between dismantling NATO or fighting."

Kiev and hawks in Washington have asserted that Ukraine is a bulwark, protecting members of NATO from Moscow’s expansionist ambitions. However, there is no evidence that the Kremlin eyes attacking another country. Russian President Vladimir Putin views Ukraine as a unique security threat to his county and says seizing territory protects Moscow against the expanding NATO alliance.

Ukraine hopes to be added as a member of the alliance once the war is over. “We need an invitation, and it needs to be clear that after this war, if we are ready, and if the Ukraine army is ready to NATO standards, then after the war we will be invited to join.” Zelensky continued, “It’s very important to hear the truth and not tell us lies.”

In 2008, Ukraine was told it would one day receive full NATO membership. At the time, Moscow denounced the proposal, saying it violated red lines and, from the Russian perspective, would create a significant security threat.

Despite the Russian objections, NATO maintains its doors are open to new members, but Ukraine does not currently meet the requirements. As Kiev is currently at war with Moscow, admitting Ukraine into the alliance will put NATO in direct confrontation with Russia.

At times, Kiev appears to be frustrated with NATO refusing to make a formal commitment to Ukraine. Zelensky is threatening to sit out a coming meeting of the North Atlantic alliance in July because Ukraine will not receive a pledge to become a member at the end of the war.

Zelensky went on to slam Trump, claiming he was unable to end the war in Ukraine while he was in office. "Why didn’t he do that earlier? He was president when the war was going on here," he explained. "I think he couldn’t do that. I think there are no people today in the world who could just have a word with Putin and end the war."

The statement appears to be an admission from Zelensky that the war in Ukraine began before the Russian invasion in 2022. Prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine was embroiled in an eight-year-long civil war. Washington and NATO justify their support for Kiev by saying the Russian invasion was "unprovoked."

The Minsk Accords were agreed to by Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France with the intention of ending the civil war. However, Zelensky was unable to get neo-nazi paramilitaries fighting for Ukraine to comply with the agreement. In the days before the Russian invasion, there was a surge in fighting between Ukrainian forces and rebels in the Donbas region.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/16/zelensky-slams-trump-for-saying-he-would-end-the-war-in-ukraine/

Biden claims spy balloon was 'more embarrassing' for China, suggests it wasn't 'intentional'

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently visiting China

President Biden on Saturday claimed that a Chinese spy balloon that drifted across the U.S. and caused a major international incident was "more embarrassing than it was intentional" by the communist regime.

The president also said he hopes to talk to China's President Xi Jinping about how the U.S. and Beijing can "get along."

Biden was asked whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken can ease tensions with China as part of his trip to the country. Biden, in response, raised the issue of the balloon, which flew over the U.S. in February until it was shot down off the coast of South Carolina.

"China has some legitimate difficulties unrelated to the United States, and I think one of the things that balloon caused was not so much that it got shot down, but I don't think the leadership knew where it was, knew what it was in it and what was going on," he said.

"I think it was more embarrassing than it was intentional," he said.

The incident led to intense criticism of the administration from a number of Republicans, who said it should have been shot down much earlier, and caused Blinken to postpone a planned trip to China. The administration had cited safety concerns about shooting down the heavy object over populated areas.

An NBC News report in April said that the spy balloon was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites. The Pentagon later said it could not confirm that there was any real-time transmission of data. The Chinese have said that the balloon's movements were accidental.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-claims-spy-balloon-more-embarrassing-china-suggests-wasnt-intentional

FBI arrests Michigan man for allegedly planning mass attack on synagogue

Seann Pielia, 19, now faces charges of transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure another individual.

A teenager from Pickford, Michigan, was arrested on Friday by the FBI after expressing explicit neo-Nazi and antisemitic beliefs online, including allegedly planning a deadly assault at a local synagogue, according to local news sites.

Seann Pietila, 19, now faces charges of transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure another individual, according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan.

The criminal complaint states that Pietila engaged in conversations on Instagram where he expressed strong hatred towards the Jewish population, voiced support for neo-Nazis and idolized previous mass shooters.

"Antisemitic threats and violence against out Jewish communities - or any other group for that matter - will not be tolerated in the Western District of Michigan,"

US Attorney Mark Totten

Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at his residence and discovered a cache of weapons, including firearms, a Nazi flag, a ghillie suit, gas masks and military sniper/survival manuals.

During the search, authorities also found a message on Pietila’s phone in the Notes app that identified a synagogue in East Lansing along with a date and a list of equipment. The FBI took immediate action upon receiving a report about threatening online communications, leading them to link the messages to Pietila.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-746611

Former Obama Official Says He Has Evidence That Joe Biden ‘Is A Criminal’

The Biden family is getting hit by an unlikely source as a former official in the Obama administration has come forward to allege that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a “kickback scheme” with his son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.

Mike McCormick, who served as a stenographer for 15 years in the White House said that the FBI has been ignoring him even though he is willing to testify under oath before the federal grand jury investigating Biden’s son.

“In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you’re lying to them, you go to jail. I’m not lying. I’m telling the truth, and I’m not going to jail,” he said. “Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there’s more… Obama officials involved in it, I believe.”

“McCormick, who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, detailed a key dialogue involving the vice president, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 21, 2014. Sullivan, who is the current national security adviser, outlined in a White House transcript Biden’s priorities for his trip to the country, which included U.S. investment in the Ukrainian energy sector days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma Months later, and well after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine’s energy market,” the outlet reported.

“I’m sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we’re bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that’s what I recorded, and that’s in a White House transcript,” the former stenographer said.

“In the transcript, you don’t know who Jake Sullivan is. It’s a senior administration official. I’m the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family,” he said.

Hunter Biden joined Burisma three days before Biden’s trip to Ukraine and McCormick alleged that the timeline showed Biden sending American money overseas to “enrich” himself and his family.

The former stenographer claims that he has information that directly implicates President Biden and other officials in what he said was an influence-peddling scheme.

“If I went in there, I would tell them to have Barack Obama called in as a witness because he’s part of the conspiracy. He’s an ex-president. He has to answer who was in charge of this, putting Joe Biden into this role. Did Barack Obama know about it?” McCormick said.

Last week, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley shared explosive news by saying the Burisma executive who allegedly paid then-Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them as an “insurance policy.”

“Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed from the Senate floor Monday what was said to be a redacted reference in the FBI-generated FD-1023 form alleging a criminal bribery scheme between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national that involved influence over U.S. policy decisions. Grassley said the FD-1023 has a redacted reference that the Burisma executive possesses fifteen audio recordings of phone calls between himself and Hunter Biden,” Fox News reported.

“According to Grassley, the FD-1023 also states that the executive possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between himself and then-Vice President Joe Biden. The recordings were allegedly kept as an “insurance policy” for the foreign national in case he was in some type of ‘tight spot,’ a source told Fox News Digital,” the outlet added.

https://conservativebrief.com/obama-biden-a-74140/

Putin: Russia Has More Nuclear Weapons Than All NATO Countries

Russia will use its nuclear weapons only if faced with an existential threat, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on June 16.

Answering a question on his stance on using tactical, low-yield nuclear weapons as a deterrent, Putin stressed that his attitude about the idea of using such weapons was “negative” and pointed to Moscow’s nuclear doctrine.

“Nuclear weapons are created to ensure our security in its most broad sense and the very existence of the Russian state. But we, firstly, do not have such a need, and secondly, the very fact of discussing this topic already lowers the threshold for the use of [nuclear] weaponry,” he said, according to RT.

The Russian president added that Moscow will not engage in any nuclear disarmament talks with the West, given that reducing the country’s arsenal would put it at a disadvantage.

“We possess more weaponry of such sort than the NATO countries. They know that and are always trying to persuade us to start negotiations on reduction. Nuts to them, you know, as our people say,” the president said.

With regard to the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, Putin said that the entire batch will be deployed by the end of the year.

“As you know, we held talks with our union state, with President [of Belarus Alexander] Lukashenko on deploying part of these tactical weapons to Belarusian territory. It has happened – the first nuclear warheads have been delivered to Belarusian territory. This is the first batch. We will complete this work by the end of this year,” he said.

Putin said that that measure will serve as a deterrent “so that everyone who is thinking about hitting us strategically will not forget about this fact.”

Touching on the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive in the special military operation zone, Putin said that the Russian military destroyed 30% of Western armor supplied to Kiev forces and will keep wiping it out.

“It is not us who refuse to hold a dialogue with them [Western countries]: they have simply moved this dialogue to the sphere of arms deliveries. But we will torch all that they have supplied and will see what they will do next,” the Russian leader said, responding to questions at the forum. “Some 30% of supplied heavy armor has already been destroyed. I am not talking about Bradleys and Leopards alone. As many as 218 tanks, among them Leopards, and 418 armored vehicles, as I can remember, including Bradleys, are the total quantity. But there are no doubts that this process will continue.”

https://southfront.org/putin-russia-has-more-nuclear-weapons-than-all-nato-countries/

ACLU complains Florida failed to provide 'gender-affirming care' to man executed for murdering 14-year-old babysitter and 38-year-old mother of two

"The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was in state custody."

A murderer was executed in the state of Florida yesterday. He had been convicted of a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two in 1984, in two separate incidents. During his time in prison serving on death row, he undertook to change his sex. Florida declined to oblige Owen, and that, for the ACLU, is far worse than any crime Owen committed.

"The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was in state custody," the ACLU remarked on the occassion of Owen's death.

https://thepostmillennial.com/aclu-complains-florida-failed-to-provide-gender-affirming-care-to-man-executed-for-murdering-14-year-old-babysitter-and-38-year-old-mother-of-two

Biden's DOJ demands judge issue gag order on Trump in seized documents case

The order demands that the 31 DOJ documents to be used in the case “shall not be disclosed to the public or the news media, or disseminated on any news or social media platform” unless otherwise given permission from the court.

Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) demanded that a Florida court issue a gag order on Trump in regard to the ongoing investigation of the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago.

The suggested order will be reviewed by Judge Bruce Reinhart, who was also involved in the approval of the original raid on Mar-a-Lago. This will prevent Trump from speaking publicly about any documentation in the case.

The order demands that the 31 DOJ documents to be used in the case “shall not be disclosed to the public or the news media, or disseminated on any news or social media platform” unless otherwise given permission from the court.

The order allows Trump the ability to access the DOJ documents for the case only while he is "under the direct supervision of Defense Counsel or a member of Defense Counsel’s staff."

Copies of the documents may not be retained by Trump, however, "[d]efendants may take notes regarding Discovery Materials taking will be permitted." In addition to this, any "such notes shall be stored securely by Defense Counsel,” the DOJ wrote.

The agency said the documents “include information pertaining to ongoing investigations” which could be used in other cases against people involved who have yet to be charged.

The filing indicates he will still have access to the documents that he was storing at Mar-a-Lago during the case. Some of these were labeled classified.

A recent Harris poll found that 55% of Americans said the indictment was politically motivated. This same poll concluded that 72% of Americans believe that Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information and 65% thought the same about President Biden.

A similar order was placed on Trump in the Manhattan trial involving Stormy Daniels and filed by New York district attorney Alvin Bragg. New York state prosecutors made the request in the case as it involves a 34-count indictment of the former president.

https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-doj-demands-judge-issue-gag-order-on-trump-in-seized-documents-case

Secret Document: Germany’s Bundeswehr is Preparing to Wage War on Russia

General warns of possible Russian attack on Germany

While there are divisions within NATO, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock –who assiduously studied foreign policy in Klaus Schwab’s WEF Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL)– confirmed in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) (January 25, 2023), that Germany and its allies [NATO] are at war with Russia:

“Baerbock’s comments come on the heels of nearly a year of direct Russophobic narrative, including openly declared plans for war with Russia.

In mid-November 2022, Der Spiegel published a leaked German Defense Ministry document [68 pages], revealing that the Bundeswehr is preparing for war with Russia [See below]

The secret document titled “Operational guidelines for the Armed Forces” was drafted by Germany’s Chief of Staff, General Eberhard Zorn.

“He stressed the need for a “mega-reform” of the German military and clearly identified Russia as an “immediate threat”. Infobrics

https://www.globalresearch.ca/russische-invasion-wird-immer-wahrscheinlicher-general-warnt-vor-moglichem-russland-angriff-auf-deutschland/5806271

US biolabs in Ukraine still on Russian legislators’ radar — FC deputy speaker

According to Konstantin Kosachev, the work on the issue continues and more pieces of evidence have been piling up

ST. PETERSBURG, June 16. /TASS/. The investigation into the work of US biolaboratories in Ukraine continues, as ever more evidence comes to light, the upper house’s speaker, Konstantin Kosachev, who co-chaired the parliamentary commission probing into US biolaboratories in Ukraine, told the media on Friday.

"The parliamentary investigation in accordance with federal law was completed within one year. After that, we in the Federation Council and the deputies of the State Duma, all those who took part in this investigation, have continued to work on the dossier," Kosachev said.

He added that an inter-faction group had been set up in the State Duma. Efforts in this direction continue at the inter-committee level in the Federation Council, too.

"The work continues. No doubt about that. Even more pieces of evidence have been piling up. If at some stage we find it necessary to pool our efforts again or to present the results of this work to the public in some other way, of course that will be done," he concluded.

Russia has repeatedly drawn attention to Washington's military-biological activities in the CIS and in Ukraine. In March 2022, a parliamentary commission was created to investigate the establishment of biolaboratories on the territory of Ukraine by US specialists.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that a special military operation had uncovered facts of the Kiev regime's emergency cleanup of the traces of the US-funded military and biological program in Ukraine. Information was received from employees of Ukrainian biolaboratories about the urgent elimination of especially dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases on February 24 last year.

https://tass.com/politics/1633599

CROOKED JOE BIDEN pressed deranged Jack Smith to do this FAKE INDICTMENT on me in order to take the pressure off the fact that they caught Joe Biden stealing FIVE MILLION DOLLARS, and that’s just the beginning!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110560063274571806

Biden: "You know what percentage [billionaires] pay in taxes? Eight percent. E-I-G-H-T."

Audience member: "WHAT DO YOU PAY, JOE?"

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1670131843298131968

Westchester County DA Ends Investigation Into Trump Golf Course

Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah, a Democrat, said in a statement on June 15 that her office had closed the case against Trump after an investigation that was conducted “objectively, and independent of politics, party affiliation and personal or political beliefs.”

Her office did not file charges against Trump or the Trump Organization.

Trump applauded Rocah’s decision, writing on his Truth Social account that ending the investigation “WAS THE HONORABLE THING TO DO IN THAT I DID NOTHING WRONG.”

“BUT WHERE AND WHEN DO I GET MY REPUTATION BACK? WHEN WILL THE OTHER FAKE CASES AGAINST ME BE DROPPED?” Trump added. “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”

Rocah began investigating Trump in 2021, in an effort to decide whether the former president or his company had misled authorities about the value of the Trump National Golf Club Westchester to pay less on property taxes.

According to The New York Times, Rocah’s office subpoenaed records from the golf course and the town of Ossining in 2021. Ossining handles the course’s taxes.

Trump had previously called Rocah’s investigation a “witch hunt.”

“The Club’s request for a review of its tax assessments was amicably resolved earlier this year and signed off by the Town Board, the Town Assessor, Special Counsel for the Town (who determined the settlement to be both ‘appropriate and in the best interests of the Town of Ossining’), the Briarcliff Manor School District, the Office of the Westchester County Attorney and the Westchester County Supreme Court judge presiding over the matter,” a spokesperson for the Trump Organization told The Hill via email.

“Accordingly, the suggestion that anything was inappropriate is completely false and incredibly irresponsible. The witch hunt continues,” the statement added.

Meanwhile, Trump is facing a separate lawsuit in New York. In September 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil lawsuit against Trump, the Trump Organization, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump’s business associates over alleged fraud. The lawsuit claims that the Trump Organization deceived insurers, lenders, and tax officials by allegedly inflating the value of its assets.

The case is set to go to trial in October. However, James recently said her case could be delayed by the Department of Justice’s prosecution against the former president over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

On June 13, at a federal court in Miami, Trump entered a not-guilty plea to 37 felony charges in the classified document case.

Rocah talked about her decision to close down her case against Trump in an interview with CBS on Thursday.

“I think it’s really important, more important than ever in our country, to make sure that people understand that we have independent prosecutors, we have a justice system that operates independent of politics,” Rocah told the outlet. “I can stand here and proudly say that I’m one of those prosecutors, and I look at every subject of any investigation, every organization that’s a subject of an investigation, the same way.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/westchester-county-da-ends-investigation-trump-golf-course

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>France hit by rare ‘very strong’ earthquake

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230617-rare-5-8-magnitude-earthquake-hits-large-parts-of-western-france