Samuel Jackson says Brie Larson was 'broken' by 2016 election, compares Trump to 'rednecks' who called Jackson the N-word

Actor Samuel L. Jackson said that his film co-star Brie Larson was "broken" by the 2016 election and compared former President Donald Trump to "rednecks" who would use racial epithets against the actor when he was younger.

Jackson made the comments in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

The actor said that he bonded with Larson when they both worked on the 2017 "Kong: Skull Island" film and that he had to comfort her when Trump won the 2016 election.

"We had done 'Kong' together, which was not the most wonderful experience for either of us. We became great friends during that particular experience because we were having such a hard time," he said in the interview.

"Then, we bonded through the election while we were doing her movie when Donald Trump won. She was broken, and I was like, 'Don’t let ‘em break you. You have to be strong now,'" Jackson added.

He went on to insult Trump.

"When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up who called me "n*" and tried to keep me in my place. That’s what the Republican Party is to me. They’re doing it to young people, gay people. They don’t care who you are. If you’re not them, you’re the enemy," Jackson claimed.

He also criticized those who attacked Larson over her role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"These incel dudes who hate strong women or the fact that she’s a feminist who has an opinion and expressed it? Everybody wants people to be who they want them to be. She is who she is, and she’s genuinely that," he explained.

The 74-year-old actor portrays the Nick Fury character in the MCU and headlines the upcoming "Secret Invasion" series on Disney+

https://www.theblaze.com/news/samuel-jackson-trump-redneck-nword

Congress prepares to unseal testimony, evidence from IRS whistleblower in Hunter Biden case

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith scheduled Thursday morning closed door meeting to vote out evidence to public.

The House Ways and Means Committee took final steps Tuesday to release to the public as early as this week the testimony and evidence from an IRS whistleblower who alleges the Justice Department gave favorable treatment to Hunter Biden and engaged in political interference in the criminal tax case against the first son.

Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., scheduled an executive session for 8 a.m. Thursday where lawmakers are expected to vote to free the whistleblower evidence and testimony of IRS supervisory criminal agent Gary Shapley from the 6103 privacy requirements that normally shield Americans' tax information from public disclosure.

The development came just hours after U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware announced in a court filing that Hunter Biden has struck a deal to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay taxes and to enter a probation program that could eliminate a third charge, a felony, accusing him of lying on a gun application.

You can read the notice here.

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Notice-of-Meeting-1.pdf

The vote by the GOP-led committee will allow the evidence Shapley provided in six hours of testimony last month as well as 23 pages of evidence from the Hunter Biden tax probe to be released to the public.

Sources familiar with Shapley's testimony told Just the News that he turned over seven documents totaling 23 pages that summarized the evidence and predicate for the original investigation into the taxes and overseas finances of President Joe Biden's son.

The memos also summarized multiple instances dating to 2020 in which DOJ officials thwarted, hampered or interfered with the frontline career investigators’ efforts – ranging from blocking certain tactics to allowing tolling agreements to expire that extended the statute of limitations on certain alleged offenses. Shapley described IRS and FBI agents being concerned by the interference, the sources said.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/congress-prepares-unseal-testimony-evidence-irs-whistleblower-hunter

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Border Patrol Has Already Nabbed 127 Illegal Migrants On The Terror Watchlist This Fiscal Year, Up Nearly 30% From 2022

Border Patrol arrested 127 illegal migrants whose names appeared on the terror watchlist between October 2022 and May, a nearly 30% increase from all of fiscal year 2022, according to updated U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

Border agents captured 27 migrants in April alone, when the Trump-era expulsion order known as Title 42 ended, whose names were on the terror watchlist, according to the data, which CBP updated Tuesday. Border Patrol encountered three migrants whose names appeared on the watchlist in fiscal year 2019, three in fiscal year 2020 and 15 in fiscal year 2021 and 98 in fiscal year 2022.

“Encounters of watchlisted individuals at our borders are very uncommon, underscoring the critical work CBP Agents and Officers carry out every day on the frontlines. DHS works tirelessly to secure our borders through a combination of highly trained personnel, ground and aerial monitoring systems, and robust intelligence and information sharing networks,” CBP says on its website of such watchlist arrests.

Out of the 127 individuals on the watchlist nabbed by Border Patrol, 125 were arrested at the southern border with Mexico. Border Patrol captured the two others at the northern border with Canada.

In fiscal year 2022, the number of illegal immigrants considered to be of “special interest” to authorities due to their countries of origin posing potential risks to national security, increased by nearly 600% to 25,627, according to internal CBP data previously obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Anybody that doesn’t think that serious threats to this country are sneaking in right now is naïve,” former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott previously told the DCNF at the time of the “special interest” migrant apprehensions.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/20/border-patrol-has-already-nabbed-127-illegal-migrants-on-the-terror-watchlist-this-fiscal-year-up-nearly-30-from-2022/

Joe Biden Calls China’s Xi Jinping a Dictator

No serious person believes this.

Reuters reported:

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator, adding that Xi was very embarrassed when a Chinese balloon was blown off course over the U.S. recently.

Biden made the remarks at a fundraiser in California a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Xi in a trip to China that was aimed at easing tensions between the two countries.

Blinken and Xi on Monday agreed to stabilize the intense rivalry between Washington and Beijing so it does not veer into conflict, but failed to produce any major breakthrough during a rare visit to China by the secretary of state.

They did agree to continue diplomatic engagement with more visits by U.S. officials in the coming weeks and months.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/joe-biden-calls-chinas-xi-jinping-dictator/

Pentagon Says It Made $6 Billion "Accounting Error", Clearing More Aid For Ukraine

How could this possibly happen?

Due to a massive accounting error, which happened just four weeks after a $3 billion accounting error, the value of weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States was overstated by $6.2 billion over the past two years, according to AP.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said that a detailed review of the accounting error found that replacement costs were recorded for the equipment, not the actual book value of items pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine, adding that final calculations reveal a $3.6 billion error in the current fiscal year, and $2.6 billion in the 2022 FY, which ended last Sept. 30.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whoops-pentagon-accounting-error-means-extra-62-billion-ukraine

Disgraced former CNN producer sentenced to 19 years for child sex crimes

John Griffin, 45, confessed to coercing a woman online into bringing her nine-year-old daughter to Ludlow, Vermont for illicit sexual acts.

Former CNN producer John Griffin has been sentenced to 19 years in prison on Tuesday for committing child sex crimes in Vermont.

John Griffin, 45, confessed to coercing a woman online into bringing her nine-year-old daughter to Ludlow, Vermont for illicit sexual acts, according to Breaking 911.

The US Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont charged Griffin with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity in 2021, however, Griffin entered into a plea agreement in December and the government dropped two additional charges of enticing a minor after he confessed his crimes.

A criminal complaint filed in the state of Nevada against a mother accused of pimping her 9-year-old daughter out to CNN's John Griffin revealed that authorities arrested the mother in August 2020 and seized Griffin's devices the following month.

This means that law enforcement allegedly knew about Griffin's abuse for more than a year before his arrest.

According to court documents, federal investigators seized computer storage media, devices, phones, cameras, MicroSD cards, images, and video from Griffin on Sept. 2, 2020.

The indictment alleged that Griffin lured a mother and her underage daughter to his home for the purposes of sexual abuse in July 2020. From April to July 2020, Griffin used online messaging systems such as Kik and Google Hangouts to reach out to parents with underage daughters.

Griffin is also alleged to have attempted to "entice two other children over the internet to engage in sexual activity," and tried to engage a mother and her 14-year-old daughter in a "virtual training session" where he would instruct them to take off their clothes and touch each other per his wishes.

Griffin also was said to have attempted luring another mother and her 16-year-old daughter to take a "little mother daughter trip" to his Vermont property so that he could engage in "sexual training" with the teen.

Griffin was a producer for CNN's senior political analyst John Avlon before he was arrested by the FBI in December 2021 following charges filed by a federal grand jury in Vermont.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-disgraced-former-cnn-producer-sentenced-to-19-years-for-child-sex-crimes

Former Augusta city commissioner sentenced to prison for destroying records, lying to federal investigators

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/former-augusta-city-commissioner-sentenced-prison-destroying-records-lying-federal

VP HARRIS: “The majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers.”

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1671304429461463042

‘It’s an independent model’: Premier Daniel Andrews defends 3.5 per cent pay increase for Victorian MPs

Premier Daniel Andrews has stood by the 3.5 per cent pay increase handed down to Victorian MPs, arguing the decision was taken at an arm’s length from his government.

Premier Daniel Andrews has defended the decision by the Victorian Independent Remuneration Tribunal to hand state MPs a pay increase.

As a result of the 3.5 per cent bump, which comes into effect from July 1, the base salary for an MP will be $198,839.

Mr Andrews, already the highest paid Premier in the country, will receive a total remuneration of $481,190 – which includes $60,480 in expenses.

In defending the decision by the body, Mr Andrews pointed to steps taken by his government to reform how politicians received pay increases.

“There was a time when politicians set their own pay and we took steps to change that. We stand by those decisions,” he told reporters.

“We will negotiate in good faith with all of our workforce, and we hope that all employers negotiate in good faith with all employees regardless of industry, regardless of circumstance, that’s our approach.

“It’s an independent model. We do not set our own pay… it’s set by an independent, arm’s length tribunal, and that is far preferable in my mind, to MPs setting their own pay rises.”

Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan, who is widely expected to take over from Mr Andrews, will receive $409,608.

John Pesutto is set to receive $383,760 per annum, which is about the same as other government cabinet ministers. Picture: David Crosling

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/its-an-independent-model-premier-daniel-andrews-defends-35-per-cent-pay-increase-for-victorian-mps/news-story/814c26a946b0bc8da0533d3cd70ce42b