Bill Ackman Says Biden Is Past His ‘Peak’ and Should Drop His 2024 Campaign

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(Bloomberg) – Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said President Joe Biden risks tarnishing his political reputation by seeking a second term and that he’s intrigued by Representative Dean Phillips’s primary challenge for the Democratic nomination.

“I think Biden’s done a lot of good things. But I think his legacy will not be a good one if he is the nominee,” Ackman said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “I do think the right thing for Biden to do is to step aside, and to say he’s not going to run, and create the opportunity for some competition.”

The Pershing Square Capital Management founder said he recently met with Phillips and was “impressed” by the 54-year-old congressman who represents a swing district in Minnesota. Phillips launched a longshot presidential campaign last month, saying it was time for a new generation of leaders.

“You need to be at your intellectual best. And I don’t think Biden is there,” Ackman, 57, said in an upcoming episode of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations that will debut Dec. 6 at 9 p.m. New York time on Bloomberg Television. “I don’t say that, you know, with any derision of the president,” he continued. “But I think he’s clearly past his physical and cognitive peak.”

Polls show voters hold serious doubts about Biden’s fitness to serve another four years. Biden, who turned 81 earlier this month, is already the oldest US president in history.

While Ackman has flirted with political candidates from across the political spectrum, Biden will need to make sure that he assuages any concerns over his age shared by more traditional deep-pocketed Democratic donors. Their support and financial backing will be essential in Biden’s bid to return to the White House.

Biden’s allies and people who interact with him say the focus on his age and health is unfair and that the president ishealthy enough to serve. They point to his work schedule as well as exercise routines prescribed by the White House physician. Biden himself has made light of his age at recent events. (WTF “healthy enough”???)

Ackman, who has traditionally donated to Democrats, said he is “much more open to Republican candidates” than reelecting Biden. The hedge fund manager said he is supportive of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and ex-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, two Republicans who are vying with former President Donald Trump for the nomination. He also donated to entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, but said his policies fell short of expectations.

“He’s just been a little too far off to the right,” Ackman said.“I’ve been disappointed a bit with his geopolitics.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bill-ackman-says-biden-is-past-his-peak-and-should-drop-his-2024-campaign/ar-AA1kJlxq

>>20000864 Speaker Johnson bows down to kiss Kissingers Johnson in twatter tribute postPN

This is some of the immeasurable contributions to the country

“Mr. Kissinger’s greatest failures came in his seeming indifference to the democratic struggles of smaller nations. Oddly, a man driven from his country as a boy by the rise of the Nazisseemed unperturbed by human rights abuses by governments in Africa, Latin America, Indonesia and elsewhere. Nixon’s Oval Office tapes showed that Mr. Kissinger was more concerned with keeping allies in the anti-Communist camp than with how they treated their own people.

“For decades he would battle, often unconvincingly,accusations that he had turned a blind eye to human rights abuses. Perhaps the most egregious episode came in the signals to Pakistan that it was free to deal with Bengalis in East Pakistan as it saw fit.

In “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide” (2013), the Princeton scholar Gary J. Bass depictsMr. Kissinger ignoring warnings of an impending genocide, including those from the American consul general in East Pakistan, Archer Blood, whom he punished as disloyal.

In the Oval Office tapes, “Kissinger sneered at people who ‘bleed’ for ‘the dying Bengalis,’” Professor Bass wrote.”

He also left American POWs in Vietnam, even though Nixon and him were alerted to it!

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Bid to hold Trump accountable for Jan. 6 violence stalls at appeals court

The long-awaited D.C. Circuit ruling in a trio of civil lawsuits could influence Trump’s criminal cases as well.

By KYLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN.

11/27/2023 07:23 PM EST

A federal appeals court mulling Donald Trump’s legal liability for Jan. 6 violence is approaching a conspicuous anniversary of inaction.

Nearly a year ago, the court considered three lawsuits brought by Capitol Police officers and members of Congress accusing Trump and his allies of inciting the attack that threatened their lives and the government they were sworn to protect.

But their efforts to hold Trump accountable have languished. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals typically decides cases within four months of oral arguments, but the trio of Trump lawsuits has been sitting on the court’s docket with no ruling since they were argued last December.

“I am surprised how long it’s taking. The delay does seem unusual, but I’m hopeful we’ll get a decision,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who filed one of the three lawsuits two months after the Jan. 6 attack.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court is mulling a thorny constitutional question that hangs over each of the cases: whether Trump can be sued over his speech to an angry crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, just before the deadly riot at the Capitol. Since the panel considered whether Trump has immunity, Trump has surged to the front of the GOP presidential primary pack and been charged criminally twice for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

The D.C. Circuit’s long-awaited ruling — or its likely appeal to the Supreme Court — may either bolster or weaken both of those criminal cases. That’s because Trump is raising similar immunity defenses in his criminal prosecutions. Whatever the higher courts say about the scope of presidential immunity in the civil context will set an important precedent for the trial judges who will soon need to resolve Trump’s efforts to toss out his criminal charges on immunity grounds.

In the meantime, the protracted delay at the D.C. Circuit has created something of a vacuum on the question of how broadly Trump’s immunity sweeps.

“It seems like it’s extraordinarily long, even for the D.C. Circuit,” said University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias.

Tobias noted that the D.C.-based court tends to take longer than most other federal appeals courts, generally because it handles a significant number of very complicated regulatory cases involving federal agencies. Still, the Trump immunity appeal seems like an outlier, he said.

“It’s certainly on the very long end of that, so you have to wonder,” the law professor added.

Statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courtsconfirm that the Trump appeal has been awaiting a decision for almost three times as long as the typical D.C. Circuit case.

The hold-up has even been remarked upon in Trump-related cases outside Washington, like a pair of lawsuits in New York related to writer E. Jean Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s and Trump’s disparaging comments about Carroll after she went public with her claim.

In those cases, too, Trump has raised immunity defenses. And last month, while arguing before a New York-based federal appeals court, a lawyer for Carroll pointed out that the D.C. Circuit appeal “has been pending for quite some time.”

The full legal odyssey for the Jan. 6-related lawsuits against Trump has now reached nearly three years. Within weeks of the attack on the Capitol, members of Congress, Capitol Police officers and members of the D.C. police department began filing the lawsuits, claiming that Trump and his allies bore responsibility for the violence and should pay monetary damages.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta issued his own landmark ruling on the matter on Feb. 18, 2022, concluding that Trump’s speech that day was a rare instance in which a president’s remarks were not immune from lawsuit.

“To deny a President immunity from civil damages is no small step,” wrote Mehta, an appointee of President Barack Obama. “The court well understands the gravity of its decision. But the alleged facts of this case are without precedent, and the court believes that its decision is consistent with the purposes behind such immunity.”

Trump appealed quickly, and the case has been meandering through the appeals court ever since. The three-judge panel, consisting of Obama-appointed Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan, Clinton appointee Judith Rogers and Trump appointee Gregory Katsas, heard oral arguments in the case on Dec. 7, 2022. Four months later, in March 2023, they solicited input from the Justice Department, which staked out a delicate approach to questions of presidential immunity…..

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/27/trump-immunity-appeal-00128786

They are coming for you

Laura Ingraham on the prosecution on Trump, and us!

RedpillUSAPatriots

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DC Judge leans in to open anti-Trump activism

Laura and Mike Davis

Judge Berrel Howell is the one that gave Jack Smith to all contacts, messages including followers and their user names.

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Kash Patel on the hostage situation

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MEET THE WEALTHY FORMER DEMOCRAT WHO’S FUNDING TUCKER CARLSON…

November 29, 2023 (a day ago)

Chances are, the name Omeed Malik doesn’t immediately ring a bell, and that’s perfectly fine. Mr. Malik has typically operated behind the scenes, but that might be changing soon. So, who is this mysterious figure? Omeed Malik is the founder and CEO of Farvahar Partners, a boutique investment bank specializing in advising and providing liquidity to high-growth venture-backed companies and institutional investors. In short, he’s a super wealthy guy who happens to be the financial backer of Tucker Carlson’s media venture. This is a man who was a lifelong Democrat until COVID-19 hit, and he decided that the tyrant Democrats weren’t for him anymore.

Here’s more on Omeed from eFinancialCareers:

Carlson’s $6m came from 1789 Capital, a company founded by Omeed Malik, a banker who – for a brief moment in 2018, around the height of the MeToo movement, was well known for all the wrong reasons.

Malik spent six years at BofA and became head of the prime broking division there. However, he was fired by the bank days before he was due to receive his 2018 bonus amidst unproven accusations that as a 38-year-old managing director, he had sexually harassed junior female colleagues. Those accusations were subsequently proven false and Malik – who filed a defamation claim against Bank of America for $100m, received over $10m in compensation for his wrongful termination.

Malik declined to comment for this article. But given that 1789 is being referred to as an ‘anti-woke’ investment firm by the likes of the Wall Street Journal, it might be supposed that that his experience of being hounded out of BofA has shaped his decision to invest in ventures negating the ESG agenda.

Apparently not. Malik, who was initially a Democrat, reportedly had his politics turned by the US government’s response to COVID 19. He’s not only sponsoring Carlson but has funded Robert F. Kennedy Jr. too.

This man is so incredibly determined to eradicate “wokeness” from corporate America that he has established a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) to assist non-woke corporations in going public.

Axios:

Omeed Malik, a financier known for backing companies with conservative values, has raised $170 million for his second blank-check company, sources tell Axios.

Why it matters: Malik sold many more shares than originally intended — a rare success in a very tough year for blank-check companies, and a validation of his “patriotic parallel economy” thesis.

Details: Colombier Acquisition Corp. II originally filed to raise $130 million, and then last week upsized the offering to $150 million. It will trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

Catch up quick: Malik’s first blank-check effort merged with PublicSq, an online marketplace for “patriot economy” companies.

Its shares spiked to $29.80 upon the merger announcement but closed trading on Friday at $5.73 a piece.

PublicSq CEO Michael Seifert sits on the board of Colombier Acquisition Corp. II.

Malik also runs a private investment fund called 1789 Capital, which recently backed Tucker Carlson’s new media company.

And speaking of going public, Don Jr. recently partnered with Omeed to celebrate PublicSq’s initial public offering.

Omeed is addressingtwo of the most contentious issues in our country:woke corporate America and a free press. Interesting, indeed.

https://revolver.news/2023/11/meet-the-wealthy-former-democrat-whos-funding-tucker-carlson/