Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped parked plane after landing at Florida airport Sunday, FAA says

PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 14 20249:09 PM EDTUPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

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The wing of a Boeing 757 jet owned by former President Donald Trump struck a parked plane at a Florida airport after landing safely and taxiing early Sunday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

It is not known if Trump, who had held a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, was on his aircraft when its winglet struck the rear elevator of a parked VistaJet in West Palm Beach.

The wing of the Boeing jet owned by former President Donald Trump struck a parked plane at a Florida airport after landing safely and taxiing early Sunday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday.

It is not known if Trump, who had held a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, was on his Boeing 757 when its winglet struck the rear elevator of a parked VistaJet in West Palm Beach.

No injuries were reported in the collision.

The FAA notice about the incident, which occurred at 1:19 a.m. ET on Sunday, gives the tail number of Trump’s aircraft, N757AF.

In a statement, the FAA said, “A privately owned Boeing 757 landed safely at West Palm Beach International Airport around 1:20 a.m. local time on Sunday, May 12.”

“While taxiing, its winglet contacted a parked and unoccupied corporate jet,” the FAA said. “The incident occurred in an area of the airport where the FAA does not direct aircraft. The FAA is investigating.”

A winglet is a short fin that projects upward from the wing of an aircraft. They are used to reduce aerodynamic drag.

CNBC has requested comment from a spokesman from Trump’s presidential campaign about the incident.

Trump maintains a residence at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/trump-jet-clipped-parked-plane-after-landing-at-florida-airport-faa-says-.html

Facts First

Fact check: Biden again falsely claims inflation was 9% when he became president

By Daniel Dale, CNN

EDT, Tue May 14, 2024

For the second time in less than a week, President Joe Biden falsely claimed Tuesday that the inflation rate was 9% when he began his presidency.

Biden was criticized by many Republicans, including former president and current presidential rival Donald Trump, for telling CNN in an interview last Wednesday: “No president’s had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation. It was 9% percent when I came to office, 9%.”

Biden repeated the claim about the inflation rate, albeit in slightly vaguer form, in a Tuesday interview with Yahoo Finance. This time, he said: “I think inflation has gone slightly up. It was at 9% when I came in, and it’s now down around 3%.”

Facts First: Biden’s claim that the inflation rate was 9% when he became president is not close to true. The year-over-year inflation rate in January 2021, the month of his inauguration, was about 1.4%. The Biden-era inflation rate did peak at about 9.1% – but that peak occurred in June 2022, after Biden had been president for more than 16 months. The March 2024 inflation rate, the most recent available rate at the time Biden made these comments, was about 3.5%, up from about 3.2% the month prior.

In other words,Biden’s claims make it sound like inflation is much lower today than it was when he was inaugurated – but it is actually higher, though there has been a steep decline since the June 2022 peak. (That peak followed Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which sparked global increases in energy and food prices.) And while Biden’s claims make it sound like the end of the Trump presidency was plagued by high inflation, inflation was unusually low during Trump’s last months in the White House amid the economic slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Similar to a previous false claim

Biden’s false claims in the past week about overall inflation are similar to a false claim he made in October 2022 when talking about gas prices in particular. In both cases, he has wrongly depicted a figure from June 2022 as if it was the Biden-era starting point.

A White House official said in a Tuesday email to CNN: “The President was making the point that the factors that caused inflation were in place when he took office. The pandemic caused inflation around the world by disrupting our economy and breaking our supply chains.”

The April 2024 inflation rate will be revealed Wednesday with the release of new Consumer Price Index data. Separate Producer Price Index data that was released on Tuesday showed the highest wholesale inflation rate in a year.

(FunnyCNN fact checking Bidan finally)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/fact-check-biden-inflation-when-he-became-president/index.html

>>20868295

He’s been seriously lying since day one, what took the media so long to call it out?

Someone gave the signal, “Who let the dogs out”?

https://youtu.be/ojULkWEUsPs?si=7NGHfesqzWE4a-Wm

>>20868292

She’s gonna regret what she did, send her to a nunnery, she won’t last but she needs either penance or punishment

>>20868321

Yeah I thought it was a weird report

>>20868324

Oh yes. I didn’t think about that. Kek

>>20868320

Yikes, please don’t show the sand bags

>>20868312

=Thats an actual terrorist, whats wrong with these people

>>20868307

Thats so freakin damning, only a liar can lie to himself and can justify lying about others.How does this guy sleep at night?

I found that Gomer Pile pic of Cohen last week, and it disappeared from pictures online. Anons save the Gomer Pile=Michael Cohen pic, we’ll need it for a Future story

I really get the intuitive impression the Mafia doesn’t like what he is doing now. I don’t know why.

>>20868304

Freaks one and all

>>20868341

I’m Just surprised they are taking pictures of it. They say if you can’t get a pic of their eyes the can not be identified

What us happening to our country? Don’t answer. I know

>>20868342

Agreed, why us it in the library?

>>20868344

“off the "fuckable" list ” you mean unfuckable? Kek that was damn funny

>>20868333

Sending prayers, get him probiotics from health food store and if you can give him 2-3 a day. The gut us tge second brain. Look up some solutions on pubmed asap

>>20868336

They want to f each other

>>20868374

It’s just a feeling, but I don’t think he can be reformed

>>20868380

That’s the first time I’ve seen him looking exhausted, pray for our CiC

>>20868392

Baker ban this shit, its been around for a couple of days

>>20868392

CP report again, block this shit baker

T-6 Instructor Pilot Dies After Ejection Seat Goes Off on the GroundWeird

May 14, 2024 | By David Roza

An Air Force instructor pilot died early in the morning on May 14 from injuries sustained when the pilot’s T-6A Texan II training plane ejection seat activated during ground operations the day before, the 82nd Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, announced in a press release.

“An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway,” the wing wrote, adding that the pilot’s name is being withheld for 24 hours to notify his or her next of kin.

The 82nd is the host unit at Sheppard, but the pilot was assigned to the 80th Flying Training Wing, the unit which runs the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) Program, a multinational school where students and instructors from across NATO learn and teach the basics of flying.

The wing flies the T-6, a two-seat propeller plane often used for basic aviation lessons in undergraduate pilot training, and the T-38, a two-seat jet typically used to teach future fighter and bomber pilots. Two years ago, 76 T-6s and 203 T-38s were grounded due to concerns about potentially faulty ejection seat parts. The grounding affected 40 percent of the T-38 fleet and 15 percent of the T-6 fleet.

At the time, Air Force Materiel Command said the explosive cartridges used in the ejection seats may suffer from “quality defects.” Each seat has multiple and redundant explosive cartridges. Two months after the stand-down, the Air Force had found no faulty cartridges on any of the T-6s, Breaking Defense reported at the time.

“Our primary concern is the safety of our Airmen and it is imperative that they have confidence in our equipment,” Maj. Gen. Craig Wills, then-head of the 19th Air Force, said at the time.

The average age of the T-6 fleet is 17 years old, according to 2023 data. While spry compared to the T-38’s average age of about 56 years, senior Air Force leaders say the age of trainer aircraft is slowing down pilot production.

“From the time they [student pilots] are commissioned—because of the challenges we’re having with T-6 and T-38—we have a little bit of a backup. It can be as many as four years,” then-Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin toldthe House Armed Services Committee in 2023. “So almost an 18 month- to 24 month-wait just to get into pilot training.”

A T-6 made an emergency “belly flop” landing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, on April 3 after its pilot declared an in-flight emergency. No one was injured in the incident.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-t-6-ejection-seat-death/

In exclusive interview, disgraced archneocon Victoria Nuland carefully refuses to hope that Ukraine can win the war…. 1/2

May 13, 2024 (a day

Joe Biden isn’t great at much, except raising troubled kids and lining his pockets on the American people’s dime. Let’s just say that nobody’s going to accuse him of being a brilliant thinker or a skilled foreign policy leader. Biden very much seems to be a puppet of the leftover Obama regime, with key figures from those failed days still leaving their ghastly marks today in a twisted and chaotic foreign policy that has left America in the dust once again. One of the former stars of this failed approach was none other than the hulking war lover, Victoria Nuland, who helped stir up all of the antagonism between Russia and Ukraine during Obama’s second term. Nuland’s stint in government actually goes all the way back to the Clinton regime, but her real claim to fame is as an arch-neocon Iraq War enthusiast under Dick Cheney and later an Afghanistan War booster as US Ambassador to NATO during Bush’s second term. Her husband, Robert Kagan, was the co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century back in 1998. That organization famously dreamed up the Iraq War and planted the seeds for said war during President Bush’s first term.

Nuland recently tucked tail and slithered out of the US State Department as Biden’s foreign policy went up in flames, but don’t think she harbors any shame over her 30-year stint of pushing failed war policy in DC.

Instead of cringing in shameand living her life out at an honest job, perhaps scrubbing toilets at an old folks home, Nuland recently sat down with Politico to answer some burning questions—those that caught our attention centered around Ukraine.

What we found particularly interesting was that, amid all the political gobbledygook and fast-talking, Nuland refused to say that Ukraine can win the war with Russia.

Pretty telling stuff, eh?

The first relevant question from Politico went like this:

Can Ukraine win this war against Russia? And how do you define winning?

Here was Victoria’s cleverly crafted refusal to declare “victory” for Ukraine.

Politico:

Let’s start with the fact that Putin has already failed in his objective. He wanted to flatten Ukraine. He wanted to ensure that they had no sovereignty, independence, agency, no democratic future — because a democratic Ukraine, a European Ukraine, is a threat to his model for Russia, among other things, and because it’s the first building block for his larger territorial ambitions.

Can Ukraine succeed? Absolutely. Can Ukraine come out of this more sovereign, more economically independent, stronger, more European than it is now? Absolutely. And I think it will. But we’ve got to stay with it. We’ve got to make sure our allies stay with it.

And we have to accelerate a lot of the initiatives that were in the supplemental, like helping Ukraine build that highly deterrent military force of the future, like deploying these longer-range weapons to strategic effect, like ensuring that the critical infrastructure and the energy sector are protected, like building up our own defense industrial base and that of our allies and Ukraine’s again, so that we and Ukraine are building faster than Russia and China.

When asked if Ukraine could reclaim territory, Nuland whipped out her smoke and mirrors and got back to work. The Politico piece continues:

It can definitely get to a place where it’s strong enough, I believe, and where Putin is stymied enough to go to the negotiating table from a position of strength. It’ll be up to the Ukrainian people what their territorial ambitions should be. But there are certain things that are existential.

Any deal that they cut in their interest and in the larger global interest has to be a deal that Putin is compelled to stick to. We can’t be doing this every six months, every three years. It has to actually lead to a deal that includes Russian withdrawal.

https://revolver.news/2024/05/politico-interview-disgraced-archneocon-victoria-nuland-carefully-refuses-to-hope-that-ukraine-can-win-the-war/

>>20868493

2/2

Putin is a master at what we call rope-a-dope negotiating, where he never actually cuts the deal. It has to be a deal that ensures that whatever is decided on Crimea, it can’t be remilitarized such that it’s a dagger at the heart of the center of Ukraine.

So much for the reconquest of Crimea and forcing a broken Putin beg Zelensky not to march on Moscow, eh?

When she was asked if it was a mistake not to push the Ukrainians harder to go for some sort of negotiated end to the war in 2022, especially the fall of 2022, Nuland once again tiptoed on a tightrope like a pro. The Politico piece continues:

They were not in a strong enough position then. They’re not in a strong enough position now. The only deal Putin would have cut then, the only deal that he would cut today, at least before he sees what happens in our election, is a deal in which he says, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” And that’s not sustainable.

Victoria knows Ukraine is toast, but she can’t say that out loud.

Nuland has always been a shadowy, key player in the Deep State. She typically knows far more than she reveals, but occasionally, she slips up—like she did not too long ago under Senate questioning by Marco Rubio.

Revolver hasn’t been shy about calling out Nuland; in fact, we’ve been intensely focused on her, unveiling some of her darkest secrets and maneuvers. Interestingly, right after Victoria slithered away, Revolver’s own Darren Beattie guided readers through a fascinating deep dive. He explained the intricate relationship between Zelensky and Nuland and what was really happening when she decided to jump ship.

Revolver:

Biden’s slavish and bungling approach to arming Ukraine still wasn’t enough for Nuland, who consistently lobbied for more and more weapons, including anti-tank missiles. The esteemed Mrs. Nuland was no stranger to Ukraine politics and had amassed one of the most decorated Deep State resumes when it comes to influencing and outright meddling in the affairs of Ukraine and other Eastern European nations.

Nuland’s regime change tool of choice was, of course, the color revolution model, which involves a combination of lawfare, media censorship, leveraging Soros-controlled NGOs, and mass mobilization and street action efforts. In fact, Nuland enjoyed an honorable mention in Revolver News’ now classic color revolution series, advancing the argument that several key players in the plot against Trump were also part of the “Atlanticist” faction of the deep state that has traditionally relied on color revolution operations for regime change overseas.

Nuland has always been vigorously anti-Trump, an unsurprising position given Nuland’s commitment to US intervention overseas. Indeed, Nuland belongs right alongside Norm Eisen as a poster child for Revolver’s thesis that some of Trump’s most effective detractors were color revolution operatives with Eastern Europe diplomatic portfolios who aimed to target Trump in much the same way they would target an ostensibly “authoritarian” Eastern European leader for removal.

Nuland is not only a poster child for the Deep State’s Color Revolution faction; she in many ways instantiates the very notion of a deep state itself—that is, the notion of a powerful bureaucratic class that operates on a trans-partisan basis on behalf of entrenched special interests of the ruling class. She has worked for Hillary Clinton and George Bush alike and just happens to be married to Robert Kagan, one of the key architects of George Bush’s tragically disastrous Iraq War. Talk about bedfellows!

We encourage you to read this deep diveinto Nuland and her ouster—it will offer you a whole new understanding of what’s really happening, not only with Ukraine but also how the Biden regime operates with operatives like Nuland at the helm.

The bottom line is this: no, Ukraine never stood a chance. Most experts now begrudgingly agree that Russia is winning the war, no matter how many billions we’ve thrown into the mix. The US funding this farce is just prolonging the inevitable. Ukraine’s loss isn’t Victoria’s secret anymore—pretty much everyone knows it’s coming.

https://revolver.news/2024/05/politico-interview-disgraced-archneocon-victoria-nuland-carefully-refuses-to-hope-that-ukraine-can-win-the-war/

Bitch killed 500,000 to 1 million Ukrainians. Lake of Sacred Fire and the Second and Final Death Coming

Julie Kelly

The DOJ not following federal law"existing DOJ practice is inconsistent with the intent of the federal statute"is so on brand for this lawless DOJ.

Say what you want about Michael Horowitz–he remains the most honest official at the DOJ.

"The Department’s existing appeals policy for employees whose security clearances have been suspended, revoked, or denied, DOJ Instruction 1700.00.01 (March 2018), while providing for an OIG appeal in alleged cases where a security clearance has been revoked or denied, does not include an OIG appeal process for employees whose security clearance has been suspended for more than 1 year and who allege retaliation."

This section of Horowitz's report relates to Marcus Allen, FBI agent accused of holding "conspiratorial" views about Jan 6 because he dared to question the official narrative.

“The OlG identified these concerns in connection with our work assessing retaliation complaints from DOJ employees whose security clearances had been suspended and who had been placed on leave without pay. For example, in one matter, the OIG initiated a reprisal investigation, consistent with Section 3341, after the employee had been suspended without pay for over 1 year, notwithstanding the absence of a suspension appeal policy in DOJ Order 1700.00.01 for employees claiming retaliation. In that case, the employee was suspended without pay for approximately 15 months before the FBI issued a decision revoking his security clearance and it then took another 4 months for the FBI to provide the employee with the information that the FBI used to support its revocation decision. As provided for in the Department's appeal process, the employee filed a request for reconsideration of the revocation decision, which remains pending with the FBI. The employee has been suspended without pay for more than 2 years. Had the OlG not decided to move forward with its reprisal investigation as provided for in Section 3341 and SEAD 9, the employee would still not have had the right to file a retaliation complaint with the OlG under the terms of

DOJ Instruction 1700.00.01 because the revocation decision is not yet final.”

Same DOJ thugs who held a presser yesterday warning about the use of federal law enforcement power against individuals accused of making "threats" against election workers using their power toretaliate against those who won't genuflect before Lisa Monaco.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1790401166309785812.html

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