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Trump flashback with Larry King Live, from the late 1980s.
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11:44 AM · Aug 20, 2024
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Trump has been saying these for decades, and that's why the DS Elite do not want him in control.
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Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza
The DNC has kicked off in Chicago with an abysmal crowd. The opening speakers were met with scattered applause throughout the empty stadium!
Video DNC inside, crowd outside, which was bigger?
7:42 PM · Aug 19, 2024
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Today is election day in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming — 5 races to watch.
5 primaries to watch in Florida and Alaska
Gaetz faces a McCarthy-backed challenger in the Sunshine State.
ByKaleigh Rogers August 19, 2024, 3:15 PM
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Just a handful of states have yet to hold their primary elections this year, and on Tuesday, three more states will see voters head to the polls to finalize their ballots for November: Alaska, Florida andWyoming. While the sole race that we track in the Cowboy State (the at-large House seat currently held by Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman) isn't competitive, there are a few heated races worth watching in Florida and Alaska that could give us a glimpse into how the general election might shake out this fall.
FloridaRaces to watch: Senate; 1st, 13th and 27th congressional districts Polls close: 7 p.m. Eastern
In the Sunshine State, Republican Sen. Rick Scott has a target on his back. After winning his 2018 election to the Senate by less than half a percentage point, and with a dismal 35 percent approval rating in a recent poll, it's no surprise the former governor is seen as vulnerable. He's facing two GOP challengers in the primary — Keith Gross, an attorney, and John Columbus, an actor. Neither Gross nor Columbus is likely to best Scott in the Republican primary; for starters, they've each raised a fraction of his war chest. And Scott clinched former president Donald Trump's endorsement early in the election cycle. However, the winner of the Democratic primary could end up thwarting Scott's dreams of a second term.
Four candidates are running in the Democratic primary, though the front-runner is former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who has essentially been coronated by the Democratic Party after they courted her to run. She has a war chest more than 10 times the size of the next highest-raising Democrat — business owner Stanley Campbell (who contributed almost all of the $1.1 million he's raised to his own campaign) — and a rare primary endorsement from President Joe Biden. Democrats are hoping having a Latina (Mucarsel-Powell is Ecuadorian American) as their Senate nominee for the first time will help woo voters in this increasingly diverse state, and are banking on Mucarsel-Powell's record of winning over swing voters: She was elected to the House by ousting a two-term Republican incumbent, though she lost reelection in 2020.
This is one of the few Senate seats that is even marginally vulnerable for Republicans, and with the balance of power in Congress on the line this election, Democrats will certainly be devoting lots of attention (and cash) to this race. Polls show Scott still leading Mucarsel-Powell in a theoretical matchup, but it seems to be tightening up, so we'll have our eyes on how voters feel about the matchup once the ticket is finalized.
Over in the 1st District, Trump ally Rep. Matt Gaetz, who played a pivotal role in ousting former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, is now having to fend off a challenger in the GOP primary as part of the former speaker's revenge tour. Team McCarthy helped coax Navy veteran and business consultant Aaron Dimmockinto the race, and Dimmock got McCarthy's endorsement, but it looks like Gaetz is holding strong. He has a substantial fundraising advantage (having raised $5.7 million to Dimmock's roughly $350,000) as well as Trump's endorsement. Despite over $3 million in outside spending from a McCarthy-linked PAC backing Dimmock or opposing Gaetz, the sole poll in this race gave Gaetz a 47-point lead. Granted, it was an internal Gaetz campaign poll, but it signals that McCarthy's attempt to foil one of the Republicans he most despises may amount to little more than an irritation as Gaetz cruises his way to a fifth term in office.
Elsewhere in the Sunshine State,three members of the far-right Freedom Caucus are up for reelection, but only one is at any risk of being unseated.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who represents the 13th District around Clearwater on the Gulf Coast, is running unopposedin her primary, but will be squaring off this fall against the winner of Tuesday's Democratic primary.
There's no polling in that race, but the front-runner looks like former Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority communications director Whitney Fox, who has raised more than twice as much money as any other Democrat and has racked up endorsements from seven sitting members of Congress. Though this district leans red, it's one that Trump won by less than 7 points in 2020 and could be a pickup opportunity for Democrats with the right candidate.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/5-primaries-watch-florida-alaska/story?id=112943024
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It's a similar story in the 27th District, which includes downtown Miami and suburbs to the south. Two-term Republican Rep. Maria Salazar will face off against one of two Democrats: Lucia Baez-Geller, a Miami-Dade School Board member, and Mike Davey, the former mayor of Key Biscayne, are fairly evenly matched ideologically and financially, but Baez-Geller may have an edge as a Latina in a district with a large Hispanic population.
Though the region is pretty evenly divided politically (Trump won this district by less than 1 point in 2020), incumbency and a healthy war chest give Salazar an edge, so if Democrats hope to target this as a seat to flip, they'll need to put forward a very strong nominee.
Alaska Races to watch: U.S. House Polls close: 12 a.m. Eastern
Alaska is holding a nonpartisan primary for its at-large House seat, with the top four vote-getters winning a spot on the ballot for the ranked-choice general election in November. Incumbent Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola is facing 11 challengers in her bid for reelection, including four Republicans and one Democrat (the others are nonpartisan or represent minor parties). To refresh your memory, Peltola, the state's first Alaska Native Representative, was elected in a special election in 2022. Peltola beat two Republicans on the ranked-choice ballot: former Gov. and one-time vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and businessman Nick Begich, who was eliminated after the first round of ballot counting. It was the first time the state had used the new ranked ballot system, which was approved by a special ballot initiative in 2020(some Alaskans are now trying to repeal it).
This year, Begich is back and is polling competitively with Peltola, with some recent polls showing the two neck-and-neck, despite Peltola having a huge fundraising advantage.
Begich has raised just under $1 million, while Peltola has raised more than $7.5 million, according to FEC filings. But another prominent Republican is in the mix too: Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom has raised nearly as much as Begich and seems to be the party's preferred candidate, garnering endorsements from Trump and other Republican bigwigs. It is practically a given at this point that all three will ascend to the general ticket, but just how Tuesday's results shake out may have a big impact on which candidate prevails in November.
With this understanding, a super PAC with ties to House Democrats has spent nearly $1 million on ads attacking the abortion rights stances of three GOP candidates: Begich, Dahlstrom and Gerald Heikes, an underfunded perennial candidate. The strategy seems to be to raise the profile of these candidates among conservative voters in hopes they'll all wind up on the November ballot alongside Peltola, leaving her as the only option for left-leaning and moderate voters. In 2022, 29 percent of voters who ranked Begich as their first choice voted for Peltola as their second choice, while 21 percent didn't make a second choice pick at all.
This vote splitting and drop-off after the first round could favor Peltola if there are once again multiple right-wing candidates for voters to choose from in November. But Begich has said that if Dahlstrom finishes ahead of him in the primary, he'll drop out of the race, leaving her to take on Peltola. In a state that Trump won by 10 percentage points in 2020, Peltola was always going to be one of the most vulnerable incumbents this November, and the results of this primary could ultimately mean the difference between winning and losing for the congresswoman.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/5-primaries-watch-florida-alaska/story?id=112943024
Away from Chicago, it’s primary day in Florida, Wyoming and Alaska.Here’s what we’re watching: Will Gaetz end the McCarthy revenge tour?
August 20, 2024
Will Gaetz end the McCarthy revenge tour?
Allies of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy have dumped millions of dollars into an effort to unseat Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). The bad blood between the two Republicans runs deep. Gaetz was the ringleader of the motion to vacate effort that deposed McCarthy last year.
Gaetz has rallied with far-right allies like Reps. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) in the race’s final stretch.Gaetz, now in his fourth term, is the heavy favorite to win his primary over retired Navy officer Aaron Dimmock. So much for revenge.
Who will succeed retiring Bill Posey?
Republicans in Florida’s 8th District have coalesced around former state Senate President Mike Haridopolos to replace retiring Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.). Both former President Donald Trump and Posey have backed Haridopolos in the GOP primary for this solid red seat.
How will Mucarsel-Powell fare in the Democratic primary?
Former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) is the massive favorite to take on Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) in November. DMP has raised eye-popping sums in recent weeks and garnered major statewide endorsements. Entrepreneur Stanley Campbell, who won the major labor endorsement of the Florida AFL-CIO, is seeking to pull off an upset in the Democratic primary.
Which Republican will gain momentum in the race to topple Peltola?
Alaska Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola is one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the House. Tuesday is the open primary for Alaska’s House seat, where the top four vote-getters, regardless of party, will advance to the general. Peltola’s main GOP opponents this year are Nick Begich, who Peltola beat in 2022, and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who’s backed by the GOP establishment. Republicans are very high on Dahlstrom’s chances, and it’ll be instructive to see how she performs in the primary.
— Max Cohen
https://punchbowl.news/article/election-2024/what-to-watch-primary-day-florida-alaska-wyoming/
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Phone call lured Hezbollah’s Shukr to his Beirut apartment minutes before strike – report
Official from Lebanon-based terror group tells WSJ it’s working with Iran to probe how Israel breached security to hurry secretive commander into easy-to-target 7th-floor home
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The Beirut airstrike that killed Hezbollah deputy leader Fuad Shukr last month came minutes after a telephone call telling the shadowy terror chief to go up from his second-floor office to his seventh-floor residence, where he was easier to target, according to a US report citing an official from the Iran-backed group.
The Hezbollah official told the Wall Street Journal that the terror group was working with Iran to investigate the security breach, and believed Israel’s superior technological capabilities had bested the terror group’s countersurveillance system. The Journal assessed that Shukr lived and worked in the same building to limit his time outside. He went into hiding after he helped plan the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 from Athens to the United States.
“We’d heard his name, but we never saw him,” the paper quoted a neighbor as saying. “He was like a ghost.”
The Israel Defense Forces strike on July 30 killed Shukr, his wife, two other women, and two children. It came in response to a deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on the northern town of Majdal Shams that killed 12 children and teenagers.Hours after Shukr was killed, an explosion in Tehran killed Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. Both Hezbollah and Iran have vowed to take revenge on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its role in the blast that killed Haniyeh.
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Shukr helped command a 2006 cross-border assault that saw eight Israeli soldiers killed and two kidnapped, sparking a war in Lebanon. In the aftermath of that conflict,Shukr is thought to have orchestrated the expansion of the terror group’s rocket arsenal from about 15,000 to some 150,000, making it the best-armed nonstate actor in the region.
According to the IDF, he was Hezbollah’s point man for smuggling in, through Syria, Iranian components that could make guided missiles out of unguided ones.The Journal noted that Shukr’s life was so secretive that Lebanese media reporting on his death showed pictures of the wrong man.Much of the world’s media (though not The Times of Israel) followed suit.
In early 2024, Shukr appeared in public for just a couple of minutes to attend the funeral of his nephew, who was killed fighting Israel, an acquaintance told the Journal.Shukr had been wantedby the US fororchestrating the bombing that killed 241 American servicemen at a US Marines barracks in Beirut in 1982, before Hezbollah was officially founded.
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He helped organize Shiites for guerrilla fights against Israel,which invaded Lebanon in 1982in response to frequent rocket attacks on Israel’s north.
Earlier that year,Shukr was working for the General Directorate of General Security, Lebanon’s intelligence agency. Shukr, then in his twenties, was dismissed for failing to prevent the abduction of Iranian diplomats whom he was escorting from the Syrian border to Beirut, according to Qassem Kassir, a Lebanese political analyst who had known Shukr for some four decades.
When Hezbollah was officially founded in 1985, Shukr was made its military commander. He was seen as a close friend of Hassan Nasrallah, who was made the terror group’s leader after Israel assassinated his predecessor in 1992.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/phone-call-lured-hezbollahs-shukr-to-his-beirut-apartment-minutes-before-strike-report/
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According to Kassir, Shukr helped plan the June 14, 1985, hijacking of the TWA flight, for which Hezbollah has denied responsibility.
The plane was flown back and forth between Beirut and Algiers for three days until Israel released 700 Shiite fighters as demanded by the hijackers.Shukr went into hiding soon afterward. “He became invisible,” said an acquaintance of Shukr.
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After that, Shukr’s public appearances were rare. The acquaintance said Shukr personally intervened to prevent violence between Hezbollah members and Lebanese security forces during 1993 protests against the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In 1996, during a pilgrimage to Mecca, Shukr led a large group of Muslim worshipers in chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” said the acquaintance, who accompanied Shukr.
Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the Lebanese border on a near-daily basis since October 8.The group says it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there, sparked by Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
Fearing a similar attack from Hezbollah, Israel evacuated northern border communities soon afterward. Some 60,000 Israelis remain displaced, as do about 95,000 residents of southern Lebanon.
So far, theskirmishes on the northern border have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiersand reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 412 members who have been killedby Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 71 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
(It’s hard to know what really happened; but without a doubt Hezbollah etc. are evil and will kill anyone and anything that represents Israel and the US.I thank God daily I was not born in the middle east.I don’t believe there will ever be peace there, fighting and killing is in their blood for centuries and centuries.)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/phone-call-lured-hezbollahs-shukr-to-his-beirut-apartment-minutes-before-strike-report/
(Here's the video again)
Random Video Surfaces of Assassin Thomas Crooks at Butler Rally Before ShootingAugust 19, 2024 | Sundance
The video comes to my attention via the Twitter Account of Tony Seruga. The video appears to capture Thomas Crooks walking through the vendor section of the Butler rally at approximately 4:26pm, about one and a half hours before he began shooting.
If the 4:26pm time is accurate, this is interesting because President Trump was initially scheduled to begin speaking at 5:00pm.
Comments from Sundance’s thread.
• August 20, 2024 8:11 am:His shirt says Demolitia, so he was pretty much wearing a sign saying who he was going to be that day. As someone who posted earlier,the guy walking in front of him is who my eyes go to first.I still think he had help from someone.
• August 20, 2024 8:24 am Patsy. Not the real shooter.
• August 20, 2024 8:29 am:The blue shirt guy would possibly be Crooks’ onsite handler.They may have never met, but the guy stands out so the Crooks dufus would know him, and not get lost as he followed.
o Blue shirt guy would likely be in listening contact w Trump’s SS detail, who’d give timing updates for Trump’s ascension to the stage. All prearranged, so the radio traffic would appear innocuous.
o At the appropriate time, blue shirt guy gives the patsy Crooks the signal to climb the building into position. The spook shooter would observe Crooks and rifle in position directly in front of him, and then fire 3 measured shots at Trump. Crooks sees the confusion and fires a rapid 5 shot volley, then dies as planned.
o The spook makes his egress. He may be carrying his rifle openly, or broken down. SS facilitated his and Crooks’ access to their positions, so egress would be simple, for anybody besides Crooks, who was marked for death all along.
o The conspiracy might look something like this.
• August 20, 2024 8:39 am:Blue Shirt guy is a cutout, barely knowing more than Crooks. If Crooks gives him up somehow, he can’t implicate SS in any way. He just hacked their comms. Both would likely die accidentally in jail, as well. Spook shooter, who neither would even know about, would quietly vacate the area, with or without any shooting. SS/FBI would make it all go away, with Uniparty help.
• August 20, 2024 12:22 pm: So Blue Shirt Guy is Jack Ruby?
• August 20, 2024 8:31 am: What evidence do “WE” have, that Thomas Crooks was even the shooter? None.
• August 20, 2024 9:47 am: he had 2 phones with encrypted messaging apps and 2 or 3 overseas accounts and no friends… and went to the local fblie shooting range… the blue shirt dude sure did look like he was up to no good… if you heard 30 seconds of the dnc last night you might have thought, wow these are a nice bunch of people who are calling us dictators….
• August 20, 2024 9:00 am:Blue shirt guy is the only crowd-goer I’ve seen wearing a long-sleeve shirt and pants.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/19/random-video-surfaces-of-assassin-thomas-crooks-at-butler-rally-before-shooting/
the blue shirt guy has something like a square or gun, or etc in left pocket, shirt sticking out, can't cover it all.
Some comments from Sundance's thread:
Look at the left leg up close at his waist, His shirt is hiked up. it looks like he’s got something stuck in there from hip to his foot. Just odd, that’s like putting a square leg in a round hole.
How could anyone miss that, if cops saw him, they would definitely see he's got something stuck in there. Someone said last night it could have been the rifle, I don't know how that would be missed. But a lot was missed that day.
Look at the really tall person to the right. He's got to be 6'6" or taller
I really don't see that,
why did this video get dropped last night right before the DNC Convention?Someone didn't find it more than a month ago?
Tony put it up at 7:36 p.m. last night.
Really, someone that attended the J13 rally waited one month and 3 days to view his video or reveal what they found a month ago?
Doesn't make sense.
thanks for posting it.
You can see at the top of thigh, it looks like he has a square box or definitive lines like something square is in there. In the lower leg area that looks bigger than the right leg, like maybe strapped the top portion in and past the knee strapped whatever else. I don't know the length of a rifle barrel, so if we knew we can determine if it could be that.HOW did anyone miss that