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Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources 1/2

Trump officials had pushed Erik Siebert to bring criminal charges against James.

President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginiaafter his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources.

Federal prosecutors in Virginia had uncovered no clear evidence to prove that James had knowingly committed mortgage fraud when she purchased a home in the state in 2023, ABC News first reported earlier this week, but Trump officials pushed U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert to nevertheless bring criminal charges against her, according to sources.

Administration officials have told Siebert of Trump's intention to fire him, sources familiar with the matter said.Siebert's last day on the job is expected to be Friday.

The decision to fire Siebert could throw into crisis one of the most prominent U.S. attorney's offices, which handles a bulk of the country's espionage and terrorism cases, and heighten concerns about Trump's alleged use of the DOJ to target his political adversaries.

Trump nominated Siebert for the position in May. Sources familiar with the matter said that the administration now plans to install a U.S. attorney who would more aggressively investigate James.

The move to fire Siebert because he refused to charge one of Trump's political rivals would mark an escalation in what the president's critics have called a retribution campaign, with ongoing investigations also targeting Sen. Adam Schiff and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Trump has repeatedly accused James who successfully brought a civil fraud case against him last year and leads multiple lawsuits challenging his administration's policies of targeting him for political reasons, calling her "biased and corrupt."

James is "a horror show who ran on the basis that she was going to get Trump before she even knew anything about me,” Trump said during his civil fraud trial in 2023. "This has to do with election interference, plain and simple. We have a corrupt attorney general in this state."

Following a three-month trial, a New York judge concluded that Trump and his family had committed a decade of business fraud by overstating the value of their properties to get favorable loan terms, fining Trump and his sons nearly half a billion dollars. An appeals court subsequently tossed the financial penalty but upheld the finding that Trump committed fraud.

Trump administration officials have argued that James committed mortgage fraud because one of the documents related to her 2023 home purchase, they say, falsely indicated the property would be her primary residence. The investigation began after Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent the DOJ a criminal referral about James in April.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump-poised-fire-us-attorney-resisting-effort-charge/story?id=125700904

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"I believe this is riddled with mortgage fraud, and frankly, I think that's why she knew so much about the law in terms of how to go after President Trump," Pulte told Fox News last month. "She was the fraudster, not President Trump."

However, investigators have so far determined that the document alimited power of attorney form used by James' niece to sign documents on her behalf when James closed on the home was never considered by the loan officers who approved the mortgage, sources said.

A former police officer with Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department, Siebert graduated from law school in 2009 and has worked as an assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia since 2010. In addition to serving as a line prosecutor, Siebert headed the office's organized drug crime task force and supervised the office's Richmond division from 2019 to 2024.

Siebert began serving as the interim U.S. attorney on Jan. 21 after the late Jessica Aber, who ran the office from 2021-25, resigned following President Trump's inauguration. Both of Virginia’s Democratic senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, recommended Siebert to Trump in April, and Trump nominated him for the position in May.

"Mr. Siebert has dedicated his career to protecting public safety, from his work with the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department to his handling of violent crimes and firearms trafficking as a line Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. With his experience and dedication to service, Mr. Siebert is equipped to handle the challenges and important obligations associated with this position," Warner and Kaine said in a statement in May, pledging to support his nomination.

After his 120-day term as interim U.S. attorney expired in May, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia unanimously agreed to extend Siebert's tenure in the position.

One of the most high-profile federal prosecutors' offices in the country, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia serves over six million people with a staff of 300 prosecutors. Among the nation's fastest-moving trial courts, the Eastern District of Virginia often handles significant terrorism and intelligence-related cases because of its proximity to Washington and the multiple government offices in its jurisdiction.

(Just like U.S. attorneys refused to investigate the 2020 rigged election)

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump-poised-fire-us-attorney-resisting-effort-charge/story?id=125700904

==Suspected Kirk Shooter’s Gaming History Probed by Secret Service -

Alice AtkinsSeptember 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM UTC

Suspected Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson used Donald Trump’s name as a pseudonym on Valve Corp.’s Steam video-game platform, a fact that’s become part of a profile US law enforcement is building on the alleged assailant.

The US Secret Service has joined the investigation into the shooting, even though Kirk wasn’t under the agency’s protection, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Agents are working with the FBI to study Robinson’s behavior and online activity, including his use of Trump’s name on Steam, as part of a profile they are building, according to one of the people, asked not to be identified discussing the investigation. The aim is to understand how suspects form grievances, how they select targets and whether their actions signal broader risks to current or former officeholders.

The 11-year-old Steam account, reviewed by Bloomberg, primarily uses Robinson’s longstanding online username. It lists an account that appears to belong to his partner as a friend. Some comments on the account were disabled shortly after Bloomberg reached out to Valve for comment.

Since the Sept. 10 shooting, law enforcement has combed through Robinson’s social-media presence looking for clues about his motives. On bullet casings, the alleged shooter, age 22, used symbols and messages from online subcultures, including the video gameHelldivers 2, which poses questions about fascism and took inspiration from the film Starship Troopers, and the furry fandom, a fantasy community built around animals that behave like people. Robinson played 399 hours of Helldivers 2, according to his Steam profile.

Used by 30 million people at any given moment, Steam is the most popular platform for purchasing and playing personal computer games. Robinson played 2,148 hours of online pirate game Sea of Thieves, according to his profile on the platform.

“If you play alone you will die alone,” he wrote in a review of the game on Steam.

The games Robinson spent the most time playing were the puzzle game Pictopix,the first-person shooter title Deep Rock Galactic and Viscera Cleanup Detail, a game in which the player cleans up after an alien invasion. Robinson also played 126 hours of PowerWash Simulator.

In total, almost 5,000 hours of game play are registered on Robinson’s 11-year-old account. However, Steam users often leave games open for long periods of time without playing them.

Experts warn not to make too much of the suspected shooter’s interest in video games.“We have been studying the links between violent video-game play and violence for decades and there is no evidence linking the two,” said Rachel Kowert, a Ph.D and research psychologist who has looked into the relationship between game culture and extremism.

Focusing on that link, she said, “is frustrating because it detracts from conversations about other factors that we know do directly contribute to somebody committing a violent act, like previous exposure to violence, access to weapons and peer delinquency.”

Robinson’s account also jokingly cited George Orwell’s novel 1984, attributing to it the fake quote, “There will be NO bangering this users mother.”

Steam users have shared their feelings on the suspect’s alleged activities. Some called for justice for Kirk, some attacked Robinson and his partner, who is trans, and others praised him.

Steam is in the spotlight after the chairman of the US House Oversight Committee, Republican James Comer, called Valve’s president, Gabe Newell, to a hearing scheduled for next month.

In November, Bloomberg reported that extremist images and phrases proliferated on Steam. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism identified 1.83 million instances of extremist or hateful content on the video-game platform, including Nazi imagery, support for terrorist organizations like ISIS and tributes to individual terrorists.

The CEOs of Reddit, Azcom Inc.’s Twitch and the chat app Discord were also called to the hearing.

https://archive.is/Fck9g

SamRyanStudio

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33k unfollows for painting a tribute to Charlie. #CharlieKirk

https://x.com/samingram5/status/1968785622820093983

Robbie Rose

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Charlie Kirk was scheduled to speak at CSU in Fort Collins tonight, and 10,000 people turned out anyway.

This is deep blue Colorado.

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Collin Rugg

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Popular streamer Destiny refuses to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, says "you need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed."

On Piers Morgan: "I won't condemn anything until [Trump] can go on air and say all of us need to calm down."

On stream: "You need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events so that they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature."

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Axios Sneak Peek

Media's MAGA makeover

Story by Zachary Basu •1/2

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.

Why it matters: The media landscape of 2016 is unrecognizable. Once dominated by critics of President Trump, today's fragmented ecosystem is increasingly controlled — or threatened — by forces aligned with the White House.

Driving the news: ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air "indefinitely" on Wednesday in response to the late-night host's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

• The extraordinary move came after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr warned ABC that it could face fines or license revocations if it did not "operate in the public interest."

• Trump celebrated Kimmel's removal — just as he did CBS's decision to cancel Stephen Colbert's show — and called for NBC to take action against remaining late-night hosts Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

The big picture: The media's MAGA makeover is unfolding on two fronts — high-profile acquisitions that give Trump allies control of marquee platforms, and quieter rebrands that soften once-critical coverage or policies.

1.Acquisitions: No modern media deal has more profoundly reshaped U.S. politics than Elon Musk's 2022 takeover of Twitter (now X), which turned the digital town square into a platform dominated by MAGA voices.

• It soon may be eclipsed by another seismic deal: Oracle, chaired by Trump ally Larry Ellison, is seeking to take control of TikTok's U.S. operations as part of a consortium that includes Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.

• The proposal — if green-lit by China — could give one of Trump's billionaire allies unprecedented sway over a platform central to youth culture and political organizing.

Meanwhile, Skydance's acquisition of Paramount this summer handed Ellison's son, David, control of CBS News, where he appointed a conservative ombudsman to review complaints about the network's coverage.

• Paramount-Skydance is in advanced talks to acquire Bari Weiss' conservative news site, The Free Press, and give her a senior editorial role at CBS.

• The Ellisons are also working on a cash bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN — potentially putting two of America's most iconic TV news brands under the purview of one Trump-aligned family.

2.Rebrands:Major tech and media executivesmade a series of overtures to Trump in the wake of the 2024 election, promising a more conciliatory approach toward his second administration.

• Meta's Mark Zuckerberg pivoted hard after years of tensions — appointing Trump allies to top jobs and eliminating the platform's fact-checking program as part of a slate of changes targeting "censorship."

• Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos killed the paper's endorsement of then-Vice President Harris and announced in February that its opinion page would shift its mission to promote "personal liberties and free markets."

• L.A. Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong spiked his paper's Harris endorsement and vowed on Fox News to balance out his editorial board with conservative voices.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/ar-AA1MNytM

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The intrigue: Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S. and onetime left-leaning voice for Latinos, has ingratiated itself with the Trump administration under its new owner, Mexican media giant Televisa.

• The Baltimore Sun, Maryland's largest newspaper, has shifted notably to the rightsince being sold to David Smith, the executive chairman of conservative local broadcaster Sinclair.

• Public MAGA media companies like Newsmaxhave seen valuations skyrocket by riding the "meme stock" wave initiated by Trump Media, which owns the president's Truth Social platform.

Between the lines: Mainstream outlets that remain adversarial to Trump have come under heavy financial, political and regulatory pressure.

• Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuitagainst The New York Times this week, claiming the paper is a "full-throated mouthpiece of the Democrat Party."

• He's also accused ABC and NBC of functioning as arms of the Democratic Party, and said last month he would be "in favor" of the FCC pulling their broadcast licenses.

• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was forced to shut down after Congress cut nearly $1.1 billion in federal funding for PBS and NPR, which Trump had accused of liberal bias.

Reality check: Even amid the tectonic shifts, America's newsrooms are still producing hard-hitting, independent journalism.

• Trump is actively suing his ally Rupert Murdoch over The Wall Street Journal's coverage of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — a reminder that friendly ownership doesn't guarantee friendly coverage.

• Paramount-Skydance is in advanced talks to acquire Bari Weiss' conservative news site, The Free Press, and give her a senior editorial role at CBS.

• The Ellisons are also working on a cash bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN — potentially putting two of America's most iconic TV news brands under the purview of one Trump-aligned family.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/ar-AA1MNytM

>>23623037 yikes

Concha: This was a 'last straw' moment for Jimmy Kimmel

Fox News contributor Joe Concha explains why the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel following comments on Charlie Kirk is a business 'no-brainer

5:15

(Just wait when all those talentless hacks have terrible ratings. And it was con job)

https://youtu.be/uPVpM8dNYAM

Matthew McConaughey shares message with 'Fox & Friends': 'This too shall pass'

Actor and author Matthew McConaughey joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss his journey of faith and how it inspired his new poetry book, 'Poems & Prayers.'

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https://youtu.be/fRC9suSLGy0

President Trump Requests Supreme Court Intervention in Lisa Cook Removal from Fed

September 18, 2025 | Sundance |

U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer has filed a motion with the Supreme Court [SEE HERE] requesting intervention in a lower court ruling that blocks President Trump from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

As noted in the filing, “As her removal notice observed, before taking office, Cook had made contradictory representations in two mortgage agreementsa short time apart, claiming that both a property in Michigan and a property in Georgia would simultaneously serve as her principal residence. Each mortgage agreement described the representation as material to the lender, reflecting the reality that lenders usually offer lower interest rates for principal-residence mortgages because they view such mortgages as less risky.

When her apparent misconduct came to light, the President determined that Cook’s “deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter” renders her unfit to continue serving on the Federal Reserve Board, and at a minimum demonstrates “the sort of gross negligence in financial transactions that calls into question[her] competence and trustworthiness as a financial regulator.” App., infra, 29a. To this day, Cook has never attempted to reconcile these representations.” (READ MORE)

“The Federal Reserve Act’s broad ‘for cause’ provision rules out removal for no reason at all, or for policy disagreement,” Sauer wrote.“But so long as the President identifies a cause, the determination … is within the President’s unreviewable discretion.”

“The President may reasonably determine that interest rates paid by the American people should not be set by a Governor who appears to have lied about facts material to the interest rates she secured for herself — and refuses to explain the apparent misrepresentations,” Sauer wrote.

Cook maintains she dindunuffin.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/18/president-trump-requests-supreme-court-intervention-in-lisa-cook-removal-from-fed/

Nolte: Jimmy Kimmel Suspended for Planning to ‘Fan Flames of MAGA’ Even More

John Nolte19 Sep 2025

According to the far-left Hollywood Reporter, the only person who got Jimmy Kimmel suspended was Jimmy Kimmel.

The same man who celebrated President Donald Trump getting blacklisted and then celebrated Tucker Carlson getting fired at Fox News got himself suspended by his fellow leftists at Disney-ABC.

On Monday, Kimmel violated FCC guidelines that call for serving the public interest by serving the public a steaming pile of disinformation. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” he said.

By the time Kimmel did his monologue, it was already perfectly clear that Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin was a leftist in a sick relationship with a furry-transsexual.

Knowing this, Kimmel still told the tens of people who still watch his show that the alleged assassin is MAGA.

But it’s not September 9 anymore, and even though ABC/Disney has violated FCC rules for a decade by giving The View and Kimmel two hours of network real estate to smear MAGA every single day without rebuttal, the public assassination of Kirk on September 10 changed everything. We’re done taking it, so podcaster Benny Johnson and others called on FCC chairman Brendan Carr to do his job. Turns out he didn’t have to.

Two of the country’s biggest affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair, had also had enough. Both told Disney they were done airing a Late Night show aimed at pleasing only Los Angeles and New York when they own dozens of stations in Normal America.

So, per THR, Disney asked Kimmel to address the lie he told in a way that “would take down the temperature.” What he planned to do on Wednesday night instead, the report says, was “going to fan the flames with the MAGA fanbase.”

Someone who works on the show basically confirmed this while claiming to deny it. No, no, this source said, Jimmy was not planning on “making it worse,” but he also “wasn’t kowtowing” to MAGA.

Oh, okay.

By this time, “66 of the roughly 200 affiliate stations had said they would not carry the episode – that’s when ABC announced it was suspending the program[.]”

The left and the fake media are blaming the FCC when the Trump administration has allowed ABC/Disney to brazenly violate the “public interest” clause in the broadcast agreement for five years—four years in Trump’s first term and nearly a year into Trump’s second term. For two unanswered hours a day ABC slags Trump and his supporters.

Arrogant Jimmy Kimmel got himself suspended for one reason—he refused to do the decent and honorable thing.

The affiliates, thankfully, have done the decent and honorable thing, and until Jimmy Kimmel agrees to retract his lie and tell the truth, I hope they stand by their decision. I don’t care if Kimmel apologizes. But an on-air retraction and correction serve the “public interest.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/19/nolte-jimmy-kimmel-suspended-for-planning-to-fan-flames-of-maga-even-more/

Exclusive: Mike Benz on Who Funds Trantifa Terror, Charlie Kirk's Legacy

The Alex Marlow Show

In this episode of The Alex Marlow Show, Alexander engages in a deep conversation with Mike Benz, discussing the impact and legacy of Charlie Kirk, a prominent figure in conservative activism. The discussion delves into Kirk's influence on young voters, his role in building Turning Point USA, and the tragic circumstances surrounding his assassination. Benz and Marlow explore the broader implications of political violence, the role of educational institutions in shaping political discourse, and the challenges of maintaining free speech in an increasingly polarized environment. They also touch on the influence of online communities and the need for counter-narratives to prevent radicalization. The episode concludes with a call for transparency and reform in both domestic and international political strategies.

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https://youtu.be/3h8Q1OTBWlM

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Exclusive — Benz: We Have Been in 2nd Cold War Since Donald Trump Attempted to Run for President

On Thursday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Mike Benz, the Executive Director at the Foundation for Freedom Online, talked about foreign affairs.

Benz stated, “On the international level…we have been in an undeclared second Cold War since Donald Trump began his campaign to run for president against right-wing populist movements around the world.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/18/xclusive-benz-we-have-been-in-2nd-cold-war-since-donald-trump-attempted-to-run-for-president/

‘The Office’ Star Rainn Wilson Says His Liberal Hollywood Friends Said ‘Good Riddance’ After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination’: ‘Won’t See Me Shedding Tears’

The Office star Rainn Wilson posted a video to TikTok this week lamenting the left’s current fondness for accepting and excusing political violence and revealed that he recently heard several liberal friends say they “won’t be shedding tears” that conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front of his family over his political views.

In a preview video of his interview with far-left activist, actor, and Marvel star Mark Ruffalo, Rain said he is worried over the direction of the political discourse in America and in particular the callousness he sees among his own left-wing Hollywood friends.

“We can’t kill people we disagree with,” Wilson says in the introduction. “Even if we find them horrifically offensive.And we need to come to a deeper kind of spiritual healing that underlies something as basic as like, ‘Hey, we need to bring the temperature down.'”

In the except of the interview with Ruffalo, Wilson said that the assassination of Charlie Kirk is “tearing the country apart in so many ways, and the country is being torn apart in so many different ways.”

Calling this penchant to tacitly support murder “colossally wrong,” Wilson went on to describe a meeting he had with several of his left-wing Hollywood friends.

“I spoke to a couple of — let’s say, liberal friends — at an event,” Wilson told Ruffalo. “and they were like, ‘You won’t find me shedding any tears.'” And he added, “It was a little bit of a good riddance thing, and it’s like, ‘Guys, NO!'”

Wilson said he found himself taken aback at this casual attitude toward murder.

“We cannot think or talk that way,” Wilson added. “That is not OK.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/18/the-office-star-rainn-wilson-says-his-liberal-hollywood-friends-said-good-riddance-after-charlie-kirks-assassination-wont-see-m/

‘Charlie Kirk Show’ Producer: Charlie ‘Loved’ Being Featured on ‘South Park;’ ‘He Would Want the Episode Back Up’

Alana Mastrangelo18 Sep 2025

Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show and Turning Point USA spokesman,said Charlie Kirk “loved” being featured on South Park, adding, “He would want the episode back up” on Comedy Central.

“Hey [Paramount+], as someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park,” Kolvet said in a Wednesday X post. “He told me many times. He would want the episode back up.”

Kolvet was referring to a South Park episode that aired last month, titled, “Got a Nut,” in which the cartoon’s Cartman character is seen with hair like the Turning Point USA founder’s and hosting Kirk-style debate events on college campuses.

Kirk himself had reacted by expressing excitement over being satirized in the show, calling it “a win” and even temporarily changing his profile picture on X to an image of Cartman sitting at a table with a microphone.

The Turning Point USA founder also lauded “The Charlie Kirk Award” presented in the show.

“The South Park episode just dropped, and, honestly, it is hilarious,” Kirk said in an August video.

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“Now, there’s gonna be a lot said about this,but we need to have a good spirit about being made fun of,” Kirk continued, adding, “This is all a success, this is all a win.”

“Until next time, I hope all of you, also, become master debaters for truth,” the Turning Point USA founder quipped, referencing South Park‘s usage of the term “master debater” in the episode to further poke fun at conservatives.

Kirk had also shared several clips from the episode to his Instagram account.

After the Turning Point USA founder was assassinatedwhile talking with a student at Utah Valley University during a campus event similar to the one featured inSouth Park, Comedy Central pulled the episode from its linear rotation.

In July, after the episode’s teaser was dropped, but before it aired, Kirk reacted positively to being mocked on South Park, telling Fox News,“It’s kinda funny, and it kinda goes to show the cultural impact and the resonance that our movement has been able to achieve.”

“I look at this as a badge of honor,” he continued. “We as conservatives need to be able to take a joke. We shouldn’t take ourselves so seriously. That’s something that the left has always done, to great detriment to themselves and the movement.”

“Look, they’re professional comedians,” Kirk added. “They’re probably going to roast me, and I think that’s fine. That’s what it’s all about, being in public life and making a difference.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/18/charlie-kirk-show-producer-charlie-loved-being-featured-on-south-park-he-would-want-the-episode-back-up/

BrutalFights

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Charlie Kirk Reacts To South Park Episode

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>>23623367 Charlie comments on South Park

>>23623376 Israel will never stop wars, we shouldn’t have anything to do with it.

>>23623413 when they can’t win the political war, they have pivoted to killing the ones that reveal their lies. Seems like end times to me