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National Christmas Tree Falls Over Near White House Two Days Before Biden is Set to Light

Filed Under: Gateway Pundit, INVESTIGATIONS

High winds knocked down the National Christmas Tree outside the White House on Tuesday.

The tree was toppled just two days before Biden was set to light it for the annual Christmas lighting ceremony.

As of right now, the National Park Service is still determining if the tree is still salvageable.

This isn’t the first time this year the National Christmas Tree has faced trouble.

The first Christmas tree that was set up had to be replaced after it developed fungus.

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Organizers are scrambling after powerful winds toppled the National Christmas Tree on Tuesday. According to the National Park Service, the tree already had to be replaced once this year after it was discovered the original tree planted for the ceremony developed a fungus.

At 2 p.m., NPS says the fully decorated tree fell after a large gust of wind came through the area. WUSA9 is being told the contractor is willing to come back and redecorate, but it is uncertain at this time if the tree is salvageable.

However, officials say the show will go on. With just two days away from the ceremony, the lighting is expected to bring entertainers and guests from all over–including WUSA9’s very own Annie Yu and Wisdom Martin.

After the tree was toppled, a crane had to be used to lift it back up.

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Meet the Senior CIA Official Who Posted Pro-Palestinian Images to Social Media

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Washington Free Beacon

The senior CIA official who posted a pro-Palestinian image on Facebook in the wake of Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel is associate deputy director for analysis Amy McFadden, the agency confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.

McFadden was not mentioned by name in a Tuesday Financial Times article about her Facebook banner image, which was a picture of a man waving a Palestinian flag, citing alleged “concern about her safety.” A review of McFadden’s LinkedIn page revealed expressions of support for the anti-Israel International Crisis Group, once headed by disgraced former White House official Robert Malley.

McFadden’s criticism of Israel comes as President Joe Biden faces a revolt in the federal government over the Jewish state’s military response in Gaza after Hamas’s attacks left at least 1,400 dead, including 32 Americans. The CIA official’s conduct suggests even those working at the highest echelon of the federal government’s intelligence services feel comfortable making public statements contrary to the United States’ official stance on Israel.

“CIA officers are committed to analytic objectivity, which is at the core of what we do as an Agency,” a CIA spokeswoman told the Free Beacon in an emailed statement. “CIA officers may have personal views, but this does not lessen their—or CIA’s—commitment to unbiased analysis.” The agency declined to say whether McFadden would be subject to disciplinary action or termination.

According to the Financial Times, McFadden also posted “a selfie with a sticker saying ‘Free Palestine’ superimposed on the photograph” on Facebook. The paper said that image was uploaded years ago.

McFadden is one of the most senior officials within the CIA and was once responsible for overseeing the president’s “daily brief,” a summary of classified intelligence, the Financial Times reported. In her role as associate deputy director for analysis, McFadden oversees the approval of all the agency’s analysis.

Although McFadden’s particular beliefs on Israel are unclear, she “liked” one post by the International Crisis Group in the last week. That post shared an article in Foreign Affairs that chastised Israel for “making the utter defeat of Hamas its top priority.”

The International Crisis Group, a non-profit that says it works on “preventing and resolving deadly conflict,” has faced criticism over its ties to the Iranian government. Its former president, Malley, is under criminal investigation for allegedly mishandling classified investigation. Malley served as the chief envoy to Tehran under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

The International Crisis Group fired one of its Iran analysts in October over allegations that he worked for a vast Iranian-government propaganda network. That individual, Ali Vaez, reportedly spoke with senior Iranian officials and visited the White House at least five times since 2022.

McFadden’s LinkedIn banner image is a graphic with text that says “I am for equity because equity starts with everyone.” According to McFadden’s profile, she started at the CIA in 1999 and worked in leadership roles at the Office of North African, Arabian Peninsula, and Regional Analysis. From 2012 to 2013, McFadden was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

“Ms. McFadden is the recipient of several prestigious IC awards, including the Intelligence Medal of Merit, the CIA Director’s Award, and the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism,” her profile states.

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Police Beat The Hell Out Of Innocent J6 Protesters And They Face Years In Prison. The Left Riots, Sues Police For ‘Excessive Force’ And Wins Millions

Filed Under: Gateway Pundit, INVESTIGATIONS

A new video from the January 6 protests was released this past weekend from inside the entrance to the US Capitol.

Capitol Hill police officers are seen ruthlessly beating an elderly man in footage from the Capitol riot on January 6 that was widely circulated across social media.

“The Capitol cops beat the hell out of innocent J6 protesters, and the videos are finally coming out. The cops should be charged and the protesters should be freed. This is why the uniparty didn’t want the videos released,” states the caption attached to a video of cops repeatedly striking and spraying a gray-haired man who appears trapped in a doorway between police and protesters.

The video of the cops beating the elderly man has been viewed 1.2 million times on Twitter at the time of this publication.

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A screenshot of a cop spraying an older man with a red hat directly in the face while standing a few feet away from the protester has also gone viral.

Footage of Capitol Police shoving an elderly woman down a set of stairs outside the US Capitol on January 6 is also making the rounds.

As the Gateway Pundit has reported, the police actually pushed this woman down a flight of stairs twice and according to our sources, this brutal display of police abuse ignited the crowd that day.

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As TGP has reported, when the police started shooting people in the face and throwing flash grenades at the unarmed crowd, everything changed on January 6.

“Anyone who wants to get to the bottom of January 6 must focus on the key moment: The precise time the typical protest escalated into “the most investigated demonstration in FBI history,” defense attorney Steven Metcalf told TGP days after the Proud Boys were found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
“This is crucial —  this is crucial — because this is where what everybody is saying about J6 being a ‘set-up’ and a ‘fedsurrection’ actually matters. But nobody is pinpointing the precise time,” he said. “Everyone is saying, ‘There’s FBI agents in the crowd,’ ‘There’s CHSs in the crowd.’ There’s blah blah blah — I’ll tell you exactly where shit went crazy.
“It went crazy at that precise time when the protesters were all standing in the west side terrace and then shots start going off and people started getting hit in the faces… There were a couple of agitators in the crowd don’t get me wrong, but what took it to a whole different level is people being shot in the face with rubber bullets.
“That’s where people who were angry got even angrier and rightfully so.”

Defense Attorney Exposes THE EXACT MOMENT the Government Waged J6 Attack: ‘I’ll Tell You Exactly Where Sh*t Went Crazy’

Nearly 1200 Americans who protested on January 6 are being prosecuted by the Justice Department and the Biden regime and Chris Wray’s FBI continues to expand its J6 probe.  Over 150 J6 defendants have been held in pre-trial detention.

Demonstrators who walked through the Capitol Building would face misdemeaning trespassing charges punishable by up to a year in prison before and after January 6. But J6ers who peacefully strolled through the building are resoundingly charged with 1512 Obstruction of an Official Proceeding, punishable by a 20-year prison sentence, and designated as terrorists within the Bureau of Prisons system.  

Seeking to increase prison sentences for wrongthink, the government made examples of the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers with charges of seditious conspiracy. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is serving a 22-year prison sentence after the government persuaded an Antifa-supporting jury he conspired to overthrow the US government, even though Tarrio was not in Washington DC on January 6. His co-defendants were also handed the highest sentences to date for merely trespassing in the building and committing no violent crimes during the protest — 18 years for Ethan Nordean, 17 years for Joe Biggs, 15 years for Zachary Rehl and 10 years for Dominic Pezzola.

Murderers are being handed lighter sentences than J6 political hostages.

Meanwhile, so-called racial justice demonstrators are being awarded millions of dollars after getting arrested during their protests where they destroyed property, torched historic buildings, and attempted to storm the White House.

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In September, New York City agreed to pay at least $35 million to settle allegations of police misconduct and civil rights violations by police against people protesting the 2020 death of George Floyd, including $10 million for protesters who were kettled during a demonstration in the South Bronx. More than 600 people have reportedly brought individual claims against the city, many of which are still pending.

In April 2022, a federal jury awarded $14 million to 12 Denver racial justice activists who sued police for hitting them with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during the 2020 Floyd demonstrations. The jury found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights.

In April 2021, the city of Washington reached a $1.6 million settlement in two lawsuits that included excessive force on protesters and allegations of arrests without cause during the inauguration of former President Donald Trump in January 2017. The American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia, representing the plaintiffs warned in a statement about the settlement that the police “engaged in or supervised constitutional violations including mass arrests of demonstrators without probable cause, unlawful conditions of confinement for detainees, and/or use of excessive force.”

The ACLU said that even though just a few protesters caused damage and engaged in violence, police rounded up more than 200 protestors and “detained them without access to food, water, or restrooms for up to 16 hours.”The conduct of Metropolitan Police Department officers was investigated by the city’s Police Complaints Board.

In May 2020, Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker as hundreds of Democrat-sanctioned “social justice warriors” gathered outside the executive mansion throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades. Despite sparking one of the highest alerts on the White House, the worldwide headquarters of the US military and the nation, since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, none of the left-wing rioters were sentenced to decades in prison for endangering the sitting president.

Where are the lawsuits filed on behalf of all the January 6 protesters who were injured by rubber bullets, flashbang grenades, shrapnel, and teargas on January 6 and were mercilessly beaten by police? How many protesters had to make their way from the protest to the emergency room? 

The Gateway Pundit spoke with former J6 defense attorney-turned-paralegal Jonathon Moseley, who is currently in the midst of J6 litigation, about the prospects of filing a lawsuit against the District of Columbia, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Metropolitan Police Department and the Capitol Police Department for civil rights abuses and police brutality on behalf of January 6 protesters.

Moseley cautioned, “There are way too many J6 defendants and not nearly enough lawyers.”

“In any other area, you’d expect lawyers to be lining up and wanting to take the case. But here there’s a there’s a chronic shortage of lawyers willing to do the work on January 6,” he told TGP in an exclusive interview. “It’s a matter it’s a matter of time, money and effort. When lawyers are defending these people who were injured by police during the protest, they are faced with the urgent problem of the defendant being sentenced to jail or prison.

“There are lots of lawsuits that people want to file over the use of the misuse of tear gas, but the civil lawsuits are being completely ignored because the criminal cases are too important,” he continued. “It’s just a matter of too much work and not enough time.

“What’s the legality of police beating unarmed protesters? It is illegal. Liberals have won lawsuits on that. They’ve won millions of dollars for groups of people. So, there’s your legality. The left files lawsuits against police brutality and unconstitutional detention all the time. The first thing you need is a plaintiff. The second thing you need is a lawyer who’s not afraid of his own shadow. ”

Mosely is calling on attorneys around the country to represent J6 defendants amid a judicial crisis that perils the First Amendment.

“Lawyers from any jurisdiction can practice law in DC federal court if a local lawyer waves them in — about half of the lawyers who are currently working for January 6, defendants are not local DC lawyers.”

Asked what it would cost to wage a legal battle against the District of Columbia over police brutality on January 6, akin to the lawsuits filed by the ACLU, Moseley cautioned “A lawyer has to be financially successful enough to have money available to litigate the case for years before they get a payday.”

“And they might never get paid,” he added. “They have to have enough money origin the bank to afford to gamble and lose.

“If your lawyer is not willing to do it on contingency, has enough money in the bank to risk losing, you would probably need at least $50,000 raised for this sort of lawsuit. And the other issue is, no matter how good the lawyer is, the factual research is a ton of work. There’s a lot of details that lawyers don’t know. We need people that want to just do research and volunteer to pull things together.”

The most seasoned attorneys with the most compelling presentations, exposing all the crimes committed by police on January 6, will still be confronted with the same biased federal judges who preside over the nearly 100 percent conviction rate of J6 defendants.

“Research is crucial, but the judges will ignore it. I’ve had judges practically scoff at the Constitution,” Mosely said. “We try to argue from the Constitution, they’ll kind of like throw their hands in the air and look disgusting. They pretend they pretend to listen to defense motions, and then always, you know, barely turn every issue in favor of the prosecution.”

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Whoopi Goldberg suggests that condemning Hamas’ rape, sexual assault of Israeli women could ‘exacerbate’ terror group’s fury

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, The Blaze

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Monday’s program that condemning Hamas’ rape and sexual assault of Israeli women could “exacerbate” the terror group’s fury amid the Israel-Hamas war.

What are the details?

Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin kicked things off by sharing that she’s “devastated” over women’s groups’ silence in the face of Hamas’ rape and sexual assault of Israeli women.

“I am still devastated — we’re two months since this war’s been underway — by the silence from women’s groups in this country about rape being used as an act of war in this attack,” Griffin said before citing a recent video from tech icon Sheryl Sandberg, who also wrote a CNN op-ed on the subject saying the “silence on these war crimes is deafening.”

Griffin continued, noting that rape “violates every rule of warfare. It is the height of immorality, and … the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment has been silent, the U.N. Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has been silent, and the international MeToo movement has been silent.”

Goldberg jumped right in, practically cutting off Griffin with her own two cents: “Perhaps the reason they’ve been silent is for the same reason that you just described … they don’t wanna exacerbate.”

Goldberg didn’t say what she believes might be exacerbated by speaking out against Hamas’ rape and sexual assault of Israeli women, but one would logically conclude it’s the terror group’s fury and hostilities.

“Listen, I know that this is really hard for people to sit still with,” Goldberg added. “So, right now, we’re glad people are coming out, and that’s what we’re gonna keep talking about because we want to encourage — you know, the bottom line truly is this: You don’t have a choice, you have to end this because at some point it’s gonna dawn on everybody there that no one’s leaving. No one’s leaving the land. So the question has to become, ‘How do we live together on this land?’ That is all that people should be thinking about so that this does not continue to happen.”

Anything else?

Fox News noted that Griffin also called out far-left Democrats from “The Squad” for claiming Israel was responsible for an explosion at a hospital in Gaza: “I want to say shame on Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar because they played a role in the fact that this agreement, with the Arab nations that he [President Biden] was going to meet with fell apart. We now know that this hospital attack that took place, Biden said he is very confident it was not the Israelis that did it. It was likely Islamic Jihad and that’s because of U.S. Department of Defense intelligence and footage analyzed.”

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National Legal and Policy Center Attorney Paul Kamenar Discusses Trump’s DC Gag Order Appeal Hearing and Persecution of J6 Prisoners in Lawless DC Courts

Filed Under: Gateway Pundit, INVESTIGATIONS

National Legal and Policy Center lead counsel Paul Kamenar

DC attorney and lead counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center Paul Kamenar spoke with The Gateway Pundit last week to discuss the recent appeals court hearing over District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan’s unconstitutional gag order.

Kamenar further shared his thoughts on J6 Defendant Victoria White’s sentencing hearing, held just hours after Trump’s gag order hearing.

As The Gateway Pundit reported last week, the Circuit Court signaled it would partially grant President Trump’s request to remove his gag order in Jack Smith’s bogus election interference case. This order bars Trump from criticizing Special Counsel Jack Smith or any of his prosecutors – even if Trump is telling the truth!

Federal Appeals Court Panel Blasts Judge Chutkan, Signals it will Narrow Trump’s Unconstitutional Gag Order

Attorneys for the government argued that Trump even calling Jack Smith a “liar” falls under the “inflammatory language” that would violate his gag order. Even the two Obama appointees and the single Biden appointee on the bench appeared to think this is ridiculous and will interfere with the political arena.

It is unclear when the appeals court will make a decision. Kamenar told The Gateway Pundit that while the court should narrow the scope of Trump’s gag order to comply with the First Amendment, he does not believe it will be overturned entirely.

Since the latest hearing in DC, Judge Chutkan has refused the Trump defense team’s efforts to subpoena members of the House January 6 Committee for testimony and missing documents, which are essential to proving his innocence. This completely lawless court seeks to silence Trump and cover up the truth about January 6 – all to interfere with the 2024 election.

In the case of Victoria White, she was sentenced last Monday to ten days of incarceration, three months of house arrest, two years of probation, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. This is what she gets after peacefully attending the January 6 protest and nearly being killed by Capitol police who beat the hell out of her and paraded her body around the Capitol.

Kamenar shared his opinion on this “miscarriage of justice,” further calling it “a case of police brutality and excessive enforcement.” He also highlighted the dual system of justice in the treatment of January 6 protesters versus the Black Lives Matter radicals who killed numerous law enforcement officers and caused billions of dollars in damage rioting in American cities.

Paul Kamenar has been an outspoken opponent of the deep state and its illegitimate tactics for persecuting innocent Americans. He previously led a lawsuit challenging the legal authority of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was targeting Roger Stone.

Like Mueller, Jack Smith, who is now charging President Trump in Florida and DC, was not confirmed by the Senate, and both of their prosecutorial authority is likely unconstitutional.

Read Kamenar’s Town Hall op-ed titled “Why Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Unlawful” here.

Listen to the full interview below:

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Hypocrites in Heels: The View Defends Biden’s Mental Slips, Jump on Trump Gaffes

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

For years now, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View have denounced attempts to draw attention to President Biden’s obvious mental decline. Their responses to the criticisms and warning bells had been to call those pointing it out “ageist” and try to explain away the inexplicable things Biden was saying and doing, all while largely refusing to play video of it. But on Tuesday, they decided they wanted to be blatant hypocrites and cackle at an edited video of former President Trump misspeaking and having gaffes while suggesting those focused on Biden were the real hypocrites.

“You know, a lot of people — A lot of people are wondering if you-know-who is a couple of steps slower on the campaign trail after a string of – how shall I say, hmm, mental lapses,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg quipped ahead of the video montage. “Being confused about who actually is currently serving as president right now. He’s saying he’s doing it on purpose, but we would like you to judge for yourselves.”

The first to spout off at length was former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin, who said Trump was “delu-lu” (slang for “delusional”) and how she never really thought he was that smart. “You can watch him. He is not as sharp as he was in 2016, and many of us would argue he wasn’t that sharp then. You see a real decline in him. It is a fact that you can’t get past,” she proclaimed.

Then why did you continue to work for him for four years, Alyssa?

She went on to strongly hint at Trump supporters we hypocrites for looking past Trump’s gaffes while pouncing on Biden’s:

But what is remarkable to me is this, our country is so polarized that Trump supporters see that and they don’t think a thing about it. It doesn’t really affect them. He’s my tough guy. He’s my fighter. But see any gaffe of Joe Biden and Joe Biden is aging, he’s too old. And it’s this sort of Rorschach test of where the country is.

 

 

But the real hypocrites were on the set with her.

While Goldberg poked Trump for when “he talked about Frederick Douglass still being alive,” they defended Biden last year when he called out for late Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN) who had passed away a month earlier. “She passed last month not, like, a hundred years ago!” Goldberg shouted at the time.

“I think what it really shows is that this country is so ageist. This country has a problem with age,” racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin sneered, last year in response to the Jackie incident. And in 2020, Hostin declared that it was “inappropriate” and “crass” to question Biden’s mental fitness for office.

But on Tuesday, Hostin was getting her kicks in on Trump. “When he makes these cognitive mistakes because they’re indicia of cognitive decline,” she argued. She suggested that when Trump mixed up Biden with former President Obama, he was blowing a “dog whistle to the white supremacists of the country.”

She also tried to suggest Trump’s doctor was not a real doctor who went to an accredited medical school because he’s a doctor of osteopathic medicine, despite the fact they’re accredited from the same organization as M.D.s. Then again, Hostin once rubbed what one could argue was just a red flashlight on her neck and claimed it was “therapeutic light energy.”

“If I paid a doctor, they could tell me I look 25. I mean, you can find a doctor if you pay them to say anything about you. I don’t trust these doctors,” co-host Joy Behar scoffed. Meanwhile, earlier this year, she said a braindead  and ‘drooling’ Biden was better “than any Republican.”

Co-host Sara Haines proposed that Trump was just that stupid. “It would not surprise me if Donald Trump did not know we had World War II,” she chided. “When you’ve skated through your life with no accountability and you have money and you have power, maybe it doesn’t matter how you test on your history test.”

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
November 28, 2023
11:02:37 a.m. Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know, a lot people — A lot of people are wondering if you-know-who is a couple of steps slower on the campaign trail after a string of – how shall I say, hmm, mental lapses. Being confused about who actually is currently serving as president right now. He’s saying he’s doing it on purpose, but we would like you to judge for yourselves. Please show the clip.

[Edited video of former President Trump misspeaking]

11:04:13 a.m. Eastern

GOLDBERG: So, what is happening? I mean, this is not new. I mean, remember, at one point he talked about Frederick Douglass still being alive.

JOY BEHAR: Yes.

GOLDBERG: And, you know, it’s a little — I meaning, what’s happening? Is it he’s doing this on purpose or is he just, you know mixed up?

SUNNY HOSTIN: I’m going to go to the expert because I can’t tell.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I just want to give a shout out to my producer who wrote “Is Trump delu-lu?” as the subject line for this. He has lost speed on his fastball or whatever botched baseball metaphor. You can watch him. He is not as sharp as he was in 2016; and many of us would argue he wasn’t that sharp then. You see a real decline in him. It is a fact that you can’t get past.

But what is remarkable to me is this, our country is so polarized that Trump supporters see that and they don’t think a thing about it. It doesn’t really affect them. He’s my tough guy. He’s my fighter. But see any gaffe of Joe Biden and Joe Biden is aging, he’s too old.

BEHAR: That’s right.

FARAH GRIFFIN: And it’s this sort of Rorschach test of where the country is.

This was stunning to me. There’s CNN poll – and granted, we don’t trust all polls – but from November that said 53 percent of Americans believe Trump had the stamina and sharpness compared to only 25 for Joe Biden. They are only three and half years apart.

HOSTIN: And one rides a bike and one eats cheeseburgers.

FARAH GRIFFIN: And listen, I think that there is – You guys know my take that I’d like to see younger generations running anyway. I’d like to see somebody other than this head-to-head matchup that seven in ten Americans don’t want. If you’re going to call one out for the gaffes, Joe Biden has had plenty of them, you’ve got to call out Trump too. There’s no strategy there. He’s just slowing down.

HOSTIN: I think he’s slowing down. His doctor who is not a medical doctor, but a D.O., a doctor of osteopathic medicine – there is a difference between the two – said he is in great shape, right?

GOLDBERG: Is this the lady that —

HOSTIN: I think it’s a man. It’s a guy and his name is Dr. Bruce Arron Wald, a D.O., he also said – but he did not include the following information: his height, his weight, his cholesterol level, or his blood pressure—

FARAH GRIFFIN: Which he lied about during his mug shot.

HOSTIN: Which he lied about in his mug shot.

So, I agree. We’re seeing a cognitive decline but we’re also seeing some dog whistles from him. The reason — when he makes these cognitive mistakes because they’re indicia of cognitive decline.

GOLDBERG: So, you think they’re purposeful?

HOSTIN: Well, I think he’s mixing them all in. I think he’s having the cognitive decline and then when he catches himself making mistakes, he says because Obama is really Biden’s boss. That is a dog whistle to the white supremacists of the country that are like “I don’t want a black man in charge again!”

BEHAR: That’s right. That’s right.

GOLDBERG: It’s too late! You can’t undo that! It already happened! Deal with it!

BEHAR: I agree with that. I think he appeals to that racist section of his base that doesn’t want a black guy to get any kind of credit. You know, he made his bones on the birth of B.S. You know? And also he’s been talking a lot about Obamacare, getting rid of Obamacare lately. All of a sudden this is coming up so I agree with you.

HOSTIN: Which, there are more white people on – the Affordable Care Act – than black people.

BEHAR: But regarding his health. If I paid a doctor, they could tell me I look 25. I mean, you can find a doctor if you pay them to say anything about you. I don’t trust these doctors.

SARA HAINES: Well, I believe it’s a dog whistle but I also believe that specific reference might be to kind of emasculate President Biden. Remember how people called him President Bannon because we thought Steve Bannon was running the White House. I could see him trying to do one or the other –

BEHAR: Who President Bannon?

HAINES: Donald Trump when he was in office. We talked. Some people including myself felt Bannon was running a lot of things.

BEHAR: Yes. That’s right. That’s right.

HAINES: So, I could see him trying to move that switcharoo.

But when we talk about a decline, you implied they knew in the first place. It would not surprise me if Donald Trump did not know we had World War II. He’s not exactly a military guy and I don’t even mean this insulting. When you’ve skated through your life with no accountability and you have money and you have power, maybe it doesn’t matter how you test on your history test. I don’t know if he knows — he doesn’t even know he lost an election! Like, are we really —

HOSTIN: Oh, he knows that! He knows he lost!

(…)

North Korea Says Its New Spy Satellite Photographed White House, Pentagon

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Washington Free Beacon

After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: We can watch you, too.

On Tuesday North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un had reviewed spy satellite photos of the White House, Pentagon, and U.S. aircraft carriers at the naval base of Norfolk.

North Korea last week successfully launched its first reconnaissance satellite, which it has said was designed to monitor U.S. and South Korean military movements.

Since then state media has reported the satellite photographed cities and military bases in South Korea, Guam, and Italy, in addition to Washington.

“Remember when you got that toy you always wanted at Xmas and were so excited you wanted to tell everyone about it?” Chad O’Carroll, founder of the North Korea-focused website NK News, said of the KCNA reports in a post on X.

So far, Pyongyang has not released any imagery, leaving analysts and foreign governments to debate how capable the new satellite actually is.

South Korea, which said on Tuesday the Nov. 30 launch date for its own first spy satellite on a U.S. Falcon 9 rocket would be delayed by weather, has said the North’s satellite capabilities could not be verified.

In Washington, the Pentagon said North Korea’s satellite did enter orbit but did not comment on Pyongyang’s claims about the images it had captured.

“I will say that there are plenty of images of the Pentagon and the White House online,” Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters.

There’s no reason to doubt that the satellite could see the large areas or warships North Korea claimed it could, as even a medium-resolution camera could offer Pyongyang that capability, said Dave Schmerler, a satellite imagery expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).

“But how useful those images are depends on what they want to use them for,” he said.

For medium-resolution satellites to be useful in a conflict, North Korea will need to launch many more to allow more frequent passes over key sites, Schmerler said, a goal that the North’s space agency has said it is pursuing.

“It’s a big leap for them going from zero to something, but until we can see the images they’re collecting, we’re speculating on its use cases,” he said.

Jeffrey Lewis, another researcher at CNS, said a state media photo of Kim examining the satellite images with his daughter suggest they may be panchromatic, a type of black-and-white photography that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light.

North Korea released panchromatic imagery of downtown Seoul after a rocket launch in December 2022 in what it said was a test of the satellite control, image taking, and data downlink for its eventual military reconnaissance satellite.

Tuesday’s photos were the latest in a series of images of what KCNA described as “major target regions”.

Kim also inspected satellite photos of the Andersen Air Force Base in the U.S. Western Pacific territory of Guam and a U.S. shipyard and airbase in Norfolk and Newport, where four nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and a British aircraft carrier were spotted, KCNA said.

Commercial imagery of those cities on Nov. 27, the day North Korea says it captured its photographs, was not immediately available.

The United States and South Korea have condemned the satellite launch as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning any use of ballistic technology.

(Reporting by Hyonhee ShinEditing by Chris Reese, Gerry Doyle, and Sandra Maler)

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Pro-Palestine Protesters Stage Rally Outside Rosalynn Carter’s Memorial Service (VIDEO)

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In a classless act, Pro-Palestine protesters flocked to former First Lady Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service in Atlanta, Georgia.

The protesters were seen chanting and holding signs outside the Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta, where Rosalynn’s tribute service was taking place.

The demonstrators could be heard screaming, “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide!”

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the Bidens, the Clintons, and Michelle Obama all flew on Air Force One to attend the event.

WATCH:

Per The Washington Examiner:

Pro-Palestinian protesters did not pass up the opportunity to be seen by President Joe Biden, even at a memorial service.

Several chanting, sign-wielding demonstrators set up outside Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta, where former first lady Rosalynn Carter is being memorialized in a tribute service. Biden is attending, and his motorcade traveled by the scene.

The crowd engaged in chants of “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide!” as the motorcade approached.

Signs included “End all U.S. aid to Israel” and “Ceasefire now! Stop Israel and Biden’s genocide.”

Watch the tribute service below:

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