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Hillary Clinton Won't Quit Twitter If Trump Returns, Says Kari Lake Should 'Never' Be In Power (Newsmax)

By Solange Reyner | Thursday, 03 November 2022 05:32 PM EDT

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an appearance on Sirius XM's Mornings with Zerlina Thursday slammed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for "laughing" about the attack on Paul Pelosi and said she has no plans to quit Twitter even if former President Donald Trump's ban is lifted.

"I don't want (Lake) anywhere near power," Clinton said.

Lake, a Republican, appeared to joke about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in remarks at a campaign event Monday, drawing laughter from the audience. She was asked about school security when she suggested protection afforded to lawmakers should be available to students.

"Nancy Pelosi, well, she's got protection when she's in D.C. — apparently her house doesn't have a lot of protection," Lake said at a campaign event in Scottsdale.

"If our lawmakers can have protection, if our politicians can have protection, if our athletes, then certainly the most important people in our lives — our children — should have protection."

Lake later said she "never made light" of the attack and that her comments were taken out of context by the "fake news media."

"Go back and look at the tape and don't do any creative editing, like the fake media tends to do, and you'll see what I was saying," the GOP candidate told the Daiy Mail.

On Trump potentially coming back to Twitter after billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of the social media company, Clinton said she didn't think she would quit "at least for that reason."

"You know, I think that it's not easy, but we have to be present in these echo chambers, these information ecosystems, in order to compete in the marketplace of ideas. It's not easy, and, you know, I don't think people who incite violence should be allowed on to privately owned media platforms. But we'll see how that unfolds."

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GOP's Bolduc, Incumbent Sen. Hassan a Tossup in New Hampshire Don Bolduc (AP)

By John Gizzi | Thursday, 03 November 2022 04:38 PM EDT

The two latest polls to come out of New Hampshire show the heated Senate contest to be a virtual tie.

The just-completed Trafalgar Poll showed Republican nominee and retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc eking out a 47% to 46% lead over Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan.

Trafalgar released its findings days after a St. Anselm College poll found near-identical results, with likely Granite State voters favoring Bolduc over Hassan by 48% to 47%.

These stunning figures come barely three weeks after Bolduc, a fierce supporter of Donald Trump, was being widely written off. At that time, the Senate Leadership Political Action Committee of Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, decided to end its commitment to an independent expenditure on Bolduc's behalf and put its resources in other Senate contests.

This sudden about face by McConnell's PAC almost surely had to do with Bolduc's repeated vow that he would not support the Kentuckian for Senate leader.

Then, in the final week of October, the Sentinel Action Fund suddenly deployed over $1 million on an anti-Hassan TV spot. The actions by the fund, the PAC for the conservative Heritage Action For America, came as National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Rick Scott of Florida arrived in New Hampshire to campaign with Bolduc.

Republicans who spoke to Newsmax were upbeat about the last-minute momentum for their Senate hopeful.

"I was at Republican headquarters in Keene," veteran GOP activist and contributor Augusta Petrone of Peterborough said Wednesday morning, "Things look so encouraging, we were all pinching ourselves. There's a feeling of cautious optimism for the party, and especially for Bolduc. Of course [popular GOP Gov. Chris] Sununu gives us blatant optimism."

Like the conservative Petrone, moderate former Rep. Charles Bass, R-N.H., said he sensed momentum.

"I think it's quite possible that we could sweep three of the four seats as the [St. Anselm] poll indicate." Said Bass, referring to the races for governor, Senate, and the state's two House districts.

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Judge Says He'll Appoint Monitor for Donald Trump's Company (AP)

MICHAEL R. SISAK Thursday, 03 November 2022 04:31 PM EDT

A Manhattan judge said Thursday he will appoint an independent monitor for former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire, restricting his company's ability to freely make deals, sell assets and change its corporate structure.

Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the outside watchdog for the Trump Organization as he presides over a lawsuit in which New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges Trump and the company routinely misled banks and others about the value of prized assets, including golf courses and hotels bearing his name.

James' office says the Trump Organization is continuing to engage in fraud and has taken steps to dodge potential penalties from the lawsuit, such as incorporating a new entity in Delaware named Trump Organization LLC — almost identical to the original company’s name — in September, just before the lawsuit was filed.

Engoron, in an 11-page order, barred the Trump Organization from selling or transferring any noncash assets without giving the court and James’ office 14 days' notice. The to-be-named monitor will be charged with ensuring the company's compliance and will immediately report any violations to the court and lawyers for both sides.

The Trump Organization must also grant the monitor access to its financial statements, asset valuations and other disclosures, must provide a full and accurate description of the company's structure and must give the monitor at least 30 days notice of any potential restructuring, refinancing or asset sales, Engoron said.

The company must also pay for the monitor, he said.

Engoron's decision to appoint a monitor is just the latest ruling he's made against Trump or his interest. While presiding over disputes over subpoenas issued in James’ investigation, the judge, a Democrat, held Trump in contempt and fined him $110,000 after he was slow to turn over documents, and he forced him to sit for a deposition. In that testimony, Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination more than 400 times.

James, also a Democrat, is seeking $250 million and a permanent ban on Trump, a Republican, doing business in the state. In the interim, she wants an independent monitor to review and sign off on some of the company's core business decisions, including any asset sales or transfers and potential corporate restructuring.

“Our goal in doing this is not to impact the day-to-day operations of the Trump Organization," said James’ senior enforcement counsel, Kevin Wallace. He said the desired oversight would be “limited” and wouldn't involve intricacies, such as how many rounds of golf or hotel rooms they were booking in a given year.

“The Trump Organization has a persistent record of not complying with existing court orders,” Wallace said. “It should not be incumbent on the court or the attorney general to spend the next year looking over their shoulder, making sure assets aren’t sold or the company restructured.”

Trump sued James in Florida on Wednesday, seeking to block her from having any oversight over the family trust that controls his company. Trump’s 35-page complaint rehashed some claims from his previously dismissed lawsuit against James in federal court in New York, including that her investigation of him is a “political witch hunt.”

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CNBC Cancels 'The News with Shepard Smith' (Roman Tiraspolsky/Dreamstime.com)

By Brian Pfail | Thursday, 03 November 2022 04:22 PM EDT

After a change of heads earlier this year, CNBC outlined its focus, now cutting ties with Shepard Smith as his 7 p.m. show did not pay off in the ratings.

After KC Sullivan replaced Mark Hoffman as the president of CNBC, he told employees that the network would now "prioritize and focus on our core strengths of business news and personal finance."

He said in the memo, "This is key in our efforts to continue building on our position as the number one global business news brand and to connect with new audiences of all kinds interested in their financial future.

"We need to further invest in business news content that provides our audiences actionable understanding of the complex developments in global markets and the implications on institutions, investors and individuals. During times of flux and uncertainty, our place in the lives of those we touch on-air, online and in person becomes even clearer, and more essential," he added.

Sullivan's move to let go of Smith was his first major decision.

Smith's show will be replaced by an hour of business news. Variety's Brian Steinberg wrote that the "anchors for that program will be named at a later date, and it remains to be seen whether CNBC will select candidates from among its current roster or seek to woo someone from outside its ranks."

Smith had a 23-year career with Fox News, where he was a stern critic of former President Donald Trump. He left the network in October 2019, alleging the network spread lies through its opinion hosts.

"I don't know how some people sleep at night," said Smith to CNN. "I know that there are a lot of people who have propagated the lies and who have pushed them forward over and over again who are smart enough and educated enough to know better."

According to The Washington Post, Smith cost CNBC approximately $10 million per year, and his show had a staff of 25 people. Between June and September, he was ranked 52nd among most-watched on cable news, bringing in an average of 206,000 viewers nightly.

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Ex-officials: Biden Admin 'Perverted' Trump DHS Branch (Newsmax)

By Solange Reyner | Thursday, 03 November 2022 03:10 PM EDT

Former Trump administration officials say the Biden administration is exploiting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, formed in 2018 while former President Donald Trump was in office to improve the cybersecurity defenses across other U.S. federal agencies, to instead curb speech it considers dangerous on social media and surveil Americans, reports The Daily Caller.

Chad Wolf, former acting secretary of the DHS, citing a report by the Intercept that found the Department of Homeland Security has pivoted from reducing physical and cybersecurity threats to the country's infrastructure to monitoring social media and using its power to try to shape online discourse, told the Daily Caller the federal government "has no business in monitoring or regulating the protected free speech of Americans."

"It's important to remember, it was Congress that established CISA with overwhelming bipartisan support," Wolf said. "CISA's mission is an important one but it now appears that they have expanded beyond their original mandate from countering foreign threats to looking at mis- and disinformation here in the U.S. That is a slippery slope and an overreach, in my opinion."

The creation of CISA, was "valid," former acting Deputy Chief of Staff for DHS Lora Ries told The Daily Caller, but the body "should not have been allowed" to judge "the content of information."

"CISA was created to secure the .gov domain and to communicate with the private sector regarding critical infrastructure. There are valid needs for those functions. The problems arose, however, when CISA staff left their lanes of authority," Ries said. "What should not have been allowed is CISA entering into the role of judging the content of information, let alone directing others to remove such information based on disfavored content."

The Intercept report said DHS plans to target inaccurate information on "the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine."

According to a draft copy of DHS' 2022 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review reviewed by the Intercept, DHS views tackling disinformation and misinformation as a growing portion of its core duties.

While "counterterrorism remains the first and most important mission of the Department," it notes, the agency's "work on these missions is evolving and dynamic" and must now adapt to terror threats "exacerbated by misinformation and disinformation spread online" including by "domestic violent extremists."

To do so, the review calls for DHS to "leverage advanced data analytics technology and hire and train skilled specialists to better understand how threat actors use online platforms to introduce and spread toxic narratives intended to inspire or incite violence, as well as work with NGOs and other parts of civil society to build resilience to the impacts of false information."

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Devin Nunes to Newsmax: Trump Lawsuit Against NY AG Could Set Precedent Devin Nunes (Getty Images)

By Jay Clemons | Thursday, 03 November 2022 02:43 PM EDT

Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), says the stakes could be high, precedent-wise, with former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, in terms of Trump requesting a Florida court shield his revocable trust from Manhattan officials.

"There's a lot on the line for the future of our country, if you're going to allow this weaponization of the justice system," Nunes told Newsmax Thursday afternoon, while appearing on "John Bachman Now" with host Bianca de la Garza.

From Nunes' perspective, the New York AG tried, in vein, to bring criminal charges against Trump over a four-year span.

And once that failed, Nunes says James resorted to generic civil charges against Trump, who had already become a Florida resident by then.

Simply put, Nunes asserts that James missed her window to take down the "illegitimate" Trump — one of her most prominent campaign promises from 2018.

"I think we should all be scared to death that this type of activity is taking place in the United States of America," says Nunes, regarding a New York-centric attorney general chasing civil charges … from 1,000-plus miles away.

Even with the James distraction, Nunes said that Trump has a full campaign schedule over the next five days, stumping for House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates in Iowa (tonight), Pennsylvania (Saturday), Florida (Sunday), and Ohio (Monday) — and perhaps other states.

And with each visit, Nunes acknowledged the likelihood of Trump shows featuring big crowds and bold words.

"We've never seen anything like this in modern-day politics," says Nunes of the Trump closing factor.

Nunes also predicts that "nearly all" of Trump's hand-picked choices to represent the America First movement — including Senate candidates Herschel Walker (Georgia), Blake Masters (Arizona), Dr. Mehmet Oz (Pennsylvania), Adam Laxalt (Nevada), JD Vance (Ohio), and gubernatorial candidates Kari Lake (Arizona), and Tudor Dixon (Michigan), to name a few — will prevail in Tuesday's midterm elections.

Trump is "revolutionizing the Republican Party," says Nunes, while adding the former president wants to "put an end to the madness" of Democrats running the country.

As such, Nunes offered one last prediction for Election Night: "It's more likely the Republicans [total] 54 seats in the Senate — as opposed to just 50 seats."

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US Chamber Backs CEO, Despite Rep. McCarthy's Demand to Oust Her House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (AP)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 03 November 2022 02:00 PM EDT

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is standing by its president and CEO Suzanne Clark despite a demand from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. R-Calif., that the business group replace its complete leadership.

Axios reported McCarthy has made it clear, in conversations with chamber board members, he will not work with Clark and her team if Republicans win on Tuesday and he becomes House speaker.

But Mark Ordan, chairman of the chamber's board of directors, maintained Clark has the full backing from the board.

"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce team serves a vital role in the daily defense of American business," he said. "We serve our members, not a political party.

"Staying true to that mission requires a smart, savvy, vigorous leader like our CEO Suzanne Clark. It is for that reason that our governing body, the executive committee of the board of directors, is unequivocally enthusiastic about Suzanne's performance and the importance of her ongoing tenure as CEO of the U.S. Chamber. She has our complete support."

Axios noted McCarthy's conversations have escalated the conflict between him and the chamber.

According to the news outlet the conflict was touched off in Aug. 2020, when the chamber endorsed 23 Democrat freshmen for re-election. Of those endorsed, 15 won — guaranteeing that McCarthy could not win speaker.

Then-President Donald Trump had even tried to get the chamber to rethink its Democrat endorsements.

After hearing about the chamber endorsing the 23 freshmen House Democrats, McCarthy had said he rejected the chamber's endorsement "because they have sold out."

A Chamber spokesperson said "Republicans across the country having been running on issues, such as crime and inflation, important to the business community. A Republican speaker and majority will be an important check and balance on the excesses we've seen from the left. We look forward to working with the leadership and next Congress."

Meanwhile, Axios reported that Arizona GOP Gov. Doug Ducey, who will leave office after the midterms, has privately expressed interest in the chamber position.

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Sen. Warner to Newsmax: Elon Musk Depends on China Communists' 'Largesse' (Newsmax/"The Record with Greta Van Susteren")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 03 November 2022 01:32 PM EDT

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk is an "extraordinarily bright guy" with tremendous business acumen, but he's also "totally dependent on the largesse of the Chinese Communist Party" because of his needs for his Tesla electric car manufacturing, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner tells Newsmax.

"I don't care what Musk does with [Former President Donald] Trump on Twitter, but what annoys me is Elon Musk is always criticizing the American government and American regulators," the Virginia Democrat said on Newsmax's "The Record with Greta Van Susteren" Wednesday night. "Yet when you look at his comments about the Chinese Communist Party regulators, this guy sucks up to that administration and to that regime in ways that I really question."

Warner said that he was one of Musk's "biggest advocates" when he was starting SpaceX, "because his innovative new space delivery systems were, frankly, beating the pants off of a lot of our kind of big, traditional defense contractors.

But Tesla's batteries are made in China, which uses coal-fired power and Uyghur workers to make them, and most of the vehicles are also manufactured there, said Warner.

"They could shut down his supplies overnight," the senator said, adding that he believes Musk is "so dependent on the goodwill of the Communist Party" because he fears it will shut down not only his battery factory but his Tesla factory in China.

"Remember, he has a plant here in America that makes cars for Americans, but the vast majority of Teslas sold around the world are made in China, and his comments about the communist regime concern me greatly," said Warner.

The senator added that he also questions Musk's comments that it's time for Ukraine to negotiate to end the war with Russia.

"That's not his job to tell the Ukrainian people so suddenly after they're being successful against [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, for them to back off," said Warner. "I take nothing away from his business acumen, but just because he may be a brilliant technologist does not mean that he is a savvy political player."

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Trump: Impeach McConnell on Debt Ceiling Collusion (Newsmax)

By Solange Reyner | Thursday, 03 November 2022 01:14 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of working with Democrats to blow up the debt ceiling because "they have something on him" and called for McConnell to be impeached.

"It's crazy what's happening with this debt ceiling. Mitch McConnell keeps allowing it to happen. They ought to impeach Mitch McConnell if he allows that," Trump said during a radio interview on the conservative John Fredericks radio show. "Frankly, something has to be — they have something on him. How he approves this thing is incredible."

Senators cannot be impeached but can be expelled from the chamber with a two-thirds vote.

Trump and McConnell have been feuding since the 2020 presidential election when McConnell blasted Trump for a "disgraceful dereliction of duty" on Jan. 6, 2021, as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Since, Trump has made McConnell, to whom he refers as the "Old Crow," a frequent target of his complaints and has repeatedly called for him to be ousted.

Several Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., say they back the notion of lifting the debt limit next year as a leverage to get Democrats to agree to spending cuts, reports Politico.

The debt ceiling is a legal limit on the total amount of outstanding U.S. federal debt. The U.S. Treasury is expected to reach its mandated $31.4 trillion borrowing limit in 2023, and Republicans ranging from hardline conservatives to moderates see that as an opportunity to curb President Joe Biden's spending on Democratic initiatives such as climate change and new social programs.

But Biden two weeks ago said he will "not yield" to any demands to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security in exchange for avoiding a standoff over the debt ceiling.

"Let me be really clear: I will not yield," Biden said. "I will not cut Social Security. I will not cut Medicare, no matter how hard they work at it."

Information from Reuters was used in this report.

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WH Chief of Staff Ron Klain: US Not in Recession (Newsmax)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 03 November 2022 11:54 AM EDT

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain insisted Thursday the U.S. is not in a recession.

He made his comments during an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he was asked what the U.S. is doing to prepare for a possible recession.

"Look, we are not in a recession," Klain said. "I want to be really, really clear on that. We just had this morning come out the fact that unemployment claims remain at a historical low. We're at a 50-year low on unemployment overall, and all-time low on Hispanic unemployment.

"We've created more jobs in two years than any administration in history. And we saw the stock market just finish its biggest month in 40 years. And even with the fallback with the market yesterday, the market closed higher than any day – any one day – in Donald Trump's four-year presidency. So, the economy is growing. It's strong. It's creating jobs."

Klain said the White House's mission is to "continue that kind of economic growth, continue the job creation, continue to move the economy forward, and to tackle the biggest problem we have in the economy right now, which is inflation — bring down prices of everyday things that really hit people hard."

Reuters reported that the number of Americans filing new unemployment claims unexpectedly dropped last week

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 217,000 for the week ending Oct. 29, the Labor Department said on Thursday, according to Reuters.

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Trump Associate Kash Patel to Testify in Documents Probe (Newsmax)

By Theodore Bunker | Thursday, 03 November 2022 11:41 AM EDT

Kash Patel, a one-time aide to former President Donald Trump, will testify before a federal grand jury investigating the recovery of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after being granted immunity from prosecution, The Wall Street Journal reports.

According to a federal judge, the Justice Department was unable to compel Patel to testify if his statements could be used against him by prosecutors in the future. The Journal's sources note that this ruling allows Patel to answer questions from the grand jury. Patel previously appeared before the grand jury last month, but he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to the questions posed to him.

The newspaper notes that the government could potentially charge Patel in the future based on new information discovered independent of his testimony. Patel, an attorney representing him, and a spokesperson for the Justice Department either did not respond or declined to respond to requests for comment from the Journal.

Patel worked as an aide in the Trump administration in the White House and the Pentagon. He has publicly said that Trump broadly declassified documents upon leaving the White House.

"Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves," Patel said in an interview with Breitbart News in May. "I was there with President Trump when he said, 'We are declassifying this information.'"

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Trump: Pa. Ballot Ruling Proves 2020 Election 'Rigged' (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 03 November 2022 09:07 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned if it was "fair, or even legal" for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to allow the results of the 2020 presidential election stand after its ruling this week that state officials can't count votes from mailed-in or absentee ballots that don't have accurate, handwritten dates on their return envelopes.

"So the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled, in effect, that the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged, but they'll let that result stand, however, in future Elections, you are no longer allowed to do what was done in the 2020 Election," Trump posted on his Truth Social page. "Is that fair, or even legal. This decision represents far more votes than would have been needed to win Pennsylvania. What a SCAM!"

The court, in a decision that Republican National Committee Ronna McDaniel called a "massive" win for election integrity, directed county boards of elections to "segregate and preserve" ballots without the dates.

Justices were split by 3-3 about whether making the dates mandatory under state law would be in violation of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says immaterial errors or omissions should not be used to prevent voting.

The decision came Tuesday, a week before voters are heading to the polls to determine key races, including for the U.S. Senate and House and Pennsylvania's governor.

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Trump: Pa. Ballot Ruling Proves 2020 Election 'Rigged' (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 03 November 2022 09:39 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned if it was "fair, or even legal" for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to allow the results of the 2020 presidential election stand after its ruling this week that state officials can't count votes from mailed-in or absentee ballots that don't have accurate, handwritten dates on their return envelopes.

"So the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled, in effect, that the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged, but they'll let that result stand, however, in future Elections, you are no longer allowed to do what was done in the 2020 Election," Trump posted on his Truth Social page. "Is that fair, or even legal. This decision represents far more votes than would have been needed to win Pennsylvania. What a SCAM!"

The court, in a decision that Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel called a "massive" win for election integrity, directed county boards of elections to "segregate and preserve" ballots without the dates.

Justices were split by 3-3 about whether making the dates mandatory under state law would be in violation of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says immaterial errors or omissions should not be used to prevent voting.

The decision came Tuesday, a week before voters are heading to the polls to determine key races, including for the U.S. Senate and House and Pennsylvania's governor.

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Trump: 'Corrupt' AG James Only Trying to 'Recklessly Injure' Me (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 02 November 2022 10:17 PM EDT

Striking back at New York Attorney General Letitia James' long-sought campaign goals of suing former President Donald Trump has announced a lawsuit against "the corrupt" AG on Wednesday.

"New York State is one of the most crime-ridden places on earth with murders, robberies, drug deals, and every other form of crime setting records on a weekly basis," Trump wrote in a Save America PAC statement posted to Truth Social.

"While James does nothing to protect New York against these violent crimes and criminals, she attacks great and upstanding businesses which have done nothing wrong, like the very successful, job and tax producing Trump Organization that I have painstakingly built over a long period of years."

While the details of the lawsuit were not expressly stated, Trump continued to levy claims James' only seeks to damage him politically — as she brazenly vowed in his initial campaign for AG.

"Crooked and highly partisan James now thinks it is the business of the State of New York to go after my revocable trust and pry into my private estate plan, only to look for ways to recklessly injure me, my family, my businesses, and my tens of millions of supporters," Trump's statement continued. "If I were not elected president of the United States, and now leading in the polls by substantial margins against both Democrats and Republicans, this would not be happening.

"We have to stand up for our country, fight against illegal persecution, and Make America Great Again!"

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Trump: 'Corrupt' AG James Only Trying to 'Recklessly Injure' Me (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 02 November 2022 10:17 PM EDT

Striking back at New York Attorney General Letitia James, former President Donald Trump announced a lawsuit against "the corrupt" AG on Wednesday.

"New York State is one of the most crime-ridden places on earth with murders, robberies, drug deals, and every other form of crime setting records on a weekly basis," Trump wrote in a Save America PAC statement posted to Truth Social.

"While James does nothing to protect New York against these violent crimes and criminals, she attacks great and upstanding businesses which have done nothing wrong, like the very successful, job and tax producing Trump Organization that I have painstakingly built over a long period of years."

While the details of the lawsuit were not expressly stated, Trump continued to levy claims that James only seeks to damage him politically — as she vowed in his initial campaign for AG.

"Crooked and highly partisan James now thinks it is the business of the State of New York to go after my revocable trust and pry into my private estate plan, only to look for ways to recklessly injure me, my family, my businesses, and my tens of millions of supporters," Trump's statement continued. "If I were not elected president of the United States, and now leading in the polls by substantial margins against both Democrats and Republicans, this would not be happening.

"We have to stand up for our country, fight against illegal persecution, and Make America Great Again!"

'Antisemitism' Shoots to Top of Google Searches Ahead of Midterms

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By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 02 November 2022 09:39 PM EDT

Topics related to antisemitism entered last week into the top 15 issues voters are searching for before the Nov. 8 midterm elections in the aftermath of recent comments by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

According to the Axios midterm dashboard, searches related to the economy, gun rights, former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, the Russia-Ukraine War, health care and crime were the only other issues to beat out worries of antisemitism.

The Anti-Defamation League came out in stark rebuke of Ye for his recent statements, which the group said involved repeatedly blaming so-called "Jewish media" and "Jewish Zionists" for numerous alleged misdeeds.

Notably, the rapper and recording artist took to Twitter to reveal he would be going "death con 3 on Jewish people." He further claimed that those comments could not be antisemitic because "black people are actually Jew also."

Ye also appeared to forward rhetoric similar to that of Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan in footage edited out of a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this month.

"When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Black really are," he told Carlson. "This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief."

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón recently condemned an antisemitic demonstration in the city, which CNN has suggested could be linked to West's recent statements.

"We cannot tolerate the #AntiSemitism that was on full display today on an LA Fwy. #WhiteSupremacy is a societal cancer that must be excised," Gascón stated on Twitter. "This message is dangerous and cannot be normalized. I stand with the Jewish community in condemning this disgusting behavior."

'Antisemitism' Shoots to Top of Google Searches Ahead of Midterms

(Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 02 November 2022 09:39 PM EDT

Topic related to antisemitism entered last week into the top 15 issues voters are searching for before the Nov. 8 midterm elections in the aftermath of recent comments by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

According to the Axios midterm dashboard, searches related to the economy, gun rights, former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, the Russia-Ukraine War, health care and crime were the only other issues to beat out worries of antisemitism.

The Anti-Defamation League came out in stark rebuke of Ye for his recent statements, which the group said involved repeatedly blaming so-called "Jewish media" and "Jewish Zionists" for numerous alleged misdeeds.

Notably, the rapper and recording artist took to Twitter to reveal he would be going "death con 3 on Jewish people." He further claimed that those comments could not be antisemitic because "black people are actually Jew also."

Ye also appeared to forward rhetoric similar to that of Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan in footage edited out of a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this month.

"When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Black really are," he told Carlson. "This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief."

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón recently condemned an antisemitic demonstration in the city, which CNN has suggested could be linked to West's recent statements.

"We cannot tolerate the #AntiSemitism that was on full display today on an LA Fwy. #WhiteSupremacy is a societal cancer that must be excised," Gascón stated on Twitter. "This message is dangerous & cannot be normalized. I stand with the Jewish community in condemning this disgusting behavior."

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Pence to Stump for GOP House Candidate Tom Barrett in Michigan (Newsmax)

By Charles Kim | Wednesday, 02 November 2022 09:08 PM EDT

Just one day after lame duck Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., went to Michigan to campaign for Republican House candidate Tom Barrett's opponent Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., the Barrett campaign announced former Vice President Mike Pence would be coming to the state to campaign for him.

Pence will join Barrett at an event Friday in Charlotte, Michigan, part of the state's 7th Congressional District, The Hill reported.

Pence will also be stumping for candidates Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., who is now running in the newly drawn 4th Congressional District at an event in Portage, Michigan WOOD-TV 8 reported.

Huizenga is facing Democrat newcomer Joseph Alfonso in that race.

Cheney, who lost her own GOP primary in Wyoming due to her harsh criticism of former President Donald Trump, and her role as a co-chair of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee said she would campaign for Democrats against those who were 2020 "election deniers," questioning President Joe Biden's victory over Trump.

Although Trump has not yet endorsed the military veteran in his bid, Barrett did question the results of the election, The New York Times reported.

"I'm proud to endorse Elissa Slotkin," Cheney wrote in an Oct. 27 press release. "Serving together on the Armed Services Committee, I have come to know Elissa as a good and honorable public servant who works hard for the people she represents, wants what's best for the country, and is in this for the right reasons.

"While Elissa and I have our policy disagreements, at a time when our nation is facing threats at home and abroad, we need serious, responsible, substantive members like Elissa in Congress. I encourage all voters in the 7th district — Republicans, Democrats, and independents — to support her in this election."

Barrett dismissed Cheney's endorsement of Slotkin in a Business Insider article Oct. 27, calling both "establishment war hawks" with a "senseless thirst for more foreign entanglements."

"Rep. Slotkin has already said she would commit U.S. soldiers to combat with China, so it's no surprise the Cheney family would join her," Barrett wrote in an email to BI, adding, "Slotkin can keep Cheney while I work to keep America out of war."

Slotkin has a 6-point advantage over Barrett in a WDIV/Detroit News poll published Oct. 23, but the poll also found 8% of voters were undecided in the race.

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Liberal Wash Post Admits GOP Loves Trump, Dems Dislike Biden (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 02 November 2022 07:36 PM EDT

The MAGA love for former President Donald Trump dwarfs the tepid support for President Joe Biden, even The Washington Post's Philip Bump, an irascible Trump critic, admitted Wednesday.

"He's unpopular, with members of his own party (often self-servingly) calling for him not to run again," Bump wrote of Biden. "He's also already the oldest president in history, older at the start of his first term than Ronald Reagan was at the end of his second one."

Bump lamented Biden's hints at a run for reelection, despite tepid support, soaring inflation, and a sagging economy, while noting, "Trump may need to be treated for a sprain after winking so aggressively at the idea of running for his old office in 2024."

Bump pointed to the results of the recent YouGov poll in his analysis, which found Republicans are strongly coalesced behind Trump or Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, while Democrats are fractured and unsure of whom they want on the ticket.

"Democrats, despite having the incumbent president, are more splintered in how they view a potential field," Bump wrote.

"Republicans are more likely to say they want to see DeSantis and Trump on the ballot than Democrats were to say the same of Biden. And Republicans were as or more likely to identify Trump or DeSantis as their preferred candidates than Democrats were to say the same of Biden."

The findings of a scrambled Democratic Party show, "nine candidates pass the 20% mark — with an incumbent Democratic president!" Bump warned.

"That Republicans are more enthusiastic about two candidates (albeit one who is a former president) than Democrats are about their sitting president suggests that Biden's nascent reelection campaign didn't get started a moment too soon."

Original Article

Liberal Wash Post Admits GOP Loves Trump, Dems Dislike Biden (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 02 November 2022 07:36 PM EDT

The MAGA love for former President Donald Trump dwarfs the tepid support for President Joe Biden, even The Washington Post's Philip Bump, an irascible Trump critic, admitted Wednesday.

"He's unpopular, with members of his own party (often self-servingly) calling for him not to run again," Bump wrote of Biden. "He's also already the oldest president in history, older at the start of his first term than Ronald Reagan was at the end of his second one."

Bump lamented Biden's hints at a run for reelection, despite tepid support, soaring inflation, and a sagging economy, while noting, "Trump may need to be treated for a sprain after winking so aggressively at the idea of running for his old office in 2024."

Bump pointed to the results of the recent YouGov poll in his analysis, which found Republicans are strongly coalesced behind Trump or Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, while Democrats are fractured and unsure of whom they want on the ticket.

"Democrats, despite having the incumbent president, are more splintered in how they view a potential field," Bump wrote.

"Republicans are more likely to say they want to see DeSantis and Trump on the ballot than Democrats were to say the same of Biden. And Republicans were as or more likely to identify Trump or DeSantis as their preferred candidates than Democrats were to say the same of Biden."

The findings of a scrambled Democratic Party show, "nine candidates pass the 20% mark — with an incumbent Democratic president!" Bump warned.

"That Republicans are more enthusiastic about two candidates (albeit one who is a former president) than Democrats are about their sitting president suggests that Biden's nascent reelection campaign didn't get started a moment too soon."