Below is my column in The Hill on the verdict against CNN in the defamation case brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young. The jury will now determine the amount of punitive damages in a case that speaks not only to CNN but the media at large. As the media readies for a second Trump term, there is every indication that news outlets like NBC are preparing to replicate the same advocacy journalism that characterized Trump’s first term. If so, the media will continue to speed along its own demise with many seeking their news from new media.
Here is the column:
“Your credibility with me … is about none.”
Those words to CNN counsel by Judge William Henry also clearly spoke for the Florida jury which, on Friday, awarded $5 million for Navy veteran Zachary Young and approved an additional amount, still to be determined, for punitive damages.
The CNN loss is only the latest in a series of media cases that have reversed decades of case law where the media largely prevailed under highly protective legal standards. It says a great deal about the state of modern journalism and its unrelenting efforts at self-destruction.
In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss the radical shift in American journalism that occurred with the rejection of neutrality and objectivity in favor of advocacy journalism. J-schools now teach that objectivity is a dated concept. As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has explained, “All journalism is activism.”
After interviewing more than 75 media leaders, Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, detailed how media leaders view neutrality and objectivity as dated concepts that inhibit social and political agendas.
The public’s response to this trend has been both predictable and pronounced. The famous “Let’s Go, Brandon” incident after a NASCAR race, after all, was more of a criticism of the media than of Joe Biden — a “Yankee Doodling” of the press for its distortion of facts.
Revenue and ratings for media outlets have plummeted, although there are other contributing factors. During the trial, CNN host Jake Tapper was challenged for his testimony that he “doesn’t pay attention to ratings.” That does not appear to be the case at the network, which is cratering and desperately trying to reverse the ratings plunge. CNN has reportedly lost half of its viewership, hitting lows not seen in three decades.
The jury clearly believed, as the network’s slogan claims, that “This is CNN.” That is probably the reason it will soon award punitive damages. However, this is not just CNN. The case itself highlighted everything wrong with modern media.
The segment aired on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Nov. 11, 2021, and trashed Young in a story about Afghans being preyed upon by groups promising to get them out of the country amid the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces. Tapper told his audience ominously how CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt discovered that “Afghans trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success.”
Marquardt detailed how “desperate Afghans are being exploited” and need to pay “exorbitant, often impossible amounts” and then named Young and his company as examples.
The trial revealed internal messages from Marquardt that he wanted to “nail this Zachary Young motherf—–” and thought the story would be Young’s “funeral.” After promising to “nail” Young, CNN editor Matthew Philips responded that he was “gonna hold you to that cowboy!” CNN senior editor Fuzz Hogan described Young as “a s—.”
As often occurs today, CNN allegedly gave Young only two hours to respond before the story ran. It is a typical ploy of the press to claim that they gave someone a chance to respond. The call often comes at the end of the day to create the appearance of fairness. Nevertheless, Young did respond to the chagrin of CNN producers and made clear that key elements of the story were untrue.
CNN’s defense in court was a case study in how not to defend a defamation lawsuit. It included a series of self-inflicted wounds, delivered in front of the jury. However, it is only the latest loss for major media, given recent courthouse setbacks for the New York Times, NBC, and Deadspin. ABC News recently settled its own defamation case out of court, and previously Fox News paid a massive settlement.
Nevertheless, some outlets appear to be doubling down in the hope that they can ride anti-Trump coverage back to robust ratings. Last week, NBC announced that it was bringing Yamiche Alcindor to the White House press corps. Alcindor, who also worked for PBS, was widely criticized for often preceding questions with attacks on conservatives or over-the-top praise for Joe Biden or Democrats. While others saw raw political bias, Alcindor explained that it was her job to use journalism to bend the “moral arc toward justice.”
For decades, the media found ample protection within the protective shell created by the Supreme Court after New York Times v. Sullivan. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating a standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures. The demanding standard requires a showing of “actual malice,” where the media had actual knowledge of a statement’s falsity or showed reckless disregard for whether it was true or false.
The string of media losses reflects a change not in the law but in the media itself. As the press increasingly engages in advocacy journalism, reckless disregard for the truth is becoming the norm, as shown in the CNN case. It could get worse.
Some have questioned the extension of this protective standard to cases involving public figures, which encompasses anyone who has achieved a modicum of fame in business, sports, or other pursuits. A couple of justices have also expressed skepticism about why non-public figures should shoulder such a burden when people lie about them.
Meanwhile, the public is abandoning legacy media at a run, turning to new media in the form of blogs and citizen journalists. Recently, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of such a citizen journalist in a criminal case — a woman known as La Gordiloca (loosely translated as “fat, crazy lady”). Describing her as a “swearing muckraker who is upending border journalism,” the New York Times admitted that La Gordiloca “reflects how many people on the border now prefer to get their news.”
The rise in citizen journalists in new media and advocacy journalism in legacy media will only likely increase the number of such cases in the coming years. For mainstream media, the skepticism that they are facing in society is now becoming equally evident in courts. To paraphrase Judge Henry, their credibility with the public is about none.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Many presstitutes and Dunceocrats don’t know what a Nazi salute is. It requires the person executing the Nazi salute to keep the right arm and hand facing forward at 90 degrees to the body, with the arm elevated to approximately a 45 degree angle. John Lennon of The Beatles illustrates the proper positioning:
“Two weeks ago, Joe Biden awarded Liz Cheney with the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Today, Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Liz Cheney.
How does one receive the nation’s second highest civilian honor AND a pardon?” @lancegooden
The same people that are screaming about the J6 pardons because some police officers were injured in the riot are also celebrating the commutation of Leonard Peltier’s life sentence. Oh, btw Peltier was convicted of shooting two FBI agents in the head at close range.
Ah, I hate the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.
MUST LISTEN if you want to begin to understand J6 Fedsurrection and the lies. It is shocking.
https://rumble.com/v67ixyd-sunday-conversation-steve-baker-did-the-us-gov-use-direct-energy-weapons-on.html
* Musk may have said the best thing today. He talked about “civilization” let’s keep civilization.
I concur lest we forget how to make a wheel.
***THE TRUTH OF J6 LIES and ABUSE of POWER MUST BE EXPOSED***
The abuse of power by Biden-Harris DOJ is shocking and grotesque. This is not the end of it. The truth MUST come out.
Just ONE of hundreds of examples of government ABUSE of power —>>
Brent Bozell
@BrentBozell
The new Trump administration has arrived, with a real sense of purpose. For the past four years, the Biden administration has subjected America to a level of personal corruption, professional ineptitude and abuse of power unheard of in our nation’s history.
President Trump committed to address all of this and immediately has put an end to the persecution of J6 defendants through his presidential pardon. I salute the President for this commitment to justice.
I also thank him personally for liberating my son.
The list of old friends, and new friends who have shared their outrage in emails, texts, phone calls and private conversations, always offering their prayers, have my family’s everlasting gratitude as well.
America has witnessed the Biden administration transform the FBI from perhaps the most respected to the most feared agency in the federal government. It is high time the Department of Justice be investigated. It needs to be fumigated and the rot expelled.
My son was guilty of breaking two windows and entering the Capitol that day. He recognized this, was prepared to plead guilty, and accept his punishment. That was, until the “Justice” Department offered him a deal: accept a three-year sentence or face a 20-year prison term, a fate which would befall him by the time they were done with him, after throwing the entire weight of the federal government against him.
Others capitulated because they either didn’t have the financial means to defend themselves or didn’t understand the nature of the abuse. My son refused. For that they charged him with an insurrection, which they knew was unconstitutional. At the 11th hour, they added an assault charge, which was as dishonest as it was false. And when sentencing came, they tried to pin a terrorism enhancement charge. This to a man whose greatest crime prior to this was a traffic ticket.
Were he a BLM rioter, he’d have been given probation and a nominal fine. Or, as has been the case with thousands who did far worse, nothing at all.
But my son was a J6er. He was sentenced to 45 months in prison. Amazingly, his was one of the better outcomes. He has spent almost a half year in prison, leaving his wife without a husband and three girls without their father.
I want to know who was behind this persecution. I want to know who chose my son because he shares my name. I want to know who gave the orders to throw the book against him – including inventing heinous crimes – because I supported President Trump.
I want them brought to justice. I want to see them in prison.
7:47 PM · Jan 20, 2025
I’m sorry your son was part of an insurrection. That is what it was, your son’s attendance cannot change that fact. In most countries, the loosing side of an insurrection is usually killed off. You should be thankful your son is alive.
Lesson learned, don’t partake in insurrections.
Anonymous, what about the two IVY league ATTORNEYS that threw a Molotov cocktail into a police car in NYC? What about the ANTIFA mobs that burned a FEDERAL COURTHOUSE to the ground in Oregon? What about the mobs that forced Trump into the bunker in May of 2020 as they injured many police and SS officers?
You are the reason the Dems lost. You are the reason why Trump is in office. You are the reason why Biden is disgraced. You are the reason why the left is shown to be too radical for our land.
RIOTS FOR CRISSAKE
In most countries, the loosing side of an insurrection is usually killed off. You should be thankful your son is alive.
By the same token, you and your comrades from the Democrats’ street thugs who waged your Election Season Mostly Peaceful Insurrection in 2020 should be thankful you didn’t try that in the communist countries you hope to emulate. Try throwing Molotov Cocktails at armed police in the countries you admire like Cuba and Venezuela.
Because if you did attempt that mostly peaceful insurrection in those countries, hundreds of thousands of you street thugs would be dead or saving a life sentence in a gulag.
And there wouldn’t have been enough of you left alive vote in order to win the 2020 election.
For a fascist dictator, Trump sure misses a lot of golden opportunities to destroy his enemies.
On Nov 5th people went to the polls and voted that you and your nonsense are full of schiff.
Wag your tongue all you want – only idiots believe there was an insurrection.
Trump just pardoned people who were lied about, and whose rights were abused.
Biden just pardon the liars, the judges in the star chamber.
Why did the J6 committee destroy their records ? The testimony they had gathered ?
Because they are quilty of lying to the american people, and guilty of lying about the legal conduct of ordinary americans.
You do not seem to understand – while the MSM is mostly still parroting your nonsense – less and less of the american people are.
JD Vance and his facial hair marks the return of a beard to the White House (The last beard in the White House was Michelle O).
Flicka called Barry, said he wanted his tail back from Mooch, Barrack said Nay…
You do realize that JD Vance will be glued to his phone watching the OSU ND National Championship game.
OSU won. It’s been a good day for JD.
RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP
EXECUTIVE ORDER
January 20, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
By: President Donald J. Trump ~ January 20th 2025
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-freedom-of-speech-and-ending-federal-censorship/
EXECUTIVE ORDERS ~ January 20, 2025
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/
HOLDING FORMER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE FOR ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND IMPROPER DISCLOSURE OF SENSITIVE GOVERNMENTAL INFORMATION
ENDING THE WEAPONIZATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP
Trump orders federal agencies to preserve ‘political persecution’ records
Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to end the “weaponisation of government against the political adversaries of the previous administration”.
Trump told the crowd at Capital One Arena that he would direct “every federal agency to preserve all records pertaining to political persecutions under the last administration”.
He said this would kick-start “the process of exposing any and all abuses of power”.
Trump also hit out against Jack Smith, the special counsel who oversaw the Department of Justice’s two criminal cases against the US president, before resigning on January 10.
“He’s a deranged prosecutor,” Trump said.
The DoJ has repeatedly rejected accusations of political bias.
Trump has pledged to prosecute his political foes, raising concerns that he might pressure the DoJ to help him seek retribution.
By: Stefania Palma in Washington – ft.com ~ Jan 20th 2025
[Link] ft.com/content/a6ced7bd-3942-4ab9-a8c1-9e19e0809153
the proclamation he signed, granting a “full, complete and unconditional pardon,” covers roughly 600 people with felony convictions for assaulting police officers or impeding police during a riot.
Yep, law and order party. I’m sure the Capitol police are happy about this.
The pig just pardoned the J6 defendants, including those who committed acts of violence against Capitol Police officers. What a sick crock of BS. The pig also signed an “Executive Order” purporting to rescind birthright citizenship, something that the hog has no power to do because it is enshrined in the Constitution. How ironic that peaceful, hard working migrants who take care of the elderly, who clean houses, work in restaurants, hotels, meat packing plants, who plant, harvest and pack our vegetables and do roofing and other construction work are now criminals, but those who assault police officers who were doing their jobs to protect members of Congress are now heroes with clean criminal records. Just an early taste of the sick sh!t to come.
Fat Boy just called the J 6 Defendants “hostages”.
LMAO at Gigenius losing whats left of her tiny mind!!
Go Trump!
Pardon them all!!
* The riot was as riots go and knowable in advance. They’ve served four years. Commute.
Don’t respond to them.
* Report
Watched MSN tonight. They enhanced the j6 riot video after saying Trump pardoned etc. The rioters were beating people with shovels and throwing bombs. Seriously…
Oh how glorious, American patriots finally released from the DC gulag. The jackboots are getting ready to be on the receiving end now. It’s a glorious day!
You wish, many wish… but it ain’t gonna happen.
The stupid one, Gigi, is speaking. Let her speak for nothing she says makes sense. Trump sat down and signed numerous executive orders, explaining them while answering questions from the press. He answers directly, which was seldom seen in the failed Biden administration.
* Professor Turley said don’t respond. Listen to that good advice.
I don’t think Turley said that in the context your words suggest. I respond when I want to. You are posting under an anonymous name and icon in order to be a disrupter.
* hate to burst your bubble , I can’t and won’t have another sign in and password.
You can have an alias without a password or signing in. All you do is create a phony email like dumb@stupid.com and create a consistent name. That is it. You can’t because you don’t want to. You can even use the private window.
Yeah— it’s OK that Capitol Police officers sustained fractured bones, bruises, lost fingers, one was crushed in a door, one lost an eye, some received concussions, there were at least 3 suicides, and many still suffer from PTSD—all because they did their job to defend the Floor of the House of Representatives against a mob of people who believed The Big Lie and were intending to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory. Trump sent them. They intended to lynch Pence and kill Nancy Pelosi.
There was a time that Republicans supported law enforcement— no more. We no longer have laws— we no longer have values. Even police are fair game for abuse. Instead we have a fat slob pathological liar who has a phalanx of MAGA media to spread lies, paid for by American oligarchs who got him elected. He will reward them with massive tax breaks and cutting regulations. You should really feel ashamed. Trump and Vance both lied when they said pardons would be on a case by case basis and that those who committed violence against police officers would not be pardoned. They lied AGAIN.
Why were protestors allowed to enter Pelosi’s office? There were lots of police around. They could have “protected Pelosi’s office. The protestors casually wandered in. They were NOT violent. It’s all on video that the government and the J6 Committee are withholding from the public. THEY ARE LYING ABOUT IT. The guards/cops abandoned their posts and allowed protestors to enter her office. It was entrapment by the government. It was a setup to frame Trump while THEY STOLE THE 2020 ELECTION and installed Biden-Harris as an ILLEGITIMATE regime.
The cops who were “injured” LIED about the extent of their “injuries”
THE GOVERNMENT and MEDIA LIES about J6 WILL BE EXPOSED.
The TRUTH about the 2020 STOLEN ELECTION will BE EXPOSED.
You MAGA morons are pathetic. To get to Pelosi’s office they had to force their way past police officers who were beaten and battered with improvised weapons, including shields and batons taken away from officers, they smashed doors and windows and ignored police commands to stop. Trump sat on that enormous axx of his, knowing that this carnage was going on and did nothing for over 3 hours.
January 6 was a dark day in American history—it is indefensible. We have no values, laws or a justice system when police officers are called villains and those who beat and batter them for protecting members of Congress are called heroes by a convicted felon who lied to get power, aided and abetted by American oligarchs who purchased a presidency.
The convicted felon is on my television now, dancing with his 3d wife—the former nude model he cheated on with Stormy Daniels. They’re pretending that they belong in the company of presidents and First Ladies, that they are genteel, that Trump’s “victory” wasn’t based on lies and racism. I wonder how many kids have shown Barron nude pictures of his mother. Even if they haven’t shown them to him, they probably have passed them around school.
Maybe he can cheat and lie his way into power with the help of millions from American oligarchs and MAGA media and incite stupid losers to attack the Capitol based on lies, but he can’t change the fact that he’s a crook, liar, racist, misogynist and thief; he can’t change the fact that his wife is uneducated and was a nude model who met him when she was trolling rich men along with other models at a party. Money can’t buy class, integrity or respect. Neither of them has any of these qualities.
You’re brainwashed.
“Money can’t buy class, integrity or respect. Neither of them has any of these qualities.”
The country agrees. Good riddance to the despicable Biden Crime Family
and Kamala-the-shockingly incompetent DEI hire who banged her way into Democrat politics
and Dougie her nanny-banging, girlfriend-beating husband.
Free at last!
DARK DAY Jan 20th when BIDEN pardoned J6 Committee-FAUCI-and his relatives! BOZO!
Biden’s corrupt administration completely ABANDONED and DESTROYED the RULE OF LAW.
We just spent 4 years living under the RULE OF MAN —
Biden and Harris are the most corrupt, dishonest, incompetent, disgraceful, lying scumbag criminals in the history of this country.
The lies and ABUSE of power re J6 is shocking.
MUST LISTEN
https://rumble.com/v67ixyd-sunday-conversation-steve-baker-did-the-us-gov-use-direct-energy-weapons-on.html
Officer Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashley Babbit in cold blood.
Pelosi protected him and LIED about all of it.
Byrd MUST be prosecuted for murder.
He will do prison time.
Hear! Hear!
Free Derek Chauvin
President Donald J. Trump
– Indict Michael Byrd
– Free Derek Chauvin
You have no values, not we. You lie all the time. Name the people and their crimes who will not go to jail. Prosecutors can’t try these people, and others have to be released. Your friends from the J6 are criminals. They destroyed evidence, and without that evidence, almost all people must be released.
Blame the injuries to the Capitol Police on Nancy Pelosi, who is responsible for not adequately protecting the Capitol. She had at least 10,000 troops authorized. She refused them. The suicides might also be due to police who feel duped by the Democrats in power.
Your other claims border on mental illness and your inability to control your emotions.
STOP LYING. Nancy Pelosi did NOT turn down any troop offer because there was NO troop offer. Fron “USA Today”:
““Trump Says Pelosi Turned Down His Request For 10,000 National Guard Troops For Jan. 6 Rally…!!!” reads the caption of a Dec. 13 Facebook video that accumulated more than 4,000 views within a couple days.
The video included in the post shows Trump speaking to a crowd on Dec. 11 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he claimed he recommended 10,000 National Guard troops be deployed because he knew the crowd size was going to be “enormous.”
“I recommended 10 but I said do whatever they want, they’re running the Capitol, they know what they’re doing,” Trump says in the video. “And the Capitol police knew about it, she (Pelosi) knew about it, and they turned it down because they said it didn’t look good.”
But Trump’s claim was debunked by fact-checkers in March, after he first made the statement during a Fox News appearance, and it’s still not true. There is no evidence Trump made any formal request about deploying 10,000 National Guard troops before the rally.”
The suicides are the product of PTSD–post-traumatic stress disorder, and lack of recognition for the sacrifices and injuries they took in the line of duty. Imagine you are a Capitol Police Officer, sworn to protect members of Congress. You show up at work to do your job and a fat slob pathological liar who was just voted out of office sends a group of his fans, who include Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists, to the Capitol to “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more” because his sick ego cannot handle rejection. Barriers are put up, but disciples of the pathological liar show up in flak gear and in military formation force their way past the barriers, using improvised weapons like flagpoles and batons and shields they stole from your fellow officers. You and your fellow officers get beaten, battered, trying to keep them out. Some of your number lost fingers. One lost an eye. Several have fractured bones, many received contusions and other soft-tissue injuries, one got crushed in a door, several received concussions and one died after getting hit on the head with a fire extinguisher. Are you celebrated for doing your job, which was a success, by the way, because the angry mob of delusional losers was not able to kill Mike Pence or Nancy Pelosi or get to the floor of the House before everyone got out safely? No. The pig who cheated his way into power calls you villains, and the people who not only inflicted these injuries on you and your fellow officers are now “heroes”. There is an entire system of MAGA media that portrays you as bad guys and the invaders as the good guys. People like Jonathan Turley claim that the DOJ went overboard in charging this trash for what they did to you. At least 3 of your fellow officers commit suicide. And, even after the DOJ prosecuted some of them, many of whom pleaded guilty and some of whom were found guilty, the fat slob, aided and abetted by billionaires and their MAGA media that spread lies, pardons them, calling them “hostages”. And, don’t forget that this trash also defecated and urinated in the Capitol building, trashed several offices, including Nancy Pelosi’s office, and did millions of dollars in damage to the building and its contents.
What \produced is many words based on old news from people that either didn’t know the truth at the time or never wanted to know.
Watch the video of Nancy Pelosi taken by her daughter. Read what the chief of the Capitol police said. Look at the summary of the days events contemporaneously recorded.
There is no need for me to prove anything to an ignorant person. Most intelligent people, whether right or left, have accepted the facts as I presented them. You are a fountain of ignorance.
Pelosi and the mayor of DC should have prepared. They should have accepted the national guard offer by Trump. In sociology a disgruntled crowd will turn easily into a destructive riot. The police know that.
There was NO national guard offer by Trump.
The Republican Party is dead. It died a relative quick death in 2016. This is full on the trump party. Question is, what will happen to the party in a few years when trump is dead?
* Right, rather ghoulish to wait, to anxiously wait for the deaths of people and generations of people? What a way to live…
* Get some help. Those are homicidal thoughts.
Peace to you
Guess you didn’t hear about the Democrats being reduced to a pile of ashes?
Democrats have been defeated — politically, morally — and soon: legally.
Rumor: Democrats will lose Fetterman to the Republican side of the aisle.
Announcement coming.
Yeah— it’s OK that Capitol Police officers sustained fractured bones, bruises, lost fingers, one was crushed in a door, one lost an eye,
Is this the riot you’re finally admitting actually happened?
AT DON’S DOOR: 50 Secret Service agents injured in White House riots as President Trump is evacuated to ‘terror attack’ bunker
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11752998/trump-secure-bunker-friday-george-floyd-protests-white-house/
They intended to murder President Trump and his family and taking selfies of themselves doing it like the Muslim terrorists they support after they penetrated the Secret Service and Capitol Police defenders.
Already working on the 2026 midterms with the 2020 election strategy we see… good luck with that – don’t change a thing!
AND THE 15,000 GUARD TRUMP REQUESTED? THAT WAS REJECTED BY DEMS! BOZO!
Kirk–NO. From “USA Today”:
““Trump Says Pelosi Turned Down His Request For 10,000 National Guard Troops For Jan. 6 Rally…!!!” reads the caption of a Dec. 13 Facebook video that accumulated more than 4,000 views within a couple days.
The video included in the post shows Trump speaking to a crowd on Dec. 11 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he claimed he recommended 10,000 National Guard troops be deployed because he knew the crowd size was going to be “enormous.”
“I recommended 10 but I said do whatever they want, they’re running the Capitol, they know what they’re doing,” Trump says in the video. “And the Capitol police knew about it, she (Pelosi) knew about it, and they turned it down because they said it didn’t look good.”
But Trump’s claim was debunked by fact-checkers in March, after he first made the statement during a Fox News appearance, and it’s still not true. There is no evidence Trump made any formal request about deploying 10,000 National Guard troops before the rally.”
WHY DO YOU BELIEVE LIES?
Why do you believe the lying media?
Transcripts Show President Trump’s Directives to Pentagon Leadership to “Keep January 6 Safe” Were Deliberately Ignored
https://cha.house.gov/press-releases?ID=EA54DB89-3762-408A-8D4E-5CE7CA795322
The abuse of power by Biden-Harris DOJ is shocking and grotesque. This is not the end of it. The truth MUST come out.
Just ONE of hundreds of examples of government ABUSE of power —>>
Brent Bozell
@BrentBozell
The new Trump administration has arrived, with a real sense of purpose. For the past four years, the Biden administration has subjected America to a level of personal corruption, professional ineptitude and abuse of power unheard of in our nation’s history.
President Trump committed to address all of this and immediately has put an end to the persecution of J6 defendants through his presidential pardon. I salute the President for this commitment to justice.
I also thank him personally for liberating my son.
The list of old friends, and new friends who have shared their outrage in emails, texts, phone calls and private conversations, always offering their prayers, have my family’s everlasting gratitude as well.
America has witnessed the Biden administration transform the FBI from perhaps the most respected to the most feared agency in the federal government. It is high time the Department of Justice be investigated. It needs to be fumigated and the rot expelled.
My son was guilty of breaking two windows and entering the Capitol that day. He recognized this, was prepared to plead guilty, and accept his punishment. That was, until the “Justice” Department offered him a deal: accept a three-year sentence or face a 20-year prison term, a fate which would befall him by the time they were done with him, after throwing the entire weight of the federal government against him.
Others capitulated because they either didn’t have the financial means to defend themselves or didn’t understand the nature of the abuse. My son refused. For that they charged him with an insurrection, which they knew was unconstitutional. At the 11th hour, they added an assault charge, which was as dishonest as it was false. And when sentencing came, they tried to pin a terrorism enhancement charge. This to a man whose greatest crime prior to this was a traffic ticket.
Were he a BLM rioter, he’d have been given probation and a nominal fine. Or, as has been the case with thousands who did far worse, nothing at all.
But my son was a J6er. He was sentenced to 45 months in prison. Amazingly, his was one of the better outcomes. He has spent almost a half year in prison, leaving his wife without a husband and three girls without their father.
I want to know who was behind this persecution. I want to know who chose my son because he shares my name. I want to know who gave the orders to throw the book against him – including inventing heinous crimes – because I supported President Trump.
I want them brought to justice. I want to see them in prison.
7:47 PM · Jan 20, 2025
* he was released 3 months early? The pardon clears his record.
Terrible political abuse.
I called them prisoners of war.
Some of the J6 prisoners may deserve punishment but based on the stories of abuse perhaps they have been punished. Many of them deserved a $20 fine and got solitary and delayed trials. Trump is right.
The 14th does not imply birthright citizenship.
And I’m looking forward to Trump unwinding as much of the leftist crap as possible: first with EOs and then backed up by legislation.
I hope he keeps the lefties in tears for four full and happy years.
Robert Barnes said something to the effect that he had changed his mind.
That while he initially had a problem with pardoning the allegedly violent,
That there comes a point at which the prosecutions are so corrupt,
and the lies so numberous that everything must be rejected in its entirety.
“The pig just pardoned the J6 defendants, including those who committed acts of violence”
Legally, their release sounds good because Democrats destroyed legal records, taking away their rights to defense. I don’t think his pardon includes a few of the violence. The ones who belong in jail are those who created J6 on the left and those who destroyed the documents investigating J6.
You always take the wrong side, the stupid side.
The “wrong side”? Breaking down barriers, breaking down doors, smashing windows, beating and battering Capitol Police officers who were doing their job —-the people who committed these crimes against America DESERVE pardons? WTF is wrong with you?
What can you say? Stolen elections have consequences…
I think you need to look again at who the people were that committed crimes against America.
The election was NOT stolen–another Trump lie.
You are a nut case. Everyone on this blog seems to agree the violent should be prosecuted and punished. That includes leftists as well.
We are left with a lot of innocent people and perhaps a couple of guilty ones, but the J6 committee destroyed the records so all must be pardoned. The J6 committee is guilty of destroying records. They should be in jail. Blame them for any violent people getting off. Blame Joe Biden who pardoned those criminals.
Anonymous, breaking down barriers, smashing windows and beating police officers is what happened every weekend in 2020 from the left…and you said nothing.
If a white cop ever killed a black female protesting in favor of Hamas he would get the Derek Chauvin treatment, but Michael Byrd, a black cop, killed Ashley Babbit, a white protester, and he is a hero. THIS IS WHY TRUMP WON. The damn hypocrisy is maddening.
Trump “won” because he LIED about immediately bringing down the cost of groceries. From “PBS News”:
“Supermarket sticker shock nevertheless weighed on the U.S. electorate. About 7 in 10 voters — including 70 percent of women and 63 percent of men — said they were very concerned about the cost of food and groceries, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. Only 1 in 10 said they were not too concerned or not at all concerned.
READ MORE: Voter anxiety over the economy and desires for ‘total upheaval’ brought Trump back to office, AP VoteCast shows
Trump won decisively among voters who said they were “very” concerned. Around 6 in 10 voters in that group supported him, while 4 in 10 supported Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival. Harris won strong majorities of voters who were somewhat concerned, not too concerned or not at all concerned.”
Ashli Babbitt died because she believed Trump’s lie. She tried to get through a broken side light into the Speakers Lobby, even though guns were pointed at her. She died believing Trump’s lies.
The “wrong side”? Breaking down barriers, breaking down doors, smashing windows, beating and battering Capitol Police officers
You’re talking about the two day long assault on the White House with President Trump and his family inside, right?
AT DON’S DOOR 50 Secret Service agents wounded in White House riots as President Trump evacuated to ‘terror attack’ bunker
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11752998/trump-secure-bunker-friday-george-floyd-protests-white-house/
The pardon’s were for those who were not violent. There were several comutations of some of those who were violent.
But Trump said there are still others that have not been acted on and the circumstances are being examined and some but not likely all will be commuted.
“An early taste of the sick sh!t to come”, enjoy every single bite! I am looking forward to President Trump serving up full course meals on a regular basis to the Demodunces. Let’s hope he doesn’t forget the two women that paid the ultimate price on January 6 for standing up to a corrupted regime of criminals.
Poor Anon.
The pardons were legal and unlike Joe’s they were done because of the zealous over prosecution.
Now lets see the civil lawsuits start to fly.
As to the birthright citizenship… unlike the attacks on Trump… there is a legal justification that will probably end up in front of SCOTUS
When will CNN “fact check” this DEMOCRAT LIE? —–>
“Five police officers were killed on J6”
LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE
The ONLY one who died on J6 was Ashley Babbitt.
She was murdered in cold blood by officer Michael Byrd
Where are the MEDIA FACT CHECKERS?
“This was the only just outcome. These people were ALL over-charged, over-prosecuted, had unconstitutional conditions imposed on them when released pre-trial, had the most draconian & unlawful pleas imposed on them, & were over-sentenced.”
Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸
@McAdooGordon
*and NO cops were killed on J6*
*zero cops died on –or because of– J6 “injuries”
— BOLD FACED LIE TO CLAIM 5 Cops Died. Sicknick died of “natural causes” after J6 not because of J6 —–
STOP SPREADING MIS AND DISINFORMATION all you Democrats & Media LIARS
You are incorrect. The 14th Amendment does not grant birthright citizenship. There are two requirements in the 14th. One must be born within the jurisdiction of the US and one must be subject to that US jurisdiction.
Illegal invaders are not subject to the jurisdiction of the US. They are still subject to the jurisdiction of their home countries. Legal residents are also still subject to the jurisdiction of their home countries. Legal residents cannot give birth to US citizens, they can only pass on their own citizenship to their children.
Children inherit the citizenship of their parents. Only a US citizen can pass US citizenship to their child.
A citizen of a foreign country cannot give birth to a US citizen, they can only pass on their own citizenship.
If you read the debates on the 14th, you will learn what the framers meant by ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’
Rep Bingham —
“In 1862 During the 37th Congressional Debate on the 14th Amendment, Ohio Representative John Bingham, known as the Chief Architect and Father of the 14th Amendment stated: “All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.” (Cong. Globe, 37th, 2nd Sess., 1639 (1862))”
“In 1866, during 14th Amendment House debates, Ohio Representative John Bingham, stated: “I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen; but, sir, I may be allowed to say further, that I deny that the Congress of the United States ever had the power or color of power to say that any man born within the jurisdiction of the United States, and not owing a foreign allegiance, is not and shall not be a citizen of the United States.” John A. Bingham, (R-Ohio) US Congressman, Architect of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, March 9, 1866, Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866), Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes (1866), Cf. U.S. Const. XIVth Amend.”
“Sen. Lyman Trumbull, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, author of the Thirteenth Amendment, and the one who inserted the phrase into the 14th: Known as the Citizenship Clause, it is contained in Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment. The clause conferred U.S. and state citizenship at birth to all individuals born in the United States. [T]he provision is, that ‘all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.’ That means ‘subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.’ What do we mean by ‘complete jurisdiction thereof?’ Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.”
The above quotes are from usnaturalborncitizen . com
Putin congratulated Trump. Open to meeting him and discuss peace talks. 65% of democrats want the party to have a change of course. The dims know they are going in the wrong direction.
* Yep, the dems have made such a Schiff hole of government no one wants to be there except those needing a job.
Smart if journalism stops giving them air time to be cute.
Golly, he’s not in congress.
* The Young case had the advantage of the malicious emails. Let’s see where MSM goes from here to fill 24 hours per day. The nightly MSN news is left advocacy. People watch it and believe it.
Alcindor is always in attack mode nothing new there.
Let’s see what gets done.
Biden pardoned everyone except himself. Comer should now finish in full his investigation of the shakedown scam, indict Biden, call his pardoned family to testify and then impeach him upon his crimes. Once impeached, his pardons can be nullified and the criminals can be indicted. Easy Pee Zeee! Pardoned criminals can’t plead the fifth and if they perjure themselves they can be prosecuted. A win win for ridding the rewards of corruption in our government.
Do it Trump!
Traveler, great post. Works for me.
“American journalism” is a nonsequitur. Journalism no longer exists as a viable profession. All of the mainstream media outlets today, with a few rare exceptions, are Leftist Indoctrination Entities (aka “LIEs”) and haven’t practiced journalism or reporting in many years. And the media LIEs ONLY employ PRESSTITUTES. That said, CNN and MSNBC have among the most skilled presstitutes in the entire presstitution industry.
Is the Ukraine war over yet?
No, but you are.
Pretty much been over for a while, where you been?
America wants its money back.
* Trump watches are 4sale.
So is the Biden brand!
BaBOoooooooom!