The Justice Department Launches Investigation into Security Failures at the Berkeley TPUSA Event

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that it is investigating the University of California, Berkeley, over the security arrangements for the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event. Antifa and others threatened many entering or leaving the event, including reportedly blocking hundreds from the sold-out event to celebrate free speech and the legacy of murdered Charlie Kirk.

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon shared a letter to UC Berkeley Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, instructing her to “preserve all records” in her possession that are “relevant to the agency’s preparation, execution, and response to the Turning Point event.”

In my book,  The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,”  I discuss how universities have used security issues to cancel conservative speakers as well as a lack of protection by both universities and cities. The result is that Antifa and other groups can easily disrupt events. The long-standing concern is that some university and municipal departments have been passive-aggressive in facilitating this “heckler’s veto” of speakers.

In the book, I call for the federal government to prioritize the protection of free speech events in the same manner as it has protected other rights, including civil rights. There should be a priority in protecting what John Stuart Mill called these “circles” where ideas are shared and debated.

The university fielded a sizable security force for this event and I am not making any assumptions about a lack of efforts by the university. However, there are allegations that the security allowed violent protesters to be in close proximity to people entering or leaving the event. The result is that many were threatened, spat on, and shoved by protesters. Many could not make it into the event.

The contrast was striking. These protesters were screaming threats and spitting on people who wanted to attend an event supporting free speech. It was intolerable for these protesters that opposing views could be expressed or heard on campus.

There were signature elements of Antifa at the event with black-clad extremists fueling violence and threatening anyone who wanted to hear the speakers.

Without prejudging the outcome of the investigation, the notice to Berkeley serves a valuable purpose in warning universities that their actions will be scrutinized in such controversies. Too often, universities allow hecklers to disrupt events, as when Stanford law students stopped Judge Kyle Duncan from speaking at the law school.

The TPUSA event was long planned, as were the protests. This was not some flash mob but an organized effort to try to cancel the free speech event. The preparations by the university do not appear to have been sufficient, but that does not mean that it was evidence of premeditated or passive-aggressive conduct. However, the review of the preparations is an important warning that, for the first time, universities will face inquiries over such breaches or failures in protecting First Amendment activities.

400 thoughts on “The Justice Department Launches Investigation into Security Failures at the Berkeley TPUSA Event”

    1. Could you even TRY to add something of value here, display your brain, anything human going on in your dark-soul?

    2. Pedanon
      The latest update on the Epstein case reports that an Epstein email to Maxwell reported that Trump “knew about the girls.” This is nothing new as Guifre was recruited by Epstein from Trump’s Mar a lago country club, around the time Trump banned him from the Club. Both Maxwell and Guifre reported that Trump acted as a gentleman around them and was not a participant in any nefarious activities. I haven’t seen any report or evidence presented to show the contrary, if you have something please show us all.

    3. Your friends are now defending Donald Trump. They must have given up distributing pedo books in Florida school. You know, the books you recommended for the forming of young minds. In Florida the FBI has arrested 150 if your friends on charges of sexual exploitation of children and others. It must be a very sad day at the Anonymous abode. We haven’t and we will not forget.

  1. The Berkley method to suppress groups that liberal administrations do not like … this what happened at Charlottesville, VA.

    1. We aren’t talking about Epstein.

      We are talking about the other LIVING pedophile, named Donald Trump.

            1. If there is no cure, then why see a doctor.
              You appear to be profoundly mentally impaired.
              This would explain why you believe that Trump is not a pedophile because of something Biden may have done.

              Deeply, deeply mentally impaired !!!

          1. How does it change the actual fact that the person in the emails the Democrats leaked to the MSM, denied Trump of any wrong doing?

            Here, let me show you,

            Q. All right. What’s inaccurate about the last statement on that page?

            Giuffre: “Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey’s.” That part is true.” “He didn’t partake in any” of — “any sex with any of us but he flirted with me.” It’s true that he didn’t partake in any sex with us, and but it’s not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me.

            Giuffre: Then the next sentence is, “He’d laugh and tell Jeffrey, ‘you’ve got the life.’” I never said that to her.

            Q. When you say, “he didn’t partake in any sex with any of us,” who is “us”?

            Giuffre: Girls. Just —

            Q. How do you know who Donald Trump — Trump had sex with?

            Giuffre: Oh, I didn’t physically see him have sex with any of the girls, so I can’t say who he had sex with in his whole life or not, but I just know it wasn’t with me when I was with other girls.

            Q. And who were the other girls that you were with in Donald Trump’s presence?

            Giuffre: None. There — I worked for Donald Trump, and I’ve met him probably a few times.

            Q. When have you met him?

            Giuffre: At Mar-a-Lago. My dad and him, I wouldn’t say they were friends, but my dad knew him and they would talk all the time — well, not all the time but when they saw each other.

            Q. Have you ever been in Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s presence with one another?

            Giuffre: No.

            Q. What is your basis for your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey’s?

            Giuffre: Jeffrey told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his.

            Q. But you never observed them together?

            Giuffre: No, that that I can actually remember. I mean, not off the top of my head, no.

            Q. When did Donald Trump flirt with you?

            Giuffre: He didn’t. That’s what’s inaccurate.

            Q. Did you ever see Donald Trump at Jeffrey’s home?

            Giuffre: Not that I can remember.

            So, your total assertion that Trump spent hours with Giuffre, at Epstein’s home is proven wrong by the very same person Democrats and MSM try to slander Trump with, Giuffre.

              1. False. There is no evidence of that. Even you didn’t supply any. All the evidence points the other way: Trump felt Epstein was being “creepy” around the girls, Trump was offended by that, and so Trump and kicked Epstein out of his club. There is no girl who says Trump did anything wrong. You people are desperate and pathetic. You are losers, whereas Trump is a winner. So naturally you’re threatened and jealous and seek to disparage the winner. Losers!

                1. Trump is lying about his relationship with Epstein. He lies about everything.
                  He did not kick Epstein out of his club.
                  One of the emails released today from Epstein says that he never was a member of Trump’s club, and that Trump is lying.

                  1. One of the emails released today from Epstein says that
                    ***************
                    But, as usual. You failed to post it

                2. OMFK
                  Epstein’s email doesn’t even hold water. Every room in his house had cameras. If the dog that doesn’t bark (Trump) had been laying pipe at his house, he would have had full knowledge of it. Nothing burger from the same scumbags that brought us all Russia gate.

            1. You nailed it Upstate.

              The left is trying so hard to find anything, but the can’t so they twist words to make it look that way.
              They are pissed because Prez Trump won the shut-down mess they made.

          2. It doesn’t ‘change the fact’ as you summarily repose. That fact is mandated by a landslide of The People whom Elected the ‘pedophile’ for President because they like the fact. It’s undeniable. Donny’s; cute, adorable, charming, delightful, sweet, lovely, precious, attractive, endearing, and appealing. Other words; darling, captivating, engaging, and winsome. Even Hillary is gaga and admits he’s Hot.

            Dem’s just have to get over the fact that the man is AWESOME.

      1. “We are talking about the other LIVING pedophile, named Donald Trump.”

        I don’t believe you, because you LOVE those living pedophiles like Biden, Clinton, and the Obama’s who had the serial rapist and pedophile Harvey Weinstein as an Oval Office house guest for EIGHT YEARS, training their two young daughters. He wasn’t there to coach them as aspiring actresses…

        All before Trump came into office for you to try and use as your beard.

      2. Yet as always. You have no proof, now Biden is another story. But the libs protect their own.
        I really pity you losers

  2. Turns out the Golden Age of MAGA is an Epstein cover-up, 600,000 Chinese students, H1-B jobs for Indians, massive deficits, pardons for fraudsters & drug traffickers, blowing up boats, 50 year mortgages, tariffs on everything, higher prices, a ballroom, & al-Qaeda in the Oval.

  3. George Clooney

    “Another One Bites The Dust”
    __________________________________

    “Ghislaine Maxwell claimed she performed sex act on George Clooney, Virginia Giuffre’s memoir alleges”

    – NY Post

    1. So what exactly is your point ???
      How are George Clooney’s sexual encounters relevant to ANYTHING ???
      How does this change the fact that Trump is a pedophile ???

      1. How does it change the actual fact that the person in the emails the Democrats leaked to the MSM, denied Trump of any wrong doing?

        Here, let me show you,

        Q. All right. What’s inaccurate about the last statement on that page?

        Giuffre: “Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey’s.” That part is true.” “He didn’t partake in any” of — “any sex with any of us but he flirted with me.” It’s true that he didn’t partake in any sex with us, and but it’s not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me.

        Giuffre: Then the next sentence is, “He’d laugh and tell Jeffrey, ‘you’ve got the life.’” I never said that to her.

        Q. When you say, “he didn’t partake in any sex with any of us,” who is “us”?

        Giuffre: Girls. Just —

        Q. How do you know who Donald Trump — Trump had sex with?

        Giuffre: Oh, I didn’t physically see him have sex with any of the girls, so I can’t say who he had sex with in his whole life or not, but I just know it wasn’t with me when I was with other girls.

        Q. And who were the other girls that you were with in Donald Trump’s presence?

        Giuffre: None. There — I worked for Donald Trump, and I’ve met him probably a few times.

        Q. When have you met him?

        Giuffre: At Mar-a-Lago. My dad and him, I wouldn’t say they were friends, but my dad knew him and they would talk all the time — well, not all the time but when they saw each other.

        Q. Have you ever been in Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s presence with one another?

        Giuffre: No.

        Q. What is your basis for your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey’s?

        Giuffre: Jeffrey told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his.

        Q. But you never observed them together?

        Giuffre: No, that that I can actually remember. I mean, not off the top of my head, no.

        Q. When did Donald Trump flirt with you?

        Giuffre: He didn’t. That’s what’s inaccurate.

        Q. Did you ever see Donald Trump at Jeffrey’s home?

        Giuffre: Not that I can remember.

        So, your total assertion that Trump spent hours with Giuffre, at Epstein’s home is proven wrong by the very same person Democrats and MSM try to slander Trump with, Giuffre.

  4. Thank you Prez Trump
    ____________________________
    AAA.
    National Average Ticks Up, Remains Lower Than Last Year

  5. Fox news
    LOL…
    Brandon Johnson is asking the (UN) to intervene in US affairs and stop ICE from enforcing immigration law

    Tom Homan ~ He’s just proving that he’s not that smart, the UN helped fund the mass migration

    Hit that like button if you appreciate
    the work Tom Homan has been doing 👍

    1. LIKE! Tom Homan is Captain America!

      Brandon’s emotional histrionics are foolish at best, asking for the real fascism at worst.

    2. Even better

      Fox news
      Trump admin gearing up to revoke 17K commercial driver’s licenses from illegal migrants in CA

    3. Abraham Lincoln would have imposed martial law, suspended habeas corpus, and arrested Brandon Johnson for treason.

      1. “Abraham Lincoln would have imposed martial law, suspended habeas corpus, and arrested Brandon Johnson for treason.”

        That crazy Confederate commie false flag war canoe is sailing again…

        The overwhelming singular failure of the American republic rights and freedoms experiment has been voters allowing the continued existence of the vile and violent, seditious DNC and their equally vile members like GeorgeX.

    4. @Dustoff(sarcasm intended). You missed the point that POTUS Obama could give Russia the Ukrainian Fields in exchange for an influential board position and ability to launder money external to the US to the VP’s Son (Hunter, Burisma Holdings), or Biden draining the strategic petroleum reserves and family profiting for shipping them to China.

      Brandon Johnson is just pocketing change he’s licking from the floor (United Nations).

  6. As an intellectual, it is surprising taht Professor Turley consistently has absolutely no curiosity in why these “security concerns” don’t show up in the news when people like Charlie Kirk are speaking or there are TPUSA displays and events, in places like Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, etc.

    Why don’t the Democrats’ street thugs and terrorists like Black Liars & Marxists and Antifa show up to do the same spitting, assault, vandalism as they do at Berkley, detailed in his column today? Campus police and security suddenly become efficient depending on which state they’re located in, and whether it’s government is Democrat or Republican?

    No attacks on people they hate in public places?

    How odd that Professor Turley doesn’t notice the dramatic difference that seems to have a causal relationship with the geographical location and which party governs the state!

    1. Why should he, he’s just a blogging interpreting the news. Why don’t you do the legwork and get back to us.

      1. Why shouldn’t somebody reading his blog comment to point out when they see intellectual lapses? Why don’t you find something for meaningful to comment on, rather than fulfilling yourself by deflecting and distracting?

        1. Why don’t you find something for meaningful to comment on … like your intellectual lapses. silly maga-ite.

    2. How many people know who the head of security at UC Berkeley was in charge – and that person withheld information and evidence both forthcoming and afterwards in the Jan 6 “burning of the reichstag” according to a bipartisan report and her corresponding, almost immediate resignation? You can’t expect anything different given who was anointed and in charge.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogananda_Pittman

  7. Trump caught with a baby hottie. This is a sign from God that conservatives are doomed to h*ll. Thank you Epstein, we knew you had the records. So perfect.

    1. LMAO on this one. Perhaps the only person on the face of the earth today to notice that NPR just pulled a Philby Broadcasting Corporation (oops, i meant BBC) move using evidence emails that are 8 years apart. Who would have thought NPR would give this a shot after the PBC exposure.

      They contain NO evidence or even a correlation the communications were even on the same topic? Today was a disclosed proposal of for an “Arctic Frost” strategy that promotes basically assassination provocation and approval[oh, wait, we didn’t really mean that to happen]”?? https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5605582/epstein-files-release-trump-email-grijalva-massie

    2. Trump caught with a baby hottie. This is a sign from God that conservatives are doomed to h*ll. Thank you Epstein, we knew you had the records.

      Even if that were true, we know you aren’t concerned about even serial pedophiles when you were delighted to cover and vote for serial pedophiles like President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Pedo Incest Showers and Bill Clinton, the Democrat Party serial pedo rapist powerhouse:

      ‘Clinton Corruption Files’: Bondi, Patel unleash new evidence about former first family foundation
      Officials say evidence sent to Congress raises fresh concerns that Obama and then Biden government officials kept evidence from prosecutors.

      https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/clinton-corruption-files-bondi-patel-unleash-new-evidence-about

      The officials said some of the evidence was flagged by whistleblowers who claimed such evidence was kept from a corruption investigation that was being conducted in 2015 by the Little Rock, Ark., U.S. attorney’s office before it was shut down by the Obama administration’s Justice Department. The FBI had three separate investigations into possible pay-to-play allegations against the Clinton Foundation, but all were closed after Obama Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates ordered agents to “shut it down.“

      Officials also announced therewill be new evidence released this week in the Arctic Frost investigation conducted by Jack Smith, including new contacts between the special prosecutor who pursued Donald Trump and top officials like former FBI Director Christopher Wray and new details on how that probe violated the First and Fourth Amendment protections of Republican members of Congress

    3. How does it change the actual fact that the person in the emails the Democrats leaked to the MSM, denied Trump of any wrong doing?

      Here, let me show you,

      Q. All right. What’s inaccurate about the last statement on that page?

      Giuffre: “Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey’s.” That part is true.” “He didn’t partake in any” of — “any sex with any of us but he flirted with me.” It’s true that he didn’t partake in any sex with us, and but it’s not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me.

      Giuffre: Then the next sentence is, “He’d laugh and tell Jeffrey, ‘you’ve got the life.’” I never said that to her.

      Q. When you say, “he didn’t partake in any sex with any of us,” who is “us”?

      Giuffre: Girls. Just —

      Q. How do you know who Donald Trump — Trump had sex with?

      Giuffre: Oh, I didn’t physically see him have sex with any of the girls, so I can’t say who he had sex with in his whole life or not, but I just know it wasn’t with me when I was with other girls.

      Q. And who were the other girls that you were with in Donald Trump’s presence?

      Giuffre: None. There — I worked for Donald Trump, and I’ve met him probably a few times.

      Q. When have you met him?

      Giuffre: At Mar-a-Lago. My dad and him, I wouldn’t say they were friends, but my dad knew him and they would talk all the time — well, not all the time but when they saw each other.

      Q. Have you ever been in Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s presence with one another?

      Giuffre: No.

      Q. What is your basis for your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey’s?

      Giuffre: Jeffrey told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his.

      Q. But you never observed them together?

      Giuffre: No, that that I can actually remember. I mean, not off the top of my head, no.

      Q. When did Donald Trump flirt with you?

      Giuffre: He didn’t. That’s what’s inaccurate.

      Q. Did you ever see Donald Trump at Jeffrey’s home?

      Giuffre: Not that I can remember.

      So, your total assertion that Trump spent hours with Giuffre, at Epstein’s home is proven wrong by the very same person Democrats and MSM try to slander Trump with, Giuffre.

  8. Joe Biden was in office for four years.

    Joe Biden investigated and revealed nothing related to Jeffrey Epstein.

    Joe Biden presented and proved nothing against President Donald J. Trump related to Jeffrey Epstein.

      1. Wait! Nope, what? And Joe sure is what? Joe Biden wasn’t in office for four years ignoring Epstein the entire time because there is nothing “Epstein” against President Donald J. Trump?

  9. “According to recent reporting, the late Virginia Giuffre (formerly Virginia Roberts) did say that Donald Trump was not involved in the wrongdoing she was alleging.”

    “Newsweek summarizing her book states: “Giuffre makes no allegations against Trump …”

    – ChatGPT

  10. Trump’s cooked. look at the comments below, they going nuts ha ha ha … attacking … yeah, bring it on you ped0 lovers … lol lol lol lol lol lol 😎

  11. This piece is nothing more than a a completely pointless attempt to stir up the MAGA mob
    There is nothing to “investigate”.
    Berkeley has no Constitutional obligation to provide security. They did provide some level of security, but they had no power to infringe on the First Amendment rights of the protesters.
    The TPUSA people have no Constitutional right to be heard, but the protesters have a Constitutional right to shout TPUSA down.

    That is what happened. Very simple.
    There is nothing to “investigate”.

    1. Ding ding ding! We have a winner for stupidest comment of the day. Congratulations on your win, moronic Soviet Democrat mindless drone.

      1. oldman
        Feel free to explain why I am wrong, rather than resorting to cowardly, pathetic, childish insults.

        1. When a comment is plain stupid, I take the time to explain. When it’s ultra- mega-stupid, I just give them the award. Congrats on winning the award, ultra- mega-stupid Soviet mindless drone low-IQ troll.

          And here we have a coward who who always comments anonymously referring to me as “cowardly.” Hahahahahaha!

          1. Maybe this is the drunk who just woke up, or the anonymous who engages in sea-lioning because he is too stupid to make any sense.

            1. Meyer, the level of stupidity among the left-wing trolls commenting today seems more extreme than usual. This really must be an embarrassing topic for them.

              1. Does the professor support masked Antifa hooligans into a lecture hall, knowing they are likely to be verbally or physically aggressive? If not, then why permit the equivalent here by allowing fully masked and anonymous individuals on the blog?

                Free speech doesn’t disappear when users are required to choose an alias and an icon. People can remain anonymous without hiding behind a blank identity. Why should good discussion get the heckler’s veto by foul-mouthed individuals who are too scared to carry an anonymous label.

                1. Meyer – I have seen comment sections in other blogs that are more civil and on-topic, and the comments are more intelligent than what we get from the trolls here. It is a mystery to me why Professor Turley allows this comment section to degenerate into a swamp of garbage comments. I cannot imagine it enhances his professional reputation. Perhaps he feels he needs to allow all the garbage commenters for sake of consistency with his free-speech stance, but in my view that is misguided. He can support free speech without allowing foul-mouthed garbage spewers to broadcast stupidity, hate, and propaganda from his living room.

                  1. This is one of the Professor’s failures. He waits too long to act, as if he has to be proven correct before he takes action. However, I give him high ratings because he is honest, too honest.

                    1. True, he does get high marks for many things, including honesty and scholarliness. His handling of the comment section is a rare area of weakness for him.

  12. trump the ped* caught redhanded at epstein island the ped* potus..lol lol lol lol lol lo l…………….

    1. You left out the part where the person, Virginia Guiffre, said Trump never did anything wrong. Too bad so sad for you left-wing morons.

      The fact is, Trump is not a pedophile, but Biden and so many of you groomers are. So you project.

      1. “Why did Democrats cover up the name when the [Epstein] Estate didn’t redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee?” the Oversight Committee’s Republicans asked on X in response to the release. “It’s because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.

        “Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump. Shame on them.”

        Giuffre, who went public with her accusations against Epstein in 2011, had worked as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, where her father was a maintenance manager.

        At some point in 2000, Giuffre, then 16, met Maxwell, who offered her a job working for Epstein as a traveling masseuse. In her posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” Giuffre described being introduced to Trump by her father shortly before Maxwell and Epstein entered her life.

        “Trump couldn’t have been friendlier,” Giuffre wrote, “telling me it was fantastic that I was there.”

        Far from implicating Trump in any illegal activity, Giuffre recounted that he helped her make some extra money as a baby-sitter for wealthy families who rented out homes the real estate mogul owned on the Palm Beach property.

    2. “The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” Leavitt told The Post in a statement. “The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.

      “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” Leavitt added. “These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”

      Leavitt is right on this. The left-wing trolls are wrong.

      1. OldManFromKS,
        Of course Democrats have to deflect from their failure on the clean CR bill. So, they leak a redacted email to DNC friendly MSM, who are going to run with it for days while ignoring their epic failure in Congress. Also, in their wall to wall coverage, they will conveniently ignore the facts that the person they were referring to was Virginia Giuffre in the emails. She, by her own words, stated Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing.
        Now, I think it will be interesting to see if the vote to release the rest of the files goes forward. If there are prominent Democrats on the list, in the files, like frequent Lolita Express flyer Bill Clinton, and the Democrats do a sudden 180 and vote not to release the files, that would be interesting. Also a possibility if the Democrats vote not to release the files and the DSA progressives vote to release the files, that could hurt the mainstream Democrats and strengthen the DSA. They could out some Democrats and then run DSA candidates in those districts.

    3. Q. All right. What’s inaccurate about the last statement on that page?

      Giuffre: “Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey’s.” That part is true.” “He didn’t partake in any” of — “any sex with any of us but he flirted with me.” It’s true that he didn’t partake in any sex with us, and but it’s not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me.

      Giuffre: Then the next sentence is, “He’d laugh and tell Jeffrey, ‘you’ve got the life.’” I never said that to her.

      Q. When you say, “he didn’t partake in any sex with any of us,” who is “us”?

      Giuffre: Girls. Just —

      Q. How do you know who Donald Trump — Trump had sex with?

      Giuffre: Oh, I didn’t physically see him have sex with any of the girls, so I can’t say who he had sex with in his whole life or not, but I just know it wasn’t with me when I was with other girls.

      Q. And who were the other girls that you were with in Donald Trump’s presence?

      Giuffre: None. There — I worked for Donald Trump, and I’ve met him probably a few times.

      Q. When have you met him?

      Giuffre: At Mar-a-Lago. My dad and him, I wouldn’t say they were friends, but my dad knew him and they would talk all the time — well, not all the time but when they saw each other.

      Q. Have you ever been in Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s presence with one another?

      Giuffre: No.

      Q. What is your basis for your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey’s?

      Giuffre: Jeffrey told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his.

      Q. But you never observed them together?

      Giuffre: No, that that I can actually remember. I mean, not off the top of my head, no.

      Q. When did Donald Trump flirt with you?

      Giuffre: He didn’t. That’s what’s inaccurate.

      Q. Did you ever see Donald Trump at Jeffrey’s home?

      Giuffre: Not that I can remember.

      — Interview with Virginia Giuffre

        1. DustOff,
          Oh, no, it is not libs. It is the Democrats. Reading the redacted emails the Democrats leaked to MSM, and what Virginia Giuffre actually said, it is clear Epstein was trying to box/blackmail Trump into a corner for favors. Didnt work.
          Democrats are desperate to deflect from their failure in the government shutdown.

  13. The free-speech history from Berkeley.
    _____________________________
    The Free Speech Movement began in 1964 when UC Berkeley students protested the university’s restrictions on political activities on campus. Small sit-ins and demonstrations escalated into a series of large-scale rallies and protests demanding full constitutional rights on campus. This led to the university overturning policies that would restrict the content of speech or advocacy. Today, the Movement stands as a symbol of the importance of protecting and preserving free speech and academic freedom.
    From what just happened, they have failed.

    1. The head of security is none other than Yoganada Pittman who was head of security for capitol police on January 6 and during the nearly entire demonstrations went radio silence and was no help to her men on the line. Immediately after she was moved quickly to Berkeley. Same MO just different location. Hopefully she will get outed this time for her collaboration in both fiascos.

  14. Used to be “You spit on someone” and an automatic knuckle report would be on its way. Cause and reaction! Now the circus leaders of the left endorse spitting, throwing sandwiches and shoplifting as just a few examples of the left’s insanity and unenforced law’s by their Judicial brethren. They may be under the false idea that winning a battle when their opposition is docile is winning the war. Sooner than later: it comes a time when assault forces a countered equal or superior action. This lawless and rebellious action has now become ingrained in the lefts pulverized psyche. By pulverized I mean not knowing or having abandoned COMMON SENSE.

  15. Trump made a stunning claim about immigration during an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.

    Trump has repeatedly said he wants to reduce the number of immigrants coming to the United States to “protect” American workers. However, when Ingraham asked him about the H1-B visa program during the interview, Trump said it was necessary to bring in “talent” because there aren’t enough “talented workers” in the country.

    “Does that mean that H1-B visas won’t be a priority in your administration?” Ingraham asked. “Because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of cheap foreign workers on H1-B visas.”

    “I agree, but we also do have to bring in talent,” Trump retorted.

    “But, we have plenty of talent!” Ingraham shot back.

    “No we don’t,” Trump said, shaking his head. “No, we don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn.”

    So there we have it friends and neighbors, boys and girls and MAGA cultists.

    Trump admits we don’t have enough talented people in this country. Maybe he should rethink gutting universities.
    He said, “people have to learn”, but he is hell bent on destroying universities.

    I’m sorry, MAGA, if you follow this and most of the rest of what he said in this interview you are nothing but a personality cult of frauds who believe in nothing except worshipping a con man who consistently lies to you.

    1. I shell use the same reply all you ANO’s use.
      If it’s not posted from the news site. It’s fake.
      Enjoy

        1. Hey Ano

          I use to post links all the time and you fools “never” did. So I’m playing the same game as you!

          1. On med insurance fiasco, normally there’s a fixed price in this case it’s the gov subsidy or credit . The purchaser shops to buy a plan within the limit. If there isn’t a plan then the purchaser must buy a lesser plan to stay on budget. Greater copay or generic drugs or higher stop loss.

            I guess I don’t understand. The insurance providers will raise the cost yearly because it’s a monopoly. That really needs overhaul?

      1. dgsnowden says: You can trust me providing you with my favorite links to the Mainstream Media who spent four years aussuring me that the Russia Dossier was verified intelligence agency evidence. The same trustworthy media who then assuredme the Biden laptop was just Putin’s fraudulent election campaign disinformation. The same trustworthy media who kept assuring me that Biden was a brilliant intellectual in the White House, working his bright young aids to exhaustion each day before declaring a lid on further work each day.

        *the term “Marxist Useful Idiot” has never been truer than it is now.

    2. You missed what he actually said. If encapsulated, the message was it is time to stop using working tax dollars to create, fund, and support political and intellectual indoctrination. We have proved ourselves as efficient as WWII Germany, China, Soviet Union, and many others in this respect.

    3. Trump made a stunning claim about immigration during an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.

      Who believes that the Democrats’ Bolshevik Useless Idiot frauds here tear themselves away from their favorites like Rachael Maddow and news channels like CNN and MSNBC to instead watch Fox news? Projection is not legitimate analysis or criticism.

      How about this instead: our resident Democrat Marxist Useful Idiot frauds pick a Democrat talking point, and project their own fraudulent, malevolent actions to blow it up while stripping away all context and nuance, in hopes of making it the news story of the day. On a day where the news story is that the Democrats have surrendered on their Schumer Shutdown, while their party’s radical leaders wage a civil war inside the party.

      Projection:
      Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.

    4. Trump is not wrong.

      The College Kids Who Can’t Do Basic Math
      “More than 10 percent of new students at a prestigious California university are taking math that covers what they should have learned as far back as elementary school.”
      https://www.thefp.com/p/the-college-kids-who-cant-do-basic-math-uc-san-diego?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

      We and the good professor have noted how public education system is failing our students for years now. Not just math either. Even basic grammar. We know grade inflation is a real thing in colleges and universities. Six in ten companies are firing newly graduated college grads as they fail in various ways. From communication, dress codes, even showing up on time or at all.

      1. Those students should be at a JC and not a UC in that case. It’s a reason for the JC Associate degree, AA.

        1. Perhaps.
          But fact of the matter is those students are in fact at a UC. Fact of the matter is liberal or should I say illiberal, public education is not teaching students the basics, but are teaching them all about the illiberal agenda. So, UC have to educate these uneducated students in the basics. Something that only adds to the students college debt. And even then, as we are seeing, companies have to fire recent college grads as they lack the skills in the real world. That is why DEI, mediocrity is so popular with the progressive leftists. They lower the bar to the point they reward failure.

    5. Democrat Marxist Apparatchik: Trump has repeatedly said he wants to reduce the number of immigrants coming to the United States to “protect” American workers.

      While Illegal Aliens are actually immigrants in the Marxist Democrat Borg where their troll cultists return to each day after posting here, in America and with President Trump, Illegal Aliens who he wants to expel from the USA are not actual immigrants.

      Furthermore – as Trump explained and the Democrat apparatchik tried to eliminate in it’s “analysis” – those Illegal Aliens are not even the equivalent of those currently holding H1-B visas. Furthermore, we have a country where the unionized Democrat public school teachers have produced a generation of public school graduates that can’t even do middle school level math – but supposedly, Trump is to blame because there aren’t enough properly qualified American graduates to fill the jobs currently held by those here on H1-B visas.

      Trump also mentioned as he has before that there is a lot of abuse of the H1-B visa processes. But we’re supposed to believe that if he won’t go on record of saying he will cancel ALL those visas to get rid of the abuse… then he’s just as fraudulent as the Democrat Marxist frauds trolling here?

      There are some issues with Trump’s policies on legitimate visa holders – but it is nowhere near the complete criminal fraud that it was during the 12 years of Obama/Biden.

    6. “He said, ‘people have to learn’, but he is hell bent on destroying universities.”

      Learn how to, for example, assemble batteries. (That was his *complete* quote.) I don’t think colleges teach that.

      The Left (BBC, ABC, these commenters) have a knack for doctoring Trump’s quotes.

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