CNN Leaks Scoops From Liz Cheney's Book and the Mockery Has Already Begun

Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

Someone's going to have to help me with this one: Exactly who is the audience for a new book from Liz Cheney continuing her obsession with former President Donald Trump? 

I mean, apart from her dad, Adam Kinzinger, and maybe a few Democrats, just exactly who is going to rush out and buy it? Mitt Romney? Democrats have no real use for her anymore, either, so I'm not even sure she'll get many of them.

Certainly, she won't get the people of Wyoming, who turned her out of office in a resounding way by Trump-backed Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), who won by almost 40 points. Constituents tend not to like it when you don't seem to care about their concerns and are more concerned with your own vendettas. Cheney's response to the blowout loss was to say she was keeping her options open about running for president. The living in fantasyland was remarkable. 

However, that isn't stopping CNN from trumpeting this thing. They got copy for their anti-Trump audience when she was targeting Trump on the Jan. 6 Committee, and now they're giving her coverage, pretending like her book matters. In the book, she attacks various GOP leaders as "enablers and collaborators" and calls Trump the "most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office." That tells you right there that she has no credibility. And while her book doesn't matter to most Americans, it may serve CNN's general anti-Trump stance. 

But even Tapper questioned one part of the story Cheney was relating, where Cheney claims McCarthy told her Trump was depressed after the election and "wasn't eating." 

Now, the questioning by Tapper about being a "man of healthy appetite" is a shot at Trump. But believe him, Tapper doesn't mean that "disparagingly." (Sure he doesn't. Can we talk about the bias here?) Democrats attack Trump over his diet all the time, so Tapper is playing into that while not giving a darn about the abject incoherence of Joe Biden. But this shows again how Democrats and the Never Trump folks like Cheney can't even get their attacks on the same page — which is it: healthy appetite or can't eat? Does anyone believe any of this? 

Again, they seem more interesting in appealing to the Trump haters in their audience than being an objective news network, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't even make sense. 

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told CNN that Cheney’s book should be “in the fiction section of the bookstore.”

People weren't buying what Cheney was selling or CNN's promotion of the book. 

The one potential audience? Bored box wine moms who like bad fiction.

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Remember when the USA and Russia were friends?

posted by Edward Lozansky at American Thinker 

Before the start of Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, former energy secretary Ernest J. Moniz and Senator Sam Nunn co-authored an article in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs explaining that the risk of nuclear use has become disturbingly plausible — and proposing concrete steps to reduce the risk.  “In the U.S.-Russia relationship, clashing national interests, insufficient dialogue, eroding arms control structures, advancing military technologies and new threats from cyber-space have destabilized the old equilibrium, creating a state of strategic instability where an accident or mishap could trigger a catastrophic chain of events,” warned these two distinguished politicians.

Sam Nunn added the expression “sleepwalking into nuclear catastrophe.”  Since then, the list of people in the know who share their vision keeps growing.

How we ended up in this dangerous situation, and what went wrong, is debatable.  Washington and Moscow keep pointing fingers at each other.  But the purpose of this article is to recall the good old days, when we were friends and even allies.   

Russia recognized the United States on October 28, 1803, and diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia were formally established in 1809.  However, the original thirteen colonies had begun to engage in trade with Russia in 1763.  During the Revolutionary War, Russian empress Catherine the Great decided to remain neutral in the conflict, despite British pleas for assistance.  It is a recognized historical fact that Russian neutrality proved significant for the victory of the American rebels.

As the American Civil War unfolded, Tsar Alexander II pledged in a letter to President Abraham Lincoln that Russia supported the “maintenance of the American Union as one ‘indivisible nation.’”  In 1863, Russia dispatched two Navy squadrons to the ports of New York and San Francisco as a symbolic gesture of support.  In response, Lincoln told Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. to “please inform the Emperor of our gratitude and assure His Majesty that the whole nation appreciates this new manifestation of friendship.”  The two leaders would continue to correspond during the war, signing letters to each other “Your Good Friend.”

Diplomatic relations were interrupted following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, when the United States refused to recognize the government of Soviet Russia.  But 90 years ago, on November 16, 1933, U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt and people’s commissar of foreign affairs of the USSR Maxim Litvinov exchanged notes on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.  Soviet diplomat Alexander Troyanovsky was appointed the first ambassador of the USSR to the United States, and William Bullitt was appointed the American ambassador to the Soviet Union.

During WWII, the U.S. and USSR were allies in a major global conflict.  April 25, 1945 marks the day of a historic meeting between Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe River in the city of Torgau in Germany on the eve of their joint victory over Nazi Germany.

President Richard Nixon during his term in the White House sought a thaw in American-Soviet relations, known as détente.  Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev agreed with Nixon, which opened broad possibilities for the solution of pressing international issues.

President Ronald Reagan first met reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985.  Their next meeting, which would prove to be the most consequential, took place in the Icelandic capital Reykjavík in October 1986.

George H.W. Bush talked in 1990 about a “Europe whole and free” and a new “security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok,” while Boris Yeltsin, during his 1992 address to the joint chambers of Congress, exclaimed, “God bless America.”

On November 15, 2001, George W. Bush said the following: “It’s my honor also to introduce President Putin to Crawford.  I bet a lot of folks here, particularly the older folks, never dreamt that an American President would be bringing the Russian president to Crawford, Texas.  A lot of people never really dreamt that an American president and a Russian president could have established the friendship that we have.”

On April 25, 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin issued the following joint statement: “The ‘Spirit of the Elbe’ is an example of how our countries can put aside differences, build trust, and cooperate in pursuit of a greater cause.  As we work today to confront the most important challenges of the 21st century, we pay tribute to the valor and courage of all those who fought together to defeat fascism.  Their heroic feat will never be forgotten.”

Why Biden's 'Deterrence' Isn't Doing Much Deterring

posted by Spencer Brown at TownhallVIP 

In the weeks since October 7 when Hamas terrorists launched their bloody slaughter against Israel, other Iran-backed proxies have launched more than six dozen attacks on U.S. military personnel and contractors stationed in Iraq and Syria. Unsurprisingly, President Biden's strategy of simply telling the terrorists "don't" did not convince them to avoid launching attacks at American service members, nor has an increased presence of U.S. troops and vessels in the region or the half-hearted retaliation seen in the three U.S. strikes on Syrian storage facilities used by terrorists. 

Yep, in response to more than 70 attacks on U.S. troops by Iran-backed militia terrorists, the Biden administration has responded with three strikes targeting what are essentially warehouses with terrorist equipment and weapons, killing only a handful of terrorists.

In the attacks aimed at American service members, terrorists used a variety of weapons: kamikaze drones, rockets, gunfire, etc. As a result, more than 60 Americans have been wounded and one U.S. contractor has been killed — so far. Among the injuries reported among American troops are traumatic brain injuries, not just a scrape-on-the-elbow type of thing, but the Pentagon has said the injured have returned to duty.

Week after week, as President Biden scolded Iran and its terrorist proxies against escalating hostilities in the region, after two carrier strike groups were dispatched to the area, and in the wake of U.S. counterstrikes against terrorist facilities, the attacks continued. Even with the American aircraft carriers, an amphibious ready group, Army air defense units, a handful of Air Force fighter squadrons, and hundreds of support personnel at the terror proxies' front door, the terrorists kept up their attacks.

That is, any deterrence Biden said he was using did not in fact deter the terrorists from launching consecutive attacks on Americans in the Middle East. 

Putting an exclamation point on the continued and escalatory nature of the attacks, Iran's terror proxies launched at least four separate attacks at U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria on Thanksgiving Day.

Those barrages were followed up by the launch of two ballistic missiles by Houthi rebels toward the USS Mason in the Gulf of Aden on November 26 as U.S. forces came to the aid of an Israeli-linked tanker vessel fighting off a hijacking attempt by armed gunmen. 

Both missiles failed to reach any targets in the Gulf, but the fact that an Iran-backed proxy would fire toward an American vessel demonstrates the lack of deterrence felt by these terrorist groups. The reason why is clear, given Biden's weakness. 

In the words of President Ronald Reagan, "peace is not obtained by wishing or weakness," yet that's exactly what Biden and his administration are bringing to the world stage. The presence of carrier strike groups and American forces don't deter when Biden has not demonstrated strength nor a willingness to use those assets to meaningfully put down the assaults on American troops or the terrorists who carry them out. 

From the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan when the Biden administration handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban while calling the terrorists "professional" to failing to deter Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Biden has not shown himself to be decisive or strong. In a twist of ironic fate, Biden's "wishing" to pivot the U.S. focus from the Middle East to Asia and the Pacific directly contributed to the enrichment of Iran, the emboldenment of terrorists, and a reestablishment of Iranian proxies' ability to carry out attacks. 

To think that Biden can say "don't" and they'll listen while Biden simultaneously unfreezes billions of dollars for the regime in Tehran, thereby flooding Iran-backed terrorists with cash, is insanity. 

American deterrence without the backing of a significant and known threat of retaliation for any attack is just a word and a fateful wish, as Reagan explained. Our 40th and 45th presidents demonstrated what actual deterrence can and should look like when dealing with Iran. Reagan responded to the Iranian mining of an American vessel by sinking half of Iran's naval force. Trump shut down Tehran and its proxies by ordering a successful drone strike on IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani as he drove toward the Baghdad airport.

Both are cases of what real deterrence looks like, and both — despite detractors' claims — put down Iranian aggression. That's the kind of strength America needs to show if the enemies of freedom around the world are to know that they can't act with impunity. Unfortunately for Americans, U.S. troops, and our allies around the world, Biden doesn't look likely to order the kind of actions that will actually deter more attacks or invasions. 

Comer and Jordan Lay Out the Impeachment Plan, Use Democrats' Own Standard Against Them

Bonchie reporting for RedState 

Rep. James Comer and other members of the impeachment inquiry targeting President Joe Biden held a press conference on Wednesday detailing what to expect in the coming months. 

Controversy struck a day earlier when Hunter Biden's lawyer insisted that the president's son would only show up for a public hearing and not a closed-door deposition. Comer quickly let it be known that he would not abide by such games. That was reiterated during the presser along with details about who exactly the committee wants to speak to as it builds its case. 

Comer also made it clear that he'll be using the standards set by Democrats during their impeachment pursuit of Donald Trump.

House Republicans obviously do not want this inquiry to turn into a circus, and allowing Hunter Biden to skip right to a public hearing would do just that. His lawyers would no doubt work with Democrats asking questions to ensure made-for-television moments that a reliant press could then clip and parrot on the broadcasts. It would be Hillary's "yas queen" moment after her Benghazi testimony all over again. 

The right track and the one Comer is following is to use closed-door depositions to gather all needed information before doing anything in front of cameras. Not only does that stop one of the ways Democrats want to try to shut the whole thing down, but it allows Republicans to grill Hunter Biden based on what was garnered from his previous testimony. That could lead to catching the president's son committing perjury, though I'd suspect his lawyer will just have him not answer as much as possible. 

Rep. Jim Jordan also took the podium to reiterate that the process will be followed, with a public hearing for Hunter Biden coming later just as Democrats did regarding Trump's impeachment inquiry. 

I'm glad to see Republicans being very methodical in this situation. As I've pointed out in the past, the impeachment inquiry is the point. Biden is not going to be convicted in the U.S. Senate because Democrats will never, no matter what is uncovered, vote that way. That means that getting all the information out into the open before the election is the big win here. 

Drag this thing out. Make it uncomfortable, not as an abuse of power, but as an exposition of what actually happened. Expose the Biden family and all its corruption. Voters will then ultimately have to decide what the punishment will be. 

Jew-Haters Loathe All Of Western Civilization, Not Just Israel

Large swaths of the left now traffic in Jew-hatred because the left’s fundamental impulse is civilizational patricide.

Nathanael Blake reporting for The Federalist

Jew-hatred in the West used to arise from viewing Jews as outsiders, aliens within Western civilization, “rootless cosmopolitans” as the old slander put it. Now, Jews are hated because they are identified with Western civilization.

As my Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague Devorah Goldman recently observed, “Jews are treated on the left as patriarchal oppressors, virtually indistinguishable from whites/Christians/Westerners.” And so large swaths of the left now traffic in Jew-hatred because the left’s fundamental impulse is civilizational patricide — rage against their own culture and a longing to destroy it. 

This hatred for the West and those identified with it explains why leftists are not bothered by the inconsistencies of their support for radical Islamists. It might seem odd that there are so many self-proclaimed feminists and queers cheering for Hamas, especially because one need not like Israel, or even Jews in general, to recognize that Hamas is a genocidal death cult that should be destroyed. But the left’s ideological imperatives push them to side against whomever they perceive as more white, Western, and Christian, which in this case are the Jews and Israel.

This is why many on the left have been indifferent (at best) or gleeful (at worst) regarding the atrocities committed by Hamas. For the left, only oppressed identities are deserving of sympathy. And in this view, Jews no longer count as oppressed but are instead viewed as oppressors — and therefore legitimate targets. Settler-colonists, as leftist argot labels them, have no moral standing to complain about how the colonized respond to them.

This is morally deranged and historically illiterate, which is to be expected when academia’s intellectual offal is processed through TikTok. Nonetheless, the left’s Jew-hatred has a certain perverse rationality to it. After all, Jews are intertwined with the history of the West and are natural enemies of hateful fanatics who want to destroy Western Civilization. It is not just that Christianity was self-consciously derived from the Hebrew faith (though that alone would be enough), or that Jews have punched far above their demographic weight in contributions to culture, science, and art. It is that Jewishness is a rebuke to leftism itself.

Contrary to the old imprecations, Jews aren’t rootless, for they are rooted so long as they remain Jewish. And this rootedness, this ancient identity that has endured through persecution and exile for thousands of years, is precisely what the left hates most about them. Jewishness will still be here when woke leftism is a comic footnote in intellectual history.

Though there are plenty of politically liberal Jews, including in Israel, and though there have been many Jews who became leftist radicals, Jewish identity remains a threat to leftism. Jewishness provides a living tradition and identity that is deeper than the latest intellectual trends or emotional whims. Jewishness, even when attenuated and irregularly observed, is still a redoubt against leftism’s determination to have no other gods before it. 

At heart, leftism is a perversion of religion. Faced with the evil and brokenness of the world, leftism responds not by turning toward God, nor by first seeking to tame the evil of one’s own heart, but by seeking power. Call it critical theory, anticolonialism, or just old-fashioned Marxism — the promise of leftism is that power, properly redistributed from the oppressors and to the oppressed, can be used to remake the world. And so they constantly seek to seize power, flattering themselves that they will use it wisely, for the good of the people.

Of course, this seizure of power is necessarily tied to the destruction of the old (unjust) order. The past is seen as little more than a catalog of injustice and the status quo as the perpetration of injustice. Hence the constant calls to smash the system, burn it all down, stage a revolution, and so on. If people get hurt, well, they probably had it coming, and if not, well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs. 

Of course, now the question is not merely, “Where’s the omelet?” but whether anyone even believes there will be an omelet. Today’s left still wants to destroy, but without any apparent faith in a glorious future, they take power to hollow out institutions and secure patronage, not to build anything just or worthy or beautiful. Those chanting “from the river to the sea” know that the fulfillment of their slogan would not be a prosperous, multiethnic secular democracy, but genocide and an Islamist hellhole.

Yet they carry on — hopeless, but full of resentment and a desire to hurt others. Hatred gives them meaning, so they have eagerly embraced Jew-hatred as the latest iteration of their rage against all of Western Civilization. 

The Government Is Still Monitoring Your Phone Calls

posted by Jeff Charles at RedStateVIP

Another troubling government surveillance program has been exposed. The program involves the state working with a major cell phone service provider to gather information on Americans’ phone conversations and raises concerns about government agencies using the data to violate people’s Fourth Amendment rights.

The Data Analytical Services (DAS) program, a clandestine government surveillance initiative has been in operation for more than a decade. Through this initiative, the state has been tracking an astonishing volume of over one trillion domestic phone records each year.

Even more disturbing is that the program encompasses ordinary, law-abiding citizens across the country, which should raise concerns about privacy and civil liberties. The details of the program were revealed by WIRED.

A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality.

According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.

The DAS program, formerly known as Hemisphere, is run in coordination with the telecom giant AT&T, which captures and conducts analysis of US call records for law enforcement agencies, from local police and sheriffs’ departments to US customs offices and postal inspectors across the country, according to a White House memo reviewed by WIRED. Records show that the White House has provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure—a maze of routers and switches that crisscross the United States.

Details about the program came to light when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to the Justice Department questioning its constitutionality.

In several cases, police officers were able to gather an astounding amount of information on suspects and their families through the program.

In one instance, an officer with the Oakland Police Department asked for a “Hemisphere analysis” to identify the phone number of a suspect by analyzing the calls of the suspect’s close friends. In another, a San Jose law enforcement officer asked the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center to identify a victim and material witness in an unspecified case. One officer, soliciting information from AT&T under the program, wrote: “We obtained six months of call data for [suspect]'s phone, as well as several close associations (his girlfriend, father, sister, mother).” The records do not indicate how AT&T responds to every request.

The fact that this program has been operating in the absence of judicial oversight and public accountability adds another alarming layer to this issue. It appears to be highly problematic from a Fourth Amendment perspective and flouts the reforms of the USA Freedom Act of 2015, which required the National Security Agency to stop the bulk collection of phone records and mandated that the agency obtain this data from phone companies with a court order on a case-by-case basis. DAS allows the state to subvert this law by enabling AT&T to collect and store these records for law enforcement purposes.

The program has received funding off and on through various administrations, starting with Obama’s.

The DAS program is funded by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) under a program called HIDTA, or "high-intensity drug trafficking area." HIDTA is a designation assigned to 33 different regions of the U.S. where drug trafficking is considered to be a serious problem.

Former President Barack Obama reportedly suspended the funding for the program in 2013 after The New York Times exposed it for the first time. However, individual law enforcement agencies were allowed to continue contracting with AT&T directly to use the service.

Former President Donald Trump resumed the funding for the program in 2017 but halted it again in 2021. President Biden resumed the funding for the program in 2021 but has not commented on it publicly.

The program’s extensive use of phone records without specific suspicion of criminal activity contravenes the protections provided by the Fourth Amendment. DAS casts a wide net over the general public and functions as a workaround method to avoid having to observe probable cause or obtain warrants. The initiative presents a serious threat to liberty, especially since it functions largely unchecked by the government. The pressing question is: Will Congress actually do something about it?

Subpoenaing Friends Of SCOTUS Justices Will Immediately Backfire On Senate Democrats

Senate Democrats have fabricated pretexts to harass justices 

and their friends as revenge for their jurisprudence.

Mark Paoleta reporting for The Federalist

Subpoenaing friends of public officials we don’t like — how crazy is that? But this is where we are, as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Thursday to consider voting on subpoenas to two individuals whose crimes are simply being friends with Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito. This is not only unconstitutional, it would set an insane precedent.

Mark my words, this despicable act will come back to haunt the Democrats — and this time their friends, just as their prior decisions to erode Senate norms, rules, and precedents have before.

Sen. Dick Durbin, with a big shove from corrupt conspiracy theorist and racist Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, will try to issue subpoenas to Harlan Crow for 25 years of information about vacations with his longtime friend, Justice Clarence Thomas. Yes, that’s correct. Tell us where you went, with whom you traveled, and for how long. They are attempting to subpoena a private citizen who has never worked for the government about his personal friendships and travels. They also are seeking to issue a subpoena to Leonard Leo for the same information related to Justice Alito. This is straight out of the Gestapo playbook.

Why on Earth would they demand this information from a private citizen? Durbin and Whitehouse claim they are considering legislation to enact an ethics code to govern the justices’ conduct. But this is dishonest — a fabricated pretext to harass justices and their friends as revenge for their jurisprudence.

First, Congress has no authority to enact an ethics code on the Supreme Court because the court is established in the Constitution and its judicial duties cannot be dictated by a separate branch. Schoolchildren are taught about the separation of powers doctrine, but the concept apparently eludes Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Because Congress’s oversight powers can only be used in furtherance of a valid legislative purpose, and there is none here, these subpoenas would be fatally defective. It’s also worthwhile to note that even if their stated purpose were constitutional, it’s easy enough to invent a legislative purpose as a pretext to use the powers of Congress to enact political revenge — a dangerous precedent if ever allowed to be set. This is why the norm in the Senate has been to approach issuing subpoenas with caution and bipartisan deliberation.

Moreover, the Senate has acted in bad faith in this inquiry. Durbin sent a letter to Crow on May 8, 2023, seeking information. While Crow’s lawyer set forth why the Senate had no right to request this information, he offered, in an effort to accommodate this request, five years’ worth of data on June 12, one month before the Senate Judiciary Committee held a markup to consider the Supreme Court “ethics” bill.

But Durbin and Whitehouse did not respond until Oct. 5, nearly four months later, long after the committee marked up the relevant legislation on July 20. Taking this long to simply respond, and passing the legislation that is supposedly the “legislative purpose” behind the subpoenas, further shows how inept and bad faith these Democrat senators are. Why would they even need the information if they’ve already passed the bill?

Their conduct makes clear that this whole investigation is about punishing Thomas and Alito’s friends because the senators hate these justices for their jurisprudence. Not negotiating in the subpoena process, which is standard practice, also wouldn’t fly with any right-minded judge were the subpoenas ever to be litigated. Short of any impeachment proceeding, the committee has no power to compel any information from these justices, so they are targeting these private citizens for no other reason than that they are friends with these justices. How despicable.

In fact, the Supreme Court did adopt a Code of Ethics on Nov. 13, 2023. Durbin had previously announced that if the court adopted a code, he would end his inquiry. The code was good enough for go-to left-wing judicial expert Professor Stephen Gillers, who pronounced that the code was a “commendable piece of work.” But Durbin broke his word and is apparently continuing to go forward with this unconstitutional probe.

The Senate Republicans on the committee have stepped up to meet this assault and have offered up 150 subpoenas to friends of the liberal justices and other subject matters of interest.

There’s a subpoena for Neil Katyal for any records regarding his interactions with then-Solicitor General Elana Kagan regarding the defense of the Obamacare law. Many have argued that she should have recused from this case as a justice, and these records may shed some more light on this potential scandal. The Republicans also want to compel him to testify under oath on this matter.

Committee Republicans are also seeking a subpoena for Democrat billionaire David Rubenstein for records relating to lending his private plane to Justice Breyer, and hopefully broadened to cover any other public official. It should also cover all records related to the many times he allowed Joe Biden to use his $39 million mansion on Nantucket for free. Did he get anything for these gifts? Why didn’t Joe Biden disclose them? 

How about a subpoena for the Democrat billionaire Pritzker family and its foundations, which flew Justice Breyer around the world on 17 all-expense trips — have they provided similar or other hospitality to any other public official? They are an Illinois-based empire, so it may be worth probing any gifts to Durbin.

Finally, I would suggest a subpoena to the reportedly all-white beach club, Bailey’s Beach Club, of which Whitehouse and his wife have been longtime members. There are claims that, in response to criticism of his being a member of this club, Whitehouse transferred his shares to his wife, making her among the largest shareholders in the club, which was founded in the 1890s and has had the Vanderbilt and Astor families as members.

Whitehouse likes to assert the Senate has higher ethics standards than the Supreme Court, but the court’s ethics code, as well as the one for lower courts, counsels judges against being a member of a racially discriminatory club. Whitehouse violates this provision.

Whitehouse claims that he and his wife have tried to make improvements to the club regarding diversity. He is also a member of a sailing club that he says is not diverse. The Republicans should offer a subpoena for all records to both clubs relating to Whitehouse and his wife’s efforts to change these racially discriminatory practices.

It is astonishing that a wealthy, white senator who has been a member of an all-white club would be terrorizing a black justice who was born into abject poverty under segregation in a Democrat-governed state. Justice Thomas triggers Whitehouse because he is a black conservative who has never bowed to the left’s racist demand that he think a certain way because of the color of his skin. 

Transgender Woman Indicted for School Shooting Threats: Media Silent

posted by Jeff Charles at RedStateVIP 

The Justice Department has indicted a transgender woman for allegedly making threats to carry out a school shooting, among other violent acts. The indictment comes after the individual made a series of videos in which he issued the threats, which also included sexual violence against children.

Despite the potential threat the individual faced, the story has been largely ignored by the press, which likely would have been different had the offender been more politically convenient.

The Southern District of Illinois United States Attorney’s Office explained the details in a press release.

Alexia N. Willie, also known as Jason L. Willie, 47, of Nashville, Illinois, is facing 14 felony counts of interstate communication of a threat to injure. The crime is punishable by up to 5 years’ imprisonment per count.

According to court documents, Willie allegedly made threatening statements while on video in online chatrooms with victims across the country. The indictment highlights 14 alleged instances in which the defendant threatened to walk into schools or public restrooms to shoot or sexually abuse children.

Willie was arrested on August 14 in Perry County, Illinois, after the FBI intercepted a live stream on social media that alerted them to the potential threat. The suspect was on video making a number of disturbing threats and indicated that there were plans to commit a school shooting.

According to the indictment, Willie said:

“We’re out here walking into your school, shooting your children, and I’m gonna tell you right now, I’m gonna be one of them and the FBI isn’t gonna stop me, but I’m gonna kill your children out here.”

The indictment also alleges that Willie made threats through a video call to a black man and woman residing in Virginia, in which he also used racial slurs.

“We’re going to war. We’re going to kill you. N*gger, you can shut the f*ck up. Because I guarantee you, you and your n*ggers ain’t gonna do sh*t, and can’t do sh*t. You don’t have the strength to take us on, I guarantee it. You gonna die, you understand that?”

He also made threats to other individuals through video calls. In one instance, he said, “We’re f*cking your children and killing them” and that they are “f*cking them and hurting them and killing them and you f*ggots can’t do nothing about us.”

In yet another communication, Willie allegedly told the other person that he will “be in the bathroom raping your Christian daughters, and there ain’t nothing you f*ggots can do about it.”

I’ll spare you the other details because Willie gets far more graphic in his descriptions of what he wanted to do to minor girls, but he did say he is “openly a pedophile.”

Willie is originally from Illinois and was previously known as Jason Lee Willie before he “transitioned” to the opposite gender. It also appears he was on the FBI’s radar going back at least five years.

Not much is known about Willie who is from Nashville, Illinois and was formerly known as Jason Lee Willie, aside from a history of making threats against several different groups. According to the proffer of evidence, the FBI has received numerous reports regarding Willie's threats and erratic behavior online.

In 2018 the FBI received reports of a threat made by Willie on Facebook, in which she claimed to have killed a preacher that had molested her and hundreds of other children. The FBI previously spoke to Willie about a separate threat made on streaming platform Twitch, in which she threatened to bomb people who discriminate against transgender rights.

A person who lived with Willie said, according to the proffer of evidence, that she has "a lot of anger" and said he was trying to get "mental health assistance" for his house mate.

Despite the extreme and disturbing nature of this story, especially when it comes to Willie’s alleged threats, major news outlets have not bothered to report on it. The notion that the press would not deem a potential school shooting carried out by someone openly declaring they wish to molest kids as important shows just how corrupt our once-vaunted Fourth Estate has become.

Of course, we don’t need to ask how this might have turned out differently if Willie happened to be a straight white male with white supremacist beliefs, do we? The story would have received wall-to-wall coverage from the likes of CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times,The Washington Post, and other establishment media outlets. But since this individual happened to be transgender, it doesn’t quite strike their fancy.

The disgusting reality this story shows is that the press only cares about this type of evil when it is politically expedient. It further shows that journalists are not concerned with informing the public; they are bent on influencing it, which is why trust in the media has been in the toilet over the past decade.