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Jeffrey Epstein “Suicide Video” Disappears

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The elite don’t even care anymore. They are flaunting their power:

  • “Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his suicide attempt has gone missing, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.”
  • “Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Swergold admitted nobody can find the footage of the outside of the cell the multimillionaire perv shared with accused quadruple murderer Nick Tartaglione during a hearing in White Plains District Court. Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor cop, faces the death penalty for the alleged murders in a drug deal gone bad.”
Is there any evidence that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself?
Read next, “Why wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein charged under the Mann Act?“

Merry Impeachmas from the Washington Post

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The Washington Post team had a message for the country tonight after the historic House vote to impeach President Trump.

Merry Impeachmas from the WaPo team!

Rachael Bade, Paul Kane, Seung Min Kim, and Mike Debonis

One reporter said what many reporters were no doubt thinking: “What the hell were you thinking when you tweeted this? Some of us still care about ethics and unbiased reporting, and this garbage makes it harder for all of us by reinforcing a stereotype. Come on guys.”

Rachael Bade deleted the post after it went viral, writing, “I’m deleting a tweeting tonight that is being misinterpreted by some as an endorsement of some kind. To be absolutely clear, we at the Post are merely glad we are getting a break for the holidays after a long 3 months. I will retweet the group photo w/ a better caption !”

 

 

FISA Court Calls out Comey’s Fraud

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Today the highly secretive FISA court published an order whipping James Comey for the fraud he perpetuated on the American people.

The FISA Court order begins::

  • This order responds to reports that personnel of the FederalBureau of Investigation(FBI) provided false information to the National Security Division(NSD ) of the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI’ s case, in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U. S. citizen named Carter W . Page. When FBI personnel misleadNSD in the ways described above, they equally mislead the FISC.

Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey lied to the American people by falsely claiming the FBI strictly followed the law when obtaining a FISA warrant on Carter Page.

The FISA Court order also shows that the media committed fraud on the public for years by claiming the FISA process was following:

  • The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above. The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable. The FISC expects the government to provide complete and accurate information in every filing with the Court. Without it , the FISC cannot properly ensure that the government conducts electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes only when there is a sufficient factual basis

The FISA Court has ordered the FBI to file a report under oath.

Which won’t matter, because the FBI will lie yet again, and the FISA Court will continue as usual.

The media and intelligence community hoaxed the nation for years.

We must never trust anyone from the FBI (do they even stop terrorist attacks, or are they too busy spying on American citizens).

https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1207071119108427778

The media also deserves utter contempt for supporting these unlawful practices by the FBI and others within the Department of Justice.

Mike Cernovich is a journalist, author, and filmmaker.

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Media Falsely Accuses Army and Navy Cadets of Throwing a White Power Sign

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“Students appeared to make the White Power hand symbol during a pregame broadcast of the Army-Navy game,” is the headline USA Today’s Mike Brehm led with after a picture surfaced of multiple Army and Navy cadets using the OK sign.

In response to these accusations, West Point and Annapolis have opened investigations into the cadets.

https://twitter.com/bkesling/status/1206024950085279746

Several other outlets and verified journalists repeated the smear without ever asking the cadets for comment.

The media has learned nothing from Covingtongate and their smears of innocent high school students.

Trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter had a warning for these media smear artists.

Many Twitter uses mocked the media by showing that the OK sign is widely used by leftists and people of color, including Congresswoman AOC and President Barack Obama.

https://twitter.com/DLW_FLHTC/status/1206026456129769474

The media isn’t going to stop.

They want to destroy the lives of innocent people.

They hate our military.

They want to see America fail.

Today’s false accusation isn’t a new media low, because this assumes there’s a bottom to all of this.

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Big Win – Covington Boys Lawsuit Against CNN Moves Forward

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Nicholas Sandmann’s lawsuit against CNN will proceed to discovery, a federal judge has ruled. This will be a devastating blow to CNN, which will now have all of its emails examined by lawyers for a severely wronged client.

Sandmann was one of the the high school student falsely accused of a racially-motivated attack against Nathan Phillips in Washington, D.C. Phillips was called a “Vietnam veteran” by the media, when in fact Philips was stolen valor. He never served in the Vietnam War and he was discharged from the military under circumstances suggesting a poor service record.

Sandmann sued CNN for lying about him.

Sandmann had been confronted earlier by a group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites – the group responsible for the deadly terrorist attack at a New Jersey Deli.

CNN wasn’t the only outlet to attack Sandmann. The National Review’s Rich Lowry and Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro joined the hate mob against Sandmann – although they at least sort-of apologized after realizing they had been hoaxed by the left wing media. (Why do those guys trust the media would be a good question for conservatives to ask them.)

Although the judge’s ruling was short, the court’s rationale was explained in the orders allowing Sandmann’s lawsuit to go forward against the Washington Post.

You can read my reporting on Sandmann v. Washington Post below, as the judge’s rationale and other policy considerations apply to the lawsuit against CNN….and if you enjoy this article, you can donate to our journalism here.

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The lawsuit by Nick Sandmann against the Washington Post for its dishonest coverage falsely accusing a 16 year old boy of harassing a Vietnam veteran Nathan Philips (discovered to be “stolen valor”) will go forward, a judge had rules. This is a huge deal because it shows the trend of defamation law is moving in favor of those wrongfully accused by the media.

The gist of the story vs. the specific assertions.

In defamation law, courts usually look to the overall “gist” or “feel” of a story to determine whether it is defamatory. In lawyer terms, this is known as the substantial-truth doctrine. This is a high hurdle for most plaintiffs to jump.

Also complicating lawsuits by victims of the press is that opinions are protected speech under the First Amendment. You can only sue for false statements of fact. The fact-opinion distinction is confusing even to lawyers, and it’s also a bit disingenuous for newspapers to claim that they can’t be sued for their news articles because the reporters were only sharing opinions.

The gist of the Washington Post’s coverage was awful. The gist was that a 16Donate year old boy attacked a poor helpless Vietnam Veteran. Zero fact-checking was done. And it was later revealed that Nathan Phillips was stolen valor. He never served in the Vietnam war despite claiming he had:

Here’s the full quote, taken from a video of Phillips posted to the Native Youth Alliance Facebook page (9:45 mark): “I’m a Vietnam vet, you know,” Phillips said. “I served in the Marine Corps from ’72 to ’76. I got discharged May 5, 1976. I got honorable discharge and one of the boxes in there shows if you were peacetime or… what my box says that I was in theater. I don’t talk much about my Vietnam times. I usually say ‘I don’t recollect. I don’t recall,’ you know, those years.”

Phillips also ran up to the children to harass and taunt them. Phillips was clearly in the wrong, but the media held him out as a war hero in their effort to ruin the lives of innocent boys.

To this day, Snopes falsely claiming Phillips did not hold himself out as a Vietnam veteran, despite there being video evidence of Phillips himself claiming to have served in Vietnam.

Looking past the “gist” of the story to the assertions WaPo made about Sandmann.

In the Court’s ruling, the judge looks beyond the gist of the story, and instead examines all 33 statements made by the Washington Post:

The Court first notes that the statements alleged by plaintiff to be defamatory have not changed in the proposed First Amended Complaint. They are the same 33 statements alleged in the original Complaint and set forth in the chart attached to the Court’s July 26, 2019 Opinion and Order (Doc. 47).

The Court will adhere to its previous rulings as they pertain to these statements except Statements 10, 11, and 33, to the extent that these three statements state that plaintiff “blocked” Nathan Phillips and “would not allow him to retreat.” Suffice to say that the Court has given this matter careful review and concludes that “justice requires” that discovery be had regarding these statements and their context. The Court will then consider them anew on summary judgment.

The Covingtongate ruling is a devastating loss for the Washington Post.

It’s hard to overstate how devastating this ruling is for the Washington Post.

Their coverage was indefensible. Why was an old man (stolen valor) going up to a group of teenagers newsworthy in the first place? What was the news value in what was a petty dispute at best?

We all of course know the answer.

Nick Sandmann was wearing a Make America Great Again hat, and he had to be destroyed.

The Washington Post and other outlets are struggling with what to do with their new social justice activists.

No 40 year old who had reported from war zones would have found the Nicholas Sandmann story worthy of coverage. But as people age out of reporting roles, new reporters must be hired. Legacy newsrooms are being loaded up with 20-somethings who grew up on Gawker.

The Gawker model is destroy destroy destroy – at least if the people you’re targeting is perceived as conservative.

As legal bills mount for the Washington Post, perhaps they’ll begin training new reporters in the proper role of journalists.

Mike Cernovich stood up for the Covington boys while conservatives attacked them.

When videos of Nick Sandmann hit, Ben Shapiro and David French attacked the poor boys. They undid their Retweets after Cernovich was able to get the truth of the story out.

But it’s good to know who stands up for the persecuted when it matters. When it’s hard.

For its part, WaPo accused me of “pouncing” on them:

A viral story spread. The mainstream media rushed to keep up. The Trump Internet pounced.

That outrage came from a parallel universe online, one that has been waiting for a moment like this. The pro-Trump Internet has, for years, worked to create a media environment that is designed to destroy the traditional news media and replace it. Mike Cernovich, a popular figure in this world, helped to promote the Pizzagate conspiracy theory in 2016. Pizzagate falsely accused a D.C. pizza shop of housing a secret pedophile ring, and ultimately inspired a believer to show up at the shop with an assault rifle.

WaPo itself lies about me. My reporting on pedophiles focused on Jeffrey Epstein, not a pizza parlor, and we’ve all seen my Epstein stories vindicated.

But if the WaPo wants to throw barbs about the dangers of fake news, maybe they can explain whey they lied about a 16 year old boy? What were they trying to inspire?