The Trump legal team has filed several responses to U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, urging her to dismiss the Justice Department’s (DOJ) prosecution of former President Donald Trump. They argue that the Biden administration targeted Trump selectively and vindictively while abusing its statutory authority and violating multiple constitutional protections. The filings are the most recent in a long line of pre-trial submissions advanced by Trump’s legal team to dismiss the lawsuit.

The filings focus on constitutional provisions relating to double jeopardy, free speech, and due process, as well as purported evidence of selective prosecution directed by President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee and President Trump’s main rival for the White House in 2024. The DOJ defended its indictment, claiming that President Trump’s legal team misunderstood their charge, which targeted allegedly false and misleading speech not protected by the First Amendment.

In a startling discovery, Walmart is now under scrutiny for allegedly misrepresenting the weight of the meat it sells. Concerns have been raised about the possibility of customers being charged for more than the actual weight of the products they purchase.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) is fed up with the lack of response by the Biden administration against Iran after their continued attacks against American troops and military equipment, calling on Sunday for a "massive retaliation" that will bring it to an end. Cotton has labeled the Biden admin as "fearful" due to their continued lack of action over the growing issue. 

The Arkansas senator calls out Biden and his incompetence by giving numerous examples on Fox News, such as putting pressure on Israel behind the scenes to assist those in Gaza with resources that could be used against the Israeli government while putting no pressure on Hamas to release American hostages. Even other Democrats have called out Biden's weak responses, with Representative Dean Phillips (D-MN) questioning why no special forces have been used to retrieve Americans held hostage. 

The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling in favor of keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s ballot next year.

The state high court’s decision comes after Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled earlier this month that Trump was guilty of engaging in an insurrection but found that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which forbids anyone who engaged in such activity from running for office, does not specifically name the presidency.

“Part of the Court’s decision is its reluctance to embrace an interpretation which would disqualify a presidential candidate without a clear, unmistakable indication that such is the intent of Section Three,” the judge wrote.

Mediator Qatar said on Monday a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza had been extended by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian enclave.

"An agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian pause for an additional two days in the Gaza Strip," a Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson said in a post on social media platform X.

There was no immediate comment from Israel, but a White House official confirmed agreement had been reached.

The release of 11 Israeli hostages and 33 Palestinians under the original ceasefire agreement, which had been due to end on Monday night, was expected soon.

In a notable shift, Gallup reports that 61% of adults currently have investments in the equity market, marking the highest level since the financial crisis in 2008. This surge in investor participation has raised concerns about the overall vulnerability of the market.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) held a hearing on COVID-19 vaccine injuries earlier this month, where she vowed to expose “the TRUTH behind the COVID-19 vaccines.”

Greene was joined by Reps Clay Higgins (R-LA), Barry Moore (R-AL), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Greg Steube (R-FL) to hear expert testimony from Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Kimberly Biss, and Thomas Renz in the Rayburn House Office Building.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on injuries and sudden deaths that were likely caused by the COVID-19 vaccines and the Biden Regime’s deadly mandates. You can easily find countless stories of these tragedies by searching “dies suddenly” in the search bar on our website.

You can watch the full hearing here.

The United Nations chief hailed Monday's two-day extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza as a "glimpse of hope."

"It's a glimpse of hope and humanity in the middle of the darkness of war and I strongly hope that these will enable us to increase even more the humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza that is suffering so much," Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. Without more time, "it will be impossible to satisfy all the dramatic needs of the population in Gaza."

Major American banks are persisting with their initiatives to close branches across the country, leading to an increasing number of Americans being left without essential financial services.

The sixth-largest bank in the United States, PNC, has officially announced the shutdown of an additional 19 branches across the country, adding to the already significant closure of 203 branches earlier this year.

Amidst the market's dramatic recovery, a disconcerting dissonance has emerged between bankruptcy filings and credit spreads, signaling potential challenges on the horizon. According to Apollo Sløk, a notable economist, regional bank spreads have recently widened, hinting at a disconnect that demands closer scrutiny.

A U.S. warship stopped an attempt to seize a commercial tanker off the coast of Yemen, in the latest incident showing heightened tensions in Middle Eastern waters since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Zodiac Maritime, which manages the 20,000 metric-ton vessel Central Park, which contained a cargo of phosphoric acid, said the suspected piracy incident in international waters happened about 54 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden.

Webmaster addition: So it was hot Houthis who tried to hijack the ship but Somali Pirates!

In a surprising turn of events, Irish authorities have launched an investigation into renowned mixed martial artist Conor McGregor for alleged 'online hate speech.' The controversy stems from McGregor expressing his discontent over a tragic incident involving children stabbed by a Muslim immigrant. While the investigation unfolds, this development has sparked a broader conversation about the balance between free speech and government intervention.

Blue state residents, whose governments have adopted aggressive climate policies, are paying much more for electricity and fuel than their counterparts who live in red states that lack such policies, according to a new report from America's largest membership organization of state legislators.

The report from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), provides a breakdown of energy prices throughout the United States while demonstrating the relationship between big government policies and high energy costs.

"While some states rely on free market principles and innovation to limit manmade emissions into the atmosphere, others use a more heavy-handed approach by implementing of standards, enacting mandates and pricing schemes that benefit specific types of technologies," the report reads.

"Whether it is mandates, subsidies, or some combination of both, when the government inserts itself into the energy markets, taxpayers wind up footing the bill."

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told Newsmax on Friday that the American people "aren't buying" the rosy outlook President Joe Biden is trying to highlight.

"If you look at Biden's [poll] numbers, you know the people aren't buying what he's selling," Huckabee said on "Greg Kelly Reports." "He's got the lowest approval numbers [36%] of a president, probably ever, especially for an incumbent heading into an election year.

"And the fact is, he doesn't deserve those numbers of less than 40%. People recognize that the country is not on the right track. Over 70% of the country says we're on the wrong track."

Newsguard claims to be a non-partisan fact-checking organization.
But a quick glance at its operations and related social media accounts shows the group is an unhinged group of committed Trump-haters.

Newsguard is a media “fact-checking” company that was started in 2018.  They claim to rate websites for reliability.  Basically, they’re in the business of deciding who is fake news and who is not.  And they HATE pro-Trump publishers and citizen journalists.  They also hate the truth. The company is supported by Trump-haters, elites and media giants – AND earlier this year we discovered the US government was also financially supporting this far-left blacklisting group.

There is ample proof the activists behind Newsguard are unhinged leftists and anti-Trumpers.

Our friends at the conservative website 100percentfedup previously shared information with The Gateway Pundit that exposes the Newsguard liberal activists.

Is it time to declare the Disney brand dead?  Only a couple weeks ago the entertainment giant suffered one of its worst box office showings ever with the failure of The Marvels, a feminist driven girl-boss movie which was widely applauded by social justice advocates but ignored by the vast majority of the public.  The film is expected to lose $200 million to $300 million once receipts are totaled and marketing costs are accounted for.

In a bizarre attempt at maximum cope, the media is hailing The Marvels as the largest ever theatrical opening by a black female director.  When, in fact, the movie is actually the largest box office bomb made by a black female director.

Now, Disney's animated 'The Wish' is set to top that failure, falling well below box office predictions and bringing in only $32 million over a five day period including the once lucrative Thanksgiving weekend. 

Numerous reports suggest that Wish is opening to empty theaters across the country.  Media spin doctors have attempted to jump ahead of “get woke, go broke” accusations with articles claiming that the movie is not woke, but more “Libertarian” in its messaging.  This is, for the most part, a dishonest deflection.  The film's producers openly admitted their woke methodology in a number of interviews including their desire to inject Diversity and Inclusion messaging.

While the woke intent is more obscure than previous films, Wish features yet another precocious ethnic teen female (named Asha) banding together with her diverse cast of friends to fight a revolution against the white male patriarchy. 

In what some are viewing as yet another blow to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s power and influence in the chamber, a close ally of hers and fellow California Democrat has announced she will be retiring after her current term expires in January 2025.

Rep. Anna Eshoo, whose district included Silicon Valley, at 80, is calling it quits after spending the better part of the past three decades in Washington, D.C.

“As the first woman and the first Democrat to ever represent our district, I’m very proud of the body of bipartisan work I’ve been able to achieve on your behalf in Congress,” Eshoo said in a video she posted to social media. “As my last year in Congress approaches, I will continue my work with vigor and unswerving commitment to you.”

In a post on the X platform, Eshoo also touted a breakfast she had with Pelosi for members of Congress at a California event, as her exit — and Pelosi’s, at some point in the near future, most likely — represents another step toward irrelevancy within the Democratic Party as a newer, more left-wing faction, takes over.

Donald Trump's company no longer prepares the sweeping financial statements that New York state contends were full of deceptive numbers for years, an executive testified Monday at the former president's civil fraud trial.

Trump's 2014 to 2021 “statements of financial condition” are at the heart of state Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against him and his company and some of its key figures. The defendants deny wrongdoing, but James says they misled lenders and insurers by giving them financial statements that greatly inflated the value of Trump's assets and overall net worth.

Nowadays, the Trump Organization continues to prepare various audits and other financial reports specific to some of its components, but “there is no roll-up financial statement of the company," said Mark Hawthorn, the chief operating officer of the Trump Organization’s hotel arm.

He wasn't asked why the comprehensive reports were no longer prepared, but said they are “not required by any lender, currently, or any constituency.”

Many voters are questioning the integrity of electronic voting machines after an obscure race for parish sheriff in northwest Louisiana led to a seemingly improbable result. The Democratic candidate, Henry Whitehorn (D), received 21,621 votes and the Republican candidate, John Nickleson (R), got 21,620. John Nickelson, the Republican candidate, announced on social media that he has requested a recount. The Associated Press reported on the race, highlighting Louisiana’s outdated voting machines and their lack of an auditable paper trail, which experts say is critical to ensuring election results are accurate.

During the recount on Monday, only absentee ballots will be counted again and checked for irregularities. Absentee ballots are mailed in and are the only paper trail available under Louisiana’s current voting system. In the case of paperless in-person voting, a recount would be equivalent to pushing the refresh button. David Becker, a former attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division who works with election officials through the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research, claimed that a recount of a paperless vote is essentially the equivalent of hitting the button again.

In November, the financial tremors from the crisis that began in March continued to reverberate as the total outstanding loans in the Federal Reserve's bank bailout program experienced a noteworthy surge, escalating by just over $5 billion.

Analysis of CO2 residence times [atmospheric lifespan] suggests that 65% to 96.5% of the CO2 concentration increase since 1958 is natural.

According to a new study, the claim that increases in atmospheric CO2 are driven exclusively by humans relies on a made-up, disparate accounting model, with the residence time for natural emissions three to four years (which is consistent with actual observations), but CO2 from human sources is claimed to have a residence time of 50 to over 100 years.

We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA), a leading election integrity group in Arizona, has been looking into ballots that were not counted in Arizona’s 2022 election. Co-founder Shelby Busch issued a video last week revealing that the group found hundreds of instances involving people who said they voted for Abe Hamadeh but their ballots were not counted – more than the 280 votes he lost the attorney general’s race by. However, Busch told The Arizona Sun Times that the courts refuse to consider the new evidence.

Busch said in the video, “Abe Hamadeh won the attorney general’s race. I’m going to outline for you the evidence behind how Kris Mayes was installed as the illegitimate attorney general. … Our evidence in Abe’s case shows that thousands of Arizona voters were disenfranchised on Election Day in violation of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, and Katie Hobbs, the secretary of state and the counties know about these voters and have done nothing to correct it.”

She said what is different about Hamadeh’s election challenge compared to most others is he is asking judges to count votes from disenfranchised voters, not throw votes out. The latter causes complaints about disenfranchising voters, so judges are hesitant to comply.

Michael Conway, a legal expert and former House Judiciary Committee counsel, is warning New York Judge Arthur Engoron about his language and behavior as he presides over former President Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial.

In a column for MSNBC, Conway cited the trial of the so-called “Chicago 7,” reminding “Engoron that the defendants in the notorious case went out of their way to antagonize Judge Julius Hoffman, which seems to be Donald Trump’s strategy in a case where Engoron has already found evidence of fraud,” Raw Story noted.

Conway continued by pointing out that during his testimony, Engoron frequently clashed with both Trump’s legal team and the former president himself, adding that the profanity will undoubtedly be brought up in an appeal.

“In New York, Engoron has used strident language in rejecting Trump’s legal positions, terming them ‘pure sophistry,’ ‘risible,’ ‘bogus arguments,’ and ‘egregious’ in his summary judgment opinion. He sanctioned five Trump attorneys for $7,500 each for the ‘borderline frivolous’ arguments in their briefs,” Conway wrote.

A federal judge in Texas is allowing the discovery phase of a lawsuit to proceed in a case accusing President Joe Biden and his administration of knowingly providing aid to Palestinian terrorists.

According to Fox News, the lawsuit alleges that the Biden administration continued to illegally fund the Palestinian Authority even as it continued its “Pay for Slay” program that encourages attacks against anyone living in or visiting Israel.

“America First Legal (AFL) first filed the lawsuit in 2022, alleging that President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken resumed payments to the Palestinian Authority (PA) that former President Trump ended in order to be in compliance with the Taylor Force Act—a federal law that prohibits the government from sending American taxpayer dollars to the PA until it stops supporting terrorism,” Fox News reported.

“The lawsuit claims the Biden administration has transferred nearly half a billion American taxpayer dollars ‘to directly benefit and subsidize the Palestinian Authority’ while admitting that the PA still operates its” program, the outlet continued.

U.S. Border Patrol chiefs responsible for sectors of the southwest border confirmed to Congress that the current immigration crisis is historic, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said. 

"We spoke with some of the most senior and experienced leaders in the U.S. Border Patrol and they clearly recognize the unprecedented scope of this crisis," Green said Sunday after his committee released portions of transcribed interviews with the sector chiefs.

"Their stunning testimony further informs the Committee’s oversight work and emphasizes why we must hold Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas and President Biden accountable for intentionally facilitating the worst border crisis in our history."

Green blamed what he calls "mass catch-and-release" policies for the increased numbers of illegal immigrants.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gave Americans an unintended glimpse of the future during her road trip this summer touting the wonders of electric vehicles. Her public relations misadventure in Georgia involved one of her staff in a gasoline-powered vehicle blocking off a coveted charger in advance of her arrival, leading to frayed tempers and a local EV owner calling the cops. It was an illustration of the challenges drivers could face as governments push the public to embrace plug-in vehicles.

Hyped as technological marvels, EVs are boobytrapped with a host of inconveniences and tradeoffs. By now many people have heard about range anxiety, exploding lithium-ion batteries, and the environmental destruction caused by global mining for battery minerals.

But more challenges are in the offing as the federal government and the states pump in billions of dollars to build a massive national infrastructure of charging stations to power the EVs.

The Algerian migrant who stabbed three children outside a primary school, sparking riots in Dublin, was subject to a deportation order 20 years ago yet remained in Ireland.

The man, described by the media as an “Irish citizen” because he was subsequently given citizenship papers, was arrested in Ireland in 2003.

According to the Sunday Times, “The chief suspect in the stabbings that led to the riots was once the subject of a deportation order.”

Cash-strapped Chinese borrowers are encountering a new wave of financial challenges, with fears of widespread defaults rattling a market that heavily relies on quasi guarantees from banks. Sales of China dollar notes, accompanied by standby letters of credit—a lender's commitment to repayment if the issuer defaults—have plummeted by a staggering 90%, totaling just $1.04 billion so far this year compared to the previous year, according to Bloomberg-compiled data.

As noted in the first article in this series, after the 2020 Election a Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) was carried out by Georgia’s Secretary of State’s (SOS’s) Office that included numerous errors.

Thanks to the efforts of Georgian Joseph Rossi, 36 errors were found in the Fulton County data in the RLA report posted on the SOS website.

Rossi doggedly went after those in authority in the state to review his data. He was turned down and ignored numerous times. But eventually after a series of events, Rossi was able to get these errors in front of members of Governor Kemp’s office. Governor Kemp and his team, listened and took action when errors were pointed out to them.

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As a result of Rossi’s work and Kemp’s team’s investigation, the Georgia State Elections Board (SEB) initiated an investigation into the Fulton County data from the RLA report. This investigation was labeled SEB2021-181. Eventually the SEB identified violations and errors in the recounts of the 2020 Election in Fulton County.

Also, another complaint for Fulton County was filed that specifically called out 3125 duplicate ballot counts and 17,852 votes counted that do not have a corresponding ballot image. This complaint resulted in the creation of investigation SEB2023-25. This investigation is complete and the results of this investigation will be presented to the SEB on December 19, 2023. This complaint has been categorized by the Board as “violations found.”