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New York Judge Orders Donald Trump Take Witness Stand
Fines Him $10,000 Citing Gag Order Violation

New York County Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ordered former President Donald Trump to take the witness stand on Wednesday for questioning about an alleged gag order violation, which resulted in a $10,000 fine for the 45th president.

As CNBC noted, Engoron asked Trump who he was referencing when he spoke of a “very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”

Engoron, who is judging the non-jury civil case brought against Trump and his two eldest sons by New York Attorney General Letitia James, reportedly suspected he was referring to Clerk Allison Greenfield.

Trump said he was talking about his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who is testifying against him in the case, as well as Engoron.

“Are you sure that you didn’t mean the person on the other side, my principal law clerk?” Engoron asked, the Hill reported.

“Yes, I’m sure,” the 45th president responded. However, Engoron did not believe Trump and fined him $10,000 after he returned to his seat, remarking the punishment was “on the liberal side.”

This follows a $5,000 fine Engoron imposed Friday after finding Trump in violation of his gag order.

“Make no mistake: future violations, whether intentional or unintentional, will subject the violator to far more severe sanctions,” Engoron said in a court filing at the time, as the Associated Press (AP) noted.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Charged for Fire Alarm Stunt
Faces Six Months in Jail

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has been criminally charged with a misdemeanor for pulling a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building, allegedly to prevent a vote on the House floor.

The charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail. NBC News’s Frank Thorp first reported the story.

“We finished our investigation,” reads a statement from the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP). “Our agents gathered all the evidence, packaged it up, and sent the entire case with charges to prosecutors for their consideration.”

USCP presented a probable cause arrest warrant for 22DC1319A – False Fire Alarm – to the D.C. Attorney General, who is charging Bowman.

Bowman has been ordered to appear in D.C. Superior Court Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m, EDT for his arraignment.

The former middle school principal insisted that he pulled the fire alarm in order to open the door to make a government funding vote.

Breitbart News first broke exclusively that Bowman threw emergency warning signs to the floor before pulling the alarm and running down a set of stairs before exiting the building from another floor, contradicting his claims.

Republicans have drafted a resolution to expel Bowman from Congress.

Democrats Melt Down After GOP Conference Unanimously Elects
Mike Johnson Speaker

According to an emailed statement posted to X by Punch Bowl News founder Jake Sherman, President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign strongly condemned the election of Johnson, despite Biden’s congratulations in an official statement from the White House.

“MAGA Mike Johnson’s ascension to the speakership cements the extreme MAGA takeover of the House Republican Conference,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, said in a statement.

This came in contrast to Biden offering his and first lady Jill Biden’s “congratulations” to Johnson and their commitment to try to work “in good faith.”

Democrats in Congress expressed their deep displeasure with Johnson securing the Speaker’s gavel on the first ballot, after three weeks of chaos since Speaker Emeritus Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) ouster, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) called Johnson an “insurrectionist.”

“Insurrectionist Mike Johnson is now second in line to the presidency. The American people deserve better,” she said.

Biden’s DHS Released into U.S.
Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Child

In May 2021, the illegal alien crossed the U.S.-Mexico border after traveling from Brazil. He was initially apprehended near San Luis, Arizona. The following month, the illegal alien was released from DHS custody on his own recognizance.

After his release into the U.S. interior, the illegal alien was asked to report to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to schedule an immigration hearing but failed to report.

In July 2021, two months after having first arrived at the border, the illegal alien was wanted by a criminal court in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for a felony criminal charge of aggravated homicide for allegedly murdering a child younger than 14 years old.

This month, the illegal alien was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston, Massachusetts. He will remain in ICE custody pending his deportation to Brazil.

Illinois: Illegal Aliens Freed from Jail
After Allegedly Stealing $1.7K in Clothes from Macy’s

Venezuelan illegal aliens Abel Barrios-Estava, 20 years old, and Rafael Mata-Torres, 25 years old, were arrested and charged this week with burglary and retail theft after allegedly stealing some $1,700 worth of clothing merchandise from Macy’s in Oak Brook, Illinois.

According to police, officers responded to a retail theft at Macy’s on Monday where they identified Barrios-Estava as having allegedly stolen six pieces of clothing worth over $300.

While officers initially took Barrios-Estava into custody, he broke free and fled on foot. Following the pursuit on foot, officers took Barrios-Estava into custody.

Meanwhile, officers also arrested Mata-Torres, accusing him of stealing from the Macy’s 13 pieces of clothing worth more than $1,400.

Since being charged, both illegal aliens — who had been living in Chicago — have been released on bail with electronic ankle monitoring.

The state of Illinois is a sanctuary state that prohibits local law enforcement from turning criminal illegal alien suspects over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for deportation.

UAW Strikes Deal with Ford
Securing Robust Wage Hikes for Auto Workers

The United Auto Workers (UAW) has announced a tentative agreement with Ford Motor Company to end its strike, securing massive wage hikes for auto workers and a right to strike whenever the automaker closes a plant.

Late Wednesday evening, UAW officials Shawn Fain and Chuck Browning announced the agreement, which will see auto workers return to their jobs at Ford while the deal makes its way through the ratification process.

According to the UAW-Ford agreement, auto workers will see more in base wage increases than they have seen in the last 22 years at the auto company. Specifically, the agreement authorizes 25 percent in base wage increases through April 2028 and will raise top wages by more than 30 percent to more than $40 an hour.

Starting wages will be raised by 68 percent to more than $28 an hour, the agreement states. Fain and Browning said Ford’s lowest-paid workers will have their wages raised by more than 150 percent over the tenure of the four-year agreement.

 How can they be sure that they won't change their minds and start firing them after opening a plant elsewhere like in Mexico?

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Bans ‘Woke Nonsense,’ Anti-Women Language

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ® announced Thursday that she signed an executive order banning the usage of woke terms like “pregnant people” and “birth giver” in all state documents.

“We’ve had enough,” Huckabee Sanders said at a press briefing announcing her decision. “Enough trying to erase women and girls, enough denying our biological differences from men, and enough of the craziness that is taking over our country.”

Huckabee Sanders said the political left is “using nonsense words to erase women and girls, and more importantly, to erase our voices and our experiences.”

“Today, we’re taking a stand against woke nonsense,” she said. “What, frankly, started as a fad among a few grad students has seeped down into corporations, the health care industry, and increasingly, state government. It’s demeaning to women, and it needs to stop.”

The Arkansas governor went on to announce that she is signing “an executive order banning a number of all sorts of ridiculous words from state government documents. Those include words like ‘pregnant people,’ ‘laboring person,’ ‘birth giver,’ and several other nonsense terms.”

FBI Had 40 Confidential Sources
with ‘Criminal Information’ on the Biden Family

The FBI ran the confidential human sources from multiple FBI field offices across the nation, including the FBI Seattle Field Office, FBI Baltimore Field Office, and FBI HQ holdings, Grassley stated.

“Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative activity relating to the Biden family,” [Senator Chuck] Grassley wrote.

“Such decisions point to significant political bias infecting the decision-making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director but also line agents and prosecutors,” he added.

Grassley noted that Justice Department whistleblowers say one of the investigations into the Bidens entailed an FBI informant FD-1023 file that alleged Hunter and Joe Biden were each bribed $5 million.

Grassley released the FD-1023 file in July that alleged Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, bribed Joe and Hunter Biden after then-Vice President Biden withheld aid to Ukraine until then-President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma.