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'Focus on murder!!!' Trump rages at law enforcement officials investigating him in multiple criminal probes
November 29, 2022
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday once again opened fire on law enforcement officials who are leading multiple criminal probes into him and his businesses.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump began by once again attacking prosecutors in New York for prosecuting longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Trump included multiple unsourced claims at the start of his rant about the case purportedly "falling apart," although there is no indication yet that the case is anywhere close to collapsing.
"There was no gain for 'Trump,' and we had no knowledge of it," he wrote. "Even the media is saying that if we are treated fairly, always a big question with me, we win."
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The former president then accused prosecutors of going after him while they turned a blind eye to violent crime.
"This Witch Hunt has cost NYC $millions & $millions at a time when violent crime in New York has reached an all time high," Trump wrote, despite the fact that violent crime in New York City is nowhere close to the highs experienced in the 1980s and 1990s. "Went through 8 million pages of Documents and found NOTHING. Focus on MURDER!!!"
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'Completely amoral': Liz Cheney piles pressure on Kevin McCarthy to condemn Trump's Nick Fuentes dinner
November 29, 2022
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) shamed House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for remaining silent on Donald Trump's recent association with a pair of notorious antisemites.
Trump dined with rapper Kanye West and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes last week at Mar-a-Lago, drawing condemnation from Mike Pence and a number of Republican lawmakers, but Cheney called out McCarthy for so far declining to speak out against the former president.
"Hey @GOPLeader - where is your condemnation of Donald Trump for meeting with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, the pro-Putin leader of the America First Political Action Conference?" Cheney tweeted. "I know you want to be Speaker, but are you willing to be completely amoral?"
McCarthy is trying to cobble together 218 votes from the GOP caucus set to take over the majority at the start of next year, although Cheney won't be there after losing her primary race to the Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, who went on to win the general election Nov. 8.
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\u201cHey @GOPLeader - where is your condemnation of Donald Trump for meeting with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, the pro-Putin leader of the America First Political Action Conference? I know you want to be Speaker, but are you willing to be completely amoral?\u201d— Liz Cheney (@Liz Cheney) 1669729254
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Putin-backed mercenary group freeing 'high-risk criminals' as Ukraine war takes 'desperate turn': report
November 29, 2022
On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that the Wagner Group, a mercenary operation with ties to Vladimir Putin, is freeing murderous rebels, including some considered to be terrorists, from military prisons in the Central African Republic to fight alongside Russians in the invasion of Ukraine in what the publication describes as a "big, desperate turn."
"According to the sources in CAR, where armed rebels have controlled large parts of the country for about a decade, dozens of men held in military and police custody for crimes such as rape and murder are now being recruited into Wagner’s local wing, which includes hundreds of fighters commonly referred to as 'Black Russians,'" reported Philip Obaji Jr. "Many of the recruits, the officers said, are rebels the military consider to be terrorists because of their unlawful use of violence and intimidation against civilians and armed forces in pursuit of political aims."
According to one CAR official's account to the Beast, "Since October, they have been walking into military and police cells and releasing rebels, including those held for attacking Bokolobo village [in southern CAR] in May and for raping women and girls. Nobody can stop them because the government has given them so much power to act the way they want.”
"Many of CAR’s high-risk criminals, particularly rebels accused of harming, raping, and killing civilians are held in military and police cells rather than in understaffed and poorly secured conventional prisons," the report continued.
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All of this comes as Putin's official draft within Russia has caused controversies of its own. Young men in Russia have been fleeing in droves to avoid conscription. Those who have been forced to fight were told by one recruiter that they are expected to buy their own first aid materials and use tampons to plug bullet wounds.
Russia's operation in Ukraine, which was sold under the pretense of "denazifying" the eastern part of the country and liberating so-called "independent Republics" in Donetsk and Luhansk declared by Kremlin-backed separatists, has earned the widespread condemnation of most nations, led to global embargoes against Russia, and has met numerous roadblocks as Ukrainians use Western-supplied weapons to drive Russian forces out of territory they claimed earlier in the year. Operations in the east have settled into a World War I-style trench warfare operation as Russians try to hold the front.
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