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Slur-spewing man allegedly threatened Black New Yorkers with a knife — then got knocked out cold
August 17, 2022
A knife-wielding man is facing hate crime charges for allegedly threatening a group of Black New Yorkers.
NBC News reports that 58-year-old New York City resident John Borzumato is accused of accosting a group of three Black males and one white male shortly after they parked their car in a Staten Island neighborhood.
Borzumato, whom police say was intoxicated at the time, allegedly approached them while wielding a knife and began hurling racial slurs.
"You n*****s don't belong here," Borzumato said, according to a police report. "You n*****s have to get out of here."
At one point, Borzumato physically shoved one of the men, who proceeded to punch him and knock him out cold, police said.
Borzumato was then taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries he suffered after he hit his head on the ground after being punched.
He has since been charged with menacing as a hate crime in the second degree, menacing in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and harassment in the second degree, according to NBC News.
He is due to make an appearance in court next month.
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Former Mueller prosecutor explains why no legitimate lawyer wants anything to do with Donald Trump
August 17, 2022
Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explained to MSNBC that one of Donald Trump's biggest problems is finding a set of lawyers willing to help him with a solid legal strategy to deal with all of his slate of legal cases that all seem to be culminating together in recent weeks.
Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, hours after Rudy Giuliani walked into the Atlanta courthouse after being told he was a target in a probe, Weissmann explained that Trump's lawyers have had a rough go of it lately.
"The thing that is notable, [is] that this is not the traditional 'a' team that you would see representing a president or a former president," he said of Trump's legal advisers. "And it's just striking. Usually, this is an honor. And you have people like David Kendall for instance, who everyone in the legal profession knows is one of the preeminent lawyers. And that's who you expect to see. And I think one of the reasons you're not seeing that is if you look at the track record for some of the former president's lawyers."
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Weissmann, who was one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies, named Roy Cohn, who was ultimately disbarred, but who served for Trump's father and was a kind of mentor to the younger Donald. Giuliani is another one, but he has just been told he's the target in a serious case in Georgia. He's already been disbarred in New York. Former lawyer Michael Cohen was convicted of several crimes. Sidney Powell is facing civil lawsuits and complaints calling for her to be disbarred.
"So the kinds of pressures that you're put under — if you're representing somebody like Donald Trump, are ones that if you're at the top of your field, you really can think to yourself, I don't need this," said Weissmann.
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In 2022, Republicans have nominated well-known celebrities rather than established politicians in three different U.S. Senate races: Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance in Ohio, and football star Herschel Walker in Georgia. GOP strategists have been using a “these-aren’t-career-politicians” pitch to voters in all three races. But reporter Adam Gabbatt, in an article published by The Guardian on August 16, emphasizes that none of those Republicans have been performing well in recent polls.
“In Mehmet Oz, Herschel Walker and J.D. Vance, the Republican Party has three celebrities running for Senate in November,” Gabbatt explains. “The only problem? At the moment, each of them looks as though they might lose. Oz, a television stalwart better known as Dr. Oz to millions of Americans, is trailing his opponent in Pennsylvania by double digits. Vance, a bestselling author and conservative commentator, is behind in his race in Ohio, an increasingly red state that many expected Republicans to win. So far, the most notable point of his campaign was when Vance appeared to suggest women should stay in violent marriages.”
Gabbatt continues, “In Georgia, Walker, a former NFL running back, is running close against Raphael Warnock, the incumbent Democrat. But Walker’s campaign has been characterized by a series of gaffes, and this week, more seriously, his ex-wife recalled in a campaign ad how he once held a gun to her head. The three men’s travails spell out a problem in selecting outsider, celebrity candidates. Each brings name recognition, but in some cases, have been unexposed to the media’s glare.”
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Some polls released in late July or early August showed Georgia’s Senate race to be close. Walker was trailing the Rev. Warnock by only 3 percent in polls from Insider Advantage, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Research Affiliates, although a SurveyUSA poll showed Warnock ahead by 9 percent.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee, had an 11 percent lead over Oz in a Fox News poll released in late July. And in Ohio, the Democratic nominee, Rep. Tim Ryan, was ahead of Vance by 3 percent in a late July poll conducted by Impact Research, although SurveyMoney’s polling in early August showed Ryan ahead by 11 percent. Ryan also had an 11 percent lead in a Center Street PAC poll from early August.
“The Pennsylvania Senate race is looking particularly dire for Republicans,” Gabbatt observes. “According to FiveThirtyEight’s polling average, John Fetterman, the Democratic lieutenant governor, holds an 11 percent lead over Oz. Among Republicans in Pennsylvania, just 35 percent say they are ‘enthusiastic’ about Oz’s candidacy, according to a Fox News poll in July, and 45 percent of Republicans say they ‘have reservations’ about the physician. Oz’s struggles are significant enough that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is considering diverting money away from Oz’s campaign ‘to seats that we feel we can win,’ Politico reported in July — a dramatic move given the Senate seat was previously held by a Republican.”
The Republican senator Gabbatt is referring to is Pat Toomey. Although arch-conservative, Toomey infuriated MAGA Republicans when he voted “guilty” in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate in 2021 — and the two-term senator decided not to seek a third term in 2022.
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If Fetterman defeats Oz in November, Democrats will be flipping a U.S. Senate seat that has been mostly in Republican hands for decades. Before Toomey, the seat was held by the late Sen. Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican who got along well with Pennsylvania Democrats like former Pennsylvania Gov./ex-Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell and Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. Near the end of his life, Specter became a Democrat, but he spent most of his years in the Senate as a Republican.
Presently, there is a 50/50 split in the U.S. Senate — 50 Democrats or allies of Democrats like independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and 50 Republicans — with Vice President Kamala Harris able to cast a tie-breaking vote. If Democrats are able to maintain all of the Senate seats they presently hold but flip the seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio, they would slightly increase their narrow majority but would still have to contend with the 60-vote requirement of the filibuster.
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