The Trump Organization was formally evicted from the Trump International Hotel in Panama on Monday morning -- and the building's owner wasted no time in taking down Trump's name.
As ABC News reports, Trump Organization staffers were forcibly removed by police from the building on Monday amid a fight with owner Orestes Fintiklis over management of the hotel.
"I am the owner," Fintiklis taunted to staffers as they were led out of the building. "Love and peace!"
Fintiklis then sat down at the hotel's piano in its lobby and played a song that included the lyrics, "Fascism will not prevail."
And as the final humiliation, Fintiklis ordered Trump's name to be ripped off from the outside of the hotel -- check out ABC News' video footage of Trump's name being torn down below.
Trump name chiseled off the Trump International Hotel in Panama after weeks of tensions over control of the property. https://t.co/KQuDrUckyr pic.twitter.com/Ph6xlHgwBr
— ABC News (@ABC) March 5, 2018
A California yoga instructor who allegedly conspired with extremists to disrupt government operations on Jan. 6, 2021, has defended himself in a highly unusual court filing.
In a document submitted to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Alan Hostetter chose to represent himself instead of obtaining an attorney.
Hostetter argues he was wrongly charged over the Jan. 6 attacks.
"President Trump won the 2020 election in one of the biggest landslide victories in U.S. history," the document begins. "Our constitutional republic was overthrown. An imposter president was installed. This was an actual act of treason rather than a false flag fedsurrection, as was J6. (FACT)."
In the document, Hostetter accuses the federal government of "entrapment" because "there is no (legitimate) explanation other than federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies staged this obvious false flag event for nefarious purposes."
Hostetter asserts Jan. 6 could not be considered a riot because he was present for the 1992 riots over Rodney King's beating while serving as a police officer.
"What is real? What is fake?" he asks. "Very early in my career I was sent to the urban war zone of the Rodney King Riots in L.A. – an actual and very real riot, unlike fedsurrection."
The document recalls Hostetter's time as an undercover officer to burnish his expertise.
"My hair was down to my shoulders," he says. "I had grown a Fu Manchu mustache and wore an earring. When about to serve a search warrant or take down a suspect in a sting operation, I would don a raid jacket and hang my badge around my neck."
At one point in the filing, Hostetter offers the court a "stream of consciousness" about his recollections of the 1992 riots.
"Electricity Blackouts, fires still occasionally burning, high rise buildings... red/orange on gray/black... eerie luminescence... thoughts of Dresden," he writes. "Sleeping in nearby hotel... eager to rise and get back in the fight with my brothers in arms. Sheepdogs by nature, we are. Some things never change."
Hostetter then launches into conspiracy theories about Ashli Babbitt's death and 9/11.
"If I am able to bring just one person to a new level of awareness where they can accept this reality... only then can that one person begin to understand and accept that the Ashli Babbitt shooting was fake and staged. Maybe that one person will then tell ten or twenty more, and so on," he adds. "When realizing the former is truth regarding 9/11, one also then realizes the latter showing the few minutes it took to stage 'Ashli's' shooting at the Capitol was child's play to those who organized it. The CIA and FBI stage these sorts of false flags at home and abroad regularly and have been doing it for generations."
He insists Babbitt's killing "was staged and fake."
"I appreciate the court and the public's continued patience and attention to the words written in this filing and the others I have written thus far. Dawn is breaking," he concludes.
In previous filings, Hostetter has ranted about the JFK assassination and Tucker Carlson's firing.
Read the document here.
Reacting to reports that Donald Trump's lawyers met with Justice Department officials in an effort to either get charges against their client dropped or hammer out a plea deal, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance suggested the former president may be forced to do something he is loath to do if he wants to stay out of jail.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump's attorneys showed up to make a pitch to investigators to indict their client and that a plea deal may have been discussed.
The Journal is reporting that "the meeting is the latest indication that special counsel Jack Smith has all but wrapped up his investigation into whether Trump mishandled the documents. In recent months, Smith’s team has homed in on several key pieces of evidence, including an audio recording in which Trump acknowledged he kept a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, and extensive notes from one of his lawyers about the investigation."
According to Vance, the embattled former president may find himself between a rock and a hard place if his attorneys work out a possible deal.
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On Twitter she wrote, "The smart move here for Trump is a guilty plea to a misdemeanor if DOJ will offer one & a felony with no jail time if they won't. I discuss prior precedent & how it informs DOJ's charging decisions here."
"For those who dislike these possible outcomes (I would number myself in that group), it's nonetheless important to understand the prior precedent that will shape DOJ's charging decisions & any plea offers in this matter. This is Trump's best possible outcome, not the country's," she admitted before adding, "... simply put, unlike the CIA Directors who escaped with misdemeanor pleas & no jail time, Trump's conduct as POTUS, flagrant disregard for nat'l security & clear obstruction mandates a different outcome here"
As for what the already indicted ex-president would face, she predicted, "Trump seems incapable of saying he's done anything wrong. To plead, he'd have to say under oath in open court that he was guilty. It'll be interesting to see if he can do that, or would rather run the risk of being convicted of felonies that carry up to 20 years in custody."
The mayor of an Indiana city ordered a Pride month post on official Twitter and Facebook accounts be taken down because the city "should not engage in supporting a social agenda," the Indianapolis Star reported.
The city of Westfield posted an image Thursday to its social media accounts that read, “We talk about the Westfield Way and how it sets us apart. We are committed to being a welcoming and safe community for ALL. Happy Pride Month, Westfield.”
Within a day, the message had been deleted. the Star reported.
The image's removal invited backlash from residents, including the co-founder of Central Indiana's Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Brian Ayers.
"It made me sad," Ayers said. "To see an inclusive message and to see it almost immediately taken down was disheartening."
Speaking to the Star, Mayor Andy Cook said Westfield “will always recognize our diverse population,” but that he felt “strongly that government should remain neutral on these social issues.”
“The City of Westfield’s Communications Department created a social media post on Thursday recognizing Pride Month,” Cook stated. “Upon further review, I feel the city should not engage in supporting a social agenda, and as such, I directed the post to be removed.”
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