GOP Maryland AG hopeful is pro-secession and believes all public education is a communist plot: report

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GOP Maryland AG hopeful is pro-secession and believes all public education is a communist plot: report
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Even though Maryland is a deep blue state, it does have a history of electing more moderate Republicans such as Gov. Larry Hogan.

However, Vice News reports that a prospective GOP nominee for Maryland attorney general does not fit anything close to the Hogan mold.

Specifically, the publication notes that Maryland AG hopeful Michael Peroutka is a former board member of the neo-Confederate League of the South who says he's "still angry" that Maryland was not able to secede during the American Civil War.

Additionally, Peroutka believes that LGBTQ marriage and abortion should be outlawed for going against "God's law," and he has also criticized the entire concept of public education as a communist plot whose goal is to "transform America away from a Christian worldview."

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As if that weren't enough, Peroutka has also vowed to investigate Hogan's efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the last two years by implementing mask mandates.

“What happened was so notorious, it was so blatant, so obvious,” he said this past March at an anti-mask rally. “A constitutional God-fearing attorney general of Maryland can do something about that. He can empanel grand juries, he can bring prosecutions against the people who violated your rights.”

Peroutka was once a fringe figure in right-wing politics, but establishment Republicans in Maryland fear that the GOP base has grown so radicalized that it could nominate him for attorney general.

Maryland Republican strategist Doug Mayer, for one, tells Vice News that Peroutka's nomination would spell disaster for the GOP in the state.

"I think he probably has a better chance at building a time machine and traveling back and actually fighting in the real Civil War than becoming Maryland's attorney general," he said. "Unfortunately for normal Maryland Republicans who are running, having someone like him on the ticket would do nobody any favors."

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Epstein files show Trump flagged by prosecutor for 'many' flights on sex offender's plane

President Donald Trump flew on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's plane at least eight times, according to a large tranche of documents briefly put into public view by the Department of Justice.

The Justice Department released thousands of files Monday, three days after publicizing an initial batch in partial compliance with a law passed last month by Congress,. They appear to have been removed from the agency's website several hours later – but the Washington Post downloaded the full set before they were taken down.

"The documents show that a subpoena was sent to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 for records that pertained to the government’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice in sex trafficking," the Post reported. "They include notes from an assistant U.S. attorney in New York about the number of times Trump flew on Epstein’s plane, including one flight that included just Trump, Epstein and a 20-year-old woman, according to the notes."

"The newly released documents also include several tips that were collected by the FBI about Trump’s involvement with Epstein and parties at their properties in the early 2000s," the report added. "The documents do not show whether any follow-up investigations took place or whether any of the tips were corroborated."

Flight records show Trump “traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware),” wrote an assistant U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York in an email dated Jan. 8, 2020, after a review of flight records as part of the government case against Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking.

“For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case,” the email states.

Maxwell was present on at least four of those flights, according to the prosecutor, and in some cases those flights included passengers who could be called as possible witnesses in a case against Maxwell.

“We’ve just finished reviewing the full records (more than 100 pages of very small script) and didn’t want any of this to be a surprise down the road,” the prosecutor wrote.

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Bus driver’s 'English-only' sign triggers DOJ probe into firing

The head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division says she has ordered an investigation into the firing of a local school bus driver who posted an “English-only” sign, alleging the situation implicates “DEI wokeness.”

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, in announcing the investigation, called the firing “deeply concerning.”

Pennsylvania’s CBS 21 News reported that “Diane Crawford, 66, said she never thought writing a note would cost her so much.”

The note read: “Out of respect to English-only students, there will be no speaking Spanish on this bus.”

“I didn’t mean to be racially insensitive or anything like that,” Crawford said. “Maybe I should have worded it (differently). Maybe it should have said, ‘No bullying in any language,’ but I didn’t mean it to be anything but to correct him.”

CBS 21 reported that “Crawford claimed she never got to explain that the sign was put up to encourage safe and respectful behavior and that it was directed at a bilingual student who allegedly had a history of riling up other students in Spanish.”

She also alleged that she was fired overnight, but the local school district and bus contractor in a joint statement said they “jointly reviewed the situation in accordance with established procedures. The investigation concluded after the subcontractor provided a written admission confirming that the signage had been installed on her bus. At that point, the relevant facts of the situation were fully known and discussed among District and Rohrer leadership.”

Civil rights litigator Patrick Jaicomo in a social media post directed toward Assistant Attorney General Dhillon asked: “Can you lay out the possible legal basis for your concerns?”

“I’d also be interested to hear whether you think someone acting under color of state law can prohibit the speaking of Spanish,” he wrote. “That seems like it would violate the 1st [and] 14th Amendments, no?”

Jaicomo added, “If I wanted to enforce civil rights, I’d investigate a school bus driver’s violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments under color of state law. If I wanted to score cheap political points, I’d investigate ‘DEI wokeness.’ Then again, there’s a reason I don’t work for the gov’t.”

'It’s a joke to them': Onlookers stunned as DOJ releases debunked Epstein video

The internet was left stunned Monday night after journalists uncovered a 12-second video buried within the Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files that appears to show the disgraced financier in his New York jail cell attempting to hang himself.

The video has been thoroughly debunked as a fake.

“Buried in the Epstein files released by the DOJ is a 12 second video from 4:29 am on the day Jeffrey Epstein died,” reads a social media post from Drop Site News, which uncovered the video alongside entrepreneur Luke Igel and software engineer Riley Walz. “The highly unusual video could be a CGI recreation.”

The video was, in fact, discovered to have been created using computer-generated imagery, and was first uploaded to the internet on the video platform YouTube in October of 2020. As to why the DOJ had the video in its possession and uploaded it online as part of its periodic release of files on Epstein, however, is unknown.

“This is how seriously the DOJ is taking the Epstein Files release,” wrote independent journalist Tara Palmeri, who hosts “The Tara Palmeri Show” podcast. “It's a joke to them.”

The video depicts what appears to be Epstein in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, New York, near the ground and on his knees attempting to strangle himself using an orange inmate uniform. Other inmate uniforms can be seen strewn across the floor, and in a similar manner as depicted in legitimate photographs of Epstein’s cell the morning of his death. The cell layout in the debunked video is also identical to that of Epstein’s real cell.

The DOJ has since removed the video after its discovery, with the link now directing users to a page that reads “AccessDenied.”

“Nothing about this video makes sense and it’s unclear why it is included in the DOJ files,” wrote Drop Site News founder Ryan Grim in a social media post on X Monday.

Epstein died while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019, and his death was officially ruled a suicide. However, several oddities that occurred during the night of his death have fueled speculation among critics, including from Epstein’s own brother, who’s said Epstein’s death “looks more like a homicide.”


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