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DEBACLE MAN JOE BIDEN - WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY - It's Hard To Believe What Is Happening - Victor Davis Hanson

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VIDEO - HOW MANY AMERICA CITIES ARE HEADED INTO BANKRUPTCY RESULTING FROM THE BIDEN - MAYORKAS - GEORGE SOROS ORCHESTRATED INVASION?

Cities Face Bankruptcy as Sanctuary Policies Trigger States of Emergency

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New York City and other hot spots in the United States for mass illegal immigration are leading to emergency declarations. Cities can’t handle the influx, and their own policies are rapidly leading toward bankruptcy. As major cities face this crisis, the Biden administration is doing little to stem the flow or fix the problem. And this is leading to a political rift within the Democrat Party leading into the 2024 elections. In this episode of Crossroads, we’ll discuss.
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Washington, D.C. (October 24, 2023) – Two new Center for Immigration Studies reports, based on records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, reveal details on the Biden administration’s secretive ‘CBP One’ entry scheme. The data shows that the administration was bringing inadmissible aliens into the United States at land border ports of entry far earlier than is generally known and letting in people of many more nationalities and in far greater numbers than publicly disclosed.  The new information raises serious concerns about national security, transparency, and Biden’s immigration policies, particularly the “new lawful pathways” strategy aimed at managing/hiding the surge of illegal aliens crossing the Southwest border.
 
New Records Unveil Surprising Scope of Secretive ‘CBP One’ Entry Scheme, authored by Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national security fellow, exposes the true start date and the previously unknown scope of the Biden entry scheme. Contrary to public knowledge, the program began at Southwest land ports 19 months before its public announcement in January 2023. The data shows that the program allowed nearly 250,000 foreign nationals from 97 countries, not merely the four countries advertised, to use the ‘CBP One’ phone app, granting them temporary ‘humanitarian parole’ and releasing them into the U.S. with work authorization for a two-year extendable period.
 
Shockingly, the Biden administration has accepted Individuals from 24 nations designated by the U.S. government as being of national security concern because Islamic terrorist organizations operate in them. These “special interest aliens” (SIAs) came from countries like Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, and Afghanistan. The lack of transparency in the vetting process, with 99.7% of all applicants approved for parole, raises serious security concerns.
 
In a second report, Thousands of Special Interest Aliens Posing Potential National Security Risks Entering via ‘CBP One’ App, Bensman focuses on the approximately 7,332 SIAs from 24 countries who have been paroled into the country since May 2021. Of particular concern is the administration’s apparent lack of disclosure regarding the vetting process for these entries. James G. Conway, a retired FBI counterterrorism agent, expressed disbelief, “How would you knowingly bring people from terrorist countries into the U.S. with such inadequate vetting?” 
 
“The Center for Immigration Studies should not have been forced to pry this data from our government through litigation. But now we can see why the information was suppressed – they knew this data showing approvals of high-risk immigrant border entries would raise fair questions about whether the government is properly managing national security risks at our southern border,” stated Bensman.
 

Dear TrumperHumpers - Do you really want more of this low-lifer? - Michael Cohen's fraud trial bombshell: Trump had me inflate his total assets based on a number he 'arbitrarily' picked

 

Michael Cohen's fraud trial bombshell: Trump had me inflate his total assets based on a number he 'arbitrarily' picked

  • Trump and Michael Cohen saw each other on Tuesday for the first time in five years.

  • Cohen was called as a key witness in Trump's New York civil fraud trial.

  • It was Cohen who first told the world that Trump's net-worth statements to banks and insurers were frauds.

Donald Trump and his fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen came face-to-face in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday, their first time in the same space since Cohen flipped on his boss five years ago.

And it didn't take long for Cohen to start lobbing bombshells from the witness stand, by testifying that his former boss was at the top of a conspiracy to defraud banks and insurers about his worth.

Just before the lunch break, a lawyer for the state attorney general's office asked Cohen what his role was in preparing his boss's annual net-worth statements, the documents at the heart of the Manhattan fraud trial.

The allegation in Cohen's answer was highly incriminating to Trump – placing the former president firmly at the top of a document-fraud conspiracy.

"I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected," Cohen intoned, speaking slowly and keeping his eyes on Colleen Faherty, a lead lawyer for New York Attorney General .

"And my responsibility, along with Allen Weisselberg, primarily, was to reverse engineer" the value of Trump Organization assets, Cohen added, "in order to achieve the number that Mr. Trump tasked us."

Asked by Faherty what he meant by "whatever number," Cohen did not miss a beat in answering.

"Whatever number Mr. Trump told us to," he said.

The two adversaries did not appear to lock eyes as Cohen, his demeanor cheerful, entered the courtroom and took the witness stand in Trump's $250 million civil fraud trial, now in its fourth week.

But Trump watched intently from the defense table as Cohen was sworn in and promised to tell the truth against him.

Cohen — clad in jeans, a gray tweed jacket with an open collared white shirt, and no tie — immediately addressed his criminal record, insisting that he only copped in 2019 to personal income tax evasion because of federal pressure.

"When all of this started it was overwhelming," he said of his time in the spotlight as Trump's most vocal, and prolific, accuser. "The amount of misinformation, disinformation, malinformation against me was enormous."

Trump and his former lawyer have been bitter enemies since 2019, when Cohen testified before Congress that the then-president widely exaggerated his net worth to impress banks while downplaying his worth to save on real estate taxes.

That testimony launched two state-level investigations in New York – one brought by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, the other by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James.

It's James' investigation that led to the fraud lawsuit against Trump, Trump Organization, and four longtime company executives – including Trump's two eldest sons – that is now being tried.

The Manhattan DA's Cohen-prompted probe eventually led to one of the four criminal indictments that Trump now faces — the so-called "hush-money" case, which charges Trump with felony-level falsification of business records.

That case, alleging that Trump Organization records were falsified to hide a $130,000 hush-money payment to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels, was the first indictment brought against the former president.

In the hush-money case, too, Cohen, who handled the money transfer, will be the key witness against Trump. Cohen has said Trump directed him to make that payment to keep Daniels quiet before the 2016 presidential election.

The lead Manhattan prosecutor in the hush-money case, Susan Hoffinger, was briefly in the courtroom Tuesday morning but left prior to Cohen taking the stand.

Throughout his testimony, Cohen repeatedly referred to Trump by full name, "Donald J. Trump," even as Faherty asked him who was his legal client and his Trump Organization employer prior to 2019.

This is a breaking story; please check back for developments.

Read the original article on Business Insider