BLACK LIVES MURDER - THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD - At Least 15 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

 

FOP national VP calls on Lori Lightfoot to resign over Chicago's 'lawlessness'

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23 Shot, 5 Fatally, During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

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AWR HAWKINS

9 May 20220

2:12

Twenty-three people were shot, five fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Yesterday, Breitbart News reported at least 15 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning alone in Chicago. The shooting victims included two fatalities, both of whom were killed on Saturday.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times notes the number of shooting victims for the entire weekend rose to 23 by Monday morning, and there were three additional shooting fatalities.

The first additional fatal shooting occurred Friday night around 7:45 p.m., when 37-year-old Michael Conrad was shot while sitting “in a white Chrysler in the 4400-block of North Hamlin Avenue.” Conrad tried to drive from the scene but crashed. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.

The second additional fatal shooting occurred Sunday at 7:44 p.m., when a 20-year-old man “in the 1200-block of West 72nd Place” was shot in the head during a drive-by incident. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

The final fatal shooting of the weekend occurred at 9:35 p.m. Sunday, when another 20-year-old man was struck by gunfire while standing in this kitchen “in the 2100-block of West Maypole Avenue.” The gunfire came from outside of his home. The man was taken to the hospital, where he died.

The Sun-Times points out 195 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through May 9, 2022.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

At Least 15 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

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AWR HAWKINS

8 May 20220

1:31

At least 15 people were shot, two of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports that two people were killed in a shooting that occurred at 2:45 p.m. Saturday near “the 11600-block of South Lowe Avenue.”

One of the dead was a 26-year-old man and the other a 64-year-old man.

The 64-year-old was identified as Larry Purnell and police noted he was not the target of the shooting. It appears he just happened to be in his front lawn when bullets were fired.

Breitbart News noted that 32 people were shot in Lightfoot’s Chicago last weekend, seven of them fatally.

The Sun-Times points out 191 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through May 1, 2022.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

JCN Ad Campaign Targets Gavin Newsom over Russian Oil Imports to California

Courtesy JCN

JOEL B. POLLAK

5 May 20220

3:23

A new advertising campaign in California is targeting the state’s dependence on foreign oil, including Russian oil, in protest against the policies of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who has tried to restrict local oil and gas production due to climate change.

The campaign, launched by the Job Creators Network (JCN), a small business group, includes four billboards in Bakersfield, the seat of oil-rich Kern County, as well as one traditional billboard and one mobile billboard in Sacramento, the state capital.

The campaign highlights the fact that 75% of the state’s oil supply comes from abroad, including 6% from Russia, prior to the Biden administration’s decision — under pressure from critics — to stop importing oil from Russia due to the Ukraine war.

One billboard reads: “HEY GAVIN: Why do you prefer getting oil from Putin rather than California?” It features a winking Russian President Vladimir Putin, hated by Democrats ever since he was blamed for Donald Trump’s surprise 2016 win.

California has long been an oil-producing state, but environmental concerns have limited offshore drilling and, increasingly, onshore drilling. Last year, Newsom announced his aim to “end oil extraction” and to stop issuing fracking permits by 2024.

Yet the state remains dependent on fossil fuels, both for energy and transportation. After solar and wind energy fell short in a 2020 heat wave, causing blackouts, Newsom warned that the state needed to “sober up” about the prospects of green energy.

As natural gas plants are being mothballed in Los Angeles in service of local “Green New Deal” policies, the state is also closing nuclear power plants. And last year, the state’s largest hydroelectric plant closed down due to an ongoing drought.

Thus California remains dependent on oil and gas. But it must bring fossil fuels in from other states or from abroad. In the absence of pipelines, it is forced to use rail transport, which itself burns fossil fuels and has higher environmental risks.

In a statement, the JCN cited a recent letter by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers to Gov. Newsom, urging him to increase oil and gas production in the state as gas prices continued to soar, partly due to the effects of the Russian war in Ukraine.

The JCN ad campaign is aimed at pressuring Newsom to change course. “The California small business community is calling on Gov. Newsom to DRILL HERE and DRILL NOW so state residents and Main Street alike PAY LESS,” the JCN said.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

Bidenflation: Lyft Shares Drop 30% on Gloomy Guidance Based on Gas Prices

AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster

ALANA MASTRANGELO

4 May 20220

2:01

Shares of ridesharing giant Lyft plunged 30 percent in intraday trading on Wednesday as investors expect short-term headwinds and surging gas prices to weigh heavily on the company’s performance in the coming months.

As part of the company’s first-quarter earnings report, Lyft provided guidance for the second quarter that disappointed Wall Street, noting that it would have to keep spending on driver incentives due to surging gas prices. The gloomy guidance for the next quarter sent shares dropping, according to a report by CNBC News.

Logan Green, co-founder and chief executive officer of LyftAP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

(AFP)

It remains unclear how much Lyft plans to spend, or whether the company will continue spending into the second half of the year, the report added.

“We believe the softer near-term outlook, need to increase investments, and numerous macro headwinds are likely to weigh on shares in the near-term, causing us to move to the sidelines,” Susquehanna analysts said in a note on Wednesday that downgraded the stock.

In September, Lyft joined 50 other companies in expressing its support for the systemic killing of unborn children, signing a letter that claimed Texas’ pro-life legislation threatened the health and economic stability of their employees and customers.

Earlier that month, the founder and president of the ride-sharing company donated $1 million to the largest U.S. abortion provider.

Lyft, along with Uber, also announced it would cover legal fees for drivers sued under the Texas law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.

In 2020, after the death of George Floyd, Lyft executives told customers in an email to be “part of the solution” to “systemic racism” in the United States. The company had also announced that it would offer $500,000 in free rides to civil rights organizations providing transportation to protest events.

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.

VIDEO: Gun battle breaks out between store employee and would-be BLACK robbers

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As Murders Reached Unprecedented Highs, Top Dem Recruit Backed Motion To End Cash Bail

Cincinnati councilman Greg Landsman worked to release criminals, pull funding from police

Cincinnati councilman Greg Landsman (D.)

Collin Anderson • May 5, 2022 5:00 am

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A top Democratic congressional recruit in an Ohio swing district backed a motion to end cash bail in Cincinnati as the city experienced an "unprecedented" homicide spike.

As a Cincinnati city councilman in April 2019, Greg Landsman submitted and approved a motion to eliminate cash bail for nonviolent misdemeanor cases. Nearly one year later, the Democrat introduced a second motion that called for such offenders to avoid arrest altogether and instead receive a "citation to court." And in June 2020, as homicides reached an unprecedented high in the city following George Floyd's death, Landsman took the policy a step further—he signed onto another motion that endorsed ending cash bail altogether and called for "public pressure" on the surrounding county to do the same. Landsman told the Cincinnati Enquirer he supported the measure because Floyd's death "changed something" in him.

Roughly two years later, Landsman is the Democratic nominee to unseat Rep. Steve Chabot (R.). Though he must win over swing-district voters to win the race, Landsman's crime policies are more closely aligned with his party's most liberal members. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), for example, in November called for a "federal intervention" against the use of "excessive bail." Just one day earlier, Darrell Brooks allegedly plowed through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., while out of jail on an "inappropriately low bail amount." The rampage killed 5 people and injured at least 48 others.

Landsman's crusade against cash bail is not the only time the Democrat endorsed soft-on-crime policies during the summer of 2020. In June of that year, Landsman penned a proposal to pull $200,000 in funding from Cincinnati's police budget. Just weeks later, the city suffered its fourth double homicide of the year.

Landsman's proposals to end cash bail and defund police did not stop the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) from recruiting the councilman to challenge Chabot. In March, the committee added Landsman to its "highly competitive Red to Blue program," which it says "arms top-tier candidates with organizational and fundraising support, strategic guidance, staff resources, candidate training, and more." The DCCC's press release announcing the move said Landsman "has dedicated his career to making life better for children and families."

Landsman did not return a request for comment. According to a 2020 Manhattan Institute study, bail reform policies such as those championed by Landsman have "led to the release of a number of dangerous defendants, many of whom were later rearrested for offenses committed while awaiting the deposition of their cases."

The DCCC's support for Landsman may have deterred other Democrats from entering the race against Chabot. Landsman did not face a Democratic challenger and formally emerged as the party's nominee following Ohio's Tuesday primary elections. The councilman has raised roughly $562,000 to Chabot's $1 million.

Landsman is not the only defund the police supporter with ties to the DCCC. In May 2020, for example, committee digital strategist Nijeria Boone labeled police a "terrorist group" and called to "abolish the police" because "they were created to capture runaway slaves." DCCC chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.) has assured voters that Democrats do not support defunding the police, an accusation he called a "Republican talking point."

Voters Turn on NYC Mayor Eric Adams over Handling of Crime

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SIMON KENT

5 May 20220

2:54

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) made tackling crime a central plank of his successful election campaign last November. A poll released Wednesday shows his inability to deliver is being punished by disillusioned voters.

A survey by Quinnipiac University shows crime is the top concern of 49 percent of city voters — more than triple the 15 percent of respondents who cited affordable housing and 12 percent homelessness.

However just 37 percent of city residents approved of Adams’s performance on crime, compared to 54 percent who disapproved.

This is a reversal from the 49 percent who approved and 35 percent who disapproved in a survey as recently as last February.

The divide between the mayor’s intentions and voter expectations is just as stark when party affiliation is taken into account, even as he appeared at the Met Gala this week in a suit emblazoned with the message “End Gun Violence” as Breitbart News reported.

NYC mayor Eric Adams wearing a tuxedo with the words “End Gun Violence” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Getty)

Twenty-five percent of registered Republicans approved of the new mayor’s handling of crime, compared to 45 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of independents. And along racial lines, 34 percent of white residents approved, compared to 46 percent of black residents and 33 percent of Hispanic respondents.

Adams, a retired transit cop, made law and order the cornerstone of his bid for City Hall. But violent crime has mostly worsened during his four months in office with no sign yet of an end to the violence as an overwhelming majority of voters (86 percent) support having more police officers in the New York City subway system, while 12 percent oppose it.

Police talk to a man in a Times Square subway station following a call to police from riders on April 25, 2022 in New York City. Data released by the NYPD shows  felony assaults on the NYC transit system rose more than 50 percent between February and March. Mayor Eric Adams has made safety in the transit system one of the key initiatives of his administration. (Spencer Platt/Getty)

The mayor’s overall job approval also took a hit — with 43 percent of voters approving and 37 disapproving disapproving.

In Quinnipiac’s February poll, 46 percent of voters approved of Adams’ job as mayor while only 27 percent disapproved.

Such is the pressure of expectation on Adams that in March he turned to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot seeking ideas on how to tackle crime in the Big Apple, although he did not disclose just what advice his fellow Democrat mayor delivered.

“Mayor Adams gets a positive score on his job performance, but it’s tepid. The biggest weight on his numbers: crime. It’s by far the most urgent issue and voters are holding him accountable,” said Quinnipiac Poll analyst Mary Snow, according to the New York Post.

A total of 1,249 New York City registered voters were surveyed from April 28th – May 2nd with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points for this poll.

Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:  or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com

The South Carolina Democratic Party Has a Cocaine (Trafficking) Problem

Collin Anderson • May 2, 2022 4:59 am

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In the last three years, political operative Jason Belton joined a billionaire Democrat's presidential campaign, became a campaign manager for a U.S. Senate race, and won election to a South Carolina Democratic Party leadership position—all while under federal indictment for trafficking nearly nine pounds of cocaine.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Belton and a co-conspirator in February 2017 contacted a drug source in California to request large quantities of cocaine, which they planned to distribute out of Columbia, S.C. Days later, the indictment states, Belton accepted a package containing four kilograms of coke from San Bernardino drug dealer Estevan Ortiz, who is also known as "Stevie," "Wonder," and "Little Man."

Federal agents went on to arrest Belton in South Carolina in January 2018. As the case progressed, however, Belton became implicated in a nationwide drug trafficking ring that federal authorities busted in 2020 following a three-year investigation. Belton's California connects were caught with 77 kilograms of cocaine, 9 kilograms of heroin, 150 pounds of methamphetamine, 989 fentanyl pills, 19 guns, and nearly $2 million in cash, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a January 2020 press release. Following the bust, federal prosecutors moved Belton's case to the Golden State, where it remains active.

But Belton's apparent criminality has done little to deter his career—in fact, the operative's political sphere expanded significantly after his arrest. In August 2019, Belton joined liberal billionaire Tom Steyer's presidential campaign as its deputy political director, a gig that earned him more than $40,000 over a six-months period. After Steyer left the race in February 2020, Belton cofounded a political consulting firm, C&J Consulting, which boasts at least one client: Democratic South Carolina state legislator Krystle Matthews, who is challenging Republican senator Tim Scott. Belton, who in January was elected the third chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party Black Caucus, has described himself as Matthews's campaign manager.

Belton's political work did overlap with his criminal indictment in one instance. In March 2020, Belton successfully persuaded the court to remove his GPS ankle monitor because he said it interfered with his work as a "lobbyist."

"Belton now wishes to eliminate the GPS location monitoring condition which requires him to wear an electronic ankle bracelet," Belton's attorney wrote in a court filing. "Belton has advised me that he is a lobbyist and the electronic ankle bracelet presents a problem for him with security on his frequent entries into the State House in Columbia, South Carolina."

Belton and the South Carolina Democratic Party did not return requests for comment.

In addition to his affiliation with Steyer and Matthews, Belton has worked with an array of prominent South Carolina Democrats through his state party leadership role. Gubernatorial candidates Joe Cunningham and Mia McLeod attended the South Carolina Democratic Party Black Caucus's "Sunday Dinner" event in March, as did former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. Belton's self-described "grassroots political action" nonprofit, Vision Walkers, also provided security for House majority whip Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) during an August 2020 event in Columbia.

Due to the size and complexity of Belton's federal drug case—the indictment lists 23 additional defendants—the operative's trial has been delayed on at least four occasions as attorneys sort through evidence. Belton is scheduled to travel to California for trial in August, just two months after Matthews will face off against two opponents in South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary election. He won't have to worry about covering the travel costs, however. In March 2021, the court granted a request from Belton's attorney that orders the U.S. Marshals Service to "furnish defendant Jason Donnell Belton with air fare, lodging, and per diem subsistence expenses in connection with the trial of this case."

Belton's 2018 arrest was not his first significant run-in with law enforcement. In 2007, local police arrested Belton over his involvement in a drive-by shooting. Belton, who was 19 at the time, received six months' probation for "criminal conspiracy," court records show.

But the political operative's criminal history and active legal battle are not the only sources of controversy for South Carolina Democrats. Belton's business partner, fellow C&J Consulting and Vision Walkers cofounder Craig Khanwell, is a longtime follower of anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has compared Jews to termites. Khanwell—who serves as South Carolina Democratic Party Black Caucus second chair—has referred to Farrakhan as his father figure, praised Farrakhan as "the epitome of the greatest among men," and argued that accusations of anti-Semitism are merely "a trick" to "stifle legitimate criticism of Jews and Zionist Israel."

Khanwell has also espoused extreme anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. In one Instagram post, he said taking the vaccine would mean giving Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and other "white" men "control of my molecular information." In another post, Khanwell shared a TikTok that called COVID the "biggest hoax of America" and speculated that those who died from the virus may have actually died from the flu. In June 2021, the South Carolina Democratic Party blamed Republicans for the state's "extremely low vaccination rates."

WATCH – Alleged Thieves Hit San Francisco-Area Walgreens: ‘Get a Job’

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AMY FURR

3 May 20220

2:32

Three individuals appeared to snatch items from a shelf inside a San Francisco-area Walgreens as customers watched, Fox News reported Tuesday.

Video footage showed a woman wearing a pink hoodie and blue pants as she rifled through items while standing behind the counter.

Moments later, she and another person dressed in black went to another area of the store, but the individual wearing dark clothes apparently went back behind the counter for more:

The woman in the pink hoodie was seen beside someone wearing a yellow jacket near another shelf. Further into the clip, the person in black exited the store and the two others followed, both carrying large bags.

“Get a job,” the individual behind the camera said as they fled the store.

In October, the shoplifting surge forced Walgreens to shutter five additional San Francisco locations, Breitbart News reported.

“Shoplifting has skyrocketed in San Francisco recently, likely a result of Proposition 47, which dictates stealing would not be a felony in California if the item stolen did not exceed $950,” the outlet said at the time.

Earlier this year, Democrats showed support for San Francisco’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, who faces a recall election in June as crime increased in the area, according to Breitbart News:

Boudin, the son of a convicted member of the Weather Underground terrorist group, was elected in 2019 on promises to pursue criminal justice reform, including a pledge to stop prosecuting “quality of life” crimes such as public urination.

He immediately caused controversy by firing experienced anti-gang prosecutors and dropping charges against a man who attacked police. His policies became more controversial as crimes, including mass looting, continued to spread in the city.

According to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, the recent incident happened in April at the Walgreens in Millbrae, an area near San Francisco.

“Walgreens did not contact the Sheriff’s Office to report the incident, however, a customer did call to report being hit in the arm by one of the suspects,” Javier Acosta, who is with the sheriff’s office, explained.

He added deputies responded but could not find the suspects, and the victim did not want to press charges, the Fox report concluded.

Horowitz answers the question he poses in one chapter heading – “What Kind of Movement is This?” – with an exposé of BLM’s proud links to cop-killers and domestic terrorists such as Assata Shakur and Susan Rosenberg (who now sits on the board of Thousand Currents, a nonprofit that has funneled millions of dollars into BLM coffers); to black racists and anti-Semites like Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan; to a coalition of radical groups like the street thugs of Antifa and the Labor/Community Strategy Center (headed by former Weather Underground terrorist Eric Mann, the ideological mentor of BLM founder Patrisse Cullors); and to major funders like far-left billionaire financier George Soros and the Ford and Kellogg Foundations.

The South Carolina Democratic Party Has a Cocaine (Trafficking) Problem

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-south-carolina-democratic-party-has-a-cocaine-trafficking-problem/

Collin Anderson •

In the last three years, political operative Jason

Belton joined a billionaire Democrat's

presidential campaign, became a campaign

manager for a U.S. Senate race, and won

election to a South Carolina Democratic Party

leadership position—all while under federal

indictment for trafficking nearly nine pounds of

cocaine.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Belton and a co-conspirator in February 2017 contacted a drug source in California to request large quantities of cocaine, which they planned to distribute out of Columbia, S.C. Days later, the indictment states, Belton accepted a package containing four kilograms of coke from San Bernardino drug dealer Estevan Ortiz, who is also known as "Stevie," "Wonder," and "Little Man."

Federal agents went on to arrest Belton in South Carolina in January 2018. As the case progressed, however, Belton became implicated in a nationwide drug trafficking ring that federal authorities busted in 2020 following a three-year investigation. Belton's California connects were caught with 77 kilograms of cocaine, 9 kilograms of heroin, 150 pounds of methamphetamine, 989 fentanyl pills, 19 guns, and nearly $2 million in cash, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a January 2020 press release. Following the bust, federal prosecutors moved Belton's case to the Golden State, where it remains active.

But Belton's apparent criminality has done little to deter his career—in fact, the operative's political sphere expanded significantly after his arrest. In August 2019, Belton joined liberal billionaire Tom Steyer's presidential campaign as its deputy political director, a gig that earned him more than $40,000 over a six-months period. After Steyer left the race in February 2020, Belton cofounded a political consulting firm, C&J Consulting, which boasts at least one client: Democratic South Carolina state legislator Krystle Matthews, who is challenging Republican senator Tim Scott. Belton, who in January was elected the third chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party Black Caucus, has described himself as Matthews's campaign manager.

Belton's political work did overlap with his criminal indictment in one instance. In March 2020, Belton successfully persuaded the court to remove his GPS ankle monitor because he said it interfered with his work as a "lobbyist."

"Belton now wishes to eliminate the GPS location monitoring condition which requires him to wear an electronic ankle bracelet," Belton's attorney wrote in a court filing. "Belton has advised me that he is a lobbyist and the electronic ankle bracelet presents a problem for him with security on his frequent entries into the State House in Columbia, South Carolina."

Belton and the South Carolina Democratic Party did not return requests for comment.

In addition to his affiliation with Steyer and Matthews, Belton has worked with an array of prominent South Carolina Democrats through his state party leadership role. Gubernatorial candidates Joe Cunningham and Mia McLeod attended the South Carolina Democratic Party Black Caucus's "Sunday Dinner" event in March, as did former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. Belton's self-described "grassroots political action" nonprofit, Vision Walkers, also provided security for House majority whip Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) during an August 2020 event in Columbia.

Due to the size and complexity of Belton's federal drug case—the indictment lists 23 additional defendants—the operative's trial has been delayed on at least four occasions as attorneys sort through evidence. Belton is scheduled to travel to California for trial in August, just two months after Matthews will face off against two opponents in South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary election. He won't have to worry about covering the travel costs, however. In March 2021, the court granted a request from Belton's attorney that orders the U.S. Marshals Service to "furnish defendant Jason Donnell Belton with air fare, lodging, and per diem subsistence expenses in connection with the trial of this case."

Belton's 2018 arrest was not his first significant run-in with law enforcement. In 2007, local police arrested Belton over his involvement in a drive-by shooting. Belton, who was 19 at the time, received six months' probation for "criminal conspiracy," court records show.

But the political operative's criminal history

and active legal battle are not the only sources

of controversy for South Carolina Democrats.

Belton's business partner, fellow C&J

Consulting and Vision Walkers cofounder Craig

Khanwell, is a longtime follower of anti-Semitic

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who

has compared Jews to termites. Khanwell—

who serves as South Carolina Democratic Party

Black Caucus second chair—has referred to

Farrakhan as his father

figure, praised Farrakhan as "the epitome of

the greatest among men," and argued that

accusations of anti-Semitism are merely "a

trick" to "stifle legitimate criticism of Jews and

Zionist Israel."

Khanwell has also espoused extreme anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. In one Instagram post, he said taking the vaccine would mean giving Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and other "white" men "control of my molecular information." In another post, Khanwell shared a TikTok that called COVID the "biggest hoax of America" and speculated that those who died from the virus may have actually died from the flu. In June 2021, the South Carolina Democratic Party blamed Republicans for the state's "extremely low vaccination rates."

Published under: Crime, Democratic Party, Drugs, South Carolina, 

BLACK LIVES MURDER

THE BLACK SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE

 https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/black-lives-murder-most-violent.html

Four BLACK teens will be tried as adults on

second-degree murder charges in New Orleans

after prosecutors said they carjacked 73-year-

d grandmother Linda Frickley and dragged her

down the street while she was still attached to

her vehicle until her arm was severed. She died

on the scene moments later, WWL reported.

 

Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge
the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Jews and Christians], until they pay the Jizya [the tax for being a Jew or Christian] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

 

Outcry over Louis Farrakhan Rant Calling Prominent Jews Including Alan Dershowitz ‘Satan’

 

DEBORAH DANAN

Notorious antisemite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan live-streamed a three-hour Independence Day rant on YouTube where he calls prominent Jewish Americans, including Jonathan Greenblatt and Alan Dershowitz, “Satan,” as well as repeating the lie Israel was behind  George Floyd’s killing.

The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM) on Wednesday called on YouTube to remove the video, saying it was “in clear contravention of YouTube’s own policies on hate speech.”

Farrakhan’s Fourth of July address also aired Saturday on Revolt TV, a cable channel owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs. Combs encouraged his 15.6 million Twitter followers to watch the video, tweeting “Everyone can watch…Just not the scared ones.”

Everyone can watch… Just not the scared ones.

— Diddy (@Diddy) July 4, 2020

In the address, the 87-year-old Nation of Islam leader called the head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jonathan Greenblatt, “Satan.”

“Mr. Greenblatt, you are Satan. Those of you that say that you’re Jews, I will not even give you the honor of calling you a Jew. You are not a Jew… you are Satan and it is my job now to pull the cover off of Satan so that every Muslim when he sees Satan, pick up a stone, as we do in Mecca,” Farrakhan said.

“When you know who Satan is, you don’t have to kill him [but] the stone of truth, that’s what you throw. We cast truth at falsehood till we knock out its brains,” he continued.

He also called Jewish renowned defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz  “a skillful deceiver” and “Satan masquerading as a lawyer.”

Farrakhan also implicated Israel in the death of George Floyd and in police violence in general.

“That’s why you gotta come at us like a coward,” he said. “Like snakes trying to wrap yourself around us so you could give us the treatment that you were taught in Israel. You may, as you gonna stop your police from going to Israel to learn how to kill better.”

“Your days of killing us without consequence are over,” he added.

Greenblatt took to Twitter to respond to Farrakhan’s “trademark antisemitism.”

“This is routine for Farrakhan- give him a platform, he never fails to espouse hatred,” Greenblatt said.

CAM Director Sacha Roytman-Dratwa wrote in a letter addressed to Matt Halprin, YouTube’s vice president of global trust and safety:

Louis Farrakhan has a long history of antisemitism, incorporating it into the very legitimate, important fight for civil rights and equality. His perversion of these values by promoting hatred and dehumanization of Jews is quite simply unacceptable.

According to CAM, by allowing the video, which has garnered nearly 900,000 views in three days, to remain on its site, “YouTube is allowing him to hijack the worthy cause of racial justice and use the video sharing site as a platform for anti-Semitism.”

“[Farrakhan] even suggested the Jewish community seeks to kill him, saying, ‘If you [Jews] make that move, I can guarantee your destruction,'” the letter reads.

In his address, Farrakhan bizarrely attempted to disavow accusations of antisemitism.

“They tell lies to make you think I am a bigot or antisemite, so that you won’t listen to what I’m saying. So far they’ve been pretty successful,” he said.

“If you really think I hate the Jewish people, you don’t know me at all. [I’ve never] uttered the words of death to the Jewish people,” he went on.

In the past his rancorous antisemitic rants have included calling Jews members of the “Synagogue of Satan” and claiming Jesus called the Jews “the children of the devil.”

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said he was not surprised by Farrakhan’s remarks.

“At this stage of history, no one can be surprised by the rants of America’s Godfather of antisemitism,” he told The Algemeiner.

Cooper also condemned Farrakhan’s “lurid antisemitic conspiracy linking the Jewish state to the death of George Floyd.”

  

The new Fox ‘Soul’ network has announced that it will air Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s “Message to America” on a special July 4th program, despite his history of racism, antisemitism, and homophobia.

Fox ‘Soul’ Network to Air Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan July 4

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The new Fox ‘Soul’ network has announced that it will air Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s “Message to America” on a special July 4th program, despite his history of racism, antisemitism, and homophobia.

LIVE ON FOX SOUL: THE CRITERION

THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN will deliver his MESSAGE TO AMERICA on JULY 4th at 11am ET / 8am PT.

For More information visit https://t.co/cQCGt59mm7 and tune into FOX https://t.co/ZQ7BibvsBi or Download the FOX SOUL APP pic.twitter.com/CdJoQLcEnP

— foxsoultv (@foxsoultv) June 26, 2020

Farrakhan’s history of hateful rhetoric is well-documented. In 2018, he compared Jews to termites. That same year, he drew criticism for defending the use of the phrase “death to America” during a conversation with students in Iran.

The main FOX network launched Fox Soul in January in an effort to reach African American audiences — and to reach beyond the conservative branding of Fox News. Fox Soul offers four hours of streaming programing daily.

Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D), founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, made an impassioned plea on Twitter on Sunday for Fox Soul to cancel the program.

.@AmericansAA calls upon @FOXTV to immediately cancel the planned JULY 4 broadcast of Dishonorable Minister of Hate @LouisFarrakhan on @foxsoultv@splcenter considers the Nation of Islam to be an extremist hate group. So why amplify this hateful voice?!#CancelFarrakhanNow! pic.twitter.com/FJo632h4cR

— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) June 28, 2020

 

The advertisement (above) for Fox Soul’s special Farrakhan broadcast includes a link to the Nation of Islam’s website.

The website (link not provided) is billing Farrakhan’s appearance as The Criterion: Announcement to the World. The website also includes links to purchase the Nation of Islam’s antisemitic trilogy, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.

The Nation of Islam has had controversial relationships with the anti-Trump “Women’s March,” and provided security for the recent funeral of George Floyd.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

Black Lives Matter: Not Just Communist, But Viciously Anti-Semitic Too

No matter the color of their skin, Jews are going to be labeled “white.”

June 29, 2020 

Clare M. Lopez

 

By the time violent rioters tore through the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Fairfax, Los Angeles on the night of Saturday May 30, 2020, it was too late. The vicious antisemitic, anti-Israel language of the M4BL and Black Lives Matter’s demands that included accusations against Israel of “apartheid” and “genocide” had been brushed aside. Black Lives Matter (BLM) delegations had traveled to the Middle East to endorse Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria and pose for photo ops with the Palestinian flag. Statements from delegation leaders spoke of “occupation, ethnic cleansing and brutality” that Israel supposedly has perpetrated against the region’s Arab-Muslim population.

Even when city after city across America went up in flames after the May 25, 2020 killing of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer, with BLM ‘protesters’ assaulting private businesses, their owners, and law enforcement officers alike, smashing store fronts, setting fires, and destroying property, some among America’s Jewish leadership could hardly get their statements of support out fast enough. Jewish American organizations, the Reform Movement, rabbinical leadership figures, progressive and Zionist activists, even the Hasidic Community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York City all practically fell over one another in their haste to endorse the BLM movement.

The Jewish Federation of Santa Barbara was no different. On June 13, 2020, the group – including, among others, the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, ADL Santa Barbara Tri-Counties, Santa Barbara Congregation of B’nai B’rith and Santa Barbara Hillel – issued a statement to condemn “racism” and “institutional biases.” The Focus Project, whose online website is remarkably empty, disseminated a set of talking points on June 16, 2020 that appear to date from September 2019. An increasingly popular trope is included among them that distorts the ancient Jewish term ‘Tikkun Olam’ in a way to make it seem like some kind of modern-day social justice program. In fact, ‘Tikkun Olam’ is a Kabbalist term that made its way into Judaism by way of the Aleinu prayer that is specific to Rosh Hashanah. ‘Tikkun Olam’ is not from the Torah (md’oraita) in origin at all – and therefore not one of the 613 obligatory commandments (mitzvot) nor anywhere to be found in the normative rabbinical literature concerning the praxises of Jewish Law (Halacha). Rather, as a kind of companion bit of moral guidance, ‘Tikkun Olam’ urges Jews to repair one’s individual relationship to the Almighty by way of observance of the actual ‘mitzvot’, or obligatory commandments that lead to perfecting personal behavior.

Now, just as ‘perfecting of one’s personal behavior before the Almighty’ has nothing to do with the social justice narrative per se, neither does it have anything to do with supporting a communist/Marxist, pro-Maoist organization, one of whose BLM co-founders’ declaration of the group’s Marxist ideology was featured on Twitter just days ago. Yes, the BLM movement was founded by three African-American women with longtime Marxist backgrounds: Alicia Garza, Opal I. Tometi, and Patrisse M. Cullors. Its original Platform (issued in August 2016, but scrubbed up a bit in its more recent iteration) called for collective ownership of all resources, the breaking up of banks, redistribution of wealth by way of confiscatory taxes on ‘high earners,’ free health care, and free education. Truly, Karl Marx would have blushed.

But back to the question of how BLM rioters came to be rampaging through Jewish neighborhoods of Los Angeles, CA, reportedly shouting “F___Jews”, and spray painting “F___Israel” and “Free Palestine” on the walls of the Congregation Beth Israel and at least four other synagogues. How did Jews come to be collectivized into the enemy “white privilege proletariat” class by these BLM Marxists?

That original BLM Platform also explicitly supports the BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) movement. Another indicator comes from Cullors (who organized the 30 May pogrom in LA): she reportedly told a New York Times reporter, “Let’s go into the heart of what is symbolically white in Los Angeles, which is Beverly Hills…These people need to hear our pain and our grief. We wanted to bring this to communities who often aren’t dealing with police violence.” No matter the color of their skin, therefore, Jews are going to be labeled “white”—as a pejorative from which it is always going to be impossible to escape. It goes back farther than that, however. By 2015, BLM representatives traveled to the Middle East to make common cause with Palestinians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. Fast forward to late May 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd, and the Democratic Socialists of America’s BDS national working group blatantly tried to link that killing to Israel, by claiming that U.S. police forces learned riot control techniques from Israeli police. Then, on June 1, Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, published a hideous cartoon at its website showing an Israeli soldier with his knee on the neck of a keffiyeh’ed Palestinian, arm-in-arm with an American police officer with his knee on the neck of a black man. The article it accompanied was entitled “Al-Awda PRRC statement of solidarity for Black lives and Black struggle.”

The BLM’s Marxist agenda is on full display across America today. Exploitation of the insurrectionist riots in which it plays a leading role to demonize Jews and Israel is, too. 

Raymond Ibrahim Interview: Truth About Islam Must Be Acknowledged

How an ideology's teachings are antithetical to Western values.

Fri Sep 11, 2020 

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Note: Journalist Niram Ferretti interviews Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, for the Italian publication, L’Informale (original here).  Pasted below are excerpts from the English version.

Question: How much is the concept of jihad intended as holy war, central to the way Islam has interpreted itself during the centuries?

The concept of jihad was central from the start—at least according to the earliest Muslim historians who often portray the first warriors of Allah as being zealously motivated by the notion of jihad.

Question: The last time that Islam tried to penetrate Europe through war was on the 12^th of September 1683 at Kalhenberg, near Vienna, where 65.000 thousand Christians fought against 200,000 Ottoman Turks. For how long after that date did jihad against the West stopped and when and why was it resumed?

Raids continued for some time, particularly by sea, and well into the late 1700s, meaning for about a century after the successful defense of Vienna.  Even as the Ottoman Empire was beginning its slow retreat from eastern Europe, the Muslim slavers of the so-called Barbary States of North Africa wreaked havoc all along the coasts of Europe—even as far as Iceland.  The United States of America’s first war—which it fought before it could even elect its first president—was against these Islamic slavers.  When Thomas Jefferson and John Adams asked Barbary’s ambassador why his countrymen were enslaving American sailors, the “ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that … it was their right and duty to make war upon them [non-Muslims] wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners….”

Question: In his seminal book of 1996, Samuel P. Huntington wrote about Islam and the West the following sentence, “Kto? Kovo? Who is to rule? Who is to be ruled? The central issue of politics defined by Lenin is the root of the contest between Islam and the West”. Do you agree?

Yes, inasmuch as that Muslims must always work to make Islam rule over non-Muslims, based on their sharia, which while allowing for truces and times of peace—particularly when Islam is weak vis-à-vis infidels—also sees the spread of Muslim rule as the culmination of the Islamic mission that began in the early 630s.

Question: Let us now talk about your new book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. What has brought you to write a book focused specifically on the battles which have occurred along the centuries between Islam and the West?

Yes, as indicated by the title, the book is a military history between Islam and the West, narrated around their eight most decisive clashes, the first and last of which occurred more than a millennium apart.  But while the eight battles/sieges form the centerpieces of the book’s eight chapters, the bulk of the narrative chronologically traces and tells the general, but much forgotten story of Islam and the West, most of which of course revolved around warfare—with all the attendant death, destruction, slavery, and geopolitical demarcations and map rearrangements. We can say I began working on portions of this book some twenty years ago—since around 1998-99, when I first started doing academic research for what became my MA thesis in History: a close examination, including through the original Arabic and Greek sources, of the battle of Yarmuk—the first major military encounter between Islam and the Eastern Roman Empire in 636, highlighted in Chapter 1 of the Sword and Scimitar.

Question: To what extent is the Islamic terrorism that we are facing today a continuation of the battles between Islam and the West that you describe in Sword and Scimitar?   

To a very great extent.  Both the motivation and the pattern of terrorist acts are very much mirror reflections of past Islamic motivations and patterns.  In other words, from the start to finish, the book pages are full of all the ugly words and deeds committed by modern groups such as the Islamic State—ordering Europeans to convert to Islam or face the sword; the willful destruction of churches; the mass slaughter—including by beheading, crucifixion, or burning—of Christian defenders, and the mass enslavement and rape of Christian women and children—all of these permeate the pages of my book.

Question: Islam is a way of life. It is a complete set of ideas and rules which differs deeply from our Western values. Is there any chance of an accommodation between Islam and Western societies or this is just wishful thinking?

Can water and oil mix?  In the same manner, pure Islamic teachings and pure Western values are often antithetical to one another.  For example, the West believes in freedom of religion, whereas in Islam those who seek to apostatize are penalized, including by death; the West believes in freedom of speech, whereas in Islam any critical talk concerning Muhammad can get one killed.   One can go on and on but the point should be clear.  Of course, a nominal/secular Muslim may be able to assimilate in a Western society, but that is not a reflection of Islam, which is hardly nominal but rather a full way of life based on sharia.

Question: According to you what are the ways in which Europe on one side and the United States on the other should face the reality of Islam in such a manner that could be helpful both for Westerners and Muslims? What are the false assumptions that must be rejected?

First, the truth must be acknowledged—including for example the truth that, for well over a millennium, Muslims invaded European/Christian territory on the same logic that Islamic terror groups cite—that it is their right to invade, conquer, butcher, and enslave infidels for no less a reason that because they are non-Muslims.  If this is how Muslims have been behaving for centuries, is there really any need to find “reasons” why some of them are behaving so now?  Are grievances, territorial disputes, etc., necessary to explain this unwavering hostility?  Once these facts are embraced, the rest, including policy—for instance, the question of Muslim immigration—should become self-evident.

Question: How inbred is religious violence in Islam and how it differs from the way in which it is presented in the Bible and has accompanied Christianity in the course of its history?

Many apologist for Islam like to claim that the Bible, especially the Jewish scriptures (or the Old Testament), is just as if not more bloody and violent than the Koran—so why do we insist that Muslim violence is rooted to Muslim scriptures? The problem with comparing violence in the Bible — both Old and New Testaments — with violence in the Koran is that it conflates history with doctrine. The majority of violence in the Bible is recorded as history; a description of events. Conversely, the overwhelming majority of violence in the Koran is doctrinally significant. The Koran uses open-ended language to call on believers to commit acts of violence against non-Muslims. See “Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?” for my most comprehensive and documented treatment of this tired apologia.

 

Chelsea Handler Shares ‘Powerful’ Video of Racist Antisemite Louis Farrakhan

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/06/15/chelsea-handler-shares-powerful-video-of-racist-antisemite-louis-farrakhan/

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15 Jun 2020806

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Comedian Chelsea Handler shared a video on Instagram Sunday by Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan — widely considered a racist, antisemite, and homophobe — and declared: “I learned a lot from watching this powerful video.”

The video shows a snippet of Phil Donahue’s television program in 1990, in which he interviewed Farrakhan over two days. Handler’s comment accompanied the clip:

The video begins with a white woman asking Farrakhan why Americans cannot “come together” regardless of race.

Farrakhan attempts to tell her the she, and others, look at black people “as second-class, inferior citizens.”

To an older woman who confessed her fear of racial violence, he declared: “We do not have a history of killing white people. White people have a history of killing us.” Some audience members, from the Nation of Islam applauded.

It is not clear exactly what Handler “learned” from the video. In the comments, she acknowledged that he is antisemitic but appeared to defend him.

Farrakhan has a long history of incendiary rhetoric, calling Jews “termites” in 2018.

Handler, whose politics are left-wing, tweeted over the weekend: “Junteenth [sic] should be a national holiday but with gravity – a day of reflection and mourning.

Juneteenth is observed in some black communities as a celebration of emancipation.

Handler also referred to next weekend’s rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a “white supremacist rally” because of violent race riots that took place 99 years ago in Tulsa on a different date (May 31-June 1, 1921).

 

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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Workers’ Rights Champion Warnock Took Thousands From CEO Who Called His Employees ‘Dumb Dolphins’

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Alana Goodman • April 30, 2022 4:59 am

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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) raked in thousands in campaign donations from the controversial CEO who called his employees "dumb dolphins," just days after the businessman went viral for abruptly firing 900 employees over a pre-Christmas Zoom call.

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg gave a total of $8,700 to Warnock, including the maximum $2,900 donation to the senator's campaign committee on Dec. 31, according to campaign finance records.

Garg—who has been accused by investors of misappropriating millions and once berated his employees as a "bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS"—made the donations to Warnock while he took a month-long leave of absence to deal with public backlash from the mass layoffs on Dec. 1.

The contributions from a man who has been dubbed the "poster child for bad bosses" could undercut Warnock's attempt to portray himself as a champion of workers' rights and opponent of corporate greed. Warnock has campaigned in support of "equitable employment practices" and blamed inflation on "greedy corporations" that are "taking advantage of the pandemic's economic pressures to rake in unbelievable profits at the expense of Georgia families."

The senator has faced criticism from Republicans for reportedly accepting more than $480,000 from corporate interests, after pledging to forgo corporate PAC donations.

The Georgia Republican Party said Garg's donation shows that Warnock is "so desperate to hold on to power, no money is too dirty."

"Warnock claims he is fighting for Georgians, but he's really just looking out for himself," a spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon.

Warnock's campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Better.com did not respond to a request for comment.

Garg late last year shot to international infamy after employees posted clips of him axing 9 percent of the company's workforce, whom he accused of "stealing" from him by not putting in enough hours, during a Zoom meeting.

The public relations mishap followed a string of legal challenges for the mortgage lender CEO, who has also faced lawsuits from angry investors and his former business partner Raza Kahn. During a court deposition, Garg reportedly threatened to "staple [Kahn] against a fucking wall and burn him alive," according to Forbes.

Garg returned to Better.com in January. The company laid off an additional 3,000 employees last month.

Garg has donated to Democrats in prior elections. He gave $2,800 to President Joe Biden in 2019, $40,800 to New Jersey senator Cory Booker in 2020 and 2021, and $5,600 to New York representative Gregory Meeks in 2020.

The Georgia Senate race is expected to be one of the most competitive of the midterm elections and could determine which party controls the upper chamber next year. Warnock, who won the seat in the 2020 special election, is likely to face Republican primary frontrunner Herschel Walker, a former NFL star. The candidates are tied in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

 JOE BIDEN: AMERICA’S DRUG DEALER!

 https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/joe-biden-americas-drug-dealer-but-then.html

From April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. An overwhelming majority of those deaths came from opioids, and fentanyl smuggling has surged at the southern border since the start of Joe Biden's presidency. Joseph Simonson and Collin Anderson