As it turns out, the FBI and Dept. of Homeland Security warned the Trump administration that an incident like Charlottesville was imminent. Noting that “Trump doesn’t want to call out white supremacists” but “the FBI already did,” Foreign Policy reported on Monday that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “warned” the White House […]
Republican Politicians And ‘Colossal Failure By Prosecutors’ To Blame For Not-Guilty Verdicts For Oregon Occupiers Describing the verdict as “a colossal failure by prosecutors,” The Washington Post reports that no one expected the not guilty verdicts handed down two weeks ago in the trial of the Oregon occupiers. When jury deliberations began last month in […]
Franklin Graham is a Christian evangelical extremist, and on a recent broadcast of the American Family Association’s “Pray and Vote” he said that conservative Christians are “on the precipice of losing the United States of America.” While Graham’s overall message is hysterical and not at all true – because Christian evangelicals do not own the […]
Pandemonium breaks out in a courtroom after an Oregon jury acquits the Oregon occupiers. This Thursday a Portland, Oregon, jury acquitted “Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and five co-defendants not guilty of conspiring to prevent federal employees from doing their jobs through intimidation, threat or force during the 41-day occupation of the Malheur National […]
The co-chair of a Trump veterans’ group to plead guilty this week for his role in the 2014 Bundy standoff. Jerry DeLemus, a 61-year-old Tea Party activist and Marine Corps veteran, is scheduled to plead guilty to federal charges for his role in Cliven Bundy’s 2014 armed standoff between Bundy’s anti-government followers and Bureau of […]