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By Jason Walsh Venture capitalist and former  Hillary Clinton  donor Sean Maguire announced he had donated $300,000 to Trump’s campaign following his guilty verdict on Thursday, stating he refuses to “live in a society where people are afraid to speak.” The former president was convicted on all 34 counts on Thursday. The news came as many decried the verdict as a symbol of America’s final descent into a third-world banana republic. Maguire was one of many high-profile people who began supporting Trump following the  verdict . “I just donated $300k to President Trump,” Maguire posted on X. “The timing isn’t a coincidence.” I just donated $300k to President Trump The timing isn't a coincidence https://t.co/LDU4nJ8FBx — Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) May 30, 2024 The venture capitalist, who donated to and voted for Hillary in 2016, also posted a lengthy article explaining his decision. “I know that I’ll lose friends for this. Some will refuse to do bus...

By HAROLD HUTCHISON Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Thursday that he doubts a New York appellate court will overturn former President Donald Trump’s conviction in his Manhattan trial. A Manhattan jury of five women and seven men  convicted  Trump on 34 counts of falsification of business records Thursday after nearly 12 hours of deliberations. Dershowitz said he predicted the conviction multiple times, including in his book, “Get Trump,” before saying that he believes appellate judges will be reluctant to overturn the jury’s decision because they might be biased against the former president. “This is a very sad day for American justice. I have now added one banana to my usual banana republic: A grouping, umm, we’re up to seven or eight at this point- and it’s a worse day for America than it actually is for Donald Trump,” Dershowitz said. “Don’t know what the impact will be on Trump. Don’t know what it’ll be on his electoral prospects, he’s probably not go...

By Sister Toldjah With all the media- driven  manufactured outrage surrounding how Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's wife, Martha-Ann, has in the past chosen to fly the American flag (upside down, briefly) at their Virginia  home  and the Revolutionary War-era "Appeal to Heaven" flag at their New Jersey beach  house , it was only a matter of time before another nemesis of the radical left got dragged into the debate. North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, as RedState readers are well aware, is despised by the Democrat/media machine precisely because he refuses to be controlled and pigeon-holed by them. He's been falsely branded a sexist, an  antisemite , an insurrectionist, a conspiracy theorist - you name it, he's been accused of it. Robinson has had a meteoric rise in North Carolina politics, as we've discussed  before , and is now the Old North State's Republican 2024 gubernatorial nominee. He'll take on Democrat nominee Josh Stein, the state...

By Bob Hoge Legendary actor Robert De Niro has been doing everything in his power to make us forget his iconic roles and instead regard him as an unhinged zealot maniacally obsessed with former president and current GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump. His embarrassing outbursts have shown that maybe he wasn’t acting when he played all those vicious thugs that made him famous. Raging madness: But now even Hollywood is taking note, as a broadcasters group has yanked their support for the Raging Bull. A broadcasters trade association is pulling a philanthropy award it had planned to give to Robert De Niro after the actor  bashed former President Donald Trump  on behalf of the Biden campaign earlier this week. The National Association of Broadcasters has revoked its award and invitation to the Celebration of Service to America awards event to De Niro because the group thought his recent work and comments on behalf of the president’s re-election campaign would “create a distr...

By Jim Hᴏft A massive fire broke out at Farina Farms Inc. in Marion County, Illinois, on Wednesday night, resulting in the deaths of millions of chickens. The farm is one of the largest free-range egg facilities in the country. The fire, which began around 6:30 p.m. along Highway 37, quickly escalated into a 5-alarm fire, requiring the intervention of at least 20 different fire departments from surrounding areas, according to  WAND TV . Described as “humongous” by Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps, the fire engulfed multiple buildings spanning 200-300 yards in length. The smoke was so dense that it was visible on FOX 2’s Power Doppler radar, reaching altitudes between 13,000 and 15,000 feet and could be seen for miles around,  WGN9  reported. “The fire at the Chicken Farm south of Farina is so hot it is actually producing a rare type of cloud over it. It’s called a “pyrocumulus cloud.” They form over large fires (typically wildfires) due to the int...

By Cam Edwards In the fifteen years since the Heller  decision came down, many gun control supporters have decided to quit arguing that the Second Amendment doesn't protect an individual right to keep and bear arms. Instead, they've fallen back to the position that, even if there is a right to keep and carry a gun included in the Constitution, it can be subjected to so many "reasonable" regulations that it can be eviscerated beyond recognition without ever crossing the line into infringement. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), is one of those gun-control flat earthers still clinging to the idea that the Supreme Court got it wrong in Heller , In his view, we've never possessed the right to keep and bear arms, at least not outside of service in a well-regulated militia.  Raskin said people who liken Jan. 6 to the American Revolution are wrong, he said, and have perverted the Second Amendment's wording about a "well-regulated mili...

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By JASON COHEN Democratic strategist James Carville said there is apprehension in the party and that people should not disregard the possibility that President Joe Biden will not be a presidential candidate by the election. Former President Donald Trump is  beating  Biden in the five critical swing states of Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,  according  to a May New York Times/Siena College  survey . Carville said on the “Politics War Room” podcast that there is a chance Biden will not be the Democrats’ nominee in response to a question about whether the president should exit the race if he does poorly in his upcoming debate with Trump, and as he continues to struggle in swing state polls. “I got to tell you, there’s, I don’t say panic, but there is real, real unease in the party,” Carville said. “And you know, sometimes you go years with nothing happening, and then you go weeks with everything happening.” LISTEN: “It’s ...

By Janice Hisle The outcome of former President Donald Trump’s New York records-falsification trial is most likely to influence undecided voters—a sliver of the electorate that could exert an outsized impact on the Nov. 5 presidential election. “This is a pivotal moment in the 2024 race,” American political history professor Jeff Bloodworth told The Epoch Times as jurors began deliberations on May 29. Mr. Bloodworth, who teaches at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, said suburban college-educated voters probably would allow the trial’s outcome to influence their votes. The former president was convicted of 34 business-records falsification charges; an appeal is almost certain, legal experts said. Polls have shown that a conviction was poised to sway some voters away from President Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Trump campaign pollsters predict the effect on votes will be minimal. However, it appears that the verdict is having a big immedi...

By Jim Hᴏft In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Thursday, ruling that the New York State Department of Financial Services violated the NRA’s First Amendment rights by effectively blacklisting the group. The decision, surprisingly authored by far-left Justice Sonia Sotomayor, affirmed that the NRA “plausibly alleged” that its free speech rights were stifled by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) under directives perceived to be politically motivated. The case, rooted in actions taken by former DFS Superintendent Maria T. Vullo, has ignited fierce debates over the intersection of regulation and free speech. Vullo, acting on what many conservatives see as a directive from former Governor Andrew Cuomo, issued “guidance letters” to financial institutions in 2018 which effectively coerced them into severing ties with the NRA. These actions followed closely on the heels of the...