The first rioter tried on Jan. 6 charges gets reduced prison sentence after Supreme Court decision
A Texas man who was the first rioter to go on trial for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was resentenced on Friday to nearly seven years in prison after he delivered an angry, profane rant to the judge who agreed to modestly reduce his original sentence.
Guy Reffitt benefitted from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that led to the dismissal of his conviction on an obstruction charge. His new sentence — six years and eight months — is seven months lower than his original sentence.
Reffitt repeatedly shook his head and appeared to be agitated as he listened to U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich and a prosecutor describe his role in a mob’s attack on the Capitol.
He told the judge that he was “in my feelings” and upset about the “lies and the craziness” that he perceived. “I was not there to take over no government,” Reffitt said. “I love this country.”
“No one has a problem with your feelings,” the judge said. “It’s the actions you took with your feelings.”
Reffitt stormed the Captiol with a holstered handgun on his waist. He also was carrying zip-tie handcuffs and wearing body armor and a helmet equipped with a video camera when he advanced on police officers outside the building. He retreated after an officer pepper sprayed him in the face, but he waved on other rioters who ultimately breached the building.
Reffitt is one of several Jan. 6 defendants to be resentenced after a Supreme Court ruling in June limited the government’s use of a federal obstruction law. The high court ruled 6-3 that a charge of obstructing an official proceeding must include proof that a defendant tried to tamper with or destroy documents — a distinction that applies to few Jan. 6 criminal cases….
Bill Clinton: Young Americans have no idea that Arafat
Former US President Bill Clinton has expressed disbelief over the reaction of young Americans when they learn that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat turned down a historic opportunity for peace and a Palestinian state during the 2000 Camp David talks.
In an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit, promoting his new book Citizen: My Life After The White House, Clinton described how many young people in America are “shocked” when they hear about Arafat’s rejection of a deal that would have granted the Palestinians a state with a capital in East Jerusalem and 96 per cent of the West Bank. “I tell them what Arafat walked away from, and they, like, can’t believe it,” Clinton said.
He went on to emphasise the significance of this decision, referring to it as a “once in a lifetime” opportunity that Arafat rejected.
The deal, negotiated with US mediation, included a proposed resolution for Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a key issue in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“You can’t complain 25 years later when the doors weren’t all still open, and all the possibilities weren’t still there,” Clinton added, reflecting on the lasting consequences of the failed talks.
Clinton explained to the audience that the Camp David summit had represented the best chance for peace in the region, and yet it collapsed just six weeks before the end of his second term…
Biden Gives Aid Abroad While Western NC And Eastern TN Continue Living In Devastation – FEMA Congratulates Itself And Readies To Leave Area
It seems there is something very nefarious going on in Western North Carolina. First off, there are thousands in Western NC and Eastern TN, still completely devastated and without basic necessities. They have lost their homes, their cars, their jobs. Some are living in tents and trailers without running water and limited heat and bathroom resources.
It is a disgrace to hear Joe Biden in Africa announcing foreign aid assistance while leaving Americans without. There are many stories out there in small news outlets, also highlighted recently on MSM Fox News, which has sent reporters down there to bring back the real story.
Unfortunately, the real story is FEMA is not doing near enough.
Our country is not doing what needs to be done to help these people. The red tape of FEMA and disaster and other government aid is not producing results. The government is broken for those who need it most.
Luckily, there are many American private non profits and kind neighbors helping where they can. But there are so many needy and their stories need to be told.
On another important follow up to the article from October, specifically, in the area of Chimney Rock, NC, something is very wrong.
There was a group of about a dozen or so coal miners that cleared the hurricane and flood debris and built a road to reconnect Bat Cave and Chimney Rock so vital supplies could get to the residents. It was alleged and it seems to have been confirmed by multiple reports that FEMA government officials put up a gate to block the new access road and the aid from getting through.
Area residents tore it down, now FEMA is allocating 280K to rebuild this gate and get cameras etc., and threaten any trespassers. They are trying to buy the people’s land for pennies on the dollar and force the people off their land by blocking access and aid.
Apparently there is something valuable here under all the debris. It is said to be rich with minerals the government corrupt operatives want. One has to wonder what all this destruction and the subsequent lack of services meant to clear out the devastated and steal their property is really about?…
The TERRRIFYING theory for DRONE sightings near Trump golf course
Mysterious drones have been spotted near the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey and the surrounding areas. The drones, which are large and loud, have reportedly caught the attention of local law enforcement and the FBI. So, who’s controlling them?
Glenn explains who he believes are the 2 most likely culprits: Our own government and the Chinese Communist Party.
Glenn also discusses a terrifying possibility: drones could drastically change the nature of warfare during the next World War …
Dennis Left the Democratic Party When Reagan Said THIS | Fireside Chat | PragerU
Ronald Reagan had a profound impact on Dennis, helping him recognize where he differed from the Democratic Party—though he held some fairly “liberal” values.
This one sentence completely changed Dennis’s outlook and understanding of the evil that took place in the 20th century.
What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done – And Will Not Do
Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, D.C./New York political, media, and corporate nexus.
But that is precisely the point — to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are not part of it.
Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, is already drawing severe criticism.
His furious enemies cannot go after his resume since he has spent a lifetime in private, congressional, and executive billets, both in investigations and intelligence.
Instead, they claim he is too vindictive and does not reflect the ethos of the FBI.
But what will Patel not do as the new director?
He will not serially lie under oath to federal investigators as did interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a current Patel critic.
He will not forge an FBI court affidavit, as did convicted felon and agency lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.
He will not claim amnesia 245 times under congressional oath to evade embarrassing admissions as did former Director James Comey.
Decorated combat veteran Pete Hegseth is another controversial nominee for secretary of defense.
What will Hegseth likely not do?
Go AWOL without notifying the president of a serious medical procedure as did current Secretary Lloyd Austin?
Install race and gender criteria for promotion and mandate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training?
Insinuate falsely that cabals of white supremacists had infiltrated the military –only to alienate that entire demographic and thus ensure the Pentagon came up 40,000 recruits short?
Oversee the scramble from Kabul that saw $50 billion in U.S. military equipment abandoned to Taliban terrorists?…
CEO assassin left behind key piece of evidence: investigators
The ‘Outnumbered’ panel discussed the latest on the investigation into the brutal killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City as officials continue to search for the assassin.
Boston City council member arrested by FBI on public corruption charges in kickback scheme
Tania Fernandes Anderson, who represents District 7 in Boston, was arrested by FBI agents Friday morning, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Joshua Levy told reporters during a press conference several hours after she was taken into custody without incident.
Agents arrested Anderson, 45, just after 6 a.m. outside her home in Dorchester, about 6 miles south of Boston. Her district includes Dorchester, Roxbury, Fenway and part of the city’s South End.
Steve Kelleher, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Boston, told reporters Anderson surrendered to agents without incident outside her home after they called her outside without incident.
“We believe she was facing personal financial difficulty when she decided to steal for herself,” Kelleher said, calling her alleged crimes “a slap in the face for taxpayers and the city of Boston.”
“This was a situation of her own making,’ the FBI special agent told reporters.
A federal indictment filed shows Anderson faces five federal counts of wire fraud with aiding and abetting, and one federal count of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds.
She was slated to appear in federal court Friday afternoon….
Transgender Activists STORM THE U.S. CAPITOL Bathrooms
In what might be the strangest development in the Nancy Mace versus transgender activists saga — the latter have now resorted to forcing their way into the women’s restroom in protest.
Aaron Siri REVEALS the Shocking Truth Behind Vaccine Trials – SF509
Today I’m talking to Aaron Siri, the attorney taking on Big Pharma and exposing the cracks in vaccine mandates and public health regulation.
From forcing the CDC to release hidden data to challenging mandates all the way to the Supreme Court, Aaron’s work uncovers how profit-driven motives and regulatory conflicts of interest shape the public health narrative.
We discuss the shocking lack of rigorous safety trials for vaccines, the immunity granted to pharmaceutical companies, and the contentious claims about vaccines and autism.
Aaron pulls back the curtain on the systems that prioritize profits over transparency, raising urgent questions about science, power, and individual rights.
Aaron Siri REVEALS the Shocking Truth Behind Vaccine Trials – SF509
Today I’m talking to Aaron Siri, the attorney taking on Big Pharma and exposing the cracks in vaccine mandates and public health regulation. From forcing the CDC to release hidden data to challenging mandates all the way to the Supreme Court, Aaron’s work uncovers how profit-driven motives and regulatory conflicts of interest shape the public health narrative.
We discuss the shocking lack of rigorous safety trials for vaccines, the immunity granted to pharmaceutical companies, and the contentious claims about vaccines and autism.
Aaron pulls back the curtain on the systems that prioritize profits over transparency, raising urgent questions about science, power, and individual rights.
It’s a bold, eye-opening conversation that can only be had on Rumble.
Feds using banks to surveil Americans’ financial data without warrants, House Judiciary says
Federal law enforcement has been manipulating the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) system to gain access to Americans’ financial information without warrants or probable cause, the House Judiciary Committee said Friday.
The panel and its Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its interim report, first obtained by Fox News Digital, which details its findings.
The committee said in the report that the FBI “has manipulated” the SAR’s filing process to treat financial institutions “as de facto arms of law enforcement, issuing ‘requests’ without legal process, that amount to demands for information related to certain persons or activities it considers ‘suspicious.'”
“With narrow exception, federal law does not permit law enforcement to inquire into financial institutions’ customer information without some form of legal process,” the report states. “The FBI circumvents this process by tipping off financial institutions to ‘suspicious’ individuals and encouraging these institutions to file a SAR — which does not require any legal process — and thereby provide federal law enforcement with access to confidential and highly sensitive information.”
The committee began their investigation into government-led financial surveillance earlier this year, after a whistleblower disclosed that following the events of Jan. 6, 2021,
Bank of America “voluntarily and without legal process” provided the FBI with a list of names of all individuals who used a Bank of America credit or debit card in the Washington, D.C., region around that time. …
Catherine Herridge On Plummeting Trust In Media: “It’s About Getting Major Stories Wrong”
This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble.
Trump Reportedly Has Ace Up His Sleeve For Countries That Refuse To Take Back Their Illegal Migrants
The incoming Trump administration is reportedly devising a plan to remove illegal migrants from the United States, even if their home countries refuse to accept them.
Illegal migrants that have been ordered deported by an immigration judge, but hail from a country that refuses to take them back, may be sent to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Grenada, Panama or possibly elsewhere once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, according to NBC News.
Such a plan, which has yet to be confirmed by the transition team, could prove to be a game-changer in the president-elect’s promised goal of conducting the largest deportation initiative in U.S. history.
It’s not immediately clear if these illegal migrants would be allowed to remain and work in the countries in which they are deported, or what type of pressure Trump officials are applying to these host governments. A spokesperson for the Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Foreign governments that refuse to take back deportees have long frustrated federal immigration authorities in multiple administrations. In lieu of remaining in detention indefinitely, many of these individuals may simply be released back into the U.S., even if an immigration judge has ordered them to be removed….
Melania Trump talks ‘incredible’ win in 1st interview since election
First lady Melania Trump joined ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss life after the 2024 presidential election, motherhood, her new memoir, ‘Melania,’ and how she is helping others with her new USA-themed ornaments.
Appeals Court Upholds TikTok Ban: What to Know
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected TikTok’s request to overturn the law, which originally gave TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance until mid-January to sell the popular social media platform to a buyer deemed fit by US officials. TikTok had vowed to fight the law in court, claiming that it infringed on its free speech rights.
In its ruling, the court acknowledged that the ban would require TikTok’s millions of users “to find alternative media of communication” but is justified by the “hybrid commercial threat” China poses to US national security.
“The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States. Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States,” the court wrote.
In response to the appeals court ruling, TikTok said that the ban would “silence the voices of over 170 million Americans here in the US and around the world on January 19th, 2025.”
Lawmakers in both political parties have long voiced concerns that TikTok, which has more than 150 million American users, could be a threat to national security and could be used by the Chinese government to spy on Americans or spread disinformation to further China’s agenda….
ICE Enforcement & Removal Arrests Previously Removed Illegal Convicted Of Burglary, Charged With Sexual Assault… AFTER Hartford Police Released Him On Bond
Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston arrested Christian Maximo Castaneda Negrete, 46, on Dec. 3, after the Hartford Police Department released him on bond for pending sexual assault charges.
“Castaneda, who’s unlawfully present in the United States, was convicted of three felonies in New Britain in 2004 and another felony in Bristol in 2011,” said ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “ICE previously removed him to Peru, but he unlawfully returned to the United States. Castaneda has shown a flagrant disregard for the laws of the United States and for the wellbeing of others, and he’s now accused of second-degree sexual assault.”
Castaneda’s prior convictions include violation of a protective order, first-degree burglary and unlawful restraint. The Connecticut Superior Court in New Britain sentenced him to concurrently serve five years in prison and three years of probation. The Connecticut Superior Court in Bristol convicted him of violating a restraining order in 2011.
ERO Miami removed him to Peru in March 2012.
At some point after his removal, he unlawfully reentered the United States….
Reuters Accidentally Exposes Gaza ‘Famine’ Claims to Be a Downright Lie
The so-called “special investigation” published by Reuters this week examining the global famine prevention system was certainly revealing — though perhaps not in the way the wire agency intended.
While claiming to expose the failures of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system in preventing hunger — failures that Reuters insists are through no fault of the IPC — the investigation inadvertently highlighted glaring flaws in how famines are measured, particularly in Gaza.
The article discusses several famines from around the globe, including the alleged one in Gaza, where the IPC had warned of an “imminent famine” in the northern region. That famine, of course, never materialized, with HonestReporting previously revealing how the IPC quietly walked back its claim.
According to Reuters, however, this inaccurate forecast wasn’t due to dubious data or exaggerated claims — it was, naturally, Israel’s fault.
Citing “Israeli bombing and restrictions on movement” as the obstacles to collecting data on malnutrition and non-trauma-related deaths, Reuters sidesteps key facts.
For example, Israel has facilitated the entry of nearly half a million aid trucks into Gaza since the start of the war — information Reuters conveniently omits. Also missing is any mention of Hamas’ well-documented habit of stealing and hoarding aid….
Iran claims to have conducted successful space launch
Iran said on Friday that it has successfully conducted a space launch with its heaviest payload ever, the latest development in a programme the West alleges improves Tehran’s ballistic missile program.
The launch of the Simorgh rocket comes as Iran’s nuclear programme inches towards successfully enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.
Iran maintains its programme is peaceful, however government officials in the Islamic Republic have been threatening to potentially develop a nuclear bomb as well as an intercontinental ballistic missile. This would allow Itan to use the weapon against distant countries, for example in Europe and the United States.
Iran claims the Simorgh rocket carried an “orbital propulsion system”, in addition to two research systems in a 400km orbit above the Earth. Tehran has long sought to develop a system that can change the orbit of a spacecraft, which would then allow it to geo-synchronise the orbits of its satellites…..
Putin says Russia may deploy Oreshnik ballistic missiles in Belarus in 2025
The announcement followed the signing of a new security pact between the two allied states on Friday that included “mutual defence commitments to protect the sovereignty, independence and constitutional order” of Russia and Belarus, TASS reported.
“If I may be so bold as to publicly ask you to have the … Oreshnik deployed on the territory of Belarus,” state-affiliated agency Interfax quoted Lukashenko addressing Putin at the press conference. Lukashenko added that Oreshnik’s recent launch on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro “had a certain impact on our former partners turned adversaries”.
In response, Putin said deploying the Oreshnik systems in Belarus would be “possible” when Russia expanded their mass production. While the Oreshnik systems deployed in Belarus will be part of the Russian army’s Strategic Rocket Forces, it will “obviously” be up to Minsk to determine their targets, Putin added, according to Interfax.
Oreshnik, which Putin described as a “cutting-edge medium-range system”, was first used in combat to strike the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November…
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