In The News Today: 7/17/2024.

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Harrowing 911 call reveals reason for horrific Mormon murder-suicide

A harrowing 911 call has revealed what may have led to the gruesome murder-suicide of a wealthy couple in Utah.

Olin Johnson, 57, from American Fork, shot dead his 52-year-old wife, Kerilyn Johnson, at their $1.5 million home last month before turning the gun on himself.

One of the Johnson’s six children was the one to find their bodies and call 911, with the eight-minute call shedding light on what led to the shocking tragedy.

The caller first says: ‘I think my dad killed my mom, but then he killed himself.’

When pressed for details, he adds that ‘there’s been a lot of drama recently in the household. Just within the past four days.’

Olin posted a chilling final Instagram message before he shot his wife dead and then killed himself. …


Libya arrests airline official for trafficking illegal aliens to the USA

According to the GNA Attorney General’s office, Ghadames Air was transporting foreign men to Nicaragua for the purpose of illegally entering the United States. The director has not been named in public statements. The airline was founded in 2021.

The Obama administration initially sponsored the GNA. Its principal backers today are Turkey, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

For over ten years, has been fighting a civil war against the Libyan National Army [LNA] led by longtime former CIA asset Khalifa Haftar. The LNA is primarily supported by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

GNA-controlled territory has long been a hotbed of Jihadists and criminal gangs. For years, it was one of the main staging points for illegal immigration into Europe.

However, the GNA and the LNA are now both deporting illegal immigrants to cooperate with Italy and the EU in curbing the flow.


Peter Navarro released from prison ahead of expected RNC speech

Peter Navarro, a former trade advisor in the Trump administration, has been released from prison Wednesday after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the now-defunct United States House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack.

Peter Navarro was released from prison just in time to speak at the Republican National Convention. The convention, which is taking place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, concludes Thursday evening, the day after Navarro’s sentence ends.

While incarcerated, Navarro received a visit from Donald Trump Jr., who reported Navarro was in “good spirits” and emphasized the importance of showing support. Former President Trump has expressed his intention to rehire Navarro if he is reelected, despite Navarro’s statements that he does not seek a pardon from either Trump or President Biden.

Another former Trump White House aide, Steve Bannon, began his prison sentence for similar charges on July 1st. Bannon, who described himself as a “political prisoner,” was initially allowed to remain free during his appeal, but a federal appeals court’s decision led to his incarceration. Bannon’s release is set for October 29th, just days before the presidential election.


THIS is What Trump is Fighting For

The Left insists that former president Donald Trump is a fascist, practically akin to Hitler, whose immediate response to nearly being assassinated was to tell his followers to “fight.” But Glenn has a different take:

Trump clearly wasn’t telling his supporters to take to the streets. In fact, Glenn believes there’s only two reasons why Trump threw his fist in the air:

“Either he’s a psycho or he actually believes in something that’s worth fighting for.” That “something,” Glenn explains, is the true American way, not the ACTUALLY fascist global government system that President Biden is all on board with.

In fact, Glenn says, that’s why the global elites must destroy Trump: He’s the only one standing in their way.


New Details Emerge On Saturday’s Rally | The Dana Show 07.17.24

Biden speaks at the NAACP. The Secret Service received intel on an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. The mainstream media is concerned that the viral photos at the Trump rally are free PR.

Dana chimes in on the criticism on the RNC platform including a union president trashing capitalism and the reading of a Sikh prayer on stage.

Actor/Director Nick Searcy joins us to discuss whether the right should engage in cancel culture as a tactic where it concerns free speech like they do on the left.


Free Speech: The Foundation Of Rumble

@rumble CEO @chrispavlovski tells @charliekirk11 that his company and employees vow to protect the First Amendment and not bow down to any foreign government.


Elon Musk Issues Brutal Reply to Gavin Newsom After Disgraced California Governor Accuses Him of ‘Bending the Knee’ to Trump

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X owner Elon Musk and California Governor Gavin Newsom got into a bit of a social media fight Tuesday over President Trump, and an unsurprising winner emerged.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump was nearly assassinated Saturday night during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, by a 20-year-old Democrat donor named Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Following the assassination attempt, Musk not only endorsed Trump but is going to donate a whopping $45 million a month to a pro-Trump Super PAC.

Newsom, perhaps sore over Musk’s announcement Tuesday that he would move SpaceX and X headquarters to Texas because of California’s trans student privacy laws, lashed out at the world’s richest man on X that same day.

He posted a three-year-old Truth Social Post of Trump criticizing Musk after the Tesla CEO said Trump was too old to be President.

“You bent the knee,” whined Newsom.

But Musk had a savage response to Newsom in store that had to sting.

“You never get off your knees,” Musk wrote.


‘There can be ZERO dissent’: Parental rights advocate blasts Newsom’s law forcing schools to keep kids’ transitions secret

California Democrats and the LGBT activists among them have ramped up their years-long campaign to drive a wedge between parents and their children.

Alvin Lui, president of the parental rights advocacy group Courage Is a Habit, told Blaze News that the state has long sought to keep parents in the dark about their kids’ manifestations of gender dysphoria and efforts to transition at school.

However, some school districts have in recent months bucked the trend of secrecy and grooming at school and have instead clued in parents.

The Chino Valley Unified School District under the leadership of Sonja Shaw, for instance, became the first district in the state to embrace a policy last year whereby school officials must inform parents if their kids request to use the bathroom intended for members of the opposite sex as well as if their confused children ask to use names and pronouns that don’t correspond with reality or their official documents.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta took legal action against Shaw’s district on Aug. 28, 2023, claiming it violated privacy laws regarding transvestite students. In October, a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge blocked the district from enforcing some of the related policies until the case was resolved.

On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) went a step further, ratifying Assembly Bill 1955, which forbids districts like the CVUSD from engaging in such transparency.

The law, first introduced by gay Assemblyman Christopher Ward (D) and championed by the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, prohibits school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools from introducing or enforcing rules, regulations, or policies that require employees to disclose to parents “any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”

AB 1955 — which Elon Musk has cited as cause to move two of his major companies out of the state — also shields employees from consequence if they have worked to conceal a child’s confusion from their parents.

Journalist Michael Shellenberger, whose think tank Environmental Progress published the damning WPATH Files, noted Tuesday that the new Democratic law “makes children vulnerable to irreversible and lifelong medical abuse and mistreatment. And it is all based on the pseudoscientific idea that some children are born into the wrong bodies and that we can change a person’s sex through drugs and surgery.”

In pushing through AB 1955, it is clear that Democrats chose to ignore the ever-growing mountain of evidence indicating so-called “gender-affirming care” is not as advertised.

California Assemblyman Bill Essayli (R), who unsuccessfully attempted to advance legislation requiring parental notification in schools, said in a statement, “Today, Governor Gavin Newsom defied parents’ constitutional and God-given right to raise their children by signing AB 1955, which codifies the government’s authority to keep secrets from parents.”

Essayli noted that the bill’s ratification is “immoral and unconstitutional” and promised to challenge it in court.

Already, the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging AB 1955 on behalf of the Chino Valley Unified School District and several Californian parents with children in the system….


How October 7 footage helps the IDF kill Nukhba terrorists one by one

Homes are destroyed, following the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel November 2, 2023 (credit: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

The IDF is working to target and eliminate the terrorists involved in the October 7 massacre who are still operating within the Gaza Strip.

In recent days, the IDF has struck dozens of these terrorists.

On Wednesday, Palestinians reported nine victims from a strike carried out by an Israeli drone on a group near a school in the southern Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. It is believed these were Hamas terrorists, some of whom participated in the October 7 massacre.

The Shin Bet and the IDF have mapped out the Hamas terrorists involved in the massacre.

This mapping was made possible through the analysis of images, videos, and publications uploaded by Hamas members and Gaza civilians on the day of the massacre and at the start of the war, which showed the faces of the terrorists.

The Shin Bet and Military intelligence conducted an investigation and analysis of these images, compiling a list of the names of the terrorists along with their photographs. Another list was created through the interrogation of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad prisoners….


The other Hamas official killed in the strike on Mohammad Deif

An undated photo of Mohammad Deif, the leader of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing.
(photo credit: REUTERS/FILE PHOTO)

Israel is examining preliminary information, according to which a member of Yahya Sinwar’s family was also killed in the act of killing Mohammad Deif. In fact, the possibility that it is one of Sinwar’s brothers is being investigated.

Also, there is already certainty in the IDF that several of Deif’s bodyguards were killed in the assassination, with the assumption being that if his bodyguards were there, he was probably also there.

On Tuesday, IDF spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said on the Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya channel that “Rafa Salama was killed. I confirm this to you. He and Deif were together. Hamas is hiding Deif’s fate. I will tell you something else: Two weeks ago, we attacked in Gaza City other leaders in Hamas, and Hamas is hiding what happened to them.”…


5 radicals who learned there are finally consequences for publicly wishing death upon Trump

While there were ostensibly no real consequences for such ghoulish statements and imagery, a new day has apparently dawned. In the wake of the failed assassination on Trump, radicals have begun to face comeuppances for wishing death upon the president as well as for bemoaning the would-be assassin’s failure to murder his intended target.

Chaya Raichik of the popular Libs of TikTok social media account and others have worked ardently in recent days to highlight ghastly post-shooting commentary from public officials, academics, and others whose hatred evidently blinded them to potential consequence.

Earlier this week, Raichik shared a photo of Alison Scott, a teacher with Ardmore City Schools in Oklahoma. Scott allegedly wrote, “Wish they had a better scope,” in response to a Facebook post that read, “SAY Gent that just SHOT TRUMP’S Ear, I got $500 to put on your books for tryin to save us homie.”

Past cover photos on what appears to be Scott’s Facebook profile indicate she is a BLM-supporting LGBT activist who was supportive of school closures during the pandemic. According to a 2022 Ardmore City Schools profile, Scott worked as a music teacher in the district.

On Tuesday, Ardmore City Schools released a statement indicating it was “aware that a district employee made a statement on a social media platform appearing to condone violence against a public figure. The district has begun a thorough and swift investigation into the matter.”

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s Republican superintendent of public instruction, noted on X, “This is unacceptable. SDE is investigating. We will not allow teachers to cheer on violence against @realDonaldTrump.”

Hours later, Walters provided an update: “I have investigated it enough. I will be taking her teaching certificate. She will no longer be teaching in Oklahoma.”

An elementary school counselor employed by the Yadkin County School District in North Carolina also learned a valuable lesson this week about publicly wishing death on others…..


Mayorkas, DHS accused of interfering with House probe into Trump assassination attempt

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), under impeached Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, is reportedly obstructing the House of Representatives’ investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Key Details:

  • Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) alleges DHS is hindering communication between the Secret Service and the House Oversight Committee.
  • House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), is issuing subpoenas to ensure cooperation from the Secret Service.
  • DHS Secretary Mayorkas has been criticized for his management and policies, leading to his impeachment by the House in February 2024.

Diving Deeper:

The Department of Homeland Security, under the leadership of the impeached Alejandro Mayorkas, is reportedly interfering with the House of Representatives’ investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) disclosed the allegations during an interview at the GOP’s national convention, highlighting significant concerns about the department’s transparency.

Cloud expressed frustration with the DHS’s actions, stating, “It is very concerning that right off the bat, we see DHS obfuscating as opposed to being transparent. This should be something that, regardless of party, we don’t allow this kind of thing in our country.”

Rep. Cloud, a member of the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), revealed that DHS has obstructed scheduled briefings intended to update the committee on the investigation’s progress. “We were scheduled for a first briefing today, just on the facts of the case, what’s going on, what they know now, and DHS has stepped in between the communications now of the Secret Service and the Oversight Committee, and are now trying to control the communication between the two committees,” Cloud stated.

In response to these obstructions, Chairman Comer is issuing subpoenas to compel the Secret Service director to testify. A hearing is scheduled for next Monday to ensure the investigation moves forward. Cloud criticized the administration’s approach, stating, “We’ve seen this administration target political opponents before, and then now fail epically in protecting a former president — and we will say, future — President of the United States. And so this is extremely concerning.”…


Local police warned Secret Service they ‘did not have enough manpower’ to secure building from which gunman fired at Trump: Report

The Washington Post reports that local District Attorney Richard Goldinger said the Secret Service “was informed that the local police department did not have manpower to assist with securing that building.”

The report said a source from within the Secret Service confirmed the claim but only on the condition of anonymity.

Goldinger had previously accused the Secret Service of trying to pass the blame onto local officials and said the federal agency was responsible for the failed security.

“Secret Service was in charge, and so it was their responsibility to make sure that the venue and the surrounding area was secure,” said Goldinger to the Post previously.

“That’s common sense, I think. That’s their job,” Goldinger added. “For them to blame local law enforcement is them passing the blame when they hold the blame, in my opinion.”


MASSIVE ENDORSEMENT’: Trump gets support from Biden backer

Civil Rights attorney Leo Terrell argues Biden is ‘lying’ about Trump’s record with Blacks and Hispanics on ‘Varney & Co.


Caregiver ‘brutally’ attacks woman when she finds him raping her mother, CA cops say

A caregiver was arrested after he was accused of “brutally” attacking a woman who found him raping her mother, California deputies say.

Yumi Zingkhai, 23, of Rohnert Park, faces a number of charges, including rape, attempted murder and elder abuse against a dependent adult, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

The woman arrived at the home shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 14, to find a paid “in-home medical caretaker,” Zingkhai, raping her mother, deputies said.

The woman’s mother, whose age is not disclosed but is described as “elderly,” cannot care for herself, as she “suffers from memory related issues,” according to deputies.

When the daughter “yelled at Zingkhai to stop,” he attacked her, grabbing her by the throat and choking her until she fell unconscious, officials said….


Bongino x Tucker x Don Jr. – LIVE at the RNC


Records show 583 foreign nationals registered to vote in Washington, DC

According to federal law, only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, but a growing number of state and local elections allow non-citizens to vote. Among them are San Francisco and Oakland, California, along with some cities in Maryland and Vermont.

In February, a state appeals court ruled a similar New York City law violates the state constitution.

In May 2024, we received records from the District of Columbia, explaining to illegal aliens and other noncitizens how they can register to vote in local elections.

We received records showing that as of June 583 foreign nationals are registered to vote in Washington, DC. The records from the Board of Elections also confirm that noncitizens can be election workers.

We received the documents in response to a May 14, 2024, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records regarding the number of noncitizens registered to vote in Washington, DC, under the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act….


Another potential plot to kill Trump tracked by US intelligence agencies

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weighs in on the Biden administration’s response to the assassination attempt against former President Trump.


Biden read note with staffer’s critique aloud on call with Dems: ‘You are sounding defensive’

President Biden was handed a private note during a recent call with Democratic House lawmakers telling him to “stay positive” – and he read it out loud. 

A staffer gave the 81-year-old president a note card with tips as he attempted to persuade members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Saturday that he was fit to serve and able to defeat former President Donald Trump on Election Day, the New York Times reported.

“Stay positive, you are sounding defensive,” Biden said on the call, seemingly reading directly from his staffer’s short missive.

One lawmaker told the New York Times that the moment represented how “stage-managed” calls between the president and lawmakers concerned about his re-election chances have seemed. 


Protester arrested after attacking GOP lawmaker outside RNC

Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., recalls being attacked by an anti-Israel protestor while attending the Republican National Convention.