Uruguayan football player Juan Izquierdo passed away at a hospital in Brazil five days after collapsing during a match. He was 27. According to reports, Izquierdo suffered an irregular heartbeat during a Copa Libertadores game last week. Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo said he died at 9:38 p.m. local time following “cardiorespiratory arrest associated with his cardiac arrhythmia.” Juan Izquierdo: Uruguayan footballer dies aged 27 after collapsing on pitch https://t.co/EN7gZQVEdn — (Honest/Ethical/Safe Dr) David Cartland (@CartlandDavid) August 28, 2024 From the Associated Press: Izquierdo was taken to the hospital after he collapsed late in a Copa Libertadores soccer match between Nacional and Sao Paulo at the Brazilian city’s Morumbi Stadium last Thursday. The Uruguayan club posted a statement on social media saying Izquierdo’s death is felt “in deep pain and impact in our hearts” and “all Nacional is in grief for his irreplaceable loss.” South American soccer’s governing body also posted a tribute. CONMEBOL president Alejandro Domínguez said he’s “deeply sorry about the early departure of Juan Izquierdo. “South American soccer is in mourning,” he said. Other federations, including Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, also expressed their condolences. In a statement Monday, doctors at the hospital said Izquierdo was put into neurological critical care because of increased intracranial pressure. He had been on a ventilator since Sunday. Con el más profundo dolor e impacto en nuestros corazones, el Club Nacional de Football comunica el fallecimiento de nuestro querido jugador Juan Izquierdo. Expresamos nuestras más sinceras condolencias a su familia, amigos, colegas y allegados. Todo Nacional está de luto por… pic.twitter.com/mYU28mqw6m — Nacional (@Nacional) August 28, 2024 WATCH: Fallece Juan Izquierdo, futbolista uruguayo del @Nacional que sufrió un paro cardíaco el pasado jueves durante un partido de la @Libertadores. #QEPD pic.twitter.com/IqHCGdxTy8 — Tribuna Noticias (@NoticiasTribuna) August 28, 2024 The Telegraph reports: Izquierdo fell to the ground unconscious in the 84th minute without coming into contact with another player. He was taken off the pitch in an ambulance before being treated at the intensive care unit of Albert Einstein Hospital. The hospital said in a statement Izquierdo had died as a result of brain death following a cardiopulmonary arrest associated with cardiac arrhythmia. “It is with the deepest sorrow and shock in our hearts that the Club Nacional announces the death of our beloved player Juan Izquierdo,” Uruguay’s Nacional wrote on X.

Jack Smith is like a Dachshund digging for a bone. He will never give up trying to put Donald Trump behind bars. When the Supreme Court struck down some aspects of Smith’s case, that included the former president’s acts in office (because acts of the president done as part of his authority and responsibility in office are indeed immune from a later administration’s lawfare), Smith simply did a word dance. No longer is Trump “45th President of the United States,” but now he’s simply “a candidate for president of the United States in 2020” in the charging documents. Smith and his staff nonchalantly removed any reference to Trump as president, and recast any interactions with Vice President Mike Pence as a running mate. He presented this dog’s breakfast to a new grand jury, which endorsed the same four charges the Supreme Court previously found defective. We’re expected to believe this; to forget Trump was actually president when the events leading up to January 6th happened. It’s never been anything but personal for Jack Smith. He wants his conviction–to be the first federal prosecutor ever to successfully convict a former president. Of course, this is nothing new, only a matter of scale. After sitting Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, he was tried for Treason. President Thomas Jefferson himself led the prosecution. His distant cousin, Chief Justice John Marshall, would be the judge (but Marshall was no political toady of Jefferson). Jefferson twisted the law to breaking, but when the trial hit a jury, the jury acquitted Burr. Jefferson even went so far as to recommend Congress to impeach Marshall for applying the law correctly. This is the same strategy that the Biden-Harris administration has pursued dealing with Trump. They have threatened to “pack the court” and force retirement on Justices, along with special oversight for those who they deem too politically aligned with Trump or other Republicans. Smith has also called for a federal appeals court to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of his documents case in Miami. Cannon ruled that Smith’s appointment as a special prosecutor was itself unconstitutional, but that has never stopped the Biden-Harris machine and its bone-digging Dachshund. What’s next? Even Republicans who have been very critical, even hostile, to the former president, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, have buried the hatchet and come to support the nominee. Kemp is hosting a fundraiser for Trump this week, and promised to lend his political ground operation to the Trump campaign. NEW: Gov. Brian Kemp to headline fundraiser for Trump on Thursday in Atlanta, sources tell me @SooRinKimm @LaleeIbssa Comes weeks after Trump attacked Kemp as a “bad” and “disloyal guy”— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) August 27, 2024 Democrats are more organized, and more determined to beat Trump this election than in the past. In 2020, it was about COVID-19. Now, it’s personal. Divisions in the Republican Party and among some who are positively gleeful about an abortion-loving, Israel-wavering, tax-and-spent liberal pair like Harris and Walz, we find many evangelicals and other self-styled conservatives. But I’ve also found some very ardent Trump supporters among college-educated, worldly, even cosmopolitan, business people who see how a Harris administration would be a disaster in every way. Things aren’t always as they look. Winning at the ballot box is the American way (even if cheating at the ballot box goes on, but not in the giant numbers claimed). Winning by lawfare is also an American tradition, but not a good one. Next, we will see anyone who supports Trump subject to the same legal targeting they have done with Trump. If Harris wins, watch her go after Elon Musk’s empire with a hammer and tongs. Not just Musk, but anyone who dares to express their support for the former president will fall under the same kind of lawfare practiced by Jack Smith. Summing up how Democrats see “democracy,” here’s what they think about Mexico’s president’s plan to elect judges instead of appointing them. Really bad take on "democracy":“I believe popular direct election of judges is a major risk to the functioning of Mexico’s democracy,” U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar.— Steve Berman (@stevengberman) August 28, 2024 Who is committing Treason here? Follow Steve on Twitter @stevengberman. The First TV contributor network is a place for vibrant thought and ideas. Opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of The First or The First TV. We want to foster dialogue, create conversation, and debate ideas. See something you like or don’t like? Reach out to the author or to us at ideas@thefirsttv.com. 

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The Hill is about as truthful as the rest of the legacy media. They began today’s newsletter by saying, “[former President] Trump pushed past his reluctance and agreed to debate his election opponent, Vice President Harris, on Sept. 10 after pondering his reservations for a day.” They left out something important. Harris changed the rules […] The post Shocking! CNN “Lands the First Interview with Harris” appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Justice Department was engaging in “election interference” after special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against the former president.  Smith’s indictment, which comes after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, accuses Trump of two felony counts of obstructing an official proceeding, one felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and one felony count of conspiracy against rights.  In a post on X, Trump said that the revised indictment amounted to “election interference” because mail-in ballots are about to be cast in North Carolina.  “It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action,” he said. “Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election Interference. All of these Comrade Kamala/Biden Hoaxes should be immediately DISMISSED!” It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action. Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2024 In an earlier post on Truth Social, Trump said that the revised indictment was “a direct assault on democracy.” “This is an unprecedented abuse of the Criminal Justice System. The case has to do with ‘Conspiracy to Obstruct the 2020 Presidential Election,’ when they are the ones that did the obstructing of the Election, not me,” he said. “They cheated on the Election, and they go after me for ‘cheating on the Election.’ Interestingly, this comes at the exact same time as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has admitted to concealing massive amounts of information, such as Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell, which is a direct acknowledgment that the 2020 Presidential Election was MANIPULATED and RIGGED by the DOJ. What they are doing now is the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Smith’s office said that the indictment had been revised in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States, which said that presidents cannot be prosecuted for exercising core constitutional powers and are entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts. “The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States,” the special counsel’s office claimed. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacted to the news of the revised indictment by saying that the Biden-Harris administration was weaponizing the DOJ. “Donald Trump continues to be the most persecuted politician in the history of our country. Today, after getting two of his cases thrown out by the courts, Jack Smith is grasping at straws once again,” he said. “Just 70 days before the election, Smith has brought yet another bogus indictment. Americans are sick of this corruption and shameless lawfare. They know this is not about justice, but about politics.”

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