Barack Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in a single year on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan without Congressional approval. Donald Trump ended eight Wars in a year. Jared Kushner deserves a lot of credit as well, as do Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio and the Middle East nations who negotiated. It was brilliant […] The post The Pettiness of Barack Obama appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A text scandal has hit a New Jersey school board race, culminating in two candidates running on a largely liberal platform dropping out of the race. Conservative mother of three and Marlboro Township school board member Danielle Bellomo was revealed to be the target of school board candidate Scott Semaya, according to a snapped image of his phone. Semaya apparently texted about Bellomo’s “n*ps” being hard in a group text called “ThisB****NeedsToDie.” “Bellomo must be cold — her nips could cut glass right n–” one message allegedly being typed by Semaya said. Chad Hyett, the Marlboro school board vice president, was allegedly in the group chat, as well as the husband of a board member. According to Bellomo, who spoke to the New York Post, those weren’t the only nasty messages shared about her. Some of the messages included “very specific actions that they want to do to me and what their intention is,” she said. “These text messages are the first time I was able to see they don’t want me alive,” Bellomo added. Credit: New York Post Bellomo has shared images on Facebook of Semaya and Melissa Goldberg, another candidate, announcing the end of their campaigns. Goldberg does not appear to have been in the group message but was running on the same campaign slate, called Collaborators for Responsible Education (CORE), as Semaya. Semaya cited “family circumstances” for suspending his campaign, while Goldberg pointed to too many “other responsibilities.” Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout “After what has been a grueling 18 months, I would like to share that Melissa Goldberg and Scott Semaya have dropped out of the election,” Bellomo posted to Facebook on October 8. “Hate has no place in Marlboro and the actions of Scott Semaya and the other men in that group chat should never be tolerated. I am happy that we have ended this cycle of hate.” Facebook: Danielle Bellomo The following day, Marlboro Township’s Democrat Mayor Jonathan Horn denounced the text messages and implied that Semaya has no place on a school board. His statement can be read below: I have been made aware of a series of text messages exchanged by Marlboro Board of Education members and BOE candidates. Let me be clear – the content of these messages is completely unacceptable and those responsible are clearly not equipped to hold public office. Violence and threats of violence against public officials are seemingly becoming normalized. In only a few months’ time, we have witnessed an alarming escalation in this type of behavior to an extreme, culminating in the murder of Minnesota Representative Hortman and activist Charlie Kirk. This must stop. We can disagree with one another without resorting to hate, anger and violence, and I call upon all those in positions of responsibility, regardless of political affiliation to condemn this inexcusable and outrageous behavior. I have spoken with the Marlboro Police Chief who has informed me that there is an active and ongoing investigation with respect to this matter. “Mayor [Jonathan Hornik], thank you so much for this statement,” Bellomo said, captioning the mayor’s statement. “This means more to me and my family than you know. Please join me in thanking our Mayor for denouncing hate, of any kind[,] in our town.” The scandal comes on the heels of another text scandal involving Democrat Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones. Uncovered messages allegedly show Jones fantasizing about murdering a state GOP leader with “two bullets to the head,” the death of the Republican’s children, and “piss[ing]” on the graves of other state Republicans. Additionally, last month, conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated while speaking to students with dissenting views at Utah Valley University. Related: Benny Johnson Unleashes On Dems After DOJ Arrests Man Threatening His Assassination

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A New York man made a bone-chilling on-air television confession to killing his parents and burying them in their backyard.Last month, 53-year-old Lorenz Kraus reportedly emailed a two-page statement to news outlets regarding a shocking admission.'After he died, my mother put her head on his chest — and she was there for a few hours, then I finished her.'Stone Grissom, WRGB-TV's news director, told the Times-Union that he promised Kraus to publish his statement on WRGB's news site if he came to the station for an interview."I called him to verify who he was," Grissom said. "On the phone, he told me he buried his parents in his yard. When I asked if he killed them, he said, 'I plead the Fifth.'"Kraus reportedly arrived at the news station within an hour.Grissom admitted there were major concerns of "inviting someone suspected of a double murder into our station."Grissom noted that he personally frisked Kraus upon his arrival and that a plainclothes police officer was in the news station's secured front lobby.Greg Floyd — a broadcaster since 1979 — had only 10 minutes to prepare for the eyebrow-raising interview.During the jarring 31-minute sit-down, Kraus described the deaths of his aging parents as mercy killings to stop their suffering from multiple maladies.Floyd asked Kraus, "So did you kill your parents as a mercy killing to put them out of their misery?"Kraus avoided the question.'What was I supposed to do with this money?'After Floyd pressed Kraus about what he did to his parents, Kraus responded, "I buried them in their property."Kraus said his parents died around August 2017.Floyd asked Kraus if his parents asked him to take their lives, and Kraus responded, "Implicitly, but not explicitly."Kraus added during the interview, "I did my duty to my parents. My concern for their misery was paramount."Kraus did not mention if his parents had terminal illnesses.In the stunning on-camera confession, Floyd pushed Kraus on whether he murdered his parents — 92-year-old Franz Kraus and 83-year-old Theresia Kraus.Floyd — a six-time Emmy award-winning broadcaster — asked Kraus, "They knew that this was it for them, that they were perishing at your hand?"Kraus replied, "Yes. And it was so quick."Kraus said he was "shocked" at how his father "died surprisingly quickly."Kraus confessed he strangled his parents to death. He admitted that he killed his father first by strangling him with his hands."After he died, my mother put her head on his chest — and she was there for a few hours, then I finished her," Kraus stated.Kraus confessed that he killed his mother by strangling her with a rope.When asked what was going through his head as he killed his parents, Kraus said, "Not thoughts — action, make sure it's done, not fool around, not make a mistake. But you know, the police would say what an incompetent idiot I am."Kraus said it took him two or three days to decide to bury his parents in the backyard of their property in Albany.RELATED: How a butt-dialed voicemail may have exposed chilling cover-up of missing flight attendant's murder Kraus also is accused of stealing his parents' Social Security payments after they died.Floyd asked Kraus if he knew there were financial benefits to killing his parents.Kraus claimed the "government is pissed because I took the Social Security money and gave it to people in the Philippines."Kraus said his parents' murders were "not a kill-for-money case."Floyd fired back, "Some would call that blood money."Kraus responded, "What was I supposed to do with this money?"Video posted online by WRGB shows police arresting Kraus in the station's parking lot on Sept. 25, just moments after he left the television studio.Albany County District Attorney Lee C. Kindlon on Monday announced that Kraus has been charged with murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree, two counts of concealment of a human corpse, grand larceny in the second degree, and identity theft in the first degree.'Cadaver dogs picked up on a scent, and a subsequent excavation in the backyard turned up the couple’s bodies.'A public defender entered a not guilty plea during a Monday court appearance.Kraus is being detained without bail at the Albany County Correctional Facility.Floyd interviewed Kraus a second time from jail. However, Kraus' public defender allegedly shut down the interview.According to Floyd, after six or seven questions, the public defender said, "That's it, you're walking out of here right now."The Associated Press reported that Albany County Assistant Public Defender Rebekah Sokol — who represented Kraus at a hearing last Friday — said she would be investigating how the interview came about because "if the media was essentially an agent of police in this matter, that could raise questions about whether (Kraus') comments in the interview would be legally admissible at trial."Kraus' parents were never reported missing, and soon "federal agents started investigating suspicious Social Security payments in their names," WJLA-TV reported.The indictment accused Kraus of assuming the identity of his father and stealing funds from the family’s estate "in excess of $50,000" sometime between Aug. 30, 2017, and May 27, 2025.On Sept. 23, 2025, "Cadaver dogs picked up on a scent, and a subsequent excavation in the backyard turned up the couple’s bodies," Albany authorities stated.Kraus is scheduled to return to court Oct. 28, WRGB reported.Like Blaze News? 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