With completed border wall to his right and unused construction materials to his left, former President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday in Arizona that if he wins the Nov. 5 election and returns to office in January, he will impose the death penalty on sex traffickers.  “We will seal the border, stop the invasion, and launch the largest deportation effort in American history. We will impose tough new sentences on illegal alien criminals,” Trump said, adding that “these include: [a] 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone guilty of human smuggling; a guaranteed life sentence for anyone guilty of child trafficking; and a death penalty for anyone guilty of child or woman sex trafficking.” Trump pledges to secure the border and impose the death penalty on anyone found guilty of "child or woman sex trafficking." pic.twitter.com/6gARrIqwDN— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) August 22, 2024 Trump named other crimes that should result in the death penalty, such as “killing our police, sheriffs, Border Patrol, ICE, or [other] law enforcement officials.” “Federal law allows for prosecutors to seek the death penalty against child sex traffickers if the victim is killed, or a life sentence if the victim survives,” Charles “Cully” Stimson, deputy director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels hosted Trump’s tour of the Mexico-Arizona border Thursday, which also is the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. That night, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to formally accept the party’s presidential nomination to take on Trump in the Nov. 5 election.  During his remarks at the border, Trump took aim at the border security policies of Harris and President Joe Biden, who stepped aside last month and endorsed Harris to replace him at the top of the ticket. “She’s going to have no borders,” Trump said of Harris, later telling reporters that “when we win this November, we will end the Kamala Harris border nightmare once and for all.”  U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that the Border Patrol has encountered about 10 million illegal aliens on America’s borders under the Biden-Harris administration.  “We went from the best numbers in recorded history to the worst numbers in recorded history,” Trump said of those encounters with illegal aliens. “We have a Marxist that’s running,” he said of Harris, “and … this country is not ready for a Marxist president. She will never build the wall. She doesn’t want to build the wall.” Trump calls Harris a "Marxist" while speaking at the southern border. "This country is not ready for a Marxist president." pic.twitter.com/PLkZUIbvvb— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) August 22, 2024 Since Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Harris, Trump and many other Republicans have criticized Harris’ leadership, or lack of it, on the nation’s border and immigration policies. Trump repeatedly has claimed that Harris failed as “border czar.”  Although Biden didn’t give Harris that title, he tasked Harris in the third month of his presidency with “leading the administration’s diplomatic efforts to address the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras,” according to a White House fact sheet.  Since March 2021, Customs and Border Protection reports, the Border Patrol encountered over 1.9 million illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras along the southern border. The agency said it encountered about the same number of illegal aliens from all nations, not just those three, during all four fiscal years of the Trump-Pence administration.  The post Trump Pledges Death Penalty for Criminal Illegal Aliens Found Guilty of ‘Child or Woman Sex Trafficking’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In a follow-up to their idea from the previous evening when CNN host Erin Burnett floated the idea that Vice President Kamala Harris shouldn’t do interviews, a panel of CNN “journalists” led into the final night of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday by arguing that she should not even publish her policy positions for the public to scrutinize. And according to another host, the policy proposals weren’t important because it was a “vibes election” anyway. They even teamed up with Democrats to warn that doing such could help former President Donald Trump. “And then you hear the criticism, ‘Oh, she has to do more interviews. She has to talk about policy,” griped Burnett, much like she did on Wednesday. Looking to chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju, she teed him up to talk about the argument Democratic Party “insiders” were telling him. “[T]here's sort of like, ‘No. Absolutely not. Haven’t needed, to do it so far. Why start now?’” Explaining the rationale, Raju warned: “They're concerned about her doing that could potentially trip her up and give Trump some ammunition. In fact, a lot of those Democrats I spoke to today said, avoid those policy prescriptions.”   "It's a vibes election!" proclaims Kasie Hunt. CNN doubles down on encouraging Kamala to NOT do interviews and NOT talk about her "policy prescriptions." CNN joined with Dems in scoffing at the idea that Americans care to learn about policy. pic.twitter.com/BHT7urKZQJ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 22, 2024   They then played a montage of Democratic members of Congress desperately trying to make the case for why they shouldn’t be honest with the American people about what their vision for American included: REP. NIKEMA WILLIAMS (D-GA): I haven't heard from many voters looking for white papers and policy papers, what they wanted here is what her vision is for this country. REP. GERRY CONNOLLY: (D-VA): The American people don't vote on policy prescriptions. REP. DAN KILDEE (D-MI): I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the minutia of policy and more about the direction of the country, number one. And secondly, about the person, the character. It does matter. Raju, further quoting Connolly, tried to warn that Harris could befall the same fate as Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA): “He said, Remember what Elizabeth Warren did when she ran back in 2020. She had a white paper for every policy position the sun, and what happened? She collapsed in the primary.’ So, there’s belief that perhaps if you put more ideas on paper, that's a bad idea.” Host Kasie Hunt put a bow on the conversation but dismissing the calls for Harris to transparent on policy because “it’s a vibes election!” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s The Lead August 22, 2024 4:34:14 p.m. Eastern (…) ERIN BURNETT: And then you hear the criticism, “Oh, she has to do more interviews. She has to talk about policy.” Interesting from insiders, you're speaking to, there's sort of like, “No.” MANU RAJU: Yeah. BURNETT: “Absolutely not. Haven’t needed, to do it so far. Why start now?” RAJU: And that's exactly it. They're concerned about her doing that could potentially trip her up and give Trump some ammunition. In fact, a lot of those Democrats I spoke to today said, avoid those policy prescriptions. [Cuts to video] REP. NIKEMA WILLIAMS (D-GA): I haven't heard from many voters looking for white papers and policy papers, what they wanted here is what her vision is for this country. REP. GERRY CONNOLLY: (D-VA): The American people don't vote on policy prescriptions. REP. DAN KILDEE (D-MI): I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the minutia of policy and more about the direction of the country, number one. And secondly, about the person, the character. It does matter. [Cuts back to live] RAJU: And Gerry Connolly, the congressman for Virginia there. I asked him more about this. He said, “Remember what Elizabeth Warren did when she ran back in 2020. She had a white paper for every policy position the sun, and what happened? She collapsed in the primary.” So, there’s belief that perhaps if you put more ideas on paper, that's a bad idea. But the question is, voters want to see some of those ideas? KASIE HUNT: Maybe. If you go with the vibes, it’s a vibes election! BURNETT: That’s right! (…)

The gunman who nearly assassinated former President Donald Trump used encrypted messaging accounts on platforms in multiple foreign countries, according to a GOP representative appointed to a congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt.Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) — a member of the Bipartisan House Task Force on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — revealed the three countries linked to encrypted messaging accounts used by would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks.'They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this wasn’t an isolated incident.'Last month, Waltz said, "Now, what we know, and this was on the briefing we just received, he had three encrypted overseas accounts the FBI is trying to get into.""Well, we know that they were based in servers overseas," he added. "And so you've got to work over there with the FBI liaisons overseas to start getting into them through their authorities."On Wednesday, Waltz informed reporters in Chicago: "We still haven’t learned a lot. We haven’t learned that much about those overseas accounts. We do know that they were in, if I get this correctly, Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany."The House lawmaker asked, "Why does a 19-year-old kid, who is a health care aide, need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad, where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into? That’s a question I’ve had since day one."The FBI, Secret Service, and Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General are conducting their own investigations into the Trump assassination attempt.Waltz — who is retired from the U.S. Army Special Forces and is a former White House and Pentagon adviser — slammed the FBI and Secret Service for apparently withholding information regarding their investigations into last month's Trump assassination attempt at the campaign rally held in Butler, Pennsylvania. "They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this wasn’t an isolated incident," Waltz declared. "The threats are continually Iran’s threats."Waltz — who serves on the Intelligence, Armed Services, and Oversight Committees — referenced the alleged murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Trump and other U.S. officials involving a Pakistani national with suspected ties to the Iranian government. Before the shooting, the National Security Council had reportedly warned the Secret Service and the Trump campaign that there were intelligence reports that Iran was actively plotting an assassination attempt on the former president. Iran rejected accusations that it had ambitions to assassinate Trump.Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran "strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack on Trump or claims about Iran’s intention for such an action."Kanaani continued, "The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to pursue legal action against Trump for his direct role in the crime of assassinating Martyr General Qassem Soleimani."Soleimani was the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and killed in a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad in January 2020.The FBI reportedly was scheduled to brief the 13 members of the House task force on Wednesday. Waltz said he hopes the FBI will provide insight into the "ridiculously flawed" security detail at the Trump rally on July 13, 2024.Crooks accessed a roof just 130 yards from the stage where Trump delivered his campaign speech. The shooter was able to fire eight shots — including one that struck Trump in his right ear — before being neutralized. Crooks shot and killed 50-year-old Trump supporter and firefighter Corey Comperatore. Two other rallygoers — 54-year-old James Copenhaver and 57-year-old David Dutch — were injured during the shooting. Blaze News reached out to the FBI and Secret Service for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was mocked and ridiculed over her response to a blistering jobs report on Wednesday. Raimondo was being interviewed on ABC News from the Democratic National Convention when she was questioned about a revision showing that the number of jobs in the U.S. had been overestimated by nearly a million over the last year. Instead, she accused former President Donald Trump of being a liar. 'We’re in the best of hands.'“I don’t believe it because I’ve never heard Trump say anything truthful,” responded Raimondo. "It is from the Bureau of Labor," replied the reporter. "I'm not familiar with that," Raimondo said. Democrats have been trying to argue that the economy is stronger under President Joe Biden than it was under Trump, but a revision to the jobs report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics erased 818,000 jobs from the official count. Critics lambasted Raimondo, the former governor of Rhode Island, for the bizarre response to the question. "This is simply incredible… And Sec Raimondo knows nothing about it?!? How do they expect to be credible ??" responded Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan. "There’s only so much you can fake or hide before things come crashing down. Biden’s decline, cooking the books on the economy, redefining 'recession,' etc," replied commentator Katie Pavlich. "The US Secretary of Commerce is unaware of major jobs reports by the Bureau of Labor," read another tweet. "We’re in the best of hands," joked commentator Mary Katharine Ham. The video was widely circulated on X, where it garnered millions of views. Trump responded to the revision to the jobs report by accusing the Biden-Harris administration of intentionally fudging the numbers in order to make the economy appear stronger than it was. "The real Numbers are much worse than that and, if Comrade Kamala gets another four years, millions more Jobs will VANISH overnight, and Inflation will completely destroy our Country," he wrote. Prior to Biden dropping out of his re-election campaign, polls showed that Americans were far more likely to trust Republicans with the economy than with Democrats. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

This lavish burial could shed light on the little-understood period between the collapse of the Kitan Empire around 1125 C.E. and the rise of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan in 1206 C.E. The post 12th-Century Burial Of An Elite Woman Uncovered At A Mongolian Fortress Built Before The Reign Of Genghis Khan appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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