The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. ~ Rush Limbaugh Adam Kinzinger happily related the consequences of Trump becoming a convicted felon – he can’t vote for himself or get security clearance. Adam Kinzinger is true to […] The post Adam Kinzinger’s Vile Response to Justify His Bad Choices appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Biden told Ukraine they can hit Russia with US weapons, ostensibly to defend Kharkiv. President Joe Biden has lifted restrictions on Ukraine using weapons supplied by the United States against targets on Russian territory, but only to defend the under-fire Kharkiv region, a senior US official said Thursday. Biden keeps inching us closer to World […] The post Is the US Moving to Plan B: Hot War with Russia? appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Legal scholar and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley published a blog post on Friday morning, explaining what comes next after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts by a Manhattan jury, a verdict that pushed the American political and legal system into uncharted territory. Turley, who was outside the Manhattan courthouse when the verdict was handed down on Thursday afternoon, wrote that Trump’s legal team will appeal, adding that he believes “convictions will be overturned.” “Indeed, moments like this require us to take a leap of faith in a nation that remains committed to the rule of law. Manhattan is neither the entirety of the country nor the legal system. I believe that these convictions will be overturned, but it will take time,” Turley wrote. “Judge Merchan committed, in my view, layers of reversible error. Eventually, this case may reach the United States Supreme Court.” The lawyer said he doesn’t see the Supreme Court stepping “directly” into the case since it previously rejected Trump’s attempt to expedite the review of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal prosecutions. “It will work first through the New York appellate system,” he wrote. Other legal experts, such as Heritage Foundation fellow Roger Severino and commentator Mark Levin, said that the Supreme Court could intervene after Trump’s conviction, arguing that the former president’s right to a fair trial was violated. As for the immediate next steps for the former president, Turley wrote, “Trump will have to meet with a probation officer for an interview. That officer will make recommendations to the court.” While Trump faces prison time, Turley said such a sentence would be “ridiculous.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “There is a possibility of a jail sentence for felonies that come with up to four years for each offense. Any jail sentences would almost certainly run concurrently. However, any jail sentence would be ridiculous in Manhattan for an elderly first-offender in a non-violent offense,” he wrote. “It is much more likely that Merchan will impose a sentence without a jail sentence, though with fines. The most appropriate, in my view, would be a conditional discharge that requires Trump not to commit a new crime or face potential imprisonment,” Turley added. “Merchan could also tailor a sentence to require home confinement or even weekend jailing. Those options would raise serious conflicts with his campaigning and obviously, if elected, serving as president. Even the probation process will be awkward since a convicted defendant ordinarily has to get approval for any travel outside of the state from his probation officer.” Turley warned, however, that nothing should be ruled out since Merchan’s previous rulings in the trial have been head-scratching. “After his ruling in this trial, it is impossible to rule anything out,” he wrote. “However, any jail sentence would add even more outrage to an abuse of the criminal law system.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted the verdict in former President Donald Trump’s New York “hush money” trial, in which the former president was found guilty on all counts.  Rubio appeared on Fox News with host Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “This is a quintessential show trial,” Rubio, whose parents left Cuba for the United States in 1956, roughly two years before Communist dictator Fidel Castro rose to power, began. “This is what you see in communist countries. This is what I grew up having people in the [Cuban exile] community tell me about. It happened in the days after the Castro revolution. Obviously, those led to executions. This, on the other hand, is an effort to interfere in an election.” “Let’s all be clear about what’s happening here,” he continued. “Joe Biden is clearly senile and declining. He’s clearly weak, which is why the world is on fire. He’s incompetent, which is why we have runaway inflation and a border that is being invaded every single day. And then add to all of that, he likes to lie. He tells people lies all the time about how great the economy is doing, how there is no problem at the border. The guy’s behind in the polls. He can’t win. The only chance they have to win this election is to keep Donald Trump in a courtroom.” “In this particular case, they found themselves a Democrat judge,” he explained. “This judge gave money to Joe Biden in 2020. His daughter is a campaign consultant for Democrats who’s actually out there marketing ‘Convict Trump’ stuff. Then you’ve got a DA who basically said, ‘I am going to go after Trump and put him away,’ when he was running for office to get elected. He didn’t know what he was going to put him away for, but he promised to put him away for something. Then you have a jury … that lives in Manhattan, which voted 85% for Joe Biden.” “And then what did they charge him with?” he asked rhetorically. “Donald Trump signed checks. And when he labeled the checks, he labeled them as payments to his lawyer, who, by the way, is a serial liar and the key witness in this case. He put ‘legal expenses,’ and that is what they convicted him on. But that’s not the goal here. The goal here is to keep him tied up in court. You think this judge sets that day three days before the [Republican national] convention is a coincidence? He knows exactly what day he set, and he knew exactly why he was doing it.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “This is the most outrageous travesty I’ve ever seen,” he declared. “And the problem here is Democrats have crossed this line. They have crossed the line in which now the court system is a political weapon, and it’s going to be very hard for it not to come back the other way. I don’t want that … They’ve crossed the line now and let a genie out of a bottle that’s going to be hard to put back in place…” “Down the road, we’re going to have to look at a way Democrats and Republicans, hopefully together, can prevent this kind of thing from happening again in the future. We cannot become one of those countries where people, once they leave office, are targeted through the court system by their political opponents. That’s what happens in Peru. That’s what’s happened in Brazil. That’s what’s happened in all these countries. It cannot happen here. And that is the direction we are headed right now with what’s happened here today,” he concluded.

A new poll found former President Trump is actually positioned to make the deep blue state of New York — which has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 40 years — competitive in the November presidential election. An Emerson College Polling/The Hill/PIX11 survey released Thursday showed President Biden’s lead in a two-way matchup has shrunk to only seven percentage points, 48-41. With third-party candidates including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein on the ballot, Biden’s lead shrank to six points: 44-38. Forty-eight percent of the voters surveyed were registered Democrats; 23% Republican, and 29% independents. Forty-six percent of voters surveyed came from New York City. “Independent voters in New York who traditionally vote for Democrats, according to exit polling, have flipped to lean toward Trump by a margin of ten points, 43% to 33%,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, stated. President Biden’s job approval among voters in the survey languished at 39%; 50% disapproved of how he is handling the presidency. The last time a GOP presidential candidate won New York was in President Ronald Reagan’s landslide victory in 1984, when he beat Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 49 states and won New York by eight points. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Democrats’ victories in New York since Reagan have almost universally been lopsided. In 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated Trump by 22.5 points in New York; Biden defeated Trump by 23.2 points in 2020. In 2012, Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in New York by 28 points; he defeated John McCain by 26 points in 2008. In 2004. John Kerry defeated George W. Bush by 18 points in New York; in 2000 Al Gore defeated Bush by 25 points. In 1996, Bill Clinton defeated Robert Dole by nearly 30 points; in 1992, Clinton defeated George H. W, Bush by roughly 16 points. In 1988, despite losing the general election by eight points in the popular vote and a massive electoral blowout, 426-111, Michael Dukakis defeated George H. W. Bush by four points in New York. A mid-April Siena College poll found Biden leading by 10 points in New York.

President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use weapons provided by the U.S. that can strike inside Russian territory, U.S. officials said according to Politico. The Biden administration has said Ukraine should not use long-range weapons to strike military targets much farther inside Russia. “The President recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S. weapons for counter-fire purposes in Kharkiv so Ukraine can hit back against Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them,” one of the U.S. officials said, according to Politico, which added, “In effect, Ukraine can now use American-provided weapons, such as rockets and rocket launchers, to shoot down launched Russian missiles heading toward Kharkiv, at troops massing just over the Russian border near the city, or Russian bombers launching bombs toward Ukrainian territory.” On May 24, the Biden administration announced it would send a $275 million military aid package to Ukraine, including ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS); artillery rounds; TOW missiles; and Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems, among other materiel. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Russian forces are nearing Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, only 30 miles south of the border with Russia. They started their offensive on May 10, after Congress passed a $60 billion supplemental package that included military aid to Ukraine but before the aid could be sent. “Right now, the Russians have the initiative across the entire theater. They’re dictating the place, the time, the intensity and the tempo of military operations,” George Barros, the Russia Team & Geospatial Intelligence Team Lead on the Russia and Ukraine portfolio at the Institute for the Study of War, stated. “This time last year there was no problem with Ukrainian manpower. There were volunteer drives where men were signing up in huge numbers. They were coming off successful counteroffensives in 2022 and received new equipment from the West in early 2023. Morale was high and things were hopeful for the future. … [Ukrainian forces] feel abandoned. Morale is low, they don’t feel supported. They know DC is constraining their ability to defend themselves.”

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During a CNN interview Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that Democrat lawmakers objected to the certification of the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections. My full exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz, who was the first senator to object in 2020, on whether he’ll accept the election results in 2024: pic.twitter.com/nMuHv26Pzk — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May […]