Why do people expect me to be scared of taxes? If my rates go up, fine. I actually like helping me fellow Americans, unlike these selfish ass conservatives.
Conservatives are just a bunch of losers with the ‘every man for himself’ mentality.
Everyday I’m thankful that I’m not a selfish douche like the typical American conservative.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Why do people expect me to be scared of taxes? If my rates go up, fine. I actually like helping me fellow Americans, unlike these selfish ass conservatives.
Conservatives are just a bunch of losers with the ‘every man for himself’ mentality.
Everyday I’m thankful that I’m not a selfish douche like the typical American conservative.
I don't think most people would be upset over small tax hikes if they knew the money was being used responsibly.
But our government has shown time and time again that they know how to waste money and pay favors to big corporations.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
Exclusive — Bevan Cooney Moved from Prison Cell after Providing Email Account Exposing Hunter Biden
Bevan Cooney, the former business associate of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden who flipped on the Biden family, has been moved from his cell, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Breitbart News.
On Tuesday, several days after emails Cooney provided to Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer and journalist Matthew Tyrmand became public, federal agents moved him from his cell to protect him. Tyrmand, who is in contact with members of Cooney’s family, told Breitbart News that Cooney was moved from his cell in a federal prison in Oregon around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday. Tyrmand said that Cooney spoke with family members multiple times on Tuesday, which he said is “much more than usual.”
“Bevan could sense that things had changed with the rise in visibility of his story,” Tyrmand said.
Cooney’s family stressed to Tyrmand they are “extremely concerned given the nervousness gleaned from Bevan’s reaction this morning and they would appreciate a sign from the powers that be that Bevan is in protective custody.” It is unclear where Cooney has been moved to, and in whose custody he currently is.
The federal Bureau of Prisons, which falls under the Department of Justice, has not replied to multiple requests for comment on this front. Breitbart News had sent in a request earlier this week to interview Cooney in prison, but that request was denied, as all media interview requests with federal prisoners are currently being denied due to restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“They [the Cooney family] believe that alerting the family is the moral thing to do if anyone in government knows anything regarding Bevan’s immediate situation,” Tyrmand told Breitbart News. “They are hopeful he is fine and permanently out of the Oregon facility in which he had been detained for over a year. They know he has been highly motivated in bringing transparency to all of the things that he was exposing by sharing his emails directly with me and Peter [Schweizer]. Given that he was supposed to be released in the coming weeks, although that had been recently pushed back without explanation, his motivation lay purely in seeing justice delivered and warning America about what he had had a front row seat to witness.”
Cooney provided Schweizer and Tyrmand with written authorization to access his Gmail account, and to publish all newsworthy information from his trove of 26,000 emails. Some of them are personal and unrelated to the Biden corruption, but many of them—including ones already published last week and this week on Breitbart News and elsewhere—demonstrate a culture of corruption surrounding the Biden family.
The first story published on Breitbart News last week, by Schweizer and author Seamus Bruner, detailed how Hunter Biden and his associates secured high-level White House meetings for Chinese Communist Party-connected elites visiting Washington from China. That included, per those Chinese elites, a secret unreported meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden himself. Other emails that surfaced on One News Network showed a deeper relationship between the Bidens and the ex-wife of the former Moscow mayor Elena Baturina. More emails surfaced Monday in another Breitbart News report showing how Hunter Biden’s business associate viewed his relationship with his father, Joe Biden—a “direct administration pipeline”—as a form of “currency” to trade on and make more money. More stories are in the works.
UPDATE OCT. 21, 2020, 11:45 A.M. ET:
A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson declined to comment on the matter. “For safety and security reasons, we do not discuss specific inmates’ conditions of confinement,” the spokesperson said in an email on Wednesday morning after publication of this article.
Gun-Toting ‘Guards’ at Florida Polls Claim They Were Hired By Trump Campaign — Trump Campaign Denies By Tommy ChristopherOct 22nd, 2020, 9:21 am 540 comments
Two armed men dressed as security guards told cops they were hired by the Trump campaign to set up near a Florida early voting location — a claim that President Donald Trump’s campaign denied through a spokesperson.
On Wednesday, Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Julie Marcus told local CBS station WFLA that when sheriff’s deputies approached the two men, who had set up a tent near a St. Petersburg early voting location, they said they’d been hired by the Trump campaign.
“The Sheriff [Bob Gualtieri] told me the persons that were dressed in these security uniforms had indicated to sheriff’s deputies that they belonged to a licensed security company and they indicated—and this has not been confirmed yet—that they were hired by the Trump campaign,” Marcus told WFLA’s Chip Osowski.
She went on to say that “The sheriff and I take this very seriously,” and that “Voter intimidation, deterring voters from voting, impeding a voter’s ability to cast a ballot in this election is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any way shape, or form.”
But the Trump campaign denied they were involved, via a statement to WFLA:
Thea McDonald, Deputy National Press Secretary for the Trump campaign, told WFLA: “The Campaign did not hire these individuals nor did the Campaign direct them to go to the voting location.”
Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies will be positioned at the polling location on Thursday.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
So I voted yesterday. Cast my vote against fascism and it felt good. Biden might blow as POTUS but he will never suck like Trump and the circus of supporters that hold him up.
Biden tax plan gives $620 tax cut to middle class, new study says
PUBLISHED THU, OCT 15 20201:03 PM EDTUPDATED THU, OCT 15 20201:49 PM EDT Robert Frank @ROBTFRANK
KEY POINTS An analysis released by the Tax Policy Center found that the bottom 80% of taxpayers would see tax cuts on average, mainly due to a package of tax credits and deductions aimed at the middle class.
Those in the top 1%, who earn more than $788,000, would see an average tax increase of $266,000, while the super earners — or those in the top 0.1% — would see an average tax hike of $1.6 million, the study found.
Biden’s plan also wouldn’t raise as much revenue as originally expected, in part because of the slowing economy.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s tax plan would give an average tax cut of $620 to middle-income earners, according to a new analysis, while top earners would face a steep increase.
The analysis, released by the Tax Policy Center on Thursday, comes amid dueling claims during the campaign over whether Biden would hike taxes on the middle class. The analysis found that the bottom 80% of taxpayers would see tax cuts on average, mainly due to a package of tax credits and deductions aimed at the middle class.
According to the analysis, for those in the bottom quintile, which include people making less than $25,000, tax cuts would average $750 in 2022. Those in the next quintile, making between $25,000 and $50,000, would see a tax cut of $790. Those in the middle, earning between $50,000 and $89,000, would see a tax cut of $620, while those making between $89,000 and $160,000 would see a cut of $420.
The top earners, by contrast, would see a steep increase. Those in the top 1%, who earn more than $788,000, would see an average tax increase of $266,000, while the super earners — or those in the top 0.1% — would see an average tax hike of $1.6 million.
Biden has said no taxpayer making less than $400,000 a year would see a tax increase under his plan.
Republicans have claimed that 82% of Americans would see higher taxes under Biden’s plan. Some analysts say that because Biden has proposed increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%, a portion would be borne by workers. As a result, some middle-class taxpayers would see an effective decrease in their after-tax earnings.
Yet the Tax Policy Center analysis finds, at least in the early years of the tax plan, the impacts of the corporate tax increase would be more than offset by tax credits and deductions aimed at middle- and lower-income earners.
By 2030, however, when certain tax credits and other provisions have expired, some middle-income taxpayers would see slight tax increases. The group found, in 2030, middle earners would see an average tax hike of $70, while those making between $89,000 and $160,000 would see an average tax hike of $400.
The former vice president’s plan also wouldn’t raise as much revenue as originally expected, in part because of the slowing economy. Independent experts initially said the plan would raise more than $3 trillion, yet the Tax Policy Center now says it would increase tax revenue by $2.4 trillion.
It said it lowered the revenue projection due to the weaker economy, expected delays in passing the tax changes due to the coronavirus pandemic and the added middle-class tax provisions and credits.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) endorsed numerous gun control policies during her short-lived presidential campaign in last year’s Democratic primary.
Despite 15 candidates outlasting her in the primary, Harris now finds herself potentially a heartbeat away from the presidency should the Biden campaign prevail.
That being said, it is worth understanding where Harris’ stands on guns and the 2nd amendment.
The following are Harris’ seven most prominent gun control policies.
1. Universal Background Checks — Harris tweeted her support for universal background checks on March 1, 2018. The U.S. has had background checks on retail gun sales since 1998, but Harris wants to expand those checks to make them “universal,” so as to include private sales too. These universal checks have been in place in California since the early 1990s, one immediate outworking of which was to criminalize private gun sales that occur apart from getting government approval via a background check. In other words, it criminalizes the act of a friend selling a five-shot revolver to a lifelong friend or a neighbor to decades-old neighbor. But these policies are ineffective when it comes to preventing street criminals from selling guns to other street criminals in alleyways, drug houses, and parking lots across the state or throughout the country.
2. “Assault Weapons” Ban — On May 15, 2019, GQ reported on Harris’s “assault weapons” ban pledge, which the magazine described as “the latest piece of Harris’s 2020 gun-safety agenda, which was already among the most comprehensive from the lineup of Democratic hopefuls.” Her ban proposal would prohibit the importation of AR-15s. CNN reported that Harris’s proposal “would ban AR-15-style assault weapon imports because they are not ‘suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.'” Ironically, ATF Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk defended the “sporting” aspect of AR-15 and AK-47 rifles in early 2017. On January 20, 2017, the Washington Post published a “White Paper” wherein Turk wrote, “The use of AR-15s, AK-style, and similar rifles now commonly referred to as ‘modern sporting rifles’ has increased exponentially in sport shooting. These firearm types are now standard for hunting activities. ATF could re-examine its 20-year-old study to bring it up to date with the sport shooting landscape of today, which is vastly different than it was years ago.”
As Breitbart News previously reported, Joe Biden has endorsed a proposal to register so-called “assault weapons” like AR-15s under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA), which means these gun owners could be required to register their AR-15s with federal authorities, submit their fingerprints and photographs, potentially submit to an FBI background check, and pay a $200 federal tax on AR-15s they already own, if these owners decide not to participate in any proposed federal buy back program. Biden’s proposal could also apply the same $200 tax and NFA registration requirements to every so-called “high-capacity” magazine a gun owner possesses, if the owner decides not to participate in any proposed buy back program.
3. Mandatory Government Buyback of Certain Firearms — On September 7, 2020, Breitbart News reported about Harris’s support of a government-mandated buyback of certain firearms. Bloomberg reported that Harris was not ready to explain how the buybacks would work, but she said they were “a good idea.” Her support of mandatory buybacks came around the same time that former Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke was declaring his intention to confiscate AR-15s. On August 22, 2019, O’Rourke voiced support for mandatory buybacks, and then on September 12, 2019, he made the leap to declaring, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-17.”
4. Weakening or All-out repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) — The PLCAA was adopted in 2005 to protect gun makers from frivolous suits over the criminal use of guns that were legally made and legally sold. Harris wants to get rid of PLCAA or at least weaken it so that the protection it provides for gun makers is minimal. In April 2019, CBS News reported that Harris “supports a repeal of [PLCAA].” Newsweek made clear that Harris’s plan is to at least weaken PLCAA. The magazine said, “Her campaign…issued a call to kneecap a federal law that protects gun manufacturers and sellers when their weapons are used in criminal activities.”
5. Prohibition of Rifle Purchases by 18 to 20 Year Olds — Harris supports raising the minimum federal age for rifle purchases to 21 years, thereby barring 18-20 year olds from all gun purchases (federal age for handgun purchases is already 21).
6. Opposition to Teachers Being Armed for Classroom Defense — Harris opposes arming teachers to defend themselves and their students in the classroom. Just over a year after the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting in Florida, where the attacker circumvented the school’s armed resource officer and killed 17 people, Harris tweeted, “We need to give teachers a raise — not guns.” The tweet came just months after the commission investigating the Parkland shooting concluded that armed teachers could have at least mitigated the carnage witnessed in that attack. In fact, the investigative committee recommended that arming teachers was a crucial component of stopping school shootings.
7. Use of Executive Action to Bypass Congress and Enact New Gun Laws — On April 22, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Harris pledged to use executive action to go around Congress and secure gun control. She said, “Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws, and if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.
OMG - they are coming for your guns!!! Panic ! Panic ! Panic !
Not sure if it's the gun manufacturer's or Trump pulling your strings here ..... Obama sold more guns while NOT taking them away than any POTUS in history ! LOL
This makes me think of Charlie Brown and Lucy ... you guys fall for the scare tactics every time.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
I think your wordy article on Bidens tax plan, is disinformation, probably from Russia.
Biden has said he will raise taxes, 4 trillion dollars. edit: to add to my thought
Everyone lived, the last 20 years, Bush 43 gave tax cuts, The Obama Biden admin, tanked the economy twice! Once with the housing bubble,
and their holdovers have been the Authors of covid economy shutdowns, which are AGAIN, going to bring about the greatest depression since the 1929 depression, with the exceptoing of the 2008-20012 or some years depression around the time of Obama's stimulous package fiasco. And Trump then brought a 2nd group of tax cuts, to increase payrolls and then Trumps years brought Relief checks 1200 dollars, 6 months ago unless you are some rich democrat who makes over a boatload of income a year, 150K or something, and just pretend to be for the people and lower taxes.
While every democrat, going back to Dukakis and Mondale riding the front of a tank said, " I just told you I will" ... on whether he'd raise taxes.
It's like Geico, Raising taxes, democrats, it's what they do.
Jester: How can anyone believe an article about Biden giving 650 $, to surface 8 days before an election, When in 6 months, of Biden Harris, 12 Months of 11 democrat primary candidates,
2 debates, a town hall, Nobody even once thought to come up with the idea until today. and "CNBC" really? Nobody considers them reliable.
Sounds like disinformation I think, probably from Russia.
I always liked that Lucy character from the Peanuts gang cartoon, the personality that glued the whole group together. Except for ole Peppermint Patty, nobody could cross her! That football trick sure reminds me of how the democrats treat the populous.
I think your wordy article on Bidens tax plan, is disinformation, probably from Russia.
Biden has said he will raise taxes, 4 trillion dollars. edit: to add to my thought
Everyone lived, the last 20 years, Bush 43 gave tax cuts, The Obama Biden admin, tanked the economy twice! Once with the housing bubble,
and their holdovers have been the Authors of covid economy shutdowns, which are AGAIN, going to bring about the greatest depression since the 1929 depression, with the exceptoing of the 2008-20012 or some years depression around the time of Obama's stimulous package fiasco. And Trump then brought a 2nd group of tax cuts, to increase payrolls and then Trumps years brought Relief checks 1200 dollars, 6 months ago unless you are some rich democrat who makes over a boatload of income a year, 150K or something, and just pretend to be for the people and lower taxes.
While every democrat, going back to Dukakis and Mondale riding the front of a tank said, " I just told you I will" ... on whether he'd raise taxes.
It's like Geico, Raising taxes, democrats, it's what they do.
The 'power of The Inverse' is strong in this one. Jedi: you have your work cut out for you.
Darth Throw will not be easy to bring back into the light.
Democrats go ballistic after Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation
By Andrea Widburg
Amy Coney Barrett’s ascension to the Supreme Court marks the first time in 81 years that the Republicans will have a majority on the Supreme Court. The Democrats, rather than accepting gracefully that the regularly-applied constitutional rules finally stopped favoring them, have responded with a complete meltdown. They’ve resorted to apocalyptic predictions, hysterical rants, and threats, lots and lots of threats. The last time the Democrats behaved this disgracefully was in 1860, a temper tantrum that ended in a Civil War that left over 650,000 Americans dead.
Before describing the Democrats’ psychological collapse, it’s essential to understand the Barrett confirmation was constitutionally correct and had historical precedent. The Constitution states that the president shall nominate candidates for the Supreme Court, and the Senate shall confirm them.
Seating Supreme Court justices used to be a fairly mechanical process. However, as the left has shifted its efforts from convincing voters to support their policies to placing leftist partisans on the Supreme Court who need no convincing, the process has become increasingly fraught. While Republicans have routinely accorded a Democrat president’s nominees the courtesy of voting for them if they appeared competent, Democrats have imposed various litmus tests and, if those tests seemed futile, accused them of sexual assault.
Fraught or not, it was perfectly constitutional to nominate Justice Barrett. Trump would not have bothered if he was facing a Democrat-majority Senate, but that was not the case. He had a Republican majority, and Cocaine Mitch promised to make the confirmation happen (a promise he kept).
Sen. McConnell knew he had precedent to support him. After all, throughout American history, when the president and the Senate are from the same party, justices have been seated on the Supreme Court even if an election is drawing near. Indeed, John Adams put Chief Justice John Marshall on the Supreme Court after he had already lost the election to Jefferson.
Democrats were unimpressed by either constitutional norms or historical precedence. Elizabeth Warren, ostensibly a legal scholar who should know better, called it a “corrupt and illegitimate process to steal a Supreme Court seat.”
Richard Blumenthal, famed mostly for lying about serving in Vietnam, announced that Barrett’s presence on the Court would mean children will die from disease, women will die from court hanger abortions, and LGBTQ+ people will die all alone.
Chuck Schumer, in a surge of hysteria and stupidity, ranted that the confirmation was a “sordid chapter” in American history and “one of the darkest days in the 231-year history of the United States Senate.” And then, in a beautiful self-own from a man who supports unlimited abortion, he said, “Generations yet unborn will suffer the consequences of this nomination.” Perhaps, but with a Barrett court, there’s a possibility that, eventually, they will be born.
Following the hyperbole came the threats to pack the Court. AOC started it, along with a vulgar reference to gonads:
Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they’ve been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn’t. There is a legal process for expansion. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 27, 2020
Ilhan Omar chimed in, with a completely pointless reference to a “popular vote” in a system that works under an Electoral College:
Remember that Republicans have lost 6 of the last 7 popular votes, but have appointed 6 of the last 9 justices.
By expanding the court we fix this broken system and have the court better represent the values of the American people. — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 27, 2020
Nancy Pelosi not only threatened to expand the Supreme Court, but the lower level courts as well:
PELOSI: "Should we expand the court, lets take a look and see." pic.twitter.com/hVS5OaT9nW — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 27, 2020
After that, the floodgates opened, with court-packing tweets from blue checks who boast hundreds of thousands of followers:
I don't think the Republican Party understands what a radicalizing moment this is for Democrats.
Defend the freedom to marry, defend choice, defend the ACA, defend the constitution.
Expand the court. — Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) October 27, 2020
I believe Trump is going to lose in a landslide and leave in humiliation. The Senate with him. He will count the courts as his one success. We need to start organizing to make sure Biden acts to expand the Court immediately. If he wants a panel, the clock starts on Nov. 4. — Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) October 27, 2020
What exactly is the incentive for democrats not to expand the Court at this point — Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) October 27, 2020
6 of 9 don't represent me. Expand the court. Pass it on. #SCOTUS — Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) October 27, 2020
Whack the Court. Pack it Stack it Frack it Smack it.
Shellack it Clack it Knick-knack & Paddy-whack it
Crack it Open Shack it Up Rack it! Yes, it’s a RACKET.
Black it Brown it Green it Blue it Expand it! Term limit it! Fix it! Now. — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 27, 2020
We are going to expand the Court. https://t.co/FPhcb42khG — Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) October 27, 2020
This is the left: As long as they’re winning under the rules, they’ll play by the rules. But once they lose, they’ll change the rules, even if they have to burn it all down to make it happen.
If you would prefer not to see Democrats burn everything down in their pursuit of total power, make sure you vote. And while I don’t usually advocate early voting (because, as Biden voters have discovered, sometimes you learn interesting things before election day), you won’t learn anything new about Trump, who’s been turned inside out in the past four years. Lines will be heinous on election day, so get your vote in sooner, rather than later (or not at all).
Kushner: Black Americans have to 'want to be successful'
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Monday that in order for the president’s policies to be most effective, Black Americans must want to succeed.
“One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about,” Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, said during a Fox News interview. “But he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”
“What you’re seeing throughout the country now is a groundswell of support in the Black community because they’re realizing that all the different bad things that the media and the Democrats have said about President Trump are not true and so they’re seeing that he’s actually delivered,” Kushner added.
His comments come just eight days before the presidential election, with nationwide polls consistently showing Trump trailing Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who also leads in many battleground states.
Black voter turnout hit a 20-year low in 2016, and both campaigns have focused heavily on courting Black Americans. Historically, Republican presidential candidates have done poorly with Black voters, but Trump garnered double-digit support among Black men in 2016.
But polls this cycle point to a significant lead for Biden over Trump with Black voters. In a New York Times-Siena poll released last week, 90 percent of Black respondents said they were or had already voted for Biden, while just 4 percent said the same for Trump.
Trump's reelection campaign has touted accomplishments ranging from prison reform and economic “opportunity zones” to the record-low unemployment rate for Black Americans before the coronavirus pandemic took hold.
“It’s disgusting to see internet trolls taking Senior Advisor Jared Kushner out of context as they try to distract from President Trump’s undeniable record of accomplishment for the Black community," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement Monday. "From criminal justice reform and record [historically black colleges and universities] funding to record low Black unemployment and record high income increases, there is simply no disputing that President Trump accomplished what Democrats merely talked about.”
Kushner’s comments came in response to the White House meeting with rapper Ice Cube about policies that would bring more equity to Black communities around the country.
The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee have also tried to dispel the notion that Trump is racist, dismissing the president’s incendiary comments about race that have at times sparked bipartisan criticism.
“President Trump may not always say the right things, but he does the right things. He says what’s on his mind and he gets results,” Kushner said on Monday.
The Obama Biden admin, tanked the economy twice! Once with the housing bubble,
We already talked about this. You're wrong. Not opinion or interpretation. This is flat-out, factually wrong. The housing crisis happened in 2008. It didn't happen overnight, the forces that made it happen were working through the 2000's, if not longer. Obama didn't take office until 2009.
This wasn't that long ago. You know this but keep spouting the misinformation. You either need to commit to being truthful, or have your medication adjusted.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Meh - that's not actually what Kushner said. I think he's a dick but that's a manipulation of context. Heck I don't doubt that's what he might think but it's not really what he said.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
I think you're expectations are too high. You're talking to a member of a cult. Now don't get me wrong, because certainly not all Trump supporters appear as cult members. But there's a certain portion that do.
The same man that was screaming Obama was a Muslim born in Kenya is their cult leader. He was lying to then then and has been lying to them ever since. Yet they follow him and hang on every word he says like he's The Pied Piper.
Throw fits that description perfectly. What ever they tell him he believes and repeats no matter how big the lies are.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Right-wing hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman hit with felony charges in Cleveland tied to multi-state voter robocall campaign
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A grand jury in Cleveland on Tuesday indicted right-wing political hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman with felony charges connected to a multi-state robocall campaign that prosecutors say was meant to scare voters in urban areas with large minority populations out of voting by mail in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Wohl, 22, of Riverside, California, and Burman, 54, of Arlington, Virginia, are indicted on eight counts of telecommunications fraud and seven counts of bribery in connection with more than 8,000 calls that were placed to residents of Cleveland and East Cleveland.
Wohl and Burkman already face similar criminal charges in Michigan and a civil lawsuit in New York City connected to the same scheme. They are free on a $100,000 bond after pleading not guilty to charges in that state.
Cuyahoga County court records do not say when Wohl and Burkman are expected to make their first court appearance in the case here.
The charges stem from a group called Project 1599, which Wohl and Burkman founded. The caller told potential voters that police and debt-collection companies could use personal information that voters put on their mail-in ballots to track down people who have outstanding warrants and credit-card debt. The claim is not true.
The caller also falsely claimed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control would use the information to implement mandatory vaccines.
Authorities have said that the duo made more than 85,000 calls beginning in August to residents of Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. The calls targeting voters with area codes mostly in urban areas, with high percentages of minority and Democratic voters. Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio are swing states that could be critical deciders in the 2020 election between Trump and Vice President Joe Biden, and polls show close races in all three states.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office was the first to file charges against the duo. Ohio’s investigation began when U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, a Cleveland Democrat, and others went to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office, which referred the case to prosecutors in Cuyahoga County, the Columbus Dispatch reporter earlier this month.
“The right to vote is the most fundamental component of our nation’s democracy," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said in a news release. "These individuals clearly infringed upon that right in a blatant attempt to suppress votes and undermine the integrity of this election. These actions will not be tolerated. Anyone who interferes with others' right to vote must be held accountable.”
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose referenced the indictments Tuesday afternoon during an appearance on Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s twice-weekly coronavirus address. DeWine invited LaRose on to discuss voter turnout and concerns about in-person voting.
LaRose said that his office received a tip through its voter-fraud website of “an incident of voter intimidation that was targeted particularly at the minority community," which he called a “really ugly and pernicious act of voter intimidation.”
“There’s a Cleveland grand jury who indicted two bad guys who are going to face justice for it,” he said. “Our office played a role in helping to make sure that these people face justice. They were trying to confuse and intimidate voters. We won’t tolerate it.”
William Amadeo, a Michigan attorney who is part of the legal team defending Wohl and Burkman against criminal charges in that state, told cleveland.com Tuesday that they believe that contents of the robocall are protected speech under the First Amendment.
“I certainly don’t feel my clients ever threatened anyone not to vote,” he said.
Wohl and Burkman have risen to notoriety in recent years as they blundered their way through a series of public announcements of scandals later discredited.
Wohl earlier this year began circulating what he said was a copy of a lab report showing that Biden had contracted COVID-19 and had 30 days to live. Biden and his campaign dismissed the report as fraudulent.
The pair is also accused of hiring one of Wohl’s ex-girlfriends to publicly accuse Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who is more popular and seen as more trustworthy on information about the pandemic than Trump, of assaulting her in a hotel in 2014. The woman later told a reporter that the accusation was false and that Wohl and Burkman paid her to levy it.
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