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Alvin Bragg has bad day in court
May 21, 2024
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, prosecuting the first Trump case, had his worst day in court since the trial began. His star witness admitted having stolen from the Trump organization and lied to its CEO. In the process he destroyed the value of the one piece of evidence anyone thought could still be probative – indeed decisive – against Donald Trump. Judge Juan Merchan, who has been in the tank for the prosecution all along, lost his temper and ejected a defense witness from court in mid-testimony. By now everyone knows fully well about the conflicts of interest that riddle this case. And this as Trump prepares to hold a campaign rally in New York’s South Bronx.

The Alvin Bragg case

Alvin Bragg is the first public prosecutor to get an indictment against Trump. The case alleges that Trump paid off a former alleged intimate associate, Stephanie “Stormy Daniels” Clifford, to keep quiet about their alleged affair, so as not to hurt his campaign. The case then alleges that Trump falsified business records to cover up the true purpose of the expenditure. Because this expenditure is supposed to be in aid of a campaign, it would constitute a felonious campaign-finance violation. But even Merrick Garland’s Department of (Political) Justice wouldn’t touch the case with a proverbial ten-footer. Nevertheless, Alvin Bragg brought the case anyway, to the Supreme (actually, Superior) Court of the State of New York, in and for the County of New York (i.e., Manhattan), The (Allegedly) Honorable Juan Merchan presiding.

Judge Merchan has consistently ruled to make Trump’s life miserable, forbidding him to comment directly on the case. Nor to comment on his daughter running a consulting firm that has key Democrats as clients. Nor on his own history of heavy donations to Democrats. This gives the judge a conflict of interest, partly on financial grounds (his daughter’s consultancy) but also on ideological grounds (he supports Democrats). Under any other circumstances, he would be off the case, which would then be reassigned – if not dismissed. But New York’s courts are the most ideologically corrupt in the country. Witness their stonewalling of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen and their repeated violations of the Second Amendment.

Does Alvin Bragg have a smoking gun?

Last Thursday (May 16), Trump’s defense counsel, cross-examining “star” witness Michael Cohen, caught Cohen out in a lie. At issue then was Cohen’s telephone call to Keith Schiller, in charge of security for Trump, in 2016. The details of Cohen’s interchange with Schiller are sketchy, except that Cohen left the exchange out of his account of the call. Cohen was trying to establish that this was the call in which Schiller handed the phone to Trump, who then cleared Cohen to pay Ms. Clifford $130,000 to keep quiet. The point: only Cohen could substantiate that he was one the phone with Trump at all. And if he lied about a material point, that account of Trump being on the phone is now suspect. (Call this Aesop’s Razor: when a person lies, none can credit him with telling the truth.)

But Lanny Davis, author of the “Purple Nation” column, insisted that the media made too much of this omission. He further said that notes by Allen Weisselberg, Trump Organization CEO, show plainly that Trump was to reimburse Cohen to the tune of $210,000, including the $130,000 “hush money.” Weisselberg doubled that, to cover Cohen’s income taxes in the 50 percent tax bracket. $420,000, divided by twelve months over a year, amounts to a $35,000 a month repayment plan. Those checks, crowed Davis, are in evidence.

Michael Cohen destroys even that

Lanny Davis published that boast yesterday (May 20). And that very day, Michael Cohen confessed to lying about the whole thing. Shortly after the trial resumed, Todd Blanche, counsel for Trump, continued his cross-examination of Cohen. According to Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit, Cohen admitted that he stole $30,000 from the Trump organization, and lied to CEO Weisselberg.

Paul Ingrassia, a regular at TGP, was in court and live-posting during the trial.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792531365889536228

The “Lawrence” is Lawrence O’Donnell, reporter for MSNBC.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792536847681269779

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537676911972384

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537891328905494

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792543283295420873

In this exchange, Emil Bove, another member of the Trump defense team, reminds the court that the prosecution has not even established an intent to commit another crime.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792544766242050379

One of Bragg’s subordinates objects to having an expert witness on federal campaign law testify.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792545702343483451

Here Michael Cohen takes the stand, and Todd Blanche begins his cross-examination of him.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792549517360861640

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792550883055620522

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792551582413832590

Here Cohen admits to stealing from the Trump organization.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792559751412207767

See also this video on Fox News discussing that point:

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https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792582891890684330

Cohen admits here that he has a financial stake in the outcome of this case. (See also Christina Laila’s article on this point.)

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792584531477725437

Here Michael Cohen admits he would be willing to lie if the case affected him personally.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792585428605837457

Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan both get a dose of reality

In the afternoon session, the defense called a paralegal from one of their law firms to testify.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792635154264911891

While this was happening, Lawrence O’Donnell was outside, excusing (no one can justify this) Cohen’s theft from the Trump organization. Christina Laila mentioned this. O’Donnell threw up clouds of financial terminology to suggest Cohen was trying to recover his just due.

https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1792618994182074746

Paul Ingrassia reflects on O’Donnell’s demeanor in the press section:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792636680437981479

Now came the real donnybrook, when the defense called Robert Costello, former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, to the stand.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792638295051993435

This occasioned a flurry of objections, as the prosecution clearly did not want this man to testify. Why Judge Merchan ultimately cleared him to take the stand, is unclear.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792642357696790759

But the reason for the prosecution’s frantic and strenuous objections became clear as crystal in short order.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792644373559001482

Mr. Costello then revealed that Cohen told him he had nothing to say about Trump.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645081284927958

In fact, Cohen arranged to pay off Clifford on his own initiative.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645633607602361

The judge started doing a slow burn – and finally exploded.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792649186657112397

See also Christina Laila’s article about this explosion, and another influencer mentioning the blow-up:

https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1792649482623963376

Ostensibly Judge Merchan was accusing Costello of rudeness in court, and toward him, the judge. But everyone in court knew what Judge Merchan’s real problem was.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792650549013152022

Direct examination continued to the finish,…

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792652030579708055

… and then cross-examination began, during which the judge vented his spleen some more.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792655473830699195

Defense moves to throw out Michael Cohen’s testimony

After a day that did not go as Judge Merchan might have anticipated (planned?), he hastily adjourned court.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792657176302846100

But before the final adjournment, Mr. Blanche moved to strike all of Michael Cohen’s testimony.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792659825140081123

That evening, Mr. Ingrassia offered this pithy summary of events:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792701676710740279

The next day

This morning, Jim Hoft noted that Alvin Bragg “lost CNN.” Said panelist Alyse Adamson, “This is a lie that cuts at the heart of the evidence.” She also expressed shock that Alvin Bragg couldn’t build a case any better than that, and made such rookie mistake.

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Recall Paul Ingrassia saying no sane jury would convict. Sadly, CNAV cannot know whether this jury is sane or insane.

This morning, the trial has resumed, Trump has a bevy of supporters, and Robert Costello is back on the stand. (If Trump can’t talk about the case, anyone else in court can – and they’ve been doing it, to devastating effect.)

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792909236998922633

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792910676471521664

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792913755614990469

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792918125517656514

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921179344240823

After Emil Bove finished with Costello, a prosecutor had but two questions on cross-examination:

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921740596670891

At 10:19 a.m. EDT, the defense rested.

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792923143377416645

Judge Merchan then recessed the trial for a week, to avoid “splitting” case summations with Memorial Day Weekend between them.

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792924088849010937

Afterward, Andrew H. Giuliani held a press conference, with video.

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792943893258133787

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792949796661055705

Analysis

There can be no excuse for how this judge conducted the Monday session. Worse yet, Alvin Bragg brought a case with the most flimsy support imaginable. In essence, he expects this jury to convict Donald Trump for being Donald Trump. This is an absolute travesty of justice. Robert Morgenthau, the legendary Manhattan District Attorney until 2009, must be spinning in his grave to consider his current successor. Only in the surreal story universe that Franz Kafka created would anyone bring a case like this to trial.

The worse part of this, is that this jury might still “reverse nullify” Trump’s legal rights. James Madison, in writing the Bill of Rights, specified that:

[N]o fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

U.S. Constitution, Amendment VII

Mr. Madison likely never imagined a scenario like this, in which a jury convicted a man “just because.” Jury nullification normally results in an acquittal. For a nullifying jury to convict, will stain the courts of the State of New York for decades to come. It will also mark Alvin Bragg as a prosecutor out of a dystopian novel – or short story. Obviously, Trump will appeal.

Judge Merchan’s conduct is worse. Lanny Davis scornfully referred to a “Perry Mason moment.” But in nine years of trying murder cases, the famed (though fictitious) criminal attorney never once dealt with a judge who lost his temper to this degree. (For that matter, neither Hamilton Burger nor any other prosecutor who opposed Perry Mason would dare bring such a case.)

What remains?

Summations, as mentioned, will take place next week, after Memorial Day. After that, the case goes to the jury. Whether the defense asked for a directed verdict of acquittal and the judge denied it, or whether the defense didn’t even bother asking for a directed verdict of acquittal, is not clear. Perhaps the defense knew they’d never get that directed verdict, and sought to entice the court to embarrass itself. And embarrass itself, this court certainly did. The only thing that remains to see, is whether this jury will embarrass itself.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2024/05/21/news/alvin-bragg-bad-day-court/



Video:

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Video: Fox News panel discusses Cohen admitting he stole from the Trump organization:

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Video: Alvin Bragg loses CNN:

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Paul Ingrassia’s live-post article:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/live-updates-inside-trump-trial-tgp-contributor-paul-2/



Jim Hoft’s list of posts from Tuesday session:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/tuesday-trump-trial-joe-piscopo-pam-bondi-sen/



Complete list of X posts from the trial or press conferences after any session of it:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792531365889536228

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792536847681269779

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537676911972384

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792537891328905494

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792543283295420873

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792544766242050379

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792545702343483451

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792549517360861640

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792550883055620522

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792551582413832590

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792559751412207767

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792562836033441917

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792567873971298538

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792577510674153608

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792582891890684330

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792584531477725437

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792585428605837457

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https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1792618994182074746

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https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645081284927958

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792645633607602361

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792649186657112397

https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1792649482623963376

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792650549013152022

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792652030579708055

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https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792659825140081123

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1792701676710740279

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792909236998922633

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792910676471521664

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792913755614990469

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792918125517656514

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921179344240823

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792921740596670891

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792923143377416645

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792924088849010937

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792943893258133787

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1792949796661055705



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American politics, now more than ever, is facing generational change. Leftists know it, though they might not be able to bring themselves to figure out why. But they surely realize that the next generations of American children will be ever more conservative than their generation. That scares them as badly as a hunter scares an animal by first wounding it, then cornering it. And that one fact makes the American left more dangerous than ever. Already the left is trying to settle the political debate the hard way – through physical violence. But if American patriots stand firm, they can defeat even that kind of campaign.

The engines of generational change – education

About a century ago, the American left sought to bring about generational change by capturing American education. This institutional capture applies to K-12 schooling and to college and university. It has always been the most powerful weapon at their disposal. (Capturing the mass media works only until their targets on the Right develop new media they can’t capture. Schools require a little thing called accreditation that makes institutional capture easier.)

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But the real damage was the introduction of the theory of evolution into education, and the total rejection of any lessons that might possibly rely upon the existence of God. Case after case followed that erased God from mention in school at all. And so began the training of children to be functional atheists – and, therefore, leftists.

Disclaimer

Not all atheists are leftists, but libertarian and especially conservative atheists have a problem. Their problem is that, without God, no objective reason remains to prefer a morality forbidding first use of force. The late Ayn Rand tried to assert such a reason, but in reality that becomes a mere personal preference.

Furthermore, the late Nathaniel Branden reported that Rand once betrayed a key weakness of her own philosophy. In “The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand,” he wrote:

[S]he became very quick on the draw in response to anything that even had the superficial appearance of irrationalism, by which I mean, of anything that did not fit her particular understanding of “the reasonable.” With regard to science, this led to an odd kind of scientific conservatism, a suspicion of novelty, an indifference -- this is only a slight exaggeration -- to anything more recent than the work of Sir Isaac Newton.
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A more powerful engine of generational change: anti-natalism

Anti-natalism – the notion that the earth would be better off if no more children are born – is now the rage. It wasn’t always so obvious. The left couched it in terms that appealed to the shortsighted selfishness of young women. Feminism taught women that marriage and childbirth held them back. (In its most extreme articulation, it held that childbirth was a killer disease.) So leftist women began to have children later in life. Or – even more problematically – they waited too long to have children. A man can sire children well into senescence, though spermatogenesis does slow down. But oögenesis happens entirely before birth, after which a girl’s eggs start to die. (Doctors call this atresia.) Eventually the last egg dies, and menopause sets in.

So if a woman wants children, she’s under a deadline.

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Then the feminist movement made its worst mistake: plumping for abortion on demand. Sarah Weddington took to the Supreme Court the case of a Dallas, Texas woman who wanted an abortion. On January 22, 1973, feminists got their wish. But for forty-nine years, they didn’t realize that conservative women would keep having children.

What goes around, comes around

The 2021 Term of the United States Supreme Court, coming after the “election” of Joe Biden, shocked the Left. Reversal of abortion as the federal law of the land was bad enough. (So also was the invalidation of any “natural progression” of gun control.) But the Court also invalidated willful discrimination against religious institutions, and the disallowance of prayer on school grounds by faculty and staff. Those two cases will set precedents for even greater movements, moving forward.

But why the Court decided those cases as it did, should interest people more. In forty-nine years, the electorate underwent the beginning of a generational change. Liberals – especially women – who might have elected Al Gore instead of George W. Bush – and Hillary Clinton instead of Donald J. Trump – did not so vote because they did not exist. They literally had never been born. Their would-be mothers either aborted them away, or refused to conceive them to begin with. But conservative women did have the current generation of voters who – tellingly – elected Donald Trump in 2016.

So when Justice Antonin Scalia died (or was murdered), Donald Trump appointed another Originalist – Neil Gorsuch – to replace him. Likewise, Trump replaced one Institutionalist – Anthony Kennedy – with another, more consistent one – Brett Kavanaugh. Finally, Ruth Bader Ginsburg – an Equitarian – died, and Trump replaced her with an Institutionalist – Amy Coney Barrett. These three appointees joined with the two other Originalists to change the orientation of the Court.

But how?

Christian Heiens, who once called himself The Oracle of Virginia, explains.

https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2018743494550880761

The math behind this is actually really fascinating, and it explains why the Left has to rely so much on institutional capture and mass migration to remain alive.
The children of Liberals adopt their worldview 89% of the time, while Conservatives see their kids adopt theirs 81% of the time.
But this advantage on the Left is dwarfed by the fact that they’re essentially an anti-[natalist] movement.

(Heiens posted his essay to X by smartphone, and that device’s “auto-correct” function somehow changed “natalist” to “catalyst.” In a subsequent post he explained that error.)

Heiens showed the anti-natalism of the Left, and its consequences, using an article from the Institute for Family Studies. Brian Wilcox and Grant Bailey published “The Left’s Family Problem: Marriage and Kids Cratering among Liberal Young Adults” last year. Wilcox and Bailey begin by citing multiple articles discouraging women from marrying or having children. Until recently, conservatives and liberals alike had fewer children. But beginning in the 1980s, conservatives, male and female alike, reported marrying more often, and younger, and having more children. These conservatives talk “family first,” and practice it. Liberals, in contrast, practice self first.

The statistics – to which Wilcox and Bailey turn next – show the result. Significantly more conservatives than liberals marry, and become parents. In fact, motherhood among conservative women is trending higher. Among liberal women, it is trending lower – much lower.

Wilcox and Bailey do report that the left is winning converts among young women. But these young women are avoiding childbearing as a result of that conversion.

Result: the children of the current child-bearing generation will be, on average, more conservative.

Generational change is one of two costs

Wilcox and Bailey report two costs of this mindset to liberals. First, they admit they’re lonely. Not only would it be nice to have the same adult to come home to, but it would also be nice to have a child in one’s life. Liberals who avoided marriage and childrearing “to get richer” missed out on both, and now they are admitting it.

But nearly a year and a half ago, Anastasia Berg, writing in The New York Times, sounded a more dire warning – for her side. First she admits how easy it is to dismiss low birth rates as strictly a conservative worry. But then she warns her side that, if they don’t have children, conservatives will.

We also have to realize that the possibility of a better future is conditioned on the possibility of having a future at all. That means, some people have to be having children. And if you want those children to share in the values that you yourself hold, you probably want some of those people [i.e., the mothers and fathers of those children] to be the kind of people that you yourself are.

In other words, if the children of the next generation are not yours, neither will their values be yours.

Heiens did cite some figures suggesting that value retention is less for conservatives than for liberals. But the liberal advantage in that regard is only slight. Furthermore, conservatives overcome that by having more children to begin with.

The TFR Advantage

Wilcox and Bailey cite another article from their Institute, clearly showing a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) advantage for conservatives. See Grant Bailey and Lyman Stone, “The Trump Bump: The Republican Fertility Advantage in 2024.” TFR went up in any given county, with the percent of the vote for Trump in that county in 2024.

Recall that TFR is the total number of children a woman can count on having in her lifetime. In a civilized country, the replacement level for TFR is 2.1. This is because:

  1. A woman must replace herself and her husband, and

  2. One in ten women must replace the child who never makes it to (or out of) puberty.

Lines of regression in scatter plots of TFR v. percent voting conservative have gotten steeper with every passing election from 2012 onwards. Furthermore, as a county swings conservative, its TFR rises.

But does it rise to replacement level? It might. Other studies have shown that TFR can rise as high as 2.4 among cohorts that all vote conservative. Furthermore, families with children are moving out of “blue” States into “red” States. They want the benefits of better education systems.

From Heiens:

If you ended all immigration and dismantled their dominance over education, the Left would be extinct in 20 years.

In fact Trump has caused a net emigration rate to hold in America today.

About education – and how generational change might work out

Dismantling the Department of Education, to remove the weapon Biden last wielded, is a good start. But conservatives who still have children in public schools, can and should “push the envelope” on what their children learn in school, just as Trump has “pushed the envelope” with what the law and Constitution let him do. In fact, many teachers are pushing against a mindset of explicit atheism. Coach Joe Kennedy, who famously won his right to pray on his high-school football field, has his imitators.

Private schools, thus far, can still teach religious values if they so choose. Their communities can cite the Carson case to end discrimination against them by State and local governments. But taking the public schools back to pre-1947 and even pre-1925 days would work even better.

CNAV can therefore predict the final result of this generational change. America’s population will decline, then bottom out as the current generation produces a more family-oriented one. They’ll vote for family-friendly policies – and conservative lessons. In another generation, the Supreme Court will have a majority that will see no harm – and indeed great good – in teaching a more Godly curriculum.

This will happen because the same value system that emphasized atheism, hedonism, and other ills, devalued the idea of having children. Liberals aren’t having children; conservatives are.

The leftist and secularist empire strikes back

This is why people on the left – both in office and in the rank and file – are fighting so hard. They actually are fighting to keep illegal aliens in the country, regardless of the additional crimes they might commit. The Minnesota Insurrection – which, sadly, is now spreading to other “blue cities” – is part of that.

But so also is the effort to:

  1. Deny that anything untoward happened in the Election of 2020, and

  2. Leave in place the policies and procedures that made those untoward things happen.

To that end, Senate Democrats vow never to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility for America, or SAVE America, Act. “Jim Crow 2.0!” cries Sen. Charles M. Schumer (D-N.Y.), their Floor Leader. (Never mind that Jim Crow was a Democratic program, not a Republican.) SAVE America requires, among other things, that all States:

  • Remove from their voter rolls, any voter registrant who is not a citizen of the United States,

  • Ask for proof, not mere declaration, of citizenship from all voter registration applicants, and

  • Require all unit election clerks to require photographic identification of anyone showing up to vote.

In addition to opposing these commonsense measures, the left demands that the Bureau of the Census continue to count illegal aliens for purposes of determining Congressional representation allocation among and within the several States. They also often violently oppose efforts to remove illegal aliens – even those who commit Big Four offenses. (Which are: murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.)

Stand firm and secure the win

In the face of that, Americans must push back against movements that promote gender dysphoria, Alphabet Soup orientation, and atheism. Likewise, we must not rest until the Census Bureau stops counting illegal aliens. And of course we must advocate for the removal of illegal aliens so that no one can possibly count them.

The United States Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case will come to oral argument on April 1, 2026. Birthright citizenship directly affects how quickly the generational change will occur. Globalists are bent on changing American culture by using mass migration as a weapon. They will turn to birth tourism if the removal campaign succeeds.

Beyond that, Americans must strive to take their school systems away from secular humanists and Alphabet Soup activists. They must also reevaluate their perception of the need for and utility of a college education. And if college is to have any benefit, a new kind of university must arise to replace those that have chosen to promote globalist, “woke” and Alphabet Soup values.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2026/02/07/editorial/talk/generational-change-american-politics/

Video:

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Branden N, “The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand”:

https://www.starways.net/lisa/essays/benefits1.html



Fahrenheit 451 (1966), dir. Francois Truffaut, on the Internet Movie Database:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/



Previous CNAV articles in the order cited:

https://cnav.news/2022/07/01/foundation/constitution/supreme-court-2021-term/

https://cnav.news/2022/06/24/foundation/constitution/roe-v-wade-fallen/

https://cnav.news/2022/06/23/accountability/judicial/second-amendment-win/

https://cnav.news/2022/06/22/foundation/constitution/supreme-court-repudiates-blaine/

https://cnav.news/2022/06/27/accountability/judicial/prayer-wins-how-much/

https://cnav.news/2018/07/05/accountability/executive/antonin-scalia-murder/

https://cnav.news/2026/01/27/accountability/executive/minnesota-insurrection/

https://cnav.news/2026/02/01/accountability/executive/election-2020-case-breaking-wide-open/

https://cnav.news/2025/12/08/foundation/constitution/birthright-citizenship-headed-scotus-2/

https://cnav.news/2019/05/24/civilization/education/college-need/



Christian Heiens’ X post:

https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2018743494550880761



From the Institute for Family Studies:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-lefts-family-problem-marriage-and-kids-cratering-among-liberal-young-adults

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-trump-bump-the-republican-fertility-advantage-in-2024



Anastasia Berg’s warning:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/opinion/anastasia-berg-falling-birth-rates-liberals.html



Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth



Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/



Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/



Clixnet Media

https://clixnet.com/

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Election 2020 case breaking wide-open

The Election of 2020 has already gone down in history as one of America’s most execrable and least excusable failures. A physical Ground Zero has proved difficult to locate. But Fulton County, Georgia (seated in Atlanta) is the most likely candidate for an Election 2020 Ground Zero. Not only did the infamous Suitcase Scandal break there, but a failed Democratic primary candidate has suspected skulduggery in Georgia figuring in her own loss. Also, the Fulton County District Attorney tried to prosecute Donald J. Trump during his political exile that began with Election 2020. (Follow this link for all Election 2020 news and opinions on CNAV.)

Now the tables, and the worm, have turned. Yesterday the FBI – adding new meaning to the phrase “under new management” – raided an “Election Hub” in Atlanta. For more than twelve hours they carted away the physical ballots, or at least those whom Atlanta election officials had not destroyed. This represents vindication for President Trump, of course. But it also creates a moment that election-integrity advocates must seize. It will prove that “The Machines” worse than failed us. City and county registrars, take note! After this you will have no further excuse to retain “The Machines,” regardless of make or model.

Review of the Election 2020 allegations

As everyone remembers – half in delight, half in outrage – America went to bed on the night of Election 2020 expecting one result, then woke up the next morning to the opposite result. The infamous “Stairstep Graph” of Biden’s votes jumping above Trump’s votes, best illustrated the switch. But the worst scandal of all broke in the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. There, “poll managers” (Chief Officers of Election) told “poll watchers” (election observers) and reporters to go home. A water main had broken, they said, causing leaks and flooding. But surveillance footage captured the OOEs hauling papers and supplies out from under black cloth-draped tables. These included pre-filled-out ballots, which they fed into their scanner-tabulators – often three times.

America knows the eventual outcome. Decision Desk Headquarters triumphantly declared Joe Biden the winner. But rumors started to fly immediately. Nor did those rumors involve Atlanta alone. The country heard of:

  • Philadelphia OOEs shoving election observers aside and often calling the police to have them arrested (or threatened with arrest).

  • Drivers of mail trucks making midnight intermediate stops, only to find their loads gone, with no checking of bills of lading or any other normal check.

  • Midnight deliveries of what appeared to be ballots – using snack trucks – to inner-city counting centers with covered windows. That episode happened in Detroit, Michigan.

  • Network television showing vote totals for Trump rolling back during the program.

Then they heard of Eric Coomer, then with Dominion Voting Systems, and his infamous conference call:

It won’t be [fornicating] Trump. I made [fornicating] sure of it.

False judgments and settlements

Dominion Voting Systems later won a nearly billion-dollar settlement from Fox News, after a judge said Fox had defamed them. But that settlement is a trifle compared to the now demonstrably false judgments of the January 6 Event. January 6 is, of course, the date when a new Congress officially certifies a Presidential vote at Electoral College level. On that day, perhaps 200,000 people crowded onto the National Mall to hear President Trump speak. He was twenty minutes late in speaking, and other conservative activists and politicians spoke before him. (One of them: then-State Sen. Amanda F. Chase, R-Chesterfield, Virginia.)

When Trump did speak, he urged people to “walk quietly to the Capitol, to make your voices heard.” That was all. But more than two hundred people entered the Capitol without an invitation. Capitol Police showily evacuated the House chamber where the count was taking place. Outside, a squad of Capitol Police fired rubber bullets into an inoffensive crowd. That started a melee that ended with tear gas partly obscuring the Western Portico.

Smart people turned tail and evacuated the city by every possible means. Almost all who tried to get out, did get out. Those who did not, faced the out-of-control rage of the Democratic Party, now in complete control of the federal government. That Party weaponized the United States District Court and Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. For all of CNAV’s coverage of the January 6 Event, follow this link.

How might they have stolen Election 2020?

CNAV considers that the evidence conclusively establishes these two facts:

  1. Fraud, not legitimate electoral chance, decided Election 2020.

  2. The same cadre that defrauded Trump of victory, laid on a false-flag pseudo-operation on January 6, 2021.

The fraud on Election 2020 included manipulation of:

  • Media accounts of how Joe Biden and his son acted and behaved before “early voting” started,

  • Mail-in ballots, many of which went to one address for twenty people (give or take), and/or came back in pristine condition – with votes for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris only, and

  • Electronic voting machines, including Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) and/or Scanner-Tabulators.

Did it involve manipulation of electronic pollbooks (EPBs)? No hard evidence on this point is available – yet. But manipulation of the voter roll, at some point, did happen. Several voters complained when chief OOEs told them they had already voted – when they had not. What had actually happened was that someone obtained an absentee ballot in their name.

As the year began, another event occurred that might not at first seem relevant. Elements of Delta Force, with the assistance of 150 aircraft and a carrier task group, raided Venezuela. Their biggest prizes: President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Alive – and talking. Talking, among other things, about election fraud in the U.S. and in 74 other countries. Then the Election Oversight Group delivered a report to the FBI and the Justice Department, listing twenty-six irregularities.

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The FBI gets a warrant and acts on it

The FBI asked for – and got – a criminal warrant to search for and seize:

  1. All physical ballots from Election 2020. That means everything, including mail-in ballots, early-voting ballots, and in-person Election Day ballots.

  2. The tapes from all the scanner-tabulators used for Election 2020. This means all tapes, including zero, poll opening, and poll closing tapes.

  3. Ballot images produced on Election Day, during the “recount,” and at any other time. And critically:

  4. The voter rolls for Fulton County, as annotated during mail-in ballot handling, early voting, in-person voting, and any other time.

https://x.com/bluestein/status/2016624170293956723

A Chief Officer of Election, like your editor, will understand best of all the importance of these demands. With these materials, one can run a true forensic audit, not a mere recount, of an election. The FBI got the warrant because any judge could see that Fulton County violated every rule in the book about fair and secure elections.

On Wednesday, January 28, the FBI showed up with two Big Rigs that they rented from Enterprise Rentals. They removed more than 700 boxes of materials and carted them to the FBI compound in Quantico, Virginia.

https://x.com/RudyGiuliani/status/2016692923828482279

But before those trucks left, Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, posed with one of the loads for a snapshot. She even had a cellphone in her hand in the shot. That last made Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) furious.

Either Director Gabbard believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus – in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees “fully and currently informed” of relevant national security concerns – or she is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for the office that she holds by injecting the nonpartisan intelligence community she is supposed to be leading into a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/2016722915513753672

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/2016722918365897127

Several X users, replying to the posts in the above thread, were not impressed.

Evidence of wrongdoing in Election 2020 already emerging

The vituperative reactions by Sen. Warner might in itself be evidence of skulduggery at the crossroads. After all, the guilty scream the loudest about detection and enforcement actions. Consider also the reaction of Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett. After first denouncing an investigative reporter for “spreading conspiracy theories,” she fled the scene.

https://x.com/David_Khait/status/2016620272925716572

Or Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.):

https://x.com/ossoff/status/2016717119719649335

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2016706207667327029

https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/2016663991980835098

Evidence of wrongdoing, or at least irregularity, was already accumulating:

  • Registered voters listing empty lots, homeless shelters closed for the last ten years, and other such unlikely “residence” addresses.

  • Tens of thousands of votes with no ballot image to show for them.

  • Scanner-tabulator tapes without OOE or even chief’s signatures – tapes from tabulators the county did not even use for early voting.

  • Tabulators allegedly used for early voting, which the county elections board had no record of possessing.

  • Over three thousand duplicate ballots added to the total machine count.

This morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appeared on Meet the (De)Press(ed). Hostess Kristen Welker lost her temper, accusing Johnson of aiding and abetting a sore loser, i.e., Trump.

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FBI SAC fired; evidence now appearing

The Gateway Pundit implicates even Special Agent Paul Brown, FBI, the Special Agent-in-charge (SAC) of FBI Field Office Atlanta. In response to that report listing 26 irregularities, Brown sent a letter asking for the voluntary production of some (not all) of the election materials the warrant listed. He was unprofessional enough to spell several words wrong: “tallie” for tally, and “pole” (as in vaulting or dancing) for poll.

https://x.com/canncon/status/2017427160974213251

MSNOW (formerly MSNBC) reports that the FBI reassigned Brown before they moved.

Now that the FBI has the physical ballots in hand, they are finding other things election-integrity activists have long alleged. Most damningly, activists alleged that election officials received pre-printed mail-in ballots. We now see that those ballots arrived with none of the creases one would expect from returning the ballot in a standard No. 10 envelope. Furthermore, the “marking bubbles” are either perfect (as no human can achieve), or show exactly the same flaws from multiple ballots from multiple voters.

Election 2020 and moving forward: an analysis

Reversing an election after another election has intervened (which the original “loser” won) would do more harm than good. But the country must take steps to prevent a recurrence. So anyone having guilty knowledge of this disgraceful affair, deserves to go to prison. Prison serves as more than a deterrent: it prevents the malefactors from making any further mischief.

Beyond that, the country must restructure elections so that no one can “do it again.” Distinguishing between “guilty” and “not-guilty” voting “machines” would also be useless. Election Systems and Software, the main competitor to Dominion Voting Systems (the vendor-of-choice in Georgia), has proved vulnerable to “gimmicking,” or at least faulty programming, of its ExpressVote® Ballot Marking Device. Two years ago, Elon Musk, Technocrat Extraordinaire, plumped for an all-paper voting system.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1801977467218853932

Musk also crucially moved against the foreign servers that were going to “steal” the Election of 2024.

France votes on paper, and the United States can and should do the same. Congress can and should invoke the Elections Clause to mandate all-paper elections of its members. That alone would push electorates to demand all-paper elections of Presidential Electors, and perhaps of State and local officials.

Going back to all-paper will be a tall order. It will probably require the ultimate “wave election” with a cadre of lawyers ready to challenge any irregularities like those now surfacing in Election 2020. But until that happens, Election 2020 can always – always – happen again.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2026/02/01/news/election-2020-case-breaking-wide-open/

Video:

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CNAV keyword runs:

https://cnav.news/keywords/election-of-2020/

https://cnav.news/keywords/january-6-event/



Report listing 26 irregularities (courtesy Scribd.com):

https://www.scribd.com/document/989542479/Report-of-Investigation-Fulton-2020



X posts showing the warrant and various reactions:

https://x.com/bluestein/status/2016624170293956723

https://x.com/RudyGiuliani/status/2016692923828482279

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/2016722915513753672

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/2016722918365897127

https://x.com/David_Khait/status/2016620272925716572

https://x.com/ossoff/status/2016717119719649335

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2016706207667327029

https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/2016663991980835098



Videos: further evidence, interview on Meet the Press, and evidence newly surfacing:

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https://x.com/canncon/status/2017427160974213251



Elon Musk asks for eliminating the machines:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1801977467218853932



Previous CNAV articles addressing this problem:

https://cnav.news/2026/01/04/accountability/executive/trump-delivers-deeds-not-words/

https://cnav.news/2023/11/09/news/voting-machines-bad-pennsylvania-county/

https://cnav.news/2024/06/16/accountability/executive/electronic-voting-machines-eliminate-elon-musk/

https://cnav.news/2025/11/27/accountability/executive/election-2020-vindication/

https://cnav.news/2023/06/24/editorial/talk/france-votes-paper/



Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth



Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/



Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/



Clixnet Media

https://clixnet.com/

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The Minnesota Insurrection

The State of Minnesota, alone (so far) among the fifty States, is making insurrection and rebellion against the United States. Evidence for this abounds and is conclusive. Astonishingly, no other State in the Union is playing nearly so active a role against the enforcement, deferred and hence long overdue, of American immigration law. So two questions present themselves. First, why did Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), various State officials, and at least one U.S. Senator “do it”? Second, will any other State governor follow Gov. Walz’ lead? If not, what are they waiting for?

State of affairs in Minnesota

Minnesota first exploded onto the nationwide consciousness when the Trump administration discovered massive fraud in that State. Did President Joe Biden lay the groundwork by planting a squatter colony of Somalis in Minnesota’s largest city? (Never mind the dubious legitimacy of the Biden presidency; what is at issue here are his acts regarding immigration.) To say that would be too easy – because the existence of that squatter colony predates Biden. That squatter colony prevailed on the Governor to alter the State flag to resemble that of the Somali “Republic.”

CNAV has taken note of the fraud before. At the time (January 4), reliable estimates put the total fraud at $8 billion. Fresh estimates put the total at $20 billion. In fact, President Trump now estimates that the fraud amounts to $100 billion – from Minnesota alone. He further estimates that he’ll find higher numbers of such fraud in California and “other Democrat-run States.”

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951852007320342

At first Gov. Walz chose not to run for reelection again. But that did not mean he was standing down, Incredibly, evidence has now surfaced that he is running an insurrection against the federal presence in his State’s largest city. In this, Walz has the apparent support of Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis.

Evidence for the Minnesota insurrection

Toward the end of last week and over the weekend, the most shocking evidence to date began to emerge. This evidence shows – conclusively – that government employees, in key positions, are actively supporting criminal behavior. This demonstrably includes:

  1. Obstruction of justice,

  2. Stalking and attempted murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and even

  3. Stalking and attempted murder of journalists sympathetic to the rule of law.

CNAV obtained this evidence largely from The Gateway Pundit. Among other things, James O’Keefe, head of O’Keefe Media Group, and some of his associates barely escaped with their lives after an incident that included stalking and pelting with “ice bottles”: literally, bottles that someone filled with tap water, then froze.

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https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015202133721723350

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015484853949493332

(Note: PV means Project Veritas, the outfit O’Keefe founded, the board of which later expelled him.)

On Saturday, O’Keefe released this update:

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015260124932448533

Furthermore:

Elements of the Minnesota National Guard appeared at a federal facility – to distribute snacks and hot drinks to anti-ICE demonstrators. They even donned bright reflective vests to distinguish themselves from ICE agents. Recall that Gov. Walz activated the Guard a few weeks ago. He said then, “These are our soldiers!” That implied that he was ready to order them into direct military action against federal officers – or, if need be, troops. That, mercifully, has not happened yet. But until now Guard elements have literally parked their fighting vehicles here and there and done – nothing.

https://x.com/anthonycabassa/status/2015515107363549485

The Signal Chats

Journalist Cam Higby successfully infiltrated several chat threads on the secure small-message-service app called Signal. These threads speak of driver’s license checks – which only employees of or connected to Divisions of Motor Vehicles can run. Here is the thread (odd numbers only):

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093523733733474

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093539210703227

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093635096658172

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094214074237372

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094229484138636

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094253580370019

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094463425581087

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094478873231707

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094493985345728

The thread contains screenshots and screen recordings of dialogue, maps, and even a manual for license place checking. Tellingly, Mr. Higby flatly accuses “local police” of “cooperating” with this highly organized group.

Perhaps worst of all, Higby discovered a “mutual aid” chat, the administrator of which said “it was a vetted chat for teachers.” To join, he would have had to specify his real name and relationship to a school.

What, CNAV would like to know, does the National Education Association have to say about this? If the President General of NEA does not sanction the Minnesota chapter, then the NEA is compromised.

Members of these chats delete all messages every twenty-four hours, in an attempt to avoid tracing. But Higby and others have managed to identify some of the administrators, despite their use of code names.

https://x.com/jimmy_rustlin/status/2015105497968386155

https://x.com/JamesHartline/status/2015246369536262465

A former Special Forces warrant officer (ranking higher than a sergeant major but lower than a second lieutenant) weighed in. Here is the relevant excerpt:

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540

CW4 Schwalm called for an active, frontal, in-their-faces response, because

history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

Ah – ahem – about those casualties

A few words are in order about the “casualties” that the insurrectionists seem willing to “absorb.” Renee Good, of course, tried to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle. For that, per his training, he fired his service weapon, wounding her fatally.

Alex Pretti, for his part, started an altercation with ICE agents, then whipped out a pistol. And the gun went off.

The agents opened fire, killing him then and there.

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015115351797780500

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2015118344421060849

A search of his person revealed two oversized magazines, fully loaded.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951636521315703

Bodycam footage is available and will no doubt prove probative in the agents’ favor.

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2015841395613806640

If CW4 Schwalm is correct in his metaphor, then those two more than deserved what they got. They deliberately committed “suicide by Fed” to make martyrs of themselves. (Did Alex Pretti fire his gun on purpose, perhaps?)

Of further interest is the case of ChongLy Thao. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has accused ICE of “drag[ging] this “citizen in the snow in his underwear.” Gateway Pundit fact-checker Antonio Graceffo has the straight scoop. To summarize:

  1. The total elapsed time, from entry into the Thao home to his eventual return to the home, was two hours.

  2. Thao resembles an illegal alien convicted as a sex offender. Had Thao cooperated and submitted to a biometric check, ICE could have cleared him instantly. But he refused to cooperate. Result: a brief trip “downtown,” a fingerprint check – and eventual exoneration. Also of note: the actual suspect once boarded in the Thao home.

The Feds are on top of it

Happily, this federal government is anything but lazy. As soon as Higby dropped his seventeen-part thread, the FBI opened an investigation. From other influencers, CNAV learns that the members of the Signal chat panicked.

SIGNAL IS NOT SECURE. I worked in communications. Once they figured out where we were, it’s only a matter of time. Flan has been exposed. We’re all [obscenity]. I need to leave this state… I have contacts in Cuba.

“Flan” would be Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-Minn.).

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015579685581717852

The Feds are in the chat! The Feds are in the chat!

What followed that breathless chant was an equally breathless discussion on:’

  1. How quickly everyone could get out of the country, and

  2. Where they could go.

The chat members mentioned a network of safe houses in Canada.

On the afternoon of January 25, President Trump posted a message. In six paragraphs (over two Truths!), plus an ordered list of four entries, he laid down a set of expectations. He addressed this to “Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and EVERY Democratic Governor and Mayor in the United States of America.”

1. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey should turn over all Criminal Illegal Aliens that are currently incarcerated in their State Prisons and Jails to Federal Authorities, along with all Illegal Criminals with an active warrant or known Criminal History, for Immediate Deportation.
 
2. State and Local Law Enforcement must agree to turn over all Illegal Aliens arrested by Local Police.
 
3. Local Police must assist Federal Law Enforcement in apprehending and detaining Illegal Aliens who are wanted for Crimes.
 
4. Democrat Politicians must partner with the Federal Government to protect American Citizens in the rapid removal of all Criminal Illegal Aliens in our Country. Some Democrats, in places like Memphis, Tennessee, or Washington, D.C., have done so, resulting in safer streets for ALL.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958124569932540

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958123338296139

A middle-school teacher or principal couldn’t have done better. Early the next morning he announced sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minneapolis to take personal command. He also announced investigations into:

  • The Somali fraud, and

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and how she got so rich so quickly in office.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115961647505369753

Three hours later, Trump apparently received a contrite telephone call from Walz, who spoke of “work[ing] together” with Trump.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115962378381121858

Six hours later, Trump announced a similar call with Mayor Frey.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115963713974102712

But are the Minnesota authorities sincere?

Lay aside for a moment that Lt. Gov. Flanagan might be directly involved. When will Gov. Walz withdraw certain pending complaints from the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota? The ranking judge of that court is ordering the acting head of ICE to appear before him, per Associated Press.

However, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Judicial Circuit has stayed earlier orders restricting ICE activities in Minneapolis.

More to the point, Rogan “DC Draino” O’Handley published this pithy analysis of the Signal chats from Cam Highby. He reached the same conclusions others have – that access to license-plate databases proves the involvement of Minnesota DMV employees. Then he alleged something further:

Their Signal chats have elected leaders and exposed money trails from Canada - this proves foreign involvement.

https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/2015832996209701334

The last twenty-four hours (since the alleged Walz call) have seen some remarkable shifts in attitude. Now Minnesota State Police are moving in to arrest those involved in riots and other altercations.

If this isn’t a “Potemkin display,” Gov. Walz might have saved his skin. But what about Lt. Gov. Flanagan? She deserves investigation – along with Minnesota DVS (Driver and Vehicle Services). The Signal chats provide probable cause for such investigations.

Furthermore, the Trump administration should keep its Argus eyes on every other:

  • Large city in a blue State (like New York City and Richmond, Virginia), and

  • City, in a red or blue State, having blue governance (like Dallas, Houston, and especially Austin, Texas).

The Minnesota insurrection might – or might not – be over. America doesn’t need another.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2026/01/27/news/minnesota-insurrection/

Video:

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Trump Truth estimating $100 billion in fraud in Minnesota alone:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951852007320342



James O’Keefe having to flee Minneapolis:

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https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015202133721723350

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015484853949493332

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015260124932448533



Minnesota National Guard delivering food to protesters:

https://x.com/anthonycabassa/status/2015515107363549485



The Cam Higby thread:

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093523733733474

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093539210703227

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093635096658172

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094214074237372

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094229484138636

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094253580370019

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094463425581087

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094478873231707

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094493985345728



More examination of the Higby Signal chats:

https://x.com/jimmy_rustlin/status/2015105497968386155

https://x.com/JamesHartline/status/2015246369536262465



CW4 Schwalm’s analysis:

https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540



The Alex Pretti altercation:

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015115351797780500

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2015118344421060849

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951636521315703

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2015841395613806640



Signal chat members panic upon exposure:

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015579685581717852



Trump Truths: demands of Gov. Walz, then the contrite calls:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958124569932540

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958123338296139

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115961647505369753

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115962378381121858

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115963713974102712



DC Draino’s brief analysis:

https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/2015832996209701334



Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth



Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/



Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/



Clixnet Media

https://clixnet.com/

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