TRUMP SUES FOR DEFAMATION

                                

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU 

                           In a peculiar turn around, former President Trump is countersuing the woman who accused him of raping her in the changing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan sometime in 1996; and of defaming her by calling her a "liar." 

                           Trump's case against his accuser seems valid, though seemingly unprecedented and certainly unusual.   "The Donald" maintains that the charges  against him by the former Elle magazine writer, E. Jean Carroll, was fiction --it never happened and her abiding interest is in a big payday, and, says the ex-president, she has the backing of the standing Trump-hating woke crowd, and the far, far left New York   government, and the dishonest media.   

                          Following a jury trial last May, the 79-year-old Carroll, was awarded $5 million, with the jury finding for her claims of sexual battery and that she had been defamed by Trump.  Carroll, was the author of an advice column, "Ask E. Jean" which ran for nearly 20 years in  Elle magazine. 

                            The accusations against the ex-President were first made as part of an article she wrote and had published in 2019.  

                           According to Carroll, the two had a chance run-in at the store, where Trump was shopping for a gift for "a girl."  She said he asked for her advice, and the two shopped together and then he pushed her into a dressing room and assaulted her.  

                           The former United States President has been vocal and assertive to everyone who would listen that the encounter never happened and that Ms. Carroll had concocted the story. "We'll be appealing this decision," said Trump.  "It's a disgrace...the trial was very unfair." 

                            On the advice of his lawyers, Trump declined to participate in the jury trial in New York where Trump is anathema to the woke-minded residents who cheer every day for him to be slammed and denigrated and incarcerated. Trump is evil and must pay the price. Innocent or not, he must be punished, as is the sentiment of many New Yorkers and political opponents. 

                            The New York jury heard  only from Carroll, and they believed parcels of her story of 27 years ago. In its verdict, they found that Trump's public denunciation of her constituted defamation, and the jury delivered a verdict in her favor.  The panel in district court in Manhattan reported that she had been subject to "sexual abuse,"  but not "rape.""

                           Following the trial, the feisty, Carroll guested on the CNN cable station, and repeated that she had been "raped" by the ex-President who is a candidate for reelection in 2024.  Trump again called her a lying gold digger and a nut job or something like that, and Carroll promptly filed another defamation claim, and that claim is scheduled to be the subject of a trial next year.

                            Trump's lawsuit against Carroll was filed June 27 and is a counterclaim for defamation based on the fact that Carroll alleges she was raped when in fact the jury found that rape "clearly was not committed' and that Carroll had made the false claim both before and after the trial. 

                           Carroll’s “repeated falsehoods and defamatory statements against Trump, who is running for president again, have done significant harm to his reputation, which, in turn, has yielded an inordinate amount of damages sustained as a result,” Trump’s lawyers said in the court filings.                  

                             Trump is seeking a retraction as well as unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, in the lengthy battle between the former US president and the elderly advice giver for troubled ladies.   

                              Perhaps this is Trump's opportunity for his lawyers to cross examine Carroll with gusto as a new jury listens.  Trump will certainly testify and he can be  persuasive.    

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PRIDE DAY AT BIDEN'S WHITE HOUSE

      

                                         BY BILL JUNEAU  

                         It was declared a moment of "Pride" and celebration at the White House, and Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, commended participants for their extraordinary courage and bravery. Adults and children danced about on the grounds of the historical Washington residence, some half-naked and others tattooed heavily and  wearing rainbow-colored garb. 

                        For Joe and Dr. Jill, it was a celebration of Pride month and they delivered their respect and honor for the LGBTQ lifestyle and way of life.  

                        A "Pride" flag was attached to the White House and positioned prominently along side the American flag.  Demonstrating participants who used to be men, now bared their new full breasts as they jiggled and rocked about to the beat of music.  It was time to "show the nipple," and the President watched through his "aviator glasses." Other participants who had been women, and are now men, displayed their muscles and chest scars attesting to the removal of their breasts. 

                        For most Americans who witnessed films and read about the behavior on the manicured green lawn outside of the prestigious  residence of the nation's President,  it was a time of disgust and sadness at the circus. The gathering had the endorsement of the mentally impaired Biden and his flaky wife, Jill, who are treating the LGBTQ activists with a greater reverence and awe than they have ever bestowed  upon the nation's policemen or veterans who have died in defense of the USA and its citizens. 

                        A goodly crowd came to the White House, but they were mostly woke-minded couples with their children and mindless  activists whooping it up in celebration of the special salute to the LGBTQ community.  Out in front  of the celebrants was Rene Montoya, a "trans" woman, who displayed her large bare breasts for Joe and Jill.  Ms. Montoya eagerly spoke with reporters and answered questions. 

                        With the newspersons and for the cameras aimed her way,  Montoya held her hands over her bare breasts and said that she had "zero intention" of trying to be vulgar or profane in any way.  In covering her nipples, she explained, she did so so that others would not jump to wrong conclusions.  She said the cover up for the photographers was done "just to play it safe."

                         America's dim 46th President, now a candidate for a  another term, seemed to be enjoying Montoya, watching through his aviator sunglasses. Biden is a man with a long record of fixating on young women. Even his daughter, Ashley, has acknowledged in a diary that her dad used to shower with her, noting that it really was not appropriate. 

                          When the President, who has the appellation among millions as "Creepy Joe," announced his intention to run for  President in 2019, about a dozen women came forward and told of unpleasant and annoying experiences with him.  They detailed how he would sniff their hair and and nestle his head onto their shoulders. One woman, Tara Reade, an employee of his senatorial office in the 1990s, demonized him and accused him of grabbing her in a darkened hallway of the capitol and thrusting his hand under her skirt, acting like a  lion in heat.  In another case, it has been reported, a young girl of under 10, has accused him of "pinching her nipple."

                            In Biden's interview a few months ago with Dylan Mulvaney, the transgendered 26-year-old woman who screamed of her love of Bud-Light beer in Anheuser Busch sponsored commercials, he assured her of his admiration for the LBGTQ community.  No legislature must block the advances of the "trans" community, said Biden, emphasizing that he strongly endorsed  "gender identity bathrooms."  Since the commercial with Dylan and in the past year, Anheuser Busch has said it lost billions of  dollars as a result of using the transgendered Dylan Mulvaney as an "influencer" in commercials designed to popularize the beer with the younger generation.  

                             Biden spoke to the crowd for about 20 minutes praising the transgendering community and the LGBTQ lifestyles. "I mean this; I swear to God," said Biden, "you’re some of the most — you’re some of the bravest and most inspiring people I’ve ever known--- and I’ve known a lot of good folks."  Biden's remarks and the Pride celebration at the White House was held even though more  than 500 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced this year in 41 states. 

                             A few days following the noisy and obscene celebration on the south lawn, Biden spokespersons apologized for the behavior of some participants. "It wasn't  appropriate. It's disrespectful. And let's not -- it really does not reflect the event that we hosted to celebrate the LGBTQ families" said Biden Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre.  The conduct of some persons celebrating was not a "normal thing" and will not be repeated in the future, she emphasized. 

                            All in all, the celebration on the the lawn of the White House, calling the transgendering community courageous and brave in the face of criticism, was another abomination by a President who skates on the edge of dementia and senility and who is working to transform the United States into a country unrecognizable by the men and women who have made it great. 

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DYLAN MULVANEY, INFLUENCER FOR BUD LIGHT

                       

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU                           

                                     Reading the news these days, you may well  come across Dylan Mulvaney, the media's latest transgendering hero. After his star rose as an elder in the broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon," he told the world of his moving from boyhood to girlhood in Tik Tok videos which attracted millions of followers.  Last year, Anheuser Busch retained Dylan as an "influencer" who would make drinking Bud Light, an even greater adventure.  

                                     The company put the face of Dylan on the blue beer can and the bubbly, chirpy  Dylan, wearing a "Breakfast at Tiffany" outfit, hailed the popular brand in commercials.  This month, she said, " I celebrated my 365 days of womanhood and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever — a can with my face on it"  Another video featured Dylan in a sudsy bathtub, having a cool Bud Light. 

                                      Anheuser Busch and its public relations team were certain that the transitioning, carefully-coiffed lady Dylan, would sweeten the pot for the beer company and that admirers of Dylan would rush to pop open Bud Light cans ---or so the company thought.  

                                 It didn't work that way and by last April, following a year of Dylan pushing Bud Light, records were in and stats showed that sales and consumption of the nation's best selling beer tanked and the company lost billions of dollars. Criticism was heavy and not flattering for the prancing, smirking  and heavily made up Dylan, who is praised by LGBTQ activists who believe that men and woman can determine their sex despite the sexual package given them at birth.  

                              Singer Kid Rock became so outraged over the company's partnering with Dylan Mulvaney that he used Bud Light beer cans as targets on a rifle range; and after  destroying several dozen cans with his firepower, he turned to the cameras and yelled, "f--- Bud Light and f..... Anheuser-Busch." 

                                 Conservative  Congresswoman  Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, and U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, called out Mulvaney as a  “fake woman,” and labeled her gender expression as an “absurdity.” Another critic described Dylan as  "everything the right loves to hate about 'trans' people in one convenient, outspoken package."

                             According to the Bump Williams Consulting firm,  Parent  Anheuser-Busch sold $71.5 million worth of Bud Light in the week ending April 29, a 23% drop compared to a year ago. Budweiser sales totaled $31.5 million that same week, down roughly 11%, the firm said. Sales of other Anheuser-Busch brands — including Michelob Ultra, Busch Light and Natural Light —also took a hit  Company shares were down amid nationwide boycotts while the S&P 500 rose 2.25% over the same period.                                                         Dylan Mulvaney, 26, the "transgendering influencer" who turned out to be sort of a  Bud Light "She Devil,"  is the offspring of a conservative Catholic family in California.  She was born a baby boy and was given the Welsh name of Dylan by mother, Donna and father, James. 

                               Talented, extroverted and always seeking attention, Dylan's star as an actor rose while appearing in the Broadway musical. Then, on Tik Tok, with her year long videos depicting her new year of being a girl, she reportedly attracted some 1.8 million followers on Instagram and another 10 million on Tik Tok--or so they say.. 

                                     Ever since he was four years-old, Dylan has said. he leaned toward girl things and activities.  Growing older, he reached the conclusion that he was in the wrong body and had been given the wrong package.  So he opted to change his gender and because of today's woke society, garnered huge followings and is still seen as an "influencer" on television singing and prancing about in skimpy clothing and bathing suits as a chirpy young woman pushing a product.  

                                    While it is reported that her bottom equipment may remain the same, Dylan has told of extensive facial femininization surgery.  In fact she goes into detail on changes to her face and head on a Tic Tok video.  The surgery, she said,  took "multiple hours and included; a hairline advancement; a brow bone shave; a rhinoplasty; a cheek enhancement; a lip lift; a jaw shave; a chin reduction; and a tracheal shave."  Even her "tiny nipples," she exclaims proudly, have been doubled in size.

                                           She had  a sit-down interview with President Biden a big promoter of gender changing, abortion and the sexualizing of children. It is a topic with which the befuddled Biden hunches over and speaks of in his customary horse whisper. In response to a question from Dylan, President  Biden said that he was definitely in favor of "gender identity bathrooms." Also, he said, that it would be "illegal and immoral" for the banning of gender affirming health care --and for interfering with the  transgendering of a person

                                        The message to Anheuser Busch and to other corners of America seems loud and clear that the transgendering craze and the new girlhood for Dylan is not looked upon with favor by millions of Americans, including those who like drinking beer.  As some have said, "changing genders is not in nature's playbook and certainly is not something to aspire to;  and transitioning persons should not be treated as a priestly class that can do no wrong."                                    

                                  Very likely, Anheuser Busch is wishing that it could quietly sneak away and wash their hands of all associations with the "trans" new lady and her "influencing" on behalf of Bud Light. 

                                  Without addressing the Dylan Mulvaney backlash and problems directly,  Anheuser CEO Brendan Whitworth said that his 165- year-old company is in the business of bringing people together over a beer and not in creating issues which will divide them. 

                                  Anson Frericks, former president of Anheuser Busch, didn't mince words.  He called on Whitworth to resign as CEO for having "botched" the Bud Light situation.  "It's time for the shareholders and board of Anheuser to ask Whitworth to step down."

                                 " The beer company's decision to make trans  activist Dylan Mulvaney the face of Bus Light has cost the company a staggering $20 billion..and counting," said Frericks.  

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                                 In response to the backlash, Anheuser CEO Brendan Whitworth said that his 165- year-old company is in the business of bringing people together over a beer and not in creating issues which will divide them. He  issued the following statement:

                                 "As the CEO of a company founded in America's heartland more that 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew. We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere.......

                               "We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people.  We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer."

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THE EXIT OF LORI LIGHTFOOT

                         

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU                             

                               May 15, 2023,  was a very satisfying day for a great number of Chicagoans and former Chicagoans like this writer, who want only the best for the Windy City and Land of Lincoln.      

                                It was exit-day for Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the five-foot, one inch lady with sagging blue jeans and a droopy cowboy hat, who was in charge of Chicago, the nation's third largest city, for the past 48 months. And she indeed left a legacy.  No elected woman ever had as dirty a mouth as Lightfoot exhibited, and no mayor was ever so absorbed in  tracking down racial politics in every corner of the  city.  She had no time for budgets or deficits or stopping crime while alleged white supremacists were lurking anywhere in the Windy City.

.                             Lightfoot, 60, had the distinction of being the city's first black, lesbian chief executive.  She is family oriented and has a wife and an adopted daughter.  Lightfoot was feisty and wielded a fist at anyone who challenged her assertions.  If you argued and resisted, she got angry and often accused the  critic of being a racist.   

                               She scrambled about City Hall during her first 24 months in office with virtually no accomplishments to point to.  She watched as crime spiraled upward with street shootings and killings breaking Chicago records. On the anniversary of her first two years as mayor in 2021,  she was given a cake with two candles to mark the occasion.  But she added more than a gracious  "thank you" for the occasion. 

                                In the future, she announced, she would only grant one-on-one interviews to reporters who are "people of color."  Chicago City Hall, she said, has way too many white journalists compared to the number of reporters "of color,"and that  situation is intolerable and must change.  Her comments drew national attention, but no one was heard endorsing her new program.  One TV anchor from Fox News described her as a "lunatic racist" who should not hold a public office.  Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman and a Democrat who had run for President in 2020, called for her resignation, and importuned President Biden and Vice President Harris to join her in the demand. 

                                 Before President Trump left office in January of 2021, he contacted Lightfoot and offered to send armed troops to Chicago to help in the fight against street crime. Lightfoot refused and said she considered the President a "racist" and that she would have nothing to do with him. The Chicago Tribune upbraided Lightfoot for her attitude and advised her to be more "collaborative" with the President of the United States.  

                                 Lightfoot came aboard as Chicago's mayor in 2019 after a tough primary fight and a run-off election against  County Board President Toni Preckwinkle which she won in a landslide.  Lightfoot succeeded Rahm Emanuel who had been mayor for eight years, but declined to seek a third four-year term. Lightfoot  took office as a popular new mayor, receiving broad support from the Teachers union and others in the city, Republicans as well as Democrats. 

                                  Most members of the Chicago city council applauded her election and predicted great  things to come under the diminutive and feisty new mayor who had been a federal prosecutor and  had served as the President of the Chicago Police Board.  But four years later, hardly anyone in the council wanted her for a second term. One council member, a democrat, described her as a mayor who"played the race card" whenever there was a challenge to one of her loony proposals. 

                                   Democratic Ald. Sue Sadowski Garza was a strong Lightfoot supporter, but when time for her second term arrived, she did a backflip on her support of the mayor, and didn't hold back.  "She will never again get my support," she announced. "In four years, the mayor has managed to piss off everyone with whom she comes into contact....police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, and manufacturing," said Garza.  

                                  Mayor Lightfoot failed to focus on gun crime even though participants were African Americans shooting their black brothers and sisters. Instead, she became a critic of Chicago policemen trying to do their jobs. She saw "racism" anytime a white policeman acted against a black citizen even when officers saw their targets breaking the law.  She instigated policies that set limits on when a  police officer could pursue a suspect who had committed a crime or appeared to be preparing to commit a crime. Uniformed officers voted a "no confidence" in her and considered her foot pursuit policy as impossible and ridiculous. Rank and file Chicago officers voted a "no confidence" in Lightfoot and in the new police chief she had appointed. 

                                    In in the aftermath of the George Floyd death, Lightfoot ordered the removal of statues of Christopher Columbus from two Chicago Parks on grounds that the Italian icon, Columbus, mistreated blacks.  Later, efforts were made by park district lawyers, at the request of Italian lawyers, to have a statue in a Columbus day parade. Lightfoot objected and engaged in an argument with lawyers in which she said she would make the decisions and that she had the biggest "dick" around.  She questioned one lawyer's credentials as an attorney, and he subsequently filed a lawsuit against her for defamation.

                                    At one point, Chicago police, acting upon a warrant signed  by a Cook county judge, accidently barged into the home of a woman undressed and preparing for bed --in search of  a drug dealer. Officers quickly apologized and the naked occupant was given a blanket by police and was without cover for merely  seconds.  Mark Flessner,  City lawyer, apologized on behalf of the police and the City of Chicago and prepared a check for $50,000  as damages for the woman's embarrassment.

                                      Lightfoot didn't think that was enough and upped the amount to $2.9 million. After all,  the woman was   African American and  the policemen were white. Corporation counsel argued that the multi million dollar settlement for damages was excessive and that the policemen had actually done nothing wrong since they acted pursuant to a warrant.  Lightfoot then fired city attorney Flessner, and the city council subsequently approved  the $2.9 million as reparations for the horror  of being viewed momentarily by white men. 

                                      Lightfoot also directed her cries of "systemic racism" against the Chicago Department of Health. Statistics show, said Lightfoot, that life expectancy for blacks is some ten years less than that for whites and Latinos, and that a major reason was the abbreviated care given to Black citizens. Also, there is an overwhelming number of African American residents dying from Covid 19, apparently for want of a vaccination. The Chicago Commissioner of Health has promised to improve care to black residents and to defeat the existing health care crisis.          

                                       With Lightfoot's exit from the mayor's office after four years, the gavel has been  turned over to Brandon Johnson, 47, an African American who had at one time favored the defunding of police.  However, later Johnson  said that he wanted money that had been earmarked for police, to be redirected to police social programs which would work hand in hand with police officers in bringing down crime; and would enable policemen to resolve some situations and problems without violence and shootings.  

                                        Johnson,  Chicago's 57th mayor,  was elected last  April in a run-off election against Paul Valas, a former CEO  of the Chicago schools. Valas, who is white, had promised to restore law and order to the streets of Chicago and to support and return respect to Chicago policemen. Johnson accused Valas of being a "closet republican," who could not be trusted. 

                                         Chicagoans are rooting for and hoping for the best and a safer city under Mayor Johnson  in its fight against  spiraling gun violence and crime and hijackings. In Lightfoot's final weekend as the city's mayor,  there were five persons killed and 29 others wounded by gunfire. The youngest victim was a 16 -year-old boy gunned down near "The Bean" in Millennium Park. 

                                       Chicagoans look forward to new safety and less violence under the new mayor who officially took office on May 16. Nevertheless, while hoping and praying for better days,  citizens are bracing for the possibility that the new mayor has only more of the past to offer.   

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SO THAT WAS TUCKER

                        

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU                       

                              Most everyone was surprised when Tucker Carlson got his pink slip which reportedly came directly from Rupert Murdoch, top owner of the Fox News cable station.  No advance notice or rumor, and even Carlson did not know that the axe was on its way.    

                               Lots of speculation as to why Tucker was eliminated.  He was drawing in millions of viewers nightly.  He annoyed Democrats and probably made the befuddled Joe Biden even more of a basket case as he heard the speeches and pronouncements drafted for him to read being cut up by the conservative Carlson who considered Biden mentally impaired and historically the dumbest of any American president.  

                                There are opinions that a Murdoch son who has always hung with Democrats pushed his dad to excise Tucker's powerful voice; young Murdoch always got applause and good will from the left wing.  In any case, the sending of Carlson to the street was a gift to President Biden who has announced his desire for another four year term.  

                               Tucker, 52, was in his seventh year as host of the nightly, prime time show, and he signed off on a Friday by saying---We will see you again on Monday. But on Monday morning, April 24, the news was announced that Tucker and Fox News had parted company; and Fox News bosses thanked their exiting star for his work and contributions. And then the door was closed and Tucker's fight  against  "lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink" as he always described it,  became his legacy. 

                               Tucker always had plenty of respectable sources as guests on his prime time show.  Heavy back up for his belief that 80-year-old Biden is physically and mentally wanting, grew from the  words of Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson, a former navy admiral who served as President Obama's trusted doctor before his election to Congress.  

                                 As a White House physician, Adm. Jackson knew and saw Biden at work as Obama's Vice President--and he has provided Tucker with plenty of fuel. Said Rep. Jackson: "President Biden does not know what he is doing. Others under him pull his strings...he is dangerous and should not be president." 

                                 Tucker believed, as do millions of others,  that Biden became President after an election manipulated by dishonest and scheming Democrats who used a politicized FBI and a Department of Justice to get the job done. With the media on their side, and Facebook and Twitter doing their bidding, evidence of Biden's criminal conduct and behavior was kept under wraps and concealed from the eyes and ears of voting citizens. Facts about the infamous Hunter laptop are just now slowly coming to light.                                               Carlson, 52, began hosting his prime time hour on Fox News in 2016 after the station fired "Big Dog" Bill O'Reilly for alleged sexual harassment of women.  Carlson who had been a Fox employee since 2009 and was doing odd jobs and handling various gigs, discarded his bow tie and the show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," was born, and in short order caught the eye of viewers.  In  a couple of years,  Tucker became the number one cable news analyst with a powerful voice, and some four million viewers tuned in daily to his show, and to hear his political take on Washington and the nation's troubled times.    

                                 Democrats called Carlson a "liar" and a "racist" at every opportunity, and the far left NYT and WAPO weighed in often seeking to belittle his conservative talk and to persuade advertisers to abandon him. But that didn't work, and Tucker became a popular and powerful voice for  conservatives,  Christians and Republicans who resented the "cancel culture" and "woke" nonsense  being promoted by LGBTQ activists and the dim -witted President. 

                                  Tucker had his favorite topics and among them were Ukraine and its war with Russia;  the LGBTQ and its  growing list of initials, and the gender-transitioning mysticism infecting society.  Of course, he always had time to dwell on the blatant corruption of Joe Biden and his cocaine- addicted son, Hunter. 

                                  Tucker frequently asked  "What exactly," is America's vital national interest in Ukraine?  Why are billions of dollars in cash and in military weapons, ammunition, tanks. airplanes, food and clothing being delivered non-stop to Ukraine.  When does it end, reporters have asked President Biden. While nervously shuffling his crib notes, the president told reporters  "never"....it never ends.   

                                 Carlson has said that it was  morally wrong for Russia to attack Ukraine, but the first line of resistance to the Kremlin attack should come from European nations who are allied against Russia and its tyrannical president.  America's assistance to Ukraine in the past 14 months is reported to be about $100 billion, almost as much as the the United States invested in the eight year war in Vietnam.      Where is the accountability from President Zelenskyy? Carlson has said that he believes that America under Biden is dangerously close to  bringing about a third world war in Europe.

                                   As part of many of his shows,  Carlson spelled out the Biden family corruption linked to the discarded laptop computer of President Biden's son, Hunter. Messages on the laptop have revealed Joe Biden, when vice president and Obama's point man to Ukraine,  served as the "chairman" and "figurehead" to Hunter's  overseas business dealings with Ukraine, China and Russia.   

                                    Many thousands of dollars from those deals, according to Hunter's messages,  were earmarked for the "Big Guy" as Hunter referred to his father. Biden has publicly lied and said that he never discussed with Hunter the Hunter contracts; and that the laptop computer is "Russian disinformation." Former Attorney General Barr has said that Joe Biden is a liar.  

                                      On several occasions  Tucker offered as a guest on his show, Tony Bobulinski, a former naval officer and business associate of Hunter's, who told of meetings with Joe Biden when he was vice president. Despite the allegations, Bobulinski, has never been interviewed by the FBI, and has said that "Joe Biden is a "compromised president" and should resign. 

                                       The corruption and cover up of Joe Biden's criminal conduct and that of his son, said Tucker, makes Watergate look like child's play.

                                        Under Joe Biden, America's borders are wide open.  The world heard Biden yell, "Com'on in" and he meant every word.---and immigrants brought with them fentanyl and heroin  for use, sale and distribution. Border security is the sole responsibility of the federal government, and Biden  has thumbed his nose at the responsibility, and thousands of Americans have perished from the illegal fentanyl. 

                                        Since Biden became President in 2021, some five million illegal aliens have walked onto American shores.  Most check in with patrol officers and then are sent on their way in buses and planes to a desired destination.  Hundreds of thousands more simply bypass sign-in procedures and find their own modes of transportation.                                                                                                                                A year ago, Tucker Carlson was suspended from Twitter for so-called "misgendering" and "hateful speech." The suspension followed a Tucker segment in which he was critical of  Dr. Richard Levine's transition to Dr. Rachel Levine after Richard and his spouse had two daughters.  The change was in 2011. 

                                        Dr. Levine, a pediatrician, was named in 2021 by President  Biden as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health.  Subsequently the paper, USA Today, named him as "Woman of the Year," noting his outstanding work during  Covid emergencies.  A guest on Carlson's show, Seth Dillon, CEO of the satirical Babylon Bee organization. declared that the Bee had named Dr Levine as its "Man of the Year," and had posted relevant comments on Twitter.

                                       "Can an individual just decide to change sexes and become a woman, and direct that he be called by a female name" said Tucker." I think not, and do not intend to apologize to twitter for anything."  Carlson says that "transgendering" is biologically impossible and is an abomination which defies the laws of nature. Subsequently, after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, his suspension was lifted. 

                                      Carlson is gone from Cable television, at least for now.  But he may well in the future show up somewhere with a microphone in his hand, hated by woke democrats and other crazies, but loved and respected by millions who share his values and love for facts and truth.                                                                                         xxx 

PETE ROSE SEEKS REDEMPTION

 

                           

                                    BY BILL JUNEAU

                                     It was just about 35 years ago that the baseball world got ripped with the news that Pete Rose, who was then a player-manager for the Cincinnati Reds, had been betting on major league baseball games in violation of an unbendable written rule. 

                         Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti called him onto the carpet.  He drilled the the cocky Rose about his betting with bookies on MLB games, even on games when the "Big Red Machine" (as the Reds were called by sportswriters) was playing. "Betting by me," said Rose, "never happened. All lies by competitors out to get me and bring the team down."  

                         But the evidence against the rough-talking baseball icon who had become an American hero, was overwhelming and irrefutable.  Regularly in the spotlight and often quoted by sportswriters, Rose had  become the game's hit king.   But Rose's celebrity and sensational diamond achievements were not changing the hard-nosed Giamatti's determination to make the lying Rose pay for his malicious disregard for the nobility and rules of the game. 

                         Betting and breaking the game rules did not merit legal prosecution since no criminal laws were broken. But  Commissioner  Giamatti brought the hammer down in a way which was reminiscent of the punishment spooned out to the notorious "Black Sox" players who took a fall  in the 1919 World Series.  

                          Giamatti ordered that Rose be banned from baseball for the rest of his life.  He had him "branded" like a piece of cattle as "permanently ineligible" for induction into the prestigious Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.  Giamatti died in 1989 and his successors, Fay Vincent, Bud Selig and then Rob Manfred, refused formal and informal requests from Rose to back off  or reduce the the Giamatti sanction which provided that he would never be a member of the sacred Hall.  

                          Rose persisted in talks and in interviews in denying that he had ever bet on baseball games.  However, in 2004, he authored an autobiography, and "came clean" acknowledging that he had bet on games due to his gambling addiction--and always bet on the Reds to win. He said that he regretted his misconduct and his lying, and hoped that some day he could be forgiven for his wrongdoings, indiscretions, foibles and mistakes, and be given a second chance.  

                          In 2015 and then again in November of 2022, Rose beseeched Commissioner Manfred in letters to show mercy and to forgive him for his rule breaking as his conduct was wrong, but not such as deserving of the horrendous punishment given him. Rose importuned the new commissioner Manfred, elected in 2015,  to forgive his betting on games, and give him a second chance----and permit him to be a candidate for induction into the Hall of Fame. 

                          In 2015, Manfred issued a quick no to Rose's request for some mercy and understanding, noting that Rose lacks a "mature understanding of his wrongful conduct.... and has not yet accepted full responsibility for it."  

                            No doubt but that Rose was wrong in breaking baseball rules and for his mendacity which made matters worse. But then what about his accomplishments as a ballplayer?  Should not performance be the standard for admission to the Hall of Fame?  After all, some players enshrined, like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb and a bunch of others,  are not worthy of canonization. It is the Hall of Fame and not the Hall of Saints. 

                            So how about Rose on the ballfield? He batted from both sides of the plate, ran like a deer, played five different positions and finished his career with more hits (4,256) and more games played (3,215)  than any other player in the history of the  Grand Old Game. Until Rose, Ty Cobb had been the all-time Hit King. 

                            He won three batting titles, an MVP award, and was Rookie of the Year in his first year in the majors.  Affectionately called "Charlie Hustle" by sports writers,  he was named to 17 all- star teams and is the recipient of a number of gold glove awards. He had a 303 lifetime batting average. 

                             He became an illustrious national figure with millions of fans of all ages.  In Cincinnati during Rose's 24 years,  he led the "Big Red Machine" to four national league pennants and victories in three world series. He has been enshrined in the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and in the mind and hearts of baseball fans the world over who have forgiven him and believe that he should be a member of the Hall of Fame 

                             The Ohio state legislature  has passed a bill calling for his induction into the Cooperstown Hall. 

                              In his letter to Manfred in November of last year,  Rose poured his heart out importuning Manfred for mercy,  forgiveness and a chance at his being inducted into the Hall of Fame. In response to reporters, Manfred said that he  himself believed that the ban was for life---period. Nevertheless, he seemed to leave the door open a crack for a possible change.    

                               The question of "eligibility," said  Manfred, when questioned a few weeks ago by Cincinnati newsmen,  belongs in a "conversation" among members on the board of the Hall of Fame. Manfred, noting that he has a seat on that board, said "its just not appropriate for me to get in front of those talks." The positions of MLB leaders and of the board of the Hall of Fame are not necessarily the same, he said.  

                               So the door for Rose is again closed ---at least for now.  But there is always a possibility that the board of the Hall of Fame  may withdraw its sword.  Rose's extraordinary record on the baseball diamond cannot be denied. America has always been a kind and generous nation, and maybe its long arm of forgiveness will extend to the 82-year-old Pete Rose. 

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NASHVILLE SHOOTING MANIFESTO

                           

                                    BY BILL JUNEAU

                         Like past school shootings,  the assault on the Covenant elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., was tragic, sad and ugly, and it is now a part of this nation's history.   Three small children and three adult faculty members were gunned down by a troubled 28-year-old woman in the process of changing her gender. 

                         The shooter, Audrey Hale, packing a rifle, a 9mm carbine pistol and a handgun, entered the school through a glass door which she blasted open with gunfire.  Inside, and as officers were speeding to the school, Hale fired 126 bullets from her rifle and another 26 rounds from the handguns. as she killed three nine-year-old children, two girls and a boy;  and the head teacher, a substitute teacher; and the school custodian.  Responding Nashville officers shot and killed Hale as she held to her guns.   

                          Police Chief John Drake spoke with reporters, but he did so with visible reluctance, and declined to offer details on the woman assassin who years ago had been a pupil at the Christian school and now was transgendering to become  man.  Drake said that Hale harbored "some resentment" toward the Christian school and that she had left records that she now wished to be referred to with the pronouns, "he" and "him."

                          A Nashville officer since 1988, and chief since 2020, Drake said that papers and journals kept by Hale have been recovered from her Honda Fit auto which she drove to the targeted school; and from her Nashville home which she shared with her parents.  Also confiscated by police, were a map highlighting the  Covenant school and a "Manifesto" which reportedly spelled out in detail, Hale's motivation for her attack on the  Christian school she attended for her third and fourth grades some 20 years ago. 

                            Drake said that Hale papers, info from interviews by detectives and the "Manifesto" are being carefully examined. He said he would have more details as the investigation moves forward and indicated that the Manifesto would be made available for the public to see.   

                           As the weeks have passed since the March 27 carnage at the private school, demands have continued for release of the important manifesto, but it appears that it is being kept under wraps as urged by the LGBTQ lobby,  liberal Democrats and the far left media.  

                            In the aftermath of past school shootings, news of the incident and stories of the shooter and his motives dominated national headlines and television for  weeks and sometimes months. But with the Nashville school murders of three nine-year-old children, and dedicated adults supervising them, stories are infrequent and rarely contain details about the shooter and her background and her commitment to become a man. News about the Nashville assassin has been intentionally trimmed out of exaggerated respect for the LBGTQ movement and the misbegotten belief that Hale must not be condemned for her moral breakdown.

                        In the minds of the LGBTQ community, Hale was transitioning in the face of violent anti-"trans" sentiment expressed by Christians and others who view changing genders as a biological impossibility, and an abomination of the laws of nature. 

                        A  prominent U.K. teacher and journalist, Debbi Hayton, 78.  who transitioned to female in 2012, has been critical of the "trans" movement when transgendered persons are treated as a "priestly class that can do no wrong." Some "trans" applauders, she has said, regard changing genders as "something to aspire to."

                              While decrying the tragic deaths of the six shooting victims at Covenant school, the liberal media and woke Democratic  politicians pay allegiance to the LGBTQ by withholding condemnation of Hale because of the stress she was dealing with in changing her gender.  Their focus is not the malicious murders by Hale. Rather, it is a call and a catalyst for new gun control legislation as the only real way to stop school shootings.  

                                Conservative TV anchors and Republican politicians are continuing to request that the full story of Hale's assault and murder of six persons be revealed in its entirety.  Transparency in government demands that the "manifesto" be made public. If the process of transitioning inspired Hale to shoot up a school, the public and "trans" aspirants should be so informed.  

                                Hale's parents have told newsmen that their daughter suffered from an "emotional disorder" and was being counseled by a doctor. The specifics of her mental problems have not been released, but it is assumed that her problems are interwoven with her commitment to become a man.  Some believe that she may have become stressed over contemplated "bottom surgery." .

                                Hale, unbeknownst to her parents, owned seven various type guns, all of which she purchased legally.  He father said that it was their belief that Audrey had owned one gun some time ago, but had sold it. All of Hale's weapons have been seized by police and are  being examined by ballistic experts.  

                                In the minutes before Hale entered the school and began firing, she had sent an Instagram to an old friend, Paige Patton, a Nashville radio host who uses the name "Averianna." 

                               Said Hale:  "I'm planning to die today. This is not a joke. You will probably hear about me on the news after I die.... This is my last goodbye...... "I love you-- see you again in another life."                            

                                Laura Ingraham, Fox News host of the popular  "Ingraham Angle." has delivered many demands that the "Manifesto" prepared by Hale be released for public perusal. Liberal Democrats, she said,  fear that the manifesto and other Hale writings contain plans for the shooting and will reveal Hale's fear and concern of transitioning and becoming a man, and that the public is entitled to hear of those concerns.  

                                                     

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