Author: Freedom Watch

Trump chides New York prosecutors for trying to ‘take him out’ with tax fraud case The Washington Times July 4, 2021 Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said the tax fraud charges against his company were just his political enemies’ latest attempt to “take him out.” He predicted it would fail. At a Save America rally in Florida, Mr. Trump told the crowd of tens of thousands that the indictments revealed, not misconduct by the Trump Corporation, but the duplicity of New York prosecutors. Continue Reading…..

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By Patrick J. Kiger HISTORY July 3, 2021 The 47-page pamphlet took colonial America by storm in 1776 and made critical arguments for declaring independence from England. Even after armed hostilities broke out between the American colonists and British forces in 1775, many prominent colonists seemed reluctant to consider the idea of actually breaking away from Britain, and instead insisted that they were still its loyal subjects, even as they resisted what they saw as its tyrannical laws and unfair taxation. But a single 47-page pamphlet—the 18th-century equivalent of a paperback book—did a lot to quickly change that, and…

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Dates: July 5 and 6, 2021 Times: 9 am to 4 pm Place: Independence Hall (Visitors Center) Second Floor Ballroom (July 3, 2021 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Larry Klayman and Freedom Watch are hosting the Third Continental Congress on July 5 and 6, 2021 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of liberty. This important convention of delegates from around the nation will convene on the 245th anniversary of the founding of our nation at a time in our nation’s history where We the People’s freedoms and liberty again hang in the balance. Please go to www.freedomwatchusa.org to view a…

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Watters: Kamala’s laugh a ‘defense mechanism’ that often works; ‘failed miserably’ with Lester Holt By Fox News Staff Fox News July 3, 2021 Jesse Watters said Friday on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ that Vice President Kamala Harris’ signature ‘cackle’ is a “defense mechanism” when she is faced with a question she can’t answer or doesn’t want to respond to, adding that it often is employed to lighten the interview — which he said notably failed during a recent back-and-forth with NBC News anchor Lester Holt. JESSE WATTERS: as someone who made his career doing man-on-the-street interviews, I feel like…

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Trump-appointed judge rejects US Capitol rioter’s claim he was ‘selectively charged’ because he supports Trump By Marshall Cohen CNN July 3, 2021 (CNN)A Trump-appointed federal judge on Friday rejected claims from a US Capitol riot defendant that he had been “selectively charged” because he is a supporter of former President Donald Trump. Federal Judge Trevor McFadden shot down that accusation and upheld the criminal charges against Couy Griffin, a county commissioner from New Mexico who founded the “Cowboys for Trump” group and was featured in a recent CNN documentary about the January 6 insurrection. The judge also rejected…

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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter CNN July 2, 2021 (CNN)Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch on Friday said the Supreme Court should revisit the breadth of the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan and explore how it applies to social media and technology companies. That 1964 ruling created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel and has been a bedrock of US media law, but the two conservative justices said it’s time to take another look. “Since 1964,” Gorsuch wrote Friday, “our Nation’s media landscape has shifted in ways few…

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Neighboring construction could have impacted Surfside building’s stability, experts say By Laura Romero, Soo Rin Kim, and Lucien Bruggeman ABC News July 2, 2021 Engineers and Surfside, Florida, officials are concerned that recent construction at a neighboring residential building may have contributed to instability at the Champlain Tower South building that collapsed last week — and could potentially have been “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” according to one expert. “Construction of a neighboring building can certainly impact the conditions, particularly the foundation for an existing building,” Ben Schafer, a structural engineer at Johns Hopkins University, told…

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