Author: Freedom Watch

U.S. Justice Department worried about Arizona vote recount By Associated Press POLITICO May 6, 2021 PHOENIX — The U.S. Department of Justice expressed concern Wednesday about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate’s unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County. In a letter to GOP Senate President Karen Fann, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said the Senate’s farming out of 2.1 million ballots from the state’s most populous county to a contractor may run afoul of federal law requiring ballots to remain in the…

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By Asawin Suebsaeng The Daily Beast May 5, 2021 The video platform Vimeo has “terminated” the MyPillow account of Mike Lindell, the company’s CEO and a friend and staunch ally of former President Donald Trump. As of Wednesday afternoon, when users click on pages for the “Lindell Management” Vimeo account, a “Sorry, we couldn’t find that page” message appears for where MyPillow and Lindell content was once hosted. “This is worse than what Twitter did to me and my company!” Lindell said in a brief phone interview on Wednesday. “This affects my business, the Lindell Recovery Network, and the…

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‘We’re terrorized’: LA sheriffs frequently harass families of people they kill, says report By Sam Levin the Guardian May 5, 2021 Los Angeles sheriff deputies frequently harass the families of people they have killed, including taunting them at vigils, parking outside their homes and following them and pulling them over for no reason, according to a new report from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The LA sheriff’s department (LASD), which has faced national scrutiny for its corruption scandals and killings of young Black and Latino men, has routinely retaliated against victims’…

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By WLKY Digital Team WLKY May 5, 2021 The FBI arrested a Louisville man Tuesday in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January. According to FBI officials, Eric Douglas Clark was charged with knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Clark is at least the 12th Kentucky resident arrested for his role in the riot, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Clark is set to appear in federal court Tuesday. Continue Reading…..

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Meet Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, the Republican power couple caught up in the FBI’s Rudy Giuliani investigation By Jacob Shamsian Business Insider May 5, 2021 Toensing and diGenova have been Republican fixtures for decades and were instrumental in the Ukraine scandal that led to former president Donald Trump’s first impeachment. On Wednesday, FBI agents raided the Manhattan home and office of Rudy Giuliani as part of a long-running investigation into whether he broke lobbying laws related to his dealings in Ukraine. That same morning, at 6:30 a.m., FBI agents showed up to the Washington, DC-area home of…

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Biden team prepares a Mike Lindell, yes, Mike Lindell oppo file By Alex Thompson, Theodoric Meyer POLITICO May 5, 2021 President JOE BIDEN has kept his public focus on combating the pandemic and passing his infrastructure plan. But privately the president’s political operation has started preparing for 2024, including the Democratic party’s main committee. The Democratic National Committee has quietly assembled a core team that is focused not just on the 2022 midterms but on the next presidential cycle and the expected Biden re-elect, according to Democratic officials in and outside the DNC. Weeks after the inauguration, the…

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