COMMENTARY / OPINION
Tension Erupts on The Five as Jeanine Pirro, Greg Gutfeld, and Jesse Watters Destroy Radical Left Co-Host on Live TV Following Judge Engoron’s Egregious Ruling Against Trump (VIDEO 6:06) By Jim Hᴏft
Feb. 20, 2024 4:30 pm – A heated exchange erupted on Fox News’ “The Five” as co-hosts debated the implications of an egregious decision by New York judge Arthur Engoron against former President Donald Trump.
The panel discussion took a fiery turn when Jeanine Pirro, Greg Gutfeld, and Jesse Watters clashed with their Democrat co-host Jessica Tarlov over the ruling and broader issues affecting New York.
The ruling levied fines of over $350 million and enforced a three-year ban on Trump from holding executive office or securing loans from New York banks.
Jeanine Pirro, a former judge, vehemently criticized the handling of Trump’s fraud case.
“This Leticia James is out of control. She is unethical. She is inept. You do not pick a person and say, ‘I will find a crime. I don’t like you. I’m going to find…’ We’ve got all this crime going out here, and this woman’s after Donald Trump. Shame on her and all of them,” said Pirro.
The conversation then shifted to Democrat co-host Jessica Tarlov, who countered by emphasizing the legal implications of Trump’s actions and the need to uphold the law against falsifying business records and committing insurance fraud.
“I assume they’ve thought about this long enough that they have a good answer for that. But basically, everyone who is defending Donald Trump in this, from Kevin O’Leary to some folks here, is saying it is okay to falsify your business records, to issue false financial statements, to commit conspiracy for insurance fraud,” said Tarlov.
However, the debate quickly escalated as Tarlov and Pirro clashed over the specifics of Trump’s financial dealings, with Tarlov insinuating that Trump maintained three sets of books for various purposes—a claim that Pirro challenged.
Tarlov then mentioned about the January 6 event and the FBI raid in Mar-a-Lago.
“So since Donald Trump ran the first time, he has been making this argument, ‘If they could do this to me, they could do this to you.’ The average person is not inflating their wealth by 800 million to $2.2 billion. They’re not sexually assaulting women. They’re not storing classified documents in the toilet. They’re not fomenting an insurrection,” said Tarlov.
Gutfeld joined the fray by drawing an analogy between contract negotiations and Trump’s situation, suggesting that aggressive bargaining doesn’t equate to breaking the law. “There is no fraud here, which is why you’re bringing up other stuff,” Gutfeld directed at Tarlov.
Watters then weighed in, arguing that Tarlov lacked an understanding of real estate, finance, and the legal complexities involved in such cases. He staunchly defended Trump’s impact on New York City, lambasting Letitia James for not addressing street crime and targeting political adversaries instead.
“Jessica knows nothing about real estate, real estate valuations, real estate development, the IRS, or getting loans from big banks to develop skylines in New York City. Donald Trump did more for New York City than a thousand Leticia James has done,” said Watters.
“Then her phony friend, Alvin Bragg, if you just try to defend yourself working at a bodega or on the subway, he goes after you. That’s why 160 businesses have left New York. That’s why almost a million New Yorkers have left. This is an unsafe climate if you have a certain political opinion. It’s why companies don’t do business in Venezuela, Russia, and Pakistan, because it’s corrupt. Because if you’re on the other side of the political people that are in power at the time, they’ll target your business.”
Watters extended the debate to national politics, drawing comparisons between the scrutiny of Trump and the business dealings of the Biden crime family. He called for equal treatment under the law, highlighting accusations of tax fraud and improper foreign dealings by the Bidens.
Arafat’s next successor another reason why a Palestinian state will be a disaster – opinion By MOSHE PHILLIPS
The immediate release of terrorists incarcerated by Israel has remained a repeated demand by Hamas and recently, it added Barghouti to the list of those who must be freed.
FEBRUARY 19, 2024 02:35 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the Middle East this month saying: “One, there needs to be calm in Gaza; two, there needs to be a clear and credible pathway to a Palestinian state.” But who would lead Blinken’s Palestinian state and why?
On February 4, The Jerusalem Post reported, “[Marwan] Barghouti is a popular figure in Palestinian politics, with many seeing him as a successor to 88-year-old Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas.”
Abbas is a member of Fatah and has been in power since the 2004 death of terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.
Barghouti has been a leading figure in Fatah for decades and joined when he was just 15, more than 50 years ago. A convicted mass murderer, Barghouti has been jailed since 2002. He was found guilty in an Israeli civilian court of 26 charges of murder and attempted murder of both Israeli civilians and soldiers. He is not a political prisoner. Barghouti is well known and electable, and the Associated Press reported in December 2023 that “the most popular politician remains Marwan Barghouti.”
The immediate release of terrorists incarcerated by Israel has remained a repeated demand by Hamas and recently, it added Barghouti to the list of those who must be freed.
This should be interpreted as both highly significant and surprising. Hamas’s push for Barghouti as a replacement for Abbas may be based on the assumption that America and Europe believe Barghouti to be someone they will be able to collaborate easily with to create a state.
Leader of rival faction to Hamas
And yet, Barghouti was never a member of Hamas. Why should Hamas want a leader of a rival faction to be the president of Palestine?
Whatever Democrats Say, Trust the Opposite is True By Pamela Geller
February 19, 2024 – Every horror the left has inflicted on this once great nation is always, always. blamed on the Republicans. This is be design. Such perfidy and dishonesty would not be possible without their running dogs in academia and the Democrat media axis. For Democrats, reality is the biggest enemy they face.
Most troubling of all is the Democrat election machinery — immense, meticulous, with its tentacles everywhere – even in the RINO GOP.
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Declassified: Mayorkas and Biden Impeachment Process Details [18:22] Mark Levin Show
February 19, 2024 – Those who say Alejandro Mayorkas shouldn’t have been impeached no nothing about the constitution. The Framers defined high crimes and misdemeanors as a category of political crimes against the state– an attack on the civil society, on the culture, and on our governing system. Whether you are President or a cabinet member, you take an oath to uphold the Constitution. If you go rogue and violate federal law, that is a political crime against the body politic. And it’s exactly what Mayorkas is doing at the border. Now it’s Biden’s turn to face the music.
Jonathan Pollard: Rescuing American Jews and the Upcoming American Civil War [28:01] Machon Shilo
February 19, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
A nation of patsies TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
FEB 19, 2024 – DYLAN ALLMAN: 60 years ago, the CIA murdered the sitting President of the United States in broad daylight. The media was in on it the whole time. And I am going to prove it to you here once and for all.
On November 22, 1963, not only did President John F. Kennedy die, but so did our free press … and as we have seen and continue to experience, so did our hopes for world peace. Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefitted? Who had the power to cover it up? Let’s start from the beginning.
What are the origins of the CIA? What was its purpose? Well, in 1947, the US had no enemies to speak of after WWII. There was no reason to create such a monstrous new agency unless the major objective was to create machinery to be able to control foreign policy in the United States. The legislation creating it was not drawn up by an intelligence man; it was drawn up by a Wall Street man, James Forrestal. In 1949, Forrestal was Truman’s Secretary of Defense.
However, as soon as Forrestal began questioning US foreign policy, he was immediately committed to the psychiatric wing of the Bethesda Naval Hospital. And like clockwork, on May 22, he supposedly leaped 13 stories to his death. That was likely the first instance of the CIA ‘suiciding’ someone they wanted gone.
It is important to note that President Kennedy inherited the dangerous and growing Military-Industrial Complex that President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell speech in 1961.
Kennedy also inherited the imperialist empire-building foreign policy that had already been successfully implemented around the world by the CIA. The CIA was no stranger to meddling with foreign regimes. They had many successful coups under their belt at this point: Iran, Guatemala, you name it. David Atlee Philips, the CIA’s Chief of Western Hemisphere Operations, even bragged that it was all easy. He said in an interview:
“In 1953, a few CIA people managed to make some changes in Iran that President Eisenhower liked very much.”
“In 1954, a few of us in Guatemala made some changes. It seemed almost without effort.”
Hohmann: The Second American Civil War Is Starting by Leo Hohmann
Feb. 19, 2024 7:30 am – American society is spinning out of control: What you need to do now to prepare for massive civil unrest and violence
It doesn’t take any brilliant analytical mind to discern that American society is losing its rudder and that there are powerful forces seeking to divide us at a critical juncture, provoking us to civil war.
After decades of ideological attacks on our gatekeeping institutions by globalists with no allegiance to this country, America’s sense of identity and purpose is dangerously close to dead.
A country without a cohesive identity is a country ripe for manipulation, division and ultimately war among its factions.
When the elites feel their power slipping, which I believe they do, that’s when they adopt a “burn it all down” mentality. Gaslighting in the media, finger pointing and scapegoating all play into the strategy and we’ve seen plenty of that over the last few years.
But it’s not just America. It’s Western civilization as a whole that is withering. And when civilizations implode, everyone suffers. The good, the bad, and the indifferent.
Many of my Christian friends say not to worry, everything will work itself out just fine. God’s in control. I read history and see that just because God is in control doesn’t mean that His followers won’t suffer persecution, even to the point of death.
But there is a difference between dying for your faith and dying just because you walked into an unfortunate situation in a public space that you thought was safe. Maybe it always was safe before, but now isn’t. Or, maybe you discover the hard way that your home appeared as low-hanging fruit for a professional criminal or gang of criminals. They attack and you’re caught off guard.
What I’m saying is, the world is about to become a much more dangerous place, both at home and abroad.
What starts in Europe eventually comes here, and civil uprisings are gaining steam across the European continent. France, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Spain have all seen tremendous civil unrest as people are waking up to the global con being waged against them by power-hungry globalist Luciferians using the climate as a their excuse to drastically curtail freedoms of speech, press, assembly and movement, not to mention privacy invasions.
[Ed.: It’s not “Civil War”. Leo titled it wrong! A civil war is between the citizens, think war between Democrats and Republicans. War between the citizens and illegal invaders is called self-defense. If the citizens go to war with their own government, then it’s called “Revolution”.]
FEB 18, 2024 – Breaking news:
The Stalinist State of NY has just unleashed its wrathful inquisition against the Marrano Jews of Kiryath Joel.
As history has repeatedly demonstrated, it NEVER helps to feign compliance.
Between 1391 and 1496 CE, hundreds of thousands of Jews submitted to baptism in Spain and Portugal in attempt to save their lives, assets, and avoid expulsion. This ended up being a grave error, as these conversos and their descendants were subjected to horrific persecution in subsequent generations at the merciless hands of the Catholic Inquisition. The illusion of relief earned by their compliance was short-lived and transitory. It ultimately resulted in auto-da-fé and the hellfires of the Inquisition.
In contrast, Iberian Jews who defied the Church and demonstrated moral fortitude to remain Jews fared much better historically. They may have barely survived with their lives, and might have lost many loved ones to savage hordes, but they were ultimately able to regroup and rebuild their communities on freer shores around the Mediterranean rim. Every Sephardi Jew today is living evidence of their courage and defiance.
The same is true with Jews whose ancestors settled in Franco-Germanic lands. Every Jew of Ashkenazic background today is living testimony to his/her ancestors’ selfless resistance to Catholic persecution, bloody Crusades, Blood Libels, banishments, etc.
But alas! In 2019, barely five centuries later, countless descendants of these heroic Jews capitulated en masse to modern-day state persecution. “Vaccinate,” ordered the Public Health tyrants, “or you will lose all state funding!”
Given the prohibitively high cost of living in NY State, that order was akin to saying: “Vaccinate or we’ll shut you down!”, which is basically the same idea as “Baptize or we’ll drive you out!”
Tragically, the majority of Jewish communities capitulated to this Orwellian dictate, forcing parents to vaccinate their young children with all sorts of mandated injections as a condition to school attendance. Unvaccinated (& under-vaccinated) children were discriminated against and banned from school.
How they rigged election against Trump: This is the most important Tucker Carlson interview that I have watched since 2020 – Shocking censorship in America [1:04:45] SIMON ATEBA
FEB 18, 2024 – This is perhaps the most important interview that you will watch ahead of the 2024 elections, and if nothing is done, Donald Trump might not win.
It’s even worse than most people already know. The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States of America.
It’s not worth writing long posts here. Just watch
WAYNE ROOT: LET “THE GREAT NEW YORK CITY BOYCOTT” BEGIN. CONSERVATIVES TO NEW YORK: “DROP DEAD.” By Wayne Allyn Root
Feb. 18, 2024 12:00 pm – The greatest President of my lifetime, who loves this country and wants to make it great again, was just framed and publicly lynched by the government, politicians, prosecutors and court system of New York City.
Trust me, New York City is going to wish they never played this game. They may not know it yet, but New York City just committed financial suicide.
Stay tuned for a strategy to bring New York City to its knees.
I was born and raised in New York. I graduated from Columbia University in New York City. My first apartment as an adult was in New York City. Even in the past three decades since I left, I’ve looked forward to my many business trips each year to New York.
I’ve always been proud of being from New York. I’ve given business speeches around the world about using “New York Attitude” to enjoy mega-success in the business world. All ex-New Yorkers live forever in Billy Joel’s words, “in a New York state of mind.”
Not anymore. New York is now dead to me.
New York City has become a cesspool of mental illness, wokeness, communism, and hatred towards conservatives and patriots.
Even worse, the Democrat politicians of New York suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” As a result, they have weaponized New York government against President Trump in a way that represents a combination of Soviet KGB, East German Stasi, and Nazi Gestapo.
The time to stop this madness is now- before it gets far worse. Today it’s Trump. Tomorrow it’s you and me. New York City must be made an example. So this never happens again in America.
And I know how to do it.
I wrote the books on how to stop this Marxist woke madness- by boycotting, punishing and defunding the companies on the left.
Both my books were #1 bestsellers- “The Great Patriot Protest & Boycott Book” and “The Great Patriot BUY-cott Book.” The latter was endorsed by President Trump.
The Ultimate Guide to the Biden Administration’s Betrayal of Israel BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN
A comprehensive timeline of the White House’s post-Oct. 7 words and deeds eviscerating the claim it has Israel’s back — let alone America’s
Bibi, Blinken, and Biden (3B’s) – Getting Nowhere Fast
FEB 16, 2024 – The notion that President Joe Biden is a stalwart supporter of Israel, let alone acting in the best interests of the U.S. in the Middle East, is and has been a complete and total canard.
This Big Lie, propagated by the administration and its mouthpieces, provides cover for what amounts to an anti-American plot to put the screws to Israel, as part and parcel of an effort to make the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran, the regional hegemon.
Since Oct. 7th, a Holocaust-in-a-day perpetrated by Iran’s proxy Hamas, despite initial rhetoric to the contrary and the continued provision of munitions (for now), the Biden administration has shown in word and more importantly deed that it is doing everything it possibly can within political reason to slander, stymie, sabotage, and ultimately imperil the very existence of our chief ally in the Middle East.
What follows is an effort to chronicle the Biden administration’s treachery towards Israel, culminating of late in a press to force the Jewish state to effectively lose the war to Hamas, free hundreds if not thousands of jihadists, and reward a Palestinian Arab population overwhelmingly supportive of the Oct. 7 massacre and Hamas with a state in a bid to “sue for peace” with Iran.
This timeline should serve as the death knell of the false narrative that President Biden supports the Jewish state – and more fundamentally that he is representing the interests of the American people over those of our worst adversaries.
CHAPTER 6: “An Unaware and Compliant Citizenry” by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is [upcoming release April 2024]
February 18, 2024 – Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite themselves. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
We have discussed the weaponization of education in American schools and its sinister political objective to eliminate high literacy, individual agency, and independent intelligence. Dr. Dennis Cuddy, historian and political analyst, wrote an extraordinary article published on NewsWithViews, April 26, 2021, “An Unaware and Compliant Citizenry.”[i]
Cuddy documents the seismic shift in public education’s mission, from teaching basic skills and foundational knowledge to teachers acting as agents of social change and teaching political activism. The following are excerpts from the article:
The Clintons’ and others’ efforts to “produce an unaware and compliant citizenry” began with the National Education Association (NEA), whose President Catherine Barrett wrote in the February 10, 1973 edition of SATURDAY REVIEW OF EDUCATION:
Jonathan Pollard: Joe Biden Is No Friend of Israel [10:26] Machon Shilo
February 18, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Jonathan Pollard: How Long for Israel to Achieve Military Self-Reliance? [14:30] Machon Shilo
February 16, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Mike Benz Stuns Tucker Carlson With Eye-Opening Insights on Government Censorship [3:39] THE VIGILANT FOX
FEB 17, 2024 – The censorship technologies originally intended for terrorist organizations have been weaponized against the American people.
TUCKER CARLSON: “So you’re saying the Pentagon, our Pentagon, the US Department of Defense, censored Americans during the 2020 election cycle?”
MIKE BENZ: “Yes. The two most censored events in human history, I would argue, to date, are the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Benz calls artificial intelligence-based censorship technologies, which were created by DARPA to take on ISIS, “WEAPONS OF MASS DELETION.”
That technology, Benz says, has “the ability to censor tens of millions of posts with just a few lines of code.”
Benz detailed how the government-funded Virality Project identified 66 dissident narratives related to COVID-19, breaking them down into sub-claims for monitoring and censorship through machine learning models, aiming to control the spread of information harmful to official narratives or individuals like Tony Fauci.
Benz added, “And whenever something started to trend that was bad for what the Pentagon wanted or was bad for what Tony Fauci wanted, they were able to take down tens of millions of posts. They did this in the 2020 election with mail-in ballots.”
Click here to watch the full interview.
The End of Democracy: “What I’m Describing is Military Rule” [1:04:45] ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
Mike Benz” “It’s the inversion of democracy.”
FEB 17, 2024 – If you wish to understand how democracy ended in the United States and the European Union, please watch this interview with Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz. It is full of the most stunning revelations that I have heard in a very long time.
The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. “What I’m describing is military rule,” says Mike Benz. “It’s the inversion of democracy.”
I have also included a transcript of the above interview. In the interests of time – this is AI generated. So, there still could be little glitches – I will continue to clean up the text over the next day or two.
Note: Tucker (who I consider a friend) has given me permission to directly upload the video above and transcript below – he wrote this morning in response to my request:
“Oh gosh, I hope you will. It’s important”.
Honestly, it is critical that this video be seen by as many people as possible.
So, please share this video interview and transcript.
Five points to consider that you might overlook;
