Monday, January 19, 2025. Chump goes to court to try to circumvent the law ordering him to release the Epstein documents, after ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good the Justice Dept is investigating everyone except the one who was holding the gun that killed her, Robert Kennedy Junior has his own Epstein ties, and much more.
Ben with MEIDASTOUCH NEWS notes Donald Chump's being booed everywhere.
The Convicted Felon is loathed around the world.
As, in fact, he should be.
Starting in the occupied state of Minnesota, BRING ME THE NEWS notes, "St. Paul Public Schools says two of its vans were stopped by ICE agents while students and staff were on board. According to a statement from the district, two of its contracted vans were pulled over by ICE agents on their way to school last week." Stopping school buses? One of the many ICE abuses that have outraged Americans. And they're not going to just sit down and take it. Matt Lavietes (NBC NEWS) reports:
Standing outside his son’s elementary school, a father heard a warning crackle over his walkie-talkie: a suspicious car nearby.
At another school, volunteer Joe Dirkswager stood watch, nodding at passing vehicles. Miles away in St. Paul, Matthew Kearns was questioning unfamiliar individuals near the school he graduated from decades ago.
The three are among the volunteers who have begun patrolling streets around elementary and high schools in the Twin Cities, using walkie-talkies, Signal group chats and whistles to warn families and school staff of immigration enforcement activities. The informal patrols have emerged amid a sharp surge of federal immigration personnel in Minnesota and the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer last week.
On Thursday afternoon, about two dozen adults lined the perimeter of Green Central Elementary School in central Minneapolis, just blocks from where Good was killed. Patrol volunteers scanned nearby streets and relayed updates in real time.
As Alex Bollinger (LGBTQ NATION) notes, the administration is losing it over the public's reaction to ICE's actions including the murder of Renee Nicole Goodman, "White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at a journalist after he asked why the administration is saying that ICE is “doing everything correctly” even after queer mom Renee Good was shot in the face three times by an ICE agent. Leavitt then ranted about how he is a left-wing 'hack' who should be reporting administration propaganda instead of asking questions about ICE’s brutality." Aymann Ismail (SLATE) writes:
I am in the passenger seat of a stranger’s car in Minneapolis, four days after Renee Nicole Good was killed here. I’m riding with someone who was doing the same kind of work we think Good was doing when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot her. Right now, our work is much quieter. We’re driving in loose loops when a volunteer who is patrolling the streets as a pedestrian observer on the Signal call we’re listening to—a broad network of thousands of locals relaying up-to-the-moment intel on ICE activity—reports two vehicles near Karmel Mall, known locally as “Somali Mall.” Another volunteer fulfilling the role of dispatcher, also on the call, identifies them by make and model. Another observer cross-references the license plates against a running database. They’re confirmed as ICE vehicles, unmarked like they almost always are.
My guide for the day, who I’ll call C, sits up. “They’re going to come past us right here,” they say, accelerating toward the intersection.
Within seconds we spot them: two SUVs moving faster than the flow of traffic. Through their windows, I can see silhouettes of men with heavy Kevlar high on the neck, faces covered, sunglasses.
C begins calling out every turn, street, and direction the SUVs take—while laying on their car horn hard and continuously, like an alarm. The sound is constant and blunt. It could easily be mistaken for an expression of anger, but watching how others in the area—pedestrians, other drivers—react, it’s a signal: a warning to anyone within earshot that ICE is moving through the neighborhood. It turns what ICE hoped would be a discreet operation into a public event. One pedestrian we pass hears the horn, turns, and gives the ICE vehicles the finger.
Serial liar and plastic surgery victim Kristi Noem appeared on CBS' FACE THE NATION Sunday. Katie Francis (DAILY BEAST) notes:
Kristi Noem was cornered into admitting the ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Good was being investigated per protocol.
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary was confronted by CBS News’ Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan about whether the agent Jonathan Ross’ conduct was being reviewed after the shooting in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
“We are following the exact same investigative and review process that we always have under ICE and under the Department of Homeland Security and within the administration. The exact same policy that the Biden administration used,” Noem said during the interview Sunday.
So he's being investigated if . . . the noted liar is telling the truth this time. If. Always a big if with Kristi Noem. Sydney Kashiwagi (THE MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE) reports, "The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday. The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey." So there's not an investigation. Supposedly, there's an internal review within the Homeland Security Dept and we all know how worthless that is. Remember Monica Elizabeth Moreta-Galarza?
If not, let's drop back to September 27th:
Starting with Monica Moreta-Galarza. She was assaulted by ICE agents. Samira Asma-Sadeque (PEOPLE) notes:
According to another video of the incident cited by CNN, the woman was seen with her arms interlocked with a man, understood to be her husband, as he was being detained.
One masked agent is allegedly seen grabbing the woman's hair while someone else is heard saying, “Just grab her, grab her and pull her away.
I was not aware of that video until tonight. She's the woman we noted in Friday's snapshot who was assaulted by ICE:
Want to see something disgusting? Steam this video at THE NEW YORK TIMES of an ICE agent slamming a woman to the ground. Andy Newman and Luis Ferré-Sadurní report for the paper:
A federal agent shoved a woman and pushed her to the floor in front of what appeared to be her two young children on Thursday during a confrontation at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan.
A video shows a wrenching encounter in a hallway of 26 Federal Plaza in which the woman and a girl are desperately clinging to the woman’s husband, who is being detained. Agents pull the hair of the woman and the girl to get them away from the man.
After agents pry the family apart and lead the resisting man away, the woman yells, “You guys don’t care about anything!” in Spanish at an agent who is trying to get her to leave and telling her, “Adios, adios.” She puts a hand on his chest, and he shoves her. When she tries to grab onto him, he pushes her down.
This is not America, let's not pretend that it is. It's hell and it's brought you to be the tedious contributions of Convicted Felon Donald Chump and the corrupt Supreme Court.
These are thugs unleashed by Donald Chump who are not bound by laws -- per the Supreme Court -- and who terrorize people daily. And there is no real legal recourse presently, none at all. Federal courts try to do their job and follow the law -- including the Constitution -- and for that Chump attacks them publicly and the Supreme Court nullifies them.
That's why the mid-terms are so important.
That video was outrageous. And it got attention. Other video that has been outrages has not gotten the amplification it deserves and needs. Luis Ferré-Sadurní (NEW YORK TIMES) reports:
A federal immigration officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday.
The altercation took place on Thursday at 26 Federal Plaza, the epicenter of President Trump’s immigration crackdown in New York City, and was captured in videos that spread rapidly on social media and beyond. The footage set off an outcry from New York City officials who denounced the behavior of the officer, who has not been identified, and demanded that he be disciplined.
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“The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that oversees ICE. “Our ICE law enforcement are held to the highest professional standards and this officer is being relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation.”
Ms. McLaughlin declined to elaborate when asked if the officer had been suspended or fired, saying, “That’s being determined pending investigation.”
On Friday, Representative Dan Goldman and Brad Lander, the city comptroller, both Democrats, referred the ICE officer to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan for felony prosecution. The referral is a recommendation for prosecution, but the Department of Justice has the discretion to decide whether to pursue a case.
And that's probably where it now starts and ends. Homeland Security says they're investigating and they don't do a damn thing and then try to pretend that there's no reason to provide an update. Of course, there is. The simplest one being public trust.
No one should ever be treated the way Monica Moreta-Galarza was treated.
But ICE and Homeland Security will pretend the matter was addressed when it never was.
It can't be addressed. To do so would probably open the US government up to a lawsuit on the part of the ICE agent beating up the woman. That man would then sue if he was held accountable. And he'd note what ICE agents have told me: That they're instructed to do whatever they want and told they will face no consequences.
So watch Homeland Security bury the whole thing while pretending that they're addressing it.
Of course, I ended up being wrong. ICE and Homeland Security dealt with it and doled out real punishment and -- What's that? Oh, yeah, I was right. From the October 2nd snapshot:
Let's zoom in on the public statement from Homeland Security that's noted above:
Reached for comment, a DHS official did not address the officer being placed back on duty but called the woman's husband a "criminal illegal alien."
"President Trump and Secretary Noem are not going to allow criminal illegal aliens to terrorize American citizens," the official said. "If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will arrest you and you will never return."
CBS News reached out to representatives for ICE and the White House for comment.
That's 'justice' in Kristi's world. Less than a week after an ICE agent violently shoves an unarmed woman to the ground and it is captured on video and the uproar is so great that ICE says publicly it is unacceptable, but six days later we learn the man is back on the streets terrorizing others.
And that's why ICE can't be left to investigate themselves.
On Kristi's Sunday appearance, Sarah Fortensky (THE HILL) adds:
Noem pushed back on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) statement that “The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.”
“I would not listen to Gov. Walz,” Noem said in response. “He has a very bad track record.”
He has a bad track record? He has? Look who's talking. Or, better yet, look at Kristi and looks who's lying -- again. Robert Mackey (GUARDIAN) notes Deputy AG Todd Blanche's remarks, "Blanche, a former personal lawyer for Donald Trump before he won his second presidency, dismissed the need for any criminal investigation of Ross during an interview with Fox News. He suggested that the officer was cleared by the publicly available video evidence." Those would be the videos that make it clear murdered Jonathan Ross was not struck by Renee's car, that Ross broke rules and protocol by stepping in front of the vehicle, he broke rules and protocol by shooting into the car and he did so when there was no threat of harm to him. Todd Blanche is a liar and he's trash. We now know he lies. He's not just stupid, he's a liar.
The Justice Dept won't investigate Jonathan Ross but they will investigate Tim Walz and Jacob Frey. As well as Renee's spouse. Ryan J. Reilly, Julia Ainsley and Jon Schuppe (NBC NEWS) report:
Federal officials are investigating Renee Nicole Good’s [WIFE!] partner to determine whether she may have impeded a federal officer moments before he shot and killed Good in Minneapolis, according to two people familiar with the investigation who spoke to NBC News.
The federal investigation into the shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross is focusing more on Becca Good, including what officials said were her possible ties to activist groups, and less on Ross’ actions when he fired into Renee Good’s vehicle during an immigration operation last week, the people said.
The fatal encounter has touched off protests in Minneapolis and calls for accountability for immigration officers, whose tactics have resulted in at least 10 other shootings since September.
Antonio Romanucci, Becca Good’s lawyer, said in a statement Saturday that “there has been no contact from the FBI or federal officials indicating Becca Good is the subject of an investigation.”
Let's review so that we're all on the same page. A woman was murdered, shot dead. An unarmed woman was shot dead. And, in response, the FBI has opened investigations into Governor Walz, Mayor Frey and Renee's spouse -- none of whom held the gun that killed Renee. And as for "[WIFE!}" -- NBC NEWS used "partner." That's Renee's wife. They share the same last name or did NBC NEWS not notice that. PEOPLE has referred to Becca as her "wife" and THE NEW YORK POST has referred to her as her "widow." Why is NBC NEWS attempting to make it sound like Renee and Becca were partners in a bridge game instead of a married couple?
And let's note Cheyanne M. Daniels' report from POLITICO:
“We wouldn’t be in this situation if Joe Biden hadn’t allowed our open border policies to be in place and allowed up to 20 million people unvetted into this country,” Noem said. When Brennan asked for the breakdown those in custody who have actually committed a criminal offense, Noem said every single individual has committed a crime — and 70 percent have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes.
Turning to the pedophile protector that is Donald Chump. Last week, he got confronted with that reality at a Ford plant in Dearborn when a worker there, TJ Sabula, yelled that accurate term at him and Chump responded like the lunatic that he is by responding with repeated "F**k you!"s and flipping hi the finger. Ben Solis (MICHIGAN ADVOCATE) attempted to pretty it up:
Bungling, Ben? Bungling? It's breaking the law and it's doing so intentionally. Chump knows that, he signed it into law. Or is the dementia so great that he can't even remember what he did back in November? All the Epstein files the government has were supposed to be released last month. Instead, Pam da Bimbo Bondi, Attorney General in the Administration of corruption insists that 1% -- one percent -- of the fies have now been released. 1% isn't all files, 1% isn't even half the files. For the record, the Justice Dept insists there are 5.2 million documents. And Chump and the corrupt crew are now trying to circumvent the new law. AP's Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister explain, "Manhattan's top federal prosecutor said Friday that a judge lacks the authority to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of documents in the sex trafficking probe of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer was told in a letter signed by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton that he must reject a request this week by the congressional cosponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act to appoint a neutral expert." CNBC adds:
The DOJ since December has been releasing caches of documents tied to its investigations of Epstein. But U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have criticized the department’s slow pace.
Khanna, a California Democrat, and Massie, a Kentucky Republican, last week said they asked U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer to permit them to file a brief that would argue for the appointment of a special master and independent monitor, given the Justice Department’s failure to fully comply with a law that requires the DOJ to release all records related to Epstein by Dec. 19.
Here are two video reports on the topic.
And tie all of this into Chump raging over the phone to former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene that she needed to drop her support for the released of the Epstein files because releasing them would embarrass his powerful friends and he's not going to do that. Americans are watching. They see that his corrupt and rich friends get protected again while females were sex trafficked and abused. As usual, Chump is the wrong side and, as usual, he's not fighting for the American people. He is, in fact, a pedophile protector. Again, Americans are watching. They see this.
Ariel Edwards-Levy (CNN) notes:
Few Americans are satisfied with the amount of evidence released in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with most saying they believe the government is intentionally holding back information.
The poll was conducted a little less than a month after the December 19 deadline that Congress gave the Justice Department to release all of its files about Epstein.
The Justice Department estimated earlier in January that it had released less than 1% of its Epstein-related files. Department officials told a court Friday they had enlisted approximately 80 more attorneys from the department’s criminal division to work with prosecutors in New York’s Southern District to review documents related the convicted sex offender.
A two-thirds majority of Americans say the federal government is intentionally holding back some information about the Epstein case that should be released, while just 16% say the government is making an effort to release all information possible. The remainder say they haven’t heard enough about the case to say.
Riya Siddhacharjee (MEAWW) reports on another poll:
A new poll has revealed that the majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump was aware of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
According to a new national survey by YouGov, 71% of the survey responders believe Trump knew about Epstein’s crimes involving minors.
A smaller but still significant percentage (49%) believes Trump was directly involved in the disgraced financier's offenses.
In related news, no boundaries Robert Kennedy Junior has wandered into the story. Please remember that right before his run as an 'independent' candidate for US president ended, he had an affair with a journalists. Please remember that he recent book makes clear that she lied -- and we told she did in real time -- when she said that the affair consisted only of sexual texts. In the book, she explains Junior told her that if it was just sexual texts being reported, his candidacy could survive. She lies for him. And also remember that prior to that while still on the campaign trail, charges that he had sexually assaulted a baby sitter for his kids had emerged and he refused to talk about that to the press.
He's been a whore and tramp his entire life. At one point, low on cash and needing a fix of heroin, he's even rumored to have given up the butt to a guy or two. Now Thea Felicity (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES) notes:
A video has resurfaced showing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. referring to Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as 'wonderful to me' and 'kind'. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Critics noted that Kennedy's comments did not acknowledge the victims or the severity of her offences.
Many social media users responded critically, saying that calling a convicted child molester 'wonderful' reflects a disconnect from the harm caused. One commentator described the statement as 'not empathy for victims, not disgust, just nostalgia for his own comfort', noting how privileged men sometimes shield or polish the reputations of powerful enablers. Another user sarcastically asked whether Kennedy had been 'on the island of young girls and maybe boys too'.
Further criticism explained that Maxwell's kindness was selective, targeting those who were wealthy or influential. A widely shared comment noted that her behaviour towards Kennedy reflected his elite status rather than genuine morality, writing: 'She was kind to you...not because she was naturally kind...because you're a member of the elite...you're a Kennedy...she saw you as someone who could do something for her'.
The video, which was first published by Distill Social, shows Trump walking around a raised portion of the Dearborn F-150 plant when the worker, who is not seen on screen, yells to Trump and calls him a “pedophile protector,” a reference to Trump’s widely reported connections to deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein and the Trump administration’s bungling of a new law that ordered the FBI to release all of the files that the department had available to them.
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