Badlands News Brief

Trump's Town Hall, Comer's Committee & Biden's Bribes

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The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.

That’s where we come in.

In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand picks news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.

Some items feature original commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.

Now, onto the news from Wednesday, May 10 …

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CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck of a Trump Town Hall

With its Republican presidential town hall on Wednesday, CNN failed journalism, the American public, and its own employees by deciding to invite an arsonist who has spent the past seven years trying to burn down their house.

We should remember that Trump regularly refers to CNN as “fake news,” and has trained his cult to see all media that is critical of him as the “enemy of the people.” As a result, CNN had to evacuate its NYC headquarters in 2018 due to a bomb threat. The next year, Cesar Sayoc, who sent functional pipe bombs to Trump’s critics, including CNN, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

In turn, CNN decided to reward Trump for his reckless and dangerous behavior by giving him a 70-minute Festivus to air his grievances and lies in front of a fawning cult of 400 sycophants in New Hampshire, which reflected the full spectrum of whiteness and cruelty. — The Daily Beast

Our Take: “I chose to gleefully bathe in the sea of Marxist tears represented by the Daily Beast for a reason; they are indicative of the most extreme of the subversive rot that nests at the heart of the Media Industrial Complex.

Anyone who tuned into Trump’s Town Hall on CNN last night for more than a minute was greeted with one of the (former) President’s most masterful narrative performances yet, as he both navigated a hostile moderation environment while wielding both the studio and at-home audience with a deft, clever and measured hand as he wended his way through a veritable minefield of controversial topics.

There’s going to be a LOT that spins out of this one, but as friend and colleague Just Human projected last night, the Marxist Media is already beginning to turn on itself, which is proof enough that Trump’s CNN Town Hall was a massive net win for him, and for our movement.” — Burning Bright

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Biden Family Tried To Hide Over $10 Million In Foreign Payments: House GOP

House Republicans laid out evidence of a vast network of Biden family dealings which reek of corruption - including;

The Biden family received, and tried to hide, over $10 million in payments from foreign nationals

A previously undisclosed $1 million in Romanian-linked payments

Ties to Romanian 'influence peddling'

A 'web' of 20 LLCs created while Joe Biden was Vice President with a 'complicated corporate structure'

'At least 15' of the LLCs were formed after Biden became VP in 2009 - several of which were owned or co-owned by Hunter

These LLCs accepted payments ranging from $5,000 to $3 million

The committee wants to know what legitimate business the Biden family was in

"Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies—most were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden’s vice presidency," reads a memorandum. "Bank records show the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ companies. The Committee has identified payments to Biden family members from foreign companies while Joe Biden served as Vice President and after he left public office.?

"These complicated financial transactions appear to conceal the source of the funds and reduce the conspicuousness of the total amounts made into the Biden bank accounts. Chinese nationals and companies with significant ties to Chinese intelligence and the Chinese Communist Party hid the source of the funds by layering domestic limited liability companies," Comer continued.

The memo outlines efforts by the Biden family to hide, conceal and confuse sources of money - including funds from China which Joe Biden said were 'not true.' — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “This stuff may be old news to us, but it's NOT to the American people.

So far, Comer has seeded the following Narratives, of which there is major sauce:

- Influence peddling by the Biden Crime Family (and, by extension, the Obama Administration)

- Foreign interference in the executive branch of the United States

- Collusion between Big Banks, Intel Agencies & Bidens

- Media Suppression” — Burning Bright

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Another Take: “We had it right all along. Does anyone have a spar stein available? Because I have a hearty draft of I-told-you-so logger I need to wash down all this leftist tears.

Arm yourself with these nuggets; there's a campaign afoot.” — Justin Deschamps

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George Santos Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud Charges

The scandal-plagued congressman, who ran on a life story littered with lies, was charged with 13 counts including wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds and lying on federal disclosure forms.

Even as Representative George Santos surrendered in federal court on Long Island on Wednesday, another criminal case immediately loomed: Brazilian law enforcement authorities will conduct a hearing on Thursday on an allegation of check fraud.

The matter, which stemmed from an incident in 2008 regarding a stolen checkbook, had been suspended for the better part of a decade because the police were unable to locate him. The case was revived earlier this year and a hearing is scheduled for Thursday. — The New York Times

Our Take: “Rep George Santos has been under scrutiny for lying and misrepresenting himself since he was elected. If, as alleged, he is guilty of defrauding taxpayers by collecting unemployment while gainfully employed, among other schemes, then he should be held to account.

US Attorney Breon Peace said of this case, ‘This indictment seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations.’

Fraud is fraud, Santos deserves his day in court, and we will never advocate for harshness or leniency based on political party affiliation. That said, Peace’s statements are particularly poignant in light of the House Oversight Committee presser the same day, revealing millions of dollars flowing from the CCP, Romania, and other foreign nations into Biden family bank accounts.

Can the DOJ apply the same level of rigor to the (at least) nine members of the Biden Crime Family as they do to George Santos? Presidential-level corruption is a higher priority for the American people than that of a single Congressman. Is there any reason we can’t pursue both investigations?” — Ashe in America

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Another Take: “What timing, that a notable Republican is being charged with Money Laundering in a highly public arrest on the same day the House Oversight Committee makes identical (and sourced) accusations toward the Biden Family.

Rather than seeing this as a negative, I suggest we adopt the DEFECTED approach.

Take a look at these charges. Then think of everything we THINK we know re: the Admin.

We WANT the MSM/Left/Centrists to call for Justice ... because we want them to be trapped in that position.” — Burning Bright

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Is WHO a Front Organization for the Takeover of U.S. Government?

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly (WHA) will convene May 21-30 in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the proposed “pandemic treaty” and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).

Many analysts have warned that the ratification of either or both of these instruments would diminish or completely strip away sovereignty from nation-states and place public health decision-making power in the hands of the WHO and its director-general.

Details around how this might happen in the U.S., however, are difficult to pinpoint — partly because of the secrecy surrounding negotiations and partly because of the complex combination of domestic and international law that would have to come into play in order to strip U.S. sovereignty.

“If these amendments and if this pandemic treaty are passed, then that would basically be the end of our national sovereignty,” said lawyer Reggie Littlejohn, co-founder of the Sovereignty Coalition, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and co-chair of the Stop Vaccine Passports Task Force.

Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., professor of international law at the University of Illinois and a bioweapons expert who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, agreed. He described the WHO’s proposed instruments as “an attempt to take over the United States of America by using the WHO as a front for that purpose.”

“This is being backed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bill Gates, the Chinese communist dictatorship, Big Pharma and the biowarfare industry,” Boyle said. — Activist Post

Our Take: “The short answer? Yes.

Though I suspect there are many potential avenues for the rolling out of a global government. Negotiations are ongoing regarding the Pandemic Treaty, but fact-checkers and establishment ‘healthcare journals’ are rushing to assure us that "The WHO Pandemic Accord Won’t Steal US Sovereignty".

Forgive me if I don't believe them. Additionally, and please correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought that an international treaty required a super-majority vote by the U.S.Senate to be ratified. Further, and to quote from SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 354 U.S. 1 Reid v. Covert:

‘This Court has also repeatedly taken the position that an Act of Congress, which must comply with the Constitution, is on a full parity with a treaty, and that, when a statute which is subsequent in time is inconsistent with a treaty, the statute to the extent of conflict renders the treaty null. [n34] It would be completely anomalous to say that a treaty need not comply with the Constitution when such an agreement can be overridden by a statute that must conform to that instrument.’

In other words, should there be a conflict between an international treaty and the Constitution, the U.S. Constitution supersedes any ratified treaty.

Do I think that this will stop them, however? Probably not.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Kari Lake Attorney Files Lawsuit Against Runbeck and Maricopa County for Denying Legal Public Records Request Which Could Prove Claim of 35,563 Ballots Were Injected Into 2022 Election

Bryan Blehm, an attorney for We The People AZ Alliance, on Monday filed a Special Action Complaint against Runbeck Election Services and Maricopa County for public records relating to chain of custody and video documentation of ballot receipts at the Runbeck facility.

Roughly 81% of the 1,311,734 Maricopa County 2022 election voters voted by mail and had their ballot sent to Runbeck for signature verification with discrepancies in ballot chain of custody documentation.

The Gateway Pundit recently reported that the Arizona Supreme Court issued a ruling in Kari Lake’s lawsuit, confirming a previous mandate for the trial court and issuing bogus, meaningless sanctions for Lake’s attorneys over their factual claims regarding chain of custody. Still, the Court denied Defendants’ attorneys’ fees, and the sanction for just $2,000 to the Court was a joke.

The issue that Kari Lake was sanctioned on relates to the missing documentation of over 35,000 ballots sent between Runbeck’s warehouse and Maricopa County. The record supported the claims by Lake; the Arizona Supreme Court just ignored Lake’s argument and the math. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “History will recall this season as one of persistence, and Kari Lake’s relentless fight against Katie Hobb’s overtly stolen governorship persists, though victory at times seems impossible.

The claim here is that 35,563 more ballots came out of Runbeck’s election warehouse than were sent in by Maricopa County. These ballots have no chain of custody. That’s more than three times the margin of victory. The latest polling on trust in elections shows that 60% of likely voters believe recent elections have been affected by cheating and believe officials are ignoring the problem.

While the world tells us to give up, that restoring election fidelity is impossible, we’re with President Trump: ‘The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word 'impossible' as nothing more than motivation.’

The evidence that our elections are theatre, that the outcomes at every level are selected and do not represent the will of The People, is overwhelming.

Onward!” — Ashe in America

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Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know

Around that same time, i.e. shortly after the election of Donald Trump, it was becoming gospel among the future leaders of the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” that interference by “malign foreign threat actors” and the vicissitudes of Western domestic politics must be linked. Everything, from John Podesta’s emails to Trump’s Rust Belt primary victories to Brexit, were to be understood first and foremost as hybrid war events.

This is why the Trump-Russia scandal in the United States will likely be remembered as a crucial moment in 21st-century history, even though the investigation superficially ended a non-story, fake news in itself. What the Mueller investigation didn’t accomplish in ousting Trump from office, it did accomplish in birthing a vast new public-private bureaucracy devoted to stopping “mis-, dis-, and malinformation,” while smoothing public acquiescence to the emergence of a spate of new government agencies with “information warfare” missions. 

The “Censorship-Industrial Complex” is just the Military-Industrial Complex reborn for the “hybrid warfare” age. — Racket News

Our Take: “When information is power, censorship is essential for those who push corruption. The powers that be can't let the whole truth out of its cage, or it would seep into the minds of the masses. In doing so, the frauds pushed by the powers that be—the ones they need us to believe to stay disempowered while empowering them—need to be widely accepted by the masses.

The house of cards is enormous, global in its make up. And yet, a single statement of truth can bring it all down within the mind of one willing to receive said truth. Therefore, censorship is vital, absolutely necessary for their success. Even more, our choice not to speak is even more desirable for them. Therefore, we should do the reverse.

Understanding who the big players are in this information war is important. Of which, this article provides a wealth of information.” — Justin Deschamps

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We hope you enjoyed this brief look back at the major news items you might have missed in this ever-escalating and ever-accelerating news cycle as the Information War continues to rage on around us.

The Badlands Media team will continue to combine our cognitive powers in order to slow things down and find the signal amidst the noise as this series expands.

As always, if you have any thoughts on these news items or the MANY others swirling in the digital ether, drop into the comments below to share them with your fellow Badlanders.