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We have no idea when this video was filmed or where. It’s possible it was in 2019, when Trump was first impeached for trying to fuck over Zelensky… Or it’s a fake staged by the Russians to incite MAGAmericans against Kyiv (like they need any more help). Still funny to watch.

Federal prosecutors in South Texas are expected to announce a grand jury has returned an indictment against Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar, NBC News reports. Cuellar had been the target of an FBI raid in 2022 over his shady ties to some Azerbaijani scumbags but it’s not clear if the indictment is connected or if it’s from a new investigation into different crimes.

Either way it’s plain that, in order to maintain the appearance that a politicized two-tier system of justice doesn’t exist, the Deep State sometimes goes after sacrificial lambs like Cuellar and Bob Menendez to make their “persecutions” of Donald Trump seem more legitimate. A not-small number of right wing legal pundits and regular schmucks alike will make that argument with a straight face.

UPDATE 5/3/2024 2:03 PM EDT: Cuellar and his wife have been officially indicted on charges of taking nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company and a bank based in Mexico City.

“The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged audit firm BF Borgers CPA PC and its owner, Benjamin F Borgers (together, ‘Respondents’), with deliberate and systemic failures to comply with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standards in its audits and reviews incorporated in more than 1,500 SEC filings from January 2021 through June 2023. The SEC also charged the Respondents with falsely representing to their clients that the firm’s work would comply with PCAOB standards; fabricating audit documentation to make it appear that the firm’s work did comply with PCAOB standards; and falsely stating in audit reports included in more than 500 public company SEC filings that the firm’s audits complied with PCAOB standards.”

“To settle the SEC’s charges, BF Borgers agreed to pay a $12 million civil penalty, and Benjamin Borgers agreed to pay a $2 million civil penalty. Both Respondents also agreed to permanent suspensions from appearing and practicing before the Commission as accountants, effective immediately,” says a press release from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

What it doesn’t say is, per FT, that BF Borgers is (was) the Trump Media and Technology Group’s auditor responsible for preparing the Truth Social parent’s filings to the SEC and investors. Who the hell knows if this is bad news for a company we already know to be corrupt and dodgy as fuck.

Texas man Collin Davis sounds like he would’ve been a great dad and husband as he’s asking a court to allow him the power to investigate and build evidence for a wrongful death lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend for traveling to Colorado to get an abortion, the Washington Post reports.

Disgraced former President Trump’s longtime top personal assistant Hope Hicks could end up taking the stand on Friday to tell the jury about the events before, during, and after the fat fuck set up an arrangement to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about the $130,000 hush money payoff in the days before the 2016 election. Hicks’s time depends on if and when the prosecution’s tech expert wraps up authenticating the data on Michael Cohen’s phones as real and was not ever tampered with because Team Orange would not agree to its admissibility in the trial.

The US economy added 175,000 jobs in April, falling short of an expected 240,000 expected and the unemployment rate crept up to 3.9 percent in a sign that employers are paying close attention to former President Trump’s newly tightening poll numbers against President Biden and are holding back on new hires since they aren’t so sure the genius businessman will return to office.

Especially those ones last week showing RFK Jr taking more from Trump than from Biden. Those have to be setting off alarm bells inside C-suites all over the country. And the stock market softening too. That’s definitely 100 percent attributable to Biden’s newfound electoral strength.

Trump himself seemed panicked that the slight dip in his numbers had affected the job market, posting “HORRIBLE JOB NUMBERS JUST ANNOUNCED. A BIG MISS FROM FAKE ESTIMATES. THEY SHOULD HAVE ASKED ME TO GIVE THE FORECAST. BIDEN IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY!!!”

National Zero will resume our regular coverage after “reporting” the very natural upshot to Donald and his fanboys claiming that all positive economic indicators are thanks to his polling numbers.

Berlin’s top budget official on Thursday said they’re accepting offers of zero Euros to whoever wants to take over Nazi Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels’s lakeside villa in the German capital’s outskirts, provided they can pick up millions in upkeep costs for the property, AFP reports.

Finance Minister Stefan Evers mentioned only costs, not really anything like “Hey you can’t turn it into a shrine to the Third Reich,” but we’d have to assume that would be a prerequisite. Hopefully it’s a prerequisite. Evers also said that if they can’t find a taker for the luxurious home soon they’ll have no choice but to simply demolish it. They should probably just demolish it.

How do you think this take from RFK aged? In 2008 at an Obama-Biden event, RFK said, "Barack Obama is going to make us an exemplary nation again." pic.twitter.com/2Lpy6cuk1c

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“Dreamers throughout this country are serving in our military, teaching in our classrooms, and leading our small businesses as entrepreneurs. They are our neighbors, classmates, and loved ones. Our nation is fortunate that America is their home. Thanks to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), more than 800,000 Dreamers have been able to live, study, and work in the only home they have ever known while making our nation a better place. It is why I fought to defend and protect DACA as Attorney General of California and a US Senator from California.”

“Now as Vice President, I have worked alongside President Biden to take steps to preserve and fortify DACA. Today, we are building on this progress by ensuring DACA recipients also have access to affordable health care, which will improve the health of all communities. This announcement will bring relief to more than 100,000 people and help them thrive while working to achieve their aspirations. President Biden and I will continue to do everything in our power to protect DACA, but it is only a temporary solution. Congress must act to ensure Dreamers have the permanent protections they deserve,” says Vice President Kamala Harris in a statement.

Panama’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to the candidacy of leading presidential candidate and former Security Minister José Raúl Mulino with just two days to go before the May 5th election, likely clearing his path to the Central American country’s top office, the AP reports.

Mulino had been selected as the “Achieving Goals” Party’s candidate after their nominee, former President Ricardo Martinelli, was kind of sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering last year and thus constitutionally barred from holding public office. It took a March ruling by Panama’s electoral commission to deem Martinelli, who’s been hiding in the Nicaraguan embassy since February, to be disqualified. After the party picked Mulino, Marinelli’s running mate, an attorney named Karisma Etienne Karamañites mounted a challenge Mulino’s eligibility on the grounds that he had not been nominated by the party’s primary voters. Los Supremos saw it differently.

In a night of results portending a brutal general election for British Conservatives, the Labour Party swept a whole host of local elections across England and Wales on Thursday, with the Tories losing at least half of the council seats they had been defending in the races called so far, the BBC reports.

In what’s probably even a a graver sign for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a special parliamentary election in Blackpool South to replace Conservative MP Scott Benton, who resigned after getting caught in a lobbying sting operation, saw a 26 percent swing to Labour candidate Chris Webb.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold was having none of Trump lawyer Robert Ray’s bullshit Thursday night on CNN when Ray falsely claimed she was one of the plaintiffs who attempted to remove fat former President Trump from the ballot in the Centennial State when in fact she had nothing to do with the original case and in fact was (in her official capacity), a defendant in the case.

A state is making a special accommodation for Joe Biden, and it’s in a Deep Red state.  Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill after it was passed unanimously by the Republican-controlled state house ensuring Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot, NBC News reports.  But the move wasn’t to counter a rogue MAGA Secretary of State determined to rule Biden ineligible.

Instead, it had to do with the calendar.  Just as with Ohio, Alabama state election regulations require the Parties to provide the Secretary of State with its nomination certification 82 days before the November election date.  Unfortunately, the Democrats scheduled their convention after that deadline, on August 19th-22nd, 75 days before the election.  With Ivey’s signature, the deadline for the Secretary of State to get the certification is now August 24th.

“Joe Biden will be on the ballot in all 50 states,” a campaign spokesman said. “Election after election, states across the country have acted in line with the bipartisan consensus and taken the necessary steps to ensure the presidential nominees from both parties will be on the ballot. And this election is no different.”

From a Manhattan courtroom, Day 10 of Donald Trump’s criminal election interference hush money trial introduced audio evidence where the jury got to hear Donald Trump himself talk about paying hush money to one of his mistresses weeks before the 2016 election.  The trial’s seventh witness, Douglas Daus of the District Attorney’s Office technical unit, took the stand.

• Court opened Thursday with prosecutors alleging Trump violated the gag order four additional times on top of the nine violations identified Tuesday.
• Prosecutors say they are not seeking jail time for Trump for gag order violations–yet.  
• Stormy Daniels’ and Karen McDougal’s former lawyer, Keith Davidson, returned to the stand and described Cohen’s efforts to reach him as “frantic” and “pants-on-fire” after the Access Hollywood tape was released.
  Read More ▶ “Trump Trial Day 10: “What do we got to pay for this?””

Affected South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said during a panel on artificial intelligence that the FBI recently confiscated his cell phone after he fell prey to a phisher scammer disguised as a message from Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, NBC News reports.

Speaking at super-evil sounding The Hill and Valley Forum, an event where technology leaders, innovators and lawmakers discuss issues, Graham said, “I get a message, I think, from Schumer.  And it ain’t from Schumer.  And the next thing you know, my phone is… I don’t know. Anything you can create apparently can be hacked.”

Graham’s office confirmed that the FBI took possession of the phone, noting that the Senate Sergeant at Arms was investigating the phone hack as well.  Neither Graham nor his office could specify if Graham answered a call, a message or an email.

Fox “News”–a network that earned those quote marks 787.5 million ways–host and Trump advisor Laura Ingraham is annoyed–very, very annoyed–at CNN hosts accurately quoting a Michael Cohen tweet in which he refers to Donald Trump as “VonShitzenPants.”  Ingraham acts indignant as she mockingly repeats the network’s legendary tagline:  “This is CNN?”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed New York officials are investigating a gunshot fired by a police officer as the NYPD was called in to clear pro-Palestinian protestors from a university building on the Columbia campus Tuesday night, TheCity reports.

No one was injured by the shot, and the weapon was not aimed at anyone when it was discharged, according to officials.  Officials said the officer’s gun discharged while police were in a different part of the building from the demonstrators and the shot did not appear to be intentional.

Likely started by “flash-bang” grenades used by officers, reports of gunshots spread through the crowd that had gathered to watch the NYPD raid the building as the raid on Tuesday night, but later, individuals reported hearing a single gunshot.  The fact that an officer fired his gun had not been confirmed until Bragg’s statement.

Initial estimates of the replacement cost for the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, destroyed after a loaded cargo carrier struck a bridge support, stand between $1.7 and $1.9 billion, the Baltimore Banner reports, with the project expected to take until Fall 2028.

The news of the cost comes as crews recovered the body of the fifth victim of the March 26th accident that occurred after a container ship lost power and drifted into the bridge, causing the structure to collapse in seconds.  The body of 49-year-old Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez was found inside the wreckage a work truck uncovered in the mangle of metal on the riverbed.  The body of the sixth victim has not yet been found.

In response to the horrific story of Kristi Noem murdering a family dog and a goat, House members from both Parties have formed the Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus, Politico reports, with Democrats Jared Moskowitz of Florida and Susan Wild of Pennsylvania joining South Carolina’s Republican attention seeker Nancy Mace as first members.

“Dogs are the only thing on earth that loves you more than they love themselves. Their joy to live brings together Americans from all walks of life and can help nourish bipartisanship in Congress,” Moskowitz said in a statement.  Known for his masterful trolling of Republicans, Moskowitz released an animal welfare-styled political ad attacking Noem.

“Steve, a little breaking news here on your show,” QAnon officer and disgraced former national security professional Mike Flynn tells also disgraced polyshirt fetishist Steve Bannon.  “I received eight–count ’em, eight–subpoenas last night, okay.  So these people are going to do everything they can, these Marxists, this communist takeover of the United States of America.”