Although it has very little chance of succeeding, Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell said in a filing that the charges his client is facing are tainted because the investigators were taken “down [Alexander Smirnov’s] rabbit holes of lies,” the Washington Post reports.

Hunter Biden faces charges on weapons and tax crimes, which Lowell says would not have been brought if it weren’t for political accusations being thrown around when Hunter’s plea bargain was in place.  Because the plea bargain was rejected due to pressure based on Sminov’s false statements hinting at Joe Biden’s corruption on an FBI form, the subsequent charges should be reviewed.

“On Feb 15, 2024, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Kyle Travis Colton, 36, of Citrus Heights, charging him with receipt of child pornography, US Attorney Phillip A Talbert announced. According to court documents, between July 2022 and December 2023, Colton received visual depictions of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The indictment was unsealed today. This case is the product of an investigation by the FBI. Assistant US Attorney Whitnee Goins is prosecuting the case. If convicted, Colton faces a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine,” says a Justice Department press release.

…which for some reason left out that Colton has already been in jail since December 15th, 2023 awaiting trial for felony offense of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, per a December 18th, 2023 Justice Department press release. Colton is accused of grabbing a flagpole from another Trump fan and hitting a Capitol cop with it during the mayhem, so real big shocker he’s a fucking pedophile too.

No need to once again rehash our screed about how many rioters are very often complete pieces of shit separate and apart from being traitors to American democracy, but you can see lengthy rundowns of their non-political terribleness in our articles about how Oath Keepers founder Stewie Rhodes was an abusive psycho to his wife, as well as subsequent additions to the record in the stories about the one in Iowa who was caught spying on a naked woman in a tanning bed and the other in Illinois who killed a woman in a head-on DWI crash while he was fleeing the cops.

After receiving a $450 million (and counting) award against fraudulent real estate developer who built exactly one structure seen in the Manhattan skyline Donald Trump, New York Attorney General Letitia James said she’s prepared to take control of some of the former president’s property if he doesn’t pay up.

“If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James said in an interview with ABC News, adding, “We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers, and yes, I will get 40 Wall Street each and every day.”

You will not be shocked to learn that Alexander Smirnov – the Pro-Russian Ukrainian shitbag whose “tip” to the FBI was supposed to implicate Joe Biden in a bribery scam and who last week was arrested for false statements and obstruction of justice – implicated Russian intelligence agents during an interview with federal prosecutors on Hunterghazi special counsel David Weiss’s team, according to a motion filed Tuesday seeking to deny bail to Smirnov before he faces trial.

“Smirnov was arrested in the District of Nevada as he returned to the United States on an international flight. Smirnov was scheduled to leave the United States two days later, on February 16, 2024, for a months-long, multi-country trip that, by his own description, involved meetings with officials of foreign intelligence agencies and governments. During his custodial interview on February 14, Smirnov admitted that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about [Hunter Biden]” the filing says at the bottom of Page 5.

It’s too late now for a Lakewood, Colorado man who didn’t just say no to illegal reptiles and probably thought he could quit owning them any time he wanted, KDVR reports on a tragedy that could’ve been prevented if he just walked away the first time an illegal reptile dealer approached him.

See? How do you think this unidentified 34 year-old man’s mom feels after seeing her son overdose on gila monster venom after one of the two that he owned bit him. Oh sure, they say “gila monster venom isn’t normally lethal” but do you think that’s any comfort to her now? It’s not just good fun normal pet ownership! Gila monsters are illegal in Lakewood for a reason! They’re dangerous animals and a gateway to Burmese pythons and even Komodo dragons! Komodo dragons! Just say no!

Foreshadowing her call to defund the courts, Republican Georgia Congresswoman and evolutionary offramp Marjorie Taylor Greene and her House colleagues who believed they had free rein to defy Nancy Pelosi’s pandemic-era requirement to wear masks on the floor of the House got a swift kick in the teeth when the Supreme Court declined to hear their lawsuit on Tuesday, USA Today reports.

Beating a dead horse, Marge joined Kentucky’s Tom Massie, South Carolina’s Ralph Norman to take the case to the Supreme Court, further wasting time and taxpayer dollars, chomping at the bit to try to challenge the Speaker’s power one more time in another dog and pony show because she lost the case at every lower court level, with each court acknowledging the House’s authority to make its own rules.

Even current House leader, Preacher of the House Mike Johnson, agreed with the outcome, saying “this case is not about the wisdom of the rule or whether it was based on sound science,” but not recognizing that the lack of respect for authority and the rule of law is rampant in his caucus.  Incidentally, Marge and the other were challenging a $500 fine each had been levied; they took this case to the Supreme Court because they did not think the rules applied to them, and it took tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to get them to pay $500.

“Moderate” New York Congressman Mike Lawler had to play that role for a little bit on CNN this afternoon when asked if it was appropriate for fat former President Trump to compare himself to Alexei Navalny, of course saying no but not going any further on Trump himself. Real slick Mike.

An in-depth Politico report on former Trump Administration Office of Management and Budget piece of shit Russ Vought gets into detail about the irreligious degenerate’s Evangelical minions planning to implement a fascist theocracy complete with bans on birth control pills, in-vitro fertilization, surrogacy, sex education in schools, and – a sleeper hit among “Christians” – no-fault divorce.

The term comes across as bland and meaningless to those who haven’t experienced it themselves or are otherwise unfamiliar with family law but it is incredibly important in that by simply removing the burden of proof of any factor such as infidelity or whatever onto the plaintiff party, no-fault divorce has made it easy for women to leave abusive marriages. “Cruelty – and more specifically, causing a spouse unneeded pain, whether emotional or physical – is typically the most common grounds for a fault divorce,” Colorado divorce lawyer Tom Ramuda Jr told CNN last fall. “Many no-fault divorces are obtained on the grounds of ‘irreconcilable differences,'” he continued.

So divorce easier + important to feminists = conservatives hate it. The icing on this cake is that it wasn’t some flaming commie libtard responsible for the first no-fault divorce option in the US, but none other than then-California Governor Ronald Reagan who signed it into law in 1969.

Heels-wearing Florida Governor and Republican 2024 presidential primary loser Ron Desantis will be in Columbia, South Carolina on Tuesday for some sort of public event starting at 5:15 PM EDT, according to a “media advisory” sent out by his office. Fat former President Trump meanwhile will be roughly 60 miles north in Rock Hill for a “Get Out the Vote Rally” that starts at 4:00 PM so it’s definitely not a joint appearance, at least not an in-person one. Stay tuned on if this actually matters.

You know where National Zero stands on the use of profanity in news reporting: It’s the seasoning that flavors often dry topics of politics and as such we’re pleased to see CNN go there too.

Former legitimate Governor of Arizona and now Senate candidate Kari Lake on Monday told a Grand Canyon state radio host she doesn’t know who stole the 2022 election from her but still something just doesn’t feel right after her defeat to Democrat Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Republic reports.

Asked by a KTAR host about her technically still-ongoing efforts to overturn her loss, Lake said
she wasn’t the one bringing it up, and she didn’t have all the details of the “rigged” election. “I don’t want to sit and look backwards. These lawsuits are meant to make sure that going forward our elections are strong.” Asked again, Lake said simply “I don’t know who exactly stole the election, but there are a lot of people who are running elections poorly and we’ve seen the result.”

In a speech billed as a “State of the Race Address,” former South Carolina Governor Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley opened by crowing she had suckered the media – Fox News included – into carrying what they thought could’ve been a concession. “Of course, many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace Trump privately dread him. They know what a disaster he’s been and will continue to be for our party. They’re just too afraid to say it out loud. Well, I’m not afraid to say the hard truths out loud,” Haley said after spending much of the last year afraid to say those hard truths out loud.

“South Carolina will vote on Saturday. But on Sunday, I’ll still be running for president. I’m not going anywhere. I’m campaigning every day until the last person votes,” she continued, before and landed a swift dickpunch with “Despite being a de facto incumbent, Donald Trump lost 49 percent of the vote in Iowa. In New Hampshire, Trump lost 46 percent of the vote. That’s not good … what does it say about an incumbent who’s losing nearly half of his party? It spells disaster in November.”

It’s been removed since we first spotted it earlier this morning, but the placement of a link to terrible political news site The Hill’s “Submitting an op-ed” guideline page toward the closing sentences of “Biden isn’t mentally up to the job” by soon-to-be former RNC chair Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel raises questions over whether its inclusion was prompted by the content of the failed leader’s piece.

It’s as if an editor decided “Holy fuck this botox-faced idiot is saying less than nothing about Biden’s age, yet still manages to fill out 625 words. Some average schmuck could not do any worse than this so we might as well just start asking for submissions from the average schmucks out there.”

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The Supreme Court refused to hear separate appeals from Trump lawyer who knows how to use hair dye Sidney Powell and election denying ambulance chaser L. Lin Wood who both challenged that federal court sanctions imposed on them for propagating insane vote fraud theories in Michigan involving Venezuela and China, CNN reports.

The pair objected to sanctions placed on them by a US district court after they each pursued appeals to Michigan state sanctions on their law licenses for continuing to pursue completely unsubstantiated claims that Michigan election results were manipulated by foreign governments to deny Donald Trump a victory.  In fact, Trump lost the 2020 election by more than seven million votes, and he lost Michigan by 150,000 votes.

Powell faces a slew of criminal and professional sanctions, including pleading guilty in a Fulton County RICO case regarding efforts to disenfranchise all voters in Georgia.  After spending months encouraging people to take action–including hinting that he wanted violent acts–to overturn the election, Wood surrendered his law license in Georgia, his home state.

Missing again so far this week from the US Supreme Court’s regular orders release on Tuesday morning is any update on how the justices will handle disgraced former President Trump’s petition to remain immune from the conspiracy charges brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith in DC over the fat fuck’s post-2020 election coup attempt, an omission which University of Texas Law Professor Steve Vladeck writes “does *not* necessarily mean we won’t get a ruling later today (or this week). Rulings on emergency applications can come at any time.”

In response to a reply asking if the lack of actions from Los Supremos thus far was good or bad news for accountability, Vladeck wrote “Neutral. The longer it takes, the more likely someone is writing something (which marginally increases the odds that it’s a denial). But we’re not there yet.”

A registered Republican man residing in The Villages, Florida area has been released from a six month bid the Sumter County Detention Center after his June 2023 arrest for breaking and entering the Red Lobster at at Buffalo Ridge Plaza, Villages-News.com reports. The arrest occurred when a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy responded to a burglar alarm at approximately 2:00 AM and found 36 year-old Ronald Eric Johnson (no relation to Wisconsin Senator Ronald Harold Johnson) sitting in an Adirondack chair near the restaurant’s entrance, bar glass in his hand.

It was Johnson’s third arrest at a national chain establishment in as many years, as he was previously cuffed for mumbling incoherent statements” to guests at an area Holiday Inn Express in 2022 and for stealing a shopping cart from a Dollar General store in 2021.

The Twitter account belonging to Yulia Navalnya, widow of murdered Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, was inexplicably banned from the network at some point late Monday or early Tuesday for God knows what reason but as dar as we’re concerned it’s on Ketamine Brain to explain how and why it was somehow not a product of his desire to cater to the whims of dictator Vladimir Putin.

UPDATE 2/20/2024 8:43 AM EDT: Sky News reports the account has been restored. Now we’re never going to get an explanation as to why the fucker tried to silence Navalnya.

The manager of a Napa Valley winery on Monday called up CNN to tell them he remembers Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis paying her $400 bill in cash when she visited last year. “I ran up the thing and I showed her. I was expecting a credit card quite frankly. And she says I’ll pay cash. And so that was that. So then I just put the cash in, made change for her and she was very generous to me,” said Stan Brody, manager at Acumen Wines in Napa, California of the early 2023 visit from Willis and her then-romantic partner, Trump RICO case special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Brody, who told CNN he’s a “news junkie,” said his memory was jogged last week when he saw Wade and Willis questioned over the DA’s use of cash on her excursions with her deputy during the astonishingly fucking petty bullshit the Orange God Emperor’s minions used to try to throw a wrench in the case that no less than four of their co-defendants have already pleaded guilty to.

“These are really nice people. I treat people at the winery every time… as if you’re sitting in my living room. And they were the kind of people that if I was having a party at my home that I would have invited. That’s what I came away with,” said Brody, who has not spoken to the court or DA yet.

The Speaker of the House meets with Mike Johnson https://t.co/hADNBRkjAL

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) February 20, 2024

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday found himself placed on a list of terrorists and extremists by Russia’s top financial monitoring service, Sputnik reports.

It’s not clear why the senator was singled out while other publicly known advocates for supporting Ukraine against the Putin Regime’s aggression in Washington, DC were not, or if the Kremlin’s hostility to LGBTQ individuals may have played a role in Graham being targeted.