The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Executive News Summary
Trump’s third-term trolling: Though you could probably make the case that it may be beneficial for certain presidents to serve a third term, the Constitution is crystal clear. After months of teasing, Donald Trump acknowledged that the Constitution prohibits him from running for a third term. “If you read it,” he said, “it’s pretty clear. I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad.” Some allies of Trump, especially Steve Bannon, have suggested there is a “plan” in place to secure a third term. Rep. Andy Ogles has also introduced a bill that seeks a constitutional amendment allowing Trump to run for a third term. The Republicans for National Renewal, a nonprofit advocacy group, launched the Third Term Project to encourage Republican lawmakers to support Ogles’s bill. Despite all of this, Ogles is the only sponsor.
Arctic Frost scheme keeps growing: The House Judiciary Committee has discovered that even more Republican lawmakers were targeted in the Biden DOJ’s investigation dubbed Arctic Frost than was previously known. Launched by then-FBI Director Chris Way, Arctic Frost aimed to investigate Donald Trump, which Republicans have asserted was in fact a weaponization of the federal government by the Biden administration against political opponents, particularly Trump. However, what is now being uncovered is just how wide-ranging the investigation was, with over 160 Republicans with connections to Trump being collected in the investigation. It appears the goal was to snoop on as many phone records as possible to build evidence for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s effort to prosecute Trump.
Trump appeals phony felony conviction: Donald Trump’s legal team has filed an appeal to overturn his New York felony conviction for falsifying business records. Robert Giuffra, who is heading Trump’s appellate team, raised five claims that justify the appeal. First, the case brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg violated congressional statutes by attempting to enforce federal campaign finance law over which he lacked jurisdiction. The third claim concerns the contentious decision by Judge Juan Merchan that the jury did not need to reach a unanimous verdict on the unlawful means Trump allegedly used to promote his campaign. Giuffra explains this violated Trump’s right to a unanimous verdict and his right to know the offenses of which he was accused. The irregularities and grounds for appeal on this trumped-up felony case are abundant. It seems that justice dictates that the New York Appellate Division, First Department, overturn this conviction.
Trump and Xi discuss a fentanyl crackdown as China introduces a deadlier drug: Donald Trump is laser-focused on reducing and hopefully eliminating fentanyl-related deaths in the U.S. Discussions are underway with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to halve the 20% tariff the U.S. has imposed if China curbs its export of fentanyl precursor chemicals. Meanwhile, some drug experts are warning that a new, even more potent opioid is being introduced into the market again by China. Nitazenes, developed in the 1950s, were kept off shelves due to their extreme addictiveness, and they can be up to 43 times stronger than fentanyl. From 2005 to 2019, the DEA reported zero nitazene discoveries. In the six years since, the DEA has logged 7,000 discoveries and linked the drugs to 2,000 deaths. Experts say China is the number one source of these new drugs without any close competition.
Even CNN fact-checks Dems on ballroom: Democrat lawmakers, desperate to deflect blame for their refusal to reopen the government, have pushed a deceptively edited clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. In the video clip, Leavitt states, “At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.” Democrats have claimed this is evidence that Donald Trump and the Republicans don’t care about the needs of the American people and therefore aren’t interested in working to reopen the government. Yet so egregiously deceitful is the Democrats’ claim that even CNN couldn’t stomach it, as reporter Kaitlan Collins fact-checked Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett live on air. Furthermore, CNN published a fact-check noting that “Democratic leaders misleadingly snip White House press secretary’s ‘main priority’ quote out of context.”
Obama berated Pelosi over Harris: In a new book by ABC News’s Jonathan Karl titled Retribution, Karl recounts that Nancy Pelosi’s quick endorsement of Kamala Harris following Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race caught Barack Obama off guard. According to a Pelosi confidant, “The Obamas were not happy.” Karl writes, “This person summed up Obama’s message to Pelosi as, essentially, ‘What the f*** did you just do?’” Evidently, as it became increasingly apparent that Biden would need to exit the race, Obama communicated with Pelosi and the two “agreed Harris should not simply be handed the nomination unchallenged.” Pelosi then went ahead and endorsed Harris. This explains why it took so long for Obama to finally endorse her, as he clearly and accurately did not view Harris as a candidate who could win.
Illegal voters in Ohio: Ohio is setting the standard for rooting out voter fraud. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced Tuesday that more than 1,200 criminal cases were being referred to the Department of Justice for consideration of prosecution. Some 1,084 noncitizens appear to have registered to vote in Ohio, and 167 of those voted in a federal election in one of the last four elections. LaRose found 100 people who appear to have voted in the same federal election twice in two different states, and 16 who voted twice in the same election in Ohio. Fourteen people are believed to have voted after their death. Democrats assure Americans that election fraud doesn’t happen. When red states like Ohio and Texas find illegal voting, it raises questions of what an audit of California or New York would turn up.
First Tylenol lawsuit: Texas is the first state to sue the company that makes Tylenol after the Department of Health and Human Services pointed to a link between prenatal acetaminophen consumption and the incidence of autism and ADHD in newborns. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Johnson & Johnson and its former subsidiary, Kenvue, for its deceptive marketing to pregnant mothers despite knowing the risk that early exposure to acetaminophen entails. Paxton accuses Johnson & Johnson of trying to escape liability by breaking off the Kenvue company as a separate entity and, by doing so, violating the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. “Big Pharma betrayed America by profiting off of pain and pushing pills regardless of the risks,” Paxton said. “These corporations lied for decades, knowingly endangering millions to line their pockets.”
NC man murders four of his kids: A horrific story out of North Carolina is making national news after Wellington Delano Dickens III confessed over a 9-1-1 call that he had murdered four of his children. When police arrived on the scene, they found Dickens’s youngest child still alive inside the house. Dickens directed the police to the trunk of his car, where they found the remains of his stepchild, Sean Brasfield, and his three children, Leah, Zoe, and Wellington Dickens. The children are believed to have been dead since May 1. Dickens’s great uncle claims that Wellington is an Iraq War veteran, although that has not been substantiated. The popular X account Libs of TikTok reported on the story, saying that Dickens had been arrested and released as many as seven times, including for child abuse, but those claims are unproven.
Ceasefire update: The peace agreement that President Trump helped broker between Israel and Hamas on October 9 is now on tenuous ground after Israel Defense Forces came under fire from Hamas militants on Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the IDF to carry out retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has thus far refused to give up its weapons, as was part of the peace deal, and has sought to regain control of Gaza by killing off rival Palestinian factions. In response, Israel has moved the Yellow Line, which the IDF had withdrawn to, thus expanding Israel’s control in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s latest action comes after two IDF soldiers were killed in Rafah last week, which Israel blames on Hamas. Meanwhile, Israel is also accusing Hamas of slow-walking its return of Israeli hostages’ remains. Last week, Trump observed following footage of Hamas publicly executing Gazans, “If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them.”
Headlines
Hurricane Melissa makes second landfall in Cuba after lashing Jamaica (Fox Weather)
U.S. kills 14 narcoterrorists in Eastern Pacific strikes (Daily Signal)
9th Circuit votes to re-hear Trump appeal of National Guard deployment to Portland (KATU)
Truck drivers sound alarm about shocking number of non-English-speaking truckers (RedState)
Pam Bondi “reviewing” Joe Biden’s pardons (Newsweek)
Former Trump nominee embroiled in leaked text controversy sues Politico for $150 million (Washington Examiner)
Trump touts “$18 trillion” of investments in U.S., blasts Jerome “Too Late” Powell as “incompetent” (Washington Examiner)
Amazon laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as it invests more in AI (CNBC)
Major electronic health systems embed gender ideology into records, watchdog warns (National Review)
Humor: America’s obesity crisis solved as EBT benefits run out (Babylon Bee)
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