Former President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made their first in-person appearance together at a South Bronx early childhood center, where they met with families, read to toddlers, and joined them in singing “Wheels on the Bus.”
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The Department of Justice announced Tuesday an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly funneling money to extremist groups.
The SPLC said earlier on Tuesday that the organization was being "targeted" by the Trump administration and speculated that the action was related to money paid to informants to gather information from hate groups.
'We will not be intimidated into silence or contrition, and we will not abandon our mission or the communities we serve.'
In a post on social media, the Department of Justice accused the SPLC of paying $1 million to a National Alliance affiliate, $300K to an Aryan Nations affiliate, and $73K to former members of the Ku Klux Klan, among others.
"As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups; it was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a media briefing.
The indictment includes six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
"As the indictment lays out, after SPLC paid members of these extremist groups, it created work product that reported on these activities that the members participated in or contributed to," Blanche added. "And to that end, it was doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing."
SPLC interim president and CEO Bryan Fair pre-empted the announcement in a video posted to social media.
"The focus appears to be on the SPLC's prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups," he explained. "This use of informants was necessary because we are no stranger to threats of violence."
He said that the SPLC shared the information gained through informants with law enforcement agencies but protected the identities of the informants.
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"Today the federal government has been weaponized to dismantle the rights of our nation's most vulnerable people," Fair added.
"We will not be intimidated into silence or contrition, and we will not abandon our mission or the communities we serve," Fair concluded.
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Last weekend during the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus Legacy Luncheon, Democrat Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) quite literally shouted a speech, in which he implored Democrats to become "foot soldiers for democracy" and warned of "darkness and wind" facing the nation ahead of the midterms.
At one point in his 25-minute fire-and-brimstone jeremiad, Booker, gesturing upward, bellowed, “What we need is not from on high!”
On a recent episode of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” Pat played the clip of the speech and concluded that Booker is an “antichrist” among us.
Pat translates Booker’s controversial line: “He is telling you we don't need God.”
“Well, that's an antichrist. ... Maybe not the Antichrist, but he's an antichrist,” he argues, calling it “frightening.”
The panel agrees that Booker and fellow Democrats’ wild antics are the result of Trump derangement syndrome.
“The infection has really spread,” says Jeffy.
“How do you come together with these people?” asks Pat. “There’s one way and it is from on high.”
“We got to turn to God on high to come together on this, and if you're screaming that that's not what we need, what does that tell Americans?” he asks. “That tells you he's not the guy to follow, that's for sure. That's not the party to follow.”
What is desperately needed, Pat explains, is for all politicians to “call for prayer for the nation to get together and have a common purpose and invoke the blessings of God.”
He compares Booker’s comment to President Trump’s request for national prayer in preparation for the nation’s 250th birthday.
“I'm serious about this being antichrist because [Booker] is telling people you don't need God,” Pat reiterates. “What we need are Democrats, I guess? So they're putting themselves in the position of God. ... It's despicable. It's anti-American. It's anti-Christian. It's anti-God.”
Keith Malinak argues Booker is just a "Democrat telling the truth about Democrats."
To see the clip of Booker’s speech and hear more of the panel’s commentary, watch the episode above.
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