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  • DIRTY SPIES: FBI Had Evidence Biden Was Given Money for Policy Decisions at Same Time FBI Was Concocting Trump-Russia Lies with Hillary Campaign

    DIRTY SPIES: FBI Had Evidence Biden Was Given Money for Policy Decisions at Same Time FBI Was Concocting Trump-Russia Lies with Hillary Campaign

    Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sent letters Wednesday to the FBI, calling on the bureau to produce an unclassified record of an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
    The GOP leaders are giving the FBI until May 15th to turn over the relevant documents.
    The Daily Caller reported:
    The document in question is an FBI-generated FD-1023 form that allegedly shows an arrangement exchanging money for policy decisions. Comer issued a subpoena Wednesday after “legally protected disclosures” to Grassley’s office.
    “We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States. What we don’t know is what, if anything, the FBI has done to verify these claims or investigate further. The FBI’s recent history of botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight,” Grassley said in a statement.

    @RepJamesComer & @ChuckGrassley reveal the existence of an FBI record alleging then-VP Biden engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national.
    According to a whistleblower, this record details an alleged arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions.… pic.twitter.com/6yLwPLi8Hw
    — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) May 3, 2023

    Reading between the lines: Jack Posobiec noted earlier today the information on Joe Biden’s criminal scheme revealing an arrangement exchanging money for policy decisions was provided to the FBI by a confidential human source.

    Between the lines: An FBI FD-1023 is a secret FBI document detailing communication between an FBI special agent and an FBI clandestine human source (CHS)
    This means there was an FBI operation running during the Obama admin that Joe Biden was caught up in https://t.co/NY82ZkMvC3
    — Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) May 3, 2023

    John Solomon reported this same fact later today on his show on Real America’s Voice.
    Via The Storm Has Arrived.

    We also know this took place while Joe Biden was Vice President.
    This was around the same time the FBI was concocting the Trump-Russia collusion lies and pushing that on the American public knowing it originated from the Hillary Campaign.
    You cannot underestimate how crooked and dirty our FBI and the intel community is in America today.
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  • Update: Atlanta Mass Shooter Deion Patterson Arrested in Cobb County

    Update: Atlanta Mass Shooter Deion Patterson Arrested in Cobb County

    Atlanta mass shooter Deion Patterson, 24, was taken into custody in Cobb County on Wednesday evening after an 8-hour manhunt.

    Captured. pic.twitter.com/HPBGr59QuI
    — FBI Atlanta (@FBIAtlanta) May 4, 2023

    One person is dead and four people are injured after Patterson opened fire in the waiting room of Northside Hospital Medical.
    A 39-year-old woman was killed and four others were injured.
    One of the victims is Patterson’s mother, Minyone Patterson.
    Minyone Patterson told the Daily Beast that the VA gave her son the wrong seizure meds.
    “The damn VA gave him some messed up medication, and all he wanted was an Ativan,” Minyone told The Daily Beast.
    CNN reported:
    The suspect in a mass shooting at a Midtown Atlanta medical building that left one woman dead and four others wounded Wednesday is in custody after an hourslong manhunt, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
    Authorities searched for nearly eight hours after they said 24-year-old Deion Patterson opened fire in the waiting room of Northside Hospital Medical, killing a 39-year-old woman and sending four others to the hospital before fleeing in a vehicle he carjacked nearby.
    Authorities were called to the scene just after noon Wednesday, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said. The women wounded range in age from 25 to 71.
    Patterson was seen in the carjacked vehicle on license plate recognition cameras in the Cobb County area around 12:30 p.m., Cobb County Police Sgt. Wayne Delk said in an evening news conference.
    Cobb County was not alerted until around 2:30 p.m. that the suspect may be in the area, which is when they began searching the license plate camera footage, Delk said.
    The footage of Patterson was taken from a camera located by Windy Ridge Parkway and Heritage Court. The carjacked vehicle was later recovered by Atlanta police in a parking garage near Truist Park, Delk said. Truist Park is the baseball stadium where the Atlanta Braves play.
    Patterson was apprehended in a condominium complex near Truist Park at roughly 7:45 p.m. local time, a Cobb County Police officer told CNN’s Gary Tuchman.
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  • LEAK: Special Counsel Jack Smith Sat in On Mike Pence’s 5-Hour Testimony to Grand Jury

    LEAK: Special Counsel Jack Smith Sat in On Mike Pence’s 5-Hour Testimony to Grand Jury

    Another day, another leak.
    Special Counsel Jack Smith sat in on Mike Pence’s 5-hour testimony to a federal grand jury last Thursday, according to a leak to CNN.
    Chief Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury about his conversations with President Trump related to January 6.
    This is an unprecedented attack on Trump’s authority and executive privilege which is derived from the constitutional separation of powers.
    This is the first time Jack Smith has been present at a grand jury proceeding.
    Jack Smith likely attended the grand jury proceeding to intimidate Mike Pence.
    According to CNN, Pence and Jack Smith had ‘respectful’ interaction.
    CNN reported:
    Special counsel Jack Smith sat in on the federal grand jury proceeding while former Vice President Mike Pence testified for more than five hours last week, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
    Smith and Pence interacted while Pence was at the courthouse, and one source described the interaction as respectful.
    Smith’s appearance is the first known time the special counsel has attended a grand jury proceeding in the investigation. Smith is leading the criminal probe with a team of prosecutors into the aftermath of the 2020 election and efforts to overturn the results.
    Pence was poised to recount for the first time under oath his direct conversations with Trump leading up to January 6, 2021. Then-President Donald Trump repeatedly pressured him unsuccessfully to block the 2020 election results, including on the morning of January 6 in a private phone call.
    The post LEAK: Special Counsel Jack Smith Sat in On Mike Pence’s 5-Hour Testimony to Grand Jury appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • Tragic Loss: Elderly California Man Brutally Beaten to Death While Delivering Donations in Tijuana

    Tragic Loss: Elderly California Man Brutally Beaten to Death While Delivering Donations in Tijuana

    Image: Rudy Lazo/Facebook
     
    In a devastating incident, Rudy Lazo, a 79-year-old Californian man known for his compassionate work with impoverished families , was tragically beaten to death while delivering donations to families in Tijuana, Mexico.
    His family became concerned when they could not reach him by phone on April 18. Tragically, the next day, Mexican authorities notified the family that Rudy’s body had been discovered brutally beaten to death.  His family believes he was the victim of a robbery.
    According to his family, Rudy’s personal items, including his truck, have not been located and no arrests have been made.
    On April 16th, Rudy shared a Facebook Live of his charitable works.

    The New York Post reports:
    “He was always a very generous person, helped anyone out,” said his son, Juan Carlos Lazo, told the outlet.
    Rudy would often make the 3-hour trip from his home in San Bernadino to Tijuana to deliver food, clothing, toys and other necessities to those in need, his family said.
    After emigrating to the US from El Salvador in the 1980s, Rudy settled down with his family and worked as a truck driver, but was always looking for ways to help out those in need.
    *******
    His daughter, Claudia Hernandez, recalled her father often telling his children that he felt safe while delivering donations in Tijuana.
    “It is very dangerous over there. So dangerous and he probably thought he wasn’t going to have problems because he is a senior citizen,” she said.

    The post Tragic Loss: Elderly California Man Brutally Beaten to Death While Delivering Donations in Tijuana appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • JUST IN: Owner of MI Horse Farm, Who Refused to Sell Property to CCP-Tied Battery Plant, is Notified She’s Under Investigation by Gov. Agency Tied to Dirty Dem AG Dana Nessel

    JUST IN: Owner of MI Horse Farm, Who Refused to Sell Property to CCP-Tied Battery Plant, is Notified She’s Under Investigation by Gov. Agency Tied to Dirty Dem AG Dana Nessel

    100 Percent Fed Up reports – The state of Michigan is currently investigating a horse farm after its owner held a rally against the building of an electric vehicle battery component plant that will be built by Gotion, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Guoxuan High-Tech Co.
    Proposed CCP-tied Gotion battery plant
    The MI Republican Party has long taken issue with Gotion, which has ties to the CCP.
    In October 2022, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who lost a massive electric-vehicle plant expansion opportunity with Michigan-based Ford Motor Company, bragged that the CCP-tied company, Gotion, would be moving to Michigan and building a battery plant that would be funded by Michigan taxpayers to the tune of just under a BILLION dollars.
    Ford Motor Company’s decision to build electric vehicles outside of Michigan, the automotive capital of the world, was a huge embarrassment for Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s least pro-business governor in decades, who was left flat-footed when it was revealed she had no idea of Ford’s $11.4 billion plan to build their new electric vehicles in facilities located in Tennessee and Kentucky.

    Michigan Taxpayers to Foot $951 Million for
    Gotion, Inc. is a subsidiary of CHINA-based Gotion High-Tech Co., Ltd., a global manufacturer of EV batteries
    Chinese company https://t.co/FwyFfx75WN
    — Roxie (@roxie32819) October 10, 2022

    Gotion’s plan to build a battery plant in Big Rapids, Michigan, was approved by the Democrat-controlled Michigan Senate Appropriations Committee on April 20.
    While Gov. Whitmer has hailed the plan as “the biggest ever economic development project in Northern Michigan,” she has ignored the environmental impacts and potential security risks for the community.
    “Pure CHINA” is a play on Michigan’s travel slogan, “Pure Michigan”
    This plant will reportedly consume twice the amount of water per day as Nestle’s Ice Mountain water bottling plant, which is located only 15 miles from the proposed Gotion site.
    Lori Brock, the owner of Majestic Friesians Horse Farm in Big Rapids, has expressed concern over the environmental impacts that the battery plant will have. The plant, which will receive at least $750 million in taxpayer subsidies, will be built near her 150-acre horse farm, which has 20 horses.
    Lori Brock, owner of Majestic Friesians Horse Farm
    Brock refused to sell her land to Gotion, then held an anti-Gotion rally at her farm.
    The farm owner stated that she is against the Gotion plant because they lied about their ties to China, community support of the project, and hourly wages.
    A horse on Lori Brock’s farm wearing a blanket that says, “I say neigh to Gotion”
    Just days after her rally, the Agriculture and Rural Development office, a government organization under the authority of dirty Democrat AG Dana Nessel’s office, received a Right to Farm complaint alleging that there was manure run-off from Brock’s farm into tributaries of the Muskegon River.
    MI Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), MI Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D)
    Brock anticipates receiving this complaint from representatives of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, a government agency under the control of Michigan’s lawless Attorney General Dana Nessel, on Thursday.
    Brock, who built the farm 13 years ago and has never before had any issues, believes that the complaint is just “harassment.”
    Speaking to The Midwesterner, Brock said, “For 20 horses on 150 acres, there’s no way I’m in violation of anything.”
    “My farm is pristine, and I’m not worried one bit because we’re not doing anything to endanger anything,” Brock told The Center Square.

    “They’re [Gotion] absolutely cannibalizing all the land near us and are scaring people into selling their property,” said Brock. “I don’t believe in bullies, and I will never, ever sell to them. They’d be the last person in this world that I’d ever sell my property to.”
    “I’ve lived in this community for 40 years. There are some things that money can’t buy. And if I gave into them, it would be showing my daughters that you give into bullies, and I’ve raised my daughters to stand up and be tough and never give into bullies.”
    The post JUST IN: Owner of MI Horse Farm, Who Refused to Sell Property to CCP-Tied Battery Plant, is Notified She’s Under Investigation by Gov. Agency Tied to Dirty Dem AG Dana Nessel appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • JUST IN: Judge Throws Out President Trump’s Lawsuit Against New York Times, Orders Him to Pay All Legal Fees – NY Times Gloats

    JUST IN: Judge Throws Out President Trump’s Lawsuit Against New York Times, Orders Him to Pay All Legal Fees – NY Times Gloats

    A New York Supreme Court judge has dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the New York Times.
    As a result of this defeat, Trump will have to pay all attorneys fees, legal expenses, and associated costs.
    What a disgrace.
    As the Daily Beast reported, Trump filed the lawsuit back in 2021. He alleged that the paper, three of its reporters, and his disgraced niece Mary Trump engaged in an “insidious plot” to obtain his private records for a story about his tax issues.
    Jim Hoft previously revealed Trump’s allegations are indeed true. In addition, Mary is being used as a tool of the radical left to smear her uncle.
    One example of this is her trying to sabotage President Trump’s attendance at his rally in Waco, Texas back in March.
    Robert Reed, the “judge” presiding over the case, said Trump’s claims “fail as a matter of constitutional law.”
    He continued:
    Courts have “long recognized that reporters are entitled to engage in legal and ordinary news gathering activities without fear of tort liability due to First Amendment protections.
    While the case against the Times’ “reporters” and the paper have been dismissed, the claims against his niece have not been ruled on yet.
    A spokesperson for the Times openly gloated about the ruling in a statement to the Daily Beast.
    The New York Times is pleased with the judge’s decision today.
    It is an important precedent reaffirming that the press is protected when it engages in routine newsgathering to obtain information of vital importance to the public.
    Developing…
    The post JUST IN: Judge Throws Out President Trump’s Lawsuit Against New York Times, Orders Him to Pay All Legal Fees – NY Times Gloats appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • MI Democrats Get Last Laugh As Republican Leadership Helps Them Pass Radical Leftist Agenda After Taking Control of MI Legislature For First Time in 40 Years

    MI Democrats Get Last Laugh As Republican Leadership Helps Them Pass Radical Leftist Agenda After Taking Control of MI Legislature For First Time in 40 Years

    It’s Bad Enough That Radical, Far-Left MI Democrats Are In Control Of The MI Legislature For The First Time in 40 Years…But Now, We Have Republican Lawmakers Who Are Actually Helping Them To Pass Their Radical Legislation.
    Democrat Speaker of the House Tate (laughing) House Minority Speaker Coward Matt Hall (R)
     
    100 Percent Fed Up exclusive – We are constantly told that America First people don’t believe in ‘unity’ in the party, but the RINOs continue to vote against and hurt the Republican base.
    Unfortunately for conservatives in Michigan, Republican Party “leader,” Minority Speaker Matt Hall (R-Kalamazoo), has made it quite clear that he is a moderate who is willing to make cowardly backroom deals with left-wing Democrat zealots running the legislature.

    Matt Hall had the opportunity to investigate 2020 election fraud as Chairman of the Oversight Committee when Republicans had the majority. Instead, he did nothing, refusing even to look into the subpoena returns from subpoenas issued by his committee in December 2020.
    In 2021, the Gateway Pundit obtained the Detroit absentee ballot drop box footage from the 2020 election, and 100 Percent Fed Up worked with them and MC4EI, a local team of election integrity investigators, to review the footage and share our findings with the public. One of the things we discovered is US Postal workers dropping stacks of ballots into absentee ballot drop boxes instead of delivering them to the Detroit Office of Elections, which, according to the Detroit USPS District Manager, confirmed was prohibited behavior, as specified by the US Post Office. MI SOS Jocelyn Benson references the video on the “fact-checking” portion of her government website, where she calls it “normal and legal activity.” Rep. Matt Hall, who was chair of the House Oversight Committee tasked with investigating the election crimes of 2020, ignored these and several other obvious crimes that could have prevented the Democrats from “winning” a majority in the House and Senate in the 2022 election, for the first time in four decades.
    BREAKING: USPS District Mgr Confirms…MI SOS Jocelyn Benson LIED When She Claimed It’s “Normal” and “Legal Activity” For Postal Workers to Drop Stacks of Absentee Ballots Into Drop Boxes [VIDEO]

    After the 2000 Mules movie was released in theaters, I ran into Rep. Matt Hall at the GOP State Convention and asked him if he had watched any of the drop box footage the House obtained from the Detroit Office of Elections that were allegedly being stored in a secure room. Incredibly, Rep. Hall told me he had not bothered to look at the footage a full two years after the most hotly contested election in Michigan history.
    Either Rep. Hall was too lazy to investigate the election crimes of 2020, or he doesn’t care that voters in Michigan and across the United States still believe the 2020 election, and likely, the 2022 election, were both stolen.
    Last month, Rep. Matt Hall voted for gun control, known as “safe storage.”

    Hall has been faced with repeated staffing departures, and now, he is reportedly only allowed to have male staff—WHY???
    The House Minority Leader also has a history of making online racist threats (see examples of threats he wrote below).

    Next in line behind House Minority Leader Matt Hall is the newly elected Republican Caucus Chair, Rep. Ken Borton (R-Gaylord).

    Rep. Borton is an unremarkable second-term lawmaker whose biggest accomplishment as a Freshman state representative was to successfully whip votes for a bill that would strip local citizens, homeowners associations, and communities of the right to decide whether or not they would allow commercial properties to operate in residential areas.
    After Ken Borton won a seat in the MI House of Representatives in 2020, he ignored the cries of his constituents to do something about voter fraud in Michigan. Instead, one of the first acts by the freshman congressman, who previously made a living from the short-term rental business before running for office, was to rally support for a bill sponsored by fellow GOP Rep. Sarah Lightner of Springport Township that would strip zoning decisions from homeowners in their communities and hand them over to the state.
    In an overnight session on October 27, 2021, Michigan House lawmakers approved legislation in a 55-48 vote that would prohibit cities and townships from banning short-term rental housing.
    The controversial legislation would include short-term rentals as a valid residential use under Michigan’s zoning act, upending zoning changes local communities have made or are considering to limit and regulate short-term rentals by deeming them a “commercial use.”

    Rep. Ken Borton, like Rep Hall, is beholden to special interest groups that support his future political ambitions:
    Unsurprisingly, Rep. Ken Borton would receive the endorsement and campaign funding from the REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC), which benefits realtors working with LLCs and hedge funds who consistently overbid individuals for homes in northern Michigan that they plan to turn into commercial short-term rental properties.
    From Ken Borton’s Facebook page: I am proud to be endorsed by the REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC).

    One of Rep. Borton’s first acts in the new 2023 MI legislature was to vote “Yes,” on a Democrat-sponsored law prohibiting drivers in Michigan from using their cell phones while driving.
    Like Rep. Matt Hall, Rep. Borton talks a big game while he’s campaigning. Still, based on his actions, or his inaction, in the case of election integrity issues, he appears only to be interested in doing whatever is necessary to gain favor with the dirty powerbrokers in Lansing.
    In a plot twist, it’s emerging that, quietly behind the scenes, fellow RINO Rep. Bryan Posthumus is collecting the votes to dethrone Hall.
    Bryan Posthumus
    Posthumus is doing this quietly with the support of freshmen legislators who don’t know how liberal the family is. This is a favorite RINO trick: shamelessly call yourself conservative to get elected, and then surprise everyone with liberalism and moderation when in power.
    Posthumus comes from a family of RINOs.
    His sister Lisa ran for Lieutenant Governor with RINO Bill Schuette in 2018, running such a lackluster campaign that they lost to evil Gretchen Whitmer. Lisa then became clerk of Kent County, constantly admonishing election integrity patriots that there was no voter fraud in the 2020 election. Bryan and Lisa’s father, Dick Posthumus, is a former RINO Lieutenant Governor under John Engler from 1999-2002.
    Posthumus appears to have a drinking issue, and then there’s his infamous DUI arrest last year after wrecking his vehicle that landed him in jail for 15 days.
    MLive reported on Rep. Posthumus’ sentencing – Posthumus tested at a blood-alcohol content of 0.13% at the time of the crash. The threshold for drunken driving in Michigan is 0.08%.

    “As I just stated, you’re lucky to be here,” Judge O’Hara told Rep. Posthumus at his sentencing. “You’ve been previously convicted of operating while intoxicated in 2013. And so, as we begin this sentencing hearing, I think, ‘What didn’t you learn back in 2013?’ It just goes to show you: anybody, whether you’re a state rep or anyone else, addiction, alcoholism, it affects all of us.”

    Hall moved into his district to avoid running in a primary against Rep. Sarah Lightner after trying to buy her off, and Posthumus shamelessly doesn’t even live in his district, declaring an abandoned farmhouse as his homestead.
    Gongwer reported on the incident – “Rep. Hall asked me to sit out for two years, and he would give me a job. That, to me, was a little offensive,” she said. “I’m not willing to barter or negotiate me running for the 45th. … I just really feel like I have a better connection with people in general when it comes to face-to-face and one on one talking to them.”
    Ms. Lightner said that conversation happened on a Friday. She then filed to run for reelection out of the new 45th District on a Monday.
    “That kind of put me over the tipping edge,” she said.
    Mr. Hall should be the one to move, Ms. Lightner said. Her children attend Springport schools. Her husband is an elected member of the local school board. The family owns a farm that has long been in her husband’s family. Mr. Hall is single, has no children, and does not have long-term roots in the area, she said. 
    What’s really going on here, though, is that Matt Hall is aligned with Michigan consultant John Yob.
    Globalist MIGOP Chair Ron Weiser and failed campaign strategist John Yob.
    Yob was the consultant behind RINO Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and was behind the many failed campaigns of loser moderates over the years, including Detroit Police Chief James Craig’s failed bid for Governor, and is now working with Perry Johnson for President, which will split up the Trump vote in early primaries.
    Yob was the consultant working for Chief Craig and Perry Johnson’s campaigns for the Republican candidate for MI governor when they were both kicked off the ballot for turning in fraudulent signatures on their required petitions that were gathered by a known fraudster, who was hired by Yob.
    The upstanding Rep. Bryan Posthumus is part of the establishment GOP faction of Team Betsy DeVos from the west side of the state, who is reportedly planning to use her money and many staffers to displace Hall.
    Posthumus is already organizing against Trump, circulating a letter for representatives to sign, pledging support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
    It’s no secret in Michigan politics that, having lost the delegate race in 2022 despite spending tremendous amounts of money in primaries to pick and choose their moderates, the America Last crowd is planning to come back in 2024; they are simply biding their time.
    Betsy DeVos, who does billions of dollars of trade with Communist China, is expected to run for statewide office as a Republican soon, perhaps for an expected U.S. Senate race in 2024.
    Billionaire GOP donor Betsy DeVos
    Michigan residents need to buckle up—not only will they face some of the most challenging times in the state’s history with a Communist-style Democrat Party leadership, but the weak-kneed Republican leadership has no interest in stopping them unless it somehow benefits their political future.
    Elected officials are supposed to be servants of the people who elected them, not of special interests or billionaire donors. There no longer seem to be any checks or balances in our government as our Founding Fathers intended. Sadly, if our Founding Fathers were alive today, they would wonder why they risked so much to form a representative-style government if the only people the majority of our elected officials represent are themselves and their best interests.
     
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  • Another One? PacWest Bancorp Shares Tumble 60% in After Hours Trading on Sale Rumors

    Another One? PacWest Bancorp Shares Tumble 60% in After Hours Trading on Sale Rumors

    Joe Biden’s America.
    Another regional bank is teetering in Joe Biden’s America.
    PacWest Bancorp shares tumbled nearly 60% in after hours trading on Wednesday on rumors of a sale.
    The Regional banks stocks began to crash on Tuesday.
    By Wednesday shares of many West Coast regional banks plunged.
    PacWest does not have any potential buyers yet, according to Bloomberg.
    PacWest is weighing other options including a capital raise, CNBC reported.
    CNBC reported:
    PacWest Bancorp shares tumbled 53% in extended trading on Wednesday following a report that the bank is weighing strategic options, including a potential sale.
    The regional bank has been assessing options, including a breakup or a capital raise, according to a Bloomberg report citing sources familiar. A formal sale has yet to start as PacWest does not have many potential buyers interested in the whole firm, the report said.
    A PacWest spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    The shares of many West Coast regional banks have been hit particularly hard since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March, in part because of concerns that their customer bases are similar. The Los Angeles-based PacWest has a roughly $750 million market cap, and is down by 72% this year.
    Other regional banks declined in extended trading following the report, with the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF
    shedding 4.4%. Shares of Western Alliance Bancorp
    dropped 29%, while Comerica
    slid 11%. KeyCorp
    shares fell 6%.
    PacWest reported that total deposits declined more than $5 billion in the first quarter to $28.2 billion as of March 31. However, the company said that it saw a net gain of $1.1 billion in deposits from March 20 until quarter end.
    Other regional banks taking a beating:
    1. Western Alliance, $WAL
    2. Metropolitan Bank, $MCB
    3. HomeStreet, $HMST
    4. Zions Bank, $ZION
    5. KeyCorp, $KEY
    6. HarborOne, $HONE
    7. Citizens Financial, $CF
    Three banks have collapsed since March: Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank.
    Meanwhile the Biden Regime is reassuring Americans that the banking system is stable.
    The post Another One? PacWest Bancorp Shares Tumble 60% in After Hours Trading on Sale Rumors appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • Kari Lake Announces Her First Book! “Unafraid: Just Getting Started” – PRE-ORDER TODAY

    Kari Lake Announces Her First Book! “Unafraid: Just Getting Started” – PRE-ORDER TODAY

    Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake Speaks at Save America Rally in Florence, Arizona, on January 15, 2022
    Kari Lake teased a major announcement earlier today and came out with a new video explaining that her new book about the stolen 2022 Midterm Election is ready for pre-order and will ship on June 27, 2023.
    Pre-order today, and make it a best seller to prove to the Fake News Media that we are not taking their BS!
    Lake issued the following press release:

    Today, Kari Lake announced the release of her first book, Unafraid: Just Getting Started.
    Kari Lake outlines her journey from the Cornfields of Iowa to the Arizona Desert. She details the moments and decisions that made her the most beloved newscaster in Arizona and shaped her into the leader of the largest grassroots movement in Arizona’s history.
    This is the story of a Mama Bear who believes that politicians should answer to We the People. It’s a story of a woman who takes a sledgehammer to every obstacle she faces. This is the story of how Kari Lake is Unafraid.
    “During my time in the media, I had the privilege to tell the people of Arizona’s stories for almost three decades. Now, I have the opportunity to tell them my own story,” Lake stated following the release. “I’m eager to share my journey & vision for the future of our movement with The People.”
    Copies of Unafraid can be pre-ordered at KariLake.com/Unafraid 

    Kari Lake War Room tweeted earlier,
    We have a very exciting announcement coming from @KariLake a little later today. Stay Tuned….

    We have a very exciting announcement coming from @KariLake a little later today.
    Stay Tuned….
    — Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) May 3, 2023

    This was followed by a Kari Lake tweet, asking, “are you ready for the next chapter?”

    .@KariLake announcement coming momentarily! https://t.co/fcIuc4HtZB
    — Alex Nicoll (@realalexnicoll) May 3, 2023

    Lake then made the big announcement on her Twitter:
    I spent three decades in the media telling your stories. Now, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to finally tell my own. It is my honor to announce that I’ve written my first book: Unafraid: Just Getting Started I can’t wait for you to read it! http://KariLake.com/Unafraid
    From http://KariLake.com/Unafraid
    An unmatched champion for the America First movement, Kari Lake in her first book, Unafraid: Just Getting Started, outlines her journey from being the most beloved newscaster and broadcast journalist in Arizona to the leader of the largest grassroots movement in the state’s history.
    Kari Lake shares an exclusive, uncensored look inside her journey. From the time she walked away from the media, to the beginning of her bid for governor, her David and Goliath primary campaign, her endorsement from the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and the events of the general election campaign that led to the sabotaged Arizona election of 2022.
    This is the story of how a wife and a mother of two became what the mainstream media called “The Most Dangerous Politician in America.”
    This is the story of a Mama Bear who believes that politicians should answer to We the People. It’s a story of a woman who takes a sledgehammer to every obstacle she faces. This is the story of how Kari Lake is Unafraid.
    ***This is a pre-order book and will ship June 27 2023***
    After being outspent by a billionaire RINO in the Primary Election, Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake, who is still fighting against the stolen General Election in Maricopa County, had an incredible fight against the Establishment and Democrats. Lake will likely have written one of the best books in modern history. Her true story will give an inside look at the greatest political campaign in Arizona’s history.
    As The Gateway Pundit reported, Leading up to the Midterm General Election, mainstream media networks hammered the GOP with negative coverage of the GOP 87 percent of the time, according to a study conducted by the Media Research Center. Lake had the most negative score of all candidates, with a 100% bad press rating. She has even been referred to as “the most dangerous politician in America.”
    Maricopa County needed to stop her from exposing their corruption, so they caused an intentional failure of 60% of the machines on election day, inserted tens of thousands of ballots with no chain of custody, and did not verify that mail-in ballots had real voter signatures, to install a radical left Democrat. They did to Kari what they did to President Trump in 2020.
    Prior to the sham election, Lake was leading Katie Hobbs by double digits in the polls, but her voters were suppressed, and legal votes were stolen with illegitimate ones. No Honest person believes this election was fair or that Hobbs legitimately won.

    Watch below:
    Lake: Hey everyone, I’m so excited to tell you about something I’ve been working on for a number of months, and it’s finally ready to go. It’s my new book. I’ve been writing it for the last several months. It’s called unafraid. And just today, we’re starting presale, so I’m hoping that you will take a look at it. It’s a great book about what’s happened in Arizona, this amazing journey that we’ve been on together, and you can find it at KariLake.com/unafraid. Go there for pre-sales right now.

    I spent three decades in the media telling your stories.
    Now, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to finally tell my own.
    It is my honor to announce that I’ve written my first book:
    Unafraid: Just Getting Started
    I can’t wait for you to read it!https://t.co/JiXPweP5en pic.twitter.com/WwnVThAFgM
    — Kari Lake (@KariLake) May 3, 2023

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  • Democrat Megadonor Who Funded Trump Lawsuit Met with Jeffrey Epstein at His Island Home

    Democrat Megadonor Who Funded Trump Lawsuit Met with Jeffrey Epstein at His Island Home

    In the 2017 special election in Alabama Democrats ran a smear campaign against Judge Roy Moore and Facebook allowed it. The Democrats took the “Russian model” and ramped it up — times a million. LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman (pictured) donated $100,000 to the cause. Democrats later admitted to the disinformation campaign.
    In 2018 Reid Hoffman took part in another deceptive campaign and was a top donor of a Never-Trump Women’s Pac.
    And in 2018 The Daily Caller News Foundation revealed Democrat operatives linked to Reid Hoffman used the same tactics in the 2018 midterm to suppress the GOP vote.
    Reid Hoffman is a committed leftist who likes be be involved in shady and possibly illegal Facebook campaigns to mislead voters.
    In 2019 The Gateway Pundit reported that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a guest at a dinner hosted by Reid Hoffman.
    And today The Epoch Times reported that Reid Hoffman was a guest at Jeffrey Epstein’s island home and his apartment in New York City.
    The Epoch Times reported:
    The Democrat megadonor who funded a lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump of defamation met with Jeffrey Epstein at the sex offender’s home.
    Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, who has donated millions to Democrats over the years, went to Epstein’s notorious island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
    Hoffman told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which broke the news from records it reviewed, that he was trying to convince Epstein to donate to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he helps advise the MIT Media Lab.
    Hoffman was also scheduled to sleep at Epstein’s townhouse in New York City in 2014.
    Hoffman, who could not be reached, told The Journal he regrets how he interacted with Epstein after the latter pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution.
    “It gnaws at me that, by lending my association, I helped his reputation, and thus delayed justice for his survivors,” Hoffman said. “While I relied on MIT’s endorsement, ultimately, I made the mistake, and I am sorry for my personal misjudgment.”
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