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  • BREAKING: Fox News and Dominion Reach Settlement in Defamation Lawsuit – Settlement Totals More Than 7 Million!

    BREAKING: Fox News and Dominion Reach Settlement in Defamation Lawsuit – Settlement Totals More Than $787 Million!

    Fox News on Tuesday reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on the first day of the trial.
    “The parties have resolved their case,” Delaware Superior Court judge Eric Davis told the court Tuesday afternoon.
    Dominion sued Fox News for $1.6 billion over ‘false election rigging claims.’
    The settlement totals more than $787 million, according to Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson.
    “The truth matters, lies have consequences,” Nelson said.
    “Over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept Dominion and election officials across America into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm,” he added.
    WATCH:

    “Money is accountability and we got that today from Fox,” says one of Dominion’s lawyers.
    Voting machine company Dominion has agreed a $787.5m settlement in its defamation lawsuit with Fox News and parent company Fox Corp.https://t.co/xgVDQsN3Y6
    Sky 501 / YouTube pic.twitter.com/AoQdcFGd23
    — Sky News (@SkyNews) April 18, 2023

    Judge Eric Davis on Sunday delayed the Fox News-Dominion defamation trial to Tuesday.
    Rumors that a settlement had been reached swirled ahead of Tuesday.
    Lawyers for both Dominion and Fox News on Tuesday took a 90 minute break and huddled before the settlement was announced.
    This is a breaking story…please check back for updates.
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  • LIVE: Hearing to Oust Soros-Backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from Office Held This Afternoon (VIDEO)

    LIVE: Hearing to Oust Soros-Backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from Office Held This Afternoon (VIDEO)

    A hearing is being held this afternoon on the corrupt St. Louis Soros-backed Circuit Court Attorney Kim Gardner.
    Yesterday, St. Louis Soros-backed Circuit Court Attorney Kim Gardner through her actions set a murderer free.
    We discussed this in the post below earlier today.
    Unhinged Soros-Backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Creates “Exclusion List” Banning 28 City Cops From Testifying in Court

    The hearing to remove Kim Gardner from office is going on live now.  There was a break at 3pm Central time and now they are back.
    Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey is behind the move to remove this corrupt Soros-backed Attorney from office.
    Next she should be indicted for harming the city of St. Louis and ignoring her oath of office.
    See the video below.

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  • JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon Will Face 2 Days of Questioning in Epstein Case

    JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon Will Face 2 Days of Questioning in Epstein Case

    On Tuesday, a federal Judge ordered Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, to allocate two days for depositions in a  case related to Jeffrey Epstein.
    In late 2022, the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase for alleging the bank profited from Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme.
    The lawsuit also accuses JPMorgan of “turning a blind eye” to suspicious activity that occurred from Epstein’s account.
    U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George stated “Over more than a decade, JPMorgan (JPM) clearly knew it was not complying with federal regulations in regard to Epstein-related accounts as evidenced by its too-little too-late efforts after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.”
    The lawsuit claims, “Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JPMorgan.”
    George was subsequently fired.
    The New York Post reports:
    A federal judge on Tuesday ordered JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to set aside two days for depositions about what he knew about the bank’s relationship with sex offenderand former client Jeffrey Epstein.
    The largest US bank faces lawsuits seeking damages by women who claim that Epstein sexually abused them, and by the US Virgin Islands, where the late financier had a home.
    JPMorgan is separately suing former private banking chief Jes Staley, claiming he concealed what he knew about Epstein and should cover losses it may incur in the two lawsuits.
    US District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said Dimon can be questioned by the plaintiffs’ lawyers for five hours, and by Staley’s lawyer for two hours.
    Rakoff may allow more time if anyone requests it. JPMorgan had offered to make Dimon available for three hours. An Oct. 23 trial is scheduled.
    “The plaintiffs’ counsel know our CEO has no relevant knowledge, but persist with this media stunt,” JPMorgan said in a statement. “A review of more than two decades of emails and other documents makes it clear that he had no involvement with Epstein or his accounts. He does not recall ever meeting, speaking or communicating with him.”

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  • Biden Mumbles Through Remarks in Rose Garden Speech, Kisses Nancy Pelosi on the Lips (VIDEO)

    Biden Mumbles Through Remarks in Rose Garden Speech, Kisses Nancy Pelosi on the Lips (VIDEO)

    Joe Biden on Tuesday was seen in public for the first time in several days after returning from a taxpayer-funded vacation in Ireland.
    Biden wore sunglasses as he delivered remarks from the Rose Garden on his abysmal economy and his admin’s efforts to help families access healthcare.

    Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to ‘improve access to child care.’
    80-year-old Joe Biden mumbled through his remarks and slurred his words for 15 minutes before shuffling away to sign the sweeping executive order.
    After signing the executive order Biden mingled with the crowd.
    Biden then walked over to speak with lawmakers and kissed Pelosi.
    Gross.
    WATCH:

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  • Donations Pour Into Trump Campaign After Indictment

    The indictment of former President Donald Trump was excellent for fundraising, according to new data from his 2024 campaign. According to Politico, Trump’s overall earnings for the first quarter of the year were nearly $168,000 per day. However, $4 million flowed in within a day of his New York indictment on March 30.
    According to Republican digital strategist Eric Wilson, “Anytime a candidate’s name is all over the media and dominating attention, it’s good for fundraising. The nonstop coverage just made donors think of him.”
    Trump has emphasized his court disputes in his fundraising appeals. One of the campaign emails states, “With the witch hunts heating up like never before, please make a contribution to stand with me in the fight to SAVE AMERICA.”

    The indictment of Trump has only led to record fundraising, record polling numbers against primary opponents to the point of no return, and endorsements are reaching new heights. pic.twitter.com/gEHe5OHZm4
    — @garibaldi_the_great (@flamingarrow98) April 17, 2023

    RELATED: GOP Donors, Including Thomas Pafferty, Reportedly Abandon DeSantis for Being Too Pro-Life
    Big Bucks Roll In
    Small donations were made in response from supporters; according to Trump staff, more than 97% of them contributed less than $200 in the two weeks following their candidate’s arrest. Compared to what Trump brought in as president, these sums are paltry. For his reelection campaign, he raised more over $30 million in the first quarter of 2019.
    After spending $3.5 million in the first quarter, the Trump presidential campaign reported having $13.9 million in cash on hand as of March 31. In contrast, Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador, only has $7.8 million on hand.
    On the other side, the groups supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have significantly more money, with one claiming to have $85 million in cash.
    Officials from Trump did not specify whether the increase following the indictment continued into the first quarter of the second quarter. More information should be available in a Trump report that is due to the Federal Election Commission before Saturday.

    RELATED: Trump Snags Big Endorsements from Republican Senators as 2024 Primary Heats Up
    RELATED: Team DeSantis Releases First Ad Attacking Trump: He’s Stealing Pages from the Biden-Pelosi Playbook!
    RELATED: DeSantis Team Allegedly Contacting Remaining FL State Politicians to Not Endorse Donald Trump
    Reprinted with permission. View this story and more on WayneDupree.com.
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  • Trump Announces Plans to Create ‘Freedom Cities’ With Very Little Federal Government Regulation

    Trump Announces Plans to Create ‘Freedom Cities’ With Very Little Federal Government Regulation

    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is proposing the development of “freedom cities” in the hopes of spurring manufacturing and economic prosperity. The idea is similar to free economic zones, in which regulations are significantly curtailed.
    Trump announced his plan in a campaign video posted to Rumble over the weekend.
    The former President outlined his plan to help liberate the American economy, particularly the manufacturing sector, from Joe Biden’s “wasteful and job-killing regulatory onslaught.”
    Amongst those plans, Trump revealed that he “will create an ultra-streamlined federal regulatory framework specifically for new Freedom Cities.”
    These cities, he contends, will be “true frontiers for the return of U.S. manufacturing, the invention of new industries, the rebirth of economic opportunity, and safe and affordable living.”
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    RELATED: WATCH: Trump Announces Details for His Plan to ‘Shatter the Deep State’ and Drain the Swamp
    Trump Seeks to Develop ‘Freedom Cities’
    This isn’t the first time Donald Trump has proposed the concept of regulation-free ‘Freedom Cities’ as a means to boost the struggling economy.
    Last month he shared his plan with Politico, announcing that these cities would be “built from the ground up on federal land” and be designed to “inspire forward-looking visions of America’s future.”
    Aside from creating a future free of onerous government regulations, these “Freedom Cities” will look toward, well … the future itself.
    The outlet notes that Trump’s campaign team envisions these cities as a development hub for “vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.”
    Yes, flying cars.

    The homies driving to the new Trump Freedom Cities pic.twitter.com/twNtsoImU3
    — Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 15, 2023

    In addition, the “Freedom Cities” will theoretically become “hives of industry” sparked by cutting off imports from China and will encourage “baby bonuses” to address underpopulation concerns.

    3⃣ President Trump will create an ultra-streamlined federal regulatory framework specifically for new Freedom Cities, which will lead to invention of new industries and provide Americans with safe and affordable living.
    — Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) April 14, 2023

    RELATED: Trump Demands Hearings, Subpoenas to Investigate If FBI Used Twitter to Sway Elections
    Bring Back His De-Regulation Plan
    Aside from a plan to develop futuristic “Freedom Cities,” the GOP frontrunner for the presidential nomination in 2024 is also looking to his past to move America forward.
    In his video announcement, Trump insisted he would bring back his executive order requiring that for every new regulation put on the books, two old regulations must be eliminated.
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    POLL: Do you support Trump’s plan for Freedom Cities?

    Yes, great idea

    No, it won’t work

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    The proposal harkens back to one of his most successful economic policies, a de-regulation platform that had him surpassing even President Ronald Reagan when it came to getting the federal government out of the way of successful entrepreneurs.

    Less than a year in, the Trump Administration has already saved $560 million by cutting bad regulations. https://t.co/lsYhDIINwp
    — Blake Farenthold (@farenthold) October 3, 2017

    Trump expanded on his vision to create an economic boon in America by bringing regulatory industries back under the purview of the President, implementing a regulatory budget to place a hard cap on the costs of government regulation, and forcing regulations to be posted publicly or “be made null and void.”

    “The administrative state understands right now and the deep state understands right now they must defeat Trump. For Trump to come back to the White House in 2025 means their destruction.”
    Yes it does! pic.twitter.com/UXQc63Gqsf
    — Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) April 12, 2023

    His announcement also takes on the so-called ‘deep state,’ demanding all new federal employees pass a Civil Service test “demonstrating an understanding of our Constitutional limited government.”
    “This will include command of due process rights, equal protection, Free Speech, religious liberty, federalism, the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure … and all the other constitutional limits on federal power,” he said.
    Trump referenced the FBI raid on his home in Mar-a-Lago to retrieve classified documents in the announcement.

    President Trump’s Plan To Shatter The Deep-State.
    One might argue that Trump will have to turn this country over to the military in order to start military tribunals if he wants to keep these promises. pic.twitter.com/hNVOGynO4O
    — Rome (@Rome_Colt45) March 24, 2023

    A campaign video from last month has Trump declaring he plans to “shatter the deep state” and ‘drain the swamp’ in Washington, D.C., something he truly should have done during his first term in the White House.

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  • Biden Vows to Veto Republican Title IX Bill Protecting Women’s and Girl’s Sports

    The White House Office of Management and Budget issued a statement Monday indicating President Biden would veto legislation that would ban biological males from competing in female sporting events.
    The ‘Statement of Administration Policy’ references a House Republican bill called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023.
    The legislation – H.R. 734 – makes it a Title IX violation to “allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls.”
    ‘Sex’ in the bill is defined as “an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
    You know … science.
    “If the President were presented with H.R. 734, he would veto it,” the White House statement reads.
    They go on to allege that the bill protecting women’s and girls’ sports “targets people for who they are and therefore is discriminatory.”

    White House warns Biden would veto GOP’s trans sports ban https://t.co/bDVLP5uHba pic.twitter.com/TL5tfoVmvL
    — The Hill (@thehill) April 17, 2023

    RELATED: Trump Vows To Ban Biological Males From Women’s Sports If He Wins In 2024
    Biden Promises Not to Protect Women’s Sports
    It should be noted that the bill, introduced in February by Representative Greg Steube (R-FL), has 93 co-sponsors, all of whom are Republicans.
    Meaning only GOP lawmakers are willing to stand up and protect women’s sports. Republicans were once the ‘War on Women’ party. The party of ‘binders full of women.’
    Now the Democrats are clearly the party of chest binders.
    It should also be noted that there was no real reason to issue this statement other than to virtue signal to a minuscule minority that President Biden will fight alongside the trans community in their war against women.
    Why? Because this bill has no chance of passing the Democrat-controlled Senate, making a veto by Biden wholly unnecessary.

    Biden Thanks That Handsome Rapinoe Fella For His Support Of Trans Inclusion In Women’s Sports https://t.co/UqQziymIZN pic.twitter.com/O5ER8dtwhB
    — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 16, 2023

    RELATED: Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki Gets Testy With Fox Reporter, Dismisses Concerns About Biological Males Competing In Girls Sports
    Riley Gaines, Trump Vow to Protect Women’s Sports
    Last week, 39 female athletes and Megan Rapinoe co-signed a letter to House lawmakers in opposition to the Protection of Girls and Women in Sports Act.
    The group lamented that “gender equity in sport is critical” and that H.R. 734 would isolate “transgender and intersex kids.”
    Riley Gaines, a former NCAA star swimmer at Kentucky, blasted the group’s efforts, calling it “virtue signaling” and went after Rapinoe personally.
    “It’s worth noting that 1) you are done playing sports competitively and 2) because you aren’t sexually attracted to men, you will never have a daughter to defend,” Gaines fumed.
    “To me, this simply looks like virtue signaling because you have nothing to personally lose.”

    “Riley Gaines, a former NCAA star swimmer at Kentucky, accused Megan Rapinoe of ‘virtue signaling’ as the soccer star and others have pushed back against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.”https://t.co/p6dYJCBQGp
    — Unsilenced Majority (@UnsilencedOrg) April 11, 2023

    “I can respect opinions that differ from my own and everyone is entitled to think/speak independently, but I can’t help but think Megan Rapinoe would genuinely shiv any male who tried to take her spot on the US Women’s National Team,” Gaines added.
    Rapinoe, meanwhile, was part of the 2017 United States Women’s National Team that got beat by an under-15 boys squad in a scrimmage game in Dallas.

    FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women’s National Team in a scrimmagehttps://t.co/4IF9nDh6Oq https://t.co/mc8Dp7330n
    — Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 21, 2022

    By contrast, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has vowed to ban biological males from competing in women’s sports should he run for and win the election in 2024.
    “We will ban men from participating in women’s sports,” Trump told a Texas crowd last February. “So ridiculous.”
    At CPAC the previous year, Trump said, “Young girls and women are incensed that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males.”
    “It’s not good for women,” he added. “It’s not good for women’s sports, which worked for so long and so hard to get to where they are.”

    Watch Trump rant about biological males competing in women’s sports. This is the common sense people miss. https://t.co/6pgrjJhFGU pic.twitter.com/0Dsg9403u9
    — Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) March 1, 2021

    H.R. 734 is set to be heard Monday by the House Committee on Rules.

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  • Team DeSantis Releases First Ad Attacking Trump: He’s Stealing Pages from the Biden-Pelosi Playbook!

    Team DeSantis Releases First Ad Attacking Trump: He’s Stealing Pages from the Biden-Pelosi Playbook!

    A pro-DeSantis Super PAC is firing back at Donald Trump, asking why he is calling out the Florida Republican governor when it is Democrats who are currently trying to destroy his political career.
    The ad, from a group known as ‘Never Back Down’, is one of the first trying to add a little fight to Governor DeSantis as he has taken a barrage of effective attacks from Trump in the past few months.
    The ad is titled, “Fight Democrats, Not Republicans,” and recently appeared on “Fox News Sunday.”
    “Donald Trump is being attacked by a Democrat prosecutor in New York. So why is he spending millions attacking the Republican governor of Florida?” the ad asks.
    The narrator also accuses the former President of “stealing pages from the Biden-Pelosi playbook” by “repeating lies about Social Security.”

    Donald Trump is being attacked by a Democrat prosecutor in New York.
    So why is he spending millions attacking the Republican Governor of Florida with lies about Social Security from the Biden-Pelosi playbook? pic.twitter.com/xeyi5F4jmj
    — Never Back Down (@NvrBackDown24) April 16, 2023

    RELATED: Trump Releases Wild New Campaign Ad Attacking ‘Pudding Fingers’ DeSantis
    Trump DeSantis Feud Growing
    The pro-DeSantis Super PAC ad counters claims from a Trump Super PAC that the Florida governor is seeking to cut Social Security, suggesting that it’s actually Trump seeking to cut entitlements, and advises the GOP frontrunner to focus on Democrats.
    “Trump should fight Democrats,” the screen reads, “not lie about Governor Ron DeSantis.”
    The ad also suggests Trump is a mere shell of his former self and not the anti-Democrat warrior he has been in the past.
    “What happened to Donald Trump?” they ask.
    The fact that the ads very first mention is a reference to Trump’s legal woes is a shot across the bow and an indication from the pro-DeSantis group that their message will be that the former President has, perhaps, too many other issues to contend with to focus on a White House run.

    NEW @axios! pro-@GovRonDeSantis super PAC, @NvrBackDown24, first TV ad: “What HAPPENED to Donald Trump?”
    “Donald Trump is being attacked by a Democrat prosecutor in New York. So why is he spending millions attacking the Republican governor of Florida?” https://t.co/OadiTT2Qop
    — Mike Allen (@mikeallen) April 16, 2023

    RELATED: DeSantis Forcefully Condemns ‘Un-American’ Trump Indictment, Says Florida Will Refuse to Cooperate in Extradition
    DeSantis Has Condemned the Indictment
    The pro-DeSantis Super PAC effort comes just days after a Trump-aligned Super PAC released a wild ad attacking the Florida Governor and his “pudding fingers.”
    That ad referenced unsubstantiated rumors from former staffers that claim DeSantis once ate pudding using just three fingers.
    “DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements, like cutting Medicare, slashing Social Security, and even raising our retirement age,” the narrator in the ad contends. “Tell Ron DeSantis to keep his pudding fingers off our money.”

    Trump airs disgusting ad featuring Ron DeSantis eating pudding with his fingers. pic.twitter.com/QWAPI21AjU
    — Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 14, 2023

    Despite the pro-DeSantis Super PAC’s swipe at Trump’s legal issues, Ron DeSantis vociferously criticized the Manhattan District Attorney’s indictment of Trump, calling it “un-American.”
    “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head,” he said in a statement.

    The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head.
    It is un-American.
    The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is…
    — Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) March 30, 2023

    At one point, however, DeSantis teased Trump that he can’t relate to his criminal case because he “(does not) know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star.”

    BREAKING: Gov. DeSantis responds to Trump possibly being indicted.
    “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair…” but says Alvin Bragg is a Soros-backed DA who is going after Trump for political reasons. pic.twitter.com/M0JiQP3KVb
    — Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 20, 2023

    The pro-DeSantis Super PAC going on the offensive marks an escalation of the feud between him and Trump.
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    Trump consistently leads DeSantis in polls by a wide margin as Republican voters’ choice for the GOP nomination to take on President Biden. DeSantis though has not officially announced he will be running in 2024.

    A recent report by NBC News indicates Republican donors are growing skeptical as to whether or not DeSantis is ready to take on Trump in 2024. Some have suggested he wait until 2028 to make a run for the White House.

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  • Social Media App Parler’s Big Announcement is Leaving Some Conservative Figures Furious

    The Big Tech alternative social media platform Parler, which saw roaring success among American conservatives in 2020 before it’s downward spiral a year later, has been temporarily taken down by its new owners who seek to make some changes that are leaving many current and former users confused.
    Parler users on Friday were left bewildered when logging into their accounts after they were met with a press release from the new owners Starboard, a digital media conglomerate. Starboard marks the third era of ownership for Parler in the past several years. In 2021, Parler failed to achieve it’s previous pace of growth and active users after the platform was yanked from popular app stores as well as the Amazon servers where it was hosted.
    The platform was then acquired by British technology entrepreneur George Farmer, more popularly known as the husband of conservative commentator Candace Owens.
    In 2022, Parler was in discussions with mogul and rapper Kanye West, who was interested purchasing it after he was banned from Twitter and Instagram. That negotiation didn’t go through, but that obviously didn’t stop them from discussing the opportunity to sell with other interested parties.
    Now, with Starboard in charge of the whole show, they plan on making Parler from a conservative-centric “Twitter clone” into something different.
    “No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more,” said Starboard in their press release.
    Starboard CEO Ryan Coyne stated in the release that Parler had “built an exceptional audience and we look forward to integrating that audience across all of our existing platforms.”

    ICYMI: Parler is No More – Social Media Company Sold to Starboard and Shut Down https://t.co/gwGi5OEhbD
    — Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) April 16, 2023

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    Feeling Shut Out
    Following the news that Parler was under new ownership, many who relied on the platform to communicate with their audiences (specifically conservatives who had been either shadow banned or outright censored by Big Tech platforms such as Twitter and Facebook in the past) were obviously frustrated that until further notice, they would have no access to the platform during Starboard’s “strategic assessment.”
    Chris Salcedo, Newsmax contributor and host of the Chris Salcedo Show, posted a statement to Truth Social on Friday voicing his frustration with the news.
    “Without warning, Parler turned off the Chris Salcedo Show account today,” his post read. “Apparently, Parler is under new ownership. A statement posted, where Parler-dot-com used to be, reads in part, ‘No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business anymore.’ This told the Chris Salcedo Show all we need to know. The idea that alternatives to communist Twitter 1.0 came into being to create a safe space for conservatives, is a fundamental misunderstanding of how and why Parler, Truth Social, GETTR and other alternatives came into being.
    “It has always been about FREE, UN-CENSORED SPEECH!” Salcedo continued. “It seems the new owners of Parler, like Democrats, have very little regard for those they allegedly serve or partner with. I have sent an email to the new management of Parler. If we do not hear from them by Monday, we will abandon Parler, as they have abandoned us.”
    As of this writing, Parler has not issued a response to Salcedo’s remarks.

    Rob Carson, another Newsmax contributor, also voiced his anger at the news.
    “Parler is dead,” he tweeted. “The new tactic for the left: buy conservative outlets and shut them down. Good luck with that d*ck heads.”

    Parler is dead. The new tactic for the left: buy conservative outlets and shut them down. Good luck with that d*ck heads. https://t.co/KGYukT1GLd
    — Rob Carson (@RobCarson) April 15, 2023

    “Parler has officially shut down,” tweeted conservative journalist and former congressional candidate Laura Loomer, who heavily relied on Parler for years until she was reinstated from her previous ban on Twitter since businessman Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. “Goodbye to my nearly 900,000 Parler followers I suppose…”

    Parler has officially shut down.
    Goodbye to my nearly 900,000 Parler followers I suppose… pic.twitter.com/aG3nqmkHUx
    — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2023

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    Well, What Now?
    The Political Insider reached out to Starboard for comment regarding some of the questions arising from the announcement.
    When asked what users could specifically expect from Parler when it returns, a representative from Starboard replied:
    “From a technology perspective Parler was built to provide individuals with the opportunity to speak freely. That mission and the use case of the technology will remain intact moving forward. Advancements in AI technology, along with the existing code base and other new features, provide an opportunity for Starboard to begin servicing unsupported online communities — building a home for them away from the ad-hoc regulatory hand of platforms that hate them.”
    Starboard has not yet responded to statements regarding the disappointment of conservative figures such as Salcedo and others.
    What are your thoughts on this next evolution of Parler? Let us know in the comments below and across social media.
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