Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Trump Pardons Nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 Defendants, Calling Them ‘Hostages’
Trump, who has long downplayed the event and referred to the defendants as “political prisoners” and “hostages,” described the move as fulfilling a major campaign promise.
Trump Removes Biden-Era Weapon Shipment Restrictions on Israel
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today removing all restrictions on U.S. weapons shipments to Israel that were previously imposed by the Biden administration.
The move was hailed by Israeli leaders as a significant step in safety and security for Israel.
Is Sen. John Fetterman Switching to Republican Party ?
Rumors Swirl of Sen. John Fetterman Switching to Republican Party Amid Party Tensions
NJ Assemblyman Jamel Holley ignited speculation with a social media post stating,
“Just left a conversation and my source indicated to me that a key Democratic senator is expected to change party affiliation to Republican by next week. Wow!”
Monday, January 20, 2025
Biden Pardons His Entire Crooked Family!
Listen below to what DemonRats said about pardoning family members during Trump's First term when there was speculation that he might just do that.... he didn't
Preemptive pardons are proof of guilt, right Dems? Right media? Right?
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 20, 2025
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Biden Issues Last-Minute Pardons for Fauci, Milley, and J6 Committee Members, Including Liz Cheney & Adam Schiff
In his final hours as president, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to several individuals, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House committee that investigated the January 6 Capitol attack, such as Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff.
Biden emphasized that these pardons are not indications of guilt but are meant to protect these public servants from potential politically motivated prosecutions by the incoming administration.
Proof Biden was never in charge, utterly selfish and America's worst President ever! A legacy of total failure
After the longest of goodbyes, the worst president in modern American history is finally, thankfully, gone.
It's been equal parts enraging and entertaining to watch Joe Biden take what he clearly feels is a well-earned victory lap: A slurry farewell address from the Oval Office, followed by a fawning exit interview in which he insisted, again and deludedly, that if he had stayed in the race he would have won.
As Biden himself would say: No joke!
And so begins the political obituary for a presidency like no other — a president who was never really there, who held office in name only, who was but a puppet for a shadowy Democrat cabal (Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, cough-cough) that installed him and ran the country into the ground.
Not that Joe or Bad Doctor Jill would ever admit as much. But that's par for the course with a family that put ill-gotten gains and an unslakable thirst for power ahead of what is good and right. Ahead of the country's best interests.
'You answered all the questions, Joe!'
That was Jill Biden to her enfeebled dotard of a husband, who had just walked off that infamous debate stage back in June. A truly loving wife would surely have shuffled him home, held his hand and told him it was time to go.
Not Lady MacBiden. No: Her husband may have just humiliated himself and the country — not to mention showing our enemies that the leader of the free world was asleep at the wheel — but she figured she could write that off as 'just a bad night'.
That's how stupid the Democrat establishment thought the electorate was.
Attention Shul Candy Man ...Soup Company launches limited edition soup-flavored hard candy
Guys, please don't quote me on this, but rumor has it that the Baal Mashgiach of Monsey that gave the Hashgacha on the chickens that turned out to be treif, is seriously looking into distributing these candies. I also heard rumors, and this has yet to be confirmed that there is a serious well-known Rav that is in the midst of a "teshuva" that will allow people who have trouble fasting to suck these nasty things on Tisha Be'Ov!
Another "shaeilah"... is it ok to throw these nasty candies at a Chassan? I'd be inclined to allow it!
Progresso has stirred up a soup-er strange confection to honor National Soup Month.
Through the end of January, the soup giant is selling chicken noodle-flavored hard candies — “soup you can suck on,” parent company General Mills announced in a news release Thursday.
The “Soup Drops” resemble cough drops — or bouillon cubes — and come right in time for “the height of cold and flu season,” the company added.
“When you’re sick, nothing is truly more reassuring than chicken noodle soup,” said MC Comings, a vice president at General Mills, in a statement.
“So, we thought, why stop at the soup bowl?”
For $2.49 — the cost of a typical can of Progresso’s sick day comfort food — plus shipping, customers get 20 drops in a real tin, and it comes with a can of the real stuff, too.
“Enjoy the soup like never before,” the company boasted.
The candies are packed with an alphabet soup of flavors including veggies, chicken, soft egg noodles and a hint of parsley.
The announcement left some stewing.
“If the candy doesn’t get hot like soup … then sadly, I may have to pass,” one Instagram user commented on a post about the new release.
Others were boiling hot.
“This sounds nasty as hell,” one person commented.
“Ewwwwwwwwwwwww,” said another.
Puke emojis were also littered throughout the comment section.
The drops sold out within an hour of the launch but will be restocked every Thursday at 9 a.m. through the end of January, while supplies last.
Some consommé lovers are already preparing for the next drop.
“Need this in my life,” commented one.
“Please make plenty so you don’t sell out!!!!!!!!!” one pleaded.
The next batch will be available at ProgressoSoupDrops.com
Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake
Trump will repeal the clearances of the so-called “Spies Who Lie” as part of a flurry of executive orders he’s expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office, Fox News reported, citing a senior administration official familiar with the matter.
Federal authorities eventually confirmed that the laptop belonging to President Biden’s son was authentic, though the national security experts have said they stand by the 2020 letter they penned over their concerns of disinformation.
The Post’s reporting on the laptop leading up to the election between Biden and Trump included allegations of foreign influence-peddling, drug use and other lurid activities by the first son.
Emails from the device, which was left at a Delaware computer shop, showed that younger Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm where Hunter, 54, sat on the board.
A copy of the hard drive was given to The Post, while the computer was handed over to the FBI by the computer shop’s owner in 2019.
Following the bombshell reporting, a slew of former senior intelligence officers signed a letter alleging the lot of emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” without presenting any new evidence.
The Post’s reporting on the Bidens was also briefly censored on social media, but the “laptop from hell” was used by federal prosecutors and confirmed as real during Hunter’s gun trial last year.
The FBI also “verified” its authenticity in November 2019, an IRS whistleblower told Congress in a 2023 deposition.
Still, the dozens of former intelligence officials who cast questions over whether the computer’s content was legitimate either stood by their claims or declined comment when reached by Fox News last year.
A lawyer who was representing seven signatories claimed there “continues to be by many a calculated or woefully ignorant interpretation of the October 2020 letter” signed by the ex-officials.
“It served as nothing more than a warning letter of what we have known for decades: certain foreign governments — including Russia — continue to try and actively interfere in our domestic affairs and our guard must remain vigilant,” Mark S. Zaid said at the time.
“Every patriotic American should have signed that letter.”
A Trump official confirmed to The Post on Sunday the incoming president is expected to sign more than 200 executive orders after he is sworn in as president.
An email to a Trump spokesperson on Sunday night was not immediately returned.
Son Of Terror Victim Voices His Feelings About The Hostage Deal
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| Yoel Schwartz and יבלחט"א his mother, Ahuva Liba Schwartz, H'yd. |
Yoel Schwartz, the son of Ahuva Liba Schwartz, H’yd, who was murdered in the brutal Egged No. 2 bus bombing in 2003, wrote about the fact that those who planned the attack which killed his mother along with 23 others, including 7 children, are slated to be released in the hostage deal.
Abdullah Sharbati, Majdi Zaatari, and Samer al-Atrash, members of a cell that planned the attack on the No. 2 line as well the bombing of Egged Bus No. 6 in French Hill in 2003, which killed 7 Israelis and injured 20, are slated to be released in the first phase of the deal in exchange for 33 hostages.
Schwartz wrote: “Twenty years have passed since my mother was murdered in the brutal attack on Line 2 in Jerusalem. The pain and loss accompany me every day. Today I find myself dealing with an additional pain: the knowledge that my mother’s murderers, the planners of the deadly attack, are about to be released as part of the hostage deal.”
“I fully understand the longing and struggle of the families of the hostages to see their loved ones return home safely. It is a fundamental human feeling that deeply moves me.”
“Experience with deals like the Shalit deal shows that these terrorists did not abandon the path of terror. Many of them returned to carry out attacks and kill innocent people. They are not just released prisoners; they are active terrorists.”
“I daven for the safe return of the hostages but I want to remind us all of the heavy price that the release of such terrorists may exact from our society in the future.”
“But alongside that, I must voice my difficult feelings: the release of such terrorists, with blood on their hands, is not only a betrayal of the memory of their victims – but also a real and tangible risk.”
Trump and top aide challenge Netanyahu’s claim ceasefire will be temporary
By David Rosenberg, World Israel News
President-elect Donald Trump and a top aide appeared to contradict claims by senior Israeli leaders over the weekend that Israel may resume its war against Hamas after the first phase of a three-part ceasefire.
On Saturday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had assured him that despite the cabinet ratifying the three-part hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas Friday night, the IDF would resume its operations against the terror group in Gaza after the first phase of the deal.
Netanyahu himself hinted at a renewal of the fighting, saying Saturday night that Israel is still committed to the destruction of Hamas and ensuring that Gaza never again threatens Israel’s security.
“We retain the right to return to the war, if necessary, with the backing of the U.S.,” Netanyahu said, claiming that Trump himself had endorsed a return to fighting in Gaza during a call last week with the Israeli premier.
Trump “welcomed the agreement and rightly emphasized that the first stage of the agreement is a temporary ceasefire. That is what he said, ‘a temporary ceasefire’.”
That same day, however, Trump appeared to contradict Netanyahu’s claim during an interview with NBC News.
Trump said that the new ceasefire “better hold.”
“Well, we’re going to see very soon, and it better hold.”
The incoming president recalled his recent telephone conversation with Netanyahu, saying that while he said Israel must do “what has to be done,” he also emphasized that the war “has to end.”
“Just keep doing what you have to do. You have to have — this has to end. We want it to end, but to keep doing what has to be done.”
Trump said his administration would ensure the ceasefire holds, saying the maintenance of the truce would be a litmus test of American soft power abroad.
“The United States has to get respected again, and it has to get respected fast. But respect is the primary word that I use,” Trump said. “If they respect us, it will hold. If they don’t respect us, all hell will break out.”
Hours after the interview, Axios cited three sources who claimed that Trump’s choice for national security adviser, Mike Waltz, on Saturday pledged to relatives of hostages in Gaza that the Trump administration would ensure that the full three-stages of the ceasefire will be implemented.
Hostage families have feared that the 64 other hostages remaining in Gaza not slated for release during the six-week initial phase will be left in the coastal enclave should Israel resume the war after phase one of the agreement.
Waltz assured the families that the White House would push for talks aimed at securing the implementation of the second phase of the deal as soon as possible.
It Wasn’t a Deal – It Was a Crime
Translations of this item:
- The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion…. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
- When a terrorist group “negotiates” with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families.
- Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals.
- [L]et us put the blame for ALL the deaths in Gaza where it belongs: on Hamas and the useful idiots and useless bigots who support murderous terrorists.
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion. Would you call it a deal if somebody kidnapped your child and you “agreed” to pay ransom to get her back? Of course not. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
So the proper description of what occurred is that Israel, pressured by the United States, capitulated to the unlawful and extortionate demands of Hamas as the only way of saving the lives of kidnapped babies, mothers and other innocent, mostly civilian, hostages.
This was not the result of a negotiation between equals. If an armed robber puts a gun to your head and says, “your money or your life,” your decision to give him your money would not be described as a deal. Nor should the extorted arrangement agreed to by Israel be considered a deal. So let’s stop using that term.
When a terrorist group “negotiates” with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families. The result of this exertion was bad for Israel’s security, but good for the hostages who remain alive and their families. The heart rules the brain, as it often does in moral democracies that value the immediate saving of the lives of known people over the future deaths of hypothetical people whose identities we do not know. This tradeoff is understandable as compassionate, even if not compelling as policy.
If every democratic nation adopted a policy of never negotiating with terrorists, it might discourage terrorism. But every nation submits to the demands of kidnappers and extortionists, so terrorism and hostage-taking have become a primary tactic of the worst people in the world. And the rest of us are complicit.
Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals. These supporters of terrorism encouraged Hamas to hold out for many months in the belief that their support would pressure Israel into making more concessions.
The students of terror – the university students who are encouraging Hamas into continuing their murderous ways – must be held accountable for their complicity in evil. Though they may have the same First Amendment rights as Jews do, they should be treated with the same contempt that Nazis, the KKK and racist supporters of violence are treated. The First Amendment does not give them the right to be hired by decent employers.
The First Amendment gives employers the power to refuse to associate with supporters of Nazism, Hamas terrorism or other evil groups. American law criminalizes giving material support to designated terrorist groups, which include Hamas and Hezbollah. Morality, as distinguished from law, should deem immoral providing any support — material, political, economic or demonstrative – to any terrorist group such as Hamas. Yet both the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Democrat Party urged people to listen to the messages of these protestors. They would never say that about demonstrators who favored lynching blacks or raping women. But Hamas does lynch Jews and rape Jewish women. There is no moral difference.
Let us welcome the news that perhaps 33 of the 98 hostages may be released, some of them alive, with the realization that what Hamas extorted from Israel in return for these releases may well endanger Israel’s security in the future and cost still more innocent lives.
And let us put the blame for ALL the deaths in Gaza where it belongs: on Hamas and the useful idiots and useless bigots who support murderous terrorists.
Ori Ansbacher's Rapists and Murderer will be released!
The ‘deal’ includes releasing Arafat Irfaiya, the man who brutally raped and murdered Ori Ansbacher. I fear she will not be his last victim.
These are the heroes of “Palestine”. Take a good look. This is who the children of “Palestine” look up to.
Female prison guards demand rapist be released outside of Israel
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
Female guards at Gilboa Prison appealed to the Supreme Court that a prisoner who raped them be released abroad and not within Israel.
Terrorist Mahmoud Atallah, who is scheduled to be released in exchange for Israeli hostages, was convicted of serious crimes, including the sexual assault of the Gilboa prison guards.
In their appeal, the guards said that the decision to release Atallah within Israel did not take into account the fact that he was a danger to others as well as to the guards themselves.
The female guards said that if Atallah is released to Shechem as planned, he may be a danger to them, since he has threatened them directly and told them he has their personal information.
The guards urged the court to approve an arrangement that would preserve their safety and not endanger the hostage release deal by sending Atallah abroad.
“The defense echelon has once again failed to protect the safety of female prison guards—this time, however, it is also permitting their blood to be shed,” said the guards’ attorneys.
“Exiling the terrorist to Shechem poses a direct and immediate threat to the safety of the female guards. It appears those within the defense echelon view abandoning female guards—essentially IDF soldiers—as an acceptable course of action. We urge the Supreme Court to intervene and insist that the terrorist be sent abroad, in order to ensure the safety of the guards’ lives.”
A number of the 735 Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for 33 hostages in the first phase of the agreement have committed deadly crimes killing hundreds of Israelis. The following are some terrorists slated for release.
Zakariya Zubeidi, the commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah in Jenin, played a central role in orchestrating several terrorist attacks during the Second Intifada. He is responsible for the 2002 Likud branch attack in Beit She’anShe’an, which resulted in the deaths of six people. Zubeidi was also among the prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison in September 2021.
Hamas terrorists mock female hostages, release them with ‘goodie bags’ as souvenirs
By World Israel News Staff
In a disturbing revelation, Israeli media reported that Hamas forced three recently released hostages from Gaza—Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher—to participate in a staged propaganda ceremony before their release.
The hostages were handed “gift bags” by their captors, an act that highlights the psychological manipulation employed by the terror group.
The gift bags, reportedly handed to the hostages just before they were transferred to the Red Cross, included unsettling items: a photo of Gaza, photographs of the hostages during their captivity, and a so-called “certificate of release.”
According to Hebrew-language reports, these items were designed to leave a lasting psychological imprint on the survivors, embedding memories of their trauma into tangible objects.
Emily Damari and Romi Gonen, held together in captivity, were allegedly coerced into posing for photos while smiling and holding their certificates.
This grotesque ceremony, described as a “farewell” by Hamas, forced the hostages to simulate gratitude toward their captors, further compounding their psychological distress.
A video released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) showed the hostages clutching these bags as they were handed over to Israeli troops, a chilling reminder of the torment they endured.
Experts have pointed out that such staged acts serve dual purposes for Hamas. On one hand, they aim to perpetuate the group’s narrative of “humanity” despite the underlying brutality of their actions. On the other, they act as a method of psychological warfare, ensuring that the trauma of captivity lingers long after the hostages have been freed.
The staged ceremony and its accompanying “souvenirs” reveal the calculated cruelty of Hamas’s tactics.
For the survivors, these so-called gifts are not tokens of remembrance but haunting symbols of their ordeal, serving as constant reminders of the psychological and emotional scars left by their time in captivity.
The Returned Hostages .... a quick summary
Three sheep amongst a thousand wolves!
Reaction of friends and family as they watch the hostage release.
"This is Romi, back from captivity. You guys are the best in the world": The voice message Romi sent to her friends on WhatsApp.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Hamas hostage seen reunited with mom after 15 months in captivity as family reveals she lost two fingers
Emily Damari, one of the three Israeli hostages freed on Sunday, was seen in social media pictures reunited with her mother while on a video call.
Damari met with her mother at an IDF facility near the Gaza border, per the Times of Israel.
Damari, who was wounded in a shooting on Oct. 7, 2023, lost two fingers during the assault, according to her family.
She is seen holding up her bandaged left hand, showing the gruesome injury.
“After 471 days – Emily is finally home,” her mother Mandy Damari said in a statement.
We would like to thank from the bottom of our hearts everyone who fought tirelessly for Emily throughout this difficult time. To everyone who raised her voice and called her name, in Israel, England, the United States and the whole world – thank you. Thanks to you, Emily came home.
“Emily’s nightmare in Gaza is over, but there are still too many families still waiting in pain. We must work together for the release of all the abductees, down to the last one. Those still in captivity need immediate humanitarian assistance.
” We ask the media to respect the privacy of Emily and our family at this time.”
Is Trump's Envoy Witkoff going to be a disaster?
I hate to say it everyone, but I think Witkoff is going to be a disaster.
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 19, 2025
First of all, here he appears to draw a moral equivalence between Hamas and right-wing Israelis who oppose the deal—which is gross.
And just below it, he demonstrates zero understanding of Hamas' ideology pic.twitter.com/TNCztTyW37
IDF TAKES OUT CAR LOAD OF HAMAS CELEBRATING VICTORY
IDF TAKES OUT CAR LOAD OF HAMAS CELEBRATING VICTORY
— 💙Hostage Release Live 🇮🇱🇺🇲🇬🇧🇮🇳Jerusalem🔥 (@JerusalemDiary) January 19, 2025
They came out a few minutes too early https://t.co/doA8c9MLN3
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