Thu: Get Near Previous Guy ... Get Arrested

Get Near Previous Guy ... Get Arrested

Three Florida men were arrested Thursday and charged with illegally making more than $22 million by insider trading ahead of the public announcement that an acquisition firm was going to take a media company owned by former President Donald Trump public.

The charges were outlined in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court that did not implicate Trump in any way. The indictment was among four separate insider trading cases brought against 10 people, including a Pfizer employee and an investment firm executive director.

According to the indictment pertaining to the media company, the men were invited to invest in the special purpose acquisition company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., and were provided confidential information that a potential target of DWAC and another acquisition company, Benessere Capital Acquisition Corp., was Trump Media & Technology Group.

Authorities said the defendants bought millions of dollars of DWAC securities on the open market before news of the Trump media business was made public.

After the public announcement, the men dumped their securities for a significant profit, according to the court papers.

I'm Not Drinking Whatever These Guys Are Drinking

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): It's okay to cry, my fellow guys. A survey finds that 71% of modern men confess to being in touch with how they feel and 82% of women are saying the same thing. I can't even see who this survey is. 37% of men say being called sensitive would be a compliment versus just 23% of women. I know.

First, I'm going to go to Jesse: I think we're learning that RFK Jr. was right. There's substances in the water that reduce testosterone and when you reduce testosterone, you get these weepy men and this rise in nonbinary affiliations.

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Yeah, so I'm not drinking water anymore because you told me it turns you trans.

GUTFELD: Yeah, it turns you trans, especially if you're a frog.

Fox News' Greg Gutfeld: “There's substances in the water that reduce testosterone”

The Guy Who Sounds Like Elmer Fudd Is Worried American Men Aren't Masculine ENough?

Who Needs Facts, When You Have Theories?

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) struggled on Thursday to name a policy that President Biden changed after receiving money from foreign sources.

"I heard you yesterday refer to them as a crime family, and this was organized crime," Fox News host Steve Doocy told Comer. "So make it easy for us. What was the crime?"

"Well, the crime is trading policy for money," Comer stated.

"Which policy?" Doocy pressed.

"Well, we're going to get into that," Comer replied before offering policies that he could not connect to foreign money sources.



Here Are Some Facts

The Ukrainian oligarch Republicans claim bribed Joe Biden said he never actually talked to Biden, according to an interview transcript made public Thursday by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).

Mykola Zlochevsky is a co-founder of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma that employed Biden’s son Hunter for several years. Zlochevsky served as Ukraine’s energy minister, but has been in hiding since fleeing corruption charges.

Republicans claim there’s evidence Zlochevsky paid Joe Biden a $5 million bribe when he was vice president in exchange for an official favor. They’ve demanded the FBI hand over a document reflecting a confidential source’s conversation with Zlochevsky.

Raskin has now countered with a document of his own — a three-page transcript of a 2019 interview between Zlochevsky and an acquaintance of Rudy Giuliani, who at the time was publicly seeking dirt on Biden on behalf of then-President Donald Trump.

“No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement” with Burisma, Zlochevsky says in the transcript.

When asked if the vice president had assisted him or his company “in any way,” Zlochevsky says no.

Did They Sound Like "Jai Guru Dev. Om"?

Astronomers across the world announced on Thursday that they have found the first evidence of a long-theorised form of gravitational waves that create a "background hum" rumbling throughout the universe.

The breakthrough -- made by hundreds of scientists using radio telescopes in North America, Europe, China, India and Australia after years of work -- was hailed as a major milestone that opens a new window into the universe.

First predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago, gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of the universe that travel through everything at the speed of light almost entirely unimpeded.

Their existence was not confirmed until 2015, when the US and Italian observatories detected the first gravitational waves created by two black holes colliding.

These "high-frequency" waves were the result of a single violent event that sends a strong, short burst rippling towards Earth.

But for decades scientists have been searching for low-frequency gravitational waves, thought to be constantly rolling through space like background noise.

He Hasn't Been Biden His Time

“Today, the U.S. has had the highest economic growth among the world’s leading economies since the pandemic. We’ve added over 13 million jobs, more jobs in two years than any president has added in a four-year term.​ And folks, that’s no accident.

“That’s Bidenomics in action,” Biden said in a 37-minute speech in the Old Post Office’s lobby.
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Joe Biden Tries to Change the Narrative on the Economy

Biden has a stronger economic argument to make than many people realize. In headline terms, his case can be summed up in three words: jobs, investment, and fairness. At a broad level, the Administration’s policies have helped the U.S economy rebound from the covid-19-induced slump more strongly than many economists expected, while, simultaneously, starting to tackle some deep challenges that had long been neglected. By the nature of things, it’s too early to say whether these efforts to shift the economy’s historical trajectory will succeed, but some of the early signs are encouraging.

The jobs record is central. When Biden took office, in January, 2021, the pandemic recovery was well under way: a hundred and forty-three million Americans were working, and the unemployment rate was 6.3 per cent. Last month, 156.1 million Americans were employed, and the jobless rate was just 3.7 per cent. Precisely how much of the job growth we’ve seen during the past two and a half years can be attributed to the $1.9 trillion stimulus that the Biden Administration signed in the March, 2021, American Rescue Plan can be debated, but the legislation undoubtedly played a significant role in supporting demand and hiring.[...]

In the Build Back Better economic plan that Biden laid out during his 2020 Presidential campaign, he promised to boost investment in American manufacturing and bring back jobs that had been offshored. After entering the White House, he didn’t get his entire economic agenda through Congress. But, taken together, the new spending, tax credits, and investment subsidies that were contained in the infrastructure bill, the chips Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act amount to an ambitious new industrial policy, which aspires to strengthen American high-tech manufacturing, make the green-energy transition a reality, and create well-paying jobs. Earlier this year, I argued that Biden’s industrial initiative would ultimately be seen as his most significant policy contribution.

Is Rudy Looking Out for Rudy?

The voluntary interview, which took place under what is known as a proffer agreement, was a significant development in the election interference investigation led by Jack Smith, the special counsel, and the latest indication that Mr. Smith and his team are actively seeking witnesses who might cooperate in the case.

The session with Mr. Giuliani, the people familiar with it said, touched on some of the most important aspects of the special counsel’s inquiry into the ways that Mr. Trump sought to maintain his grip on power after losing the election to Joseph R. Biden Jr.

“The appearance was entirely voluntary and conducted in a professional manner,” said Ted Goodman, a political adviser to Mr. Giuliani.

A proffer agreement is an understanding between prosecutors and people who are subjects of criminal investigations that can precede a formal cooperation deal. The subjects agree to provide useful information to the government, sometimes to tell their side of events, to stave off potential charges or to avoid testifying under subpoena before a grand jury. In exchange, prosecutors agree not to use those statements against them in future criminal proceedings unless it is determined they were lying.

Prosecutors working for Mr. Smith asked Mr. Giuliani about a plan to create fake slates of pro-Trump electors in key swing states that were actually won by Mr. Biden, one person familiar with the matter said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation. They focused specifically on the role played in that effort by John Eastman, another lawyer who advised Mr. Trump about ways to stay in office after his defeat.

This Should Encourage More People to Donate to DeathSentence

The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) steered $92 million last year in leftover federal coronavirus stimulus money to a controversial highway interchange project that directly benefits a top political donor, according to state records.

The decision by the Florida Department of Transportation to use money from the 2021 American Rescue Plan for the I-95 interchange at Pioneer Trail Road near Daytona Beach fulfilled a years-long effort by Mori Hosseini, a politically connected housing developer who owns two large tracts of largely forested land abutting the planned interchange. The funding through the DeSantis administration, approved shortly after the governor’s reelection, expedited the project by more than a decade, according to state documents.

Hosseini plans to develop the land — which includes a sensitive watershed once targeted for conservation by the state — into approximately 1,300 dwelling units and 650,000 square feet of nonresidential use, including an outdoor village shopping district. He has called the Woodhaven development, which has already begun construction, his “best project yet” and promised to pull out all the stops for its success.

A DeathSentence Always Pays His Debts