News Updates From CLG

Trump assassination attempt at Coachella Valley rally thwarted when man with multiple guns, fake passes arrested – Riverside sheriff | 13 Oct 2024 | A third assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump was thwarted on Saturday after a Las Vegas man was arrested with weapons and fake passes about a half mile from Trump’s campaign rally in Coachella Valley, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Sunday. Deputies assigned to Trump’s rally said the driver, Vem Miller, rolled up in a black SUV to a checkpoint at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive around 5 p.m. He was found to be in illegal possession of a shotgun, loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Bianco told the Southern California News Group on Sunday that he believes Miller, who he said is a member of a right-leaning anti-government group, planned to kill Trump and that deputies thwarted the plan when Miller presented fake VIP and press passes at a checkpoint. “They were different enough to cause the deputies alarm,” Bianco said. “We probably stopped another assassination attempt.”

Pro-Trump group sues fed agencies for allegedly concealing records on assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh –America First Legal’s lawsuit alleges the DOJ, DHS, DOD and the State Department knew Ryan Routh was a threat | 10 Oct 2024 | A pro-Trump organization has filed a lawsuit against several federal agencies claiming that they were illegally concealing records on Ryan Routh, the suspect charged in the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On Thursday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State, Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleging that the agencies knew about Routh and the danger he posed to the former president. AFL said it launched multiple government-wide investigations into the Biden-Harris administration’s records about Routh on September 17.

U.S. to deploy about 100 troops inside Israel to operate anti-missile system | 13 Oct 2024 | The U.S. will send an advanced anti-missile system — and U.S. troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses…” the Pentagon said Sunday. It is not the first time the U.S. has deployed the system, the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery, to the Middle East, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in the statement, and the system was also deployed to Israel in 2019 for an exercise. But the deployment of additional U.S. troops to Israel is notable amid the heightened tensions between Israel and Iran, and as the region braces for a potential Israeli attack on Iran that could continue to escalate hostilities. Approximately 100 U.S. troops are deploying to Israel to operate the THAAD battery, according to a U.S. defense official.

Ukraine is receiving chemical weapons from the West – Moscow | 9 Oct 2024 | The collective West has been facilitating the supply of banned toxic chemicals to Kiev to be used as chemical weaponry on the frontlines, the Russian Embassy in the UK has said. The mission made the remarks on Tuesday, responding to a new round of sanctions imposed by London. The restrictions target Russia’s Radiological Chemical and Biological Defense Forces (RChBZ) and its head, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, with the British government accusing Moscow of “flagrant violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).” The mission strongly rejected the accusations, pointing out that Moscow destroyed its chemical arsenal years ago, with the process overseen by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)… In reality, London’s accusations were intended to divert attention from the numerous instances of use of chemical weapons by Kiev’s forces during the conflict against Moscow, the embassy suggested.

U.S. Navy spotted near Nord Stream blasts – Danish media –American warships were operating in the area with their transponders switched off, Politiken has reported | 9 Oct 2024 | U.S. Navy vessels were operating near the Nord Stream pipelines shortly before the explosions that crippled the connectors in the Baltic Sea, Danish newspaper Politiken has reported, citing a local harbormaster. The newspaper added that their transponders — used to locate vessels for safety purposes — had been switched off. The crucial energy infrastructure, built to deliver Russian gas to Germany and the rest of Europe, was ruptured by underwater blasts in September 2022. According to the article, published on September 26, American warships had been operating in the area east of the Danish island of Bornholm a few days before the explosions with their transponders off. The circumstances prompted a local harbormaster at the nearby Danish port of Christianso, John Anker Nielsen, to launch a rescue mission. However, upon reaching the scene they saw that the vessels in question were U.S. Navy ships, Nielsen said. The Naval Command then told Nielsen and his colleagues to turn back, the harbormaster recounted.

Afghan refugee waived into U.S. by Biden charged with plotting Election Day terror attack | 8 Oct 2024 | An Afghan national let into the United States by the Biden administration immediately after the bungled withdrawal of American troops from his country was charged Tuesday in federal court with plotting an Election Day terror attack in support of the Islamic State (ISIS) [I-CIA-SIS]. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested by the FBI on Monday and charged with multiple crimes including conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, according to the Justice Department announcement. Tawhedi has been legally in the United States since Sept. 9, 2021, after he was granted special parole permission to enter the country during Operation Allies Refuge following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a senior US official speaking on condition of anonymity told Just The News.

Mask mandates returning to several Bay Area counties | 10 Oct 2024 | Mask mandates are returning to health care settings in several Bay Area counties as an increase in COVID-19 cases overlaps with the cold and flu season. The local health orders require masks to be worn in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other healthcare facilities. The story was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Napa counties have reinstated the mask requirements. The mandates become effective Nov. 1 and will continue through the end of March or April 2025. [Do not comply.]

California reports 6th human case of H5N1 bird flu | 10 Oct 2024 | Health officials in California have reported another human case of H5N1 bird flu, taking the total number of dairy farm workers who have been infected during the past week to six. All of the cases were caused by animal-to-human transmission. All six cases so far have been found in individuals who worked at dairy farms in the Central Valley, suggesting none of them were caused by human-to-human transmission, according to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Of the six cases, four have been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The other two have tested positive in California and are awaiting final confirmation from the CDC.

Oversight Chair Comer slams Ranking member Raskin as a ‘hypocrite’ over election certification | 12 Oct 2024 | House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., slammed Ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., for not being clear about whether or not he would certify the election if GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump wins in 2024. “Ranking member Raskin is the ultimate hypocrite,” Comer said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “He talks a big game about ‘saving democracy’ yet actively undermines it by sowing seeds of doubt in America’s free and fair elections when it benefits him to do so.” Raskin said in an interview with Axios published Thursday that if Trump wins the election free and fair, he would “obviously accept it” but he said that Trump would not employ “free, fair and honest means” to win the White House. Comer proceeded to call Raskin an “election denier” and mentioned that the Maryland Democrat didn’t vote to certify the election when Trump won in 2016. “Now ranking member Raskin is signaling he’d do the same if Trump wins again in November,” Comer stated.

Some top Democrats won’t commit to certifying a Trump win | 10 Oct 2024 | House Democrats railed against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for hedging on whether a GOP-controlled House would certify a Kamala Harris victory. But some of their senior members are playing a similar game. Those Democrats are trapped between their deep distrust of Donald Trump [even though the 2020 “election” was rigged] and their vigorous denunciations [and prosecutions] of any election challenges in the years since the Jan. 6 attack… Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the House Oversight Committee ranking member and former Jan. 6 committee member who objected to Trump electors in 2017, told Axios in an interview that if Trump “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it.” However, Raskin said he “definitely” doesn’t assume that Trump would use free, fair and honest means to secure a victory.

Georgia State Election Board subpoenas Fulton County 2020 election records | 9 Oct 2024 | The Georgia State Election Board voted to subpoena Fulton County’s 2020 election records amid a legal fight over election monitors. The board voted 3-2 on Tuesday to subpoena all election records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, The Associated Press reported. The vote came a day after Fulton County filed a lawsuit claiming that the board does not have the authority to make the county “accept, and Fulton County to pay for, additional monitors for the 2024 election that have been hand-picked by certain State Election Board members.”

Kamala Harris’s ‘world salad’ response on 60 Minutes edited out by CBS | 8 Oct 2024 | CBS News appears to have edited the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris to show the Democratic 2024 hopeful in a more positive light. Social media erupted in criticism of Harris’s “word salad” response to a question about the Israeli-Hamas war. But after the episode aired on 60 Minutes on Monday night, the version that was put onto the show’s official YouTube page did not include Harris’s nonsensical answer and instead included a truncated and more straight-forward response. The interview aired Monday. In the aftermath of the backlash for her response to 60 Minutes, it appears that CBS News decided to edit her answer. Instead, the new version on YouTube has Harris appearing much for decisive and sure-footed in her answer.

Kamala Harris accused of being ‘fed questions’ in bizarre Hurricane Milton briefing moment | 9 Oct 2024 | Kamala Harris had an obvious hot microphone moment during a briefing on Hurricane Milton. Donald Trump’s campaign and critics on X are accusing Harris of being fed what to say during the briefing on Wednesday. While National Weather Service Director Ken Graham was providing information on the storm, Harris could be seen covering her mouth awkwardly and heard saying: “It’s a live broadcast.” Shortly after that, she posed a question to Graham… “Kamala can be heard telling an aide (who is feeding her questions) that it’s a ‘live broadcast’ before immediately asking the question. She’s a total fraud,” Trump War Room wrote posted on its X page with a clip of the moment. A user posted their own takeaway from the moment, writing on X of the vice president: “This lady doesn’t know what’s going on. Everything about her is scripted and fake.”

Axelrod says ‘upscale’ NC Harris voters will find way to vote after storm, not sure about rural Trump fans –‘You know, they’re upscale, kind of liberal voters, and they’re probably going to figure out a way to vote,’ David Axelrod said of Ashville, NC, voters | 5 Oct 2024 | Former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod argued that Kamala Harris voters will be clever enough to navigate voting in the wake of the devastation from Hurricane Helene, while saying that rural Trump voters will have a harder time getting to the polls. Axelrod made the claim during an episode of his podcast “Hacks on Tap” that aired Wednesday, predicting that liberal voters in Asheville, North Carolina — a predominantly blue area in the state — will “figure out a way to vote” more so than conservatives in the storm’s aftermath. Describing Asheville as a “blue dot” in the state, he continued, “Those voters in Asheville are — they’re, you know, the kind of voters that will figure out a way to vote. You know, they’re upscale, kind of liberal voters, and they’re probably going to figure out a way to vote,” Axelrod said. He continued, stating that rural conservatives may not be as resourceful in finding ways to vote following the destruction of their homes and communities. “I’m not sure a bunch of these folks who’ve had their homes and lives destroyed elsewhere in western North Carolina — in the mountains there — are going to be as easy to wrangle for the Trump campaign,” Axelrod hypothesized.

Bombshell poll: Left-leaning Quinnipiac has Trump ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan | 9 Oct 2024 | In what can only be viewed as good news for former President Donald Trump, one of the more left-leaning polling outfits has found him carving out a material lead in two key battleground states. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s left-leaning polls, the Quinnipiac University survey of battleground states found trump with 50% support in Michigan, compared to Harris’s 47%, and 2% breaking for other candidates. In Wisconsin, Trump led with 48% support to Harris’s 46% and 2% backing someone else. He remained behind in Pennsylvania, where Harris led with 49% to his 46%. Again, 2% backed other candidates. “The Harris post-debate starburst dims to a glow as Harris enters the last weeks slipping slightly in the Rust Belt,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said.

Chicago prosecutor declines to charge ‘dangerous’ migrant in 17-year-old’s death | 8 Oct 2024 | Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office declined to pursue any charges against a “dangerous” Colombian migrant who was arrested for murder last week in Chicago. Foxx’s decision comes after a CPD source shared with Fox News the migrant’s illegally acquired gun went off in an apartment building, killing a “beautiful and promising” 17-year-old girl. A Chicago Police source told Fox News that when 19-year-old Juan David Ramirez-Olivo was arrested for murder last week and questioned by CPD, he lied about being from Venezuela. Ramirez-Olivo is a Colombian national. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement source tells Fox News that Ramirez-Olivo previously came into the United States under the parole program and was given a notice to appear. ICE shared with Fox News it placed a detainer on Ramirez-Olivo last Thursday after he was arrested for first-degree murder and taken into custody on Saturday.

Georgia environment boss, who testified about BioLab chemical explosion, collapses and dies moments after revealing what he knew | 9 Oct 2024 | A Georgia environment boss collapsed suddenly on Tuesday and later died in the hospital — on the same day after testifying about the BioLab chemical explosion. Kenny Johnson, 62, was Rockdale’s state representative supervisor for soil and water conservation. He testified about the BioLab chemical fire that spewed clouds of chlorine gas and smoke in Conyers, where Johnson lived with his family. He later collapsed near the state Capitol and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital where he died. During his recorded testimony, Johnson claimed this was the second time he had asked for a criminal investigation — the first time was three weeks prior to Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff, whose office told the environment boss they’d do an injury by utilizing the Department of Justice.

At least 17 dead after Hurricane Milton, 1.5 million customers in Florida still without power –Tampa International Airport reopened on Saturday after service was suspended for three days. | 12 Oct 2024 | Hurricane Milton has claimed at least 17 lives in the state of Florida as 1.5 million customers in the Sunshine State are still without power. Milton hit Florida less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene, which ripped through Florida and killed about 20 people. First responders have reportedly rescued over a thousand people stranded by Milton. As of 9 a.m. on Saturday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that 2.4 million customers have gotten power restored, according to CNN.

DeSantis offers free gas amid widespread shortages in Florida after Milton | 12 Oct 2024 | Florida is handing out free gas as the state struggles to recover from Hurricane Milton, a move announced by Gov. Ron DeSantis amid scenes of long lines for gasoline in the areas hit by the deadly storm. The state’s Republican governor announced that three sites opened on Saturday, with more to come in cities on the Gulf Coast. The state’s emergency management director also said millions of gallons of fuel would be unloaded later in the day from the port in Tampa. DeSantis announced that those in need of gasoline could get up to 10 gallons for free from fuel distribution sites set up in Plant City, Bradenton and St. Petersburg and there were plans to add one in Tampa, Sarasota and potentially another location in Pinellas County.

Manatees stranded in Florida pond by Hurricane Helene rescued, returned to wild | 5 Oct 2024 | Four manatees were rescued from a pond at a Florida cemetery that the animals had gotten trapped in during and after Hurricane Helene. The manatees swam into the Largo pond at the Serenity Funeral Home & Serenity Gardens Memorial Park while the area was flooded during the storm. Other manatees also got stranded due to the hurricane, with rescue efforts planned for one in Manatee County and another in the Jacksonville area, FWC spokeswoman Kelly Richmond said.