New York's highest court refuses to hear Trump's gag-order appeal



The highest court in the state of New York has declined to hear an appeal from former President Donald Trump in connection with his recent "hush-money" trial.

Back in March, acting Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over Trump's Manhattan trial, issued a gag order, barring the former president from making public remarks about witnesses or family members of either the judge or the prosecutors. Trump was permitted to speak out against Merchan and District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The gag order 'restricts President Trump’s core political speech on matters of central importance at the height of his Presidential campaign' and 'violates the fundamental right of every American voter to hear from the leading candidate for President.'

Merchan was prompted to issue the order after Trump noted that Merchan's daughter, Loren, is a political consultant who has worked for some of Trump's most virulent Democrat opponents, including Rep. Adam Schiff of California. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who once attended the trial to show support for Trump, likewise characterized Loren Merchan as "a political operative" and "a big Democrat fundraiser."

Despite the judge's order, Trump continued to post about the trial on social media, even calling out "two sleazebags," perhaps referring to his former attorney Michael Cohen and porn star Stormy Daniels.

Prosecutors alleged Trump violated the gag order on 10 separate occasions. Merchan declined to throw Trump in jail for those alleged infractions but did fine him $1,000 per violation.

After Trump was convicted on all 34 counts, his attorneys asked Merchan to lift the gag order, but he has not done so. Trump's attorneys then took the case to the appellate division of the state supreme court, which ruled that Merchan's order was "properly determined."

Trump's team then appealed to the State of New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, arguing that the gag order "restricts President Trump’s core political speech on matters of central importance at the height of his Presidential campaign" and "violates the fundamental right of every American voter to hear from the leading candidate for President."

Bragg's filing countered that Trump has a "well-documented history of leveling threatening, inflammatory, and denigrating remarks against trial participants" and that the gag order was necessary for the safety of trial participants.

On its decision list issued on Tuesday, the appeals court declined to hear Trump's appeal, stating that "no substantial constitutional question is directly involved."

For now, the gag order remains in effect, though CNN suggested Trump may have other appeal options available for the next 30 days. Trump's attorney Todd Blanche declined the outlet's request for comment.

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced July 11, just a few days before the Republican National Convention.

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Missouri AG Andrew Bailey: Trump trial an ‘illicit witch hunt,' jury 'a roving commission'



Jurors in former president Donald Trump’s New York hush-money trial have deliberated on whether or not to convict him — and they did.

However, Glenn Beck believes there are some major issues.

“Four of them can say, ‘I think you know he falsified checks,’ whatever they think the crime is because it wasn’t really defined. Even if they don’t agree on the crime, if 12 of them think he committed some crime, well, then he’s guilty. I’ve never heard that before,” Glenn says.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is in agreement.

“This reeks of desperation by the prosecutor and the judge to obtain a conviction. If people were not previously convinced that this was an illicit witch hunt prosecution, they should be so now,” Bailey says. “This is insane.”

Bailey notes that this violates the Sixth Amendment as well as the former president’s Due Process rights.

“How’s he supposed to know how to offer a defense if he doesn’t even know what the target crime is?” Bailey says.

“It empowers this jury to become a roving commission, and again, that reeks of desperation.”

“That violates the basic constitutional tenets that underpin the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial,” he says.

What has happened reminds Bailey of a story from the past.

“There was a Roman emperor who used to nail the laws to the highest point on the columns so that the Roman citizens wouldn’t be able to read them. And that’s what this is like. I mean, the judge is saying, ‘Jury, I’m going to charge you to find a crime, any crime you want, and I’m not gonna let you read the jury instructions. Trust me, you guys, just go back and pick something you want to convict him of,’” Bailey tells Glenn.

“How is the jury supposed to apply facts to the law if they can’t see the law in front of them?"


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Americans can’t afford MCDONALD’S as Bidenomics implodes



There’s no question that under President Joe Biden, inflation is out of control, and families across the country are suffering for it.

And while Sara Gonzales doesn’t advocate for eating fast food, she can’t help but notice that the current prices of fast food illustrate just how devastating this problem has become.

At the end of 2019, medium french fries at McDonald's cost $1.79. That price has now increased by 134.1% to $4.19. Similarly, a McChicken was $1.29. Now, it’s a whopping 201.6% higher at $3.89.

A McDonald’s cheeseburger increased 215%, from $1.00 to $3.15.

“I don’t eat McDonald's, but the fact of the matter is a lot of average Americans do,” Gonzales says. “This is the bottom of the barrel when we’re talking about inflation and increase in prices.”

McDonald’s isn’t alone either. Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell, among others, have also seen massive increases in their menu prices.

“This is not sustainable,” Gonzales says. “When the average American has to take out a payday loan to purchase their groceries, I would say things are not trending in the right direction.”

Jaco Booyens notes that it’s not the fault of the food industry for these astronomical prices.

“It’s fuel. It’s transportation of food through this country. We have the most complex food-distribution network in the world. Our food travels further than any other nation’s food,” Booyens explains.

“When you stop drilling, baby, and you don’t produce fuel, and you deplete your resources, everything goes up.”


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Dershowitz: Proof Trump’s judge is a ‘TYRANT’ with an ‘AGENDA’



Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz has witnessed the hush money trial against former President Donald Trump firsthand — and he is shocked how blatant the anti-Trump bias is.

While attorney Robert Costello was testifying on behalf of the defense, he reportedly committed the crime of raising his eyebrows. For this infraction, Judge Juan Merchan cleared the courtroom of everyone including the media and threatened to strike Costello’s testimony if he raised his eyebrow again.

Dershowitz, for some reason, was allowed to stay.

“I don’t understand how our justice system got to where it is this quickly,” Glenn Beck tells Dershowitz, who is also shocked by what’s happening in the Manhattan courtroom.

“I wish the trial had been televised so that all Americans could see the veins in this judge’s head popping,” Dershowitz tells Glenn.

“Let’s remember this is a judge who was so permissive with the prosecution, he allowed Stormy Daniels to testify that they had sex in a missionary position, that he used a certain kind of deodorant, and that he wore silk pajamas,” Dershowitz says, asking, “How is that relevant to an entry case involving bookkeeping?”

The judge then also imposed restrictions on what other witnesses could say.

“He was allowed to say that he had said on numerous occasions that he didn’t know anything about Trump. But he was restricted from saying many other things. As he has said, he swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and the judge said, 'No I only want a partial truth.'”

When the country’s leading expert on campaign contributions was called as a witness and prepared to testify that there were no illegal campaign contributions, Merchan reportedly said that they could not testify as to whether or not they were illegal or legal.

“This judge has an agenda,” Dershowitz says. “This case is so absurd. In 60 years of practicing, teaching, and writing about criminal law, I have never seen a weaker case — and yet, there might be a conviction because this is a New York jury.”

Though clearly biased, the judge has been putting on a show for this jury.

“He is benevolent when the jury is there. It’s when the jury leaves that he becomes the true tyrant,” Dershowitz explains.


CNN legal analyst: Cohen is the REAL CRIMINAL in hush money trial



After the star witness of Trump’s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, confessed to stealing $60,000 from his old boss, even CNN is admitting Trump might not be so bad.

“The way this was raised and addressed on direct is what Julia Louis-Dreyfus would call ‘yada, yada, yada,’" CNN's senior legal analyst began in a recent segment. “Michael Cohen explained this whole thing: ‘That’s what was owed, and I didn’t feel Mr. Trump deserved the difference.’”

“That’s a lot different than ‘I stole $60,000 from my boss on the transaction at the heart of this case,’” he continued.

“And by the way, the fact that he was never charged with larceny is important, because stealing $60,000 through fraud, which would be larceny in New York State, is more serious of a crime than falsifying business records,” the legal analyst concluded.

Sara Gonzales is shocked that CNN is being honest.

“From CNN,” she says, appalled. “Remember, this is the star witness. He is a liar. He is a known convicted perjurer. He is a fraud, and even CNN is forced to admit this star witness is the one who committed a more serious crime than falsifying business records.”

Jaco Booyens agrees but knows why Trump is being persecuted like this.

“The star witness is not a threat to the plan of the constant deep state government,” Booyens says. “And actually, it’s not even Donald Trump. It’s the will of the American people represented by a man called Donald Trump.”


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Trump’s trials BACKFIRING, could help him WIN the 2024 election



While the multiple legal trials former President Donald Trump is facing are hurting his ability to campaign, they may not be hurting his chances at winning.

Rather, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) believes that they might be helping.

“It is highlighting, I think, how corrupt the justice system has gotten in certain parts of our country,” Vance says.

“You have the number three person at Biden’s DOJ, who jumps ship and goes and joins a local prosecutor's office to participate in this. By the way, he’s also, it turns out, a DNC paid consultant,” Vance explains.

“Then, you have a Soros-funded prosecutor who brings the case. It’s being presided over by a literal campaign donor to Biden-Harris, who is preventing Donald Trump from even speaking on the merits of the case in the court of public opinion,” he continues.

While this is all egregious, Vance believes the obvious corruption is “really helping Trump politically.”

“Which, again, I think is all that matters because most people who have any sense of fairness recognize that this is a sham trial and so long as it’s helping Trump get elected, I think that’s the thing that matters most,” he adds.

Glenn Beck is in agreement, noting that Trump has been choosing his words wisely during this unprecedented political persecution as well.

“Frankly our Constitution is much more important than jail,” Trump said to press in the Manhattan courthouse. “It's not even close. I'll do that sacrifice any day.”

Glenn believes this might be “the line of the year,” calling it a “strong, strong stance.”




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Legal expert hits CNN panel with truth on why Stormy Daniels' testimony was 'disastrous' for prosecutors: 'Big damn deal'



CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, believes Stormy Daniels' testimony went "quite poorly" for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

On Tuesday, the former porn actress took the witness stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial, testifying for hours about her relationship with Trump. At one point, Trump's attorneys called for a mistrial — a move that New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected — because Daniels provided salacious details about her relationship with Trump, even suggesting their sexual encounter was nonconsensual. Trump's attorneys argued such testimony was "extraordinarily prejudicial."

"Prosecutors went too far in the details they elicited."

Reacting to the testimony on CNN, Honig said that Daniels' answers on cross-examination were "disastrous" for the prosecution.

"Her responses were disastrous. I mean, 'Do you hate Donald Trump?' Yes, of course she does. That's a big deal. When the witness hates the person whose liberty is at stake? That's a big damn deal," Honig explained.

"And she's putting out tweets fantasizing about him being in jail? That really undermines the credibility," he noted.

Not only does Honig believe that Daniels' undermined her credibility as a witness, but he explained how Daniels may have shown that she doesn't respect the legal system.

"The fact that she owes him $500,000," Honig said. "She, by order of a court, owes Donald Trump a half-million dollars, and said, 'I will never pay him, I will defy a court order'? The defense is going to say, 'She's willing to defy a court order. She's not willing to respect an order of a judge, why is she going to respect this oath she took?'"

"So, I thought it went quite poorly on cross-exam. At the end of direct, I thought, 'OK, they got what they needed.' But I think the cross is making real inroads," he explained.

Honig also believes prosecutors damaged their case by taking "cheap shots" during Daniels' testimony.

Those cheap shots, he explained, are the questions that prosecutors asked Daniels to extract "extraneous detail about the sexual encounter" between Daniels and Trump.

"Prosecutors went too far in the details they elicited," Honig said. "I think, yes, it was the right move by Donald Trump's team to ask for a mistrial."

Daniels is expected to take the witness stand again on Thursday.

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Boy Scouts go WOKE to cover up 83,000 SEXUAL misconduct lawsuits



The Boy Scouts of America is no longer the image of Americana innocence — and it now seems that it never actually was in the first place.

The organization has announced that it is now changing its name to “Scouting America” in order to promote inclusivity and explore diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

“Can I remind America that this is an organization that has 83,000 lawsuits against them for sexual misconduct on young boys?” Jaco Booyens asks, adding, “We’re just going to change the name and welcome more dysfunction, because we are welcoming more dysfunction.”

“So, if you’re thinking of your son being in the Boy Scouts — it hasn’t existed for a long time. Pull them out. Pull them out of public school, pull them out of the Boy Scouts,” Booyens says.

The organization has also apparently sought bankruptcy protection because of all the lawsuits against it, and it had a reorganization plan that allowed it to continue its programs while compensating all of the victims.

“You have all of these people who are coming forward with these claims, which clearly have merit to them, and everyone’s just like, ‘Yeah, it’s fine, you can exist. In fact, just rename yourself Scouting America so that you can just completely hide behind that,’” Sara Gonzales says angrily.

“It should be called ‘Pedophiles Scouting America,’” Booyens chimes in.

Matthew Marsden agrees, noting that this is “the degradation of our youth, especially young men.”

“The Boy Scouts was there to prepare you to be a man,” Marsden says. “Of course, the allegations of abuse are really serious, but this a deeper thing to emasculate young men and to take away their manliness. This is what it’s about, really, to raise a generation of wimps.”


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The INFURIATING truth about New York's 34 counts against Trump



While the media suggests there’s a mountain of evidence against Donald Trump in his hush money trial, the actual evidence tells a different story.

While Trump may have 34 counts of falsifying business records against him, they’re all for one payment. That payment is $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, which he is accused of covering up.

“There is no mountain of evidence that is standing in the way of anything other than a mistrial,” Glenn Beck says.

“How do you get to 34 counts when it’s basically one payment?” Stu Burguiere asks.

There were a total of 11 checks written, which landed Trump with 11 counts, which Stu says is “totally stretching.”

“It’s one payment broken into 11 times. Okay, that’s BS,” he says, noting that Michael Cohen then submitted 11 invoices, which takes Trump to 22 counts.

“So again, it’s still just one payment they’ve broken into 22 different charges,” Stu explains.

When the payments then went through in the general ledger for Trump’s trust, he used 12 entries to signify it. That represents another 12 counts against the former president.

“Anyone can recognize they’re trying to blow this number up to make it look more like it was a real series of criminal activity rather than just one thing,” Stu says, adding that “you can absolutely have a problem with that one payment, that is totally fine.”


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Megyn Kelly says she's 'disgusted' by New York’s criminal Trump trial. Here's why



The hush money trial of Donald Trump has begun, which is the first time in U.S. history a former president has been tried on criminal charges.

Trump has been charged in a New York Supreme Court indictment, as part of which he faces 34 counts alleging that he falsified New York business records in order to influence the 2016 election.

Megyn Kelly is not only “disgusted” by it but fears “they’re gonna’ get him” this time.

“They’re in the courtroom, the witnesses will be called eventually after they pick the jury, and they’re going to try to put this guy behind bars potentially,” she tells Glenn Beck, adding, “They’re 100% taking their best shot at stopping him from winning this race.”

Kelly compares Trump’s persecution to what it would have been like if Princess Diana was “behaving like a street wh*re.”

“That’s what we’re doing. The United States of America doesn’t do this,” she says. “We’ve gone down this road, pretending a payment to a porn star who is threatening to expose an affair is a crime that warrants 34 counts, and they’re going to make it as sleazy as humanly possible.”

Trump isn’t the only president to have his morals called into question, just the only one to face criminal charges for it.

“Bill Clinton perjured himself, and nothing happened there,” Glenn says, referring to the affair Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky, during which Clinton lied under oath about his relationship with the intern. “Everybody just walked away.”

“What’s the difference between these two?” Glenn says, pointing the question at Kelly.

“One’s a Democrat, and one’s a Republican,” she answers.


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