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A convicted felon - for now anyway. Until after the expected appeal. BTW - anyone that believes this trial - that the State of New York had to re-write a law to make the "crime" (that was already beyond the statute of limitations) a felony instead of a misdemeanor - was real, is the same type of person that believes that the current President actually received (legally) more votes than any other President in the entire history of the United States. JS Falsifying business documents is normally a misdemeanor in New York, but prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office elevated it to a felony on grounds that Trump was concealing an illegal campaign contribution.

Yet Bradley "Chelsea" Manning served 7 years of the 35 years he/she was convicted in 2010 until President Obama commuted his/her sentence. He/she stole the classified material and Mr. Assange (via WikiLeaks) published it. FYI - this is much more than his actions with the US, he was worldwide. Mr. Assange confined himself in 2010 to protect himself from a Sweden arrest warrant (among others) for computer hacking dating back to 1996 - even earlier in Australia. Mr. Assange, though many in the "free speech" world loved his "leaks" of sensitive information he gleaned using his ILLEGAL tradecraft, he was/is still just that - a criminal and had/has no remorse, nor intention of stopping. So - (IMHO) he needs to face a court of law and answer for his crimes. Chances are, had he done this back in 2010, he may have been finished with all this in 2017 and gotten back to his old ways.

Yeah but my Caliper test showed empathy as one of strongest character traits.....So I got that going for me.....That and my stability....

Well I guess my 1970's era understanding of "right" and "wrong" that my Christian father and mother instilled in me hasn't evolved into anything much different over my lifetime. I'm OK with that.....So I guess I'm old fashioned in a sense. Maybe that's why it is refreshing to me to hear a mid-20's guy that shares some of my values articulate his beliefs so well. Gives me a little more hope for our future I suppose.

So, given that Mr. Cohen's admitted (under oath) larceny is in play in this trial, he now feels he can run for Congress. https://nypost.com/2024/05/20/opinion/trump-trial-in-tatters-after-michael-cohens-otherworldly-testimony/ The completion of the testimony of Michael Cohen left the prosecution of Donald Trump, like its star witness, in tatters. In the final day of cross-examination, Cohen admitted to committing larceny in stealing tens of thousands of dollars from his client. Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. Cohen clearly has found a home for his unique skill as a convicted, disbarred serial perjurer. It was not the first time that prosecutors looked the other way as Cohen admitted to major criminal conduct: In a prior hearing, Cohen admitted under oath that he lied in a previous case where he pleaded guilty to lying. If that is a bit confusing, it was just another day in the life of Michael Cohen, who appears only willing to tell to the truth if he has no other alternative. The result is truly otherworldly. You have a disbarred lawyer not only casually discussing lies and uncharged crimes, but prosecutors who proceeded to get him to remind the jury that he is not facing any further criminal charges. If any one of those jurors had stolen tens of thousands of dollars, they would be given a fast trip to the hoosegow. Yet Cohen then matter-of-factly said he plans to run for Congress due to his “name recognition” — the ultimate proof that it does not matter whether you are famous or infamous, so long as they spell your name right. As a legislator, Cohen would have the unique ability to say he will not be corrupted by Congress — because he came to Congress corrupted. While most members wait to take office to commit felonies, Rep. Cohen would show up with a self-affirming criminal record. He could then take one of the few oaths that he has not previously violated as the Honorable Rep. Michael Cohen. At the end of the day, Cohen is the ultimate shining object for prosecutors to use as a distraction from the glaring omissions in their case. Prior witnesses testified that Trump’s payments to Cohen were designated as “legal expenses” not by Trump but by his accounting staff. Moreover, Cohen admitted that he worked for Trump for years in his murky capacity as a fixer. References to payments as a retainer were approved by Allen Weisselberg, a retired executive with the Trump Organization. The “legal expense” label was a natural characterization for a lawyer who was paid monthly and was on call as Trump’s personal counsel. In any other district, this case would never have been allowed to go to trial. It certainly now should be facing a directed verdict by the court. Indeed, with any other defendant, a New York jury would be giving a Bronx cheer in derision. Even CNN hosts and experts have admitted that this case would never have been brought against another defendant or in another district. That is what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is counting on. The biggest problem facing the defense is not the evidence, but the judge: Judge Juan Merchan seems to be channeling George Patton’s warning, “May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” Merchan has not given any indication that he is seriously considering a directed verdict, which he should clearly grant before this goes to the jury. Merchan’s rulings have largely favored the prosecution, including some rulings that left some of us mystified. Merchan continues to allow the jury to hear references to campaign finance violations that do not exist. After gutting any use of a legal expert to testify on the absence of any such violations, the judge allowed the jury to hear Cohen state that the payments to Stormy Daniels were clearly campaign violations. All that Merchan would offer is a weak instruction telling jurors not to take such statements as proof of a violation. The alleged campaign finance violations allowed Cohen to try to implicate Trump. However, it is doubtful that Trump could have been convicted on such a charge in any other venue. It is precisely what the Justice Department tried and failed to do with John Edwards, a Democratic candidate. After that unmitigated failure, the Justice Department dropped this theory of hush money as a campaign contribution. Indeed, after reviewing the Trump payments, not only did the Justice Department decline any charges but the Federal Election Commission did not even seek a civil fine. On Monday, Merchan’s orders became even more inexplicable when Cohen’s former attorney Robert Costello took the stand. Merchan immediately started to sustain a flurry of prosecutors’ objections as Costello basically accused Cohen of multiple acts of perjury. At one point, Costello — one of the most experienced lawyers in New York and a former prosecutor — exclaimed that one of the judge’s rulings was “ridiculous.” The judge chastised Costello and even challenged him: “Are you staring me down?” In fact, it was hard not to stare. What is happening in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan is anything but ordinary.

Based on my years of hearing the current President, SF really wouldn't expect him to deliver a true-to-oneself speech on personal and moral ethics that would align with my outlook, but you are correct, I certainly do agree with Mr. Butker's point of view when it comes to straight marriage.

Wonder why the world is so against Israel entering Rafah? OIC - Tunnels large enough for vehicles to carry weapons all the way from Egypt. Yeah - Israel is the aggressor.... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/17/israel-50-rafah-tunnels-to-egypt-unearthed/#:~:text=“Nearly 700 tunnel shafts have,hostages or Hamas senior operatives.” Israel went public on May 17 with the discovery of 50 smuggling tunnels leading from the southern Gazan city of Rafah to Egypt. Defending Israel against South African-filed genocide allegations at the International Court of Justice, attorney Gilad Noam devoted part of his remarks to the ongoing military operation in Rafah, a focus of international pro-Palestinian advocacy. In addition to hosting four Hamas battalions and their reinforcements from elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, Rafah is the site of “an intricate underground tunnel infrastructure that runs underneath the city and provides ample space for operatives, command and control rooms, and military equipment,” Noam said. “Nearly 700 tunnel shafts have been identified in Rafah, from which approximately 50 tunnels cross into Egypt. These tunnels are used by Hamas to supply itself with weapons and ammunition, and could potentially be used to smuggle out of Gaza hostages or Hamas senior operatives.” In an overnight phone call with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant briefed his counterpart on the Rafah operation, which, Gallant’s office said, has so far entailed “the destruction of several terror tunnels, as well as efforts to locate hostages.” The statement did not mention neighboring Egypt. Expert Analysis “Israel has finally lifted the veil on one of the region’s open secrets: that the Egyptians, while cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood in their midst, have been turning a blind eye and likely making a handsome profit off gun-running to Hamas, the Brotherhood’s Palestinian affiliate. This disclosure comes not a moment too soon. There are potentially dozens of hostages in Rafah — Americans among them, perhaps — who now face the prospect of being transported into the Egyptian Sinai, never to be seen again. The United States must use its diplomatic and military aid to Cairo to stop Cairo’s double game.” — Mark Dubowitz, FDD CEO “Israel has been nothing but patient with Egypt playing spoiler during this crisis. After Cairo refused to let in Palestinian refugees — a temporary measure that would have shortened the Gaza war — Jerusalem assented to the positioning of heavy Egyptian reinforcements in the supposedly demilitarized Sinai to seal off the Rafah border. And all the Israelis have got in return has been vitriol and, most recently, Egyptian support for the foul allegations being leveled against them at The Hague. President Sisi is supposed to be a pragmatist rather than a populist. This cannot continue.” — Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal Related Analysis

I would much rather like to hear this pariah "kicker" before the esteemed likes of Biden and Fauci any day....(IMHO) https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/opinion/biden-fauci-and-butker-each-deliver-starkly-different-speeches-and-the-best-message-gets-vilified/ The graduating class of 2024 has been treated to three very different commencement speeches in recent days. Only one was not self-serving, dishonest and destructive. You can guess which one made the left flip out. As part of his Nationwide Pandering Tour to win back dwindling black support, Joe Biden went to the prestigious, black, all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday and told the students that they are victims of racism and white supremacy. He told these aspiring leaders that American democracy has failed them. “What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street . . . when a trail of broken promises still leaves black communities behind . . . if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?” he asked. He imagined a black man who “loves his country even if it doesn’t love him back in equal measure.” He referred to efforts by parent to remove explicit pornography from school libraries as a book “ban” to “erase history” and implied it was racist. “They don’t see you in the future of America.” It was a rancid, depressing speech that gave nobody in the audience wisdom or nourishment to help make their way in the world. On Wednesday, the vainglorious health bureaucrat Dr. Anthony Fauci showed up at Columbia University to whine to students about the tiny subset of the media that calls him out for his lies and complicity in the pandemic disaster. “During the past four years we have witnessed an alarming increase in the mischaracterization, distortion and even vilification of solid evidence-based scientific findings and of scientists themselves,” he told Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Class of 2024. This is the guy who lied to the world when he said masks will stop you getting COVID-19, and two masks are better than one. He told us the COVID shot would stop us getting the virus or passing it on. He swore that the virus didn’t come out of the Wuhan lab. He lied under oath to Congress and said the NIH did not fund Frankenstein gain-of-function research. He and his underlings at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases covered up their funding of EcoHealth Alliance, which subcontracted the dangerous research to sloppy scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology where it most likely escaped and killed millions of people. The very day that Fauci was at Columbia last week, EcoHealth finally saw its federal funding suspended for failing to adequately oversee the Chinese research. No kidding. The day after Fauci’s speech, his ex-colleague, former NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak, contradicted him when he testified before the House Oversight Committee. Tabak said that Fauci’s outfit, NIAID, did indeed fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan through EcoHealth Alliance. Committee chairman James Comer also revealed emails from Fauci’s former long-term senior adviser David Morens to his good friend Peter Dazsak, the head of EcoHealth, boasting about evading Freedom of Information Act requests. “I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d but before the search starts. So I think we are all safe,” he said. “Sadly,” said Fauci, “elements of our society are driven by a cacophony of falsehoods, lies and conspiracy theories that get repeated often enough, that after awhile, they stand largely unchallenged ominously leading to an insidious acceptance of what I call the ‘Normalization of Untruths.’ ” That is what is defined clinically as “projection” practiced by sufferers of narcissistic personality disorder. But if you feel now like you need a shower, don’t despair. Behold Harrison Butker, 28, the placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, who delivered a commencement address at the conservative Catholic Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., the previous weekend, which will restore your faith in human nature. His message to a new generation was a faithful Catholic’s ode to truth, beauty and motherhood, for which, of course, he was attacked as a sexist. “I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and a mother. I am on this stage and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation . . . and embrace[d] one of the most-important titles of all: homemaker.” At this point he choked up. It was a love letter to his wife, Isabelle, the mother of their two children. Any woman not touched by his words must be so damaged or delusional that she is incapable of being loved. He was pilloried by the usual suspects — and the not so usual. The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica condemned him because “his comments seem to have fostered division” as if it’s his fault that the left twisted his words and went nuts. You can only hope the nuns were hoodwinked into responding to a false version of Butker’s speech and will set the record straight once they realize their error. Butker referenced his lesser fellow commencement speakers, Biden and Fauci, as Catholics of a different stripe, who have created dysfunction and disorder in the world through their pride and fear and a lust for power. “Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally,” said Butker of Biden. Together with Fauci, “the man behind the COVID lockdowns,” they are a “reminder that being Catholic alone doesn’t cut it.” Butker’s message to young men was less remarked upon, but it was profound. “Part of what plagues our society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities,” he said. “As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction and chaos set in. This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation.” He added, “Be unapologetic in your masculinity, fighting against the cultural emasculation of men. Do hard things. Never settle for what is easy.“ There is a reason that Butker’s jersey shot to number one last week. Gen Z is awake to the truth. The fact that, of the three commencement speeches, it was Butker’s uplifting moral clarity that was singled out for attack is a reminder of the powerful forces that want us to remain in chaos and darkness. The world needs more Butkers.

I guess (in the eyes of the NFL) Mr. Butker would have been better off assaulting a woman than espousing some personal Christian beliefs at a Catholic School Commencement. (Incidentally, his words aligned precisely with the Catholic School's teachings - but what does that matter?) https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-condemns-harrison-butkers-faith-based-commencement-speech-after-chiefs-kicker-sparks-backlash

This case has done nothing except help the Trump campaign. I personally think the whole combative effort of the past 3 years to keep Trump off the ballot is actually helping him and hurting Biden.

Let the bloodbath commence......It's all part of a scheme (IMHO) that will be the downfall of the Biden Presidency..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13423051/biden-trump-debate-scott-jennings.html What's REALLY behind Biden's utterly pathetic debate gambit: SCOTT JENNINGS reveals how Joe's cynical scheme could backfire... and finally convince Democrats to kick HIM off the ticket

Wait a tic - Didn't the previous President actually get impeached by the House for conditions he "almost" put on Ukraine funding that was approved by congress? https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv/index.html Racine, WisconsinCNN — President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.

Again - Anyone that can actually believe the current President (legally) received more votes than any other President in the history of the United States given the numerous states prosecutions and convictions for election misdeeds in the last election by blue states finally coming to light last year and this year needs to have their head examined. SMH

More funding than originally thought for the Pro-Hamas protests......And people are acting surprised about this. https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/left-leaning-outlet-mocked-for-being-surprised-on-who-is-funding-anti-israel-protests/ Anti-Israel protesters who have descended on college campuses are reportedly getting funding from several big-name Democratic donors, according to a report, that have backed President Biden’s re-election efforts. Democratic donors such as George Soros, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Susan and Nick Pritzker, who own the Hyatt Hotel corporation, have funded pro-Palestinian efforts to protest the Israel-Hamas war, Politico reported. Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow are the main organizations behind the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, as well as other campuses, according to the outlet. They are backed by the Tides Foundation, which receives a substantial amount of funding from Soros, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and distributes money to left-wing causes.

"Like OMG, can we please have some food and water after we violently and destruct-fully took over and occupied this building"......Said a very well-educated "professor/student" who is also a "Political Strategist" ......SMH..... https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/clueless-columbia-protester-demands-school-help-get-food-water-to-illegal-occupiers-basic-humanitarian-aid/ A clueless Columbia University protester who once worked for a lefty consulting firm hired by Bill de Blasio demanded Tuesday that the school help get “basic humanitarian aid” such as food and water to the anti-Israel rioters illegally occupying a campus building. “Like, could people please have a glass of water?’’ the young woman told reporters outside Hamilton Hall, which a defiant mob of pro-terror protesters violently stormed early Tuesday and took over. “Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you should allow basic, I mean, it’s crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for,’’ the protester said, according to footage posted to X. An incredulous reporter replied, “It seems like you’re sort of saying, ‘We want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food and water.’’’ The protester — who studies Marxist principles at Columbia — replied, “Nobody’s asking them to bring anything. “We’re asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid.’’ Asked if the university had tried to stop supplies from being brought to the illegal occupiers, the protester admitted she actually didn’t know. “We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it,’’ the woman said. “I do not know to what extent it has been attempted. But we’re looking for a commitment.’’ Before the exchange with the reporter, she had said the students occupying Hamilton Hall were “asking for a commitment from Columbia for food and water to be brought in” to “ensure the safety of their own students.” A video of people passing food to women inside a gate around Columbia was posted to X on Tuesday. The Columbia protester refused to provide her name since she said other demonstrators who spoke to the press have received threats. But The Post was able to identify her as a doctoral student and instructor at the Ivy League school whose studies focus on applying a “Marxian lens” to romantic literature. Prior to joining Columbia, she worked as a political strategist for several “leftist and progressive causes,” including for the consulting firm BerlinRosen — which was tapped by de Blasio for his 2013 mayoral campaign. The Democrat often used the firm’s co-founder, Jonathan Rosen, as a private adviser while he was NYC mayor and used other employees of the public relations firm to ghostwrite press release quotes and letters to the editor. Government watchdog groups had slammed the private-public partnership, noting that Rosen got key access as well as potential favors and profit through his close relationship with the mayor. An organizer of the university’s weekslong anti-Israel encampment also whined Tuesday about the campus lockdown — claiming it was “making life incredibly difficult’’ for students. Sueda Polat, a grad student at the prestigious Manhattan school, seemed oblivious to the fact that rioters from the tent city illegally erected on Columbia’s campus caused the major education disruption by hijacking Hamilton Hall. She boasted that the building occupiers were not leaving “anytime soon’’ — and that they were being protected by members of the faculty helping to encircle the site. Polat scoffed that the most severe school repercussion to date — threats of possible expulsion for participating students — would only cause protesters to dig their heels in more. “Today they locked down the university in an unprecedented way, making life incredibly difficult for the thousands of students who need access to this campus on a daily basis,’’ Polat said of the school. “There are students here doing their thesis defenses, there’s members of staff who have research work,” she added. “By closing the university, they have stopped the function of the university, whereas the student protests have never done that,’’ Polat claimed — even as many students have described severe hardship in continuing their studies and even getting food on campus because of the chaos. The protest leader blamed the mob’s takeover of the historic building on “an autonomous group of students” angry that “obstinance’’ and “arrogance’’ by Columbia stopped negotiations between the school and demonstrators. One of the protesters’ main demands is for Columbia to divest from companies involved with Israel, which declared war on Hamas in Gaza after the Palestinian terror group’s massacre in Israel on Oct. 7. “The university shouldn’t be surprised there is an escalation in protest behavior on this campus,’’ Polat said. “[School administrators] kept us occupied for 11 to 12 days when we were negotiating with them, sometimes for 10 hours a day, and consequently got no results from those negotiations. “The more the university acts like an authoritarian police state by setting up checkpoints, even at the library, the more students will be willing to resist,’’ she said. Polat would not say how many people have barricaded themselves inside the hall but crowed, “There are hundreds of students protecting the encampment, protecting their right to protest, and they’re not willing to leave anytime soon. “There are members of the faculty around the encampment,’’ she added. “It would be incredibly shortsighted of the university to expel a huge number of its students, especially considering how much consensus this matter has on campus,’’ the protest leader insisted. “I strongly believe it would galvanize the rest of the campus community.”

Wondering why there is such a resistance to the "organic Palestinian support" protests? FYI - These protests are NOT organic. These protests are bought, paid for and very coordinated. Law enforcement is anticipating the group(s) that supports HAMAS (a terrorist organization) in Palestine may be positioning for something big to happen. IDK - Considering the number of new illegal aliens that have entered the country in the past 3 years, maybe the increased security is warranted.....

It may sound like hyperbole, but Seriously, anyone that still believes President Biden was able to garner the most votes of any President in history really needs to have their head examined. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13350787/x-users-construction-worker-biden-video.html One of the hundreds of construction workers who turned out to support Donald Trump in New York has captured the heart of the nation with his savage takedown of Joe Biden. The unknown worker had been part of the crowds gathered as the former president made a visit to a construction site in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday morning. Crowds of construction workers and supporters lined up through the night as they anxiously waited to catch a glimpse of their beloved former president in what is normally Liberal heartland. After Trump left the site one construction worker was asked by a Newsmax reporter: 'What's it like seeing so many Republicans in Manhattan, so many Trump supporters in Manhattan. Does that surprise you?' The man, dressed ready for work, didn't hesitate. 'No, not at all. It's turning now. It's Trump's turn again.' He was then asked for his message to Joe Biden. Without missing a beat, he quipped: 'F**k you.'

OIC - Guess the protesters weren't getting paid enough! Very interesting since Mr. Soros is supposed to be Jewish..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13353941/George-soros-paying-left-wing-activists-college-protest-camp.html Multiple leaders of the anti-Israel protests at college campuses across the nation have been revealed to be paid fellows of George Soros-connected groups. Three of the major figures in the pro-Palestine encampments in universities are fellows at the Soros-funded US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, the New York Post reports. USCPR 'community-based' fellows are paid up to $7,800 for their labor, while 'campus-based' fellows are given between $2,880 and $3,660 for spending eight hours a week organizing 'campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.' The organization instructs its fellows to 'rise up' and spark 'revolution,' while specifically telling them to reject 'reform.' It has received at least $300,000 from Soros' Open Society Foundations since 2017. One of them, former president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine Nidaa Lafi was seen giving a speech on the campus encampment on Wednesday. Lafi is currently studying law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas after graduating from UT last year. The former intern for late Democratic congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was detained in January for blocking the route of president Joe Biden's motorcade in Dallas for the funeral of her former boss, rep. Johnson. Meanwhile at Yale, USCPR fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested after occupying the school Beinecke Plaza on Monday. He was an intern Democratic Maryland rep. John Sarbanes. At Berkeley, co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine Malak Afaneh is a known face at pro-Palestine protests and has been speaking at the campus' protest this week. Afaneh previously made headlines this month when she was one of the students who hijacked a dinner with the law school's dean and made it into an anti-Israel demonstration. She accused the dean's wife of assaulting her after she was asked to leave the dean's home. The controversial protests in US campuses are organized by branches of the far-leftist group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which is funded by non-profits connected to Soros. Soros, who is Jewish, was born György Schwartz in Hungary, and survived the country's Nazi occupation. Tensions continue to escalate at the Columbia, where hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters are demanding that the institution divest from companies with ties to Israel. So far, more than 100 demonstrators have been arrested at the 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment', which is comprised of a coalition of 116 groups under the umbrella organization Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Several of the groups in the coalition have received backing from left wing donors, including one group currently under investigation for allegedly fundraising for terrorist organizations. One of the key players in the coalition is Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which the Gazette reports came out in support of the October 7 attack which killed 1,200 Israelis. SJP receives funding from American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), according to the Anti Defamation League, which describes AMP as holding 'extreme anti-Israel views'. Last year, Virginia's Attorney General Jason Miyares announced his office was investigating AMP over allegations they may have been fundraising for terrorist organizations. SJP is also an offshoot of the Westchester People's Action Coalition which supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, the Green New Deal, and other left-wing initiatives. WESPAC is named as a 'fiscal sponsor' of SJP, according to NGO Monitor and has assets over $1,000,000. Several of the groups members are among those who have been barred for participating in the sit in. Another central player in the encampment is Jewish Voice for Peace, which has received millions from various donors including George Soros's Open Society Network. Since 2016 the group has netted at least $650,000 from Soros-backed organizations. Other donors have included the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, whose director, Nicholas Burns, resigned in 2017 over its support for JVP. Both JVP and SJP have been involved in solidarity protests across other universities including NYU, Yale, MIT and Harvard. Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas. Columbia University Apartheid Divest states on its website that it represents thousands of students across nine schools. Other groups which make up the coalition include Young Democratic Socialists of America, Columbia Queer and Asian, the African Students Association, Columbia University Students for Human Rights and the Teachers College Abolition Collective. The coalition began the sit in following Columbia president Minouche Shafik's testimony before Congress about anti-Semitism on campus. The stunt entered its seventh day today and has already seen billionaire donors including Robert Kraft pull their funding and earned condemnation from the White House. The coalition's three demands center around divestment all of Columbia's finances, including that profit from 'Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine', severing all ties with Israeli universities and an opposition to 'to land grabs, whether in Harlem, Lenapehoking, or Palestine'. The group is seeking a ceasefire on Gaza, where more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in retaliatory strikes by Israel.

Compelling as well - Where were all these left-wing protesting nuts when Russia invaded Ukraine?

ONE WORD - (Two words) Term Limits

Interesting indeed....