Henry Cuellar proclaims innocence ahead of reported DOJ indictment
By
Rachel Schilke
May 3, 2024 11:56 am
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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) is insisting he is innocent after reports that the Justice Department may announce an indictment of the representative as soon as Friday.

Cuellar said in a statement that he and his wife are innocent and that “everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas.”

“Before I took any action, I proactively sought legal advice from the House Ethics Committee, who gave me more than one written opinion, along with an additional opinion from a national law firm,” the Texas Democrat said. “The actions I took in Congress were consistent with the actions of many of my colleagues and in the interest of the American people.

“These allegations have been difficult on my family,” Cuellar continued. “But, with your prayers, we will overcome.”

Cuellar noted that he is still running for reelection in November and “will win.”

NBC News reported Friday morning that the DOJ was preparing to announce an indictment of Cuellar. According to the outlet, his staff members were calling other Congress members’ offices on Friday seeking advice on how to handle the situation.

Allegations against Cuellar began circulating in 2022, when his home and campaign offices in Laredo, Texas, were raided in January that year as part of the DOJ’s investigation into Azerbaijan and businessmen connected to the nation. It is unclear if Friday’s possible indictment is related to the 2022 raid. In April of that year, Cuellar’s lawyer told several news outlets that the congressman was informed he was not the target of the investigation.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/2990140/henry-cuellar-proclaims-innocence-doj-indictment/

   Anticipating Trumpers to go scorched earth on Hope Hicks.

In trump's defense, we are 11 days in, and I can't discern one law that has been broken.  There needs to be some scorched earth, cut them off at the knees with Bragg and James on this one.

I am hardly a Trump defender, but this bullshit should get some prosecutor doing some jail time themselves.

Is this the most dysfunctional state in America? Soaring unemployment, sky-rocketing debt and punishing taxes send residents fleeing

Illinois is grappling with issues which have triggered a rise in residents departing

The state has struggled to add jobs and its public pension debt has ballooned

Conservative thinktanks have grouped Illinois with other struggling blue states
By LEWIS PENNOCK

PUBLISHED: 12:05 EDT, 3 May 2024 | UPDATED: 12:16 EDT, 3 May 2024
 
Move over California and New York, a new state is in contention for the 'most dysfunctional' in America.

Illinois is grappling with a string of issues which have triggered a rise in residents departing the state.

The state has struggled to add jobs and its public pension debt has ballooned to nearly $150 billion. Meanwhile, its population has declined, hurting tax income.
 
Conservative thinktanks have now grouped Illinois with other blue states like New York and California, which have also faced an exodus amid issues ranging from immigration to crime.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13380179/most-dysfunctional-state-illinois-unemployment-debt-taxes.html

May 3, 2024
Is Israel Guilty of Genocide?
By Col. Lawrence Franklin (Ret.), Al Bienenfeld

Israel’s enemies are charging the world’s only Jewish nation with committing genocide. This is a lie.

Genocide as a word and internationally accepted concept did not exist before 1944. It was specifically created to describe how the Nazis sought to eliminate the entirety of the Jewish population in Europe. Resting on that singular historical example, the United Nations Office to Prevent Genocide defines this crime as any acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

This narrow definition under international law consists of two principal prerequisites: intent and a specific group’s physical destruction. This was certainly the case when Hitler almost entirely exterminated European Jewry and when the Hutu government massacred Rwanda’s Tutsi population in 1994.

Currently, there are politically motivated and rhetorically irresponsible charges of genocide leveled at Israel. These disingenuous accusations are a weapon of war that terrorist groups such as Hamas and its allies are using to achieve strategic political victory in the struggle for universal information dominance. Israel’s actions in Gaza were a response to Hamas’s October 7. 2023 assault against a mostly defenseless civilian population. Consequently, it seems incongruent that anyone is granting credibility to these anti-Israel charges of genocide rather than seeing them as pure antisemitism.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/is_israel_guilty_of_genocide.html