Author: Freedom Watch
Coach K Is Leaving College Basketball. College Basketball Is Leaving the Era of Coach K’s. By Rodger Sherman The Ringer March 24, 2022 Mike Krzyzewski says he doesn’t want the story of his retirement to be a distraction for Duke’s basketball players. The legendary head coach jumps in to reiterate this every single time those players are asked questions about it—which happened in each press conference after a Duke game at the ACC men’s basketball tournament in Brooklyn earlier this month. “It’s their season,” he said after the Blue Devils’ win over Miami in the semifinal. “They only…
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Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort blocked from flight for invalid passport NBC News March 23, 2022 Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was blocked from leaving the country Sunday because his U.S. passport was not valid, a Miami-Dade police spokesperson told NBC News on Wednesday. Manafort, 72, was attempting to fly from Miami to Dubai on a 9:10 p.m. Emirates airline flight when he was denied boarding because of an issue with his passport, the police spokesperson said, confirming a Knewz.com report. The spokesperson said Customs and Border Protection officials on the scene denied his boarding. A…
NBC News March 23, 2022 Federal prosecutors have asked for prison time for Jenny Cudd, who plead guilty to a charge related to the riot on January 6. NBC’s Ryan Reilly reports on the possible sentence and how she had previously claimed she would storm the Capitol again “in a heartbeat.” Continue Reading…..
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 23, 2022 A Shaler woman turned herself in to the FBI on Monday morning in connection with charges of breaching the U.S. Capitol with a Marine reservist from Cranberry. Melanie M. Archer, 42, who runs a personal organizing business and protested last year against Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19, is identified as the woman who accompanied Jordan Bonenberger during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Continue Reading…..
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Judge finds January 6 defendant guilty of trespassing on Capitol grounds By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz CNN March 22, 2022 (CNN)A federal judge on Tuesday found Couy Griffin, a founder of Cowboys for Trump and the second January 6 defendant to go on trial as part of the Justice Department’s massive prosecution, guilty of trespassing on US Capitol grounds while Vice President Mike Pence was there. Griffin, a conspiracy theorist who also serves as a county commissioner in New Mexico, was acquitted of a second misdemeanor charge of disorderly and disruptive conduct. Griffin argued that…
By Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney POLITICO March 22, 2022 The second trial stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol shaped up Monday to be a lot less of a slam dunk for the Justice Department than the first. The case of Couy Griffin, a New Mexico county commissioner and founder of Cowboys for Trump, looks to be among the most marginal of hundreds of prosecutions stemming from the unrest and violence that broke out as lawmakers were seeking to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. For its decision to bring Griffin to trial on…
AP NEWS March 21, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — An elected official from New Mexico went to trial Monday with a judge — not a jury — set to decide if he is guilty of charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol grounds on the day a pro-Trump mob disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. That’s not the only unusual feature of the case against Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, whose trial in Washington, D.C., is the second among the hundreds of people charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, siege. Griffin is…
Lynch: Greg Norman’s Saudi schedule may finally force shameless golfers from the shadows Golfweek March 21, 2022 Let’s assume it was out of respect Norman waited three days after Saudi Arabia executed 81 men for such crimes as “deviant beliefs” to unveil a schedule for LIV Golf Invitational, a tournament series financed by that same regime solely for the purpose of sportswashing things like summary mass executions at home and war crimes abroad. In multiple media interviews—many of which verged on ego-stroking panegyrics—Norman continued to reveal himself to be a craven apologist for abusers. “I’m not getting into…